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43 upcoming talks and 6396 talks in the archive.

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Putting the “S” into mechanics

UserProfessor Keith Seffen. Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2025, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Sources, pathways and drivers of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water formation

UserBieito Fernandez Castro, University of Southampton .

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 10 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

A Highly Efficient Machine Learning-Based Ozone Parameterization for Climate Sensitivity Simulations

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjExMGZiMDktODQ1Ni00NzRkLWI5MmYtZjYyYjNhNGIyYmY3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserYiling Ma, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

UserProfessor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies

UserProfessor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Climate Repair, Now or Never?

UserShaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Making Nuclear Energy Competitive Again

UserTony Roulstone, University of Cambridge Lecturer Nuclear Engineering.

HouseCUED, LT 6.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Emerging importance of chemistry-climate coupling on weather to climate timescales

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VhNTk0OWMtNDc4Mi00YzVjLTkzYTUtNGM3MjU4OTYzMTJl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserProf Michaela I. Hegglin, Director at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

UserProfessor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Multihazard in a warming world: landslides, volcanoes and cryospheric hazards in the 21st century

UserMax Van Wyk de Vries, Department of Earth Sciences / Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Calibration of a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model of West Antarctica - Brad reed and Jan De Rydt

UserJan De Rydt (University of Northumbria), Brad Reed (University of Northumbria).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Past and Future of Natural History

UserChief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemistry–climate feedback of atmospheric methane in a methane-emission-flux-driven chemistry–climate model

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGNkNTEzOTQtNjllNy00ODNjLWFhM2UtZjQyNGFiYTFlZmVi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserDr Laura Stecher, University of Cambridge.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 07 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History

Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)

UserDino Martins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Advancing Neuroinclusion: Best Practices Round Table

User Dr Kelsey J.R.P Byers (John Innes Centre), Dr Amanda Brunton (CCTL, University of Cambridge), Dr Julie Bailey (University of Cambridge) and Dr Kate Hughes (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University Auditorium - 47 Bateman Street and online (contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for Zoom link).

ClockWednesday 24 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The statistical challenges in tackling persistent climate model uncertainty through model-observation comparisons.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OWJjY2ViNjktOWZjMS00NGJmLWI5MTUtNTYxM2E5MTgyMTQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserDr Jill S Johnson; School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 24 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing

UserDr Nick Souter, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK.

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

UserProfessor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Global modelling of ice-nucleating particles and their impact on cirrus clouds and the climate system

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmUxMWIxYTgtZDM3OS00MTYzLTg1NGQtYzEzNWZhZDRhNDlh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserDr. Christof Beer.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

When fire plumes glow in the dark: Tracing organic aerosol chemical regime dominance clues via light-absorbing species

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWYzYmRiMDctNzNkNi00N2JmLTk4NDUtYzBiMDM4YjgyNjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserDr. Eleni Dovrou, Technical University of Crete.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interpreting multimodel ensembles

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTFiNjIwOTctZGZmNC00MDk3LWEyMDAtZTVmMGZkYmU1NTg2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserProf Richard Chandler, UCL.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

UserProfessor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

UserTim Austin (Warwick).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

UserDr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 106th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseCommon Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockSaturday 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Deep convection and ocean overturning

UserBishakh Gayen, University of Melbourne.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 04 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

UserJim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell edges: from polarity to growth control

Please contact the events team at Events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for the online Zoom link.

UserDr Charlotte Kirchhelle - ENS de Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockWednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Re-thinking decarbonization: Digital tools to reduce infrastructure costs in Chile as a case study

UserAndrea M. Oyarzún-Aravena, University of Cambridge, UK; Universidad de Magallanes, Chile.

House Cambridge Judge Business School, W2.01.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Could stratospheric aerosol injection produce meaningful global cooling without novel aircraft?

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Njk5ZjBhMmUtMmIwMS00YjNkLWE4N2QtOTYwN2EyZGRhMzI5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

User Alistair Duffey PhD Student at University College London, Earth Sciences.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

UserProfessor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

UserProfessor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

UserProfessor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

UserProfessor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

HouseRay Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTQ5N2Q5ZDYtODRmYi00MzJhLTg0ZjctNjc2NGVlZDUzYmUx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

UserKasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

UserProfessor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

HouseRay Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

UserDr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Today's Challenges

UserJennifer Humphries and Louie Swallow.

HouseCUED, LT 6.

