Featured talks

Talk will be postponed

User Dr Anabela Pinto.

Friday 24 April 2020, 17:45-19:00

CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in Africa

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

User Professor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

User Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and Wolfson Explores ✱BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

User Professor Jane Clarke (FRS, President of Wolfson College).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in Antarctica

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festivaand and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

User Professor Lloyd Peck.

Friday 13 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

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

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

Canceled

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

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

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

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

User Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

CANCELLED

User J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change

all are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.

User Prof Martin White, MD FFPH.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

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

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

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

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

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

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

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

CANCELLED

User Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Electronics on the Brain

User George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

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

User Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

User Professor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

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

Like the Back of Your Hand

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

User Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

User James Kent.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

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

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

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

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

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

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

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

User Chris Manias (King's College London).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

"Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"

User Prof Brian Moore, PFBSA, FMedSci, FRS, Dr. h.c..

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

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

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

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

User Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Natural Language Processing for Health

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

User Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Stepping up climate change mitigation

User Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

User Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

User Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

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

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

User Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

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

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

User Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

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

'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900

User Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast).

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

User Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

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

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

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

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

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

CANCELLED

User Max Long (Faculty of History).

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

User Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

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

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

Mathematics vs Dementia

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

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

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

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

User Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

CANCELLED

User Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Exploring underutilised plants and fungi from Colombia to boost its bioeconomy

User Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

Friday 22 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

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

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

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

Is Obesity a Choice?

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

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

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

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

User Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

User Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

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

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

User Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

How to Hunt a Submarine

User Professor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

Monday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

User Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

User Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

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

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

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

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

User Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

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

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

Wataching Molecules in Action

User Professor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

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

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

User Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

User Professor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing: Results of the PuntSeq study

User Dr Lara Urban, Wolfson College..

Friday 25 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

User Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

User Dr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

Friday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

User Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

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

Monday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

User Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis

User Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Understanding flowers and their pollinators: The role of petal texture in the pollination of wild tobaccos

User Dr Gabriela Doria, Wolfson College.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe

User Randall Munroe.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.

User Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 30 September 2019, 19:30-21:00

Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision

User Dr. Clara Novo (Babraham) & Dr. Rodrigo Grandy (SCI).

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

The early origins of the Mortality Revolution: a perspective from evolutionary biology

User Dr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 14 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

User Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

An evolutionary perspective on why health inequalities exist.

User Prof Rebecca Sear ( London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).

Friday 07 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

User Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypotheses

User Dr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases

User Dr. Roberta Azzarelli (MRC) & Dr. Laura Pellegrini (LMB).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England

User James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

How to build a flower: Transformation in plant reproductive development

User Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Friday 17 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

User Dr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)

User Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

How computerized assessment may transform measurement in mental health

User Dr Jan Stochl, Department of Psychiatry.

Friday 10 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Making sense of the world of scents

User Dr. Kelsey J.R.P. Byers (Zoology) & Dr. Erika Pinheiro de Castro (Zoology).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

When is a cow not a cow?

User Harriet Ritvo (MIT).

Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

User Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?

User Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

The politics of the potato in the 19th century

User Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events

User Dr. Peter Baillie-Johnson (SCI), Dr Naomi Moris (Genetics) and Dr David Turner (Genetics).

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 18:30-20:00

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

House Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

User Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Transforming cancer care

User Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

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

Single Cell Multi-Omics Technologies and Applications

User Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger) & Mr Ricard Argelaguet (EMBL-EBI).

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

User Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

User Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

Friday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

House pin Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Dementia and brain ageing in populations

User Professor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Institute for Public Health.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

User Professor Mike Cates.

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

Your personal list

Open Issues in Build Systems

User Ulf Adams, Google.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 10:00-11:00

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

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

User Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

User Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Science of Musical Meaning

User Professor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

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

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

Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9

User Dr. Luca Crepaldi (Sanger) & Dr. Felicity Allen (Sanger).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

User Dr Anne Corcoran.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

User Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

User Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

User Professor Alison Murdoch.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

User Professor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

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

House pin Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Foetal adaptations to adversity and effects on human behaviour

User Professor Jonathan Hill.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

User Professor Danny Dorling.

