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12 upcoming talks and 1525 talks in the archive.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The neuro-ethics of brain-computer interface tool use

UserDvija Mehta, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

UserProf. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

UserProfessor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.

UserStephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.

UserKofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

HouseOne Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapore

UserAmelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

UserProfessor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

UserProf Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism

Note different time and room

UserChristine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Youth Work in an Unsettled and Affectively Charged Setting

Note different time

UserHonor Gitsham (she/her), Social Anthropology.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

UserPedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

UserProf. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

UserProf. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

HouseLR3A, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 05 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

UserProf Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

UserProf William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC .

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

CANCELLED! Asking your mother: race, gender and positionality in remote oral history interviews

Postponed to 13th June 2023

UserSaffron East (Adrian Research Fellow, Black and Asian British and Irish history).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can enzymes help address the climate crisis?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSam Cobb.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8

UserProfessor Susan Howson, University of Toronto.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Creative Intelligence in Generative Models and Why Consciousness Matters

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDvija Mehta.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

UserProf Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

UserProf Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tools utilised by bacteria to interact with humans

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserVivian Monzon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

UserProf Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Unlocking the power of cell therapy to reverse disease

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSandra Petrus-Reurer.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can we use network analysis to predict violence?

UserDr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Rapid decarbonisation of the NHS

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJames Smith.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The awakening of the genome –modelling embryonic genome activation programs in vitro

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJasmin Taubenschmid-Stowers.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

New approaches for understanding macroscale brain network development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSofia Orellana.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dementia and ageing brains: what can population studies tell us?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserCarol Brayne.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The molecular mechanism of DNA crosslink repair

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserPablo Alcon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Supernovae: Superheroes of the universe

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserOr Graur.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

UserDr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

HouseLR6.

ClockFriday 09 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Protecting privacy on the Internet: background, research, and practice

UserDaniel Hugenroth, Department of Science and Technology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Collapse of Complex Societies

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserSabin Roman (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

UserProf Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland.

HouseMeeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

ClockFriday 20 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Revolution and religion in Myanmar

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserDr Michael Edwards (Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Do we have enough energy resources for a net-zero 2050?

UserJennifer Hawkin, Department of Engineering.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wild journeys for wild microbiomes - Conservation through the gut

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserGal Zanir, Conservation Leadership.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Unique Humanity: We Journey; We Sing; We Make & Trade

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserGlen Milstein, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCUED LR4.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Visualising mRNA in a developing tissue

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDr Tamsin Samuels, Department of Genetics.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Young People and Work in the Global South

UserDame Barbara Stocking, former president of Murray Edwards college.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration: Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication

User Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Problem of the Earth's Figure and the Logic of Measurement in Modern Geoscience

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMiguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

George Howard Darwin and the ‘Public’ Understanding of Nature

UserDr Edwin Rose. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems

UserProf Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED.

HouseCUED LR5.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wnt signalling in the gill arches of the little skate during development

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserJenaid Rees, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Speaking and Being

UserKübra Gümüşay, Mercator Senior Fellow, CRASSH, LCFI.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing Li:ion batteries with fibre-optic Raman spectroscopy to support transport electrification

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMegan Groom, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics

UserProf Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can we use electrical energy to reduce carbon emissions? An investigation into the electrochemical approaches for carbon capture

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserNiamh Hartley, Department of Chemistry.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rethinking rotation in the Peripatetic Mechanica

UserArthur Harris, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics

UserProf Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From quantum tunneling in a topology-changing fermionic bath to topological quantum superpositions

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJan Behrends, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing Implications of the Deployment of Sustainable Flight in the UK

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserMike Lau, University of Princeton.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Trends, Determinants, and Effects of ESG-linked Pay around the World

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserProfessor Lin Peng, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture?

UserDr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED.

HouseCUED LR4.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

War, COVID-19 and the national debt

Last talk of term

UserDean and Senior Tutor, Darwin College; Director, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Past ice sheet evolution: West Antarctica during warm climate intervals

This week the talk will be starting at 1pm. Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserLara Perez, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trauma Apps and the Making of the 'Smart' Refugee.

UserMaha Abdelrahman, Professor of Development Studies and Middle East Politics.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Learning based multiscale modeling

UserDr Burigede Liu, CUED.

HouseCUED LR6.

