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4 upcoming talks and 633 talks in the archive.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

The cacti and other attractions of Colorado

A last minute change to the programme - thanks to David Minnion for stepping in at the last minute to replace our planned speaker.

UserDavid Minnion.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2024, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

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UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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UserRosemary Fricker.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

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UserProfessor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMeeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

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UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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UserOlwen Williams.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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UserMorgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

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UserProfessor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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UserStephen Tomkins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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UserProfessor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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User Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

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UserProfessor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

A personal choice - Cacti and Succulents

Change to programme: Tom was originally going to give his talk on 12th July 2023, but now 9th August 2023.

UserTom Radford.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 09 August 2023, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Cacti of the Río Mantaro, Peru

Change to programme: Paul was originally going to give his talk on 9th August 2023, but now 12th July 2023.

UserPaul Hoxey.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 12 July 2023, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

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UserOrganisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Annual General Meeting

IMPORTANT: the branch currently has no secretary, and will have to cease activities if a new secretary doesn't come forward.

User..

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

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UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

HouseVia Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

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UserProfessor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

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UserProfessor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

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UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

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UserProfessor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

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UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

UserUlf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

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UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

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UserProfessor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

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UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

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UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

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UserProfessor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

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UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

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UserProfessor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

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UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

UserProfessor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

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UserProfessor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

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UserProfessor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

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UserProfessor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

UserProfessor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserProfessor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Househttps://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

This lecture has been cancelled

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

UserDr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

A rose by any other name

N.B. This talk is a change from the original programme.

UserBill Morris.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 13 December 2017, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Asclepiadaceae

N.B. This talk is a change from the original programme.

UserTom Radford.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

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

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

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

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

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

UserProfessor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

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

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

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

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

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

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

UserProfessor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

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

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

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

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

UserProfessor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA.

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

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

UserDr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota

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

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running

A V HILL LECTURE

UserProfessor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

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

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action

UserDr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

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

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Venezuela - a BCSS digital presentation

To be confirmed. Not the talk on Lithops which was originally planned, as this was moved to September.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology .

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

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

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

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

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

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Lithops and other mesembs.

Originally planned for November 2013, but moved due to Jonathan having another commitment.

UserJonathan Clark.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 11 September 2013, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Branch members: interesting plants

Note: change of talk. Please bring interesting plants to discuss.

UserBranch members.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

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

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

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

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Note venue change

UserProfessor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

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

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

ClockSunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

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

ClockSunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested

UserSPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

UserDr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany.

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

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception.

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

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society

Darwin 2009 Lecture

UserProfessor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

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

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

UserProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

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

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?

UserDr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserSPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others

UserDr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

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

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

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

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

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

UserProfessor Sir John Sulston FRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics.

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

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

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserDr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

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

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

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

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

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

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

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

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

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

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham.

HouseDavid Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

UserProfessor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'

UserProfessor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

UserProfessor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

UserProfessor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

UserProfessor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

UserDr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

UserSir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

UserProfessor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

UserProfessor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

UserProfessor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins

UserProfessor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

UserProfessor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

UserDr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30

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