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Cambridge Screen Media Group

Loving Theory: two talks on film and television

UserAlison Fornell (Screen Media and Cultures MPhil student, University of Cambridge) and Amelie Hastie (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Amherst College).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

UserStuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

damf1's list

"A Change of Seasons: Egypt, the ‘Arab Spring’ and the challenges ahead"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius A. Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 17:15-19:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Characterisation of clean and silty-sands using variable penetration rate cone testing

UserProfessor Jason DeJong, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 3A.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Flourishing: from science to policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

UserMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserCrosbie Smith (University of Kent).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Zangwill Club

"Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making".

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The UK'S facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements

Tea is served from 6pm

UserJamie Trembath, FAAM, Cranfield University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 18:30-20:00

Sir Martin Wood Lecture Series

Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metals

UserDr Daichi Chiba, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

‘Performance’ (presentations followed by a panel discussion)

UserClare Foster, Prof. Andrew Webber, Dr. Michael Hrebeniak (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Rendezvous: A search engine for binary code

UserWei Ming Khoo, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Zangwill Club

Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

UserProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

Zangwill Club

Emotional disorders and mental imagery

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Emily A. Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

What is "theory of mind" and can it be measured?

UserProfessor Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, Birmingham University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

How Do Mindreaders Model Minds?

UserDr. Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

UserProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

Zangwill Club

The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Travel and Expeditions

Dave Cornthwaite: Say Yes More

UserDave Cornthwaite.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 19:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Granular texture and quasi-static rheology of granular materials

UserDr Franck (Farhang) Radjai, Director of Research at CNRS, University of Montpellier, France.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 5.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Cyber Security: Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Tea is served from 6pm

UserPaul Beechey, Senior IT Security Specialist - QinetiQ.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Flexure-Based Precision Mechanisms

UserDannis Brouwer - Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Twente, the Netherlands.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR5**.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Mathematics and Smallpox

Cambridge Science Festival free public talk

UserProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

UserProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Economics for a Finite Planet

UserProfessor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour pile foundations in improved and unimproved soft clays

UserProfessor K.K. “Muralee” Muraleetharan, Kimmell-Bernard Chair in Engineering, David Ross Boyd and Presidential Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma.

HouseSchofield Centre.

ClockTuesday 19 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

EWB Panel Talks Series: Engineering in Emergencies and Challenging Environments

UserProfessor David Alexander, Mr Yu Jia, Dr Kate Crawford, Cambridge Development Initiative.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria?

UserProf Steve Oliver, Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Learning from the Mistakes of Others…

UserProfessor David J Elton Ph.D., P.E., S.M., F. ASCE, Civil Engineering Department, Auburn University, USA.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Overcoming peak water: moving to sustainability

UserDr Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, Oakland , California.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Why "shaken but not stirred"?

UserProfessor Richard Zare, Stanford University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Arrival, Settlement and Relationality: the Child in Film

UserProf. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of New South Wales.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

UserDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

All work and no play

UserProf. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Next generation sustainability at the University of British Columbia

UserProfessor John Robinson, Associate Provost, Sustainability, University of British Columbia.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc - Cambridge University Scientific Society (CUSS)

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

UserProf. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

What is the most pressing problem facing the developing world today and what are the solutions?

MAP TO VENUE: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5kbaDSqD2fMRFJkQWI5QnV5SnM/edit?usp=sharing

UserMs Kat Harrison, Social Impact & Research Manager of Solar Aid; Mr Brian Sims, Independent Consultant; Mr Stephen Gerrard, PhD student .

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

How were maps produced? A look at old and new surveying methods

UserChris Burgoyne (Department of Engineering and Emmanuel College, Cambridge).

HouseEmmanuel College (Old Library).

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Symposium

UserMany speakers, DPMMS, DAMTP, Dept of Engineering, CCA, Computer Lab.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 24 February 2013, 10:00-17:45

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Nature v. nurture: dissecting the tumour ecosystem

UserProf Gillian Murphy, Department of Oncology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism

UserProfessor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture - Raspberry Pi

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRobert Mullins, Computer Laboratory & Raspberry Pi Foundation.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

STELARC - MEAT, METAL & CODE: THE CADAVER, THE COMATOSE & THE CHIMERA

UserSTELARC, Performance Artist, Chair In Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University, London.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

UserProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system

UserProfessor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Terzaghi's fallacy

UserProfessor emeritus Andrew Schofield, CUED.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Nuclear reprogramming

UserSir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

UserDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers

UserProfessor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

The revolution of capitalism

UserPeter Bakker, Chief Executive of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

UserGracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Brains, Science, and Human Nature

Joint seminar with the Wolfson College Humanities Society

UserProf Simon Blackburn, Trinity College and UNC Chapel Hill.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 18:00-19:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FLOW the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge.

UserDocumentary screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockSunday 03 February 2013, 20:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents

UserProfessor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer

Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!

