Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Andrieu, C (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sequential Quasi-Monte Carlo

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Chopin, N (Centre de Recherche en conomie et Statistique (CREST)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 10:30-11:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the uniform ergodicity of the particle Gibbs sampler

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Moulines, E (Tlcom ParisTech).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 11:05-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Speeding-up Pseudo-marginal MCMC using a surrogate model

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Thiery, AH (National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 11:40-12:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Efficient implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo when using an unbiased likelihood estimator

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Pitt, M (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 13:45-14:20

MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars

Should I Stick Or Should I Go? A molecular switch at the neuronal surface

Radu Aricescu, University of Oxford.

MRC LMB: Sanger Seminar Room 3A180.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Neuroscience Seminars

Should I Stick Or Should I Go? A molecular switch at the neuronal surface

A. Radu Aricescu, PhD MRC Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.

MRC LMB - Sanger Seminar room.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Particle filters for infinite-dimensional systems: combining localization and optimal transportation

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Reich, S (Universitt Potsdam).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 14:20-14:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Filtering Distribution For Partially Observed Chaotic Dynamical Systems

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Stuart, A (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 14:55-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Locally adaptive Monte Carlo methods

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Lee, A (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 15:50-16:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Particle filtering subject to interaction constraints

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Whiteley, NP (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 16:25-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

ABC methods for Bayesian model choice

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Marin, J-M (Universit Montpellier 2).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On general sampling schemes for Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Kohn, R (University of New South Wales).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 10:30-11:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The Bernoulli Factory, extensions and applications

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Latuszynski, KG (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 11:40-12:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stimulating speech: tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients

Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) .

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

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sequential Monte Carlo methods for applications in Data Assimilation

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Beskos, A (National University of Singapore).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 13:45-14:20

RSC Organic Division South Eastern Regional Meeting

RSC Organic Division South Eastern Regional Meeting

If you would like to present a poster, please send title, authors, affilliation and email of the presenter to jmg11@cam.ac.uk

http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/rsc_organic_southeast.html.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 14:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Phase field modelling of drops in electric fields

Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics

Fontelos, M (ICMAT, Madrid).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Statistical Methods for Ambulance Fleet Management

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Woodard, DB (Cornell University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 14:20-14:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Adaptive delayed-acceptance pseudo-marginal random walk Metropolis

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Sherlock, C (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 14:55-15:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Does p matter in the p-obstacle problem?

Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics

Shahgholian, H (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 15:15-16:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Identifiability conditions for partially-observed Markov chains

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Douc, R (Telecom SudParis).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 15:50-16:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics for Large Scale Bayesian Inference

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Teh, YW (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 16:25-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Overtrawlability and Mechanical Damage of Pipe-in-pipe System

Ms Zheng Jiexin PhD candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP

Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 18:00-19:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Robust statistical decisions under model misspecification by re-weighted Monte Carlo samplers

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Holmes, C (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 09:15-10:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

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Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Olsson, JR (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 10:30-11:05

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical Methods for (Quasi)Variational Inequalities - Part I

Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics

Hintermueller, M (Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 11:00-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Bayesian inference for sparsely observed diffusions

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Golightly, A (Newcastle University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 11:05-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Particle filters and curse of dimensionality

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Rebeschini, P (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 11:40-12:15

CEB Career Talks

Venture Capital - Supporting Technological Innovation

Free talk but attendees need to register to attend on the link at the bottom of this http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talkspage

Stephen Capsaskis, MA, PhD..

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Pre-Processing for Approximate Bayesian Computation in Image Analysis

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Mengersen, K (Queensland University of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 13:45-14:20

British Antarctic Survey

The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn's fast flow

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

Dr Mauro Werder (University of Bristol).

