Cabinet of Natural History

'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth

Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Building ventilation and applications in practice

Shaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

How well do we know halogen chemistry in the Marine Boundary Layer?

Dr Roberto Sommariva (Leicester).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture: Random maps and random 2-dimensional geometries

Random Geometry

Miermont, G (ENS - Lyon).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit

Naoshige Uchinda, Harvard University.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Task-based language teaching with technology: the EU-Funded CAMELOT project

Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Engineering at Microsoft Research - Open Evening

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

Prof. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

PhD Student Seminars

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

British Antarctic Survey.

room 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Predictable and Dependable Low-power Wireless Networks

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

Marco Zimmerling, ETH Zurich.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

ARClub Talks

Brain hypoconnectivity as a potential endophenotype of autism

Dr Rachel Moseley & Dr Rolf Ypma, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Imitation in Early Social and Cognitive Development

Dr Janine Oostenbroek, University of York.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Manifold correspondence: a signal processing perspective

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

Michael Bronstein, USI Switzerland.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Discrete spectrum of Schroedinger operators with oscillating decaying potentials

Periodic and Ergodic Spectral Problems

Raikov, G (Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sandrine Heutz (Imperial College London).

Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Top/Higgs gateway to new physics

Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Louvain).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of social behaviour in wild populations: European badgers & Seychelles warblers

Dr Hannah Dugdale, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Tree-Level S-Matrices: from Einstein to Yang-Mills, Born-Infeld, and More

Ellis Yuan (Perimeter Institute) .

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies *** Seminar cancelled ***

Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Israel and Antisemitism

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. David Feldman, Birkbeck London, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The antibody revolution

Sir Greg Winter.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

Sophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Searching and Re-searching for Practice: An Appetite

Amanda Crouch, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners

Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jenny Judge (Centre for Music and Science, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm

Dr Dai Morgan, EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainabilty, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Behaviour of zero modes for a one-dimensional Dirac operator arising in models of graphene

Periodic and Ergodic Spectral Problems

Elton, D (Lancaster University).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sampled Energy Landscapes: Analysis and Comparison

Frederic Cazals, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, Algorithms-Biology-Structure.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Turing trap. How the universal computer is making the internet less secure.

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

Will Harwood and Roger Gross, Silicon Safe Ltd.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

From mapping to temporal monitoring: Exploring the characteristics of fault creep with SAR Interferometry

Dr Romain Jolivet, Bullard Labs.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Playing on the Page: the role of the sketchbook in illustrating books for children

Pam Smy, Anglia Ruskin University.

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Room 104.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

Clare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Gaia satellite / 3D map of the galaxy

Professor Gerry Gilmore (IoA, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Computational biology

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' – the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films

Vanessa Toulmin (University of Sheffield).

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Some applications of multispectral reflectance imaging in biological materials and industrial surface coatings

Dr. José M. Medina, University of Granada.

Oatley Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) .

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cause, causatives and theories of causation

Julian Reiss (Durham University).

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis

Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Quasi-elastic neutron scattering: a powerful tool to investigate molecular dynamics in two dimensions

Irene Calvo Almazán, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map

Owen Mountford.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Importance of doing research during outbreaks caused by emerging infections

Prof David Heymann.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Nanoparticle growth and Ostwald ripening: aggregate growth, size distributions, and the breakdown of scaling

Prof. Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Goettingen, Germany.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Capturing pluripotency form early mammalian embryos

Jenny Nichols, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Embodied intelligence: How the body shapes the way robots behave

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Dr Fumiya Iida, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 06 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments

Dr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ and the Standard Library

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

"Project Successes and Failures in Analysis and Testing"

AKT II Consulting Structural & Civil Engineers.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rick Gupta (Weizmann).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Surveying nature in late-colonial Central America

Sophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere

Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale, Lyon).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Steps towards understanding tropospheric composition variability

Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis (Imperial College).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Interaction of x-rays with matter

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"Ni-catalyzed Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide and C-O Bonds"

Professor Rubén Martín Romo.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:00-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adaptive Codes for flexible behaviour in the human brain.

Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Probing CP violation with neutrinos: the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and much more

Prof. Mark Thomson (Cavendish).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The adaptive use of information within and across generations

Dr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Detecting and Characterising Planets with Direct Imaging

Beth Biller (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Autobiography and the crafting of identity in 20th-century American medicine

Caitjan Gainty (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Prof. Julius Lipner, Emeritus Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, Fellow of Clare Hall.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computation, Technology and the New Era of STEM

Conrad Wolfram.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of naturalistic metaphysics

Jonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Particle-Laden Flows in Rotating Drums: The Silent Secrets

Prof. Peter Thomas, Fluid Dynamics Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Warwick.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modelling by Natural Moves

Peter Minary, University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Diego Guadagnoli (Annecy,LAPTH) .

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Death of a dynamo: a time-series record of magnetic activity on the pallasite parent body

Dr Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Music Performance Anxiety and Musical Improvisation: How Worldview and Mental Well-Being Influence Music Making

Dr Tawnya D. Smith, University of Illinois.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Philip Campbell (editor-in-chief, Nature).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing

Title to be confirmed

Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Soul's College.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte Carlo

Matt Hoffman; Yutian Chen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) .

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory

Frank Uekotter (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Shocking temperatures. 1: What did you expect?

David Williamson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

An Evaluation of procedures to Assess Cognitive Effort in Malingering of Memory

Dr. Barry Tam (Clinical Psychologist; UCL) .

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Maths, Arts and Games for Digital Natives: Paradox Structures, Impossible Forms and Visual Illusions in Experience-Centered Mathematics Education

Dr Kristóf Fenyvesi, University of Jyväskylä.

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quasicrystals, Charge Ordering and the Quantum Hall Effect

Felix Flicker, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The collective cell biology of organ formation

Darren Gilmour, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

How to solve Ax=b when A is really big: applications in solid mechanics and geophysics

Dr Garth N Wells, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Evolution of Culture

Professor Kevin N. Laland, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++, the Standard Library, and overloading

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Assuming a purely sinusoidal input force......

Dr Tore Butlin, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Elastic instability and morphogenesis of the brain

dr John Biggins.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Winner Take(s) All Society: The Self in Status Contests

Dr Niro Sivanathan, London School of Business.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720

Alexander Wragge-Morley (University College London).

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Ascending plumes and descending thermals: aspects of convection in the atmosphere

Gabriel Rooney (Met Office).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Using random linear network coding in dynamic storage environments

Prof. Muriel Medard, Department of EECS, MIT.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 16 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Long-term trends in ozone concentrations in the UK: local, regional and global influences

Dr Mike Jenkin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

What’s the point of functional imaging for cognitive theory

Rik Henson (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Thalamocortical rhythms of sleep and epilepsy

Vincenzo Crunelli, University of Cardiff.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

School approaches to the education of EAL learners

Educational Achievement, Language Education and Disadvantage (EALead) research team at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

Prof. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Gillian Brown, Lecturer, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, UK.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

From species to individuals, a survey of variation in the immune function of birds.

Dr Kevin Matson, University of Groningen.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lionel Mason (Oxford).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Science with ALMA: the cool side of the universe

Leonardo Testi (ESO).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Early Medicine Seminars

Physic and divinity: the case of Dr John Downes (1626–1694)

Sophie Mann (University of Essex).

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Ibsen's women - on and off the stage

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Robert Amundsen, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Title to be confirmed

Prof Lee Cronin.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

Jennifer A. Graham, Old Dominion University (VA, USA) and University of East Anglia (UK).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

BRC Seminar Series

"The ER-mitochondria axis and neurodegenerative diseases".

Professor Chris Miller, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD

Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

Christian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Some dynamics of brine and compressible vapour flows in permeable conduits

Prof. Herbert Huppert, FRS, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge .

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nested Sampling for bulk materials

Gabor Csanyi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Magmatism on the terrestrial planets

Dr Chloe Michaut, IPGP.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

Susanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Genomic technologies

Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'

Christos Lynteris (CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non lithium based technologies: walking on the sodium side

Dr Rosa Palacin, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, Spain.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)

Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC (neurophysiology of vision and motion detection)

Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Scanning helium microscopy (SHeM): Real space imaging of delicate surfaces

David Ward, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

African natural products

Chiyedza Heri.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum cryptography: the ultimate physical limits of privacy

Professor Artur Ekert (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from high pressure and reductive chemistry.

Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez, CSEC, University of Edinburgh.

