Featured talks

Anti-cancer drugs for transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

User Maximilian Stammnitz, Transmissible Cancer Group, Cambridge.

Friday 19 October 2018, 17:45-19:10

The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication

User Dr. Avasthi (Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center at the University of Kansas), Dr Brown and Dr. Palfy (preLights) .

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

The fight against malaria using proteasomes

User Dr Paula da Fonseca, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

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

User Alpha Lee.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine

User Dr. Hannah Fry, UCL.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 15 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Nuclear receptors and atherosclerosis

User Dr Ines Pineda Torra, UCL.

Monday 15 October 2018, 18:15-19:15

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

Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency

User Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes

User Andrea Crisanti.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story

User Professor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences .

Monday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

The long-lost Paston Collection

User Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

AI-driven Automated Image Analysis of Biological Data

User Andrea Dimitracopoulos (PDN).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohort

User Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 01 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Your personal list

Simulation for Intelligent Systems

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Vladlen Koltun, Intel.

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

Thursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30

Using Human Studies in Health Research

User Ulla Sovio and Sarah Jackson.

Centre for Research in Contemporary Problems

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

"Rare elements, untraceable toxins": Where is today's Russian foreign policy?

A wine reception will follow the lecture

User Demetrius Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

House Pavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Monday 11 June 2018, 17:30-20:00

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic

User Thomas Moreau and Daniel Ortmann .

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 18:30-20:00

Relativity, Quantum Theory and Cryptography

User Professor Adrian Kent, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 June 2018, 17:45-19:10

Race and gender in the scientific institution: Basic history and analysis.

User Carmen Palacios, Quantum Information and Nanoscale Metrology Group.

Friday 25 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Targeted sequencing for in-depth characterisation of the disease phenotypes

User Kousik Kundu and Tom McKerrel.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI)

The Last Animals - screening and discussion around illegal ivory trade

User Director - Kate Brooks with Professor Bhaskar Vira and Professor Sam Wasser.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre (New Museum Site).

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

User Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Andreas Malm (Lund University).

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

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

Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)

User László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

Monday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Network analysis of large-scale human neuroimaging data

User Rezvan Farahibozorg and Sarah Morgan.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)

User Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

Monday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Future of Solar Cells: Can solar eliminate fossil fuel use in the next 30 years

User Dr Akshay Rao, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

User Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College.

Understanding Dementia - Master of St John's College

User Professor Chris Dobson.

Monday 30 April 2018, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Will Skynet win? Five ways computers write software better than you.

User Simon Chatterjee (Ensoft Ltd).

House Timmy Hele Room, Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Monday 30 April 2018, 19:00-20:00

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

Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade

User Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

The genetics of depression

User Dr Na Cai, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 27 April 2018, 17:45-19:10

House English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?

User Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:30

Organic Bio-Electronic systems: from tissue engineering to drug discovery

User Anna-Maria Pappa and Dr. C. Pitsalidis.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

Innovation Forum

Machine Learning in Healthcare

User Antonio Criminisi (Microsoft Research), Peyman Gifani (AI VIVO).

Monday 23 April 2018, 18:00-21:00

Modelling Complex Behaviours in Rodents

User Julija Krupic (PDN) & Bianca Jupp (Psychology).

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

House English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory

Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)

User Prof. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Monday 26 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

Friday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Miniguts: A System to Understand Intestinal Pathologies

User Dr. Fernanda Schreiber (Sanger) & Dr. Maria Duque (Sanger).

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

Innovation Forum

Innovative Energy Models for a Sustainable Future

User Prof Sir Richard Friend (Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge), Richard De Caux (Head of Refining Analysis, Group Economics, BP), Dr. David Reiner (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge).

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 18:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

User Prof. Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 19 March 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

User Anita Ramanan, Microsoft.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

User Dr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New micro-machines, new materials

User Professor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks

CANCELLED

User Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

Monday 12 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Does aspirin prevent cancer and vascular disease? 40 years of data and controversy

User Professor Peter Elwood, Cardiff University.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:45-19:10

Animal Migration

User Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

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

House Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Beginning of Our Universe and what we don't know about Physics

User Professor João Magueijo, Imperical College London.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Antibodies Vs Alzheimer's

User Dr Francesco Aprile.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 19:30-20:30

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Dive into the Lives of Flies and Ants

User Erika Dona & Danielle Mersch .

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Knotty Maths of Medicine

User Prof. Dorothy Buck, University of Bath, University of Bath.

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 05 March 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Teaching room 2, Old Divinity School, St Johns College.

BioSoc AGM

User N/A.

Monday 05 March 2018, 18:30-19:30

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

A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection

CANCELLED

User Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum).

Monday 05 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Migration in Science

User Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

House Faculty of Law, room LG17 (The David Williams Building, 10 West Road, Cambridge). .

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

Keynes Fund

Keynes seminar: "Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation" - joint with Emmanuel Farhi

Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/yYlnDQqVgBozA1L32

User Jean Tirole (Nobel Laureate, Toulouse School of Economics).

