Cambridge Business Lectures

Cambridge Network event: Innovation policy myths and the Small Business Innovation Research Programme

David Connell and Karen Livingstone .

West Cafe, Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 18:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

Have you heard the northern lights? Science and re-enchantment in 19th-century Arctic exploration

Shane McCorristine (Department of Geography).

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

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Humans + Automation: Greater than the sum of the parts

Missy Cummings - MIT.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

DPMMS Presentations

Virtual classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and applications

Vlad Markovic (Caltech).

CMS, MR11.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms?

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

Intra-tumour heterogeneity in human glioblastoma.

Dr Sara Piccirillo, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Stability problem for the Einstein-Vlasov system

Mahir Hadzic (MIT).

MR12.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 11:40-12:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Insulators, metals, pseudogaps and cuprate superconductivity

Andre-Marie Tremblay, University of Sherbrooke, Canada..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Long time behaviour for the granular media equation

François Bolley (University Paris Dauphine) .

MR12.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 10:50-11:40

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

A uniform ergodic theorem

Jonathan Ben Artzi (Cambridge) .

MR12.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 09:20-10:20

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Stable stationary states for repulsive-attractive potentials

Jose Antonio Carrillo (Imperial College, London) .

MR12.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 17:00-17:50

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Existence theory and asymptotic flocking dynamics of flocking particles immersed in fluid

Young-Pil Choi (Imperial College, London) .

MR12.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 16:10-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Phase II/III clinical trials: Recent developments in methodology for trial design and analysis

Sue Todd, University of Reading.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Children's construction play complexity and the building blocks of maths

Dr Miles Richardson, University of Derby.

Department of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Uniformly accurate numerical schemes for highly oscillatory kinetic and Schrödinger equations

Mohammed Lemou (CNRS - University Rennes) .

MR12.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 11:40-12:30

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Forward Semi-Lagrangian Method for Curvilinear Meshes

Morgane Bergot (University Lyon I) .

MR12.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 10:50-11:40

Optoelectronics Group

Probing charge carriers in carbon materials with optical pulses

Dr. Enrico Da Como, Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK.

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

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 10:00-11:00

Conference on Mathematical Topics in Kinetic Theory

Gyrokinetic simulation of magnetised plasmas

Eric Sonnendrucker (MPI Munich - TU Munich) .

MR12.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 09:30-10:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Smart Cities Smart Future - CUEN Annual Conference 2013

List of speakers in the abstract!.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS).

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 09:00-17:00

AMOP list

Exploring critically at the driven-dissipative Dicke phase transition

Ferdinand Brennecke (ETH Zurich).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 17 June 2013, 15:30-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

'High Frequency Measurements of Carbon Nanotube Double-Quantum Dots

Ms Zoe Penfold-Fitch, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 17 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

DIAL seminars

Dynamic Order Picking Strategies in Warehouse Management

Wenrong Lu (University of Cambridge).

Seminar room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

Monday 17 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using Grammars in On-line Education: Automatic error correction to improve writing skills

Dan Flickinger, CSLI, Stanford University.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 17 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Department of Chemistry

What was first: the genetic code or its products?

Professor Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 June 2013, 10:30-11:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Towards a strategic view of engineering operations

Yufeng Zhang, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham University .

Seminar Room 3, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Monday 17 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

IfM Buns Talk

Towards a strategic view of engineering operations

Yufeng Zhang.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Monday 17 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

..

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Saturday 15 June 2013, 10:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid mechanics wave-particle duality

Emmanuel Fort (Langevin Institute, ESPCI, Paris).

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

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

BSS Formal Seminars

The influence of matrix geometry and stiffness on cancer invasion

Erik Sahai (Cancer Research UK, London).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Higher derivative with constraints: exorcising Ostrogradski's ghost.

Tai-jun Chen (DAMTP).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 14 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione

..

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site.

Friday 14 June 2013, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Immunology

Adipocyte progenitor cells support the formation of lymphoid tissues during development and inflammation

Jorge Caamano, University of Birmingham, hosted by Elena Vigorito

Jorge Caamano, University of Birmingham .

CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Friday 14 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantum Tunnelling Splittings in Water Clusters, from Ring-Polymer Instanton Theory

Adam Reid, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - Government grant to help UK Business into open innovation by working with UK Academics

Jan Stringer, regional adviser from the Technology Strategy Board.

Seminar Room 2, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 14 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

Manufacturing Research Forum

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - Government grant to help UK Business into open innovation by working with UK Academics

Jan Stringer, regional adviser from the Technology Strategy Board.

Seminar Room 2, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 14 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

IfM Buns Talk

"Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - Government grant to help UK Business into open innovation by working with UK Academics"

Jan Stringer .

Seminar Room 3, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 14 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The Last Line of Defence: Helping You Keep Sight of Your Research

Mark Elsdon, Biological Sciences Safety Officer.

Lecture Theatre 1.

Friday 14 June 2013, 08:45-10:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Maize acclimation to changing light quality

Chandra Bellasio.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of gibberellins in the control of bolting and flowering in sugar beet

Helen Holmes.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-16:30

Foster Talks

MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease

Dr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Novel in-situ chemical oxidation for soil remediation

Yemi Akinyugha, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The end of taxonomy as we know it?

Alfred Vogler (University of East Anglia).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating a mechanism for epiallele establishment in plants.

Laura Taylor.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:30-15:55

Chaucer Club

Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordings

Professor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

On a well-tempered diffusion

Philip Rosenau (Tel Aviv University).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition.

Host: Viji Draviam

Dr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices

Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

DIAL seminars

The customer's role in a product intelligence approach

Vaggelis Giannikas (University of Cambridge).

Seminar room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Probabilistic modelling of time-frequency representations with application to music signals

Dr Roland Badeau, Télécom ParisTech / CNRS LTCI, France..