ClockThursday 27 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

UserSandi Toksvig OBE.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Innovations in Nuclear Energy

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCUED, LT 6.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Searching for Life in Stranger Seas

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2YxZjU5NTgtYzIwNi00MTY2LThkY2ItZjQyMTJmNjdkMWQw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

UserWilliam Bains.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

The Price Is Wrong

UserBrett Christophers, Upsala University.

House Cambridge Judge Business School, W2.01.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 10:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

UserProfessor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows

UserAdrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

UserDr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Planetary uprising: Climate colonialism, Extinction Rebellion and the transformation of global politics

Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2VlZmM3OTgtOTQwNS00ZTcxLTk5ZGEtZWZiMzU4NTdiMGY1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2253b919d9-f8a7-4f56-9bb0-baaf0ba7404d%22%7d

User Tobias Müller, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Teams.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals

UserProfessor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Paradigm shift of Manufacturing in China and its impact on climate change

UserXiang Yu, EPRG Visiting Scholar from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

UserProfessor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The State of Wildfires

UserDoulgas Kelley UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Data-driven ocean modelling  

Bonus seminar.

UserRachel Furner, British Antarctic Survey / ECMWF.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 06 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

UserProfessor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 02 December 2024, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Meeting the Challenge of Net Zero after COP29

UserProf. David Reiner (Judge Business School).

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tropical Butterflies: using museum collections to study changes in biodiversity

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserTiffany Ki, Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

A Business Case for Nuclear Energy - Panel Discussion

UserSimon Taylor and Tony Roulstone.

HouseCUED, LR3.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 16:45-15:45

RSE Seminars

Moving mesh methods in Firedrake

UserJoe Wallwork - ICCS & RCS, University of Cambridge.

HouseRayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Symposium on Energy and Environmental Flows

UserJeremy Phillips (Bristol), Steve Sparks (Bristol), IEEF and Dept Earth Sci Faculty.

HouseOpen Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Molecular Signals in and from Parasitic Plants

UserDr Thomas Spallek Plant Biotic Interactions Group, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Bonded by Apps? Labour Geographies in the age of Algorithmic Despotism

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Debangana Bose

UserDr Debangana Bose, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Climate Repair

Good COP, bad COP: first reflections on COP29

Please register here: http://bit.ly/3B3qADv

UserHugh Hunt (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, James Dyson Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Winter Symposium

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDAMTP, Mathematics.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2024, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

UserProfessor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

The Nuclear Solution? Facts and Fear in the Energy Debate

UserEugene Shwageraus and Sannah van Balen.

House Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockMonday 25 November 2024, 17:45-18:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Future-proofing the Fens

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserLaurie Friday, Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Writing Computational Models that are FAIR and VRAI

UserDr Dominic Orchard; Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, and University of Kent.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

UserDr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 18 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying Speciation in the Small Ermine Moths (Yponomeuta)

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserNathan Clark.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Exploring the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in China: Evidence from Clean Air Policy

UserChang Liu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

House Cambridge Judge Business School, W2.01.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Sea Ice Floe Characteristics in the Beaufort Sea & Introduction of Japan’s new research icebreaker, ARV Mirai II

For any external attendees, please email the organiser, so help can be arranged to access BAS or a zoom link provided.

UserDr. Takashi Kikuchi, Director of Institute of Arctic Climate and Environment research, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (IACE/RIGC/JAMSTEC).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 16:00-16:30

British Antarctic Survey

Experimental work on the wave-ice interaction in a laboratory tank

For any external attendees, please email the organiser, so help can be arranged to access BAS or a zoom link provided.

UserProfessor Takuji Waseda, University of Tokyo.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 15:30-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

Full-scale Measurement of Japanese icebreaker Shirase in Antarctic Sea Ice – Relationship between Ship Structural Response and Ice Conditions

For any external attendees, please email the organiser, so help can be arranged to access BAS or a zoom link provided.

UserJunji Sawamura, Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 14:30-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Fiber-optic sensing and its application to structural monitoring

For any external attendees, please email the organiser, so help can be arranged to access BAS or a zoom link provided.

UserProfessor Hideaki Murayama, University of Tokyo.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 14:00-14:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plant Collecting in Kyrgyzstan

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserKathryn Bray, Senior Horticulturist, CU Botanic Garden.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

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).

UserDr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry after the 2019–2020 Australian Wildfires

UserDr. Kane Stone, Research Scientist, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A beep in the dark: 120 years of midwife toads in Great Britain

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSteve Allain, the Pop Punk Herpetologist, ARU .

