Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum

Dr. Jack Wharton (University College London).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

Professor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking the behaviour of sulfur in oxidised magmas using sulfur isotopes

Zoltán Taracsák (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Do look back – what can the palaeo record tell us about Antarctica’s Doomsday glacier(s)?

This talk is run in association with the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS).

Dr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows

Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

The formation of co-genetic silica-undersaturated and silica-oversaturated igneous rocks: pressure, fractional crystallisation and crustal assimilation

Carrie Soderman (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Why was the Arctic sea ice free 127 000 years ago?

Dr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries

Professor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring changes in exposure to glaciovolcanic hazard

Max Van Wyk De Vries (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Palaeoecological Insights into the Causes and Consequences of Mid-Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in Asia and Australia

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Simon Haberle, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

(CANCELLED) Extreme glacial implies discontinuity of early human occupation of Europe

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Vasiliki Margari, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

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Maarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Building global resilience to volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani (University of Cambridge).

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

How can social sciences be used to explore how communities think and feel about volcanic risk and to better inform disaster risk management?

Blaise Mafuko Myandwi (University of Goma, DRC) and Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

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Georgina Falster, Australian National University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

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Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

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Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

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Alistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

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Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

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Saija Saarni, University of Turku.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Eric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

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Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

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Abi Stone, University of Manchester.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

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Gina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

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Aidan Starr, Department of Geography.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

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Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Kevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Matthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

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Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

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Poppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

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Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Hominin Sites Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): applications and challenges of paleomagnetism in human evolutionary studies

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Mark Sier, CENIEH.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

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Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

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Lauren Davies, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Chris Day, University of Oxford.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

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Willem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

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Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

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Marco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

A Peculiar Haze, a Sulphuric Smell, and Bloodred Sunsets: The Effects of the 1783-1784 Laki Eruption on Europe

Dr Katrin Kleemann, German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History.

Department of Geography, Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

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Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

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Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

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Markus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

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Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

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Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

Amy McGuire, University of Leeds.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

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Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue

Daniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may be unable to access the venue

Martin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Middle Pleistocene Tephrochronology in the Ethiopian Rift: implications for the paleoanthropological and paleoclimatic records

Céline Vidal, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

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Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

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Organised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

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Professor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

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Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

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Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

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Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sunday 13 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

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Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

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Professor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

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Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe

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Professor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Storms, surf, & swells: Bedrock breakdown and the geodynamic demise of volcanic ocean islands

Kim Huppert - GFZ Postdam.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Crystallisation temperatures as a proxy for mantle temperature; and the 2021 eruption in Reykjanes

Simon Matthews - University of Iceland.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Friday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

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Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Friday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

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Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Friday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

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Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

YouTube link to be confirmed.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

2018 Eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano – Use of Social Media and the U.S. Department of Interior Strategic Sciences Group

Aleeza Wilkins and Alice Pennaz (USGS).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Refined eruptive history of Mount Pelée volcano and implications for tephra fallout hazard in Martinique

Dr Audrey Michaud-Dubuy, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

https://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Youtube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Looking Through the Sunda Arc: An Overview of Java’s Magmatism

Dr Esti Handini, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

You tube link to be confirmed.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring volcanoes in Central Iceland as Analogs for Planetary Environments

Jacob Richardson, NASA/GSFC.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

A Caribbean Vacay: Sun, Sand, Sea and Volcanoes?! An introduction into volcanic outreach in the Eastern Caribbean

Alia Juman, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Modeling volcano-tectonic interactions in a youthful continental rift: the East African Rift System

Joshua Jones (Virginia Tech).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Integrating social and institutional vulnerabilities into volcanic risk scenarios: A case study at Nevado Cayambe, Ecuador

Dr Julie Morin, Department of Geography.

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Snapshot of a magmatic system immediately prior to an explosive eruption: Tenerife 289 ka

Emma Horn, University of Southampton.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Exploring controls on the distribution of sulfur-loving elements in Icelandic magmas

Callum Reekie, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanic activity along the enigmatic South Sandwich arc

Dr Emma Liu, University College London.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Assessing hazards in distributed volcanic fields

Lis Gallant (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Initiation of a composite volcano: The complex beginnings of the long-lived Dunedin Volcano, New Zealand

Rachael Baxter, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:00-10:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Experimental insights on volcanic ash as a reactive agent in the environment

Dr Elena Maters (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Integrating northern and southern hemisphere stalagmites: what they can tell us about tropical climate dynamics and civilization collapse at the 4.2 kyr event

Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin).

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America

Lauren Davies, University of Alberta.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions

Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles (University of Cambridge/BAS).