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Climate effects of ocean overturning on heat content anomalies and atmospheric CO2

Note unusual time

Ric Williams; Liverpool University.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Polymers for nanotechnology

Paul Zavala-Rivera.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Nuclear control of viral persistence: The Herpes simplex virus type 1 latency paradigm

Dr Patrick Lomonte, Center for Molecular and Cellular Genetics and Physiology, University of Lyon, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Towards the Future of Supernova Cosmology

*** Note unusual time ***

Michelle Knights (University of Cape Town).

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Packing of wires in cavities and growing surfaces

Professor Hans Herrmann ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

16th Cambridge/Oxford Applied Mathematics Meeting

aka the Woolly Owl competition

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Rationality in extraordinary science

CANCELLED

Vashka dos Remedios (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Targeting the glial scar to promote repair following spinal cord injury

Dr Elizabeth Bradbury, King's College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:15-17:15

Discrete Analysis Seminar

TBA

Sanju Velani, York.

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Entanglement entropy and negativity in quantum field theories.

Pasquale Calabrese (Pisa University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Errors, Exploits, and Espionage - A tour of software vulnerabilities and their real-world impact

Tim Pullen - Detica / BAE Systems.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

The evolutionary invention of food-webs: a palaeobiological and macroecological approach

If external to BAS, please email Anje Neutel (anjute@bas.ac.uk) in advance to gain access to the building.

Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Terahertz optics with graphene and nanostructured materials

Miss Shruti Badhwar (University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group).

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: Regain control over your end systems

Marcel Waldvogel (University of Konstanz).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Macrophage heterogeneity and renewal during inflammation

Host: John Trowsdale (jt233@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Philip Taylor, University of Cardiff.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses

Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Disorder driven superconductor-insulator transition: Do Cooper pairs still exist in the insulator?

Nandini Trivedi, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, USA..

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

From wind power input to ocean eddy graveyard

Xiaoming Zhai (University of East Anglia).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Intrinsic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits

Troy Margrie, NIMR.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The Galaxy and Beyond with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

Yvette Perrott (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

An analogue of Washington's Theorem for elliptic curves with complex multiplication

Jack Lamplugh (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

PHANTOM: A Parallel Architecture for Practical Oblivious Computation

Martin Maas, UC Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:15-17:15

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Approaching protein dynamics in the post-genome era

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Bounded gaps between primes (Special Lecture)

Ben Green (Cambridge).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Percolation of finite clusters

Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

King of the Middle East: Using Game Theory to understand the resilience of monarchy in Jordan

Nikita Malik.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

The role of temperament in attention, motor and language development

Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Concise analysis using implication algebras for task-local memory optimisation

Leo White .

FW22, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Babraham Institute Seminar Series

'TCR requirements for gamma/delta T cell development'

Daniel J Pennington, Queen Mary University, London.

CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Economics of Cancer Medicines

Professor Richard Sullivan, Guy's Hospital, London.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Transient responses of the Southern Ocean to climate change

Note unusual day! If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

Andy Hogg (Australian National University).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

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

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

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

Children's Literature

Provocation and imagination: reading Brazilian Children's literature

Celia Abicalil Belmiro, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil .

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Monday 10 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Is It Ethical to Keep Exotic Pets?

David Williams, University of Cambridge.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Monday 10 June 2013, 16:30-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Inversion formulae for the cosh-weighted Hilbert transform

Alexander Tovbis (University of Central Florida).

MR 14, CMS.

Monday 10 June 2013, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Rigidity of Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons

Lu Wang (Johns Hopkins).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 10 June 2013, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Dr Philip Stier (University of Oxford).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

A few lessons that I learnt about interprocedural program analyses

Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

New solutions of Laplace Tidal Equations over a sphere

Nathan Paldor (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Exploring Universal Extra-Dimensions at the LHC

Alexander Belyaev (Southampton).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

(change of room)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

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

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

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Materials and construction of a 20km tall pipe

Matt Causier - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 07 June 2013, 15:00-15:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks

Marco Canini (T-Labs).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 07 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Immunology

Seminar by the recipients of the Lister Institute Research Prize 2012

The presentations will be followed by a reception.

Dr David Komander, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Dr Akhilesh Reddy, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. .

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 07 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

ARClub Talks

Talk has been cancelled!

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 07 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in medicine

Under the bonnet of the Ferrari of the virus world - Norovirus replication and immune evasion

hosted by Leo James

Prof. Ian Goodfellow, Virology University of Cambridge..

Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7 of the CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

Friday 07 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and some applications

Marco M. Caldarelli (Southampton).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 07 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Quentin Gouil.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 07 June 2013, 12:30-13:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR 7 expression by sucrose in Arabidopsis thaliana

Alexander Frank.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 07 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Experimental-Driven Metadynamics simulations

Dr Carlo Camilloni (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 07 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Drilling down from stand to leaf level: application of airborne remote sensing for studying biomass, leaf chemistry and the impact of tree diseases in British woodlands

Minerva Singh.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 07 June 2013, 11:30-11:55

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks

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

Marco Canini, T-Labs.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 07 June 2013, 10:00-11:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Teaching and Learning from Short Industrial Placements

Judith Shawcross, Manufacturing Industry Education Research Group, IfM.

Seminar Room 1, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 07 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

IfM Buns Talk

Short Industrial placements - a framework to support teaching and learning

Judith Shawcross.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 07 June 2013, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

'A novel anatomical model based on the portal and hepatic veins to guide partial liver lobectomy in the dog'.

Jon Hall.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 07 June 2013, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

'Investigation of a 'new' MRSA in animals and humans'.

Gavin Paterson.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 07 June 2013, 08:45-10:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Petal Surface Structures & Pollinator Attraction

Alison Reed.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge Immunology

The neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) – not just for kids!