British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lazy ABC

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Prangle, D (University of Reading).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:20-14:55

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Numerical Methods for (Quasi)Variational Inequalities - Part II

Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics

Hintermueller, M (Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:30-16:00

Chaucer Club

From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancement

Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Consistency and CLTs for stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics based on subsampled data

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Vollmer, S (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:50-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Roshni Best.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-16:25

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

The diffusion of benzene adsorbed on graphite surfaces studied with quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) techniques

Irene Calvo-Almazán, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states

Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal filtering and the dual process

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Papaspiliopoulos, O (Instituci Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanats (ICREA)).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:25-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Evolutionary convergence of cell specific gene expression in independent lineages of C4 grasses

Christopher John.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap

Harvey Brown (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

ABC: a view from the trenches

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Tavar, S (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 09:15-09:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Approximate Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Processes

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Stumph, M (Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 09:50-10:25

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sequential Monte Carlo methods for graphical models

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Schn, TB (Uppsala Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 10:40-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Sequential Monte Carlo with Highly Informative Observations

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Murray, L (CSIRO).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 11:15-11:50

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalised Particle Filters with Gaussian Mixtures

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Li, K (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 11:50-12:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Diaz.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:00-13:25

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control

Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:15-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Martin Van Rongen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:30-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Particles and fluids

Dr Mark Haw, Department of Engineering, University of Strathclyde.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Truncated stochastic approximation with moving bounds

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Sharia, T (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 14:00-14:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymptotic Properties of Recursive Maximum Likelihood Estimation in State-Space Models

Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Tadic, V (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 25 April 2014, 14:45-15:15

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

ELASTIC-BRITTLE FRACTION MODEL FOR CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRUCTURES

Cancelled

Prof Jan G. Rots (Delft University of Technology) and Prof Max A.N. Hendriks (Delft University of Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 25 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Special Departmental Seminars

High spin at low temperatures

Dr Christoph Becker, Institut für Laserphysik, University of Hamburg.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 25 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

SUSY model building for a 126 GeV Higgs

Moritz McGarrie.

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design and modelling of an acoustic sensing device

Megha Agrawal, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TBC

Arthur Tomb, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

To be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Recent developments in Open Access publishing (provisional title)

Ben Johnson, BioMed Central.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 25 April 2014, 18:15-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

William Courten (1642–1702) and natural history

Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 28 April 2014, 13:00-14:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Air quality and climate impacts of the transport sector: planes, trains and automobiles

Marc Stettler (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"From fragments to target-selective ligands by reaction-driven de novo design"

Professor Gisbert Schneider. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences ETH Zurich.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

A convex analysis approach to hybrid binary-continuous optimal control problems

Christian Clason (University Duisburg-Essen).

MR 14, CMS.

Monday 28 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

GSI Research Seminar Series - When and how will human society collapse?

Dr Aled Jones, Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI).

LAB 222 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What Biologists can learn from bats

Egbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts

First Lewis Lecture 2014

Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Shedding Light on the Dark Ages of Star Formation: Dense gas kinematics and core formation

Nicolas Peretto (University of Cardiff).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Modelling the Risks of Climate Change - Dr. Chris Hope

Dr. Chris Hope.

LT2 Judge Business School.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 18:00-20:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Biophysics of Protein Aggregation"

Dr Tuomas Knowles, Dep. Chemistry, Cambridge.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people

Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects

Katherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

John Colbourne (University of Birmingham).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The scientific method: ignorance, uncertainty, doubt, failure...

Stuart Firestein (Columbia University).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 14:00-17:00

Dirac Lecture

Paul Dirac and the Development of Quantum Theory

Professor Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and St John's College.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight

Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of visible light responsive photocatalysts for water splitting

Second Lewis Lecture 2014

Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces

Prof Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Full-waveform inversion: high-resolution, high-fidelity, seismic properties from 3D field data

Prof Mike Warner, Imperial College London.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The decipherment of some recently found ostraca from Post-Roman North Africa

Dr Sabine Ziegler, Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig / Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 17:15-19:00

Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge

The Theory of Democracy and the Legacy of Juan J. Linz

Jeffrey Miley. University of Cambridge.