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Daly Lecture Preview

Marie Edmonds.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking sulfur and its chalcophile allies at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: A story of sulfide saturation, sulfide resorption and magmatic degassing

Cambridge University.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Monday 02 December 2019, 12:00-12:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evading problems of IRD in palaeocurrent estimation: Glacial to Recent changes in flows around Greenland

Nick McCave, University of Cambridge.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Unusual techniques for an unusual volcano: monitoring at Ol Doinyo Lengai

Kate Laxton, University College London.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Beyond mean climate change: Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.

Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

The magmatic and eruptive evolution of the 1883 explosive, caldera-forming eruption of Krakatau, Indonesia

Amber Madden-Nadeau, University of Oxford.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Unravelling the Echo Canyon deposit: Explosive-effusive transitional volcanism, Ascension Island, South Atlantic - Insights from the field and the lab

Bridie Davies, University of East Anglia.

Department of Earth Sciences - Harker II.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

Professor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

How volcanism controls the interiors of lava-worlds

Dan Spencer, University of Oxford.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

Professor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Does climate change really cause collapse? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects

Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

New PhD students introductions - Cambridge Volcanology

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Tracking chalcophile elements from source to vent at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

Penny Wieser, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:10-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Masterclass: An introduction to distal tephrochronology and cryptotephra methods

Professor Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

When algebra meets geometry

Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Will climate-volcano interactions be modulated by ongoing climate change? Perspective from explosive eruption column rise.

Thomas J. Aubry, University of British Columbia.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Lithium, rhyolites, and the green revolution

Ben Ellis, ETH Zurich.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

Prof. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Measuring gas emissions at the 2018 Leilani Estates eruption, Kilauea

Penny Wieser, Emily Mason; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti 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

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Phosphorous pathways in Deep Time / Atmospheric Fingerprints of Volcanism

Craig Walton, Pip Liggins; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

tbc // Sulfur isotopes as tracers for stratospheric volcanic sulfur loading

Nick Barber, Johnny Staunton-Sykes; University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A comprehensive climate history of the last 800,000 years and its application to ecological modelling

Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Globally Significant CO2 Emissions From Katla, a Subglacial Volcano in Iceland

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, University of Leeds.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

Dr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

Prof. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanic applications for understanding the evolution of human behavior in East Africa

Nick Blegen, University of Cambridge.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

An unusual patient: quantifying 3D deformation around analogue magma intrusions by using X-ray Computed Tomography

Sam Poppe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story

Professor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits

Denis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI.

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

Friday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

Professor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Recent developments and debates in East Asian monsoon palaeoclimatology

Barbara Maher, Lancaster University.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship

Professor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles

Normal time and place

Andrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system

Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing deep ocean circulation pathway and strength using sediment dispersion

Alex Piotrowski (Dept of Earth Science).

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

On the role of the Southern Ocean in modulating (past) climate variability

Please note different time/venue

Samuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive

Professor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing the extent, timing and palaeoclimatic significance of Quaternary glaciations in the Mediterranean region

Please note different venue

Phil Hughes, University of Manchester.

Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North Atlantic variability and its link to European climate and history over the last 3000 years

Quaternary Discussion Group seminar

Paola Moffa Sanchez, Cardiff University.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climatic controls on peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

Professor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

MIS 7, The "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record

Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

Professor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Volcanic eruptions, climate and humans: How lessons from the past can help us to prepare for the future

Michael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

Professor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The timing of cirque glaciation in western North America revisited: No Neoglacial in the U.S. Cordillera?

Shaun Marcott, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How ice sheets collapse: a lesson from the Laurentide Ice Sheet

Chris Stokes, Durham University.

Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

Friday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

Professor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Causes of ice-age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, insights from a new boron isotope CO2 record

Thomas Chalk, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology

Professor Calum A MacRae, Chief of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

MIS 7, the "Ebbsfleet Interglacial": sub-stage structure and recognition in the UK record

Francis Wenban-Smith, Archaeology, University of Southampton.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One

Dr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modelling the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: How sensitive are past climates?

Paul Valdes, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices

Professor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2017, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes

Christine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

From Cambridge to Cuzco and back again: 4000 years of environmental history from the heart of the Inca Empire

Mick Frogley and Alex Chepstow-Lusty, University of Sussex.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Archaeological insights into the 8.2 ka event

Lucy Farr, University of Cambridge.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

Professor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The separation of Britain from mainland Europe in the late Quaternary

Jenny Collier, Imperial College London.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Silicon cycling and opal production in the Atlantic: lessons from the last deglaciation

Kate Hendry, University of Bristol.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

Professor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Large CO2 emissions from pre-industrial land use change – Does the carbon budget add up?

