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These meetings take place every other Thursday for people to catch up on research, give short informal talks or walk us through a paper they’ve worked on or would like to discuss. If you would like to propose a theme, give a short talk, or discuss a paper, please contact the talk organiser. To join remotely: If you have a CRSID , go here: https://www.lclu.cam.ac.uk/university-members If you do not have a CRSID , e-mail the organizer to ask for zoom details. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Paul B. Rimmer; Alison Read; Selen Etingü. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 14 upcoming talks and 70 talks in the archive. Margarida Hermida, Topic TBAMargarida Hermida (Kings College London, Philosophy). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 07 November 2024, 11:00-12:00 Euan Furness on "Drivers of the Shuram isotope excursion: biology, geology, and chemistry at the origin of animal life."Euan Furness (Cambridge Zoology). Glover Room, Memorial Court, Clare College. Thursday 24 October 2024, 11:00-12:00 Gregory & Virginia Chaitin: "Von Neumann on biology and life as evolving software?"Gregory & Virginia Chaitin. Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00 Manuel Scherf on "The evolution and prevalence of Earth-like Habitats in the Galaxy"Manuel Scherf (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Wednesday 09 October 2024, 11:00-12:00 Jonah Peter: Building the Molecules of Life on Ocean WorldsJonah Peter (Harvard Biophysics). Thursday 19 September 2024, 11:00-12:00 Laurent Wiesenfeld: "The coming of age of Astrochemistry"Laurent Wiesenfeld (Lab. Aimé-Cotton CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay). Thursday 05 September 2024, 11:00-12:00 Zoe Todd on Prebiotic Chemistry in a Planetary ContextZoe Todd (Chemistry & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin). Thursday 11 July 2024, 11:00-12:00 Robin Wordsworth on "‘Life beyond planetary gravity wells"Robin Wordsworth (Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard). Thursday 27 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Mohammad Farhat on the Earth and the MoonMohammad Farhat (Paris Observatory). Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Siyi Xu on the Composition of ExoplanetsSiyi Xu (Gemini Observatory, MIT). Thursday 06 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 Ben Tutolo on Mars GeochemistryBen Tutolo (Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment; University of Calgary). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 23 May 2024, 11:00-12:00 Nidhi Rohit Bangera on ''Production of false-positive Biosignatures on Hot Gas Giants''Nidhi Rohit Bangera - OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Thursday 16 May 2024, 11:00-12:00 Chris Oldfield: What counts as a life in the science of life?Chris Oldfield (Cambridge Philosophy). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 09 May 2024, 11:00-12:00 Jules Macome on Philosophy of Origins of Life ResearchJules Macome (Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 25 April 2024, 11:00-12:00 Sean Jordan on Venus and Exo-VenusSean Jordan (Cambridge IoA). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 11 April 2024, 11:00-12:00 Andrew Robinson on "Vital Signs: What has Semiotics to do with the Origins of Life?"Andrew Robinson (Exeter Theology). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 14 March 2024, 11:00-12:00 CANCELLED: Rafal Szabla on Quantum Chemical Perspective on the Prebiotic Origins of RNA and DNARafal Szabla (Wroclaw Tech, Chemistry). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00 David Baum on "On Autocatalytic Chemical Ecosystems and the Origins of Evolution"David Baum (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Botany). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00 Richard Anslow on Impacts and Prebiotic ChemistryRichard Anslow (Cambridge IoA). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00 Barbara Sherwood Lollar on the Hidden BiogeosphereBarbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto Earth Sciences). Thursday 25 January 2024, 11:00-12:00 Tereza Constantinou on the Link Between Geochemistry and AtmospheresTereza Constantinou (Cambridge IoA). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 18 January 2024, 11:00-12:00 Liton Majumdar on the Link Between Planet Formation and AtmospheresLiton Majumdar (NISER, Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 07 December 2023, 11:00-12:00 Stephane Mazevet on Methanogenesis in EnceladusStephane Mazevet (Nice, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00 LCLU Coffee - Lloyd Demetrius on "The Origin of Cooperation"Lloyd Demetrius (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard). Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00 Sam Roberts on Prebiotic ChemistrySam Roberts (MRC-LMB). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00 Dimitar Sasselov on The Central Dogma of Biological HomochiralityDimitar Sasselov (Harvard Astronomy). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00 Alejandro Paredes on Numerical modeling of radiation-induced reactionsAlejandro Paredes (UNAM, Earth Science). Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00 Skyla White on Exploring the Kinetics of Prebiotic Reaction NetworksSkyla White (Cambridge Physics). