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This list includes the Darwin College Lecture Series and lunchtime seminars taking place in Darwin College. Lunchtime seminars should be added either to ‘Darwin College Humanities Group’ or ‘Darwin College Sciences Group’.

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16 upcoming talks and 350 talks in the archive.

Darwin College Humanities Group

Homelessness and the Migrant Domestic Worker

UserDr Jessie Hohmann (Faculty of Law).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Religion, Trade and Chinese Merchants in East Africa

UserHUNG, Wing Lok (Centre of African Studies).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Before the Silk Road: tracing the earliest East West contacts

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

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Peter Abaelard and the Development of Logic

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

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

The Future of Energy: Views and Approaches by Government and Industry

UserProf David MacKay, FRS and Christof Rühl.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Genetics of obesity: How are genes shaping us

UserElena Bochukova, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

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

UserDr Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

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

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

UserProf. Monica M. Grady, The Open University.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Carbon, Forests and the REDD Paradox

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

The Challenges of Cyber Warfare

UserProf Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Challenges of Preparing Educators in Kenya

UserMoses Orwe-Onyango (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

The G20 in a World of Financial Crises

UserMaha Kamel (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

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

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

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

HouseDarwin College, Entertaining Room.

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Zhijun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Galaxies

UserDan Stark (Institute of Astronomy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

Science in the service of the developing world

This lecture is now fully booked.

UserProf. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development.

HouseJudge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society?

Talk open to All - Registration required: www.dar.cam.ac.uk/connections

UserDr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

A Case for Astrobiology

UserMs. Katinka Apagyi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

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

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector

UserProf. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

Science in Emergencies

Talk open to All - Registration required for reception

UserAndrew Miller, MP and Chair for the Science and Technology Select Committee.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Probing neutron stars

UserEd Cackett.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 13:10-14:00

CONNECTIONS Lecture Series

Science in Parliament

The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm

UserJulian Huppert, PhD, Member of Parliament for Cambridge..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Design of iced airfoils

UserTiziano Ghisu.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Preserving a Violent Past: Politics and the Transmission of the Saga of Icelanders

UserVicky Cribb (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Sustainable development of culturally significant urban areas

UserTatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific observation

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

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Computer games and mental health interventions

UserDr David Coyle (Computer Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Childhood origins of crime and violence in Brazil and Britain: Review and 5-year project plan

UserDr Joseph Murray (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

No Talk This Week

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Nanocapillaries: Cheap and Safe Nanotech

UserLorenz Steinbock ( Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Automatic Visual Recognition in Natural, Medical, and 3D Imagery

UserJamie Shotton (Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft

Last talk of term!!! Not to be missed!

UserPaul Robertson.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities Group

The methodological complications and opportunities of video documenting activism in India

UserHeather Plumridge Bedi, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Families Created Through Surrogacy: Is There Cause For Concern?

UserPolly Casey (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities Group

Aesthetics of architecture and geology in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century

UserAllison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Black holes: weather and landscape

UserAlexander Blustin (University of Cambridge; IoA and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

To within minutes of a black hole

First talk of term!

UserProf Andy Fabian.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Intercultural Relations in the late Middle Kingdom in Egypt (1820-1720 BC)

UserDr Bettina Bader, Research Fellow of McDonald Institute for archaeological research.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Magnetism Under Pressure: Using Diamonds to Study Quantum Matter

UserLara Sibley, Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Finance and Economic Growth in a Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model

UserCarolina Troncoso Baltar, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Can worms unlock the secrets of our mind? Automatic quantitative analysis of C.elegans behaviour

UserTadas Jucikas, William Schafer group, Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

What _is_ the Right to Housing?

UserDr. Jessie Hohmann, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Balancing conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon: do win-win solutions really exist?

UserDr Toby Gardner, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

John Bell and the nature of Reality

UserDr Carlos Lobo, Department of Physics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

From Democrats to Kings: the brutal dawn of a new world

UserDr Michael C. Scott, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Sodom and Gomorrah in Archaeology and Cultural Imagination

UserDr Astrid Swenson, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

From the laboratory to the market: how the results of scientific research are transformed into products on the market

First talk of term - All welcome!

UserDr. Franz Wittwer, Strategic IP Manager, BIOTRONIK AG.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: Drug Discovery in the 21st Century

Last talk of term!

UserMax Macaluso, Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Microcephaly genes & the evolution of primate brain size

UserStephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Evo-devo and neo-Darwinism: hostility, synergy or indifference?

Special guest speaker - Professor Wallace Arthur, Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland

UserProfessor Wallace Arthur.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Cuckoo-host arms races

Earlier start time! Talk starts at 1pm

UserDr Justin Welbergen, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 12:45-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

The Superconducting Motor with Its Perspective

First talk of term!