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The impact of climate-induced habitat loss on coral reef fishes in the Red Sea

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMadeleine Emms, Department of Zoology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioprinting with Microgel Materials

UserProfessor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Head of Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

When Turing meets Waddington: Theory of mechanochemical patterning in biphasic biological tissues

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDr Adrien Hallou, Gurdon Institute & Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Harnessing helpful heterogeneity in healing at the humeral head: The mechanics of the rotator cuff and its surgical repair

UserProf. Guy M Genin, Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Centre for Engineering MechanoBiology Washington University in St Louis.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

ClockFriday 29 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hunting for new particles with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider

This talk will be virtual but we will project the talk in the Richard King room, so, as usual, grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserBen Hodkinson, Experimental High Energy Physics.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How complex can this be? Let me introduce you to the Haft Paykar, a narrative poem composed in Persian by the giant poet Nizami of Ganja (12th C. AD)

UserCristine van Ruymbeke, Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Tutor and College Praelector of Darwin College.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Real Time Optical Probes of Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Materials

User Dr Akshay Rao, Cavendish Laboratory, Physics, Cambridge.

HouseCUED LR6.

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional redundancy of Drosophila melanogaster SoxB proteins in central nervous system development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. First come first served up to 30 people capacity. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserBarbara Joo, Department of Genetics.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Statistical Finite Element Method

UserProf Mark A Girolami, Div D, CUED.

HouseCUED LR6.

ClockFriday 08 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution and development of vertebral regionalization in fishes

We are back hosting the science seminar series in person, so do come and join us for the first talk of the term. Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserKatharine Criswell, Research Associate, Department of Zoology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Elastocapillary singularities in creasing & wetting

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

User Dr Jacco Snoeijer.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

User Dr Leslie Greengar, New York University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Human Religion: Concern and Clarity in One Darwin Sentence

UserGlen Milstein, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology The City College of New York .

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia

UserProfessor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Putting 3D Bioprinting to Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserDr Y. Shrike Zhang, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 867 5602 4340.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

UserDr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Mechanics of Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence

UserProf Markus J. Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2021, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Keith Worden, Sheffield University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

UserWilliam Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Learning based multi-scale modeling

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Books, Botany and the Understanding of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge

UserDr. Edwin Rose, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middleman

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology .

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983

UserDr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioengineered ECM-Based Constructs as a tool for Composite Tissue Fabrication

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserIdan Redenski, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The impact of glioblastoma heterogeneity on preclinical studies and treatment response

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserDr Rasha Rezk (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Symmetry in Crystal Structure Prediction

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserJames Darby, CUED.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 14:00-14:30

Financial History Seminar

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

UserProfessor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modelling the creep deformation of engineering alloys for energy applications at different scales

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Alan Cocks, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Leading Multiphysics Modeling for AM and Emerging Design Approaches for Impacts

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

User Prof Claus Pedersen, R&D SIMULIA - Dassault Systèmes.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Micromechanics of near-ideal polymer networks

User Dr Laurence.Brassart, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford.

Housezoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Rapid 3D Bioprinting for Precision Tissue Engineering

UserProf Shaochen Chen, Chair of NanoEngineering Department, University of California.

Housezoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email yc512@cam.ac.uk.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

User Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Housezoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

EML webinar Liquid crystal elastomers

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMWBNGZ1gP5eSjmynSFvWA/live

UserProf. Kaushik Bhattacharaya's.

House https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

ClockWednesday 07 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Transmission and reflection at the boundary of a random two-component composite

register for this seminar : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GgUwoeBdSEuFoapyPpDe0A

UserProfessor John R. Willis, University of Cambridge.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of Robotic Matter

https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

User Professor Chiara Daraio,Caltech.

House https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

ClockMonday 08 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New Horizons in Microarchitectured Materials

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

User Prof Norman Fleck, Cambridge University.

HouseZoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Soft-bodied Magnetic Small-scale Mobile Robots.

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

UserMetin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

HouseZoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multistable structures - from energy trapping to morphing.

YouTube Live https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

User Prof Katia Bertoldi, Harvard.

HouseZoom Discussion https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Injectable therapeutic vascularized micro-tissues engineered using sacrificial hydrogels

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459

UserDr Ninna Rossen (BRIC-University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 08 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Extreme mechanics of soft materials for merging human-machine intelligence

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

UserProf Xuanhe Zhao, MIT.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-excited motions of volatile drops on swellable sheets

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492263459

UserDr Aditi Chakrabarti, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 01 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulation-assisted discovery of membrane targeting nanomedicine

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684

UserProf Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

UserJames Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Optical superresolution microscopy of molecular mechanisms of disease

User Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

UserGiulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The modern-day blacksmith

User Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matter, Physics, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The living dead: cellular functions of pseudoenzymes

UserIain Hay, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

UserDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Brain organoids to study development and function

UserDr Laura Pellegrini, Division of Cell Biology, MRC-LMB.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions

UserDr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

UserElizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

UserProfessor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

UserMiguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

UserProfessor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

UserMira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Global Methane, Project MOYA, and the UK’s Net Zero target

UserProf. Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

UserAnna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

UserLucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Understanding the chemistry of ageing and disease in the extracellular matrix

UserProf Melinda J Duer, Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All

UserDr Augusto Lopez-Claros, the World Bank Group.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

UserMichael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pacific Shoguns: Japan’s Attempt to Open the Pacific, 1600-1625

UserDr Joshua Batts, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Surface energy approaches in modeling of nano-objects

UserProf Anna Zemlyanova, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The effects of wind on trees and forests

UserToby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Social Impact of Automatic Hate Speech Detection

UserDr. Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Humanities and Social Change.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The Evolution of Solutions

UserProf Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Krill swarms: the carbon export highway - S*£% matters!