Benjamin Stocker. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch

Mike Walker, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

1 million years of Pacific Ocean paleoceanography viewed from IODP Exp350 sites 1436C and 1437B foraminifers' records recovered near the IZU subduction Arc

Maryline Vautravers (University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

Organisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS.

Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

Friday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North Atlantic annually resolved temperatures for the last millennium: the Arctica islandica record.

James Scourse (Bangor University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

Professor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Ice sheet, atmosphere, and ocean dynamics in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica – past reconstruction and future course.

Michael Weber (Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

Professor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Orbital wobbles, ice sheets, CO2, and the deep sea: a model-informed perspective on the ocean’s role in Quaternary climate.

Eric Galbraith (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain),.

Cripps Meeting Room 5, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

Sebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

Professor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using the Land-Ocean Transition to understand coastal landscapes

Mark Bateman (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Professor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

Professor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Landscape Retreat and 'Jumping': Late Prehistoric Fenland Environmental Adaption/Response

Christopher Evans (Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere

Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The last 1000 years in East Antarctica: insights from a new temperature proxy.

Anais Orsi, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette (France).

Cripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stalagmites as excellent recorders of major volcanic eruptions

Prof Dr. Dominik Fleitmann (University of Reading).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation

Dr. Sambuddha Misra (Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material

Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet; landforms, sediments, dates and the BRITICE-CHRONO project

Prof Chris D. Clark, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (UK).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New DNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems

Prof Mary E. Edwards, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton (UK).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

El Niño and El Padre: a deep equatorial Pacific thermocline during the Pliocene warm period

Dr. Heather Ford (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) .

Cripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors

Professor Eugene Terentjev, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The role of the ocean and the atmosphere in the expression of D-O and AIM events in Antarctica: new evidence from the WAIS Divide Ice Core

Prof Eric J. Steig, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington (US).

Cripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING

Organiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 January 2015, 09:00-17:05

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Cryptotephrochronology in the North Atlantic Region: Linking North Atlantic Marine Sediments to the Greenland ice-cores

Dr Peter Abbott (University of Swansea).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare

Dr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs?

Professor Sir Tony Hoare FRS FREng.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The North American deglaciation: linking rapid climate change, ice sheet retreat and sea level rises

Dr Lauren Gregoire (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 14 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sangar Institute.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle over the last 800,000 years - an ice core perspective

Prof Dr Hubertus Fischer (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis

Prof Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

Professor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Fracking the fjords: Earthquakes and glacial erosion, with some additional thoughts about stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

People should be aware that 7th July is Tour de France day, but we hope things will have become accessible by 5.00 pm.

Professor Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geoscience, Penn State University, USA.

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 07 July 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

Dr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

Dr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 08 April 2014, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go further

Dr Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running

A V HILL LECTURE

Professor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action

Dr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

Professor John Lister, DAMTP.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 January 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

Organised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

Lecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

Thursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages as proxies of paleoceanographic changes across Pleistocene glacial terminations in the NE Atlantic

CHANGE OF DATE: now on Wednesday Nov. 27th

Dr. Patrick Grunert (U. of Graz, Austria).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Note new start time of 6.00pm

Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

Professor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology .

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Prof. Eric Wolff (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

Mr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions

Note unusual time

Prof. Howard J. Spero (University of California).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 16:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Taking a closer look at the last glacial sediments

Canceled

Dr. Maryline Vautravers (Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

Dr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evidence for enhanced Antarctic climate variability during the last interglacial period

Dr. Katy Pol (British Antarctic Survey).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

Professor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Bytham river story - key evidence for understanding pre-glacial environmental change and early human occupance in Britain

Prof. James Rose (Dept. of Geography, Royal Holloway U. of London).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Testing the Bytham river hypothesis

Prof. Philip Gibbard (Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

Dr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary loess records from northern China and central Asia: implications for variations in monsoon and westerly circulation

Prof. Liping Zhou (Peking University, China).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

Professor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modern human adaptations to Pleistocene rainforest: the archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo

Prof. Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, U. of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The release of Δ14C and δ18O-depleted water from the Arctic Ocean upon glacial termination

Dr. David Thornalley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 10 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New estimates of tropical ice age temperature

Dr Anna-Lena Grauel (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 30 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using nitrogen isotopes to constrain the age of the air extracted from antarctic ice cores

Please note change of speaker

Dr Emilie Capron (BAS).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 23 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

Dr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Precipitation changes in the Amazon Basin during the last 240 ka

Dr Aline Govin (MARUM, Bremen).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 09 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Seeing is believing: how a Century after its discovery, Bragg's Law allows us to peer into molecules that read the information in our genes

Dr Venki Ramakrishnan FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

Professor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Decoupled ocean circulation and carbon cycling during glaciations: Implications for the dynamics of glacial cycles