Seminar room, Sociology Department, Free School Lane http://map.cam.ac.uk/#/annotate/adapters/v4.json?mp=nmus;xx=84;yy=195;mt=c;tl=Department%20of%20Sociology.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 18:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Signal transduction

Ian Mills, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

How to keep women (and men) in science

Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies

Helen Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 01 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Radio Aspects of the Home Area Network for Smart Metering

Dr. William Harrold, Thing Connect Ltd..

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Richard Mason, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. James Annett, University of Bristol.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter

Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) .

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

Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Martin Vyska.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lin Taylor.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica

Emma Perkins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The French of Canada

Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Upper Hall, Peterhouse.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 18:00-19:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Embedded correlation within strongly correlated materials

Dr. George Booth, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 02 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Stephanie Unna.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:00-13:25

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Liver and pancreas Stem/progenitor cells and organoid cultures

Meritxell Huch, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ulrich Johan Kudahl.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:30-13:55

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Drug Discovery Today – Inventing new medicines through a complex interplay of diverse scientific disciplines with medicinal chemistry at the core

Dr Roger Norcross, Hoffmann-La-Roche, Basel.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 02 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

If the fittest never arrive, then they can't survive: on the topology of evolutionary search.

Dr Ard A Louis, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Orbitronics in Silicon (Prof. Gabriel Aeppli FRS, London Centre for Nanotechnology)

Prof. Gabriel Aeppli FRS, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 02 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Vision-Based approach for Bridge Strike Prevention (London Underground)

Bella Nguyen - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 02 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

The Conscious Phenotype

Professor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Growth: Cognitive Linguistics, Psychology, and Adolescent Literature

Prof Roberta Trites, Illinois State University.

Mary Allen Building, Boulind Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Friday 02 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics

Lee Jung (Needham Research Institute).

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

Monday 05 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

Professor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tunnelling Under Cities, Advances in Research and Practice

Professor Robert Mair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 05 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Defra’s air quality modelling intercomparison project

Dr Michelle Cain (Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Visualization of Chemical Space for Medicinal Chemists

Dr Peter Ertl, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Dark Matter searches at ATLAS

Caterina Pizio, INFN Milano.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Integrable dispersionless PDEs in multidimensions: rigorous aspects of the Cauchy problem, wave breaking and exact implicit solutions.

Paolo Santini (Rome).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Methodology in design research

Law as Engineering

Mr David Howarth, University of Cambridge.

Sir Arthur Marshall Room, Inglis Bldg, Engineering dept., Trumpington Street.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Astrophysics Joint Colloquia

The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet

Dave Charbonneau (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, USA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4.00 pm).

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Bill Lubenow Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College & The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

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

Laure Zanna (University of Oxford).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

BRC Seminar Series

"Schwann cell c-Jun and Notch control nerve repair"

Prof Kristjan Jessen, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London .

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The special science dilemma and how culture solves it

Marion Godman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Virtual Webinar! series 7: Learning to jazz improvise

Dr. Kimberly McCord, Illinois State University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 2S5.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

The first Human Genome Project: computers and the mapping of human genes, 1950–1970

Michael McGovern (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology

Rosanna Sornicola, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:15-19:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Therapeutics and clinical trials

Duncan Jodrell, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey

Title to be confirmed

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

Dr Leanne Wake (Northumbria University).

British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Bamdev Mishra, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Steven Plotkin (The University of British Columbia).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models

Stefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Regularization of Inverse Problems with Large Noise

Thorsten Hohage (Georg August Universität Göttingen).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Tomonaga-Luttinger like-physics in electronic quantum circuits

Associate Professor Anne Anthore, Paris Diderot University, CNRS Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures (LPN). .

MRC Seminar Room M208, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Life as we know it

Karl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London).

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

Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

To be confirmed

Michael Williamson, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Soft capture of 'shrapnel' in foams

Mike Hutchinson, AWE Aldermaston.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stability analysis for pattern forming systems with slowly evolving base states

Andreas Muench (University of Oxford).