UserAnna Belcher - British Antarctic Survey.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrogen induced fast fracture

User Profs Gábor Csányi and Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge).

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Perovskite nanocrystals: tuneable future for display industry

UserKaiwen Zhang, PhD student in Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Polymer Brushes

UserProf Srikantha Anasavarapu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

UserProf Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cell Mechanics Based Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis & Therapy: From Bench to Bedside

UserProf. Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Persistent pneumococcal colonisation: Dynamics, genomic diversity and evolution

UserDr Chrispin Chaguza (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Trustworthy AI

UserDr Adrian Weller (Machine Learning Group, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

UserProf Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bio-electromechanical interfaces and sensors based on functional nanomaterials

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Paving an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

UserDr Shovan Dutta (Physics Department, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Decolonising African politics: Where is there evidence of change?

UserStephanie Diepeveen, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bioengineering Conference

Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bioengineering-conference-tickets-54846325837

UserMihaela van der Schaar, Somenath Bakshi, Sebastian Pattinson, Fumiya Iida, Rasha Rezk, Felice Torrisi, George Malliaras, James Ward, Roger Mason, Andrew Flewitt, Flavia Mancini.

HouseMcGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 08:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

UserDr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

UserDr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution, development and function of flower patterns

UserMs Alice Fairnie (Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

UserNicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

UserMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee & biscuits will be available after the seminar

UserProfessor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hearing and seeing things that are not there: Quantifying brain structure related to hallucinations

UserColleen Rollins (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Planet Nine: To Be or Not To Be

UserMr Antranik A. Sefilian.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

UserProfessor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation, territoriality and social support in our evolutionary cousins

UserRobin E Morrison (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Oil palm: what’s true and what’s to do?

UserAmelia Hood (Zoology Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materialising Revolution in the City

UserDena Qaddumi, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 15 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity

UserDr Gustavo M Castelluccio, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 23 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economics of Right-Wing Populism

UserValentina Ausserladscheider, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mechanism of transformation of neural stem cells by fusion onco-proteins.

UserRobert Kupp (CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Perovskite Solar Cells: Printing the future of photovoltaics

UserStuart Macpherson (StranksLab, Optoelectronics group, Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Counting Crime the Cambridge Way

UserProfessor Larry Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nano-photonics for better detection of toxic molecules in air

UserDr Tanya Hutter (Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How did Dmitrii Mendeleev make his predictions?

UserKaroliina Pulkkinen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Designing Ultra Low Power Sensor Interfaces for the Internet of Things

UserDr Arokia Nathan (Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D bioprinting for in vitro tissue engineering

UserProf Wei Sun, University of Nottingham.

HouseJDB Seminar room.

ClockMonday 25 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Capitalism, Debt and Inequality

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History and Darwin College).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

On the length scale, robustness and manufacturability in topology optimization

User Dr Boyan Stefanov Lazarov, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From Goethe to Macaques: What auctions can teach us about decision making

UserMr Robert Hickman, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Univesity of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Echo mapping the gravitational potential well of black holes

UserDr William Alston, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of novel hybrid foam materials for impact applications

UserMr. Adam Boyce, Centre for Micromechanics, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Engineering mitochondrial DNA in the mouse germline using designer nuclease technology

UserMs Beverly McCann, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuberculosis, Cancer & Gout: Archaeolgical evidence of disease from Medieval Cambridge

UserDr Jenna Dittmar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Electoral intrigue, ethnic politics and the vibrancy of the Kenyan public sphere

UserDr Stephanie Diepeveen, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Antibiotic resistance: The search for novel Lipoteichoic acid Synthase inhibitors

UserMr Rohan Eapen, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Does inflammation contribute to Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer?