Jan Terje Andersen, hosted by Leo James

Jan Terje Andersen University of Oslo Centre for Immune Regulation.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Development of leaf anatomy in C3 and C4 Flaveria

Britta Kuempers.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Pile foundations in laterally spreading soil: mechanisms of response and guidance for design

Jenny Haskell, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3A.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:00-16:45

Chaucer Club

Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studies

Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London).

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

Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Yue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar

Sibling Rivalry and Stress Tolerance: the Single-Cell Biology of Mycobacteria.

Host: Viji Draviam

Dr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bad metals

Prof. Alexei Tsvelik.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:15-15:45

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Behaviour, Management, and Controls

Roderic Bunn, Building Analyst, BSRIA.

CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:30-15:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Needles in a haystack: Tracking down the genetic cause of rare diseases.

Stefan Gräf.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:10-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The combinatorial structure of conditionally i.i.d. negative binomial processes directed by a beta process

Creighton Heaukulani (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-13:30

AMOP list

Oscillating superleak transducers and temperature mapping diagnostice for high gradient cavities at CERN

Kitty Liao (CERN).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

The Coaching - Machine Learning interface - Indoor rowing

Simon Fothergill.

Rainbow Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superconductivity and magnetism in doped graphene

Andrey Chubukov, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:15-12:15

DIAL seminars

MET Long Project Presentations

Chris Ashby, Logan Bishop, Jenk Kilich, Ed West, Lucas Wong.

Seminar room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:00-13:30

HPS History Workshop

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

Michelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Children's Literature

‘After building the roof, what do you put under it? - Building a library in a village school in rural Cambodia ‘

All Welcome!

Faye Dorcas Yung, PhD student.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

M5-branes

Seok Kim.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solid Liquid Crystals and Soft Motors

Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Curing discontent in online content acquisition

Nishanth Sastry (KCL).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila

Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control

Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Representing Abstract and Concrete Concepts - Why and When Features should Feature

Felix Hill, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:00

Immunology in Pathology

Mothers' compromise. How NK cells regulate placentation.

Host: Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Andrew Sharkey, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring system

Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

BRC Seminar Series

Spatiotemporal control of motor circuit assembly and function.

Dr Marco Tripodi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Direct Selection for Antibodies that Control Cell Fates from Intracellular Combinatorial Antibody Libraries

Professor Richard Lerner, The Scripps Research Institute, USA.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

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

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BPI Seminar Series

Inferring past current contributions to the deep Atlantic using Nd isotope records

Natalie Roberts, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

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

Tim Zuehlsdorff (Imperial College).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

NetFPGA: The Flexible Open-Source Networking Platform

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

Andrew Moore, University of Cambridge.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

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

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Exploring the Dawn of Cosmic Structure with the 21cm Line

Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial College, London).

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Langlands' automorphic transfer and non-linear Poisson Formulas

Laurent Lafforgue (IHES).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Adaptive Resolution of Information Flow Constraints

Note unusual time and venue

Santanu Dash, University of Hertfordshire.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 14:45-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

The value of CStat

Trevor Lewis, Royal Statistical Society.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Towards Efficient Traffic-analysis Resistant Anonymity Networks

Joint seminar with Security Group Seminar.

Stevens Le Blond (MPI).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Exposing Fine-grain Concurrency in Sequential code with a Dataflow Compiler IR

Note unusual time and venue

Ali Mustafa Zaidi (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 14:00-14:45

Darwin College Humanities Group

The Oldenburg Correspondence: International Contacts of the Early Years of the Royal Society

George Gomori.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

'Representations of symbolic thought in infancy and childhood: The relationship between gesture, speech, play and theory of mind'

Dr Elizabeth Kirk (Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire).

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Control of cytokinesis and the dark side of actomyosin forces

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Mark Petronczki, London Research Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Usability Group

“Siri, did I leave the oven on?” Experience Design for the Connected Home

Tickets are free

Claire Rowland (AlertMe.com).

Microsoft Research Cambridge, 21 Station Rd, CB1 2FB, Cambridge.

Monday 03 June 2013, 18:15-20:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Lameness in Lowland English Sheep Flocks: Farmers’ Perspectives and Behaviour

Elisabeth King, University of Warwick.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Monday 03 June 2013, 16:30-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

A sharp strong maximum principle for singular minimal hypersurfaces

Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 03 June 2013, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Dr Kirsty Pringle (University of Leeds).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Entanglement and Quantum Gate Processes in the One-Dimensional Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

Mr Edmund Owen, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

On the convergence of Adaptive sequential Monte Carlo Methods

Dr Ajay Jasra, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore.

LR11, Engineering, Department of.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Rigidity Theory and Some Applications

Micheal Thorpe.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Supernova Remnants and Cosmic Rays: An update on recent progress

*** Note unusual time ***

Daniel Castro (MIT, USA).

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Energy cascades in rotating and stratified turbulence

Erik Lindborg (KTH).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Particle spectra of non-minimal supersymmetric models

Alexander Voigt (Dresden University).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Playability of bowed string instruments

Ailin Zhang (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Diffuse fields in plates

Dr Louis Kovalevsky.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Statistics

Discrete Fourier transform methods in the analysis of nonstationary time series

Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

'Effect of Moisture Uptake on the Shear Stiffness of CFRP Tendons and the Role of the Manufacturing Route'

Eleni Toumpanaki – PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 31 May 2013, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Bi-Toughened Glass

Marco Zaccaria – PhD Student .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 31 May 2013, 15:00-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Progress in making organic solar cells highly efficient and stable

Prof. Michael McGehee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA.

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

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Ring Theoretic Properties of Affinoid PD-Weyl Algebras

Note time and venue

Benjamin Lewis (Queen Mary).

MR14.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Next-Generation Smart Grid: Completely Autonomous Power Systems (CAPS)

Qing-Chang Zhong, IET Fellow, SMIEEE Chair in Control and Systems Engineering Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

MR imaging and biomechanical analysis: the assessment of carotid atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability

Dr Zhongzhao Teng, University Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Differential Geometry Seminar

Floer homology and the triangulation conjecture

Note unusual day and time!