UserHaley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger

UserBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

UserProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Lewis Society

Renewable Energy

UserProf Chris Howe, Dr Richard McMahon.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub).

ClockSaturday 26 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Panel Debate: Does scientific autonomy harm society?

Free refreshments provided

UserProf Sir Richard Friend, Prof Simone Hochgreb, Prof Harry Collins, and Dr Robert Doubleday,.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Publishing in Nature journals

UserDr Elisa de Rainieri, Nature Communications.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning

UserProfessor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Molecular Programming

UserProfessor Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition

UserIanthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Reading).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Development and application of Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

UserDr Stavroula Kontoe, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:00-17:50

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Psychology & Education

Social and emotional learning: a critical appraisal

UserNeil Humphries Professor of Psychology of Education University of Manchester.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Volition and Agency

THIS TALK IS A JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT 15 CHAUCER ROAD CAMBRIDGE. PLEASE NOTE: THIS PARTICULAR LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FRIDAY.

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Instrumentation and structures in Antarctica

Tea is served from 6pm

UserMike Rose, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 18:30-20:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action

UserFred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin.

HouseMRC CBU, 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 7EF.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Kevin Brownlow: Adventures in Film History

UserKevin Brownlow, film historian and documentary-maker.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

UserProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

9 Billion Mouths to Feed: Should we turbocharge crops to feed the world?

Free refreshments provided

UserProf Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Ben'et Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Great Ink Crisis

UserProfessor Rick Mitchell, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Zangwill Club

A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior

UserProfessor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Studentships Event

UserFormer Summer Students & Careers Advisor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The Domain of Content

UserHagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster

UserMr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Computing on Encrypted Data

Note change of date

UserProfessor Nigel Smart (University of Bristol).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’

UserJon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John Naughton (Vice-President and Director of the Press Fellowship, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Psychology & Education

Patterns in student learning and teacher learning: how do they relate?

UserJan Vermunt Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

An Updated Threat Model for Security Ceremonies

UserJean Martina (Federal University of Santa Catarina / Brazil).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Some social logics of sharing: From Web 2.0 to the therapeutic narrative

UserNicholas John, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & The London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseArts School Room B, New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John B Thompson (Department of Sociology, Fellow of Jesus College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

EDF R&D: creating value today and preparing for tomorrow

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Filomena La Porta - Head of Smart Energy Supply, EDF Energy R&D UK Centre.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 17:15-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Issues in fuel supply and utilisation

UserDr John C. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?

UserMatias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Using selfish genes to reduce malaria

UserProf. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema

UserProfessor Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge..

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

UserProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks

UserDr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Geotechnical Aspects of the Canterbury Earthquake Series

UserDr Liam Wotherspoon, Research Fellow, University of Auckland Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research, New Zealand.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 6.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development

UserKleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Acquisition Team).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics

UserProf. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge).

HouseWinstanly Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Losing your world while falling asleep'

UserDr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour

UserDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

UserProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Zangwill Club

The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory

UserProfessor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata?

The Erasmus Room is on the 1st Floor, and is marked no. 18 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

UserGeoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Beyond film. The many birthdays of the digital age: scanning, 3D and Klimt's 'Nuda Veritas' remixed

UserDr Frederick Baker, Cambridge University & Institute of Creative Media Technology, St Pölten.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 17:00-19:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Sex, Love, and Goodness

UserAlex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling

UserDr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Emotion, Cognition, and “Rational” Embodiment.

UserPiotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Could the ageing be infectious?

UserDr Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 18:00-19:15

Zangwill Club

Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling

UserDr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The TRD Method for In Situ Mixed Vertical Barriers in Dams and Levees

UserJeffrey C. Evans, Ph.D., P.E. Professor and Chair Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 5.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 13:30-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Dynamically Enforcing Knowledge-based Security Policies

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attendin

UserMichael Hicks, University of Maryland.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Neurocognitive universals in types of morphological process?

The Bowett Room is at no.7 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

The First Turns of an Embodied Cinema: 'Duncan Grant’s Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound'

UserProfessor Chris Townsend, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

UserProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition.

UserProfessor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Structural Engineering behind the Olympic Opening Ceremony

UserChristopher Matthews - Former Graduate Student of CUED.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR4**.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Technology Risk Management - Achilles Heels, Myths and Mirages

Note the change in timing

UserTony Chew (Monetary Authority of Singapore).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Explorations of Science in Cyber Security

UserGreg Shannon (CERT and Carnegie Mellon University).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockMonday 01 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Inaugural Symposium on Energy Efficiency

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, visit event website: http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/energyefficiency.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 01 October 2012, 09:00-18:30

Cambridge BioDesign

Need and Nature of a New Scientific Revolution

This free public event is running as part of the Cambridge BioDesign Symposium 2012 (www.cambridgebiodesign.org). Admission is free. Tickets will be available on the door. Reserve your place now via http://newscientificrevolution.eventbrite.com.

UserStephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 26 September 2012, 17:00-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

Engineering Design Centre

How Can We Measure Reactions to Product Designs?

UserKatrina Schoen - University of Cambridge, Engineering Department.

HouseArthur Marshall Meeting Room (next to EDC loft), Inglis Building, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 15 August 2012, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Design Centre

Some Problems with the Concept of 'Function'

UserDr. Nathan Crilly - University of Cambridge, Engineering Department.

HouseArthur Marshall Meeting Room (next to EDC loft), Inglis Building, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 08 August 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

IQ Gains in the 21st Century

UserProf Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseExperimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 July 2012, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Design Centre

Towards an Integrated Model of Design

UserProfessor Amaresh Chakrabarti - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

HouseArthur Marshall Meeting Room (next to EDC loft), Inglis Building, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 04 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

NUCLEAR: CLEAR OR UNCLEAR? - CUEN Annual Conference 2012

Sustainability, policy and prospects

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, please visit the conference website: http://cuens.soc.srcf.net/conference12.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2012, 09:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Towards Trustworthy Embedded Systems

UserGernot Heiser (University of New South Wales/NICTA).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockFriday 22 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?

UserColm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London.

HouseTBC.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30

Psychology & Education

Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System

User Professor Robert Goldstone Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm G09 Mary Allan Building)).

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

UserPaul Seidel (MIT).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Please note - pre-booking is not required for this lecture, but please arrive on time for the start of the talk.

UserDr James Grime - University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

damf1's list

The Greek Crisis and the Elections of 2012: The end of chimaerae?

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius A. Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePeter Richards Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:15-19:00

Psychology & Education

Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System

User Professor Robert Goldstone Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm G09 Mary Allan Building)).

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films made in Virtual Worlds

UserDr Jenna Ng (University of Cambridge), Dr William Brown (University of Roehampton), Prof. Sarah Higley (University of Rochester, NY) and Prof. Lev Manovich (University of California - San Diego).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 11 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Literature, Cinema, Television - Almodóvar and Bresson: Launch Event for the Legenda 'Moving Image' Series

UserPaul Julian Smith (Distinguished Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, CUNY) and Laura McMahon (Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FUTURE of PHOTOVOLTAICS in BUILDINGS

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Hamish Watson - CEO, Polysolar Ltd - Cambridge.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 18:30-19:30

Sir Martin Wood Lecture Series

Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron

UserDr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

UserProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Extracting meaning from text

UserProfessor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 18:00-19:15

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Interacting without Touch.

UserDr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS).

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Zangwill Club

The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval

UserDr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Hammersmith Flyover – What is the problem?

UserDr Chris Burgoyne Department of Engineering (CUED).

HouseEngineering Department - **LR5**.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Presentations on Work in Progress in Screen Media

UserChris O'Rourke (University of Cambridge) and Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour

UserProfessor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

GASLAND the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge. Due to the limited number of spaces, please sign up at our webite: www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 20:00-22:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Mapping during the Irish plantations, c.1580-1640

UserAnnaleigh Margey, National University of Ireland.

HouseEmmanuel College (Gardner Room).

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy

UserProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control

UserDr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Quasi-static rheology of granular materials. What we learned from discrete simulations

UserDr Jean-Noël Roux, Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts et des Eaux et Forêts, Laboratoire Navier, Paris.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 6.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Title to be confirmed

UserAnn Copestake (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Computational Environment Design for Online Communities

UserProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Psychology & Education

Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice in education

UserDr. Robert White is Senior Lecturer; Community, Health and Educational Studies Research Centre.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

UserProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Teorema (Pasolini, 1968): A Roundtable on Film and Literature with Ali Smith, Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli

UserAli Smith, novelist; Prof. Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 17:00-19:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Mastering Uncertainty

UserStephen Reid, Stephen Reid and Spring Business Innovation Ltd.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

ClockFriday 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior

UserProfessor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 April 2012, 16:30-18:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Confining the Ghost in the Machine: Using Types to Secure JavaScript Sandboxing

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserShriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University.

HouseLarge lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2012, 10:30-11:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserAlptekin Küpçü, Koç University.

HousePrimrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The science of guessing

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserJoseph Bonneau (Cambridge University).

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"

LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912

UserProfessor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia

UserDr Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic.

HouseMorison Room, University Library, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 17:30-18:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Non-Interactive Verifiable Computation

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserBryan Parno, Microsoft Research.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

“Buro Happold – Innovations and SMART Solutions”

UserDr Shrikant Sharma & Colin McKinnon of Buro Happold SMART Solutions.

HouseEngineering Department - *LR3B*.

ClockFriday 16 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Malleability in Modern Cryptography

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserMarkulf Kohlweiss, MSRC.

HouseLarge lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 10:00-11:00

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

A Mathematical Look at the Olympics

UserProfessor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Jet Engine: What Happens If....?

UserDr Ivor Day, Department of Engineering.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory.

UserProfessor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

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