Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid mechanics wave-particle duality

Emmanuel Fort (Langevin Institute, ESPCI, Paris).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The influence of matrix geometry and stiffness on cancer invasion

Erik Sahai (Cancer Research UK, London).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

16th Cambridge/Oxford Applied Mathematics Meeting

aka the Woolly Owl competition

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 10:45-17:35

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Approaching protein dynamics in the post-genome era

Professor Modesto Orozco, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona .

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

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

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The assessment of global aerosol-cloud interactions – why is it so hard?

Dr Philip Stier (University of Oxford).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

New solutions of Laplace Tidal Equations over a sphere

Nathan Paldor (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Mitochondria in cell fate reprogramming: from mechanisms to disease investigation'

Dr Alessandro Prigione, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Friday 07 June 2013, 15:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

White dwarf cooling: electron-phonon coupling and the metallization of solid helium

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory in the linear-response formalism: An implementation in the ONETEP code

Tim Zuehlsdorff (Imperial College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:00-11:40

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

How can we reduce the uncertainty in estimates of aerosol cloud forcing?

Dr Kirsty Pringle (University of Leeds).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Rigidity Theory and Some Applications

Micheal Thorpe.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Energy cascades in rotating and stratified turbulence

Erik Lindborg (KTH).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores in nanotechnology and single-enzyme studies

Giovanni Maglia, Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Influenza Virus Envelope: Complex Interplay between Membrane Proteins and Lipid Domains"

Dr Daniel Parton, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

First year PhD students: Click on line above for names and subjects.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Friedrich, CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept..

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: A mystery solved?'

Professor Paolo Bernardi, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Calculations on Tunneling by Carbon Tell Experimentalists Where to Look and What to Look For

Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

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

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Impingement of a plume on a rigid boundary

Alan Jamieson (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 17:09-17:21

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Asymptotic Approximations for High-Frequency Sound Generated by Aerofoils in Flow

Lorna Ayton (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:56-17:08

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Extratropical Tropopause Inversion Layer

Alison Ming (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:43-16:55

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Stability of Dust-Laden Vortices

Anna Railton (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:30-16:42

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Tidal forcing of a rapidly rotating star

Harry Braviner (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:17-16:29

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Jupiter's unearthly jets: a new idealised model

Stephen Thomson (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:04-16:16

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Role of spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system

Catherine Cutts (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 15:25-15:37

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Self-organization in drops of swimming bacteria

Hugo Wioland (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 15:12-15:24

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Modal stability analysis of plane Poiseuille flow with electric charge

Lukas Vermach (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:59-15:11

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Magnus and Fer Expansions in the numerical solution of Sturm--Liouville Problems: a new approach via 'streamers'

Alberto Gil Ramos (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:46-14:58

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerically solving the Schrodinger equation with exponential splittings

Pranav Singh (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:33-14:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On solving an isospectral flow

Aman Kaur (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:20-14:32

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Ehrenpreis principle: from ODEs to PDEs

Kevin Crooks (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:07-14:19

BSS Formal Seminars

Approaching biology discretely

Professor Timothy Newman (Univ. Dundee).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Optimal compensation for neuron death

David Barrett (ENS Paris).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 24 May 2013, 09:30-10:30

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Teaching Sustainability to Chemical Engineering students”

Students, visitors, academics and alumni are invited to attend this talk. Register your name on www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

Professor Ryszard Pohorecki Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT).

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Why Does Cyclobutane-1,2,3,4-tetraone Have a Triplet Ground State?

A TMI RIG Presentation

Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

First year PhD students: Click on line above for names and subjects.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonic phonon properties: electron-phonon coupling and stress

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Exploring the binary Lennard-Jones system with high throughput structure prediction and speeding up time to ground state

Martin Uhrin (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 11:00-11:40

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Using computational methods to aid our understanding of ionotropic glutamate receptors at the molecular level"

Dr Phil Biggin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Petri nets as semi-quantitative modeling method to explore systems behavior of disease-related pathways

Ina Koch (Frankfurt University).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Molecular composition of biogenic secondary organic aerosols using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry: linking laboratory and field studies

Dr Ivan Kourtchev (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Seeing quantum mechanics by the naked eye in quantum fluids of light

Natasha Berloff (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial Cells in Picoliter Droplets

Prof Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen - Radboud Universiteit).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The UK'S facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements

Tea is served from 6pm

Jamie Trembath, FAAM, Cranfield University.

British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons.

Tiago Branco (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 16 May 2013, 10:00-11:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration: investigations of a Pank2 KO mouse model and development of new neuronal cellular systems'

Dr Valeria Tiranti, IRCCS Foundation Institute of Neurology "C. Besta", Milan, Italy.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

First year PhD students: Click on line above for names and subjects.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

GPU-accelerated Quantum ESPRESSO: between performance, correctness and sustainability

Filippo Spiga (HPCS, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Genome-wide association studies: Lessons from studying a large clinical cohort

Sven Bergmann (Lausanne).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Urban street canyons: Coupling dynamics, chemistry and within-canyon chemical processing of emissions/Low-cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Personal Exposure Studies and High Density Network for Air Quality Assessment

Dr Vivien Bright/Dr Olalekan Popoola (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 May 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cytoplasmic streaming from microfilament self-organisation

Francis Woodhouse (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems

Peter Sollich, Department of Mathematics, King's College London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

First year PhD students: Click on line above for names and subjects.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The interplay of waves and turbulence

Peter Davidson (Engineering, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features

Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Regulation of complex I amount: molecular mechanism

Professor José Antonio Enriquez, CNIC, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Supercomplex assembly determines electron flux in the mitochondrial electron transport chain

Professor José Antonio Enriquez, CNIC, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

First year PhD students: Click on line above for names and subjects.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Enzyme dynamics, conformations and catalysis

Professor Adrian Mulholland, Centre for Computational Chemistry, Univeristy of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:15-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution:

Room change: 215 instead of lecture theatre (outside guests will need visitor ID)

Dana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 29 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Climate and health impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol

Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Leeds).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 April 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Effective constitutive relations and variational principles for waves in composites

This talk is now in MR2, CMS

John Willis (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids

Speaker to be confirmed.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Technology Management in a large integrated Oil Company”

if you would like to attend this free talk just register your name on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

Dr David Söderberg, BP Group Technology, Director Technology Management.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Is the brain in a critical state?

Peter Latham ( Gatsby, UCL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Demixing scents: Sampling-based inference in olfaction.

Agnieszka Grabska Barwinska, The Gatsby Unit, UCL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

various speakers.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 09:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

Professor Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University).

Pfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

Prof Murry Salby (Macquarie University).

Pfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Cyber Security: Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Tea is served from 6pm

Paul Beechey, Senior IT Security Specialist - QinetiQ.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Diurnal ozone variations in the stratosphere revealed in observations from the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) onboard the International Space Station (ISS)

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

Takatoshi Sakazaki (Kyoto University).

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemotaxome – A new member with complex biological entities in systems biology.

Kohidai, Laszlo MD, PhD, Med.Habil. Cell Biology, Assoc. Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The power and limits of NGS strategies to address mitochondrial disorders

Dr Holger Prokisch, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 09 April 2013, 14:30-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 02 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Stressing Out Cells: flow-induced migration of endothelial cells and cell adhesion on hydrogels

Prof Gerry Fuller, University of Stanford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Small is Beautiful: the Ford 1.0 Ecoboost three-cylinder turbo engine

Tea is served from 6pm

Andrew Fraser, Ford.

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

Thursday 21 March 2013, 18:30-20:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Computational biology

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

Professor Dan McKenzie.

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Spatial and temporal regulation of the DNA damage response

Jiri Lukas, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Inferring causal mediators from omics data in the context of genetic and environmental variations

Oliver Stegle (EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talks

Claudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Monday 18 March 2013, 14:30-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric fractional release, lifetimes, and Ozone Depletion Potentials

Dr Johannes Laube (University of East Anglia).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 March 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Biochemical hydrodynamics of protein solutions with high pressure relaxation kinetics

Gregory Vilensky (UCL).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Advances in Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display

Prof. Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut.

Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE), 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA..

Friday 15 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering occasional seminars

Bio-mass Pyrolysis - a cog in the changing energy and chemicals economy

Professor Joseph Biernacki from Tennessee Technological University (USA).

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

An overview of current carbon capture and storage options

Chris Hodrien, Timmins CCS Ltd..

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonicity in periodic systems

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 11:40-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Drugging the cancer genome

Paul Workman, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems

John Duncan (MRC CBSU).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ageing of Atmospheric Aerosols

Dr Christian Pfrang (University of Reading).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stochastic parametrization of ocean mesoscale eddies

Laure Zanna (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Wine and cheese evening

RSVP to president@camtriplehelix.com

The Triple Helix.

Old Music Room, St John's College.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 19:00-22:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Protein structure determination using X-ray lasers

Professor Henry Chapman, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Analysis of Biochemical Networks in Bioinformatics

Dr Sophia Tsoka, King’s College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data

Dr. Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Mechanisms of Wnt signal transduction

Christof Niehrs, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

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

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Sex differences in mind

Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Psychiatry).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The logic and variation in genomic regulatory networks

Mikhail Spivakov (Babraham Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Panel Debate: Climate change control strategies: Top-down or bottom-up?

FREE refreshments; Note later start time

Chair: Prof Howard Griffiths, Speakers: Prof Steve Yearly, Bob Ward, more speakers TBC.

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

Friday 01 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The granular silo as a visco-plastic flow (or why sandglasses do not flow like water-clocks)

Lydie Staron (CNRS/Bristol).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Extreme Mechanics of Marginal Matter

Martin van Hecke, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Mitochondrial dysfunction modifies physiological signaling and contributes to pathogenesis'

Professor Anu Somalainen-Wartiovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome sequencing of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

Elizabeth Murchison (Sanger) .

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

How can energies be aligned in ab initio electronic transport calculations?

Robert Bell (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 11:40-12:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Hans Wolf-Watz, University of Umea, Sweden.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Controlling gene expression fluctuations during development

Alexander van Oudenaarden, Hubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to understand brain function

Daniel Mitchell (MRC CBSU).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Brominated Ozone Depleting Substances: Halons and Very Short-Lived Substances (VSLS)

Dr Claire Reeves (University of East Anglia).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Computing steady vortex flows of prescribed topology

Paulo Luzzatto-Fegiz (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques

Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München ).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture - Raspberry Pi

Tea is served from 6pm

Robert Mullins, Computer Laboratory & Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

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

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

“Data Driven Molecular Design & Discovery”

Dr Scott Lusher, Netherlands eScience Centre.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding

Dr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jonathan O'Keeffe .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Thinking (and looking) out of the box - new tricks for molecular simulation and visualization"

