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Sir Martin Wood Lecture Series

Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metals

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

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Screen Media Group

‘Performance’ (presentations followed by a panel discussion)

UserClare Foster, Prof. Andrew Webber, Dr. Michael Hrebeniak (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

UserProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

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

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

Travel and Expeditions

Dave Cornthwaite: Say Yes More

UserDave Cornthwaite.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 19:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Mathematics and Smallpox

Cambridge Science Festival free public talk

UserProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

UserProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Economics for a Finite Planet

UserProfessor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

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

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

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

EWB Panel Talks Series: Engineering in Emergencies and Challenging Environments

UserProfessor David Alexander, Mr Yu Jia, Dr Kate Crawford, Cambridge Development Initiative.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria?

UserProf Steve Oliver, Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Overcoming peak water: moving to sustainability

UserDr Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, Oakland , California.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Why "shaken but not stirred"?

UserProfessor Richard Zare, Stanford University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Arrival, Settlement and Relationality: the Child in Film

UserProf. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, University of New South Wales.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

UserDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Next generation sustainability at the University of British Columbia

UserProfessor John Robinson, Associate Provost, Sustainability, University of British Columbia.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc - Cambridge University Scientific Society (CUSS)

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

UserProf. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks

What is the most pressing problem facing the developing world today and what are the solutions?

MAP TO VENUE: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5kbaDSqD2fMRFJkQWI5QnV5SnM/edit?usp=sharing

UserMs Kat Harrison, Social Impact & Research Manager of Solar Aid; Mr Brian Sims, Independent Consultant; Mr Stephen Gerrard, PhD student .

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Symposium

UserMany speakers, DPMMS, DAMTP, Dept of Engineering, CCA, Computer Lab.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 24 February 2013, 10:00-17:45

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Nature v. nurture: dissecting the tumour ecosystem

UserProf Gillian Murphy, Department of Oncology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture - Raspberry Pi

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRobert Mullins, Computer Laboratory & Raspberry Pi Foundation.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

STELARC - MEAT, METAL & CODE: THE CADAVER, THE COMATOSE & THE CHIMERA

UserSTELARC, Performance Artist, Chair In Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University, London.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

UserProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Nuclear reprogramming

UserSir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

UserDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

The revolution of capitalism

UserPeter Bakker, Chief Executive of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Brains, Science, and Human Nature

Joint seminar with the Wolfson College Humanities Society

UserProf Simon Blackburn, Trinity College and UNC Chapel Hill.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 18:00-19:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FLOW the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge.

UserDocumentary screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockSunday 03 February 2013, 20:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer

Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!

UserHaley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger

UserBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

UserProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Lewis Society

Renewable Energy

UserProf Chris Howe, Dr Richard McMahon.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub).

ClockSaturday 26 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Panel Debate: Does scientific autonomy harm society?

Free refreshments provided

UserProf Sir Richard Friend, Prof Simone Hochgreb, Prof Harry Collins, and Dr Robert Doubleday,.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Publishing in Nature journals

UserDr Elisa de Rainieri, Nature Communications.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Molecular Programming

UserProfessor Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 18:00-19:00

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Kevin Brownlow: Adventures in Film History

UserKevin Brownlow, film historian and documentary-maker.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

UserProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

9 Billion Mouths to Feed: Should we turbocharge crops to feed the world?

Free refreshments provided

UserProf Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Ben'et Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Great Ink Crisis

UserProfessor Rick Mitchell, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Studentships Event

UserFormer Summer Students & Careers Advisor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster

UserMr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Computing on Encrypted Data

Note change of date

UserProfessor Nigel Smart (University of Bristol).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John Naughton (Vice-President and Director of the Press Fellowship, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers

This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public

UserProfessor John B Thompson (Department of Sociology, Fellow of Jesus College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

EDF R&D: creating value today and preparing for tomorrow

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Filomena La Porta - Head of Smart Energy Supply, EDF Energy R&D UK Centre.