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Investigating the stability of Antarctica’s ice shelves

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Rebecca Dell

UserDr Rebecca Dell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Let MeThink About It: How More Choices Boost Charitable Giving

UserAtiyeh Yeganloo, El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics & Policy, CJBS.

House Cambridge Judge Business School, W4.05.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Tackling climate change - going beyond emissions reduction

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge.

HouseMR3, CMS.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Global Warming in the Arctic

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserColin and Christine Lang.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Fascinating World of Lightning Research

User Dr Daniel Mitchard, Senior Lecturer Lightning Laboratory, Cardiff University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

UserProfessor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Finding W H Hudson — the writer who came to Britain to save birds

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserConor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife, or, Why are there so many species?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

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

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 10 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ensembling climate models with Gaussian processes to better characterise future extremes

Note unusual time

User Kenza Tazi (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

UserProfessor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 June 2024, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Aerosols and clouds in the UKCA across time and space

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89998723970?pwd=ekw0Q3RqaUVFU3NaT3J1djlHTytiQT09

User Daniel Grosvenor, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), University of Leeds,.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

UserDr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Epistemic Exclusion in Climate Science: Why We Grow the Wrong Trees in the Wrong Places

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88161587298?pwd=U0I2ejRHTXROQmhiNHo2OTF6NE1kZz09

UserJittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, The George Washington University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy Seminar Series

Novel manufacturing approaches to improving Li and Na ion batteries

Refreshments and cakes will be available!

UserProfessor Patrick Grant FREng, Department of Materials, Oxford University, UK.

HouseGoldsmiths 2 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

ClockThursday 16 May 2024, 15:15-16:45

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

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UserAjay Tegala.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 19:15-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The role of methane for chemistry-climate interactions: rapid radiative adjustments and climate feedbacks

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

UserLaura Stecher, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Engl: German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics).

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

UserRob Morris (IMPA Rio).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union

UserArthur van Benthem, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ().

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

UserProfessor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger

UserDr Hannah Hasenberger, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of multisensory integration in plants

UserProf. Miguel A. Blázquez - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV).

House47 Bateman Street .

ClockWednesday 27 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Sarah Hall

UserProfessor Sarah Hall, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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UserRosemary Fricker.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

UserProfessor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMeeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria

UserProfessor Marc Macias-Fauria, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion

UserDr Angela Hay.

House47 Baterman Street .

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Extreme rainfall event in December 2021 over Peninsular Malaysia

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89826306833?pwd=cnNHSG9OWHRjVngzMGVMc2F0NnA4dz09

UserProf Andy Chan, Dean of Engineering, Robert Gordon University.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOlwen Williams.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Business Case

UserSimon Taylor, JBS and Abigail Luxton, H M Treasury.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

History and Economics Seminar

'Patient Planet': An Environmental History of Globalization

UserJeremy Adelman (Princeton University / University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Interested in Nuclear Energy and Fuel?

Tea and cakes will be available from 16:15

UserNick Bachmann and Clara Waggett.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Kelvin Club - Peterhouse Scientific Society

Sunlight-powered chemical industries

UserProfessor Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge).

HousePeterhouse Theatre.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMorgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Discovering the 2D world with XPS

UserShaoliang Guan, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

Fracture of warm ice

If you are external to BAS and wish to attend this talk please email the organiser in advance.

UserProfessor Jukka Tuhkuri, Aalto University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

UserProfessor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Interested in Nuclear Energy Innovation?

UserMark Davies from USNC and Daniel Theobald from Last Energy.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 01 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

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What can we learn from simulations of the dust intensification over Greenland during the last ice-age?

UserPeter Hopcroft, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK..

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Energy Technology Society

Energy Policy: Road to Net Zero

UserTerry Macalister, Guy Buckenham and Dr Shobana Sivanendran.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockThursday 25 January 2024, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Interested in Nuclear for Climate?

UserAuden Botterud, David Reiner and Henry Phillips.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 18 January 2024, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Hydrogen – the second best option – taking a whole system view

To join this seminar in-person or online, please register for details by emailing njw44@cam.ac.uk.

UserJon Saltmarsh, Energy Systems Catapult.

HouseChemistry Dept, Todd Hamied room and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserStephen Tomkins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

UserProfessor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Reactive melt transport in the mantle

UserLucy Tweed (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Comparison of methods to estimate aerosol effective radiative forcings in climate models

Note unusual time and location

UserMark Zelinka; PCMDI | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

HouseU202 Meeting room, Department of Chemistry and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User 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. .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Layering Processes in Double Diffusive Convection

UserPaul Pruzina, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

ESG: A Fundamental Critique

UserEllen Quigley (University of Cambridge).