Dr Marc Baaden, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimque, Paris.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Arrivals and departures: how Arf family G proteins organise membrane traffic at the Golgi

Sean Munro, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Metabolic regulation of the stress response and the cancer cell's Warburg effect

Markus Ralser (University of Cambridge, Dept of Biochemistry).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Age old issues, new challenges, and emerging methods for psychological science

Alex Kogan (Department of Psychology).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding uncertainty in computer simulations with an application in global aerosol modelling

Dr Lindsay Lee (University of Leeds).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Capillary interaction between anisotropic colloids at fluid-fluid interfaces

Lorenzo Botto (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nano-optics of complex media

R. Sapienza, King's College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Developments in meso reactor technology

Prof. Adam Harvey, University of Newcastle.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Methodological Challenges in the Pursuit of the Tree of Life

Dr. Christophe Dessimoz, EMBL-EBI.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Charge transfer in carbon nanotubes?

Robert Bell.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:10-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Nonequilibrium dynamics in the Hubbard model

Michael Moeckel (Chem).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 11:30-12:10

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

The CRISPR system for prokaryotic antiviral immunity

Malcolm White, St. Andrews University, UK.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational models and theories – who needs them?

Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational models and theories – who needs them?

Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hygroscopicity and Phase Transition of Several Kinds of Aerosols

Dr Hai-Jie Tong (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2013, 14:15-15:30

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

The medical conquest of aging: why it's foreseeable and why you should care

Free refreshments provided

Dr Aubrey de Grey.

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

Friday 08 February 2013, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The stability of buoyancy-driven fluid filled cracks

Richard Craster (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers

Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-wide approaches to study alternative splicing using RNA-seq data

Dr. Kathi Zarnack, London Research Institute and EMBL-EBI.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

MPhil in Computational Biology Open Afternoon

various.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Ubiquitin signalling in immunity and inflammation - Working on the chain gang

Katrin Rittinger, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Immune regulation of vertebrate regeneration

Nadia Rosenthal, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London; Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University; EMBL Australia.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Shift in the Balance of Economic and Financial Power: what does it really mean?

Dr. Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank.

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

Monday 04 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of cellular networks: from interactions to phenotypes

Pedro Beltrao (EMBL-EBI).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Significance, power and replication: why statistical life gets harder as a post-doc

Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Elastocapillary flows

Camille Duprat (ESPCI).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Observations of a mathematician running a wet-lab: decades of pharmacology, MICs, efflux pumps, drug interactions and antibiotic resistance in the context of models and genomics

Prof Robert Beardmore (Exeter University).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

" Multiphase flow in oil and gas production "

if you would like to attend thsi free talk just register your name on www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

Trevor Hill, BP Exploration Operating Co Ltd.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Proteinases and Cancer

Gill Murphy, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Genetics and biotechnological applications at high temperature'

Professor Jose Berenguer, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Ecological niche modeling and infectious disease

Dr. Daniel Henk, University of Bath.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning for predictive condensed-phase quantum chemistry: clusters, ice and liquid water

Gabor Csanyi (Engineering).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 11:00-12:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

The genetics of individuals: why would a mutation kill me, but not you?

Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Science: How not to do it

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Circulating tumour DNA as a biomarker of genetics alterations in cancer

Florent Mouliere (IRCM U896 Inserm, Montpellier, France).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Panel Debate: Does scientific autonomy harm society?

Free refreshments provided

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

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Topological Jumps in Fluid Mechanics

Keith Moffatt (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular bionics: copying Nature to control Nature

Prof Beppe Battaglia (University of Sheffield).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Stem cells and cancer

John Stingl, Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Adapting to unfolded protein load in the endoplasmic reticulum'

Professor David Ron, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Integration of functional genomics and pathway information to elucidate deregulation of signal transduction and drugs' mode of action

Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

New insights into old parasites - Plasmodium malariae, P. ovale spp and the mysterious process of host transition.

Colin Sutherland, London School of of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Reprogramming and cellular dominance

Amanda Fisher, Imperial College, London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 11:00-12:00

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?

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

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

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

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

What Makes an Educated Scientist?

Free refreshments provided

Prof Dame Athene Donald.

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

Monday 21 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Strategies for cognitive translation from animal to human: Knock-outs, neurogenesis, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease

Tim Bussey (Department of Psychology).

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

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

An optimization framework for adaptive PDE solutions applied to fluid dynamics

David Darmofal (MIT).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture: The translocation of polymers across nanometer sized pores in membranes

Prof Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

From here to Hydrogen (talk cancelled)

Bill Powell & Gordon Taylor.

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

Thursday 17 January 2013, 18:30-20:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats Wednesdays at 12noon, Thursday at 2pm during Lent 2013

Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial transcription and its regulation

Professor Claes Gustafsson, University of Gothenburg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Evolution of post-translational networks

Dr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP BioLunch

African trypanosomes: avoiding your host and self-cleaning plasma membranes

Professor Mark Carrington (Cambridge).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Geoff Moore.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosols and global biogeochemical cycles - tiny particles links the atmosphere with the ocean

Dr Zongbo Shi (University of Birmingham).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 January 2013, 14:15-15:30

Craik Club

Disturbing vision: neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis

Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 14 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Individual differences in human perception

Dr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 07 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Instrumentation and structures in Antarctica

Tea is served from 6pm

Mike Rose, British Antarctic Survey.

British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Microtubules: boring polymers or the Achilles heel of cancer?