TCM Seminar room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 20 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nicholas Tito, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Transcriptional networks in the developing Xenopus embryo

Jim Smith, MRC National Institute for Medical Research London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 20 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Fracturing of geomaterials

Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Functional circuit plasticity after spinal cord injury: the role of Wnt signaling”

Edmund Hollis, University of California, San Diego.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Active Sensing and Brain oscillations

Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Faster C++

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michele Redi (INFN,Florence).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfabricated acoustic biosensors for detections of clinical biosensors

Nikki Weckman, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Is the coefficient of restitution energentically consistent?

Professor Bill Stronge, CUED (emeritus).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Lava, luck and linear logs

Prof. Simon Redfern, Dept of Earth Sciences.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 20 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The death of the kennel: dog-fouling and dog-walking in 1970s Britain

Neil Pemberton (University of Manchester).

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Towards a new dynamics for Earth's core

Andrew Jackson (ETH Zurich).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Strong coupling in the far-infrared between graphene plasmons and the surface optical phonons of silicon dioxide (DATE TO BE ARRANGED/CONFIRMED)

Dr Isaac Luxmoore, University of Exeter.

Small Lecture Theatre, Room 133, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 23 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Bayesian inference and primary visual cortex: An introduction

Richard Turner (Department of Engineering).

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Does swimming behind get you ahead?: The energetic benefits of moving in fish schools

Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Under pressure: Environmental stressors alter relationships between physiology and behaviour in fishes

Dr Shaun Killen, University of Glasgow.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

LITTLE THINGS and other things: probing star formation near and far

Elias Brinks (University of Hertfordshire).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Malthus and the South Sea

Alison Bashford (Faculty of History).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

Beatrix Potter: Defying the Enemy

Dr Juliet Dusinberre .

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Room 104.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Defects in materials and how to describe them

Sir John Ball, University of Oxford.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 20:00-21:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology

in vivo models

Please note: this talk takes place on WEDNESDAY!

Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population

Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

Anna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Publishing in the Nature Group

Dr Enda Bergin, Associate Editor, Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, London.

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How cells get to be the right size and put things at the right place inside them

Martin Howard, John Innes Centre.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Looking inside moons using gravity and topography

Dr Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Sami Health Transition - a Success Story in a Minority Culture Context

Peter Sköld, Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase

Professor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Making light from the dark universe

Dr Joseph Conlon (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) .

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty

Eran Tal (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC (generation of cell diversity in the mouse brain)

Dr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Probing surface structure and interactions of ionic liquids

Karen Syres, Department of Physics, University of Central Lancashire.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ms Fei (Tiffany) Wang, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Democracy, Education and Humility

Dr Kevin Mott-Thornton.

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Quantifying the Entropy of Binding for Water Molecules In Protein Cavities by Computing Correlations

David Huggins, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Programming and reprogramming to the trophoblast lineage

Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:15-13:55

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics affecting the ballistic limit of thin metal plates

Dr Benjamin P Russell, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Neural representation of complex space

Professor Kate Jeffrey,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Long-running programs

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Marianna Kopsida - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:30-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Matthijs Hogervorst (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identification of a model of driver steering behaviour based on human sensory dynamics

Chris Nash, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Motion of the cello bridge

Ailin Zhang, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Investigation of Growth of CNS Tissue on Engineered and Active Surfaces for Neural Device Application

Prof. Golam M. Newaz.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

From Bench to Books: writing science books for children

Tiffany Taylor.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 27 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Earth's Climate Evolution

Colin Summerhayes.

SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Saturday 28 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800

Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The role of mesoscale processes in biogeochemical cycling during the last glacial termination

Kate Hendry (Earth Sciences).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling the climatic impacts of anthropogenic land use through the Holocene

Dr Joy Singarayer (Reading).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

From research to practice in working memory: The challenges of making a difference

Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU) .

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons

Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations

Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Perception Seminars

Workshop: Machine Learning in Cambridge 2015

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

Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 09:00-18:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Ian Charest, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Children's Perceptions of their Sibling Relationships: Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Naomi White, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Chemical Adventures Using the Unified Principles of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, Emeritus Professor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

tba

Sophie Renner (DAMPT).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social Learning Strategies & Cumulative Culture

Dr Rachel Kendal, University of Durhum.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara & Leiden).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Women and children first: imaging medical genetics, 1950s–1970s

María Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

London Bridge in the late fifteenth century: ‘comparable in itself to a little city’?