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

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

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

User A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

Monday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

User John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1

User Professor Paul Murdin.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

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

From Stars to Life

User Dr. Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, LMB) and Dr Claudia Bonfio (LMB).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

User Dr Luke Kemp.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

User Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Does seeing help you to hear better?

User Professor Jennifer Bizley, UCL.

Monday 18 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

User Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Finding the right path: How do multidomain proteins avoid misfolding, and how can women avoid the pitfalls in their scientific career paths?

User Professor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

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

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Language and Artificial Intelligence

User Professor Ann Copestake.

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

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

When algebra meets geometry

User Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Monday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

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

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Wellcome’s role on global health and scientific policy challenge

User Ed Whiting, Director of Policy and Chief of Staff.

Friday 08 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

The power of superconductivity

User Carla Palomares Garcia, Wolfson College.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

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

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

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 Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Nuclear fusion technology

User Colin Walters.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

User Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Room Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets for Quantum Computing: Serendipity or Design?

User David Izuogu, Wolfson College.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

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

Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.

User Professor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

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

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

User Professor Sheila Rowan.

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

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

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

User Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

User Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

The rise of machine learning and its relevance for the natural sciences

User Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, Wolfson College.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:45-19:10

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

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

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

The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification

User Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN) & Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

Learning and memory: a novel insight

User Dr Melanie Stefan.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

House University Museum of Zoology.

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

User Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Volcanic Crystal Clocks and CO2: Transforming our Prospects for Predicting Huge Eruptions

User Dr John Maclennan, Department of Earth Sciences.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:45-19:10

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

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

Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology

User Professor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge..

Friday 07 December 2018, 17:45-19:10

From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disorders

User Dr Karyn Megy Department of Haematology, Wolfson College.

Friday 30 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

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

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

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

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

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

Building with DNA: From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes

User Dr Ryan Brady (Cavendish) and Dr Alexander Ohmann (Cavendish) .

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

User Axel Behrens.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

User Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Epigenetic modifications

User Dr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

User Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

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

House The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Academic Internships event!

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30

From nuclear transfer to prospects for cell replacement therapy: The origins and future of pluripotency and cellular reprogramming

User Professor Sir John Gurdon, The Gurdon Institute.

Friday 23 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

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

Early maternal-fetal interactions

User Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

Non coding RNA and normal botany

User David Baulcombe.

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

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

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

User Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Monday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872

User Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Future developments in healthcare – does cancer lead the way?

User Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Sinews of Sustainable Development Distinguished Speakers Series

Friday 16 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

SYRIA IS A CATASTROPHE. NOW WHAT?

User Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell, MP.

House Talk: The Webb Library, Jesus College, Cambridge University.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:45-19:00

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

New, Intelligent Systems for Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis

User Dr Nicole Wheeler (Sanger) and Dr Joshua Kaggie (Radiology).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century

User Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History).

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

Unraveling the hidden microbial world of the river Cam.

User Lara Urban, European Bioinformatics Institute.

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

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

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

User Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

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

Cryo-EM heats up

User Dr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London.

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

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

Particle Physics & CERN

User Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

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

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

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

User Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century

User Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).

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

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

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

User Aubrey de Grey.

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

In-Network Computing: Your network just got a lot smarter

User Dr Noa Zilberman, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

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

In vivo Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network in Physiological and Pathological Conditions

User Dr. Luca Pellegrinet & Dr. Jessica Hitchcock.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 18:30-20:00

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

Influenza pandemics: past and future

User Wendy Barclay.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters

User Prof. Nick Lane, UCL.

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Lightyears ahead: How the Apollo Guidance Computer pioneered an era of reliable software

User Rob Wills (Ensoft Ltd).

House CUSU Lounge, 17 Mill Lane.

Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-20:30

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

Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685

User Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

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

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

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

User Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinking

User Professor Margaret Stanley OBE.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 17:30-19:00

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

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

User Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

User Dr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

Synthetic biology: host-construct interactions

User Dr Francesca Ceroni, Imperial College, London.

Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

User Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

House Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

Rausing Lecture

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).

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

User Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

House MR2, CMS.

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

Slavonic Studies

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

User Petr Aven.

House Umney Theatre, Robinson College.

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

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

User Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

House MR2, CMS.

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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.

House William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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

Slavonic Studies

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

Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire

User Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

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) .