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Keynes Fund

Keynes lecture: "Morality and the Market"

Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/oW2uAF8lR1sLBQUE3

User Jean Tirole (Nobel Laureate,Toulouse School of Economics).

House Lady Mitchell Hall.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

House English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners

User Teresa Bajo, Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour, University of Granada.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

User Dr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship

User Professor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

Monday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge

CANCELLED

User Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

Monday 26 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Partition of India and Migration

User Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

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

Magnetic Resonance on Two Scales for Research into Cell Cycle and Stroke

User Dr. Samuel Furse (Dept of Biochemistry) Dr. Zhongzhao Teng (Dept of Radiology).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Synthesising Molecular Function: Shape Matters

User Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Umney Theatre, Robinson College.

Propaganda porcelain: The mirror of the Russian revolution and its consequences

User Petr Aven.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Epigenetics - Why DNA Is Not Your Destiny

User Dr Nessa Carey, Imperial College, London.

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 19 February 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s

User Caterina Schürch (LMU München).

Monday 19 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Disease Migration

User Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

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

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Structurally unravelling ATP synthase

User Professor John Walker.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 19:30-20:30

House English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account

User Dr. Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry

User Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system

User Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 12 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees

User Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet).

Monday 12 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Refugees and Migration

User Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

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

Just on the Edge

How to Design a 21st Century Economy - with Kate Raworth

User Professor Kate Raworth.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 17:15-19:00

Intravital Imaging – Applications and Image Analysis/ Information session on Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships

User Justyna Rak and Reema Khorshed.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

User Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches

User Dr Nathalia Vriend, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Enhancing the Brain and Wellbeing in Health and Disease

User Prof. Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 05 February 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world

User Simon Werrett (UCL).

Monday 05 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

AI – More than just computers

User Professor Lawrence Hunter.

Saturday 03 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Studying life one cell at a time: single-cell RNA sequencing technology and its applications

User Elo Madissoon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:45-19:10

Art and Migration

User Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

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

House Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

User Professor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

Lessons from a plant virus

User Professor George Lomonossoff.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive

User Professor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics .

Monday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63

User Meira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 29 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immigration and Freedom

User Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

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

Just on the Edge

Entering the Anthropocene: Has humankind already fallen over the edge?

User Tony Juniper.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:15-19:00

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

A Sleepy Start

User Professor Russell Foster .

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Using NanoBiT® Technology to Study Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Cells

User Mr. Andrei Smid (Dept of Medicine) & Dr. Jacek Mokrosinski (IMS).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 18:30-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

It's Not All About The Science

User Dr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

User Dr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 22 January 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building St John’s College.

Herbal Science

User Dr Merlin Wilcox.

Monday 22 January 2018, 19:00-20:00

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

Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century

User Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest).

Monday 22 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Black and British Migration

User Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

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

Translation, Partnership and Impact (lunchtime seminar)

User Dr. Paula Frampton (CATS) & Dr. Vibhuti Patel (Bioscience Impact Team).

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 12:30-14:00

House Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Finding medicine where you least expect it

User Professor Christina Smolke.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Organic Electronics & Science in Industry

User Prof Jeremy Burroughes (Cambridge).

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 18:00-19:30

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Mindfulness Training: Effects on Psychological Distress and Immune Cell Activation Patterns

User Julieta Galante and Lori Turner.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Open Data and the Future of Science

User Professor Dame Sally Davies.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable

User Prof. David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 November 2017, 19:30-21:00

House St John's College - Main Lecture Theatre.

Energy and matter at the origin of life

User Professor Nick Lane.

Monday 27 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian

User Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).

Monday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Change as theme, change as form

User various speakers.

Saturday 25 November 2017, 11:00-15:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Providing Science Advice to the Government

User Sir Mark Walport.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Hunting Monsters

User Dr Darren Naish.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Adaptation and Change

User various performers.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

User Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

Monday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism

User Alex Aylward (University of Leeds).

Monday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

A map in the mind

User Dr Julija Krupic.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Biomaterials for tissue engineering

User Sasha Berdichevski (Dept of Engineering) and Dan Bax (Dept of Material Science).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Living in the Cold

User Professor Llyod Peck.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil History

User Prof. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 13 November 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Iron holds the whale

User Jenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Diamond for quantum technologies

User Benjamin Pingault.

Friday 10 November 2017, 17:45-19:10

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

User Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 19:00-20:30

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Extinction: a natural change?

User Prof Mari Jones (Cambridge University), Prof Amira Bennison, Dr Andrew Bladon.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Energy Storage and Distribution

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 09:45-17:30

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science

User Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Newton's Finger

Location changed (to CMS) | Time 7.45 pm

User Dr Conor McBride - University of Strathclyde.

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

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 19:45-20:45

House Cripps Court, Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road.

BioSoc Internship Event

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 06 November 2017, 19:30-23:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

User Professor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Monday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)

User Catarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa).

Monday 06 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

The ins and outs of mitochondrial pharmacology

User Dr Tom Schirris.

