Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Crops, People and Pollinators project

Harriet Hunt.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Optoelectronics Group

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals: the interplay between morphology and optical properties

Prof Dr Alexander Urban.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:45-15:45

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Hunting ultra high energy neutrinos with the ANITA experiment

Linda Cremonesi (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Light Sleep

Gero Miesenboeck.

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinking

Professor Margaret Stanley OBE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Perovskite Solar Cells: Printing the future of photovoltaics

Stuart Macpherson (StranksLab, Optoelectronics group, Physics, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense

Host: Felipe Karam Teixeira

Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites

Prof. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Full-field optical metrology

Jonathan Huntley, Department of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Loughborough.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quantum gravity as an EFT, black hole thermodynamics and an excursion into the UV

Basem El-Menoufi (University of Sussex).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Environment of the Elizabethan House – Hardwick Hall

Professor Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

FCC Prospects

Will Fawcett (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Biomimetic surface engineering: manufacturing functional surfaces using digital processing technologies

James Macdonald.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications

Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in time and space

Max Gutierrez.

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Integration-by-parts reductions from algebraic geometry

Kasper Larsen (University of Southampton).

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

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Recognising books made in Cambridge: a University Library bookbindings project

Dr David Pearson, Senior Member, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs Boson with ATLAS

Ben Carlson (Pittsburgh).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Less meat, less heat: how can cafeterias increase vegetarian sales and reduce meat consumption?

Emma Garnett.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Analytical descriptions of atomic-scale surface dynamics

Peter Townsend, SMF Surface Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Valerie Domcke.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Degree of the Corporate-Level Re-Allocation of Resources in the Multi-Business Firm: Dynamism vs. Persistence

Niklas Lindlbauer, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Status and Prospects for Vub measurements

William Sutcliffe (Karhslruhe).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Reconstructing Tissue Architecture by Single Cell Genomics

Sarah Teichmann.

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Mechanism of transformation of neural stem cells by fusion onco-proteins.

Robert Kupp (CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Genomic history of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Some applications of DFT in surface dynamics

Marco Sacchi, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Adam Noble.

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

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spagetti hoops

Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Carrie Partch.

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Economics of Right-Wing Populism

Valentina Ausslandischer, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

MINERvA cross sections

Xianguo Lu (Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative transition in synthetic matter

Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Borates as electrodes for lithium and magnesium-ion batteries

Siân Dutton, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Luc Darme.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

“From Your Sister’s Things…” Clothing Pins and Women’s Economic Agency across Early Second Millennium Anatolia and Assyria

Dr Nancy Highcock, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

3-body B decays

Keri Vos (Siegen University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

A tale of Terror and Erebus: international collaboration and competition in the search for Franklin’s lost expedition

Dr Nanna Kaalund (University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture- Title to be confirmed

Eric Gouaux.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Alexander Panin.

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

Friday 30 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Martin Beck.

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

Monday 03 December 2018, 00:00-00:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Chris Illingworth

Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Tom De Greef, TU Eindhoven.

Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Jane Charlesworth

Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Veronika Sunko, MPI-CPfS Dresden.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:15-12:30

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 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Peer Fischer, Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Wired Magazine.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

Professor Molly Przeworski from Columbia University, New York .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

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

Title to be confirmed

Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY 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 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

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

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

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Genetics Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Host: Alexis Braun

Professor Elly Tanaka from IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna .

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Neurons, Fake News, DNA and your iPhone: The Mathematics of Information

IOANNIS KONTOYIANNIS.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:10-14:00