Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Consciousness

Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A rigid analytic approach to Hyodo-Kato theory

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Veronika Ertl (Universität Regensburg).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 17 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Jordan decomposition for the Alperin-McKay conjecture

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Lucas Ruhstorfer (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The homology of correspondence spaces and some massless tree amplitude identities

Hadleigh Frost (Oxford).

MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Upgrade

Samuel Webb (Imperial College London).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Reconstructing Noah's ark in the 17th-century Dutch Republic

Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute and Leiden University).

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

Dr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Biophysical Seminars

Protein misfolding in Alzheimer’s disease

Prof. Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, UK.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Quasi-1D Lithium-ion dynamics in high-rate complex oxide battery electrodes

Can Kocer.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Nuno Reis - title TBC

Dr Nuno Reis, University of Bath.

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

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Nuclear Quantum Effects – Fast and Accurate

Venkat Kapil, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

Antonia Ruppel (Oxford).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels (Kurdish and Arabic)

Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

TBC

Prof. Didier Queloz.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Motivic tt-geometry

KAH - K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

Martin Gallauer (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 11:15-12:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

CANCELLED

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares Programming

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley.

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-18:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory

Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The case for modelled democracy

CANCELLED

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Exploiting shape anisotropy for binary magnetic memories

Peter Newton, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Can New Physics hide inside the proton?

Shayan Iranipour.

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Hyperbolic generalized triangle groups, property (T) and finite simple quotients

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Imagers Interest Group

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

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

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Geometry and rheology of epithelial monolayers

Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving: applications to human disease and expanding populations

Jacob Scott, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Structural dynamics in the construction of the world's tallest modular building

Dr John Hickey.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

How mixed is the ocean mixed layer?

Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Exotic fusion systems

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

Valentina Grazian (Università degli Studi di Padova ).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Dark matter searches with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Phillip Gadow (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Matthew Powner, University College London.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham).

MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Serological surveillance: transfusion, genetics and rare blood in postwar Britain

Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia

Dr Anjali B. Datta, Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

ARClub Talks

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Thermal transport beyond Fourier, and beyond Boltzmann

Michele Simoncelli, Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

CANCELLED

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bioinspired Nano- and Microstructured Surfaces: From Analysis and Replication to Applications

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Hoelscher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Germany).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Sum of its Parts: MBE-FCI Theory

Dr Janus Juul Eriksen, University of Bristol.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Lady Margaret Lectures

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

Professor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

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

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Towards 3D characterization of nanomaterials under realistic conditions

Prof Sara Bals (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core

Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Evidence for finite dissipation during vortex reconnection

Rober Kerr, University of Warwick.

MR 14.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing

Stephen Walley, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

di-boson at the LHC (tentative title)

Marius Wiesemann (Munich).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Summands of tensor powers of modules for a finite group

GRA - Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives

David Benson (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

Sophia Upton.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designed Polynuclear Metal Compounds For the Activation of Small Molecules

Prof Leslie Murray (University of Florida, USA).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Friday 28 February 2020, 10:00-11:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The modern-day blacksmith

Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matte, Physics, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Multiscale approaches to modelling vascular tumour growth

Helen Byrne, University of Oxford.

Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Naoki Onozato, MHI.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Electronics on the Brain

George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Separating the forced atmospheric circulation response to Arctic sea-ice loss from internal variability

Christine McKenna, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

To fly or not to fly? Improving volcanic ash forecasts for aviation

Dr. Natalie Harvey, University of Reading.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Presentations by candidates for the Departmental Communications Manager position - Day 1

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 09:00-10:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Random surfaces and Liouville quantum gravity

Ewain Gwynne (DPMMS).

MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for new physics with kaons at NA62 and beyond

Prof. Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Beginnings of Global Opera

Dr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

Special Departmental Seminars

Presentations by candidates for the Departmental Communications Manager position - Day 2

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 09:00-10:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from sociological case studies

CANCELLED

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing

Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations

Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

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

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

chair: Prof Tamsin Ford

Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deep Dictionary Learning Approaches for Image Super-Resolution

Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College London).

MR 14.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Postcolonial blood infrastructures of hepatitis B (a view from West Africa)

Noemi Tousignant (UCL).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jet substructure and top-taggers for highly boosted tops

Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Forensic explosives analysis

Mike O'Donnell, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

Mal Faloon.