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 12 October 2023, 11:00-12:00 Paul B Rimmer on Prebiotic Fitness LandscapesPaul B Rimmer (Cambridge Physics). Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Thursday 28 September 2023, 11:00-12:00 LCLU Coffee: The Puzzle of Planet FormationJoanna Drazkowska, MPS Göttingen. Thursday 24 August 2023, 11:00-12:00 How to Build a Planet - Ingredients -- with Martin SuttleMartin Suttle (Open University). Thursday 10 August 2023, 11:00-12:00 (Afternoon Tea) Sy Garte - Accurate Self Replication and LifeSy Garte (Rutgers). Thursday 20 July 2023, 15:00-16:00 Marrick Braam - The Space of Chemical Complexity in Exoplanet AtmospheresMarrick Braam (Edinburgh). Thursday 06 July 2023, 11:00-12:00 Annelies Mortier - Extrasolar Planets and their StarsAnnelies Mortier (Birmingham). Thursday 08 June 2023, 11:00-12:00 Philipp Spillmann - Anomalies and Life in the UniversePhilipp Spillmann - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 LCLU Discussion with Dieter Braun: Godwin Room, Clare CollegeDieter Braun (LMU, Munich). Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 Abhishek Upadhyay - Signatures (4 'R's) of biological life: Reproduction, Replication, Respiration & RhythmsAbhishek Upadhyay - Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Thursday 27 April 2023, 11:00-12:00 Eran Tal - Measurement in Science (Afternoon Tea)Eran Tal (McGill University). Thursday 06 April 2023, 15:00-16:00 Christopher Shingledecker - The Fate of Sulfur in the Interstellar MediumChristopher Shingledecker, Benedictine College. Thursday 30 March 2023, 11:00-12:00 Casey Platnich - DNA and Data StorageCasey Platnich - Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Thursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00 Furkan Ozturk - Magnetic Fields and Solving the Chirality ProblemFurkan Ozturk - Harvard. Thursday 02 March 2023, 11:00-12:00 Callum Fairbairn & Nathan Magnan - Streaming Instabilities and Planet FormationCallum Fairbairn & Nathan Magnan, DAMTP, Cambridge. Thursday 16 February 2023, 11:00-12:00 LCLU Afternoon Tea with Corinna KufnerCorinna Kufner (Harvard). Thursday 09 February 2023, 15:00-16:00 Jonathan Jiang on Climate and ExoplanetsJonathan Jiang, NASA JPL. Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:00-12:00 Cyrille Jeancolas - Philosophy of Origins and AstrobiologyCyrille Jeancolas, University of Durham. Thursday 19 January 2023, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Battcock F17 - Life, the Universe, and Science Fiction: Utopia and the Technological ImaginationCaroline Bassett (Cambridge). Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Thursday 08 December 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Battcock F17 - Bottom-Up Synthetic BiologyBéla Frohn (Max Planck). Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Cavendish: Are we alone in the universe? (Probably)Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge). Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Godwin: Natural Selection and PurposeSeth Hart (University of Durham). Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Cavendish: HCN -- Why do we care, and how can we make it?Paul B Rimmer. Meeting Room (G05), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Thursday 15 September 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Godwin Room - Synthetic BiologyCamillo Moschner (Cambridge). Thursday 01 September 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Battcock F17 - Quantum ChemistryAlex Thom (Cambridge). Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Thursday 04 August 2022, 11:00-12:00 Coffee in Battcock F17 - Lightning Shocks and Prebiotic ChemistryPatrick Barth (St Andrews). Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Thursday 21 July 2022, 11:00-12:00 Atmospheric-interior connection of super-earths and sub-neptunesHilke Schlichting (UCLA). Tuesday 31 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 Protocells - between chemistry and biologyFilip Boskovic (Cavendish Laboratory). Wolfson Seminar South, Trinity College . Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 Arts and humanities and life in the universeDr Andrew Davison (Faculty of Divinity). Thursday 05 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 Do anthropic arguments really work?Speaker to be confirmed. Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College. Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00 Galactic cosmic ray environment for young stars and planetsDonna Rodgers-Lee (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies). Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College. Thursday 07 April 2022, 11:00-12:00 CoffeeSpeaker to be confirmed. Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College. Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00 Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry (part 2)Craig Walton (Department of Earth Sciences). Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College. Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00 Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistryCraig Walton (Department of Earth Sciences). Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College. Thursday 17 February 2022, 11:00-12:00 Aerial BiospheresSean Jordan (IoA). Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College. Thursday 03 February 2022, 11:00-12:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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