UserDr Jessica Hitchcock, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Current-Induced Stresses in Ceramic Lithium-Ion Conductors

UserProfessor Charles Monroe, Energy and Power Group Oxford University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automated modelling of industrial plants

UserEva Agapaki, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The world is not flat: 3D cell biology and 3D devices

User Dr Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Water Sensitive Urban Design for Cities of the Future

UserDr Leon Kapetas, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modeling Collective Cell Migration: Clusters and Monolayers

UserProfessor Nir Gov Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 12 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rods

UserProfessor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 08 December 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Alzheimer’s Disease: The story so far

UserKatarina Pisani (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Distributed Ledger technology: beyond the block chain hype

UserKC Sivaramakrishnan (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coupled phenomena: theory and applications

UserDr Václav Klika, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University Prague.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Multimodal driver displays, autonomous car handovers, and inclusiveness

UserDr. Ioannis Politis (Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Drug Delivery by Supramolecular Design

UserEric Andrew Appel, PhD, Assistant Professor Stanford University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 14:45-15:15

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecular Origin of Capacity Fade in Sodium Ion Batteries

UserDr. Lauren Marbella (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How is continuous experience transformed into discrete memories?

UserDr. Aya Ben-Akov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

DNA-repairing proteins: View of a structural biologist

UserDr Domi Baretic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Graphene for ultrafast lasers

UserGiancarlo Soavi (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cracking of thin films

UserProfessor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

WikiFactMine: Scientific Knowledge for Everyone

UserDr. Peter Murray-Rust (Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Defect tolerance and design principles for bio-inspired fibrillar dry-adhesives

UserMattia Bacca, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of British Colombia, Vancouver.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 04 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Tissues

UserMark Skyler-Scott, Harvard University.

HouseLR5, CUED.

ClockMonday 17 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

UserProf Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

Money: the unauthorised biography

UserDr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies .

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Decompressive Craniectomy following Traumatic Brain Injury

UserMr Hadie Adams, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge .

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Neutrinos in Seven Questions

UserLorena Escudero, HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Workshops

How to… balance study/career and children

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Financial History Seminar

Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/djn33@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloys

UserProf Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The non-linear mechanics of slender deformable bodies

UserProf Basile Audoly, Laboratoire de mécanique des solides, École Polytechnique.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mapping a viral interactome

UserLuis Nobre, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

How many stem cells can you fit in a stem cell niche?

UserProf Henrik Jönsson, Associate Director Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, .

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Turing Test for Smart Materials

UserDr Stoyan Smoukov, Energy Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce

UserDr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce

UserDr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc.

HouseOatley Meeting Room.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Buckling of Spherical Shells Revisited

UserJohn W. Hutchinson, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockMonday 12 December 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales - Mechanics Colloquium

UserProf Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales

UserProf Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to commercialise your idea/research

UserTanya Hutter (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Digging deeper: What living athletes can tell us about behaviour in prehistory

UserDr Alison Macintosh, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ivo Andric and the Dynamic Aspects of the Balkan Cultural Identity

UserProf Dr Kornelije Kvas, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Contacts and Fretting - Mechanics Colloquium

UserProf David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Contacts and Fretting

UserProf David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

HIV-1 vectors: How can you convert a pathogen to a therapeutic vehicle?

UserEirini Vamva, PhD Candidate in the Department of Medicine .

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

An 18,000-year old Crime Scene Investigation

UserDr Ana Marin-Arroyo, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Emerging solar cell technologies: a microscopist's view

UserGiorgio Divitini, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The technocratic empiricism of the Obama administration

UserJack Wright, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue

UserProfessor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling and fracture assessment

UserMr Emilio Martinez Paneda, PhD candidate at University of Oviedo (Spain).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How languages signal highlights using mismatches as methodology

UserDr Jenneke van der Wal, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The end of the Swiss economic model

UserProfessor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Smelling molecules with optical nano-noses

UserDr Tanya Hutter, Department of Chemistry .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Cold War origins of the Euro

UserDr Duncan Needham, Faculty of History.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquium and is in LR4

UserProfessor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

“Do I look fat in these genes?”

UserDr Ines Barroso, Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to stay confident in Cambridge

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

What’s in a flame? — the modern theory of combustion

UserGirish Nivarti (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Designing metal forming machines

UserDr Evros Loukaides (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to Talk to the Media

UserNick Saffel & Dr John Nilsson-Wright.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Conservation of orang-utans and tigers in Malaysia – interventions and progress of work from the field.

UserDr Melvin Gumal, Director of the Malaysian Wildlife Conservation Society, and Darwin alumnus..

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emergent parabolic scaling of nano-faceting crystal growth

UserDr Stephen Watson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Relating mind and brain: can brain activity predict perceptual experience?

UserDr Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Counting with symmetry for structural mechanics

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquium and is in LT2

UserDr Simon Guest, CUED.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT2.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Measured with Ceremonies

UserTim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer..

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquium and is in LT4

UserProfessor Michel W Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

UserProf. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 14:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Line Defect dynamics and solid mechanics

UserProfessor Amit Archarya, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Vision-Based Over-Height Vehicle Detection

UserBella Nguyen (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Why fracking works and why not well enough

UserZdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Darwin's children

UserCharissa Varma, Darwin Correspondence Project.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Metabolic cooperation in a synthetic yeast community

UserKate Campbell (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934

UserProfessor Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserDr Per Ola Kristensson, CUED.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

UserDr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 19:00-20:00

Financial History Seminar

Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment

UserWilliam Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer.