Fanni Gergely, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 December 2012, 09:30-10:30

CRI Imaging Seminars

Multiparametric MRI of the vasculature: applications to therapy monitoring of gliomas

Chantal Remy, Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences, France.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Luigi Acerbi.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 06 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Mitochondria: from pyruvate import to RNA processing'

Professor Jean-Claude Martinou, University of Geneva.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

From structure to stomach; the use of thermal imaging methods to characterise pharmaceutical dosage forms

Prof Duncan Craig, School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quantum chemistry and cold atoms: insights into magnetism

Pascal Bugnion (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Orbital dependent backflow transformations

Pablo Lopez Rios (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-11:40

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Unlocking the secrets of scarless wound healing and appendage regeneration

Enrique Amaya, University of Manchester.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 04 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The impact of fluid motion on microbial ecology: phytoplankton patchiness and bacterial biofilm development in porous media

Mack Durham (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Exome sequencing in mitochondrial disorders as a tool to advance our understanding of mitochondrial physiology

Dr Holger Prokisch, Hemholtz Centre Munich, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Genetic dissection of the ß-barrel assembly machine in Gram-negative bacteria

Thomas J. Silhavy, Princeton University .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

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

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Circularity and selection bias in neuroscience and beyond: double dipping, publication bias, and the decline of significant effects

Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC CBSU).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Nine Billion Mouths to Feed: should we turbocharge crop productivity to feed the world?

Prof. Howard Griffiths, Dept. of Plant Sciences.

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

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

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

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

Free refreshments provided

Prof Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

CANCELLED: Forecast skill and predictability of observed Atlantic sea surface temperatures

CANCELLED due to unforeseeable circumstances

Laure Zanna (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How One Cell Eats Another - Physical Principles in Phagocytosis

Dr Robert Endres, University College London, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

"Made Happy" Designing in Sustainability in a Fast Moving Consumer Goods Business

Free talk - just register your name on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

Simon Fox MA CEng FIChemE Senior Principal Engineer – Mondelēz International (Kraft Foods UK R&D Ltd).

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Metabolism and cancer: why should we care?

Professor Eyal Gottlieb, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Scalar dissipation rate in an unsteady turbulent jet

Dr Nikolaos Soulopoulos, Imperial College, London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Some ideas about QMC and molecular dynamics

Mike Towler (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Bayesian reconstruction of free energy profiles from umbrella samples

Thomas Stecher (Engineering).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

How the INO80 and PBAF chromatin remodelling complexes function to maintain genome stability

Jessica Downs, MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Gene punctuation in eukaryotes: roles of R-loops, gene loops and co-transcriptional cleavage in controlling transcription

Nick Proudfoot, University of Oxford.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Public communication of science in the media

(Please bring a recent example of a media science story)

Emily Holmes (MRC CBSU).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric science and policy - the challenge of making them consistent

Prof. Martin Williams, Kings College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2012, 14:15-15:30

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

The LHC Project: the Higgs Boson and beyond

Followed by Q&A and free refreshments

Prof. Andy Parker, Department of Physics.

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

Friday 16 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Social Fluids

Professor Matthew Turner, University of Warwick, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Cambridge Sundials and Time

Tea is served from 6pm

Frank King, Churchill College.

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

Thursday 15 November 2012, 18:30-20:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Synthetic genetic polymers

Philipp Holliger, MRC LMB, Cambridge .

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

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

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Measuring theory of mind in late childhood

Clare Hughes (Dept of Psychology).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The upper troposphere/lower stratosphere and its role in chemistry-climate coupling

Dr Michaela Hegglin, University of Reading.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2012, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow control using Galerkin projection and system identification

Peter Schmid (LadHyX).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-gas Spinodal Decomposition

Professor Walter Kob, Universite Montpellier 2, France.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The metabolic transformation of cancer cell

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Van der waals interactions in acenes and C60

Alston Misquitta (Queen Mary).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Redox active species in liquid water compared to charged defects in solid oxides

Michiel Sprik (Chemistry).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 11:00-11:40

bbu20's list

Coding with Dendrites

Panayiota Poirazi.

CBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Mining RNA-seq Data For Insights into Intron Splicing and Recycling

Will Fairbrother, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Brown University.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Lipoproteins and signaling lipids in the Hedgehog pathway

Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroscience and the law

Nicholas Mackintosh (Department of Psychology).

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

Monday 05 November 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The reaction of halogen oxides (BrO and ClO) with CH3O2; laboratory based temperature dependent kinetic and product studies.

Note unusual time

Dr Kimberley Leather, University of Manchester.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2012, 15:15-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Exotic behavior of hexagonal patterns in Faraday surface waves

Laurette Tuckerman (ESPCI).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields

Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Science museum v2.0: using low-cost computing to improve access to hands-on science experiences

Tea is served from 6pm

Dave Ansell & Chris Lennard, Cambridge Science Centre.

Lecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 18:30-20:00

Craik Club

How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see?

Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Basics of the cell cycle

Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 09:30-10:30

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Non-thermal effects of terahertz radiation on gene expression in mouse stem cells

Dr Boian Alexandrov, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"The mechanisms of solute flux through membrane channels from multi-microsecond equilibrium simulations"

Dr Martin Ulmschneider, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases - Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned

Alan Fairlamb, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

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

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The psychology of gambling and gambling addiction

Luke Clark (Dept of Psychology).

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

Monday 29 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Measurements of roughness noise

William Devenport (Virginia Tech).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioactive glasses and their hybrids as scaffolds for regenerative medicine

Dr Julian Jones, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Foster Talks

Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory

Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA..

