Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exponential tractability of weighted tensor product problems

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Henryk Wozhniakowski (Columbia University; University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Random sections of ellipsoids and the power of random information

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Aicke Hinrichs (Johannes Kepler Universität).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

On the interaction of turbulence, waves and mean flows in geophysical fluids

Louis Couston (BAS).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 18 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On some lower bounds for Kolmogorov widths

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Yuri Malykhin (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Moscow State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Unleashing your inner maker

Prof. Daniela Rus, MIT.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximation of Ridge Functions and Sparse Additive Models

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Jan Vybiral (Charles University, Prague).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:40-14:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Order statistics and Mallat--Zeitouni problem

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:20-14:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Construction of high-dimensional point sets with small dispersion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Mario Ullrich (Johannes Kepler Universität).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 15:30-16:05

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dicussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:10-16:45

Faculty of Education Seminars

Structures of Governance in English Secondary Schooling and their Antecedents: The Cambridgeshire Village College Meets the Academy Trust

Dr Gordon Johnson and Dr Gillian Sutherland.

DMB GS1, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Does seeing help you to hear better?

Professor Jennifer Bizley, UCL.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Haar System and Smoothness Spaces built on Morrey Spaces

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Winfried Sickel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ball Average Characterizations of Function Spaces

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Dachun Yang (Beijing Normal University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Embedding and continuity envelopes of Besov-type spaces

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Wen Yuan (Beijing Normal University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Directional Framelets with Low Redundancy and Directional Quasi-tight Framelets

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Bin Han (University of Alberta; University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do females fight?

Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Polynomial approximation via compressed sensing of high-dimensional functions on lower sets

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Clayton Webster (University of Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:40-14:15

British Antarctic Survey

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge).

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Sensors CDT seminars

How to build a deep-tech start-up

To register to attend: https://bit.ly/2IaIgBu

Pierre Arsene, Mursla.

Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Characterizations of Besov spaces in terms of K-functionals

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Oscar Dominguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:20-14:55

Cavendish HEP Seminars

New frontiers in LHC discovery strategies

Jesse Liu (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Local restriction theorem and maximal Bochner-Riesz operator for the Dunkl transforms

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Wenrui Ye (The University of International Business and Economics - Beijing).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 15:30-16:05

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmions and rho mesons, a successful relationship for light nuclei

Carlos Naya (INFN, Lecce).

MR11.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:10-16:45

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to LGBT+ Inclusion

Shaun Dellenty.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology

Dr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Are we on the Road to Collapse?

Dr Luke Kemp.

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recovery of functions of many variables via compressive sensing

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Holger Rauhut (RWTH Aachen University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Dimension-dependence error estimates for sampling recovery on Smolyak grids

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Dũng Dinh (Vietnam National University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Recent Results on Rational Approximation and Interpolation with Completely and Multiply Monotone Radial Basis Functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Martin Buhmann (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Multiple Rank-1 Lattices as Sampling Schemes for Approximation

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Lutz Kaemmerer (Technische Universität Chemnitz).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bio-inspired Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini ( Department of Chemistry).

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Ab Initio Thermodynamics with the help of Machine Learning

Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London.

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Zero-sum optimal switching games motivated by energy applications

MES - The mathematics of energy systems

Said Hamadene (Université du Maine).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Capturing Complexity in Improvisation Research: The Influence of Precondition

Dr Leila Heil, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian

Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Ultracold Atomic Gases: The Coldest Stuff in the Universe

Professor Zoran Hadzibabic, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Preasymptotic estimates for approximation of multivariate periodic Sobolev functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Thomas Kuehn (Universität Leipzig ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Best m-term approximation of the "step-function" and related problems

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Konstantin Ryutin ().