HouseDarwin College (Old Library).

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:30

Financial History Seminar

British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

UserProfessor Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University, London.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Towards bi-treated glass

UserMarco Zaccaria.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Making Smarter Artificial Muscles

UserStoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing the energy, water and land nexus in China

UserYing Qin, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Embodied intelligence: How the body shapes the way robots behave

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserDr Fumiya Iida, CUED.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why do black holes shine?

UserProf. Christopher Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Another take on frac(king): the triumph of the frock coat and the lounge suit

UserTim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamics of fluid driven delamination and fracturing in elastic and magneto-elastic materials

UserDr Jerome A Neufeld, BP Institute, Dept of Earth Sciences & Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crustal deformation and Earthquakes

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Jean-Phillipe Avouac, BP McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigative Interviewing of Children

UserDr Beth Ahern, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rescuing homeless tsunami victims by law

UserJulius Weitzdörfer (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

New functional surfaces: from science to application

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What can we understand from the structure of a protein?

UserDr Paul Elliott, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Centre.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book as Instrument, 1570–1720

UserDr Boris Jardine (Munby Fellow at the University Library).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic code expansion in vivo: making proteins with novel properties

UserDr Ambra Bianco, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The politics of belonging in Europe

UserDr Jeff Miley (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Design of microstructures for enhanced magnetostriction in active composites

UserProfessor Pedro Ponte, University of pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 07 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Energy storage: Understanding supercapacitors for improving them

UserDr Céline Merlet, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.

UserProfessor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scientific instruments before science

UserDr Alexi Baker, CRASSH & History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The social impacts of using drones for wildlife conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 14:30-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

UserProfessor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Living Long and Living Well: Changing Prospects for Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and Late Life Dementias, 2014

UserProf. Eric Larson, Group Health Research Institute, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Literary Criticism and the New Left (1956-62)

UserAlexander Hutton (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic Response of Coatings on Substrates Subjected to Impulse Loading

UserProfessor Matthew Begley, Mechanical Engineering Materials University of California, Santa Barbara.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 14 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical properties of highly particle-filled composites

UserProf Pengwan Chen, Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

ClockFriday 11 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserMichelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Science of Dishwashing

UserAkin Ali, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Chembridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Transport into the cell: How many ways to get in?

UserVassilis Bitsikas, MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Neuroprediction and the law

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

UserProfessor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Engineering tissue morphogenesis in vitro

Please note LR5 not Oatley Meeting Room

UserDr Alison P McGuigan, University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockFriday 28 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tibial rigidity through prolonged culture change: Adaptation across ~6150 years of agriculture in Central Europe

UserAlison Macintosh, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The political economy of inflation in the 1970s

UserProfessor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Spiking irregularity in cortical inhibitory interneurons

UserPhilipe Mendonca, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis

UserCharles Read, Centre for Financial History and Christ's College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

UserProfessor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis

UserPaul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is Carbon Storage safe? Insights from the >400,000 year old Green River natural analogue , Utah

UserAlexandra Maskell, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

UserProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nonlinearity in musical instruments

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Graphene: When a Crystal Goes Flexible

UserDr Felice Torrisi, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

UserProfessor Richard Roberts - Director, Centre for Contemporary British History at Kings College, London .

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Strength of Broken Glass

UserCaroline Butchart, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is it possible track and predict the Huntington's disease progression?

UserYe Yuan, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Studying the intracellular localisation of Y RNAs

UserEyemen Kheir, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will start at 2.30pm and is held in LR4

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR4**.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cutting as Untying (Topo2: Resolving the Gordian Knot of the Cell since 3.8 billion B.C.)

UserMelissa Antoniou-Kourounioti, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional Integrated Plastic Systems

UserAntony Sou, Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Abrasive Wear of Nano-structured Steel: Does Hardness Matter?

UserSubhankar Das bakshi, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge..

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How Biomolecular Simulations of Molecules Can Help Us Understand What Matters

UserFlorian Roessler, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Discrete modelling of fibrous networks

UserDr Ron Peerlings, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseEngineering Department - **LR4**.

ClockFriday 18 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The World’s First Bulk-Type Fully High-Temperature Superconducting Machine

UserZhen Huang, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cool Conductors

This talk will include a great and memorable experimental demonstration of the discussed effect!