Ciprian Manolescu, UCLA.

MR13.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores in nanotechnology and single-enzyme studies

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

AMOP list

Tuning magnetism and superconductivity in atomically engineered SrTiO3–based heterostructures

Christopher Bell (Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, California).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization of pluripotent cells to establish the mouse embryo

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 31 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Stability, Instability, Canonical Energy and Charged Black Holes

Joe Keir (DAMTP).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 31 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Production Processes Group Seminar - "Advances in understanding inkjet fluids and jetting"

Dr Steve Hoath.

Seminar Room 1 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 31 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

--

- GRAND ROUNDS -.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 31 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

Parasitology Seminars

The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism and new drug targets

Dr Magdalena Zarowiecki, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED ** Language based web security: the operational semantics approach

Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College, London.

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Foster Talks

Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer

Prof Paul Martin. School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol. .

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Nano-particle polymer composites

Gerry Swallowe, Department of Physics, Loughborough University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

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

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

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3A.

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

Chaucer Club

MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases

Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Analysis of some nonlinear PDEs from multi-scale geophysical applications

Bin Cheng (University of Surrey).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Small minors and subdivisions

Richard Montgomery (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Cancer Cell Unit Seminars

Stem cell dynamics in the pancreas

Prof Christopher Heeschen, CNIO, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model

Dr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Demodulation and time-frequency analysis as inference

Dr Rich Turner, CUED..

LR11, Engineering, Department of.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Mt Erebus, Antarctica; Understanding the world's southernmost active volcano

Yves Moussalllam.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Latent HCMV infection - can changes in the latently infected cell be targeted to clear latent infection?

Prof. John Sinclair, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Peter Dudfield, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Detecting engagement and positive emotions from facial expressions

Hamed Monkaresi.

Rainbow Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 11:15-12:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Making Electricity Transmission Smarter

Refreshments will be provided!

Dr Mark Osborne - National Grid.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 18:30-20:00

Children's Literature

No Voice? Child Collaborators and the Co-Produced Picture Book

Professor Marah Gubar, University of Pittsburgh.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice

Anna de Bruyckere (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Cretaceous-Recent Dynamic Support of Australia from River Profile Inversion

Gareth Roberts, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry Seminar

Boundary and lens rigidity and tensor tomography

Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington.

MR13.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Noncommutative deformations of curves and spherical twists

Michael Wemyss (Edinburgh).

MR 13, CMS.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Quantum black holes from gauge/string duality

Toby Wiseman (Imperial College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

The Domain Name System in 2013 – The political and technical landscape

Simon McCalla - CTO, Nominet UK.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

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

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

Dr Daniel Parton, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

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

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management

This talk has been cancelled.

Eva Kalyvianaki (City University London).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Immunomodulation of Type 1 Diabetes by Schistosome mansoni products

Host: Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Paola Zaccone, Dept of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Biogeochemical Cycle of Iron in the Ocean

Alessandro Tagliabue (University of Liverpool).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Skeptics in the Pub

How dare you question my Miracle!

Rhys Morgan.

The Maypole.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

The International Year of Statistics 2013 - Series of Public Lectures

What’s happening to the world?

Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE.

Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

MRC Centenary Lecture: What's happening to the world?

Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE.

Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Conformation-Related Inherited Disorders in Domestic Dogs—The Long and Short of It

Rowena Packer, Royal Veterinary College.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

A Look at the Planck Cosmology Results

Anthony Lasenby & Mark Ashdown (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Self-avoiding walk on regular graphs

Zhongyang Li (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Some structure of character sums

Jonathan Bober (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopoles, instantons and polytopes

Paul Sutcliffe (Durham).

DAMTP, room MR11.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

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

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

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

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

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

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The IceCube high energy neutrino events: has neutrino astronomy finally arrived?

Prof. Kael Hanson (Brussels).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

Exponentiable Toposes

Guilherme Lima, DPMMS.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

"We want to export goods, not people": The Political Economy of Trade Liberalisation and Labour Migration

Dr Dan Kim .

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

BRC Seminar Series

Shaping neural circuits by early experience.

Please note unusual day and time

Professor Takao Hensch, Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

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

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Flourishing: from science to policy

Professor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

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

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Renal Cancer and Oxygen Sensing"

Prof Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

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

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

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Regularity of higher codimension minimal currents

Emanuele Spadaro (MPI Leipzig).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 27 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Impingement of a plume on a rigid boundary

Alan Jamieson (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

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

Lorna Ayton (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Extratropical Tropopause Inversion Layer

Alison Ming (Damtp).

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

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

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Drainage and Uplift of West Africa and Arabia

Jonathan Wilson (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Stability of Dust-Laden Vortices

Anna Railton (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Tidal forcing of a rapidly rotating star

Harry Braviner (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Jupiter's unearthly jets: a new idealised model

Stephen Thomson (Damtp).

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

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A model order reduction technique applied to mid-frequency acoustics

Dr Andrea Barbarulo (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The acoustics and tuning of cylindrical drums

Dr Phill Richardson (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

What is the chance that the match is coincidence?

Richard Gill, Leiden University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Role of spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system

Catherine Cutts (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Self-organization in drops of swimming bacteria

Hugo Wioland (Damtp).

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

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building Information Modelling: 2016 and Beyond

Professor Bimal Kumar.

Engineering Department - **LR5**.

Friday 24 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Modal stability analysis of plane Poiseuille flow with electric charge

Lukas Vermach (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

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

Alberto Gil Ramos (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerically solving the Schrodinger equation with exponential splittings

Pranav Singh (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On solving an isospectral flow

Aman Kaur (Damtp).