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

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 17:15-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Issues in fuel supply and utilisation

UserDr John C. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?

UserMatias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Using selfish genes to reduce malaria

UserProf. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema

UserProfessor Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge..

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

UserProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics

UserProf. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge).

HouseWinstanly Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Losing your world while falling asleep'

UserDr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour

UserDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

UserProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Beyond film. The many birthdays of the digital age: scanning, 3D and Klimt's 'Nuda Veritas' remixed

UserDr Frederick Baker, Cambridge University & Institute of Creative Media Technology, St Pölten.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Could the ageing be infectious?

UserDr Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

The First Turns of an Embodied Cinema: 'Duncan Grant’s Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound'

UserProfessor Chris Townsend, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

UserProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Inaugural Symposium on Energy Efficiency

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, visit event website: http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/energyefficiency.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 01 October 2012, 09:00-18:30

Cambridge BioDesign

Need and Nature of a New Scientific Revolution

This free public event is running as part of the Cambridge BioDesign Symposium 2012 (www.cambridgebiodesign.org). Admission is free. Tickets will be available on the door. Reserve your place now via http://newscientificrevolution.eventbrite.com.

UserStephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

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

ClockWednesday 26 September 2012, 17:00-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

IQ Gains in the 21st Century

UserProf Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseExperimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 July 2012, 15:00-16:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

NUCLEAR: CLEAR OR UNCLEAR? - CUEN Annual Conference 2012

Sustainability, policy and prospects

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, please visit the conference website: http://cuens.soc.srcf.net/conference12.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2012, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?

UserColm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London.

HouseTBC.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

UserPaul Seidel (MIT).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Please note - pre-booking is not required for this lecture, but please arrive on time for the start of the talk.

UserDr James Grime - University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

damf1's list

The Greek Crisis and the Elections of 2012: The end of chimaerae?

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserDemetrius A. Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePeter Richards Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films made in Virtual Worlds

UserDr Jenna Ng (University of Cambridge), Dr William Brown (University of Roehampton), Prof. Sarah Higley (University of Rochester, NY) and Prof. Lev Manovich (University of California - San Diego).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 11 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Literature, Cinema, Television - Almodóvar and Bresson: Launch Event for the Legenda 'Moving Image' Series

UserPaul Julian Smith (Distinguished Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, CUNY) and Laura McMahon (Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FUTURE of PHOTOVOLTAICS in BUILDINGS

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Hamish Watson - CEO, Polysolar Ltd - Cambridge.

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

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 18:30-19:30

Sir Martin Wood Lecture Series

Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron

UserDr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

UserProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Extracting meaning from text

UserProfessor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 18:00-19:15

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Presentations on Work in Progress in Screen Media

UserChris O'Rourke (University of Cambridge) and Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

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

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

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

GASLAND the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge. Due to the limited number of spaces, please sign up at our webite: www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 20:00-22:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy

UserProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Computational Environment Design for Online Communities

UserProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

UserProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Teorema (Pasolini, 1968): A Roundtable on Film and Literature with Ali Smith, Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli

UserAli Smith, novelist; Prof. Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"

LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912

UserProfessor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia

UserDr Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic.

HouseMorison Room, University Library, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 17:30-18:45

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

A Mathematical Look at the Olympics

UserProfessor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Jet Engine: What Happens If....?

UserDr Ivor Day, Department of Engineering.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CAREERS in ENERGY

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Vince Pizzoni - Executive Search Consultant, Preng and Associates, London.

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

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

The Theory behind TheoryMine

UserProfessor Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh).

