"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Using Human Studies in Health Research

Ulla Sovio and Sarah Jackson.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Centre for Research in Contemporary Problems

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

A wine reception will follow the lecture

Demetrius Floudas, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Pavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic

Thomas Moreau and Daniel Ortmann .

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Relativity, Quantum Theory and Cryptography

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Carmen Palacios, Quantum Information and Nanoscale Metrology Group.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Targeted sequencing for in-depth characterisation of the disease phenotypes

Kousik Kundu and Tom McKerrel.

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

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

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

Babbage Lecture Theatre (New Museum Site).

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

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

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

Andreas Malm (Lund University).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Network analysis of large-scale human neuroimaging data

Rezvan Farahibozorg and Sarah Morgan.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Dr Akshay Rao, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

MR2, CMS.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Understanding Dementia - Master of St John's College

Professor Chris Dobson.

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

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.

Simon Chatterjee (Ensoft Ltd).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The genetics of depression

Dr Na Cai, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?

Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

Anna-Maria Pappa and Dr. C. Pitsalidis.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Innovation Forum

Machine Learning in Healthcare

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

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Modelling Complex Behaviours in Rodents

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Miniguts: A System to Understand Intestinal Pathologies

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

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

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

Innovation Forum

Innovative Energy Models for a Sustainable Future

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).

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

Prof. Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

Anita Ramanan, Microsoft.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks

CANCELLED

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Professor Peter Elwood, Cardiff University.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

Professor João Magueijo, Imperical College London.

Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Antibodies Vs Alzheimer's

Dr Francesco Aprile.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Dive into the Lives of Flies and Ants

Erika Dona & Danielle Mersch .

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Knotty Maths of Medicine

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

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

BioSoc AGM

N/A.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

CANCELLED

Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

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

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

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

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

Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

CANCELLED

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Synthesising Molecular Function: Shape Matters

Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol.

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

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

Slavonic Studies

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

Petr Aven.

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

Dr Nessa Carey, Imperial College, London.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Caterina Schürch (LMU München).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structurally unravelling ATP synthase

Professor John Walker.

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

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Just on the Edge

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

Professor Kate Raworth.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

Justyna Rak and Reema Khorshed.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches

Dr Nathalia Vriend, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Prof. Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Simon Werrett (UCL).

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

AI – More than just computers

Professor Lawrence Hunter.

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Elo Madissoon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

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

Wolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Lessons from a plant virus

Professor George Lomonossoff.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Just on the Edge

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

Tony Juniper.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

A Sleepy Start

Professor Russell Foster .

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

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

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

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

Dr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc.

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Herbal Science

Dr Merlin Wilcox.

Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building St John’s College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Translation, Partnership and Impact (lunchtime seminar)

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Finding medicine where you least expect it

Professor Christina Smolke.

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

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

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Organic Electronics & Science in Industry

Prof Jeremy Burroughes (Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

Julieta Galante and Lori Turner.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Open Data and the Future of Science

Professor Dame Sally Davies.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable

Prof. David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Energy and matter at the origin of life

Professor Nick Lane.

St John's College - Main Lecture Theatre.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).

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

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

Magdalene Festival of Change

Change as theme, change as form

various speakers.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Providing Science Advice to the Government

Sir Mark Walport.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Hunting Monsters

Dr Darren Naish.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

Magdalene Festival of Change

Adaptation and Change

various performers.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Alex Aylward (University of Leeds).

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

A map in the mind

Dr Julija Krupic.

Lightfoot Room - St John's College.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Biomaterials for tissue engineering

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Living in the Cold

Professor Llyod Peck.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Prof. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Diamond for quantum technologies

Benjamin Pingault.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

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

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

Magdalene Festival of Change

Extinction: a natural change?

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

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Energy Storage and Distribution

See event homepage for list of speakers.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Dr Conor McBride - University of Strathclyde.

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

BioSoc Internship Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Catarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The ins and outs of mitochondrial pharmacology

Dr Tom Schirris.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Protein misfolding and aggregation, from test tube to disease

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case

Professor Malcolm Longair.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Evening

Various.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Scientific Challenges of Fusion Power

Prof. Steven Cowley, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Of elephants and men

Caitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

Castlereagh room - St John's College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Magdalene Festival of Change

Collections and Legacies in a time of change

various speakers.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Science and the world

Dr Bruce Alberts.

Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Magdalene Festival of Change

Changing Views on Climate Change

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

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bugs, Bites and Parasites

Professor Janet Hemingway.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

Jenny Grant Rankin and Stephen Goldfarb.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges

Dr Olga Malinkiewicz.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

'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

Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

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

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

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

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

Various: see full details in abstract.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

Professor Peter Atkins.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Stories about life

Dr Tim Weil.

Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Developing ways to image single proteins in living cells

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

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

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Are Animals Musical?

Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.

Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

MR2, CMS.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours

Dr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Dr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The metalsmith of the future

Dr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

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

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

Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

TBA.

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

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

Capitalism on the Edge

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

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

Murray Edwards College.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

'Maths vs Disease'

Dr Julia Gog.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

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

Professor Gerry Gilmore.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Single Cell Nucleic Acid Techniques

Dr. Stephen Clark and Dr Wendi Bacon.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?

Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

How can we encourage kindness? A perspective from evolutionary biology

Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reporting from Extreme Environments

Lyse Doucet, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Time, space and disorder in the expanding protein universe

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

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Enzyme Engineering

Alan Berry.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

On the non-computability of conscious thinking

Prof. Sir Roger Penrose.

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

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Charlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Plant cytoskeletons

Patrick Hussey.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The path to delivering nuclear fusion power

Dr Fulvio Militello.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia. (POSTPONED)

Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Organoids - making organs in a dish

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Towards earlier diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Ben Bradley (Charles Sturt University, NSW).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Bacterial control of their viral parasites through altruistic suicide

Prof George Salmond, Biochemistry, Wolfson College.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cancer Research

Prof Richard Gilbertson.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School

Richard Bellis (University of Leeds).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Can mobile phones help people quit smoking?

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

The Science Behind Mental Health

Dr Shahid Zaman.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Modelling the human brain: Psychometric and neurodevelopmental perspectives

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why scientists should also be revolutionaries

Professor David Nutt.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Optofluidic Tools to Study Antibiotic Resistance

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Ieso - digital health

Julian Coe.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Flow Cytometry: from immunodiagnostics to chemical biology

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Science of Climate Change

Professor Joanna Haigh.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Nanomedicine

Sir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Politics and Biology

Dr Julian Huppert.

Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

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

Capitalism on the Edge

From Speculative to Sustainable Finance: Can Markets do Good?

Professor Emilios Avgouleas, University of Edinburgh.

Murray Edwards College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Slavonic Studies

Polish Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and Today

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

William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explained

Dr Fernando Gonzalez-Zarba -Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory..

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

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

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

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

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism and Inequality: Brexit versus really taking back control

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

Murray Edwards College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

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

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

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

Kaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks

Daniel Simpson (Royal Holloway, University of London).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Computational Interfacial Chemistry: What do we do ?

Dr Chao Zhang -Department of Chemistry.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

An overview of molecular imaging: from macroscopic to microscopic level

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Microbiology

Prof Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis.

St John's College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer

Lisa Skogh (Victoria & Albert Museum).

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

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

Several.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Viral assembly

Prof Peter Stockley.

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

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

Dr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute.

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

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Beyond the autopsy: Pathology saving lives in bowel cancer

Dr Nick West.

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

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

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

Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

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

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

Lady Margaret Lectures

Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire

Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis

Professor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

An Overview of Blockchain Security

Nicolas Courtois (University College London).

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

David Harris Sacks (Reed College).

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

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

Prof Dame Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre on Tennis Court Road.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Skipping between Portals: neutron analysis of membrane protein biogenesis

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Solar Energies

See event homepage for list of speakers.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

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

Capitalism on the Edge

Can Capitalism be Ethical?

Dr Rowan Williams ( Master of Magdalene College).

Murray Edwards College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Dan Greenfield.

Harrods Room, Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Neurobiology

Prof Ole Paulsen.

St John's College.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Jordan Goodman (UCL).

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Internships Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

St John's College.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

The Impact of Infection on Human Genetic and Cultural Evolution

Prof Sir Peter Lachmann.

St John's College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Sciencing the Sh*t out of Ape Conservation

Dr Peter Walsh.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

OK Computer - teaching machines to write music

Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck.

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD event

Speaker to be confirmed.

St John's College.

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

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

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

See abstract for speakers.

Peterhouse Theatre, dinner in Hall in Pembroke.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

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

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

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Securing computers from highly skilled attackers

Matthew Garrett.

Queens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Chris Lowe, University of Essex.

St John's College.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Matthew Wale (University of Leicester).

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Human Curiosities of the Freak Show Era

Bob Whittaker.

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

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

Museum staff.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of diseases

Speaker to be confirmed.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

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

Balaji Srinivasan, CEO 21.co.

Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge Judge Business School.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED

Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Zebrafish as a model to understand development and disease

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built Environment

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

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Musilanguage in the Cradle

Dr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Cancer: Finding New Targets and Novel Therapies

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Corporate Psychopaths at Work and in Society

Professor Clive Boddy, Middlesex University London.

Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Organismal design and causation in social evolution

Dr António Rodrigues, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

How Prediction Errors and Schemas Shape our Memories.

Dr Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases

Chris Wilkinson and Tibor Auer.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures

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

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

Bentley Room, The Pitt Building.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Behavioural flexibility and problem solving in an invasive bird

Dr Corina Logan, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

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

MR2, CMS.

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

The Blackett Society

The Science of Sexual Orientation

Open to all, free of charge

Dr. Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex.

The Parlour | Magdalene College.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

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

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

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

Scott Lectures

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

Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

Chris Hunt (University of Warwick).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Invention of Consciousness

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

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism on the Edge - Capitalism on Stage

Zoe Svendsen and Paul Mason.

Murray Edwards College.

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

ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

The Emerging Crimmigration Control System

Professor Ben Bowling, King's College London.

Faculty of Law, Room LG18, Sidgwick Site.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

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

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Complex Analysis — Simplified!

Professor Andy Raich, University of Arkansas.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

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

Professor Philip McCann.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 2.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species

Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Checking out NHS Health Checks

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

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Open Data and Reproducibility

Dr. Marta Teperek and Dr. Kirstie Whitaker.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Capitalism on the Edge

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

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

Murray Edwards College.

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

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

Professor Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

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

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Mind the Gap: Nanotechnology for Molecular Sensing and Nanomedicine

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Slavonic Studies

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

Free admission

Dr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge).

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.

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

Slavonic Studies

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

Free admission

Professor Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA/University of Pisa).

Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.

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

University of Cambridge - Politecnico di Torino

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Book Event: Meet the Authors

Speakers to be confirmed.

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

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

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

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

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

Hands-On Maths Fair

Cambridge Science Festival.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

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

Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Geneses. How frequently does life emerge?

Markus Ralser and Amaury Triaud.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Churchill's Bomb

Dr Graham Farmelo,Physicist, Author, Historian.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking

Maria Avxentevskaya (Freie Universität Berlin).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

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

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

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Mind the gap: Science broadcasting and public engagement

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2, Judge Business School, Cambridge.

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

Lady Margaret Lectures

Democracy and its Discontents

Professor John Shattuck, Central European University.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dr Philipp Holliger

Dr Philipp Holliger.

LT1, Department of Engineering.

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

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Inside the beast: GHC’s intermediate lambda language

Prof Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

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

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)

Mariana Françozo (Leiden University).

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures

Investment Arbitration and EU Law

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

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

Faculty of Law.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

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

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

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

Talks from the CU Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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

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

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

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

Capitalism on the Edge

CAPITALISM ON THE EDGE - Inequality

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

Murray Edwards College.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 17:15-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Steve Jones - "Nature, Nurture, or Nietzsche, what genetics can (and cannot) tell us about oursleves"

Professor Steve Jones.

LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

Professor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

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

Monday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century

Alice Marples (King's College London).

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

Monday 22 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein Folding Homeostasis

Professor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 19:30-20:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing

Dr Catalina Vallejos (MRC Biostatistics Unit & EMBL-EBI) & Dr Antonio Scialdone (EMBL-EBI).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Genetic Instability and Cancer Suppression

Professor Ashok Venkitaraman.

LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics

Christopher McHugh (University of Sunderland).

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

Friday 12 February 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

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

Monday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical

Geoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester).

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

Monday 08 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Science Volunteering in Africa

Dr Jelena Aleksic and Dr Nicola Yates.

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter

David Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological Application

Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University.

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

Monday 01 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664

Raffaella Bruzzone (University of Nottingham).

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

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The beauty and science of nebulae

Professor Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

Friday 29 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Capitalism on the Edge

Capitalism on the Edge - with Frances O'Grady - Are trade unions essential for reducing income inequality?

Frances O'Grady, TUC General Secretary.

Murray Edwards College.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 17:15-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer by the Numbers

Professor Simon Tavaré.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Julia Slingo

Dame Julia Slingo.

LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

Clare Hickman (University of Chester).

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

Monday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History

Professor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Ensuring data are Understood

Dr Jenny Grant Rankin ((Illuminate Education) and Dr Margie L. Johnson (Metropolitan Nashville Public School).

Postdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

Professor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New Medicines

Dr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca.

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

Monday 18 January 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment

Andrew Wear (University College London).

