Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Echo Ouyang, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Crosbie Smith (University of Kent).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Distributed Electronic Rights in JavaScript

Mark S. Miller, Google.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building Information Modelling: 2016 and Beyond

Professor Bimal Kumar.

Engineering Department - **LR5**.

Friday 24 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A model order reduction technique applied to mid-frequency acoustics

Dr Andrea Barbarulo (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The acoustics and tuning of cylindrical drums

Dr Phill Richardson (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

Mike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Flourishing: from science to policy

Professor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Making Electricity Transmission Smarter

Refreshments will be provided!

Dr Mark Osborne - National Grid.

Lecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 18:30-20:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Characterisation of clean and silty-sands using variable penetration rate cone testing

Professor Jason DeJong, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3A.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

“The Impact of Impact: The future of science funding”

Speaker to be confirmed.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Fair testing in Web 2.0 – where psychometricians’ and candidates’ interests meet

Katharina Lochner, cut-e Group and Free University of Berlin.

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Playability of bowed string instruments

Ailin Zhang (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 31 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Diffuse fields in plates

Dr Louis Kovalevsky.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 31 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

EDSAC: The World's First Practical Electronic Digital Computer

Dr Andrew Herbert OBE.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 31 May 2013, 18:00-19:15

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jenny Haskell, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3A.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Djihan Hassan, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3A.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:45-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with Music

Dr Samuel Aaron.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 07 June 2013, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

Stuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

Wolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

PHANTOM: A Parallel Architecture for Practical Oblivious Computation

Martin Maas, UC Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Screen Media Group

Loving Theory: two talks on film and television

Alison Fornell (Screen Media and Cultures MPhil student, University of Cambridge) and Amelie Hastie (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Amherst College).

CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Yemi Akinyugha, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Smart Cities Smart Future - CUEN Annual Conference 2013

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS).

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 09:00-17:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Title to be confirmed

Dr Miles Richardson, University of Derby.

Department of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:15-15:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The tidal stream power industry

Tea is served from 6pm

Tom Clark - Ocean Array Systems Ltd.

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

Thursday 20 June 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’

Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday

Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

Baroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 19:30-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments

Dr Jennifer Rampling (Dept of History of Science, Cambridge University).

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

Thursday 10 October 2013, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Fireworks Lecture - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration

Prof Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

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

Thursday 07 November 2013, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice?

Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 28 November 2013, 19:00-20:00