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

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Ehrenpreis principle: from ODEs to PDEs

Kevin Crooks (Damtp).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Distributed Electronic Rights in JavaScript

Mark S. Miller, Google.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Approaching biology discretely

Professor Timothy Newman (Univ. Dundee).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics of motility at microscopic scales

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A genomic survey of the machineries that control & link cell shape, microtubules & cell cycle progression

Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

ARClub Talks

Epac2, from protein to in vivo function: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

Dr Deepak Srivastava, Department of Neuroscience and Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in medicine

Understanding the mechanisms of Toll-like Receptor 7 induced immune pathologies

Madeleine Hipp, Oxford hosted by John Trowsdale

Madeleine Hipp, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7 of the CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Towards the exact de Sitter S-matrix of the Principal Chiral Model

Ian Morrison (DAMTP).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Using transcriptomic analysis to understand C4 in wetland conditions.

Richard Smith.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:30-13:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identifying temperature perception mutants of Arabidopsis

Patrick Dickinson.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-12:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

What can we learn about protein folding from atomistic simulations?

Dr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Individual variation and the roles of L1 and proficiency in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes

Akira Murakami, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Silicon Valley – Can it be Copied?

ISMM .

Seminar Room 3, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 24 May 2013, 10:00-10:45

Computational Neuroscience

Optimal compensation for neuron death

David Barrett (ENS Paris).

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

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

"Does the developmental heterogeneity of oligodendrocyte origin influence remyelination of the adult central nervous system?"

Abbe Crawford (RFranklin).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 24 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Determinants of retroviral transmission in Western Uganda

Simon Frost.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 24 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Algae, bacteria and B vitamins

Matt Cooper.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-17:00

Rausing Lecture

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

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Crosbie Smith (University of Kent).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

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

Foster Talks

Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis

Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Geotechnical behavior of the energy piles

Echo Ouyang, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 4.

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

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

CLE genes are evolutionarily ancient regulators of stem cell maintenance in land plants

Chris White.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-16:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Shock compression of geological materials

Simon Kirk, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Fifty Years of Computers, statistics and the Tree of Life

Anthony Edwards (University of Cambridge).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, New Museum Site.

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

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Teaching Sustainability to Chemical Engineering students”

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

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life span

Professor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit).

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

Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Some New Results on Approximation with Redundant Dictionaries

Morten Nielsen (Aalborg University).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Adaptive Hamiltonian-based MCMC samplers

Shakir Mohamed .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:00-16:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Sets of integers with no large sum-free subset

Sean Eberhard (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila.

Host: Boris Adryan

Dr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality.

Prof. David Logan, Oxford University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Feasibility and Costing

Speaker TBC.

CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 13:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

A Heterogeneous Parallel Programming Language and Compiler Architecture

Nicholas Tomlinson.

SW01, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 13:20-13:40

Darwin College Sciences Group

Canceled

Eyemen Kheir .

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

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

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Part III projects: Approximating a Haskell stack trace/Language and compiler for heterogenous parallelism

William Kenyon, Nicholas Tomlinson.

SW01, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

Mineral Separation by Froth Flotation: Research Tools and Techniques

Professor Jan Cilliers FREng, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Subdivision Curves and Surfaces with (Semi-)Sharp Creases

Jiri Kosinka.

Rainbow Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 11:15-12:15

Computer Laboratory talks

Research platforms for RF and communications

Please register at http://uk.ni.com/events/rfandcomms

Richard Silley, National Instruments.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 09:30-16:30

The International Year of Statistics 2013 - Series of Public Lectures

Numbers are weapons: a self-defence guide

Tim Harford, of More or Less.

Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

MRC Centenary Lecture: Numbers are weapons: a self defence guide

Tim Harford, of More or Less.

Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Mythologizing popular scientists: the cult of Feynman and the image of Sagan

Oliver Marsh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption: insights from microseismicity

Jon Tarasewicz, Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry Seminar

Unlinking and unknottedness of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds

Jonny Evans, UCL.

MR13.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On a problem of Erdős on similar copies of sequences in measurable sets

András Máthé, University of Warwick.

MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Digging into (Historical) Data: Tracking global commodity trading in the nineteenth century

Prof Ewan Klein - University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

(In) Stabilities and complementarity in AdS/CFT

Eliezer Rabinovici, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Wes Borden, University of North Texas.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

A TMI RIG Presentation

Professor Wes Borden, Unversity of Texas.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The neighbourhood game

Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic humility

Ian Kidd (Durham University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Recombinant HPA-1a antibody therapy for treatment of fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia

Host: Mike Clark (mrc7@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Cedric Ghevaert, Dept of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

Modelling Parkinson's with iPS cells and transgenic human ES cells.

Dr Tilo Kunath, University of Edinburgh.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Anharmonic phonon properties: electron-phonon coupling and stress

Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

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

Martin Uhrin (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

jg691's list

Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J Harper

Dr David J Harper .

LR12, Baker Building, Department of Engineering (Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ).

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 10:20-11:20

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network event: Bill Baxter, Director Inca Digital

Bill Baxter, Director Inca Digital.

West Cafe, Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 18:00-21:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

From Haloes to Galaxies

Yingjie Peng (Cavendish Astrophysics.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Nodal length fluctuations for arithmetic random waves.

Igor Wigman, (King's College London).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Visibility of Tate-Shafarevich groups in abelian surfaces and abelian threefolds

Tom Fisher (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Riemann-Hilbert Method for Soliton Equations

Spyros Kamvissis (DAMTP).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The NA62 experiment at CERN: recent results and prospects

Cristina Lazzeroni (Birmingham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions

Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

A constructive approach to geometric algebra

Achilleas Kryftis, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

TBC

Ed Anderson.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

How does post adoption birth family contact work out over time? Findings from a longitudinal study

Dr Beth Neil (School of Social Work, University of East Anglia).

Social Sciences Committee Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Title to be confirmed

Amir Chaudhry (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

The quandary of the quark

Professor Christine Davies, University of Glasgow.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

IfM Buns Talk

Silicon Valley - Can it be copied?

