SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

Professor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

Professor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

Professor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

Professor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

Professor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

Professor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

Professor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

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

Friday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

Professor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

Dr Anne Corcoran.

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

Professor Danny Dorling.

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

Dr Luke Kemp.

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nuclear fusion technology

Colin Walters.

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

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

Professor Sheila Rowan.

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

Axel Behrens.

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Non coding RNA and normal botany

David Baulcombe.

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Particle Physics & CERN

Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

Aubrey de Grey.

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

Saturday 03 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Influenza pandemics: past and future

Wendy Barclay.

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

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Drug discovery with machine learning: Towards a new way of thinking about molecules

Alpha Lee.

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes

Andrea Crisanti.

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

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Self-assembling Organic Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion

Professor Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University.

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

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Biopolymers for photonics - painting opals with water and light

Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University.

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

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid State Seminar Series: "Oxide Ion Conductors for Energy Applications: Structure and Dynamics"

Dr Ivana Evans (Durham University).

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

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid State Seminar Series: "Crystal structure prediction for next-generation battery anodes"

Matthew Evans (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:00-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting and designing the self-assembly of colloidal particles: a computer game

Professor Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University.

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

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP KEYNOTE LECTURE: Importance of C-O Bond Activation for CO2/COUtilization - An Approach to Energy Conversion and Storage

Yuhan Sun, CAS Key Lab of Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai..

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

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cyclic Peptides: Building Blocks for Supramolecular Designs

Professor Juan R. Granja - University of Santiago de Compostela .

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

Tuesday 22 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media

Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti, University of Exeter.

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

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:30-16:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

Dr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

This talk has been postponed

Marc Robillard, CEO of TagWorks.

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

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The nature of chemistry publishing

Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry.

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

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Uncovering the mechanisms of Protein O-Glycosylation

Dr Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero, University of Zaragoza.

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sugars and Proteins

Professor Ben Davis ( University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)

Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Are we star dust or nuclear waste? Astronomy lecture

Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 October 2014, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World War

Free & open to all

Dr Michael Freemantle.

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

Thursday 11 September 2014, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

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

Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

2050: Sustainable UK?

Dr John Emsley.

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Catalytic Atom Transfer and Bond Activation Methods Based on P(III)↔P(V) Cycling

Professor Alex Radosevich, Penn State University, USA.

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

Thursday 10 April 2014, 16:00-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

Dr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

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

Friday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice?

Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 28 November 2013, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments

Dr Jennifer Rampling (Dept of History of Science, Cambridge University).

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

Thursday 10 October 2013, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

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

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) College of Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

Free event. Open to all.

Prof Alan Heaton.

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

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twist

Dr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL).

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

Thursday 11 October 2012, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

Ian Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

Dr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

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

Thursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

Prof Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00