Director-General of the BBC

Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.

Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

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

Sir Richard Dearlove

Sir Richard Dearlove.

Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

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

The Beauty of Data Visualization

David McCandless.

Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 18:30-20:00

Driving innovation into application: the passion behind creating a Biotechnology company

Professor Chris Lowe.

Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 18:30-20:00

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency

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

Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

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

London 2012 Olympic Games

Denis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission.

Judge Business School, LT2.

Friday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media

Anthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Entrepreneurship Revealed: Building Game Changing Businesses

Niklas Zennström, Co-founder of Skype.

Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18:00-19:30

NATO in the 21st Century

Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command.

TBC.

Monday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

Professor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford.

Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly

Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Cambridge Union Society.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Science - facts and frictions

Dr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications.

Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00

Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond

Joe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign.

Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

Monday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00

How do we really bring vision correction to those that need it in the Developing World?

Professor Joshua Silver.

Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 18:30-19:30

Discussion with movie director and writer of The Horse Boy

Rupert Isaacson.

Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 18:30-19:30

The Cyberknife

Mark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center.

Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 9.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge - Treasure Island in the Fens

Nicholas Chrimes.

Gates Room, University Centre.

Monday 23 November 2009, 18:30-19:30

Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into Politics

Four young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info.

Online webinar; see website to register..

Saturday 21 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific Method

Various student speakers; see website for more information.

Location and time TBA.

Sunday 08 November 2009, 16:30-18:30

Invisible Children: THE RESCUE

Cameron Barbour.

Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 18:30-19:30

Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life.

Richard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard.

Lecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

A 21st Century View of National Security

Sir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

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

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-20:00

Vaccine Development in the Year 2100

Dr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland..

Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

Monday 02 March 2009, 18:00-19:15

Lent Internal Symposium 2009

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3

Joshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge.

Gates Common Room, Cambridge.

Sunday 01 March 2009, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge and the Environment

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3

Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Hicks Room, University Centre.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

Whether a creation-based religion can be consistent with science and evolution

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/RabbiWeinreb.mp3

Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox.

Union Debating Chamber at 9a Bridge Street.

Monday 02 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism

Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome.

Professor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/large_images/drawn_map.gif.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-19:00

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

This talk is open to everyone. Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the talk.

Robyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle".

Gates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 17:30-19:00

Regulating Global Capitalism

Professor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School.

Gates Scholars' Common Room, University Centre.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 18:30-20:00

Why do humans share food?

Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the lecture at 6 pm. This talk is open to the general public.

Professor Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University.

OCR, Trinity College.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

Early-Modern Iberian Empires and the Scientific Revolution

There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.

PROFESSOR JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin—Author of ‘How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the 18th C. Atlantic World’).

The Old Library, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 11 December 2007, 17:30-19:00

Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroimaging

There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.

PROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University).

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

The Global Conservation Crisis

A wine reception will follow the talk. Offered in collaboration with The City Seminar at CRASSH.

Mr. Anthony Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: the Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

Global Warming

Professor Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and Author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist’, ‘How to Spend $50B to Make the World a Better Place’, and ‘Cool It’.

Gates Scholars' Combination Room, University Centre.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:30

The Visual and the Visceral: Pornography and Sanctity, Modern and Medieval

Dr William Burgwinkle, Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Fellow of King's College.

Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:00

Web 2.0

Dr Philip Evans, senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group. Boston, USA.

OCR, Trinity College.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Managing China's Rise

Sir Christopher Hum, KCMG, Master of Gonville and Caius College.

Benson Hall, Magdalene College.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

To Boldly Go. My Life in Physics.

To reserve a place email GatesHawking@gmail.com

Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

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

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:00