UserSven Friedemann, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964

UserMr Stuart Barton, MBA, CFA (CFH and Corpus Christi).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE

UserDr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of motility at microscopic scales

UserProf Antonio DeSimone, Scuola Internazionale de Studi Avanzati, Trieste.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Canceled

UserEyemen Kheir .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824

UserMr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Work Meets Life project: How does Work get done?

talk 1-2pm special workshop 2-3pm

UserProf Robert A. Levin.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

A Global Census of Corporations in 1910

UserProfessor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Financial History Seminar

Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy

UserMr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

UserProfessor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

UserProfessor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Heart valve tissue engineering

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

UserProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

High resolution electron microscopy of superalloys

UserDr. Catherine Rae, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Aspects of science, technology and government

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

UserProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Aspects of science, technology and government

UserProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Curating Feeling: Victorian Sentimental Art

UserVicky Mills (University of Cambridge, English).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre – a new sort of stuff?

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

UserProfessor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biological Materials and Mechanics: An overview

UserProfessor Marc André Meyers, Departments of Nanoengineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, U. of California, San Diego.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Diagnostiques Sans Frontières: Low-Cost, Rapid Diagnostics for Everyone

The talk will be nontechnical. Especially, those interested in global health and telecommunications are encouraged to join.

UserAli Yetisen.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742

UserDr D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College and Centre for Financial History.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Modelling of Explosively Driven Fragmentation Metals

UserProfessor Rade Vignjevic FRAeS, Applied Mechanics and Astronautics Department, School of Engineering, Cranfield University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Graduate Student Seminar

UserMr Iman Mohaghegian CUED - Mr Wojciech Szlachta CUED.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton

UserJan Löwe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy

UserDr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008

UserProfessor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Financial History Seminar

Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression

UserDr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trading Protection: The Rationality behind Anti-dumping

UserJosué F. Mathieu (Centre for Rising Powers, POLIS).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Using consumers to protect labour standards

UserProf. William Brown (Master of Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and starts at 2.00pm

UserProfessor Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Before the Silk Road: tracing the earliest East West contacts

UserMartin Jones ( George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science ).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England

UserDr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia and starts at 2.00pm

UserProfessor Steve Elliott, University of Southampton.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Peter Abaelard and the Development of Logic

UserProf. Christopher Martin, Auckland University, New Zealand (Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Philosophy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetics of obesity: How are genes shaping us

UserElena Bochukova, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How and when did the first Chinese crops arrive in Europe?

UserDr Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Path of Life from A to B: How Astronomy leads to Biology

In coordination with the Astrobiology workshop taking place at Darwin College, the keynote speech from this workshop will be open to all Darwin members. Note the talk will take place in the Old Library rather than the Entertaining Rm.

UserProf. Monica M. Grady, The Open University.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Carbon, Forests and the REDD Paradox

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

UserProfessor Jean-Marc di Meglio, Université Paris Diderot.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Challenges of Preparing Educators in Kenya

UserMoses Orwe-Onyango (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Design for environment and risk

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

UserProfessor David Cebon, CUED.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 21 October 2011, 14:30-15:00

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The Regenerative Economy: a technical solution to meet world's population needs while preserving the environment.

Open to all - please send email if not from Darwin College

UserAleix Altimiras-Martin, Land Economy Dept, 4CMR.

HouseDarwin College, Entertaining Room.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Zhijun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Galaxies

UserDan Stark (Institute of Astronomy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse

UserProfessor Will Goetzmann (International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management).

HouseLT2, Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 12:00-13:15

Financial History Seminar

Financial innovation and the crisis

UserProfessor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 30 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What NanoAssembly can do for real world Nano-applications

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914

UserDr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates

Note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR6 at 2.30pm

UserProfessor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

A Case for Astrobiology

UserMs. Katinka Apagyi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s

http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/borromei/index.html

UserProfessor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?'

UserDr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000

UserProfessor Pablo Martín-Aceña, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crack front instability in mode i+iii: experimental and theoretical approaches

UserProfessor Jean-Baptiste Leblond, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), French Academy of Sciences.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925

UserDr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880‐1914

UserDr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Fractals, Failure and Lightweight Structures

UserRobert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of iced airfoils

UserTiziano Ghisu.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Preserving a Violent Past: Politics and the Transmission of the Saga of Icelanders

UserVicky Cribb (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008

UserProfessor Elroy Dimson, London Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Sustainable development of culturally significant urban areas

UserTatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

CANCELLED

THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED

UserDr Daniel Balint, Imperial College.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific observation

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

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Computer games and mental health interventions

UserDr David Coyle (Computer Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan

UserProfessor Shigeru Wakita, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 21 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 – 1914

UserProfessor Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices

NOTE DIFFERENT DAY Thursday not Friday

UserProf. Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives'

This talk has been re-scheduled from the Michaelmas term, when it was delayed due to speaker illness.