HouseMong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Putin, Russia and the West, with documentary makers Brian Lapping and Norma Percy

UserBrian Lapping and Norma Percy, documentary makers.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

UserProfessor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe

Please note change of speaker and title

UserJosé Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Trinity Mathematical Society

TMS Symposium

UserMany speakers, DPMMS, DAMTP, Dept. of Astronomy, Computer Labs.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockSunday 04 March 2012, 10:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Unexpected Side of Entropy

User Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS, Department of Chemistry.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

HOME the movie - screening

The event is free of charge. Due to the limited number of seats available, please sign up at www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 20:00-22:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Open your Mind

UserDr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Regulating the Internet

UserMr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Giving proteins addresses

UserKathryn Lilley, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture - Bloodhound SSC

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRichard Noble OBE.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Canadian Club Events

High Commissioner for Canada to the UK, Mr Gordon Campbell, to speak on 'Canada in a Changing World'

This is the High Commissioner's first official visit to Cambridge. All are welcome to attend.

UserMr. Gordon Campbell, High Commissioner for Canada to the UK.

HouseCambridge Union Society.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The placenta: a remarkable but often neglected organ

User Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

(Failing to) avoid success at all costs: the Haskell story

UserProfessor Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 18:00-19:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Maths in the City

General public, Age range 15+ Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential, please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserRachel Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

UserProfessor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Consciousness at stake: Perspectives from an anaesthetist

UserDr Ram Adapa, Division of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Meta-morphogenesis: Evolution of Mechanisms for Producing Minds

Due to unfortunate medical problems Prof. Sloman is unavailable to give this talk. A new speaker, Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Josephson will be giving a replacement talk, details can be found here: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/36113

UserProfessor Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockFriday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Screening of FUEL - the documentary

This event is FREE of charge. Due to limited spaces available, please SIGN UP at http://www.cuen.org.uk/

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseClubroom, Wolfson College (Barton Road).

ClockMonday 12 December 2011, 20:00-22:00

Arcadia Lectures

Revolutions (and Elephants) in the Library: the Third Arcadia Lecture

Please email Michelle Heydon (mh569@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend

UserProfessor Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queen's Road.

ClockFriday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:50

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

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

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

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

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Unsupervised Machine Learning and Linguistics

Last talk of term

UserProfessor Alex Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

The Meaning of Liberal Learning

UserRight Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education.

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Michael Pollitt - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses

UserProfessor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Passion, Energy and Matter: Godard's Gestures

UserDr. Libby Saxton, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd and previous interns.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

UserProfessor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Film critic Anthony Lane on Jean Renoir's 'Partie de campagne' and Maupassant

UserAnthony Lane, Film Critic and Staff Writer for the New Yorker.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

How nature might influence nurture

UserProfessor Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Cyber Warfare

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

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Distraction and Remediation in British Transmedia Campaigns of the Nineties and Noughties

UserDr Emily Caston, London College of Communication, University of the Arts.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

UserVivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Communication with a single button

UserDr Patrick Welche, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

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

UserProf Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Event

UserPhD students and others.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Indexicality, Sensuousness and Intimacy in Film

UserProf. Emma Wilson (Cambridge) and Francesca Hardy (Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

The Impact of Silent Films: Kevin Brownlow at the Arts Picturehouse

UserKevin Brownlow, film historian, filmmaker and television documentary-maker.

HouseThe Arts Picturehouse.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Talking to Terrorists

UserJonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge (Behind The Eagle pub).

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

Social Anthropology

Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India

UserProfessor Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Rubik's Planet; Global Consequences of Nanoscale Phenomena

UserDr Dr Christopher Forman, Institute for Manufacturing.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 18:00-19:15

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Pembroke College William Pitt Seminar: the future of the World in four objects

Please contact Jane Moorman, jm596@cam.ac.uk, if you are interested in attending. Places are limited.

UserChair: Mark Damazer.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College, 4 pm (refreshments from 3.15 pm) followed by dinner in Pembroke College at 8 pm.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 16:00-21:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

Lady Margaret Lectures

Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviour

Arranged in conjunction with the Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund

UserProfessor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics

UserDr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Literature and Film in the First Media Age

UserProf. David Trotter, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX..

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:00-19:00

Arcadia Project Seminars

Why Communicate?