ISMM Students.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 10:00-10:45

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Euthanasia of Aged Horses

Cathy McGowan, University of Liverpool.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

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

Ina Koch (Frankfurt University).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Breakdown of smoothness for the Muskat problem

Angel Castro, ICMAT(Madrid).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 20 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

Dr Ivan Kourtchev (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Chemically Assembled Single-Electron Transistors with a Bottom-up Strategy

Dr Shinya Kano, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

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

Natasha Berloff (Damtp).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Neutrino-less double beta decay and lepton number violating processes

Silvia Pascoli (IPPP).

MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

Scott Lectures

The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka Plasmonics

Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Multiparty session types and their application in large distributed systems

Raymond Hu and Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Reversing long combination vehicles

Amy Rimmer (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Visual sensing of articulation angle

Matt Harris (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Statistics

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling of train induced vibration (MOTIV)

Waleed Hamad (MOTIV).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial Cells in Picoliter Droplets

Prof Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen - Radboud Universiteit).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Engineering and medicine: Opportunities in type 1 diabetes

Dr. Roman Hovorka, Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Climb-enabled discrete dislocation plasticity

Professor Vikram Deshpande, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Organ morphogenesis: Cell movement and communication in liver development

Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Modelling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Priscilla Cañizares (IOA Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

West-African straw-coloured fruit bats as a reservoir for viral zoonoses

Kate Baker, Zoological Society of London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Friday 17 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating temperature signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

David Schoepfer.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 17 May 2013, 12:30-13:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Improving pollination in the field bean Vicia faba

Emily Bailes.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 17 May 2013, 12:00-12:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Ionic Liquids - From DFT to CG Simulations

Prof. Dr. Christian Holm, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 17 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improved Information Structure Analysis of Scientific Documents Through Discourse and Lexical Constraints

Yufan Guo, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

SPOC: GPGPU Programming with OCaml

Mathias Bourgoin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6) .

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 17 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

IfM Buns Talk

ISSM International Manufacturing Study Tour in Turkey

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 17 May 2013, 10:00-10:45

Manufacturing Research Forum

ISMM International Manufacturing Study Tour in Turkey

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 3, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 17 May 2013, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

" Cranial Cruciate Ligament Rupture - A Systematic Review of outcome and complications of the surgical procedures for Cranial Cruciate Ligament Rupture on the last ten years"

Filipe Dias (HRadke).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 17 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Contribution of animal and human faecal sources to the environmental resistome

Will Rowe (GPearce).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 17 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The UK'S facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements

Tea is served from 6pm

Jamie Trembath, FAAM, Cranfield University.

British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Dissecting developmental signalling pathways in Trypanosoma brucei

Dr Keith Matthews, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Dialect syntax as a testbed for models of innovation and change

David Willis (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Richard Stutt.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication

Stephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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

Foster Talks

The mechanical control of CNS development and functioning

Dr Kristian Franze. PDN, University of Cambridge.

Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of small molecules adsorbed at interfaces

Mike Casford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Crossover frequency mapping across resistance gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum

Carsten Reinhard.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

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

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Museums and Science

Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

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

Chaucer Club

Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disorders

Professor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht).

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

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems

2013 Melville Lectureship

Professor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

News on Variational Regularization of Inverse Problems

Martin Burger (University of Münster).

MR 14, CMS.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Nonparametrics in Real-World Applications: Statistical Machine Translation and Language Modelling on Big Datasets

Yarin Gal (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar

The evolutionary dynamics of unusual reproductive systems.

Hosts: Eli Vieira Araujo Jnr and John Welch

Dr Laura Ross from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford ..

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands

Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University .

Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 14:15-15:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Microstructures in Layered Intrusions – What Can They Tell Us? (Evidence from the Sept Iles intrusion, Quebec, Canada)

Halley Keevil.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Structural and functional studies on old and newly emerged bunyaviruses

Prof. Richard Elliott, MRC Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Properties of the spiral structure in M51 as seen in CO J=3-2, and an overview of ALMA Science Verification

*** Special Seminar ***

Cat Vlahakis (Leiden Observatory).

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Research Institute seminars

SMARTer cDNA Synthesis for Illumina Sequencing and iDimerize Inducible Dimerization Systems

Syed Abedi, Takara-Clontech.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 10:30-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons.

Tiago Branco (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology).

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

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

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Explanation in neuroscience

Zina Ward (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The dynamics of magma intrusion: Insights from field studies and analogue experiments

Janine Kavanagh, Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building).

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

The geometries of the Freudenthal-Tits magic square

Jeroen Schillewaert (Imperial).

MR12.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular mechanisms of synapse degeneration in prion and Alzheimer's disease

Dr Clive Bate, Pathology & Infectious Diseases, The Royal Veterinary College.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Differential Geometry Seminar

Defining a 'Fukaya category' of (derived) Lagrangians in a complex symplectic manifold using perverse sheaves

Dominic Joyce, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt Switch

Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

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

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

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

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Title: Volume minimizers and (pseudo-)holomorphic cycles

Claudio Arezzo (ICTP).

MR 13, CMS.

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

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Strongly-Typed Language Support for Internet-Scale Information Sources

Don Syme - Microsoft Research.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Heavy Flavour Physics

Alexander Lenz, Universität Regensburg.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Sir Martin Wood Lecture Series

Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metals

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

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

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

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

An Objective Measure of Network Resilience

Fletcher D Wicker (Aerospace).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two views on the relation between causality and probability

Donald Gillies (UCL).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice

Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Immunology in Pathology

Burning bridges. Transgenic approaches to eliminate the intermediate hosts of pandemic influenza.