Friday 03 November 2017, 17:45-19:10

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Protein misfolding and aggregation, from test tube to disease

User Tessa Sinnige and Karen Stroobants (Dept. of Chemistry).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case

User Professor Malcolm Longair.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

PhD Information Evening

User Various.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Scientific Challenges of Fusion Power

User Prof. Steven Cowley, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 30 October 2017, 19:30-21:00

House Castlereagh room - St John's College.

Of elephants and men

User Caitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

Monday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

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

Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance

User Andrew Lacey (Making & Knowing Project, Columbia University).

Monday 30 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Collections and Legacies in a time of change

User various speakers.

Saturday 28 October 2017, 11:00-16:15

House Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences.

Science and the world

User Dr Bruce Alberts.

Friday 27 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

User Professor Didier Queloz ( Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge).

Friday 27 October 2017, 17:45-19:10

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Changing Views on Climate Change

User Dr. Sander van der Linden (University of Cambridge), Prof Jaideep Prabhu (University of Cambridge), Prof Eric Wolff (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Bugs, Bites and Parasites

User Professor Janet Hemingway.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

User Professor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

Monday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

How to Share Research Data + Tour of CERN with Higgs Boson Physicist

User Jenny Grant Rankin and Stephen Goldfarb.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges

User Dr Olga Malinkiewicz.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural Sciences

User Prof. Robert Plomin, King's College, London.

House The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 16 October 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850

User Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

The Productivity Paradox: are we too busy to get anything done?

User Various: see full details in abstract.

House McGrath Theatre, St Catharine's College and Pembroke College.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-22:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

User Professor Peter Atkins.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

House Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences.

Stories about life

User Dr Tim Weil.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

User Professor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

Monday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage

User Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Developing ways to image single proteins in living cells

User Srinjan Basu (Dept of Biochemistry) and Aleks Ponjavic (Dept of Chemistry).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Meet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

User Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Comparative genomics to understand the roots of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: find ways to address it

User Prof. Stephen D. Bentley: Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr. Florent Lassalle: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Dr. Marco Galardini: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

Mutational processes in the human genome

User Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Are Animals Musical?

User Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Friday 16 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.

User Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Friday 09 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

User Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

Thursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics

User Melanie Eckersley-Maslin and Christel Krueger (Babraham Institute).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 18:30-20:00

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

User Lord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask

User James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

Monday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours

User Dr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College.

Friday 02 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Do we need to be concerned about the rise of e-cigarettes?

User Dr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit.

Friday 26 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep

User Dr. Aya Ben-Yakov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) and Dr. Anat Arzi (Dept. of Psychology).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Debate: "This house believes that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics will make us happy"

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 22 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)

User Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

The metalsmith of the future

User Dr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath.

Friday 19 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics

User Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story

User Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4

User Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs

User Dr. Mario De Miguel Ramos and Dr. Ewelina Wajs, Department of Engineering.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

User Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

User Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals

User Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

Monday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges

User Dr Nicholas Perentos and Dr Franziska Knolle - Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

Meet the Authors

User TBA.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 24 April 2017, 19:30-21:00

Capitalism on the Edge - What can women do to change how Capitalism works?

User Sue Garrard, Dame Pauline Green, Natasha Landell-Mills.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 17:15-19:00

Transcriptional response to environment in plants: how to deal with variability and redundancy

User Dr. Sandra Cortijo and Dr. Daphne Ezer (Sainsbury Laboratory).

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 18:30-20:00

'Maths vs Disease'

User Dr Julia Gog.

Saturday 25 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Mil Lane Lecture Rooms ML9, Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RW.

Gaia's first data release: the galactic census begins (Cambridge Science Festival 2017)

User Professor Gerry Gilmore.

Friday 24 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

Friday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Single Cell Nucleic Acid Techniques

User Dr. Stephen Clark and Dr Wendi Bacon.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

User Dr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?

User Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 20:00-21:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Environmental diversity of Architecture

User Professor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture.

Monday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)

User James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 13 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

How can we encourage kindness? A perspective from evolutionary biology

User Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:45-19:10

Reporting from Extreme Environments

User Lyse Doucet, BBC.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Time, space and disorder in the expanding protein universe

User Chris Taylor (CRUK) & David Minde (Cambridge Centre for Proteomics).

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Enzyme Engineering

User Alan Berry.

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 19:00-20:00

On the non-computability of conscious thinking

User Prof. Sir Roger Penrose.

House Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 3.

Monday 06 March 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

User Prof. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'

User Charlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum).

Monday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extreme Ageing

User Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

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

Plant cytoskeletons

User Patrick Hussey.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

User Professor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The path to delivering nuclear fusion power

User Dr Fulvio Militello.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology

User Professor Calum A MacRae, Chief of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Monday 27 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

Natural history and the antiquarian

User Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia. (POSTPONED)

User Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Extreme Politics

User Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

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

Organoids - making organs in a dish

User Meri Huch (Gurdon Institute) & Iva Kelava (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Towards earlier diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

User Prof. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence

User Ben Bradley (Charles Sturt University, NSW).

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Bacterial control of their viral parasites through altruistic suicide

User Prof George Salmond, Biochemistry, Wolfson College.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Extremes of the Universe

User Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

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

House Dirac Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

Cancer Research

User Prof Richard Gilbertson.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One

User Dr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science.