UserRuilin Pei, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Intelligent Polymers.... just add water

UserJameel Zayed, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

How to teach a computer to recognize digits

UserNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

On the use of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine

200th Anniversary of Darwin's Birth - join us for a celebration!!!!

UserNick Darton, Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

From building blocks to systems: where do we go next?

UserSarath Janga, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Schizophrenia: is it all in the mind?

UserDr James Kirkbride, Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Conical cells and pollinator attraction - A bee's eye view of molecular evolution

All welcome to attend!

UserKatrina Alcorn, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Sensing DNA with a Single Pore

First talk of term!

UserLorenz Steinbock, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Tuned passive control of combustion instabilities

UserDan Zhao, Acoustics Lab, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

The role of Insigs in nutritional sensing and fat accumulation

UserRachel Hagen, IMS, Clinical Biochemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Manipulating single electrons in silicon quantum dots

UserMichael Tanner, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Probing thin liquid films at the nanometer scale

UserDavid Barbero (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

IP3 receptor clustering: when togetherness redefines individuality

UserTaufiq-ur-Rahman (University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Boeing 787 vs. Airbus 380

UserSungho Yoon, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Back to The Future: Cell tracing assays to study developmental events in a vertebrate embryo

UserKaterina Bilitou, Department of Oncology, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Some Novel Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

UserXiaozhi Wang, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

UserProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Measuring Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone in the Atmosphere

UserWill Flynn, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

UserSimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Why Galaxy Clusters Ignore Gravity

UserMark Rosin, DAMTP Astrophysics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

UserOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

UserSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Chemistry of Volcanic Plumes

UserTjarda Roberts, Centre for Atmospheric Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

UserProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

The Genetic Code -Insights into its Origin and Evolution

UserHiroyuki Oshikane, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

UserProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Nonverbal Communication and Autism

UserDigby Tantam, University of Sheffield.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

What a fish can do for our sight!

UserElena Dreosti, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Watts up with the ultimate 'green' aircraft?

UserPaul Robertson, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities Group

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

How the camel lost its hump: Tales from the study of semantic disorders

UserKaralyn Patterson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Molecules and Computers

UserAli Shah, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Sciences Group

Massive Nanocrystalline Metals

UserHarry D.K. BHADESHIA PhD, FREng, FRS (Physical Metallurgy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 13:00-13:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

How C. elegans navigate their environment

UserEmanuel Busch (MRC-LMB and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 13:00-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

UserPeter Crane, University of Chicago.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

UserPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities Group

Cancelled talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

UserRaymond Tallis, Manchester University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

UserLionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities Group

Title to be confirmed

UserAstrid Swenson.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

UserMarcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

UserAdrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

UserLudmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities Group

Human-animal relations in the Neolithic Balkans

UserDavid Orton, Darwin College Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Thin films

UserDavid Barbero.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

MI5 and counter-terrorism in the early Cold War

UserCalder Walton, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Using sunlight to save the earth

UserSuil In, Chemistry Department.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Molecules of Cognition

UserTomas Ryan.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Genetic determinism and four-letter words: how unique are unique genomes?

UserGiselle Walker, University Museum of Zoology/ Dept of Earth Sciences/ Darwin College.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

Autonomy in Medical Ethics

UserGemma Mitchell, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Clinical Neuroscience

UserRamez Reda Moustafa.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Machine Learning

UserAnkur Agarwal.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Remote Sensing

UserSarah Hamylton.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

How does a black hole heat up a galaxy?

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, X Ray lab, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Hands-free writing

UserDavid Mackay, Darwin College/Inference Group, Cavendish Lab.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

One third of life's diversity

UserGiselle Walker, Darwin College/ University Museum of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

If I only had a brane

UserCarlos Martins, DAMTP.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Climate Change: The case for burying CO2

UserMike Sheppard, Schlumberger Cambridge Research (Honorary Fellow).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

UserDiana Liverman, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

To be confirmed

UserSian Piper.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

UserCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

To be confirmed

UserRosienne Farrugia.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

UserAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

To be confirmed

UserAmir Chaudhry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

UserJames Jackson, Cambridge University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Cancer and DNA - tying up loose ends

UserPeter Ahnesorg, Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Institute.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

UserRichard Feachem, Global Fund.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Tissue Engineering

UserRachael Walker.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

UserPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Seismic Data

UserTim Sears.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

UserEdith Hall, Durham University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

UserPaul Kennedy, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

TBA

UserMark Shinwell, Darwin.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

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