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Optical superresolution microscopy of molecular mechanisms of disease

Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Predicting Long Runout Landslides

Professor Paul M. Santi, Colorado School of Mine.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 06 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tailoring nonlinearity for advanced engineering design

Prof Gaëtan Kerschen, University of Liege.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change

This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.

Prof Martin White, MD FFPH.

Wolfson College, Lee Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Imagers Interest Group

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheet

Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions

Host: Hugh Robinson

Gilad Silberberg, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 09 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Double Copy of a Point Charge

Ricardo Monteiro (Queen Mary).

MR11.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Raquel Gomez (Durham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Raquel Gomez (Durham).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

CANCELLED

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Bridging the Gap: writing commentaries on the Dead Sea scrolls in the 21st century

Dr Noam Mizrahi, Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Seminars by the candidates for the Lectureship in High Energy Physics

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 09:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Ewa Marek - title TBC

Dr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosh Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

I know what you don't know: egophoricity and Jejuan morphosyntax

Dr Soung-u Kim (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals: Modeling, Analysis, Computations and Experiments

Panayotis Kevrekidis.

MR 14.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

3D Genomics in development and disease

Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Steven Abel (Durham).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Creative Agency and Intercultural Empathy in Applied Ethnomusicology and Community Music Action Research: a Discussion of Methodological Challenges

Juniper Hill, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology in the Institute of Musical Research at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

CUED Bioengineering Conference

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McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 08:30-14:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Special Departmental Seminars

GAPSTI Lectureship in Medical Therapeutics - candidates seminars

Speaker to be confirmed.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Monday 16 March 2020, 09:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

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

Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do our brains form maps of the world?

Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seasearch

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Paul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alex Hopkins Lecture: the joy of discovery

Professor Ben Feringa, University of Groningen.

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

Friday 20 March 2020, 17:00-18:15

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Scrutton, The University of Manchester.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

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

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:00-10:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 1

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 2

Free Public Exhibition.

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

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

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

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis

Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Weakly bound molecular dimers: Intra- and intermolecular vibrational states, and their infrared and Raman spectra, from fully coupled high-dimensional quantum calculations

Professor Zlatko Bačić, New York University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Robb Rutledge, MRC Career Development Fellow, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Karyn Le Hur, Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 23 April 2020, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Explosive and Degassing volcanic eruptions: natural analogues with relevance for geoengineering schemes

Professor Jim Haywood, University of Exeter/Met Office.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

DUNE - Precision Neutrino Physics of the Future

Prof. Alfons Weber (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Professor Liam Grover - title TBC

Professor Liam Grover, University of Birmingham.

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

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

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

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute, Prof Paul Pharoah, Dept Public Health & Primary Care.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Leibniz University Hannover.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

Thursday 30 April 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rodrigo Alonso (Durham).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

AGM and Presidential Address: Cambridge Dragonflies

AGM and Duncan Mackay.

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

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-20:45

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using CO2 to Your Advantage

Prof Matt Kanan (Stanford University, USA).

PfizerLecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Predicting catalysis and photochemistry using automated reaction discovery tools

Dr Scott Habershon (University of Warwick).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Prof Mustafa Khammash.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin).

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Affect and empiricism in the early modern Arctic

Anne Goldgar (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 17:00-18:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Martin Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Foster Talks

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Heike Arnolds, Department of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Biological and Biomedical Physics

Integrating Imaging and Computational Modelling to Gain Therapeutic Insights for Cancer

Becky Shipley, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 15 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Marta Correia ( MRC CBU).

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Neutrino interactions and long-baseline oscillation experiments

Stephen Dolan (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Nicholas Blunt, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

chair: Prof Tim Dalgleish

Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Christoph Dellago, University of Vienna.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jovana Milic, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

TBA

Eric Chan (Cavpoint).

MR 14.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Biological and Biomedical Physics

TBA

Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

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

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The common link between schizophrenia and diabetes

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

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

Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview and latest results

Prof. Peter Bernath - University of Waterloo.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 14 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Prof M Kevin Brown, INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON.

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

Monday 26 October 2020, 16:00-17:00