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Climatic drivers of steric height in the Southern Ocean

UserJennifer Cocks, Alessandro Silvano, Alice Marzocchi, Alberto Naveira Garabato.

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91734606755.

ClockThursday 21 September 2023, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

UserProfessor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable?

UserProf Veronique Boisvert (RHUL).

HouseRyle Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Can Enzymes Help Address the Climate Crisis?

UserSam Cobb ( Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reisner Lab).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 18 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

UserProf. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

UserAad van der Vaart (Delft).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Freshwater salinization: From Ecology & Evolution to Real-World Solutions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserDr Rick Relyea, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition

UserDr Rupert Way, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Oxford Martin School.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Avenue, cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can enzymes help address the climate crisis?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSam Cobb.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Birds on a tree: Progress and challenges of whole-genome phylogenomics

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserJosefin Stiller, University of Copenhagen.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Business Case

UserMike Crawforth from Rolls-Royce SMR and Jean Lavarenne from Jacobs.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

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

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

"The cost of capital and the energy transition"

UserBen Caldecott (Oxford University) .

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W4.03.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2023, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Heterogenous Chemistry and The Possibility for Life in the Clouds of Venus

UserPaul Rimmer, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChemistry Dept, Unilever.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Viscoplastic model of mountain building

UserElvinas Ribinskas, DAMTP.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of a sexually selected syndrome in Mediterranean wall lizards

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserDr Nathalie Feiner, Lund University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Is it the weather or the neighbours? The role of the physical and biotic environment in determining biodiversity distributions.

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserRegan Early, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

UserProfessor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

HouseVia Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

UserProf. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Housezoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479554336.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Energy for Climate

Tea and cakes to be available from 16:15

UserHannah Fenwick and Dominic Brennan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow

UserJia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).

HouseBAS Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserDr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

HouseMain Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations

UserStephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserJens Krause, IGB Berlin.

HouseMain Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Small reactors and the energy transition, fighting climate change with the Holtec SMR

To book your place please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/small-nuclear-reactors-and-the-energy-transition-tickets-468802610227

UserGareth Thomas, Director of Operations, Holtec Britain.

HouseThe Old Library Pembroke College Cambridge CB2 1RF.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 15:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserJorg Hardege, University of Hull.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

User Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserAlex Suh, UEA.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Why do firms issue green bonds?

UserJulien Daubanes (University of Geneva).

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, Castle Teaching Room.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Monte Carlo on Rails: The Random Ray Method of Neutron Transport

Tea and cakes will be available from 16:15

UserDr John Tramm, Argonne National Lab.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - Lecture Theatre 6.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserChristine W Miller, University of Florida.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats

UserChanning Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of Washington.

Househttps://ukri.zoom.us/j/91769463955; BAS seminar room 1.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

UserAlex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting

UserMatthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells

UserMichael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding genome regulation during seed germination

UserMathew G. Lewsey (Centre for AgriBioscience at La Trobe University).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Electricity market design and the impact of decarbonisation

UserDavid Robinson (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies).

HouseCambidge Judge Business School, W4.05.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Optimizing scalar transport using branching flows

UserAnuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The dynamics of predators in a novel world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserRobert Fletcher, University of Florida.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

UserProf. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Engineering with Droplets

UserPallav Kant (Department of Earth Science).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserElizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum

UserQiang Fu (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington and Leverhulme Visiting Professor in DAMPT, Cambridge University).

HouseTodd-Hamied room, Chemistry Department (and on zoom).

ClockMonday 20 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

UserDr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

See Below

UserPaddy Mortimer, BPI and Holly Smith, BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 09 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Multiscale vortex structure in the regime of incipient hurricanes

UserRupert Klein, Mathematik and Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin .

HouseSeminar Room 2 Isaac Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

UserProfessor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

AI for Polar Route and Mission Planning

UserMaria Fox, Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR 4, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

UserProf Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland.

HouseMeeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

ClockFriday 20 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Do we have enough energy resources for a net-zero 2050?

UserJennifer Hawkin, Department of Engineering.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Interactions between barchan dunes

UserWillian Righi Assis, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). School of Mechanical Engineering.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

Variable pricing and the cost of renewable energy

UserImelda (Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) .

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Response of terrestrial aridity to global warming

UserQiang Fu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.