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

Monday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Optimizing endurance performance is an intellectual exercise

Dr Christof Schwiening, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 15 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

'Mathematical Modelling': Maths and paper folding workshop for Year 8 students

Fran Watson, NRICH.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 13:30-15:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

Prof Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

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

Monday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain: Outcomes, mechanisms, and opportunities for intervention

Dr Whitney Scott, King’s College London.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

Friday 04 December 2015, 18:00-19:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

TBC

Dr Ross Piper.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol

Dr Hélène Gautier (PDN) and Dr Leila Muresan (CAIC).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924

Emily Hayes (University of Exeter).

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

Monday 30 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefit

Professor Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

Friday 27 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

The Blackett Society

Intellectual Property: Not a Banana. IP for Scientists and Engineers

Open to all, free of charge.

Matthias Goetz, Associate with White & Case LLP.

Meeting Room 3 | Cripps Court | Magdalene College.

Friday 27 November 2015, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Revolutions that made the earth

Professor Tim Lenton.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

From Kyoto to Paris: A historical perspective on international climate change negotiations

Dr. David S. Reiner (Proveri Inc.).

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:15-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

More is different: Many-body physics with ultracold atoms.

Dr Ulrich Schneider.

LT1, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

Professor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

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

Monday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s

Dorit Brixius (European University Institute).

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

Monday 23 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Human embryos: a visual history

Dr Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wolfson College, Old Combination Room.

Friday 20 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

TBC

Dr Julian Huppert.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Biophysical Seminars

Microtechnologies for biomolecular complex analysis and cryo-microscopy

All welcome

Dr Thomas Burg, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr David Bainbridge - 'Curvology: the origins and power of female body shape"

Dr David Bainbridge.

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

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

Monday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

How to communicate your research to policymakers

Speaker to be confirmed.

Newnham College MCR, Cambridge.

Monday 16 November 2015, 16:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England

Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

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

Monday 16 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

An introduction to science in policymaking: who, what, why and how?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language

Registration is required for this event

Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret Weapon

Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity

Professor John Hutchinson.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage

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

Professor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture

Death Penalty, Drones and Torture

Clive Stafford Smith - Founder and Director of Reprieve & distinguished human rights lawyer.

David Li Kwok Po Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Ewan Birney - 'Big Data for Basic Research'

Dr Ewan Birney.

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Monday 09 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

Professor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

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

Monday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800

Dominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen).

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

Monday 09 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

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Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional Approach

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford.

Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Monday 09 November 2015, 12:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win.

Jan Filochowski, Clinical and Professional Adviser at CQC; NIHR; Commonwealth Fund and IHI.

Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

Friday 06 November 2015, 18:15-19:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London).

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

Thursday 05 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant form

Professor Ottline Leyser, Sainsbury's Laboratory .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

Dr Hugh Lewis.

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

Dr Hugh Lewis.

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'

Dr Hugh Lewis.

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Talks from the CU Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine

History of Acupuncture as a Modality of Physiotherapy in the NHS

Ann Beavis.

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

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

Professor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France

Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 02 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

Rethinking power: new conceptions of power for a better world

Sam Roskams.

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TA.

Saturday 31 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Future Energy Needs and Engineering Reality

Professor Michael Kelly ( Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

Friday 30 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

Colloquia on the European Crises: Banks' Stress Tests in the US: Lessons for Europe

Please register on Cambridge-INET website

Til Schuermann, Partner at Oliver Wyman & Former Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

LG17, Faculty of Law.

Friday 30 October 2015, 11:00-12:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

GMOs: beginnings, advancements, new opportunities and public perceptions.

Professor Sir David Baulcombe and Professor Jerzy Paszkowski.

Sainsbury Laboratory Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-00:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Internships Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

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Postcapitalism

Paul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

Professor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere

Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

Monday 26 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

In all ways that matter, women count!

Dr Wendi Momen MBE.

Hicks Room, The University Centre Granta Place, Cambridge CB2 1RU.

Monday 26 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

From untied to united: the power of one

Dr Wendi Momen MBE.

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TA.

Sunday 25 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Unravelling the Innovation Mystery

Anirban Lahiri, Xaar Ltd.

Wolfson College, room TBC.

Friday 23 October 2015, 18:15-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Future of Medicine

Speaker to be confirmed.

Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Pattern formation and positional information in development

Professor Lewis Wolpert.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics

"The Uses, Abuses, and Non-uses of Quantitative Models in the British Railway Mania"

Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota).

Meade Room, Faculty of Economics.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to kill: what do infectious disease agents have in their wardrobes?

Professor Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford.

The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 19:00-20:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

Professor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change

Laura Jane Martin (Harvard University).

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

Monday 19 October 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

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

Friday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

When to care for and when to kill another female's offspring

Dr Dieter Lukas, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 16 October 2015, 18:00-19:15

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Being Different: what difference does diversity make?