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Explicit error bounds for randomized Smolyak algorithms and an application to infinite-dimensional integration

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Michael Gnewuch (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Monte Carlo methods for $L_q$ approximation on periodic Sobolev spaces with mixed smoothness

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Heping Wang (Capital Normal University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal Confidence for Monte Carlo Integration of Smooth Functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Robert J. Kunsch (Universität Osnabrück).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:40-14:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation

Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension

Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal recovery using wavelet trees

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Markus Weimar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:20-14:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

title and abstract tbc

DNM - The mathematical design of new materials

Elvira Zappale (Università degli Studi di Salerno).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people

Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-16:05

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Making the tiniest machines

Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The Higgs Bottom Line of Run II

Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hyperplasticity

Prof. G.T. Houlsby, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:10-16:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shift-invariant Spaces of Multivariate Periodic Functions

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Jürgen Prestin (Universität zu Lübeck).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 09:00-09:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Least squares regression on sparse grids

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Bastian Bohn (Universität Bonn).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 09:40-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Some Sparse Recovery Methods in Compressed Sensing

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

Song Li (Zhejiang University; Zhejiang University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 11:00-11:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

tba

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 11:40-12:15

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion

ASCW01 - Challenges in optimal recovery and hyperbolic cross approximation

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:40-16:45

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gareth Wyn Jones, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

Oatley Meeting Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Maximising urban freight: Does size matter?

Chris Eddy, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1

Professor Paul Murdin.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

From a steady plume to periodic puffs during confined carbon dioxide dissolution

Francois Nadal, Loughborough University.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy

Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC).

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

Roderick Page (University of Glasgow).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

Professor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Emma Slade (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Title tbc

Dr Claire Le Gall and Dr Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:30-16:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Magnetic Skyrmions at critical coupling

Calum Ross (Heriot-Watt).

MR11.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

A chemical biology approach to the modulation of cell fate and cell state

Dr Luke Lairson, Scripps.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM?

Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner .

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Dostoevsky, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: to a stylistic genealogy of Notes from Underground

Dr Aleksei Vdovin (HSE, Moscow).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Atoms for Peace (and War): a history of the Italian nuclear programme during the Cold War

Dr Elisabetta Bini (University of Naples, Federico II).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany

Dr Bianca Gaudenzi, Wolfson College, Cambridge and German Historical Institute, Rome.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

Professor Danny Dorling.

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:00-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme 'The Mathematics of New Matierals'

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Xian Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:10-10:20

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shape Memory Thin Films for Medical Applications

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Eckhard Quandt (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:20-10:55

ARClub Talks

Experience of Motherhood for Autistic Women

Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Opportunities for Novel Actuators in Surgical Robotics

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Chris Wagner (Cambridge Consultants).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:55-11:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Materials for Regenerative Medicine

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Ruth Cameron (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:45-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

New Concepts for the Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:15-12:50

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Domestic-scale Thermal Storage Using Phase Change Materials and Heat Pumps

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Andrew Bissell (Sunamp).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:50-14:20

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Use of different types of information to better understand compounds’ Mechanism of Action.

First Year PhD Report

Maria-Anna Trapotsi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-14:35

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mechanocaloric Materials for Environmentally Friendly Refrigeration

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Xavier Moya (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:20-14:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lifesaving Capsule Robots

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Pietro Valdastri (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:50-15:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bio-inspired Soft Robotics: Turning Soft Materials into Intelligent Machines

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 15:45-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Shape-memory Polymers for Multi-functional Muscles (title to be confirmed)

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

Stoyan Smoukov (Queen Mary University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:15-16:40

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discussion & Questions

OFBW43 - Mathematical Design for Solid Complex Materials

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Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:40-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Classification Game: Topological Insulators and Other Beasts

Professor Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Long-term stability of human neurons in an organotypic slice culture system – a new model to study disease mechanisms of neurological disorders

Henner Koch, University of Tübingen.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tracking neuroinflammation in the brains of depressed patients

Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory

Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Equilibria configurations for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms

Riccardo Cristoferi, Heriot-Watt University.

MR 14.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s

Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon

Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Samir Zard, Ecole Polytechnique, France.

Unileaver Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons

Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Biotechnology meets Breeding in Baker's Yeast

Professor Ed Louis, University of Leicester.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons

Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Inspiring Social Transformation - From Soviet Decay to a National Health Service for Ukraine

Dr Uliana Suprun (Acting Minister of Health Care of Ukraine).

Peterhouse Theatre, Peterhouse College.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

Professor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project

Professor Alison Murdoch.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr David Silver, DeepMind.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Monday 04 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Sources of hydrographic variability in Sermilik Fjord, a major glacier fjord in southeast Greenland

Irena Vankova, BAS.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Air Pollution in Delhi, India

Ying Chen, Lancaster.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 04 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

ATLAS Trigger Level Analysis

William Kalderon (Lund).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad Shah

Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

Dr Anne Corcoran.