Monday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School

User Richard Bellis (University of Leeds).

Monday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Can mobile phones help people quit smoking?

User Dr. Felix Naughton, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of East Anglia.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Extreme Rowing

User Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

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

The Science Behind Mental Health

User Dr Shahid Zaman.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Modelling the human brain: Psychometric and neurodevelopmental perspectives

User Dr Roger Kievit (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) & Dr Lizanne Schweren (Department of Psychiatry).

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Why scientists should also be revolutionaries

User Professor David Nutt.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

User prof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771

User Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Optofluidic Tools to Study Antibiotic Resistance

User Dr. Jehangir Cama, Physics Department, University of Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Dealing with Extremism

User Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

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

Ieso - digital health

User Julian Coe.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices

User Professor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

Monday 30 January 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008

User Sara Peres (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 30 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

User Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

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

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Flow Cytometry: from immunodiagnostics to chemical biology

User Lorinda Turner (Dept. of Medicine) and Maria Matos (Dept. of Chemistry).

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The Science of Climate Change

User Professor Joanna Haigh.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Project Malmo: turning Minecraft into a testbed for the future of AI

User Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 20:00-21:00

Symposium: Nanomedicine

User Sir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 19:00-20:30

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

User Prof. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

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

Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books

User Katrina Maydom (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Extreme Weather

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

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

Politics and Biology

User Dr Julian Huppert.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 19:00-20:00

From Speculative to Sustainable Finance: Can Markets do Good?

User Professor Emilios Avgouleas, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:15-19:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

User Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

User Prof. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

The origin of altruism: Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives

User Dr Dieter Lukas, Dr Antonio Rodrigues, Dr Peter Woodford.

Friday 09 December 2016, 17:45-19:10

House William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Polish Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and Today

User Adam Balcer, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, George Gömöri, Dariusz Karlowicz, Marek Kornat, Jan Kubik, Ewa Ochman, Brian Porter-Szűcs, Aleks Szczerbiak.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 10:00-17:30

Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution

User Marta Costa (Dept. Genetics) and Philipp Schlegel (Dept. Zoology / L.M.B).

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 18:30-20:00

The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explained

User Dr Fernando Gonzalez-Zarba -Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory..

Friday 02 December 2016, 17:45-19:10

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

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

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

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

Capitalism and Inequality: Brexit versus really taking back control

User Professor Danny Dorling (Oxford) and Professor Kate Pickett (York).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

User Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

User Prof. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Murray Edwards College

Closing the Political Ambition Gap

User Susannah Wellford, Running Start, and Belinda Phipps, Chair of the Fawcett Society.

House Kaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College.

Monday 28 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks

User Daniel Simpson (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Monday 28 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Computational Interfacial Chemistry: What do we do ?

User Dr Chao Zhang -Department of Chemistry.

Friday 25 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

An overview of molecular imaging: from macroscopic to microscopic level

User Bangwen Xie (Cancer Research Uk C.I.) and Jerome Boulanger (MRC L.M.B).

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - 103 years of Crystallography: what has it taught us and where will lead us?

User Professor Elspeth Garman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Symposium: Microbiology

User Prof Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Climate change and local wildlife

User Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Monday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer

User Lisa Skogh (Victoria & Albert Museum).

Monday 21 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'Body politics: the dilemmas of regulating new technologies' - policy roundtable and lecture

User Several.

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Friday 18 November 2016, 15:30-19:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

User Professor Lord Robert Mair, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

House Castlereagh Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

Viral assembly

User Prof Peter Stockley.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare and Research

User Dr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 14 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing

User Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

House Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world

User Anja-Silvia Goeing (Visiting Fellow, Harvard University).

Monday 14 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Engineering Dept (LT3), Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Beyond the autopsy: Pathology saving lives in bowel cancer

User Dr Nick West.

Friday 11 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

House Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel

Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm

User Dr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Translating research: commercialisation of ideas and products from University laboratories by life scientists

User Dr Rachel Atfield (Cambridge Enterprise) Dr Paulina Chilarska (Cambridge Biolabs) Dr Jelena Aleksic (Geneadviser) Dr Tim Guiliams (Healx).

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire

User Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

House Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis

User Professor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

An Overview of Blockchain Security

User Nicolas Courtois (University College London).

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

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 19:30-20:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

User Professor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus.

Monday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot

User David Harris Sacks (Reed College).

Monday 07 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Pharmacology Lecture Theatre on Tennis Court Road.

ATP-sensitive K channels and Neonatal Diabetes - from Molecule to New Therapy and Beyond

User Prof Dame Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

Friday 04 November 2016, 20:00-21:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK: ATP-sensitive potassium channels and neonatal diabetes – from molecule to new therapy and beyond.

User Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, Professor of Physiology at Oxford University.

Friday 04 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Skipping between Portals: neutron analysis of membrane protein biogenesis

User Dr Nathan R. Zaccai -Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Friday 04 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Solar Energies

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 09:30-17:30

Can Capitalism be Ethical?

User Dr Rowan Williams ( Master of Magdalene College).