To register please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk

Various speakers.

Peterhouse Theatre, dinner in Hall in Pembroke.

Friday 16 October 2015, 15:00-22:00

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The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement

John Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH.

Room B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Friday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Freshers’ Squash

N/A.

The Eagle, Benet Street, CB2 3QN.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale

Refreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture

Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Quantum Contextuality: from paradox to computational resource

Prof. Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

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

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

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

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica

G.A. Cook (University of Hong Kong).

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

Monday 12 October 2015, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULL

Museum guide.

Meet at entrance to Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving?

Prof Sir Timothy Gowers.

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

Thursday 01 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Green Computing

See event homepage for list of speakers.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 September 2015, 09:30-17:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Remote control of cell signalling using chemogenetics

Johan Alsio & Bianca Jupp (Department of Psychology).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked!

This event is now fully booked

Dr Nigel Woodcock.

Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research

Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Exome Sequencing Methods

James Hadfield & Oscar Rueda (Cancer Research UK).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project

Please note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels"

Rod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer.

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

Monday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Effective policy to address the UK's STEM gap: education, immigration and women in science

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Chemistry (Pfizer lecture theatre).

Monday 08 June 2015, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

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

Monday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

Daniel Spielman (Yale).

MR2, CMS.

Monday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Building a Start-up from Cam’lab Research

Dr. Stone (Novalia) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 29 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education

Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Toward cleaner vehicle emissions: catalyst technologies for today and tomorrow

Dr. York, Johnson Matthey.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 15 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf.

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

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:45-17:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

Dr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

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

Monday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France

José Beltrán (European University Institute, Florence).

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

Monday 11 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Analysing Daily Behaviours with Large-Scale Smartphone Data.

Neal Lathia, Computer Laboratory.

Old Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 01 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

How much does it cost to save nature?

Carolina Hazin (BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK).

The Panton Arms Pub.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

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

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Junk Yard

Nessa Carey.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 19:00-20:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Genetic screening of the human kinome identifies a cellular signalling network predictive of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease & Circadian abnormality in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal models

Becky Inkster (Dept Psychiatry) & Ko-Fan Chen (Dept Genetics).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use"

For: Drs Nick Brown and Zack Hassan; Against: Drs David Williams and Ewan Harrison.

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

Monday 13 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A Panel

Sara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research.

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

Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Rare Disease Network

CRDN Launch Event: Parent Entrepreneurship

Dr Nick Sireau, Ms Kay Parkinson, Dr Will Evans and Dr Cesare Spadoni.

Cambridge Judge Business School, LT1.

Thursday 02 April 2015, 17:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)

Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:00-20:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) – from data acquisition to results interpretation

Natalia Bulgakova (Gurdon Institute).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

Speaker to be confirmed.

Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

Monday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Mapping the rapid changes in mammalian genome regulation

Paul Flicek, EMBL - EBI.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 13 March 2015, 18:15-19:15

Millennium Maths Project public and schools' events

Some essential links between maths and the arts - Cambridge Science Festival (FULLY BOOKED)

Professor John D Barrow FRS.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Greece and the eurozone crisis- one crisis, two narratives

Dr Yiannis Kitromilides.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prostacyclin and nitric oxide in vascular biology

Sir Salvador Moncada.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

NB Change of date and venue

Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material

Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering.

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution

Petter Hellström (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Trinity College Science Society Symposium 2015

Prof. Brakefield, Prof. Didier Queloz, Dr Arthur Norman and others.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre.

Sunday 08 March 2015, 10:00-17:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

International Development - Where is the Evidence?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Winstanley Lecture Hall Trinity College.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones

Prof. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 19:00-20:30

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Peptides as drugs and tools to study biological systems

Emma Cahill (Dept Psychology) & Albert Isidro-Llobet (GSK).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Grand challenges facing scientists and Nature

Dr Philip Campbell.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations

Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800

Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society

"To Light a Candle"

Cambridge University Bahá'í Society.

Science Lecture Room (S106), Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, CB2 8PE.

Friday 27 February 2015, 19:00-21:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

From Bench to Books: writing science books for children

Tiffany Taylor.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 27 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase

Professor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Measuring housing prices over the long run (correctly) – an index for Dublin 1900-2015

Dr Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Defects in materials and how to describe them

Sir John Ball, University of Oxford.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

Claire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Trinity Mathematical Society

Trinity Mathematical Society Symposium 2015

The Symposium is Open to All

Dr. Nathalie Vriend, Dr. Jonathan Nelson, Prof. Ross Anderson, Dr. Robert Brady and others.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Sunday 22 February 2015, 10:00-17:45