SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

Professor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

Google Meets.

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

RPV and long lived SUSY

Katherine Pachal (Duke University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

TBD

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

Rebecca Jackson, Rutgers University.

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

EML webinar Liquid crystal elastomers

Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharaya's.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

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.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Carlijn Bouten, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Zoom.

Friday 09 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An introduction to the DVRG

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Online - Zoom link to follow.

Friday 09 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

Online Lecture

Professor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Time and venue to be confirmed.

Monday 12 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

Professor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Is the COVID-19 pandemic really causing mental illness?

Professor Paul Fletcher.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Higgs --> mumu from CMS

Raffaele Gerosa (University of California, San Diego).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theoretical Predictions of Superconducting and Superhard Materials

Professor Eva Zurek, University at Buffalo.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Social risk taking in adolescence

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr LukaCmok, CUED.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrea Codolini, CUED.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Tisal Edirisinghe, CUED.

Online - Teams link to follow.

Friday 16 October 2020, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

NeuroCOVID: Epidemiology, biomarkers, and pathophysiology

Professor David Menon.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Quantum computing for HEP

Heather Gray (LBNL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

Mitch Bushuk, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr David Glowacki, University of Bristol.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:30-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Values-based Practice in Psychiatry

chair: Dr Asha Praseedom

Dr Robert Dudas, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust & Department of Psychiatry .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

TBA

Benyi Cao, CUED.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

New 1D models for localisation in slender structures

Claire Lestringant, Structural Engineering, Cambridge.

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Malar Chellasivalingam, CUED.

Online - Teams link to follow.

Friday 23 October 2020, 16:00-16:30

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Dr Andrew Muray - Title to be confirmed

Online Lecture

Dr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Time and venue to be confirmed.

Monday 26 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people.

Professor Tamsin Ford.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Jesse Thaler (MIT).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Machine Learning for Critical Care: Using Neural Networks to Predict Patient Mortality

First Year PhD Report

Conor Cafolla, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:30-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

First Year PhD Report

Charles Gong, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)

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

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Padmeya Indukar,CUED.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 30 October 2020, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Shuvra Das, CUED.

Zoom.

Friday 30 October 2020, 15:30-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID

Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care).

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Monday 02 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Tetraquarks

Liupan An (INFN Florence).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Wavefunction based correlation methods for molecular condensed phase systems

Professor Jürg Hutter, University of Zurich.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

TBD

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

Luwei Yang, University of California, Los Angeles.

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

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

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Don't go breaking my heart: antipsychotics and cardiometabolic health in schizophrenia (and what clinicians should be doing)

chair: Dr HIsham Ziauddeen

Dr Toby Pillinger, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour of structures with basements in liquefiable soil

Dr Fiona Hughes, Graduate Geotechnical Engineer at Arup.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Zoom.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Dr Julia Wolf - title to be confirmed

Dr Julia Wolf, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

Time and venue to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK

Dr Rudolf Cardinal.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

First-principles simulation of electronic processes due to ionic projectiles traversing matter

Professor Emilio Artacho, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

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

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

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

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.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

TBA

Zijing Li, CUED.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sina Askarinejad, CUED.

Zoom.

Friday 13 November 2020, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Shrinidhi Pandurangi, CUED.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 13 November 2020, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Tore Butlin, CUED.

Online - Teams link to follow.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Is Dementia Preventable?

Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, UCL..

Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 16 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Neutrino Oscillation: The Long and the Short of It

Steve Dennis (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr. David Belin.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Evolved minimal frustration - How multiple functions are encoded in biomolecules

Dr Konstantin Röder, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Vikram Deshpande, CUED.

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 .

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

TBD

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

Georgy Manucharyan, University of Washington.

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

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

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Alcohol and Older People. What's the Use?

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Dr Tony Rao, King's College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Performance of drains in earthquake-induced liquefaction mitigation under new and existing buildings

Samy Garcia-Torres, CUED.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Dr Mohammed Hussein, Qatar University.

Online - Teams link to follow.

Friday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Shaochen Chen, Chair of NanoEngineering Department, University of California,.

Zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor Sadaf Farooqi - title to be confirmed

Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Time and venue to be confirmed.

Monday 23 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The hydrophobic effect characterises the thermodynamic signature of amyloid fibril growth

Dr Sanne Abeln, Vrije University Amsterdam.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:30-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

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

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

TBA

Charalampos Konstantinou (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-16:45

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

Professor Julian Dunne, University of Sussex.

Online - Teams link to follow.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

TBC

Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).

Register on Zoom - link in abstract.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

TBD

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

Madi Rosevear, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 10:00-11:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Valeria Molinero, University of Utah.

Zoom - link to be announced.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 09:30-10:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

TBA

Dr Thejesh Kumar Garala, Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-16:45

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do the other cells do?

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

Dr Jacqui Shields, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anti-cancer therapy

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

Dr Gary Doherty, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Online only - Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/bfp-pafk-znm.

Thursday 17 December 2020, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 14 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Phenotypic Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants

Dr Kimberly Kendall, Cardiff University .

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

Dr Debora Sijacki. Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 01 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

Professor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Location: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

Monday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE - title to be confirmed

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum Informatics amd Quantum Technologies - One day meeting

Organised by : Professor Ron Horgan and Professor Adrian Kent.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 26 March 2021, 09:00-17:15

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 26 May 2021, 14:15-15:15