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations

User Dr Christopher Berry, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Co-author of recent gravitational waves paper.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

On the road to traction - lessons learned in the startup world

Room changed

User Dan Greenfield.

House Harrods Room, Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 19:30-20:30

Symposium: Neurobiology

User Prof Ole Paulsen.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

What shapes the human immune system?

User Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787–1810

User Jordan Goodman (UCL).

Monday 31 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Summer Internships Event

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 28 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment

User Dr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology).

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?

User Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the LSHTM.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

The Impact of Infection on Human Genetic and Cultural Evolution

User Prof Sir Peter Lachmann.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

User Prof. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

House Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Sciencing the Sh*t out of Ape Conservation

User Dr Peter Walsh.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

SCISOC TALK - The Roadmap to Applications of Graphene, Layered Materials and Hybrid systems

User Professor Andrea Ferrari, Head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy group.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

OK Computer - teaching machines to write music

User Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 17 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798–1820

User Jessica Ratcliff (Cornell University and Yale-NUS College).

Monday 17 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

PhD event

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Friday 14 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

Eleventh William Pitt Seminar: A Higher Purpose: the role of universities in C21st Britain

To register, or for further information, please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk

User See abstract for speakers.

House Peterhouse Theatre, dinner in Hall in Pembroke.

Friday 14 October 2016, 15:00-22:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history

User Prof. Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Securing computers from highly skilled attackers

User Matthew Garrett.

House Queens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Monday 10 October 2016, 19:30-20:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Chris Lowe, University of Essex.

Monday 10 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Packing dominoes and other shapes

User Professor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics.

Monday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history

User Matthew Wale (University of Leicester).

Monday 10 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Human Curiosities of the Freak Show Era

User Bob Whittaker.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

House Meet at the Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science - Private tour - FULLY BOOKED

User Museum staff.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of diseases

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

LECTURE AND HACKATHON: SPEAKER BALAJI SRINIVASAN, 21.co | HOW BITCOIN ENABLES A MACHINE-PAYABLE WEB

Places are limited, please register and RSVP to n.robinson@jbs.cam.ac.uk

User Balaji Srinivasan, CEO 21.co.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Monday 03 October 2016, 18:00-21:00

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

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED

User Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

Thursday 21 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

Zebrafish as a model to understand development and disease

User Ana Lopez Ramirez and Helena Khaliullina (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

Using Brain Imaging to Evaluate Nutritional Intervention Strategies in Resource Poor Settings

User Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (University of London) and Dr Sophie E. Moore (MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

CRISPR/Cas9 – the good, the bad and the ugly!

User Dr Aisling Redmond (CRUK CI), Dr Florian Merkle (Stem Cell Institute) & Dr Alasdair Russell (CRUK CI).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built Environment

User Professor Max Fordham OBE,RDI,FREng,MA,FCIBSE,Hon FRIBA.

House The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA.

Monday 20 June 2016, 19:00-21:00

House Meet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

User Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Musilanguage in the Cradle

User Dr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London.

Friday 10 June 2016, 17:45-19:10

Cancer: Finding New Targets and Novel Therapies

User Dr Molly Taylor (Astra Zeneca), Dr Chiranjeevi Sandi (Astra Zeneca) & Dr James Lynch (Astra Zeneca) .

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Landing on a Comet

User Professor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

Corporate Psychopaths at Work and in Society

User Professor Clive Boddy, Middlesex University London.

Friday 03 June 2016, 17:45-19:10

Organismal design and causation in social evolution

User Dr António Rodrigues, Department of Zoology.

Friday 27 May 2016, 18:30-19:15

House Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

How Prediction Errors and Schemas Shape our Memories.

User Dr Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Friday 27 May 2016, 17:45-18:30

Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases

User Chris Wilkinson and Tibor Auer.

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 18:30-20:00

Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures

Please register your interest at: reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

User Alison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Jesus College.

House Bentley Room, The Pitt Building.

Monday 23 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance

User Viktoria von Hoffmann (University of Liège / University of Cambridge).

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Behavioural flexibility and problem solving in an invasive bird

User Dr Corina Logan, Department of Zoology.

Friday 20 May 2016, 18:30-19:15

The Psychophysiology of the Vasovagal (Fainting) Response: Mechanisms and Interventions

User Dr Philippe T. Gilchrist, Wolfson College, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 May 2016, 17:45-18:30

Why Mathematical Proof?

User Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) .

House The Parlour | Magdalene College.

Friday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

The Blackett Society

The Science of Sexual Orientation

Open to all, free of charge

User Dr. Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex.

Friday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

User Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.

User Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

User Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here?

User Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities

User Chris Hunt (University of Warwick).

Monday 16 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

The Invention of Consciousness

User Professor Nicholas Humphrey, LSE, New College of the Humanities, Darwin College.

Friday 13 May 2016, 17:45-19:10

Capitalism on the Edge - Capitalism on Stage

User Zoe Svendsen and Paul Mason.

ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:15-19:00

The Emerging Crimmigration Control System

User Professor Ben Bowling, King's College London.

House Faculty of Law, Room LG18, Sidgwick Site.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

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

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism

User Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 09 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Complex Analysis — Simplified!