HouseMR 4, CMS.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

EPRG Energy & Environment Seminars

The long-run effects of air pollution on human capital, knowledge and innovation accumulation

UserHongyu Nian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, visiting Cambridge University EPRG) .

HouseThe Judge Business School (JBS) W2.02.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2022, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Marine biogeochemistry along the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

UserThiago Monteiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/University of Edinburgh.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockMonday 25 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Interaction between Planetary Wave and Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere

UserProfessor Hye-Yeong Chun, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Symposium

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDAMTP, Mathematics.

ClockThursday 07 April 2022, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Ethics of Energy - Cambridge Festival 2022

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald (Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge), Dr Mette High (Centre for Energy Ethics).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 04 April 2022, 14:00-15:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

UserUlf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

UK Energy Price Crisis: A Panel Discussion - Cambridge Festival 2022

UserDr David Reiner (Professor in Technology Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School), Claire Dykta (UK Head of Strategy, National Grid), Dan Alchin (Deputy Director, Retail at Energy UK).

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Avenue, cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Machine learning workshop

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna

UserPete Heintzman (The Arctic University of Norway).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

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

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The impact of realistic topographic representation on the parameterisation of lee wave energy flux

UserLois Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

UserLaure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world

UserDavid Sims (Marine Biological Association).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

UserProfessor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

EPRG E&E Seminars Series

Behavioural insights-based policies for the energy transition

UserLucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A stylish story of carpel evolution.

UserCristina Ferrandiz, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Differentiation, Communication, and Collective Behavior in Ant Societies

UserDaniel Kronauer (The Rockefeller University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can we use electrical energy to reduce carbon emissions? An investigation into the electrochemical approaches for carbon capture

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserNiamh Hartley, Department of Chemistry.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

EPRG E&E Seminars Series

Electricity markets in resource-rich countries of the MENA: Adapting for the transition era

UserAnupama Sen (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) .

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space

UserRicard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

UQ in Modelling of Fusion Power Plants for the UK National Grid

TGM110 - The Role of Uncertainty in Mathematical Modelling of Pandemics

UserRob Akers (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Wayne Arter (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 13:35-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Using experimental evolution to tackle questions in speciation research

UserIsobel Eyres (University of Sheffield).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Sensors CDT seminars

The Right Stuff? Promising and Failing Technologies for Chemical Sensors

Register on Eventbrite for in-person and zoom link - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/industry-lecture-john-saffell-tickets-224498780897

UserJohn Saffell - Chairman of The Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Measurement (CoGDEM).

HouseCEB, LT1 and Zoom link .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing Implications of the Deployment of Sustainable Flight in the UK

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserMike Lau, University of Princeton.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Impacts and mitigation of anthropogenic noise

UserSophie Nedelec (University of Exeter).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Reconstructing CO2 change on 100 to 100 million year timescales

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

UserJames Rae, University of St. Andrews.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

EPRG E&E Seminars Series

China CO2 targets and the Paris Agreement

UserPierre Noel (Columbia University) .

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

UserDr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

IET

Heat Pump Choices

UserWarren Pope, RetrofitWorks .

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockThursday 20 January 2022, 18:30-19:30

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Disentangling polar biogeochemistry through (silicon) isotope geochemistry

This is a hybrid event. It will be live in the Tilley Lecture Theatre and broadcast on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99984123581)

UserKate Hendry, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 20 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges

UserDr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploring the interface between carbon based materials and electrolytes: Insights from simulations

https://zoom.us/j/98671840072?pwd=TXRNaHVIS0VlYWEzTm5YVUVWbThCQT09 Meeting ID: 986 7184 0072 Passcode: 366353

UserDr Céline Merlet, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier .

HouseZoom and Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

UserStratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?

UserProfessor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

UserDr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Six Features of Sand Dunes

UserNathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes

UserJudith Mank, University of British Columbia.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME

UserProfessor Gloria Coruzzi, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York University).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The impact of sea-ice drift and ocean circulation on dispersal of toothfish eggs and juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea

Please contact the organizer for meeting link

UserErik Behrens, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2021, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

UserProfessor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function

UserProfessor Andrew Fleming, Chair of Plant Science, University of Sheffield.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

ClockMonday 23 August 2021, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

UserDolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

UserDolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

UserSpeakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information..

ClockTuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Turbulent convection in Antarctic Subglacial Lakes

User Louis-Alexandre Couston (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 02 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Ocean Plastics

UserErick van-Sebille, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

On Tornado Dynamics

UserProfessor Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta, Canada.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

UserProfessor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

UserProfessor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adding a piece to the leaf epidermis puzzle: towards a better understanding of cell shape acquisition

UserStéphanie Robert - Umea Plant Science Centre - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

UserProf Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Early Careers Event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 13 April 2021, 11:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants

UserYasin Dagdas - GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

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

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

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

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

UserDr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 23 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS event on Climate, economics and policy

UserHector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserAndrew Hein - University of California.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

ClockTuesday 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

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

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

ClockTuesday 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

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Right ozone, wrong reasons

UserMat Evans - University of York.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

IET

ONLINE WEBINAR - Aircraft Electrification

Full details and booking at https://communities.theiet.org/communities/events/item/229/77/24939

UserDr. Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez, Ultra Electronics.

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva

UserSimon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Problem solving in slime molds

UserAudrey Dussutour - Universite Paul Sabatier.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 09 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Extreme Weapons: A Natural History

UserDoug Emlen - University of Montana.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

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

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The mind of the bee

UserLars Chittka - Queen Mary University of London.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genome duplication, gene dosage, and evolution

UserAoife McLysaght - University of Dublin.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 19 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolutionary dynamics of innovation

UserEnrico Colizzi (Origins Centre and Mathematical Institute Leiden University) .

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockFriday 15 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021

UserProfessor Emily Allyn Weiss - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Photo-Sciences Research Center (PSRC) Northwestern University .

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 14 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

An AUV underneath the ‘Doomsday glacier’: Revealing pathways and modification of warm water flowing beneath Thwaites ice shelf, West Antarctica

The talk will be on Zoom, please contact the organiser for further details.

UserAnna Wåhlin, University of Gothenburg.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death

UserProfessor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency

UserJohannes Jaeger (D'Alembert Research Chair 2020/21, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris; Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna).

HouseOnline (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

ClockMonday 14 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Fine-scale ocean processes in the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserMadi Rosevear, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

UserProfessor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Limitations of the Miles-Howard criterion

UserJeremy Parker, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

IET

Online Webinar - Renewable Energy. How to Balance the Electric Grid

UserProfessor Peter Tavner, Durham University.

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Impact of Covid19 on Climate

UserJames Weber, Sanna Markkanen, Paul Young.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 13:30-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

SubZero: Floe-Resolving Sea Ice Model

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserGeorgy Manucharyan, University of Washington.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Double-Diffusive Convection in the Arctic Ocean

UserNicole Shibley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic

UserProfessor John Turner, British Antarctic Survey.

Househttps://ukri.zoom.us/j/92298256917?pwd=RnFsQmhvNnNjZkpKeXY1V0hYZlJidz09 .

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Extreme temperatures in the Antarctic

UserJohn Turner.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather

UserKristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

See Below

UserPatrick Mortimer, BPI and Eric Newland, BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The impact of lee waves on the Southern Ocean circulation and its response to winds

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserLuwei Yang, University of California, Los Angeles.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

UserProfessor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

UserKieran Gilmore, BPI and Sandy Armstrong, BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserMitch Bushuk, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The ocean’s transient conveyor belt

UserShantong Sun, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech.

Housezoom webinar - email jn271@cam.ac.uk for link.

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event

UserAlison Ming (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom and Gather.town.

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

UserProfessor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Melting and mixing at the submarine termini of tidewater glaciers

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserRebecca Jackson, Rutgers University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Existential Risk

IDPW06 - Future pandemics

UserMartin Rees (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 25 September 2020, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing Iceberg Melt in a Greenland Fjord

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserMargaret Lindeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 23 September 2020, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Health as an asset: estimating the causal effects of health conditions and health behaviours on social and economic outcomes using Mendelian randomization

This seminar will be broadcast live online, please register in advance for this meeting: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcu6vqTwoHdNAY3h7JqDyxMYglX6JTQuT

UserDr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2020, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Arctic Freshwater Storage and Export in CMIP6 Models

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserHannah Zanowski, University of Colorador Boulder.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 09 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ikaaġvik Sikukun: Bridging the Scientific and Indigenous Communities to Study Sea Ice Change in Arctic Alaska

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserChristopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 15 July 2020, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Influences of Melt Water from Sea Ice/Ice Shelf in Polar Oceans

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserKofan Lu, JAMSTEC.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2020, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

ROSETTA-Ice: a new framework for understanding the Ross Ice Shelf

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserKirsty Tinto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockThursday 02 July 2020, 15:00-16:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?

