Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Fixing the Standard Model: from the chemistry lab to the chocolate shop

Claire Malone (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.

Dr John Gent, KCL.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Creating a Commonwealth intelligence culture? Security sector reform and the politics of assistance in building the Tanzanian state, 1945-1989

Thomas Maguire.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Optoelectronics Group

Deep Blue Organic TADF Emitters for Electroluminescent Devices

Prof Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Emma Slade (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Title tbc

Dr Claire Le Gall and Dr Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:30-16:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Magnetic Skyrmions at critical coupling

Calum Ross (Heriot-Watt).

MR11.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Future of Scientific Publishing

Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-chief of Nature.

Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Solving Darwin’s 'abominable mystery': the evolution and development of nectar spurs

Ms Erin Cullen (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

Host: Sam Lewis

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Optoelectronics Group

Flexible a-IGZO TFT Technology: Recent Developments & Applications

Dr Auke Kronemeijer (Holst Centre, TNO).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon

Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Stem cells, regeneration and organoid cultures

Meritxell Huch, Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Member of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons

Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons

Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 04 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Sophie Calle: Turning Love Backwards

Jezebel Mansell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

ATLAS Trigger Level Analysis

William Kalderon (Lund).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series Milstein Lecture - Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration

Pietro De Camilli Departments of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kavli Institute for Neuroscince, Yale University School of Medicine.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Chemical Control of Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors

Dr. Jonathan Alaria, University of Liverpool.

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 11:15-12:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Observing active galaxies, the sites of growing supermassive black holes

Dr George Lansbury (University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling

Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

Sebastian Trojanowski (NCNR Warsaw & CFP, Sheffield).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Animating Molecular Biology

Janet Iwasa, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, University of Utah.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.

Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England.

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Scenarios, forecasts, and projections – thinking about the future of technological change and climate change mitigation

Ida Sognnaes.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Optoelectronics Group

Highly Luminescent Nanocrystals of Caesium and Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskites: From Discovery to Applications

Prof Dr Maksym Kovalenko.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Phi^4 kinks on a wormhole spacetime

Alice Waterhouse (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

Mary-Claire King, human geneticist professor, University of Washington.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

Dr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Sterile Neutrinos in Reactor and Accelerator Experiments

Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (KIT).

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C

Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

Prof. Antoine Browaeys, University of Oxford.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Optoelectronics Group

Light-Conversion Mechanisms in Metal Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Prof Laura Herz (University of Oxford).

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Pathogen restriction and host specificity: insights from the human pathogen Salmonella Typhi

Jorge Galan, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 05 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Factors and Functions of ER Membrane Contact Sites

Gia Voeltz PhD, HHMI Investigator and Professor University of Colorado at Boulder.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - CryoEM of proton pumping macromolecular machines

John Rubinstein.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 29 April 2019, 00:00-00:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

From the deuteron to the beauteron

Tim Burns (Swansea).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

David Rudner, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 03 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Berta Verd

Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Modifications of RNA: their function and role in cancer

Tony Kouzarides, PhD FRS FMedSci, Professor of Cancer Biology, Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Member of the Department of Pathology.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Jack Denny, Department of Engineering, University of Southampton.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Madhavi Krishnan, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - The 100,000 genomes project and beyond

Tim Hubbard, Professor of Bioinformatics & Head of Department, King’s College London.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

Xiaodong Zhang.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series Perutz Lecture - The enigmatic TMEM16 family

Lily Jan, ack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 19 September 2019, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-16:30