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Jon Alaria, University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 11:15-12:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrated Proton

Professor Joel Bowman, Emory University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

Bill Short University of Exeter .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Glucose monitoring for diabetes

Dr Hannah Hare, TTP plc.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Neurons without batteries: Dissecting cell type-specific neuronal contribution to mitochondrial disease

Albert Quintana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

100 years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: What can we learn from individual cases in psychiatry?

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

How to see, measure and capture the arts experience

Frances Howard, Nottingham Trent University.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room 2S7.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Dementia Journal Club

Title to be confirmed

Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Bayesian inversion for tomography through machine learning

Ozan Öktem (KTH Stockholm and Alan Turing Institute).

MR 14.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

V-Dem: measuring democracy

Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling

Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

Sebastian Trojanowski (NCNR Warsaw & CFP, Sheffield).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Parasitic plants

Helen Moore.

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

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Carbon Nanotube Mechanics: nano and macro; liquid and solid; stiff and soft—but always conductive

Prof Pasquali, Rice University, Huston Texas.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Professor Ashwin Seshia, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Science of Musical Meaning

Professor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Mental Health Life Course Lecture Series

Blueprint: The DNA revolution and a lifespan approach to psychological traits

Professor Robert Plomin.

Cambridge Institute of Public Health Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The role of lateral rheology contrasts in the evolution of mountain ranges

Camilla Penny, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to write a Fellowship proposal

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial evolution in the human gut

Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Establishing meso-methyl BODIPYs as viable visible-light excitable photocages

Roy Weinstain - Tel-Aviv University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Phi^4 kinks on a wormhole spacetime

Alice Waterhouse (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Politics Gone Missing

Dr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge).

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates.

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Alexandra Rutz, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic: Endangered communities and languages in contact

Prof Eleanor Coghill, Uppsala University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

Relativistic fluid flows

Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Lecture Cancelled.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Craik Club

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system

Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Stereoelectronic control of cyclizations, fragmentations, and unusual molecules

Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Sterile Neutrinos in Reactor and Accelerator Experiments

Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (KIT).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C

Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Kevin Hand.

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

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioengineering Conference

Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bioengineering-conference-tickets-54846325837

Mihaela van der Schaar, Somenath Bakshi, Sebastian Pattinson, Fumiya Iida, Rasha Rezk, Felice Torrisi, George Malliaras, James Ward, Roger Mason, Andrew Flewitt, Flavia Mancini.

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Friday 15 March 2019, 08:45-14:00

Imagers Interest Group

Practical Power Estimation for fMRI

Tom Nichols, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 March 2019, 10:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

Prof. Antoine Browaeys, University of Oxford.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?

Professor John Ellis FRS .

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transforming cancer care

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

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

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Dementia Journal Club

Title to be confirmed

Please volunteer!.

Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Abigail Burns.

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

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

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

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alex Hopkins Lecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Roland Patai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

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

Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Towards a theory of functional MRS

Paul Mullins, Bangor University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 01 April 2019, 12:30-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts: a new approach to study idiopathic Parkinson's disease

Janelle Drouin-Ouellet, University of Montreal.

TBC.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Assessing the role of deformation behavior on hydrogen environment-assisted cracking susceptibility in a precipitation-hardened Ni-base superalloy: a multiple length-scale approach

Dr Zachary Harris. University of Virginia.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Aurora Gomez-Duran, University of Cambridge.

VGB.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

The President and Officers.

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

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Charlotte Coles (University of Cambridge) Breast Cancer Programme and Hilary Stobart.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 18 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Slavonic Studies

History is a rehearsal of the future: How Russia’s past defines its perspectives and how it still can change

Mikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:00-18:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Stephen Cox, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

From the deuteron to the beauteron

Tim Burns (Swansea).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Numerical homogenisation

Ralf Kornhuber (Freie Universitaet Berlin).

MR 14.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London; Senior Lecturer, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Jack Denny, Department of Engineering, University of Southampton.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The effect of pore structure and pore fluids on the elastic moduli and wavespeeds in porous rocks

Prof. Robert Zimmerman. Imperial College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Madhavi Krishnan, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation in plants

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 17 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Christian F. Niordson, DTU.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 May 2019, 14:00-14:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:40-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

TBC

Jeff Calder (University of Minnesota).

MR 14.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 08 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Friday 12 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 21 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The Aging Mind: An Owner's Manual

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-16:30