UserDr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK..

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 22 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

UserProfessor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)

UserDr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens..

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Weddell Polynya: when will it come back?

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserCasimir de Lavergne, LOCEAN, Sorbonne University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2020, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice streams: fantastic beasts and how to model them

The talk will be online. Contact the host to get Zoom details.

UserElisa Mantelli, Princeton University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Zoom.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

UserProfessor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Modelling Dispersal of Aerosols in Buildings

UserAndy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa

UserDr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people

UserDr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Making rubber gloves

UserAlexander F. Routh CEB and BP Institute ( BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS).

UserDr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 23 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life

UserDr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 16 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

UserProfessor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods

UserDr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning

UserDr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets

UserIan Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

Cancelled due to strike action

UserDr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

UserProfessor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Hard truths, Sacred cows and Animal Spirits - making nature count in fashion supply chains

UserDr. Helen Crowley, Head of Sustainable Sourcing Innovation, Kering.

HouseMadingley Hall.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 17:45-18:45

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Lady Margaret Lectures

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

UserProfessor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

How mixed is the ocean mixed layer?

UserNeeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

UserS.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

HouseMeeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

UserProfessor Dan Voytas (Minnesota State University). This seminar is organised on behalf of the Plant Sciences Department..

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

UserDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

SPECIAL SEMINAR - PLEASE SEE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE

UserProf Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist, Meteorological Office .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

UserNicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.

HouseMeeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

UserProfessor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

ClockMonday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A 60 Year International History of Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

UserMartin Siegert, Imperial College.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

ClockMonday 09 December 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Eliminating single-use plastics: driving organisational change and implementing sustainability priorities

Places at this lecture are free but online registration is essential.

UserMarianne Matthews, Senior Manager at Sky in the Inspirational Business, Products and Services Team.

HouseMadingley Hall.

ClockMonday 02 December 2019, 17:45-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Random movement of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean

Send an email to the organizer if you're not from BAS but want to come in.

UserXiaoming Zhai, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

UserProfessor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheets

UserDr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Institute (University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 07 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

UserProfessor Julian Dowdeswell, Department of Geography & Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Motion of vortices with buoyancy

UserStefan Llewellyn Smith, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Transforming Healthcare through Prevention - Ageing Well on a national scale: achieving the balance between fitness and frailty

Register for free for this talk at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-healthcare-through-prevention-ageing-well-on-national-scale-tickets-74871840691

UserProfessor Martin Vernon, MA, FRCP : NHS England National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 18:00-19:15

Lady Margaret Lectures

Wataching Molecules in Action

UserProfessor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

British Antarctic Survey

Investigation of fine-scale englacial structure using phase-sensitive and polarimetric radar sounding

If external to BAS, please contact seminar organizer to gain access to the building

UserTom Jordan, University of Bristol .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - The contradictions of the authoritarian developmental state: energy boom and bureaucratic autonomy in Rwanda

UserDr Benjamin Chemouni, JRF Wolfson College, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

UserDr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Symposium on Polar Tropical Teleconnections

UserLesley Gray (University of Oxford), Matt Collins (University of Exeter), Liz Thomas (British Antarctic Survey), Andrew Turner (University of Reading).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00-17:30

Delivering transformational change with high impact leadership

UserKeith Tuffley, Vice Chairman for Citi, Australia & NZ, and Senior International Adviser.

HouseMadingley Hall.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 18:45-19:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

UserDr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

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

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Welcome event!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building.

ClockSunday 06 October 2019, 14:30-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

On the quantification of parametric uncertainty in Antarctic ice sheet model projections, including the role of bedrock topography.

If external to BAS, please contact seminar organizer to gain access to the building

UserAndreas Wernecke (The Open University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 04 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally

UserDr Kavi Bhalla, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences of the Biological Sciences Division & Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 18 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Effect of ocean variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 20th and 21st centuries

** Please email ahead if visiting from outside of BAS **

UserDonald Slater (Scripps, UC San Diego).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 06 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Symposium on CRISPR/CAS editing in crops

UserProfessor Kan Wang (Iowa State University), Prof Wendy Harwood (John Innes), Dr Emma Wallington (NIAB).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 19 August 2019, 13:00-16:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiotic infection

UserFernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (The Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS, Toulouse).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

The Fukushima Accident and its Aftermath

To reserve your place, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fukushima-accident-and-its-aftermath-tickets-60811827814

UserMr Naomi Hirose and Professor Gerry Thomas.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - Lecture Theatre 6.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

UserDr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A rule based approach to Development

UserKim Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen).