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr Justin Colson, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Philip Campbell.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

BRC Seminar Series

tbc

Professor Andreas Faissner, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex

Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The curious incident of the seal in the pond

Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences

Christopher Clarke (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Transport-driven dynamics in bio-inspired systems

Dr Annette Taylor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield.

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Rob Jack, University of Bath.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Large earthquakes in stable continental plate interiors: the need for a new paradigm

Dr Eric Calais, ENS Paris.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

Newtonian politics

Jason Grier (York University, Canada).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

The decolonization of images in contemporary Brazilian picturebooks

Claudia Mendes.

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Boulind Room.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones

Prof. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Silicon in the 21st century

Professor Gabriel Aeppli (UCL).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 20:00-21:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Epidemiology

Paul Pharoah, CRUK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 09:30-10:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Performing and mediating science on television

Tim Boon (Science Museum, London).

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890–1925

Julie Anderson (University of Kent).

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

TBC (molecular mechanisms of emphysema, hypoxia and lung aging)

Professor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cross Coupling 2.0

Professor Jeffrey Bode.

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Andy Sederman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Peter Kirkwood, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration

Peter Grubb.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Christiane de Morais-Smith, University of Utrecht.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2015, 11:15-12:15

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Neurotransduction mechanism via GPCRs: alpha helix, the smallest spring in nature

Sinisa Vukovic, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Modelling Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Fibres

Dr James Elliot, Department of Materials Science.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Growth and form of the gut

Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Premembering Perception

Professor Anna Christina Nobre Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Yacine Rezgui - Cardiff University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 06 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Robert Ziegler (UPMC, Paris).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mechanism of premature cracking in jointed plain concrete pavements

Terry Xu, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Chris de Saxe, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution

Petter Hellström (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 13:00-14:15

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Oil Palms, Alkenes, SCIs and Ozone: New measurement approaches to sidestep atmospheric chemical complexity

Bill Bloss (Birmingham).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Glasses in the sky: What's (not) going on inside atmospheric aerosol particles?

Dr Daniel Lienhard (Chemistry, Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cephalopod-derived Materials for Photonic and Protonic Devices

Informal Materials RIG seminar

Professor Alon Gorodetsky, University of California, Irvine.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

X-ray diffraction techniques to obtain structural information (powder and single crystal)

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Vision

Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology).

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

New perspectives on cochlear nerve degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss

Charles Liberman. Harvard Medical School.

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material

Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering.

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Antonios Kanaras (University of Southampton) .

Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Sonar (TBC)

Greg Hallewell (TBC).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Balancing selection in Müllerian mimicry: causes and consequences

Dr Violaine Llaurens, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen).

DAMTP, room MR11.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Recent developments in galaxy spectral modelling

Stephane Charlot (Institut Astrophysique de Paris).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Early Medicine Seminars

The 'consultations' of Dr William Cullen (1710–1790): creating a digital edition

David Shuttleton (University of Glasgow).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr David Motadel, Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Title to be confirmed

Sir Salvador Moncada.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 20:00-21:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN)

Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Scott Gilbert.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The philosophical role of illness

Havi Carel (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:30

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

Dr. Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Molecular choreography: Towards the engineering of antibody behaviour.

Dr Jonathan Phillips, Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Thermostabilisation of G protein-coupled receptors to facilitate structure determination

Chris Tate, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

The nature and properties of fracture damage surrounding faults

Dr Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Topological insulators: an experimentalist's perspective

Professor Thorsten Hesjedal (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 20:00-21:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909

Patrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Seismic retrofitting of historic masonry structures

Prof Gianmarco De Felice - Department of Engineering of the University Roma Tre.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG

Jean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) .

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

Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Foster Talks

TBC (integration of visual information in fly brains)

Dr Trevor Wardill, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Shocking sand: Granular materials under extreme conditions

James Perry, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Electrokinetics for dewatering coal waste sludge

Dr May Chan, Atkins.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Title to be confirmed

Usual venue not available this week. An alternative is being planned.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

‘Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium 2015’ (students from both the Biological and Synthetic RIGS will be interested in this Symposium)

Professor Edward Tate.

