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Talks on 2018/5/21

11:00 Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it. Rebecca Woodgate, University of Washington British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series
13:00 Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869 Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence) Cabinet of Natural History
13:00 Using orbits to probe ultra-light dark matter Diego Blas (KCL) Cosmology Lunch
14:00 On Superposition, Interference and Feynman paths Urbasi Sinha CQIF Seminar
14:00 Dynamics of warped discs Dr. Christopher Nixon (Leicester) DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars
14:00 Uncertainty quantification in kinetic equations Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Applied and Computational Analysis
14:15 Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.
14:15 Performance optimization of 2.0-2.6 mm metamorphic InGaAs photodetectors Xingyou Chen, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars
15:00 Then initial value problem for the Euler equations of fluids viewed as a convex optimisation problem Yann Brenier, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar
16:00 On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India) Statistics
16:00 A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES Prof. Nigel Hussey, Director of the Nijmegen High Magnetic Field Laboratory Quantum Matter Seminar
16:30 Is Multiplication Commutative? John Mason, Professor Emeritus from the Open University and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Mathematics Education Research Group (MERG)
17:00 Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory Alexandra Chadwick (University of Groningen) Political Thought and Intellectual History
18:00 Cafe Synthetique: Next Generation Synthetic Biologists Speaker to be confirmed Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre
18:00 Warsaw Rising Museum Dr Paweł Ukielski Slavonic Studies
18:00 Illuminating the Big Questions in Science and Society Prof. Sir Richard Friend, Prof. Andrea Ferrari, Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, Prof. Oren Scherman SPIE Cambridge Student Chapter

📅 Talks on Monday, 21 May 2018

11:00

Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it.

👤 Rebecca Woodgate, University of Washington 📚 British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series 📍 British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2

13:00

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

👤 Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence) 📚 Cabinet of Natural History 📍 Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

13:00

Using orbits to probe ultra-light dark matter

👤 Diego Blas (KCL) 📚 Cosmology Lunch 📍 CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]

14:00

On Superposition, Interference and Feynman paths

👤 Urbasi Sinha 📚 CQIF Seminar 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

14:00

Dynamics of warped discs

👤 Dr. Christopher Nixon (Leicester) 📚 DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

14:00

Uncertainty quantification in kinetic equations

👤 Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 📚 Applied and Computational Analysis 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

14:15

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

👤 Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham 📚 Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept. 📍 Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

14:15

Performance optimization of 2.0-2.6 mm metamorphic InGaAs photodetectors

👤 Xingyou Chen, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 📚 Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars 📍 Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory

15:00

Then initial value problem for the Euler equations of fluids viewed as a convex optimisation problem

👤 Yann Brenier, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 📚 Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar 📍 CMS, MR13

16:00

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

👤 Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India) 📚 Statistics 📍 MR14

16:00

A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES

👤 Prof. Nigel Hussey, Director of the Nijmegen High Magnetic Field Laboratory 📚 Quantum Matter Seminar 📍 Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

16:30

Is Multiplication Commutative?

👤 John Mason, Professor Emeritus from the Open University and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford 📚 Mathematics Education Research Group (MERG) 📍 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3

17:00

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📅 Talks on Monday, 21 May 2018

Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it.

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

Using orbits to probe ultra-light dark matter

On Superposition, Interference and Feynman paths

Dynamics of warped discs

Uncertainty quantification in kinetic equations

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

Performance optimization of 2.0-2.6 mm metamorphic InGaAs photodetectors

Then initial value problem for the Euler equations of fluids viewed as a convex optimisation problem

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES

Is Multiplication Commutative?

Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory

Cafe Synthetique: Next Generation Synthetic Biologists

Warsaw Rising Museum

Illuminating the Big Questions in Science and Society