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A personal list of talks, which may be of interest to others. I usually include talks and events from the following lists:

Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cambridge University Physics Society

Cavendish Physical Society

Pembroke College Ivory Tower Society

Pembroke College Stokes Society

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Triple Helix events

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Andrew Norman, Pembroke College, Cambridge. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organizer.

Talks in the archive are, as far as possible, ones which I myself have attended.

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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Holographic Technologies

UserDr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

How a non-Fermi liquid can emerge at a metal-insulator transition

UserProf. Gabriel Aeppli, University College London.

HouseTCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Brood Parasitism

UserDr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00

Education and the State: The State of Education

Should the State Teach Virtues Rather than Values?

this talk forms part of the Education and the State Lecture also featuring John Bangs

UserPhillip Blond, Director of ResPublica.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

Education and the State: The State of Education

Education Reform or Permanent Revolution?

this talk forms part of the Education and the State Lecture also featuring Phillip Blond

UserJohn Bangs, Assistant Secretary of the National Union of Teachers.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

Education and the State: The State of Education

Can we have true independence in state run schools?

this talk forms part of the Education and the State Lecture also featuring Stephen Ball

UserAnna Fazackerley Head of Education Policy, Policy Exchange.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

Education and the State: The State of Education

The dissolution of State Education: an epitaph

this talk forms part of the Education and the State Lecture also featuring Anna Fazackerley

UserStephen Ball Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power Grid

UserProfessor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Trinity Science Society

The Remarkable Accuracy of the Trinity College Clock

UserDr. Hugh Hunt, Dept. of Engineering.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 18:15-19:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond E. Goldstein (University of Cambridge).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Education and the State: The State of Education

Is an educational transformation necessary and imminent?

This talk forms part of the Education and the State Lecture also featuring Estelle Morris

UserDavid Hargreaves, Wolfson College.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

Education and the State: The State of Education

Should we re-think the relationship between education and politics?

This talk forms part of the Education and the State Lecture also featuring David Hargreaves

UserEstelle Morris, Baroness of Yardley.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Building in the UK

UserDavid Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce.

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

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Getting started in deep sky observing

Observation Night with a Talk

UserDr Stewart Moore, BAA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Companions

Accenture Centenary Lecture Series

UserProf. Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield).

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 21:00-22:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Self-assembling colloids under the guidance of DNA

UserErika Eiser (University of Cambridge).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Magic and the History of Science

UserDr. Lauren Kassell (Pembroke College).

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 21:00-22:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

How to be a Quantum Realist

UserDr. Andreas Doering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'

UserProfessor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Probing the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

UserDr. Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Synthetic structures and machines from DNA

UserProf Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Culture and Community: the Flow of Information in Meerkat Societies

Stokes Society 2009 Accenture Talks

User Dr. Alex Thornton - Zoology Fellow, Pembroke College.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 21:00-22:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Short Cuts: Stories from a Lifetime of Chemistry

Stokes Society Centenary Accenture Lecture Series

UserProfessor Ian Flemming.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 21:00-22:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics Challenges of Fusion Power

UserProfessor Steve Cowley, Director of the JET Fusion lab.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

John Bell and the nature of Reality

UserDr Carlos Lobo, Department of Physics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

"Would You Prefer a Mobile Phone or a Toilet?"

UserDr David Grimshaw (Head of International Programme - New Technologies, Practical Action), Professor Geoff Walsham (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School), Dr Allam Ahmed (University of Sussex) and Dr Shoba Arun (Manchester Metropolitan University.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub).

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!

UserProfessor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Stokes Society Annual Dinner

UserProfessor Mike Payne (Pembroke College).

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 19:00-23:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Molecular Chocolate Box

UserJonathan Goodman.

HouseNew Cellars, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 21:00-22:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Teenagers: A Natural History

Room changed

UserDr. David Bainbridge.

HouseN7, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 21:00-22:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

From Quarks to Quantum Gravity

UserDavid Tong (DAMTP).

HouseNew Cellars, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 21:00-22:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

CUER: Solar Racing

UserAnthony Law (CUER).