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

Friday 13 March 2015, 09:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Slavich (LPTHE, Paris).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Centrifugal vibration absorbers and some applied mechanics history

Professor David Newland, CUED (emeritus).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 13 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Bioengineering student talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 13 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBC - personal genomics

Paul Flicek, EMBL - EBI.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 13 March 2015, 18:15-19:15

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Life on the edge: language and story telling in a cold place

Stephen Pax Leonard.

SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Saturday 14 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling individual convective clouds

Leif Denby (Geography, Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

Speaker to be confirmed.

Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

Monday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthetic Methodology Emerging from Activation of Si-H and B-H Bonds

Professor Martin Oestreich.

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

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

Prof. Edward Tate, Imperial College.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dwaipayan Adhya, PhD Student at the Autism Research Centre.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands

Peter Payne.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Smoke and mirrors: Infrared spectroscopy and radiometry for the study of biomass burning emissions

Tom Smith (KCL).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Anticancer Discovery from Simple and Complex Compounds

Professor Paul Hergenrother .

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

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change

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

Prof. David Marshall, University of Oxford.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water-column nutrient fluxes along the continental margin of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

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

Lee Bryant, University of Bath.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 08 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

44 million of our birds are missing

Niki Williamson.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CSAR debate:

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Monday 13 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Vascular Basis of Neurodegeneration and Dementia”

Prof Raj Kalaria.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address on “Garden ecology”, and AGM

Please note earlier start: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm

Mark Hill.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 19:00-21:00

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

Music education technology in/for the digital era: implications for teacher training and research

Professor Lauri Väkevä, University of the Arts, Helsinki.

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

Monday 20 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Energy peaks and future progress on the top quark mass measurement

Rroberto Franceschini (CERN TH).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Doug Stephan.

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

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Resonant x-ray diffraction techniques to probe magnetic and electronic properties

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence: Microsoft Machine Learning and Perception

Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

Alexander Haumann, ETH Zurich.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploitation of fundamental and biomedical functions of clathrin-independent endocytosis

Prof. Ludger Johannes, Institute Curie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Foster Talks

TBC (neural progenitors / brain & spinal cord development)

Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBC - Emotion Sense & the use of mobile phone data

Neal Lathia, Computer Laboratory.

Room TBC, Wolfson College.

Friday 01 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Lewis Lecture 1

Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

BRC Seminar Series

"The multicellular complexity of peripheral nerve repair"

Professor Alison Lloyd, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Lewis Lecture 2

Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

X-ray spectroscopic methods to measure energy response function (absorption techniques)

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 11 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dragonfly Wings: A model evolutionary system.

Dr Robin Wooton, University of Exeter.

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

Monday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Dr Antonia Hamilton, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBC (Catalyst Research)

Dr. York, Johnson Matthey.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 15 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

X-ray Spectroscopy: Photoemission and magnetic dichroism

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 18 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

BRC Seminar Series

"The Extracellular matrix of the brain in neuronal plasticity and learning"

Renato Frischknecht, AG Perisynaptic Extracellular Matrix Department of Neurochem & Molecular Biology, Brenneckestr, Magdeburg.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Imaging techniques

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Monday 25 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Professor Robert Koepp, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Illinois College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

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

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-16:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

TBC

Dr. Stone (Novalia) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 29 May 2015, 18:15-19:15

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Spielman (Yale).

MR2, CMS.

Monday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

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

Monday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Dr. Laura Zucconi, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Associate Professor ,Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Making Shale Oil and Gas Production Safer and More Efficient

Prof. Andrew R Barron, Materials Science, Rice University.

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

Monday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour.

Dr Nigel Woodcock.

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

Thursday 18 June 2015, 18:30-20:00

BRC Seminar Series

"Challenges in recovering peripheral nerve function after injury"

Dr.Tessa Gordon, Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Totonto..

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolution of Functionality of Porous Coordination Polymers

2013 winner of RSC de Gennes Prize for outstanding & exceptional work in the field of Materials Chemistry

Professor Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

Roles of cytoskeleton in hippocampal synaptic plasticity

For details of how to get to the MRC LMB, please see: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/about-lmb/how-to-find-us/

Dr. Yasunori Hayashi, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan.

Klug Seminar Room, Level 2 2A180, MRC LMB.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00-17:00