Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

Professor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

Professor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows

Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries

Professor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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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. .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

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Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

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Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sunday 13 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

When algebra meets geometry

Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Evening

Various.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

From Mars to Multiverse

Lord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:45-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CUEN evening seminar: "Lossless Energy Transport: The Magic of Superconductors"

Dr Suchitra Sebastian.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 17:00-00:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

How impossible is it to reconcile quantum logic with classical logic?

Professor Gerard 't Hooft.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 10 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets

This talk is FREE FOR EVERYONE

Dr Simon Singh.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

Prof. Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, University of Cambridge .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Genius of Michael Faraday

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

Prof. Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A century of the proton: from Rutherford to Higgs

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

Prof. James Stirling, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Science, Computation and the Future"

Stephen Wolfram.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: the forgotten contribution of the medieval physicists

Prof Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

What will a nanobot look like?

Professor Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

lvb23's list

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

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

Prof. David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing

Prof. Ian Hutchings FREng.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

LARMOR LECTURE

Prof. Jeremy J Baumberg: Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Design of Catalysts for the Olefin Metathesis reaction: Applications in Synthesis

Organic Chemistry - The Merck Lecture

Professor Robert H Grubbs (CalTech, USA).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Interdisciplinarity in Science

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

A forum: Interdisciplinarity in Science

Chair:- Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Material World.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

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

Professor David Baulcombe FRS.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS FREng.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

Sundials and the calendar

Dr Frank King: Computer Laboratory.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities

G.I.Taylor Lecture

Professor Jim Woodhouse: Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Hands-free writing

Prof David J C Mackay.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

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

Prof. Kevin Brindle: Department of Biochemistry & Cancer ResearchUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

Threats to Woodland: present and future

Prof. Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA: Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

lvb23's list

Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

LARMOR LECTURE

Prof. Robert Kennicutt: Department of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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