User Professor Andy Raich, University of Arkansas.

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Friday 06 May 2016, 17:45-19:10

Tagliaferri Lecture - Geography, Globalisation and Governance: The UK Regional (and National) Economic Problem

User Professor Philip McCann.

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 2.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species

User Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University).

Monday 02 May 2016, 13:00-14:15

Checking out NHS Health Checks

User Professor Simon Griffin, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

Friday 29 April 2016, 17:45-19:10

Open Data and Reproducibility

User Dr. Marta Teperek and Dr. Kirstie Whitaker.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 18:30-20:00

Capitalism and human welfare in the hi-tech/hi-touch world

User Lord Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking.

Technology and Democracy Events

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:15-19:00

"Social media and political turbulence"

User Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

House CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

Crop Science and Food security: the productivity, waste and distribution 'trilemma'

User Professor Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences.

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Friday 22 April 2016, 18:00-19:15

Policy considerations for the continual advancement of space activity in the XXI century

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Winstanley Lecture Hall - Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 17:00-19:30

Mind the Gap: Nanotechnology for Molecular Sensing and Nanomedicine

User Dr Jennifer Hare (AstraZeneca) and Dr Seti Kasera (Dept. Of Chemistry).

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.

Places of Amnesia: The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body be a Place of Amnesia?

Free admission

User Dr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 April 2016, 09:00-18:30

House Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.

Places of Amnesia: Unintentional Revelations. Rescuing the Past, Obliquely.

Free admission

User Professor Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA/University of Pisa).

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 09:00-18:30

University of Cambridge - Politecnico di Torino

Biology and bioengineering tools in the treatment of H2020 age-related diseases

User Speakers and their affiliation have been listed in the program below..

House Department of Clinical Neurosciences - Clifford Albutt Building Theatre Lecture Room – Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Book Event: Meet the Authors

User Speakers to be confirmed.

House The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (Hoyle Building) Madingley Road, CB3 0HA.

Monday 04 April 2016, 19:00-21:00

House Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

User Alissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

Hands-On Maths Fair

User Cambridge Science Festival.

Saturday 19 March 2016, 11:30-16:00

House Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

User Organisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS.

Friday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45

Geneses. How frequently does life emerge?

User Markus Ralser and Amaury Triaud.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 18:30-20:00

Churchill's Bomb

User Dr Graham Farmelo,Physicist, Author, Historian.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 14 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

User Professor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking

User Maria Avxentevskaya (Freie Universität Berlin).

Monday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:15

The Game Theory of Conflict

User Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

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

Sequencing Ebola virus in an insect filled tent; how real-time next generation sequencing aided the epidemic response.

User Professor Ian Goodfellow (Division of Virology, Department of Pathology) and Dr Matt Cotten (Sanger Centre).

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 18:30-20:00

Mind the gap: Science broadcasting and public engagement

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Judge Business School, Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Democracy and its Discontents

User Professor John Shattuck, Central European University.

House Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc Talk: Dr Philipp Holliger

User Dr Philipp Holliger.

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 20:00-21:30

Inside the beast: GHC’s intermediate lambda language

User Prof Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 19:45-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

User Dr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)

User Mariana Françozo (Leiden University).

Monday 29 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Games Animals Play

User Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures

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

Investment Arbitration and EU Law

There is no charge to attend but please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mackenzie-stuart-lecture-2016-tickets-19184723023

User Advocate General Juliane Kokott, Court of Justice of the EU.

House Faculty of Law.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-19:00

Beyond the Nuclear Family: An Evolutionary Perspective on Family and Fertility

User Dr Rebecca Sear, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Talks from the CU Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:10

Legal, clinical and regulatory obstacles to establish TCM as an integral part of the official European NHS (and how to solve them)

User Jan Ruzicka, Senior Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (and proud member of Downing College).

House Ramsden Room, St. Catharine's College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RL.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

CAPITALISM ON THE EDGE - Inequality

User Rosamund Urwin (London Evening Standard) and Ben Phillips (ActionAid).

Thursday 25 February 2016, 17:15-19:00

SciSoc Talk: Professor Steve Jones - "Nature, Nurture, or Nietzsche, what genetics can (and cannot) tell us about oursleves"

User Professor Steve Jones.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

User Professor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Monday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century

User Alice Marples (King's College London).

Monday 22 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Games for the Brain

User Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

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

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

Protein Folding Homeostasis

User Professor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 19:30-20:30

Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing

User Dr Catalina Vallejos (MRC Biostatistics Unit & EMBL-EBI) & Dr Antonio Scialdone (EMBL-EBI).

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

Genetic Instability and Cancer Suppression

User Professor Ashok Venkitaraman.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

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

Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics

User Christopher McHugh (University of Sunderland).

Monday 15 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

User Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 12 February 2016, 18:00-19:15

"Losing the New Great Game"

User Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

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

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

User Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

Monday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical

User Geoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester).

Monday 08 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Games in Sports

User Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

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

Science Volunteering in Africa

User Dr Jelena Aleksic and Dr Nicola Yates.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter

User David Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological Application

User Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 01 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664

User Raffaella Bruzzone (University of Nottingham).