Host: Adrian Kelly (apk23@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Laurence Tiley, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean heat uptake, the stratification of the Southern Ocean, and the ACC

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

Till Kuhlbrodt (University of Reading).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

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

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

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

Filippo Spiga (HPCS, Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Children's Literature

"Containing Chaos: Curating the Historical Children's Books at the Cotsen Children's Library."

Dr Andrea Immel, Curator of the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

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

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Waterfalls around Protostars

Joseph Mottram (Leiden Observatory).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Local-global compatibility in the p-adic Langlands program for unitary groups

Przemyslaw Chojecki (Jussieu).

MR13.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Rendezvous: A search engine for binary code

Wei Ming Khoo, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Coinductive big-step semantics for concurrency

Note unusual time and day

Tarmo Uustalu ( Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology).

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Status of Flavour physics in 2013

Alexander Lenz (IPPP Durham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Semi Markov models under panel observation

Andrew Titman, University of Lancaster.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Congruences in noncommutative Iwasawa theory and applications

Mahesh Kakde (King's College London).

MR13.

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

Category Theory Seminar

Adjunctions between fibrations

Christina Vasilakopoulou, DPMMS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Probability

Nucleation and growth in the Ising model at very low temperatures (joint work with Francesco Manzo, Roma)

Raphael Cerf (Université Paris-Sud).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Exploring neighbourhood dynamics: the case of Old Babylonian (2nd millennium BC) ceramics from Chagar Bazar, Syria

Melissa Sharp.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

'Has multiculturalism failed?' Challenging representations of difference in schools.

Dr. Caroline Howarth, LSE.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘CLL – from chemotherapy to targeted kinase inhibition’

Buffet Lunch will be provided by courtesy of Chugai Pharma UK Ltd.

Dr George Follows, Consultant Haematologist, Addenbrooke's .

CRI Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

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

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

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

Cambridge Usability Group

Getting better UX work: Designing your UX portfolio

You can book a free ticket on Eventbrite: http://gettingbetteruxwork.eventbrite.com/

Ian Fenn.

Red Gate Software, Newnham House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge CB4 0WZ.

Monday 13 May 2013, 18:15-20:00

King's Occasional Lectures

Do Complex Neurodegenerative Diseases Follow Simple Chemical Rules?

Prajwal Ciryam, St John's College.

Keynes Hall, King's College.

Monday 13 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Cytoskeletal Control of Leukocyte Chemotaxis

Michael Sixt, IST Austria.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 13 May 2013, 16:15-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

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

Sven Bergmann (Lausanne).

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Scott Lectures

The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells

Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Uniformizing surfaces with conical singularities

Andrea Malchiodi (University of Warwick).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 13 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Dirac Lecture

The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and its scalar boson

Professor François Englert - Université libre de Bruxelles.

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

Monday 13 May 2013, 14:45-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

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

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

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Photonic Crystal and Hyper-uniform THz QCL lasers

Dr Riccardo Degl'Innocenti, Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Set Theory Seminar

Unsound Ordinals

Prof. Adrian Mathias .

CMS, MR13.

Monday 13 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nucleic Acid-Modified Nanostructures as Programmable Atom Equivalents: Forging a New Periodic Table

Lewis Lectures 2013

Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cytoplasmic streaming from microfilament self-organisation

Francis Woodhouse (Damtp).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Aspects of R-Parity Violation

Marco Nardecchia (CP3-Origins).

MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamics of wind turbine blades on moving platforms

Rick Lupton (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Combined steering and braking of articulated HGV's

Graeme Morrison (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Statistics

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

“Numerical Simulation – the Quest for Reality”

Richard Sturt - Arup Fellow.

Engineering Department - **LR5**.

Friday 10 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Stress Generation in the Storage Particles of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Professor Robert McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Spin Scattering in Graphene: Impurity Characterization and Birefringent Electron Optics

Professor Sergio Ulloa , Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Research Challenges in Applying Control to Wheel-Rail Contact Problems

Professor T X Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, University of Salford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nutrient sensing in the central brain of Drosophila larvae controls feeding behavior

Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Nice, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminar

The geography of obesity: A tale of two cities

Adam Drewnowski is Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in medicine

Regulation of neutrophilic inflammation by the HIF/PHD pathway

Sarah Walmsley, Sheffield University, hosted by Edwin Chilvers

Sarah Walmsley, Sheffield University .

Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7 of the CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

Friday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Quantum gravity as a group field theory: fundamental dynamics of quantum space and effective (quantum) cosmology

Daniele Oriti (AEI Golm).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Understanding alga-microbe symbiosis

Vaibhav Bhardwaj.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:30-12:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A (potential) cross-linguistic measure of syntheticity

Christian Bentz, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Network events

Making the Most of Cambridge Network Membership - Lunchtime Seminar

The Cambridge Network team.

The Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

How do plant viruses affect plant-pollinator interactions?

Stephanie Unna.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-12:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

On ripples, rafts, and networks - insights from generic models

Prof. Friederike Schmid, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Future of Manufacturing - an insight into the UK Government

Elliott More and Carlos Lopez-Gomez.

Seminar Room 1, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 10 May 2013, 10:00-10:45

IfM Buns Talk

Future of Manufacturing - an insight into the UK Government Foresight Project

Carlos Lopez Gomez, Elliott More.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 10 May 2013, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

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- GRAND ROUNDS -.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 10 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580–1720

Hannah Newton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms

Rob Smith, AMOP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Room 16 Kapitza Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanostructures: Establishing a New Paradigm in Molecular Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation:

Lewis Lectures 2013

Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable Pairs

Professor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 1.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?

Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Recent Progress in Matrix Functions

Nick Higham (University of Manchester).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Tilted Sperner Families

Eoin Long (Queen Mary, London).

MR12.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics.

Host: Frank Jiggins

Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs in the unicellular green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardttii

Daisy Hessenberger.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:30-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?

Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Regulation of the carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by CO2 and light

Madeline Mitchell.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:00-14:25

DIAL seminars

First Year PhD DIAL Talk

Torben Jess and JiaQiang Wang.