MR 5, CMS.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Rebecca Spriggs.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-16:25

Foster Talks

Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memories

David Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Tommaso Jucker.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence

Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University).

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

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

Dr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Stuart Fawke.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:00-13:25

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Going round in circles: development of the zebrafish vestibular system

Tanya Whitfield, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Christian Boehm.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:30-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Contact Line – Quo Vadis?

Professor Dirks Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marco Zaro.

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TBC

Chris Nash, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vehicle dynamics testing in winter conditions

Graeme Morrison, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Dripping, jetting, drips and wetting: the magic of microfluidics

Professor David A. Weitz, Harvard University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The integration of sensory cues across development

Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

Clare Park: 'Gathering Light', at ArtCell, 09 May - 31st July 2013

The exhibition is free and open to the public

Clare Park .

ArtCell Gallery @ Cancer Research UK.

Friday 09 May 2014, 17:00-20:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

An Enlightenment tradition of characterising and caricaturing science and scientists: why words (and nerds) matter.

Dr Jenny Mander (Department of French, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 09 May 2014, 18:15-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship

Mimi Winick (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).

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

Monday 12 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Thin Blue Line: Observing Earth’s Atmosphere

Sam Illingworth (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

AMOP list

Title to be confirmed

David Williams (University of Cambridge).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 12 May 2014, 15:30-17:00

Winton Discussions

Current Issues in Energy Policy

Dr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

Monday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Insights into the moecular basis of of neurodegenerative disease

Prof. Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol.

Hodgkin-Huxley Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Glia Club

Title to be confirmed

Dimitri Rusakov UCL.

Seminar Room at the Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's Site, Cambridge.

Monday 12 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Invariant Kalman Filtering

Silvere Bonnabel, Mines Paris-Tech.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for Exotics at CMS.

Jim Brooke.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Volkan Cevher, EPFL.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Dynamics of Monopole Walls

Richard Ward (Durham).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres: Challenges with Observations and Data Analysis

Neale Gibson (ESO).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the Code

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Further Thoughts on the Undivided Past

Professor Sir David Cannadine, Princeton and School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP Day 2014

Various.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 09:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making

Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

Adrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chirality in NMR Spectroscopy

Professor David Buckingham (University of Cambridge).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Prof Yanick Ricard, ENS-Lyon.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Children's Literature

Idiot! by Oscar K. & Dorte Karrebæk

Howard Cotton, Plymouth University.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Virtual Webinar! series 7: The impact of policy on music education in schools - the problem of PISA as well as domestic policy

Dr Sarah Hennessy, University of Exeter.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S5.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Dr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

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

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets

Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Mattia Zorzi, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Carla Molteni, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me?

Sarah Byford.

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

The properties of silica glass relevant to their use in ballistics applications

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms

Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and UCSD).

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

2050: Sustainable UK?

Dr John Emsley.

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A bistable transcriptional switch modulated by signalling drives the choice between embryonic and extraembryonic cell fate

Christian Schroeter, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Watching single molecules

Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Fedor Bezrukov.

MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic operational modal analysis: Challenges and applications to historical structures and infrastructures

Dr Alessandro Cabboi, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour

Dr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute).

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

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Damien Weidmann (STFC).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and Flavour

Professor Peter Barham, School of Physics, University of Bristol.

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

Monday 19 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.

Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Title to be confirmed

Dr Peter Hunt, Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 14:15-15:45

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Einan Gardi, University of Edinburgh.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The Submillimetre Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies

Kristen Coppin (University of Hertfordshire).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

Prof. David Runciman, POLIS & Trinity Hall.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling

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

Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hannah Long (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality

Jonathan Birch (Christ's College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Prof Sergei Lebedev, Dublin Institute for Advanced Study.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

Caitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Drug discovery

Grahame McKenzie, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

A scalable approach to the design of large networks

Richard Pates, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Rozenn Dahyot, Assistant Professor in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways

Stephanie Van Goozen.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Shock-induced cavity collapse in liquid nitromethane

Louisa Michael, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human

Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomolecular machines on and of DNA

Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Are linearised models good enough for modelling floating offshore wind turbines

Rick Lupton, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vision based articulation angle sensing for heavy goods vehicle

Christopher de Saxe, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Inclusive Human Computer Interaction - from Indian farmers to Eurofighter Typhoon pilots

Dr. Pradipta Biswas, Engineering Design Centre.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 23 May 2014, 18:15-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Astrophysics Joint Colloquia

The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

Michael Edmunds (University of Cardiff).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4.00 pm).

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Gradient methods for huge-scale optimization problems

Prof Yurii Nestorov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. J.Lee Thompson, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development

Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Terrane stations: intra-oceanic subduction assembled Cordilleran North America

Dr Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

The Challenge to Write – Dangerous and Disruptive Words

Dr Janice K. Jones, University of Southern Queensland.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Faction and Blood: Silencing the 'Inner' City in Veronica Roth's Divergent

Susan Tan.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Metabolism, oxygen and cancer

John Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Global Trends in Eddy Kinetic Energy from Satellite Altimetry

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

Chris O'Donnell (University of East Anglia) .

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Adaptation to Antarctic marine environments: impact on ability to respond to change and potential use to society

Lloyd S. Peck (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 13:00-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity

Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Chaucer Club

Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness

Marie Smith (Birkbeck).

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

Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Structural and functional characterisation of oxide nanomaterials

Donald MacLaren, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Glasgow.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Eisner/

Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester.

Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia

Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Reverse Engineering the Forces that Drive Embryogenesis

Professor G. Wayne Brodland, University of Waterloo.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 30 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Tuning Protein Aggregation Pathways by Charges

Prof. Dr. Frank Schreiber, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

HGV-Cyclist collision avoidance

Yanbo Jia, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

HGV-Cyclist collision avoidance

Yanbo Jia, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfluidics-based acoustic microbubble biosensor

Ying Zhou, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830

Thomas le Roux (Maison Française d'Oxford).

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

Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Stuart Riddick (Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Glia Club

Title to be confirmed

Andras Lakatos University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room at the Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's Site, Cambridge.

Monday 02 June 2014, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stuff Matters, Why public workshops are more important than public libraries

Professor Mark Miodownik, Director, Institute of Making, University College London.

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

Monday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Computing with Fourier series approximations on general domains

Daan Huybrechs (KU Leuven).

MR 14, CMS.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The CAMbridge Emission Line Surveyor (CAMELS)

Chris Thomas & Stafford Withington (Quantum Sensors, Cavendish Laboratory).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Title to be confirmed

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Mary Laven, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 17:45-19:15

BRC Seminar Series

"to be confrimed"

Dr Vania Broccoli, Stem Cells & Neurogenesis Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Inst. Milan, Italy.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions

Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

A Cathedral of Trees: Investigating Christianity and Spirituality in Anne of Green Gables

Ashley Wilson.

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy

Federico Morganti (Sapienza University of Rome).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Radiotherapy

Neil Burnet, Department of Oncology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

TCM Blackboard Series

Unitary Fermi gas, unitary Bose gas: theory and experiments

Felix Werner, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Chaucer Club

Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood

Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden).

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

Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Merlin Sheldrake.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ivan Reyna-Llorens.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Sustainability Assessment and Sustainable Behaviour in Contaminated Site Remediation

Deyi Hou.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3B.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

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

Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Varun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Devinn Lambert.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Robin Thompson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Jamie Hobbs, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling the shock induced failure of printed circuit boards

Dr Alice Cicirello, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Christoffer Petersson (ULB).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CUEN Annual Energy Conference: Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future?

There will be a poster session over lunch. Attendees are encouraged to showcase their research related to the conference topic.

12 speakers from academia, policy and industry.