UserProfessor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

No Talk This Week

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires

UserProfessor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nanocapillaries: Cheap and Safe Nanotech

UserLorenz Steinbock ( Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamics of Stone Arches

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks, Tea and cake from 3:30pm in Oatley meeting room 2

UserDr Matthew De Jong, CUED.

HouseLR5, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 23 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automatic Visual Recognition in Natural, Medical, and 3D Imagery

UserJamie Shotton (Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'Keynes, the Investor'

UserDr David Chambers, Judge Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 March 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Life at high péclet number

UserProfessor R Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft

Last talk of term!!! Not to be missed!

UserPaul Robertson.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories'

UserProfessor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Janine Maegraith.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting?

UserTony Purnell (Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at CUED, Technical Consultant to the FIA, ex head of Jaguar F1 and Red Bull F1).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Families Created Through Surrogacy: Is There Cause For Concern?

UserPolly Casey (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Analysis of coupled atomistic/continuum models for solids

UserDr Christoph Ortner, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation'

UserProfessor Ann Carlos (U. of Colorado/University College Dublin).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Tony Cheetham, Department of Materials Science.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Black holes: weather and landscape

UserAlexander Blustin (University of Cambridge; IoA and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Phase field modelling of microstructure evolution

UserDr John Huber, Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

To within minutes of a black hole

First talk of term!

UserProf Andy Fabian.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'

UserProfessor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Intercultural Relations in the late Middle Kingdom in Egypt (1820-1720 BC)

UserDr Bettina Bader, Research Fellow of McDonald Institute for archaeological research.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Magnetism Under Pressure: Using Diamonds to Study Quantum Matter

UserLara Sibley, Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can worms unlock the secrets of our mind? Automatic quantitative analysis of C.elegans behaviour

UserTadas Jucikas, William Schafer group, Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

What _is_ the Right to Housing?

UserDr. Jessie Hohmann, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'

UserMr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserMs Claudia Scala Schlessman, Original Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library.

House101 Coach House, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Theory of Elasticity at the Nanoscale

UserProfessor Bhushan Karihaloo, Cardiff University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Balancing conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon: do win-win solutions really exist?

UserDr Toby Gardner, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Transduction of tactile information in human touch : a biomimetic approach

Mechanics Colloquia, note different venue and start time

UserDr Georges Debregeas, Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Tissue Contact Mechanics

UserGeorges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Financial History Seminar

'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Thomas Max Safley, History Department, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseSidgwick G-20, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses

Mechanics Colloquia, note different venue and start time

UserDr Dov Sherman, Technion, Israel.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

John Bell and the nature of Reality

UserDr Carlos Lobo, Department of Physics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From the laboratory to the market: how the results of scientific research are transformed into products on the market

First talk of term - All welcome!

UserDr. Franz Wittwer, Strategic IP Manager, BIOTRONIK AG.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:30-19:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Reinforced elastomeric materials at large strains

UserProf. Pedro Ponte Castaneda, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 04 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: Drug Discovery in the 21st Century

Last talk of term!

UserMax Macaluso, Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Microcephaly genes & the evolution of primate brain size

UserStephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evo-devo and neo-Darwinism: hostility, synergy or indifference?

Special guest speaker - Professor Wallace Arthur, Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland

UserProfessor Wallace Arthur.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cuckoo-host arms races

Earlier start time! Talk starts at 1pm

UserDr Justin Welbergen, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 12:45-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Superconducting Motor with Its Perspective

First talk of term!

UserRuilin Pei, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 13:00-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite Matrix

Please note this is to be held in the Oatley Seminar Room

UserProfessor Leon Keer (Northwestern University).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 23 March 2009, 14:15-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanical Behaviour of Cells on Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

UserProfessor Lorna J. Gibson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Using Entropy in Materials Design

UserProfessor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Intelligent Polymers.... just add water

UserJameel Zayed, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to teach a computer to recognize digits

UserNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

On the use of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine

200th Anniversary of Darwin's Birth - join us for a celebration!!!!

UserNick Darton, Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

From building blocks to systems: where do we go next?

UserSarath Janga, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Schizophrenia: is it all in the mind?

UserDr James Kirkbride, Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Domain switching in ferroelectric perovskites and applications

Mechanics Colloquia, note room - LR6 and time - 2.30pm

UserProfessor Kaushik Bhattcharya, CalTech.

HouseLR6, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 14:30-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Conical cells and pollinator attraction - A bee's eye view of molecular evolution

All welcome to attend!

UserKatrina Alcorn, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

How to decipher fracture surfaces and crackling noise

Please note change of day, Monday

UserDr Laurent Ponson, CalTech.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 14:30-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Sensing DNA with a Single Pore

First talk of term!