Dr David Wilson (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 26 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

Professor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

Professor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Carbon isotopes and glacial-interglacial CO2: the curious case of Marine Isotope Stage 12

Dr Natalia Vazquez-Riveiros (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 18 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Moravian Gate project: new insights into the human food quest in Stage 3 Central Europe

Prof. Martin Jones (Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 11 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A bipolar seesaw in Atlantic deep-water ventilation: Wally was right

Dr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 04 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Quaternary palaeoclimate changes from the margins of the Indian Thar Desert

Prof. Hema Achyuthan (Anna University, Chennai).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 27 April 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"

LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912

Professor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics

Professor Michael Atiyah FRS.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

Professor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Lessons from the High Arctic: new results from late Quaternary studies in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

Prof. Veli-Pekka Salonen (Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 24 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development

Dr Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

Professor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Genetic diversity, global phylogeography and seasonality of the planktonic foraminifera G. bulloides: implication for palaeoproxies

Kate Darling (University of Edinburgh).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 20 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

Friday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Role of the Tropical Pacific in Millennial-Scale Climate Events

Dr Aleksey Sadekov (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Friday 02 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses

Professor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Traces of the Baltic Ice Lake drainage in the northern Baltic Sea and southern Finland

Outi Hyttinen (Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FInland).

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Friday 18 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory

Professor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume from the Mid Pleistocene Climate Transition

Professor Harry Elderfield (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 04 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation

Dr Ian Bailey (School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migration

LARMOR LECTURE

LARMOR LECTURE - Professor John Papaloizou, DAMTP.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A special set of QDG talks

Dr Axel TImmermann (SOEST, University of Hawai'i, USA); Dr Jess Adkins (CALTECH, USA).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Orbital forcing of Late Pleistocene climate variability - From the global monsoon to glacial terminations

Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pleistocene Fleuve Manche palaeoriver discharges : Response to glacial oscillations and climate changes

Dr Samuel Toucanne (IFREMER, France).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

Professor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Professor Gerard Evan FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 28 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains: new results from North Africa and the Balkans

Dr Phillip Hughes, The University of Manchester.

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 18 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.

Professor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

Speakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION

Professor Daan Frenkel FRS, Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 November 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINES

Sir Gregory Winter FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 08 November 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENT

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES

Dr Simon Guest, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 25 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Note venue change

Professor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

Monday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University

Richard West (Professor emeritus, Cambridge University, Clare College).

Thirkill Room, Clare College.

Friday 11 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiology

Dr R Simmons, Department of Public Health.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms

Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams, Strangeways Laboratory.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Dynamics of Avalanches

Dr Jim McElwaine, DAMTP.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 08 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution

Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested

SPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

Dr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

Professor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment

Professor Martin Rees FRS, Astronomer Royal.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology

Professor G Efstathiou FRS, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration

Professor W T Gowers FRS, DPMMS.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society

Darwin 2009 Lecture

Professor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

Professor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling

Dr Walter Federle, Department of Zoology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Glacial Chronologies Spanning the Past 450 ka Around the Margins of the Southern North Sea and implications for the age of the Strait of Dover

Canceled

Steven Pawley (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Friday 13 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?

Dr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The carbon cycle during the Pleistocene

Peter Koehler (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Friday 30 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I Taylor

Professor L M Brown FRS, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration "Out of Africa" of early modern humans 120,000 years ago.

Anne Osborne (Bristol University).

Lloyd Room, Christ's College.

Friday 23 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

SPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon.

Fitzwilliam College Auditorium.

Friday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others

Dr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

Professor Sir John Sulston FRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing

Professor Ian Hutchings FREng, Institute for Manufacturing.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

Professor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

Professor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

Dr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

Professor Jim Woodhouse, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 28 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

General Discussion Session

All.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 16:30-17:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells

Ron Weiss (Princeton).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 15:50-16:30

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0

Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:40-15:20

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Biological Engineering of Plant Systems

Jim Haseloff (Cambridge).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:00-14:40

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways

Caleb Bashor (UCSF).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 12:10-12:50

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits

Georg Seelig (Caltech).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 11:30-12:10

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Computational Design in Synthetic Biology

Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 10:20-11:00

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

The iGEM competition: Building with biology

James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:40-10:20

One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century

Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)

Gos Micklem (Cambridge).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:05-09:40

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

Professor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

Professor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'

Professor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

Professor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

Professor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

Professor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

Dr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

Professor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

Monday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

Professor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule?

Professor Robin Irvine, FRS.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 13 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins

Professor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

Professor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

Dr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30