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The challenge of nanotechnology

Mike Payne (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:40-11:50

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Cold atoms unspun

Gareth Conduit (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 11:00-11:40

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Enjoying the sun – Macromolecular machines involved in DNA damage detection and repair

Nicolas Thoma, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 22 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Nocturnal Chemistry in the Troposphere: Laboratory and Field Studies.

Dr Mingjin Tang, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

CANCELLED: Double-diffusive convection

CANCELLED due to illness

Pascale Garaud (UCSC).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA for biophysics and nanotechnology

Dr Ard Louis, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Optical metamaterials - bending the laws of physics

Tea is served from 6pm

Dr Tim Wilkinson, Cambridge University.

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

Thursday 18 October 2012, 18:30-20:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Tumour natural history, structure and nomenclature (lecture/demonstration)

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 09:30-10:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Physio-pathology of mitochondrial complex III assembly

Dr Erika Fernandez-Vizarra.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Transformation of carbonaceous materials in the oil industry

Alejandro Molina Ochoa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia .

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Endosymbiosis, genome mosaicism, and the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes

Prof. John Archibald, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

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

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it

(Bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 15 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

1st Year CPGS talks

Sarah Connors, Antara Banerjee and Ewa Bednarz.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Eulerian dispersive shock waves and instabilities

Mark Hoefer (North Carolina State).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

az302's list

Dynamic arrest in polymer gels

Johan Mattsson, Soft Matter Physics Group School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds.

Small Lecture Theater.

Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology

The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes

Please contact Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez if you wish to attend this talk as he will need to inform security

Doug Lauffenberger (MIT).

The Crick Auditorium, Wellcome Trust Campus, Hinxton.

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:00-01:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondria and the cytoskeleton – matters of life and death in the face of stress

Dr Campbell Gourlay, University of Kent.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Covert communication in insects

Richard Benton, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

Professor Mike Edmunds.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre.

Monday 08 October 2012, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How children's cognitive abilities vary: methods for understanding individual differences

Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 08 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing colloidal suspensions: Periodic ice-banding

Anthony Anderson (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Network biology of cancer

Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 September 2012, 10:30-11:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation of the Ocean

Geoff Vallis (Princeton).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

From protein networks to disease mechanisms

Roded Sharan (Tel-Aviv University).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 10 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Biomass and Black Carbon particles over Peninsular India: How are they affecting precipitation over the region?

Prof Satyajit Ghosh, VIT University, India and Leeds University, U.K..

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 September 2012, 14:15-15:30

Chemical Engineering occasional seminars

NUMERICAL MODELING OF YIELD-STRESS FLUIDS VS. THIXOTROPIC FLUIDS FLOWS

Dr Rudy Valette, Associate Professor Cemef, Mines ParisTech.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Friday 07 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Perceiving is Believing: Bayesian inference in unexpected places.

Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby, UCL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 05 September 2012, 10:30-11:30

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Successes and challenges in the prediction of P450 mediated drug metabolism

Professor Patrik Rydberg, University of Copenhagen, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mechanical energy budget of the geostrophic circulation in the World Ocean

An out-of-term seminar organized by Prof. Haynes

Rob Scott (Laboratoire de Physique des Océans/University of Brest) .

MR5 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 August 2012, 12:00-13:00

Craik Club

Perception of motion blur during eye movement

Professor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy

Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University.

Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 17 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Hybrid Inclusion Complex (HIC) and its Key Role in Constructing New Polymeric Materials

Prof Ming Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Characterising the evolutionary trajectories generating C4 photosynthesis through inference of phenotypic transition networks

Ben Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 06 July 2012, 13:00-13:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Variational Methods in 3+Dimensional Biomedical Imaging

Martin Burger (Uni Münster).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Planetary wave propagation and breaking between the eddy-driven and subtropical jets

An informal out-of-term seminar organized by Emma Boland

Amanda O'Rourke (Princeton).

MR14 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Zonostrophic instability

An informal out-of-term seminar organized by Prof. McIntyre.

Professor W. R. Young.

MR14 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Vision for reading

Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Entropy and order parameters from ensembles generated by computer simulations"

Profressor Klaus Liedl, University of Innsbruck.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 15:15-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 26 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics

Professor Bill Newsome, Stanford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 26 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The life histories of 21 breast cancers

Peter van Loo (Sanger Institute).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 25 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Creative Mind and Physical Reality

Video now available at http://youtu.be/6FdLOIc6bvM

Prof. Brian Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Friday 22 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Craik Club

The wonder of hue: the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness

Sungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Local and nonlocal energy transfers in a family of geophysically relevant 2D turbulence models

An informal out-of-term seminar organized by Dr Hitchcock.

Bel Helen Burgess (University of Toronto).