UserLorenz Steinbock, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Onset of cavitation in compressible, isotropic, hyperelastic solids

UserOscar Lopez-Pamies, Department of Mechanical Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Reactive Steels: - the making of calm welds

UserProfessor H Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuned passive control of combustion instabilities

UserDan Zhao, Acoustics Lab, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

The role of Insigs in nutritional sensing and fat accumulation

UserRachel Hagen, IMS, Clinical Biochemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 13:10-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Studies of plastic flow localization in different materials

Please note change of day and venue (Wednesday LR4)

UserProfessor V Tvergaard, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark.

HouseCUED LR4.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Maths, Engineering and Industry

UserJohn Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 10 October 2008, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

An Integrated Multiscale Framework for Performing Design and Analysis of Composite and Smart Structures

UserDr Steven M Arnold, Chief Mechanics and Life Prediction Branch, Structures and Materials Division, NASA Glenn Research Center.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 05 August 2008, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Manipulating single electrons in silicon quantum dots

UserMichael Tanner, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing thin liquid films at the nanometer scale

UserDavid Barbero (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

IP3 receptor clustering: when togetherness redefines individuality

UserTaufiq-ur-Rahman (University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanomechanical Property Measurements for Sub-10 nm Thick Solid Films with Application in Magnetic Storage

UserProfessor Andreas Polycarpou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, Mechanical Sciences and Engineering Department).

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Boeing 787 vs. Airbus 380

UserSungho Yoon, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

High-Strain Rate Studies

UserDr Bill Proud (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Back to The Future: Cell tracing assays to study developmental events in a vertebrate embryo

UserKaterina Bilitou, Department of Oncology, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The 2008 release of CES – new Bio and Eco tools

UserProfessor Mike Ashby, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 04 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Some Novel Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

UserXiaozhi Wang, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

UserProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Measuring Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone in the Atmosphere

UserWill Flynn, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

UserSimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why Galaxy Clusters Ignore Gravity

UserMark Rosin, DAMTP Astrophysics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

UserOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

UserSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Chemistry of Volcanic Plumes

UserTjarda Roberts, Centre for Atmospheric Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

UserProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Genetic Code -Insights into its Origin and Evolution

UserHiroyuki Oshikane, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

UserProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nonverbal Communication and Autism

UserDigby Tantam, University of Sheffield.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solids

UserProf. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

What a fish can do for our sight!

UserElena Dreosti, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Watts up with the ultimate 'green' aircraft?

UserPaul Robertson, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

How the camel lost its hump: Tales from the study of semantic disorders

UserKaralyn Patterson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecules and Computers

UserAli Shah, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 13:15-13:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale Atomistic Simulation for Dry and Wet Systems

UserDr Gabor Csanyi, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Massive Nanocrystalline Metals

UserHarry D.K. BHADESHIA PhD, FREng, FRS (Physical Metallurgy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 13:00-13:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How C. elegans navigate their environment

UserEmanuel Busch (MRC-LMB and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 13:00-13:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

From Bubbles to Cells

UserDr Alexandre Kabla, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseMicromechanics Centre Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Study on the Constitutive Model of Cardiac Muscle and Numerical Heart

UserProfessor Zhuo Zhuang, Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University.

HouseMicromechanics Centre Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 05 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

UserPeter Crane, University of Chicago.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

UserPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cancelled talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

UserRaymond Tallis, Manchester University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

UserLionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

UserMarcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

UserAdrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

UserLudmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Thin films

UserDavid Barbero.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Using sunlight to save the earth

UserSuil In, Chemistry Department.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic determinism and four-letter words: how unique are unique genomes?

UserGiselle Walker, University Museum of Zoology/ Dept of Earth Sciences/ Darwin College.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Autonomy in Medical Ethics

UserGemma Mitchell, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Clinical Neuroscience

UserRamez Reda Moustafa.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Machine Learning

UserAnkur Agarwal.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Remote Sensing

UserSarah Hamylton.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How does a black hole heat up a galaxy?

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, X Ray lab, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hands-free writing

UserDavid Mackay, Darwin College/Inference Group, Cavendish Lab.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

One third of life's diversity

UserGiselle Walker, Darwin College/ University Museum of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

If I only had a brane

UserCarlos Martins, DAMTP.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Climate Change: The case for burying CO2

UserMike Sheppard, Schlumberger Cambridge Research (Honorary Fellow).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

UserDiana Liverman, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

UserSian Piper.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

UserCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

UserRosienne Farrugia.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

UserAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

UserAmir Chaudhry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

UserJames Jackson, Cambridge University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer and DNA - tying up loose ends

UserPeter Ahnesorg, Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Institute.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

UserRichard Feachem, Global Fund.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tissue Engineering

UserRachael Walker.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

UserPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Seismic Data

UserTim Sears.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

UserEdith Hall, Durham University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

UserPaul Kennedy, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

TBA

UserMark Shinwell, Darwin.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

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