Jesus College Cambridge.

Monday 09 June 2014, 09:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Laura Wilcox (Reading).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Growing supermassive black holes with a little help from their friends

John Silverman (Kavli IPMU, Japan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders

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

Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

No pain without gain: Is there a 'social pain' network in the human brain?

Jason Stretton (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Title: TBA (Prof. Jeremy L. O'Brien, University of Bristol)

Prof. Jeremy L. O'Brien, School of Physics, University of Bristol.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Dynamic topography, true polar wander and their potential role in the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations

Dr Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

MRI and MRS in cancer research and treatment

John Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Effective three-body interactions via photon-assisted tunneling in an optical lattice

Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fast algorithms for matrix completion and compressed sensing

Jared Tanner (University of Oxford).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

SM Abdul-Awal.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Fei Jin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Self-organisation of pluripotent cells in the mouse embryo

Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Gurdon Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jeremy Solly.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University .

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

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Claire Agius.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Clement Quan.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering occasional seminars

GRASPING COMPLEXITY OF CHEMICAL KINETICS

Gregory S. Yablonsky, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Dept of Chem., Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, МО 63103, USA .

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Alberto Guffanti (Bohr Institute, Copenaghen).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

I spy with my MRI....

Dr Mick Mantle, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 13 June 2014, 18:15-19:15

Madingley Lunchtime Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Christine Nicol, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol.

Library, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley.

Monday 16 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr William Ball (Imperial).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

Dr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

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

Monday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Partnership and power in research writing: voice and representation in physical and virtual worlds

Dr Janice K. Jones, University of Southern Queensland.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Tuesday 17 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

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

Antoine Venaille (CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, ENS-Lyon).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

HPS History Workshop

Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885–1914

Linda Ratschiller (University of Fribourg, Switzerland).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Epidemiology

Paul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Beatrice Wedeux.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Timothy Hearn.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Bernardo Pollak.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lukas Wittern.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Epigenetics and microRNA

This talk has been rescheduled from earlier in the year

Eric Miska, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Farhat Nazir.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nicholas Owen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gillian Lui.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Sanjie Jiang.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Glia Club

Title to be confirmed

Heidi Johansen-Berg University of Oxford.

Seminar Room at the Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's Site, Cambridge.

Monday 07 July 2014, 17:00-19:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Interacting with Protein Interactions

"Special Event" Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meetings

Professor Arthur J Olson, Departmen of Interactive Structure & Computational BIology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre Department of Chemistry Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RA.

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Bruce Dunn, UCLA.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Glacial Period Refugia

Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 13:00-13:30

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Engineered Quantum Systems (Prof. Gerard J. Milburn, The University of Queensland)

Prof. Gerard J. Milburn, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Wednesday 30 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Title to be confirmed

Katrin Linse (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Thursday 07 August 2014, 13:00-13:30

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Title: TBA (Prof. Thomas F. Krauss FRSE, University of York)

Prof. Thomas F. Krauss FRSE, Department of Physics, University of York.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Tuesday 26 August 2014, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Convex relaxation of a class of vertex penalizing functionals

Thomas Pock (Graz University of Technology).

MR 14, CMS.

Tuesday 02 September 2014, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World War

Free & open to all

Dr Michael Freemantle.

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

Thursday 11 September 2014, 19:00-20:00

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Title: TBA (Prof. Robert L. Stamps, University of Glasgow)

Prof. Robert L. Stamps, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 26 September 2014, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Title to be confirmed

Professor Leslie Valiant FRS, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Harvard USA.

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

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

Lady Margaret Lectures

How governing has become harder-- the increasing external, and self-imposed constraints on governments

The Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series

Title: TBA (Dr. John J. L. Morton, University College London)

Dr. John J. L. Morton, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture

Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London).

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 19:00-20:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Meta-Interpretive Learning and Program Induction

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Oldest Illustrated Book in Cambridge - a Reconsideration of the St Augustine Gospels

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College,Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:45-19:15