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

The beauty and science of nebulae

User Professor Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

Friday 29 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Wittgenstein's Games

User Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

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

Capitalism on the Edge - with Frances O'Grady - Are trade unions essential for reducing income inequality?

User Frances O'Grady, TUC General Secretary.

House Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 17:15-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer by the Numbers

User Professor Simon Tavaré.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc Talk: Dame Julia Slingo

User Dame Julia Slingo.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

User Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

Monday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

User Clare Hickman (University of Chester).

Monday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:15

Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History

User Professor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Friday 22 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

The Game of Crime and Punishment

User Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

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

Ensuring data are Understood

User Dr Jenny Grant Rankin ((Illuminate Education) and Dr Margie L. Johnson (Metropolitan Nashville Public School).

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

User Professor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New Medicines

User Dr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 18 January 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment

User Andrew Wear (University College London).

Monday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:15

Optimizing endurance performance is an intellectual exercise

User Dr Christof Schwiening, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Friday 15 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Personal Principles and the Political Game

User Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

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

'Mathematical Modelling': Maths and paper folding workshop for Year 8 students

User Fran Watson, NRICH.

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

Thursday 10 December 2015, 13:30-15:00

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

User Prof Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

House Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

User Dr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain: Outcomes, mechanisms, and opportunities for intervention

User Dr Whitney Scott, King’s College London.

Friday 04 December 2015, 18:00-19:15

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

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

Free & open to the public

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

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

TBC

User Dr Ross Piper.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol

User Dr Hélène Gautier (PDN) and Dr Leila Muresan (CAIC).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 18:30-20:00

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

User Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

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

From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924

User Emily Hayes (University of Exeter).

Monday 30 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefit

User Professor Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University.

House Meeting Room 3 | Cripps Court | Magdalene College.

Friday 27 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

The Blackett Society

Intellectual Property: Not a Banana. IP for Scientists and Engineers

Open to all, free of charge.

User Matthias Goetz, Associate with White & Case LLP.

Friday 27 November 2015, 17:15-18:15

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Revolutions that made the earth

User Professor Tim Lenton.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

From Kyoto to Paris: A historical perspective on international climate change negotiations

User Dr. David S. Reiner (Proveri Inc.).

House Castle Teaching Room, 4th floor, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, CB2 1AG.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:15-18:30

More is different: Many-body physics with ultracold atoms.

User Dr Ulrich Schneider.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

User Professor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

Monday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

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

Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s

User Dorit Brixius (European University Institute).

Monday 23 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Human embryos: a visual history

User Dr Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 20 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

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

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

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

User Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

TBC

User Dr Julian Huppert.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Biophysical Seminars

Microtechnologies for biomolecular complex analysis and cryo-microscopy

All welcome

User Dr Thomas Burg, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Scisoc talk: Dr David Bainbridge - 'Curvology: the origins and power of female body shape"

User Dr David Bainbridge.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

User Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

How to communicate your research to policymakers

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Newnham College MCR, Cambridge.

Monday 16 November 2015, 16:00-19:00

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

The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England

User Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

Monday 16 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

An introduction to science in policymaking: who, what, why and how?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language

Registration is required for this event

User Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

House Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret Weapon

User Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity

User Professor John Hutchinson.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

User Professor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture

Death Penalty, Drones and Torture

User Clive Stafford Smith - Founder and Director of Reprieve & distinguished human rights lawyer.

House David Li Kwok Po Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Scisoc talk: Dr Ewan Birney - 'Big Data for Basic Research'

User Dr Ewan Birney.

Monday 09 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

User Professor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

Monday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

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

Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800

User Dominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen).

Monday 09 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

jjn1's list

Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional Approach

User Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford.

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 09 November 2015, 12:00-14:00

House Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win.

User Jan Filochowski, Clinical and Professional Adviser at CQC; NIHR; Commonwealth Fund and IHI.

Friday 06 November 2015, 18:15-19:15

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

User Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London).

Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant form

User Professor Ottline Leyser, Sainsbury's Laboratory .

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

User Dr Hugh Lewis.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

User Dr Hugh Lewis.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

User Dr Hugh Lewis.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Talks from the CU Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine

History of Acupuncture as a Modality of Physiotherapy in the NHS

User Ann Beavis.

House Rushmore Room, St. Catharine's College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RL.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

User Professor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France

User Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

Monday 02 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

Rethinking power: new conceptions of power for a better world

User Sam Roskams.

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TA.

Saturday 31 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Future Energy Needs and Engineering Reality

User Professor Michael Kelly ( Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

Friday 30 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

User Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Colloquia on the European Crises: Banks' Stress Tests in the US: Lessons for Europe

Please register on Cambridge-INET website

User Til Schuermann, Partner at Oliver Wyman & Former Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

House LG17, Faculty of Law.

Friday 30 October 2015, 11:00-12:15

House Sainsbury Laboratory Lecture Theatre.

GMOs: beginnings, advancements, new opportunities and public perceptions.