MR5 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Co-operative switching, turnover, and mechano-chemistry in a biological macromolecular complex'

Dr Richard Berry, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Optimal integration of top-down and bottom-up uncertainty in humans, monkeys, and neural networks

Ahmad Qamar (University of Chicago).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"Dynamics of Biomolecules: from the Glass Transition to Drug Design"

A joint Theory/UCC talk as part of the TMI Research Interest Group

Professor Jeremy C Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 14:15-15:30

Craik Club

A new look at human motor control

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Sand ripples and dunes

Francois Charru (Toulouse).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetics and Evolution of Transmissible Cancers in Dogs and Tasmanian Devils

Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Fellow of Medical Sciences, King's College, Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 June 2012, 19:30-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronisation of eukaryotic flagella

Marco Polin (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The flagellum as a living oscillator

Kirsty Wan.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 17:22-17:34

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Coupling of active motion and advection shapes intracellular cargo transport

Philipp Khuc Trong.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 17:09-17:21

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cyclosis in vitro: macro-circulation from micro-activity

Francis Woodhouse.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:56-17:08

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Pattern formation in polariton condensates

Guido Franchetti.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:43-16:55

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A simple dynamical model of gravity drainage of brine from growing sea ice

David Rees Jones.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:30-16:42

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Convective shutdown in a porous medium

Duncan Hewitt.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:17-16:29

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Green buildings: the effects of non-adiabatic boundaries on natural ventilation

Jamie Partridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:04-16:16

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Drop formation of power-law fluid coating a vertical fibre

Liyan Yu.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 15:25-15:37

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stratification confined Rayleigh-Taylor mixing

Megan Davies Wykes.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 15:12-15:24

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent mixing of an initially linear stable stratification in Taylor-Couette flow

Rosie Oglethorpe.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 14:59-15:11

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Infinity-norm optimal perturbations in a 2D channel flow

Dimitry Foures.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 14:46-14:58

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The effect of a magnetised atmosphere on the magnetic buoyancy instability

Will Edmunds.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 14:33-14:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Internal wave attractors

Rob Sutton.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 14:20-14:32

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Effective approximate solution for a scalar Wiener-Hopf problem

Anastasia Kisil.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2012, 14:07-14:19

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates

Prof Heather D Maynard, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

1st year PhD student presentations

1st year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:50-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Strongly correlated electrons driven by an electric field

Camille Aron (Rutgers).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:20-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Gaussian Approximation Potentials at work: from silicon to water

Albert Bartok-Partay.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:00-11:20

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

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

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling isocyanic acid (HNCO): Tropospheric distribution, budget, and identification of regions with potential health impacts

Dr Paul Young, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

Craik Club

Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed

Dr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

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

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

"Abcodia, the biomarker validation company"

FREE TALK, if you wish to attend just register your name on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

Dr Wendy Alderton, Director of Science, Abcodia Ltd.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Eighth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute

Various Speakers.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 09:00-17:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Exploitation of host mitochondria by human pathogenic Neisseria'

Professor Thomas Rudel, Biozentrum, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

1st year PhD student presentations

1st year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:50-16:20

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Enzyme catalysis from linear-scaling DFT: application to chorismate mutase

Greg Lever (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Multiscale simulation of brittle fracture in oxides and semiconductors

James Kermode (KCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 11:00-11:40

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds.

Dr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Biological Image Analysis Made Easy

Note the unusual time: 11am not 4pm!

Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 21 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Extension of Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings' acoustic analogy to turbomachinery cascade noise prediction with swirl

Helene Posson (Damtp).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Shocks in fragile matter

Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Satellite Architectures for resilient networks

Tea is served from 6pm

Tanvir Ahmad, Astrium Ltd.

Lecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 18:30-20:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling

Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Neurodegenerative alpha-synucleinopathies'

Dr Maria Grazia Spillantini, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

1st year PhD student presentations

1st year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 13:50-16:40

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

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

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes

Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 14 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling and data assimilation of reactive gases at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Dr Johannes Flemming, ECMWF.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials

Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Parkinson's disease: is it all mitochondrial?'

Professor Nicholas Wood, UCL Institute of Human Genetics and Health.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

1st year PhD student presentations

1st year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 13:50-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Diffusion Monte Carlo, nodal surfaces and pairing functions

Pascal Bugnion (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Dynamical mean-field theory applied to linear scaling density functional theory

Cedric Weber (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 11:00-11:40

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modeling stem cell differentiation on multiple scales

Tuesday, not Monday!

Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Center Munich).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences..

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Effects of turbulence on flame ignition and extinction processes

Nondas Mastorakos (Engineering, Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers

Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic tasks: from receptive fields to value functions

Constantin Rothkopf, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

1st year PhD student presentations

1st year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 13:50-16:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Optimal encoding and decoding in sensory populations

Eero Simoncelli (New York University, HHMI).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 10:00-11:00

Craik Club

"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.

Eero Simoncelli, New York University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

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

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

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat.

Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 30 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

"Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia "

Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 30 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The modulational stability and breaking of anelastic internal waves

Bruce Sutherland (Alberta).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineering cellular systems

Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Alpha MMA: A completely new process for the manufacture of methylmethacrylate”

Talk is free, all you need to do is register attendance on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-and-department-events.html

Dr Ben Harris, Technology Licensing Manager, Lucite International UK Ltd.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Coupling of Na+/H+ transfer to the rotary mechanism of ATP synthase'

Dr Thomas Meier, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 15:00-16:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: A Route to Dynamic, Adaptive Materials

Prof Stuart J Rowan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Rational learning may be minimalist

Paul R. Schrater.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 15:00-16:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Five things an Engineer should know about Intellectual Property

Tea is served from 6pm

Simon Goodman, Reddie and Grose LLP.

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

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 18:30-20:00

CBU one-off Talks

Attentional competition during memory encoding and retrieval

Professor Martin Chun (John B. Madden Professor of Psychology, and Master of Berkeley College, Yale).

Lecture Theatre of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge..

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Future methane, OH, and their uncertainties.

Dr Christopher D Holmes, University of California, Irvine.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The end of simulation?

