Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Death, Identity, and the Social Network

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

Jed Brubaker, University of California.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations

Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

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.

Inter-hemispheric symmetry or asymmetry in variations of tropical rainbelt during the last glacial cycle? perspectives from a climate model-data comparison

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

AMOP list

Experimental investigations of the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms

Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 02 March 2015, 15:30-17:00

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

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Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Design and Evaluation of Proxemic-Aware Environments to Support Epistemic Activities

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Roman Radle, University of Konstanz.

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

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

The effects of different sudden stratospheric warming types on the ocean

If external to BAS, contact the organiser for gaining access to building.

Amee O'Callaghan, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Negative eigenvalues of two-dimensional Schroedinger operators

Periodic and Ergodic Spectral Problems

Shargorodsky, E (King's College London).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

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

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

Optoelectronics Group

TBA

Antonios G. Kanaras , University of Southampton.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Composite leptoquarks and anomalies in B decays

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

Knotted structures of light, gravitational radiation, and plasma

Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara & Leiden).

DAMTP, room MR11.

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

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Cold gas outflows and lifecycle of radio galaxies

Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

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

What am I? The identity of an intercultural arts performer-researcher in the field

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity

Genevera I. Allen (Rice University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Resolvent estimates for high-contrast elliptic problems with periodic coefficients

Periodic and Ergodic Spectral Problems

Cooper, S (University of Bristol).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

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

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Slow dynamics in self-assembly and protein folding

Rob Jack, University of Bath.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer lecture theatre.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

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, 16:15-17:15

Indo-European Seminar

On phylogenetic classification

Tea served from 16.15

Dr Annemarie Verkerk (Reading).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Peptides as drugs and tools to study biological systems

Emma Cahill (Dept Psychology) & Albert Isidro-Llobet (GSK).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Programming and Proving with Fine-Grained Concurrent Resources

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

Ilya Sergey, IMDEA Software Institute.

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 10:00-11:00

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

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Urban Microclimate and human-biometeorology

Prof.Dr. Andreas Matzarakis, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.

Room SG1, CRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Should we worry about artificial intelligence?

Yarin Gal, James Lloyd.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

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

Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction

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

Magnetic resonance in physics and engineering: Dynamics of solids and fluids

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

Cyclic lateral loading of monopiles for offshore wind turbines

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field Sensing

Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD.

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

Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field Sensing

Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD.

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

Friday 06 March 2015, 09:00-10:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

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

Sinisa Vukovic, University of Cambridge.

Todd Hamied Room, Dept. 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 Kia 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

Canceled

Prof Yacine Rezgui - Cardiff University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Models of Modified Gauge Mediation

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

Visual sensing and awareness for heavy goods vehicles

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

International Development - Where is the Evidence?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Winstanley Lecture Hall Trinity College.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-19:00

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

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity?

Prof Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Dynamical Response to the QBO in the Northern Winter Stratosphere: Signatures in Wave Forcing and Eddy Fluxes of Potential Vorticity

Ian P. White, British Antarctic Survey.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Theory Uncertainties in LHC Higgs Production and N3LO QCD

Franz Herzog (Nikhef).

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

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

The roles of arts therapies in secure settings with specific examples from recent music therapy research studies in prisons and high secure forensic settings in China and Europe

Dr Helen Odell-Miller, Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

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

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Group-theoretic algorithms for matching problems with applications to computer vision.

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

Deepti Pachauri, University of Wisconsin Madison..

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 10:00-11:00

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

Subtropical icebergs, glacial lakes, and Heinrich Events: How did meltwater trigger past abrupt climate change?

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

TBC (SP Workshop)

Mr David Jessop, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Indo-European Seminar

"A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration"

Tea served from 16.15

Dr Rebecca Grollemund (Reading).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

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

From unlimited to situated: A reappraisal of children’s ‘potential’

Dr Rupert Higham, Faculty of Education; Dr Clementine Beauvais, Homerton College.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

An introduction to the Mondrian Process

Matej Balog (Oxford).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Benjamin Doyon, King's College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

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

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

Industrial examples on traditional and non-traditional techniques for sludge treatment

Dr May Chan, Atkins.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

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

Millennium Maths Project public lectures

Some essential links between maths and the arts - Cambridge Science Festival

Professor John D Barrow FRS.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

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

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Solving the Hartree-Fock equations using the finite element method

Michael Herbst.

Todd Hamied Room, Dept. of Chemistry.

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

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

Mapping the rapid changes in mammalian genome regulation

Paul Flicek, EMBL - EBI.

Gatsby Room, 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

Special Departmental Seminars

“Light and colour: experiments and theory”

2015 Science Festival Talk

Malcolm Longair ( Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory).

Pippard Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) – from data acquisition to results interpretation

Natalia Bulgakova (Gurdon Institute).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 18:30-20:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods game

Matthias Bauer .

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)

Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:00-20:00

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

British Antarctic Survey

Title to be confirmed

If external to BAS, contact the organiser for gaining access to building.

Peer Johannes Nowack, University of Cambridge.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

tba (going beyond the eikonal approximation)

Chris White (Glasgow).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

TBC

Dr Dirk Backes, University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

"A Common Platform to Enable Nanoscale Synthesis"

Dr Timothy Cernak, Merck.

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

Thursday 26 March 2015, 16:00-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Paul Goulart, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 02 April 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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Clara Ionescu, Ghent University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Cristina Muresan, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 09 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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Ultrasonic gas mixture analysis for Cherenkov Refractometry and coolant leak hunting in silicon trackers.

Greg Hallewell, CNRS Marseille.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

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

"Postdoc Masterclass" for All Life Scientists

Genetic screening of the human kinome identifies a cellular signalling network predictive of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease & Circadian abnormality in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal models

Becky Inkster (Dept Psychiatry) & Ko-Fan Chen (Dept Genetics).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 18:30-20:00

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Motomu Kanai, The University of Tokyo.

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

Friday 17 April 2015, 16:00-18:00

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

Foster Talks

Relationships between Immunity & Neuroendocrinology (TBC)

Professor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neural circuits underlying operant learning in larval zebrafish.

Prof. Florian Engert. Harvard University.

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

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

Causes and effects of recent changes in Antarctic sea-ice transport

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

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Indentation of a viscoelastic half-space

Dr J Greenwood, CUED (Emeritus).

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia

Dr Per Ola Kristensson, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

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

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 Stephen Jeffress, University of Oxford.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Dr Betsy Murray, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH, USA.

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

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Bjørn L. Basberg, Professor in Economic History, Norwegian School of Economics; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Visiting Scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Neil Drummond, Lancaster University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

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

Kevin Oliver, NOC Southampton.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Quantification of near field blast loading

Sam Clarke, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

Imaging techniques

Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd..

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

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Why fracking works and why not well enough

Zdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

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.

Thursday 02 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

BRC Seminar Series

"Microtubule-based therapy for spinal cord injury and Alzheimer's disease"

Professor Peter Baas, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Philadelphia, USA.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 23 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Foster Talks

TBC (physics of the cytoskeleton and morphogenesis)

Dr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Guy Gilboa (Technion).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Simon Masnou (Université de Lyon).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

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