User Professor Sir David Baulcombe and Professor Jerzy Paszkowski.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-00:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Summer Internships Event

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

User Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

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

jjn1's list

Postcapitalism

User Paul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

House Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

User Professor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere

User Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 26 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

User Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

In all ways that matter, women count!

User Dr Wendi Momen MBE.

House Hicks Room, The University Centre Granta Place, Cambridge CB2 1RU.

Monday 26 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

From untied to united: the power of one

User Dr Wendi Momen MBE.

House Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TA.

Sunday 25 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson College, room TBC.

Unravelling the Innovation Mystery

User Anirban Lahiri, Xaar Ltd.

Friday 23 October 2015, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Future of Medicine

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Pattern formation and positional information in development

User Professor Lewis Wolpert.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

"The Uses, Abuses, and Non-uses of Quantitative Models in the British Railway Mania"

User Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota).

House Meade Room, Faculty of Economics.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 11:00-12:30

House The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Dressed to kill: what do infectious disease agents have in their wardrobes?

User Professor Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 19:00-20:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

User Professor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change

User Laura Jane Martin (Harvard University).

Monday 19 October 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

User Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Friday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

When to care for and when to kill another female's offspring

User Dr Dieter Lukas, Department of Zoology.

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Friday 16 October 2015, 18:00-19:15

Being Different: what difference does diversity make?

To register please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk

User Various speakers.

House Peterhouse Theatre, dinner in Hall in Pembroke.

Friday 16 October 2015, 15:00-22:00

jjn1's list

The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement

User John Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH.

House Room B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

House The Eagle, Benet Street, CB2 3QN.

Freshers’ Squash

User N/A.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale

Refreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture

User Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

PhD Event

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Quantum Contextuality: from paradox to computational resource

User Prof. Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 19:30-20:30

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

User Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

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

Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica

User G.A. Cook (University of Hong Kong).

Monday 12 October 2015, 13:00-14:15

House Meet at entrance to Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULL

User Museum guide.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving?

User Prof Sir Timothy Gowers.

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

Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Green Computing

User See event homepage for list of speakers.

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 September 2015, 09:30-17:30

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

User Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

Wednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Remote control of cell signalling using chemogenetics

User Johan Alsio & Bianca Jupp (Department of Psychology).

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

House Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked!

This event is now fully booked

User Dr Nigel Woodcock.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research

User Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Exome Sequencing Methods

User James Hadfield & Oscar Rueda (Cancer Research UK).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project

Please note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels"

User Rod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer.

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

Monday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Effective policy to address the UK's STEM gap: education, immigration and women in science

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Monday 08 June 2015, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

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

Monday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

User Daniel Spielman (Yale).

Monday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Building a Start-up from Cam’lab Research

User Dr. Stone (Novalia) .

Friday 29 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

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

The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education

User Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge).

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Toward cleaner vehicle emissions: catalyst technologies for today and tomorrow

User Dr. York, Johnson Matthey.

Friday 15 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine Learning

User Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf.

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

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:45-17:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

User Dr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

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

Monday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France

User José Beltrán (European University Institute, Florence).

Monday 11 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

House Old Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Analysing Daily Behaviours with Large-Scale Smartphone Data.

User Neal Lathia, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

How much does it cost to save nature?

User Carolina Hazin (BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK).

House The Panton Arms Pub.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

User Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

User Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Junk Yard

User Nessa Carey.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 19:00-20:30

Genetic screening of the human kinome identifies a cellular signalling network predictive of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease & Circadian abnormality in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal models

User Becky Inkster (Dept Psychiatry) & Ko-Fan Chen (Dept Genetics).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 18:30-20:00

The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use"

User For: Drs Nick Brown and Zack Hassan; Against: Drs David Williams and Ewan Harrison.

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

Monday 13 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A Panel

User Sara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research.

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

Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Rare Disease Network

CRDN Launch Event: Parent Entrepreneurship

User Dr Nick Sireau, Ms Kay Parkinson, Dr Will Evans and Dr Cesare Spadoni.

House Cambridge Judge Business School, LT1.

Thursday 02 April 2015, 17:00-20:00

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

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

User Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London.

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

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) – from data acquisition to results interpretation

User Natalia Bulgakova (Gurdon Institute).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

Monday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Mapping the rapid changes in mammalian genome regulation

User Paul Flicek, EMBL - EBI.

Friday 13 March 2015, 18:15-19:15

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

Some essential links between maths and the arts - Cambridge Science Festival (FULLY BOOKED)

User Professor John D Barrow FRS.

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Greece and the eurozone crisis- one crisis, two narratives

User Dr Yiannis Kitromilides.

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Prostacyclin and nitric oxide in vascular biology

User Sir Salvador Moncada.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Title to be confirmed

NB Change of date and venue

User Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material

User Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering.

Monday 09 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

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

Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution

User Petter Hellström (Uppsala University).

Monday 09 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Trinity College Science Society Symposium 2015

User Prof. Brakefield, Prof. Didier Queloz, Dr Arthur Norman and others.

House Winstanley Lecture Theatre.

Sunday 08 March 2015, 10:00-17:45

Technology Development

User Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

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

International Development - Where is the Evidence?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Winstanley Lecture Hall Trinity College.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-19:00