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2009, 21:00-22:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion

UserJim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering).

HouseN7, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 21:00-22:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

From Lasers to Bose-Einstein condensates

UserDr Jonathan Keeling (University of Cambridge).

HouseNew Cellars, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 21:00-22:00

Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College

Introduction to Catastrophe Theory with Applications to Biology and the Social Sciences

If you would like to attend this talk, please email David Gordon (dg336@cam.ac.uk) to reserve a place.

UserSir Christopher Zeeman, Oxford University.

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:45-19:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

STIMULUS

Note unusual day

UserJenny Knights.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 21:00-22:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

What scientists and engineers need to know about patents and related things

UserDr. Rhian Granleese, Marks & Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

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

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Stokes Cocktails

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2008, 20:00-23:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

CAN WE BLAME OUR BRAINS? Neuroscience in the Courtroom

UserProfessor Raymond Tallis; Professor Nikolas Rose; Mr Amit Pundik; Dr Ian Treasaden.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub).

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 19:30-21:30

Public Understanding of Risk

How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science

Free Public Lecture. All Welcome!

UserBen Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

3rd William Pitt Seminar - Narratives of Risk

Invitation only - please contact Jane Moorman if you are interested

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDarwin Room, Pitt Building.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 15:30-19:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Book sale

£1 for non-members

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2008, 19:00-20:30

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? Exploring the impact of extreme ageing

UserMr Kenneth Howse; Dr Aubrey de Grey; Dr Guy Brown; Dr Klaus Okkenhaug.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 19:30-21:30

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Freshers' Squash

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseNew Cellars, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 06 October 2008, 14:30-17:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Freshers' Picnic

Suggested contribution: £2

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseN7, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 06 October 2008, 12:30-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microbial Bioenergy Production

Note unusual day: Thursday, not Tuesday

UserProfessor Alison Smith (Department of Plant Sciences).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre (Tennis Court Road - see http://tinyurl.com/rxaj7 ).

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 20:00-21:00

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Interdisciplinarity in Science

UserPanel debate, chaired by Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's weekly science programme, The Material World.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 17:30-19:30

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

Evolution of disease susceptibility - how ancient mosquitoes can ruin your life

UserProf. Ken Smith, Genzyme Professor of Experimental Medicine, Cambridge.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 19:45-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The big experiment

UserDr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A Critical Point for Science?

UserProfessor Brian Josephson, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

Pembroke College Chapel: who built it, and why?

UserDr. Bill Grimstone, Pembroke College.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 19:45-21:00

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

The Physics of Musical Instruments

UserMatthew Smith, Harvard Scholar, Pembroke College.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 19:45-21:00

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

"The terrorist threat: keeping a sense of proportion"

UserSir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics and the designs of brains

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserSimon Laughlin Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:30-18:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Numbers, not adjectives - a rough guide to the sustainable energy problem

UserProfessor David MacKay, Dept. of Physics, Cambridge.

HouseNew Common Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 21:00-22:00

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

Free Software and Communism

UserMr. Edward Brambley, Research Fellow in Applied Mathemathics.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !

UserDr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

The Chameleon Plane

UserDr Matthew Juniper.

HouseNew Cellars, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 21:00-22:00

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

Blogs – the new wisdom of crowds?

UserMr. Bob Shingleton, who blogs at www.theovergrownpath.blogspot.com.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 21:00-22:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Why Women are No Good at Science (and how science stops them from being good)

UserDr Peter Lawrence, Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, Prof Athene Donald, Dr Yulia Kovas, Dr Helena Cronin.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, next to Eagle pub.

ClockMonday 22 October 2007, 19:00-21:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Life in the Oil Industry

UserHoward Skipp.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2007, 21:00-22:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Religious and Scientific Belief

UserProf Lewis Wolpert, Department of Anatomy, UCL.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Young Universe

UserDr Mike Hobson.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution of the Middle Ear

UserDr Matthew Mason, Department of Physiology.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Chaos: Kicking Atoms About

UserMischa Stocklin, UCL.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 20:00-21:00

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