UserDr Richard Harper, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 17:45-19:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Gale Force: Offshore Wind Power - 2011 CUEN Annual Conference

UserElke Delnooz (Operation Support Manager, Shell/NordZee Wind); Stephanie McGregor (Director of Offshore Transmission, Ofgem); Richard McMahon (Electricity, Power and Energy Conversion Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) and others.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 09:00-18:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

UserProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease

UserProfessor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 19:30-20:30

Arcadia Project Seminars

Google, Crowds and Mobs

UserTom Simpson, Department of Philosophy, Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 18:00-19:15

damf1's list

Pandaemonium Continued: Will the Greek Financial Crisis Undermine the Euro?

A wine reception will follow the seminar

UserDemetrius A. Floudas,Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

HousePavillion Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 17:45-19:45

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Nature of Empathy: Perspectives from Psychiatry

UserProf. Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 03 June 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in the service of the developing world

This lecture is now fully booked.

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

HouseJudge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Bananas, bandits and biology on the high seas

UserDr Anna Snowdon, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Nanotechnology: Science or Fiction?

UserDr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 18:00-19:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

UserPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Zero Degrees of Empathy

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Postponed

UserProf Sir Martin Evans.

HousePostponed.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 20:00-21:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

UserTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

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

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

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

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

UserProfessor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Director-General of the BBC

UserMark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Why We Resist The Truth

UserClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

HouseMichaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Sir Richard Dearlove

UserSir Richard Dearlove.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Fabric Formed Concrete: Studies of a Disruptive Technology

UserProfessor Remo Pedreschi Professor of Architectural Technology, Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE), University of Edinburgh.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserSusan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

YES! to Fairer Votes

Referendum Debate

UserVoting YES: Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy. Voting NO: Richard Normington, Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate..

HouseSt. Lukes United Reform Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Bird tango

UserProfessor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseNewnham College.

ClockSunday 27 March 2011, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

You are what you hear: music and the brain

UserDr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockFriday 25 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers

UserProfessor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Is evolution predictable?

UserProfessor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

High Temperature Superconductors

Venue back to normal

UserProfessor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector

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

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm

UserProf. David Banister Professor of Transport Studies and Director of the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 13:15-14:15

Arcadia Project Seminars

Reinventing the Book

UserDr Max Whitby, CEO of Touch Press.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

UserProfessor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Have I got path for you...?

UserProf. Alun Williams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

UserProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

This Time it Will be Different

UserSir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Urban Metabolism at MIT

UserProf. John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Building Technology, Architecture Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Emergencies

Talk open to All - Registration required for reception

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

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Platforms and Displacement as Design Strategy

UserJohn Sergeant Former Lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Untangling Alzheimer's disease

UserMr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency

UserMargareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

A Future for Urban Design

UserDr. Patrick Malone. Director of Arcitalia, Italy. Former Director of Masters Course in Urban Design, University of Manchester.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

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

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

UserGodfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

mlg42's list

Uncertain Climate: Risk in the Media

lively discussion!

UserRoger Harrabin, BBC Chief environmental analyst.

House The Coleridge Room, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 17:30-18:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE

UserDr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks

UserProfessor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Simulating Historic Landscapes - Beckford's Ride

UserProf. Paul Richens Professor of Architectural Computing, Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture, University of Bath.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 13:15-14:15

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

2050 Pathways: Kicking the fossil fuel habit

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (it's free).

UserProf David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change / Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.

UserProfessor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 29 January 2011, 10:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

Market Square: Cambridge Business and Society Interdisciplinary Research Group

Mutualising the Market: Could the 'Big Society' transform business and finance?

Limited seats are available for dinner with the speaker. Please e-mail us if you’re interested.

UserDr. Adrian Pabst, Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent.

HouseCastle Teaching Room, 4th floor, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, CB2 1AG.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 17:15-18:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

From Terra Nullius to Terra Incognita and Back: Israeli Architect in Africa 1956-1973

UserDr. Haim Yacobi Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:15-14:15

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