Seminar room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 14:00-15:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Green Building Technologies

Speaker TBC.

CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 13:30-15:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Curing Parkinson's Disease: From Camels to Worms

Tim Guilliams.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

Lunch with Sian Lindley - Rethinking the Web as a Personal Archive

Sian Lindley, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Brain imaging findings in BPD

Dr Robert Dudas, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption cloud last so long?

Mark Jellinek, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

The Larch Environment: Python Programs as Visual Interactive Documents

Geoffrey French.

Rainbow Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 11:15-12:15

HPS History Workshop

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

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

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

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The enigmatic climatic footprint of supercontinental cycles and the fundamental challenge of snowball earth

Mark Jellinek, UBC.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Pins, Tacks, and Slinks: Proposals for patching PKI on the web

Joseph Bonneau, Google.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Differential Geometry Seminar

Spin(7)-instantons, the Bogomolov inequality and stable bundles on abelian 4-folds.

Vicente Munoz, Madrid.

MR13.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

BRC Seminar Series

Understanding the molecular principles of protein misfolding.

Please note unusual time.

Prof Erich Wanker, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On a conjecture of Serre

Lillian Pierce (Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Exoplanet Science, the way forward

Professor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Characterization of theta divisors

Zhi Jiang (Paris Sud).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Mind the Map - Modelling Sustainability of Urban Crowd-Sourcing

Dr Licia Capra - University College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The large D limit of General Relativity

Roberto Emparan, University of Barcelona.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Numerically exact methods for nonequilibrium quantum impurity models

Professor Eran Rabani, University of Tel Aviv.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

1st Year Wednesday Seminars 2013

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

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

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Convergence to equilibrium for degenerate kinetic equations

Francesco Salvarani (University of Pavia).

CMS, MR4.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Knowing and understanding

Paulina Sliwa (Faculty of Philosophy).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Foxp3, TSLP, and the regulation of immunity and inflammation

Host: John Rogers, PDN (jhr11@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Steve Ziegler, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results

Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

SOLAR MAMAS - documentary screening

Snacks will be provided!

Documentary screening.

Anthony Low Building (ALB), Clare Hall (main site), Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

Nineteenth Epigenetics Club Seminar

Dr Philip Wigge; Dr Suzana Hadjur.

Physiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 18:00-19:00

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Pembroke-BT Annual Lecture: Cyber Security - at what cost?

Mark Hughes, MD of BT Security.

Old Library, Pembroke College.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 17:30-19:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Ratings of Animal Personality as a Tool for Improving the Breeding, Management and Welfare of Zoo Animals

Carly Chadwick, University of Salford.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Galaxies in the first billion years: probing cosmic dawn

Pratika Dayal (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Analytic continuation of Hilbert modular forms and applications to modularity

Payman Kassaei (King's College London).

MR13.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Supersymmetric quantum mechanics on vortex moduli spaces

Nuno Romao (Bonn).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Claude Duhr, ITP Zuerich.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Moana: A Case for a Global Information Network

Yan Shvartzshnaider (University of Sydney , NICTA).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

Universes for category theory

Zhen Lin Low, DPMMS.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Humanities Group

Metaphors in scientific practice: how they function, how they sometimes get entrenched, and how to evaluate them

Anna de Bruyckere.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Intimate Fatherhood: fragile, risky or resilient?

Dr Esther Dermott (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol).

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Title to be confirmed

Jeremy Yallop (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Macrophages Into Tumor Hypoxic Areas: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Massimiliano Mazzone, VIB Vesalius Research Center, Belgium.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Some Experiences in Designing SKA-related Sites and Instruments: Engineers, Radio Astronomers and Construction Teams

Howard Reader (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).

Rutherford Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mate choice, sexual selection, and the evolutionary dynamics of magic traits

Eva Kisdi - University of Helsinki, Finland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 06 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge

Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 06 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

Zangwill Club

Emotional disorders and mental imagery

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The interplay of waves and turbulence

Peter Davidson (Engineering, Cambridge).

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

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Barrier Invariants : a Shared State Abstraction for Data-dependent GPU Kernels >

Nathan Chong, Imperial College, London.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Dark matter with an asymmetric origin

James Unwin (Oxford University).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Statistics

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active Safety of Long Combination Vehicles

Dr Richard Roebuck (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Riser response reconstruction using an inhomogeneous waveguide model

Piing Chen (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Magnesium alloys microstructures: coupling experiments and simulations

Dr Antoine Jerusalem, University of Oxford.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features

Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A fine balance: Self-renewal and differentiation of single stem cells amidst tumour heterogeneity

David Kent, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:15-13:55

Immunology in medicine

Forward genetic analysis of CD8+ T cell memory

Sophie Rutschmann, Imperial College, London hosted by Gillian Griffiths

Sophie Rutschmann, Imperial College, London .

Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7 of the CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Renormalizing stress tensor two-point functions

Markus B. Fröb (Universitat de Barcelona).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Metabarcoding: emerging technology allows rapid, large-scale monitoring of biodiversity for conservation and management.

Catharine Bruce, University of East Anglia.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Friday 03 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Juheon Lee.

Biffen Lecture Theater, Department of Genetics.

Friday 03 May 2013, 12:00-12:25

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Polycomb-mediated selfrenewal of young (and aged?) hematopoietic stem cells

Gerald de Haan, Scientific Co-Director, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 03 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

MSR-Lecture: Generative Models of Images of Objects

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Ali Eslami, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 03 May 2013, 10:00-11:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

"A comparison of the outcome of free skin grafting to treat distal limb defects in dogs and cats".

Julia Riggs (HRadke).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 03 May 2013, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

“To Bee or not to be?” From questions about a viral disease to lessons regarding a transmissible RNA silencing pathway in honeybees

Eyal Maori (JHeeney).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 03 May 2013, 08:45-10:00