Mike Payne (TCM Group).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 11:00-11:40

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Machine learning applications in genetic regulation and cancer

David Westhead (Leeds).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Lucy Carpenter (University of York).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'The making of mitochondrial complex I: regulation of the biogenesis of a key metabolic enzyme'

Dr Leo Nijtmans, NCMLS, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 04 April 2012, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

ShrinkSeq: a flexible and powerful method for Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data

Note the time change: 2pm (not 4pm)

Mark van de Wiel (VU University Medical Center).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

The ventromedial hypothalamus

Professor Gareth Leng, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 29 March 2012, 16:45-17:45

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Clustering of Alpers disease mutations and catalytic defects in biochemical variants'

Professor Laurie Kaguni, Michigan State University, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis

Sebastian Mueller.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Evolution of developmental gene expression programs

Itai Yanai (Technion).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Complex dynamics of solitary water waves in three dimensions

Paul Milewski (Bath).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics

Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

CUED graduate seminar - Biomimetic materials for nucleus pulposus tissue engineering/Solid bonding of aluminium scrap

Daniel Strange, CUED and Daniel Cooper.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The Autosub AUVs - Multisensory, Multi-scale mapping from the Polar Seas to the Tropics.

Tea is served from 6pm

Stephen McPhail, National Oceanography Centre.

British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 18:30-20:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

Type 2 diabetes: nature or nurture

Professor Graham Hitman, Barts and The London School of Medicine.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:45-17:45

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Atomic structures of the eukaryotic ribosome and implications for the initiation of protein synthesis'

Professor Nenad Ban, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zurich.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

General vs. geometrical reaction coordinates on QM and QM/MM surfaces

Letif Mones (Engineering).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:00-12:20

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

New bulk phases of alumina from random searches

Matthew Lyle (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Water clusters, ice and liquid: Improving ab initio energetics

Mike Gillan (University College, London).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11:00-11:40

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Drugging the cancer genome

CANCELLED due to illness

Prof. Paul Workman, Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Science and Policy: a one way relationship?

Last talk of term

Speaker to be confirmed.

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 12 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Strategies for cognitive translation from animal to human: Knock-outs, neurogenesis, and neuropsychiatric disease

Tim Bussey (Dept of Experimental Psychology).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 12 March 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Towards national emissions verification for non-CO2 greenhouse gases

NOTE Early start

Dr Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A framework for parameterizing eddy potential vorticity fluxes

David Marshall (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Isotope fractionation in nitrous oxide and CFC-12 reflects stratospheric chemistry and transport rates

Dr Jan Kaiser, University of East Anglia.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 March 2012, 14:15-15:30

Craik Club

"Genetic correlates of visual biases"

Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

This seminar has been cancelled

We regret to announce that this seminar has been cancelled

Prof. Rhodri Williams – School of Engineering, University of Swansea.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IMechE/IET Joint Lecture:- Engineering a million pregnancies - the development of DuoFertility

Tea is served from 6pm

Dr Shamus Husheer, CEO, Cambridge Temperature Concepts.

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

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 18:30-20:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Diana Burk.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dosage compensation: An intertwined world of RNA and chromatin remodeling

Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

Professor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

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

Monday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modelling in systems genetics: computational approaches for discovering disease networks

Tom Michoel (FRIAS Freiburg).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Cognitive neuroscience: Seeking convergence between neuroimaging and neuropsychology

Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Studying transitional flow over aerofoils and the associated noise generation using direct numerical simulations

Richard Sandberg (Southampton).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers

website: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/christopher_bielawski

Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 March 2012, 15:00-16:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Interactome Networks and Human Disease

Alkis Seraphim memorial lecture

Marc Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

Investigating lipid signaling using mass spectrometry

Professor Michael Wakelam, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:45-17:45

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures

Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Pharmaceutical Companies: Friends or Foes?

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 20:00-21:30

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Impact response of polymer-metal laminates

Dr Graham McShane – CUED, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Ligand discrimination in myoglobin from linear-scaling DFT+U

Daniel Cole (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Materials discovery: the systematic prediction of new classes of organic non-linear optical materials

Jacqui Cole.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11:00-11:40

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

The architecture and ppGpp-dependent expression of the primary transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium

Dr. Arthur Thompson, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

There no point crying about it … or is there? Some thoughts on why we have emotions

Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBSU).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 27 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and it's role in Climate.

Dr Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2012, 14:15-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermal convection in variable viscosity fluids: from laboratory experiments to planetary dynamics

Anne Davaille (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Photons, dust, and honeybees

Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

Hormonal regulation of cholesterol metabolism

Professor Bo Angelin, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Quo vadis adsorption technology? -- An overview about future trends

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Bathen - Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

The early stages of biomimetic calcium phosphate formation: amorphous phases and pre-nucleation complexes

Dr Nico A.J.M.Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

"Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis"

Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

"Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid materials"

Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 15:45-16:45

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Dynamics of Dpp signaling and proliferation control

Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Depts of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

Professor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to understand brain function

Danny Mitchell (MRC CBSU).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dynamic bifurcations and pattern formation in melting-boundary convection

Michael Proctor (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

CRI Imaging Seminars

Developing imaging approaches for novel cancer therapies

Eric Aboagye, Imperial College, London.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture - Bloodhound SSC

Tea is served from 6pm

Richard Noble OBE.

Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 18:30-20:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

G-protein receptor modulation in metabolism

Professor Thue Schwartz, University fo Copenhagen.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

Dr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

2nd year PhD student presentations and posters

2nd year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 14:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

A brief discussion about weak measurements

Mike Towler.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:55-12:05

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Cold atoms in a spin

Gareth Conduit.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:40-11:55

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Convergence of wave function expansions using a plane wave basis: from the homogeneous electron gas to the solid state

James Shepherd (CUC3).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 11:00-11:40

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

HOW MUCH CAN ONE SEE BY (JUST) LOOKING: the case with Heterochromatin Protein 1

Prof. Spyros Georgatos, University of Iannina, Greece.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Significance, power and replication: why statistical life gets harder as a post-doc

Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 13 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Marvels of bacterial flagella

Howard Berg (Harvard).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

"The Chemical Engineer as Entrepreneur"Title to be confirme

Speaker to be confirmed.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Shaping the Future of Manipulation

Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

Targeting muscle mitochondrial metabolism and lipotoxicity to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus

Dr Patrick Schrauwen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:45-17:45

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

‘Multiscale simulations of membrane proteins and their interactions’

Professor Mark Sansom, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

2nd year PhD student presentations and posters

2nd year PhD students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher – Max-Planck-Institute, Magdeburg.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

All CMS Events

Open Afternoon for the MPhil in Computational Biology

Various Speakers.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 14:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Model Based Target Identification from Expression Data

Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Sex differences in mind

Simon Baron-Cohen (Dept of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mathematical and computational modelling of tumour growth and spread

Philip Maini (Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis

Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples.

Prof Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

2nd Year Posters and Presentations

2nd Year research students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:00-16:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Genome-Based Drug Discovery and Re-Purposing: a new golden age for DNA microarrays?

Dr. Francesco Iorio, EMBL-EBI.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Weak Measurements: Wigner-Moyal and Bohm in a New Light?

Basil Hiley (Birkbeck College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 11:00-12:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Lessons from Yeast: Drug Uptake and Systems Biology

Dr Paul D Dobson, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Molecular mechanisms of the Polycomb/trithorax system

Dr. Juerg Mueller, Department of Chromatin and Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

From genes to behaviour: insights from people with neurodevelopmental syndromes associated with intellectual disabilities

Tony Holland (Dept of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 30 January 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Physical principles in sensing and signalling

A candidacy seminar for the DAMTP biophysics lectureship

Robert Endres (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Statistical physics and hydrodynamics of microbial fluids

A candidacy seminar for the DAMTP biophysics lectureship

Jörn Dunkel (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis

Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

On origins

Brian Josephson, Trinity College.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Looking at Safety in NASA: Lessons to Learn”

Registration required on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

Deborah L. Grubbe, PE, CEng..

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Neurodegenerative tauopathies'

Dr Michel Goedert, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

2nd Year Posters and Presentations

Program available at http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/jan12.html

2nd Year research students.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Research Seminars - Department of Biochemistry

Structural basis of anaphase promoting complex assembly, substrate recognition and regulation by the mitotic checkpoint complex

Prof. David Barford, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Multiscale dynamics in zebrafish gastrulation

Nadine Peyrieras, CNRS-NED, Institute of Neurobiology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 11:45-12:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

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

Monday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems

John Duncan (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 23 January 2012, 16:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Vortex-wave interactions/self-sustained processes in shear flows

Phil Hall (Imperial).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear

Prof Steve Elliott, University of Southampton.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 20 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Generation from wind and waves - power for the future or a misguided fad?

Tea is served from 6pm

Dr Richard McMahon - CUED.

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

Thursday 19 January 2012, 18:30-20:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction

Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Evolutionary and functional relationships between eukaryotes and mitochondria'

Professor Martin Embley, Newcastle University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 15:00-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Perfect parallel scaling for quantum Monte Carlo on hundreds of thousands of cores

Mike Towler (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 11:40-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Absorption energy decay rates show peptide phosphate bonding structures

Shane Lawrence (Earth Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 11:00-11:40

Craik Club

Colour Categories in Language and Thought

Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Search for Organizing Principles in Cancer Systems Biology

Olaf Wolkenhauer (University of Rostock, www.sbi.uni-rostock.de).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Anatomy of ice cores: continuous-flow chemical analysis of polar ice cores

Dr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 January 2012, 14:15-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Increased methylation variation across cancer types

Kasper Daniel Hansen (Johns Hopkins).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius

G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon, M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg..

Cavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building, Harvey Court, West Road.

Wednesday 11 January 2012, 10:00-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Emil Hewage.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

DOT-DASH TO DOT.COM: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet

Tea is served from 6pm

Dr Andrew Wheen - Mott MacDonald (Technology & Communication).

British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

Thursday 15 December 2011, 18:30-20:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Metabolic clocks'

Dr Akhilesh Reddy, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 14 December 2011, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Geoengineering Mini Symposium.

Note unusual time and location

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday

Speaker to be confirmed.

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet Street (behind The Eagle pub, www.scisoc.com for directions).

Friday 09 December 2011, 17:00-18:00

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars

mTORC1, a master regulator of cell function

Professor Chris Proud, University of Southampton.

Seminar Rooms, Metabolic Research Labs, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 16:45-17:45

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 December 2011, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Synaptic damage in neurodegeneration'

Professor Perluigi Nicotera, The German Centre for Neurodegeneration (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 07 December 2011, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

Liposomal delivery of vaccines - formulation engineering to manipulate immune responses

Prof. Yvonne Perrie, Aston University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 07 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

'Three-dimensional electron microscopy of cells and viruses at molecular resolution: From structure to mechanism'

Professor Sriram Subramaniam, National Cancer institute Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 07 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome

David Horn (LSHTM).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Room 215.

Monday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00