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Getting Under Europa’s Skin

Anyone external to BAS wishing to attend please contact the seminar organiser.

UserDr. Britney Schmidt (Georgia Tech).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockMonday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

If walls could talk: the evolution and adaptations of plant and algal cell walls

UserDr Zoë Popper, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, NUI Galway.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

UserElon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

HouseMR2, CMS.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Two talks on Ice-Ocean interaction in East Antarctica

UserTakeshi Tamura (National Institute of Polar Research) and Daisuke Hirano (Institute of Low Temperature Science).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

UserAlexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockTuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

UserCosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Insta-Glam: Smartphone Apps and Beauty Surveillance

UserProf Rosalind Gill, City University of London.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

If external to BAS, please email aling@bas.ac.uk in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Jiankai Zhang (Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

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

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Class Ceiling: Why it Plays to be Privileged

UserDr Sam Friedman, London School of Economics.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

High-impact entrepreneurship for the circular economy

UserKresse Wesling MBE, Director and Co-Founder of Elvis & Kresse.

HouseMadingley Hall.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

British Antarctic Survey

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Interactions between stratospheric ozone and climate change in the Arctic

UserDr Jian Kai Zhang, Lecturer, Lanzhou University and Academic Visitor at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery

UserDr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia.

HouseSeminar room 2, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring How Eruption Source Parameters Affect Volcanic Radiative Forcing

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLauren Marshall, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Is Europe Christian?

UserProf Oliver Roy, European University Institute.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

UserMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

UserProfessor Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 16:15-18:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.

UserProfessor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

What is the Sociology of Reproduction all about?

UserProf Sarah Franklin, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Analysis of snow and aerosols deposition variability over High Mountain Asia and other major high mountain ranges

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserHoi Ga “Veronica” Chan, Princeton University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice

**If external to BAS, please notify organiser in advance**

UserKate Hendry, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Graphene In Batteries

UserProf. Vasant Kumar, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 07 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

British Antarctic Survey

The ExoMars mission: exploring the martian atmosphere and the search for life

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJames Holmes, The Open University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserRebecca Frew, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

UserDr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Multiphase Aspects of Ice Sheet Dynamics

UserProfessor Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

International comparative analysis of housing and Land Use Planning

UserDr Sónia Alves, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cellular Trajectories in Root Regeneration

UserProfessor Kenneth D. Birnbaum, New York University.

HouseAuditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserProf. Dr. Rodrigo Kerr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Energy Efficient Cities

UserDr Ruchi Choudhary, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2018, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Epigenetic modifications

UserDr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

UserLaura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

What has nature ever done for us?

UserTony Juniper, Executive Director for Advocacy & Campaigns at WWF UK and CISL Fellow.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Borates as electrodes for lithium and magnesium-ion batteries

UserSiân Dutton, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Spatial differences in the returns to education: sorting, agglomeration and pressures of demand

UserDr Vassilis Monastiriotis, London School of Economics and Political Science..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Negative Value Property

UserProfessor Bruce Huber, Notre Dame Law School, USA..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Re-thinking controls on the East Australian Current's eddy shedding and mean poleward extent

*If external to BAS, please notify seminar organiser in advance and arrive 5-10 minutes before start time to ensure access to building*

UserChristopher Bull.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sociology at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future

UserProf Anthony Giddens, Prof Patrick Baert, Dr Ali Meghji, Prof Jackie Scott, Prof J Thompson.

House Clare College, Cambridge .

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 14:45-16:15

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

On the dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in experiments and the real world

UserAleksandra Lewandowska, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserIvan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Is sea level rise accelerating and what are the implications for coastal flooding?

UserDr Ivan Haigh, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cryo-EM heats up

UserDr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, St John's College Divinity School.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

EPRG E&E Seminars Series

The Solar Revolution – Who Made It Happen?

UserFelix Muesgens (Brandenburg University of Technology) .

HouseKeynes Room, 4th Floor of Faculty of Economics on Sidgwick Site.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2018, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

This lecture has been cancelled

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

IET

ARE WE READY FOR CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED VEHICLES?

UserEric Chan, Ricardo Cambridge.

HouseCUED, LT0.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Change and Technology

UserMyles Allen, Erwin Reisner, Corinne Le Quéré, Jerome Neufeld .

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 13:30-17:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Machines

UserSee event homepage for list of speakers.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 09:45-17:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The macroeconomic consequences of stranded fossil fuel assets

UserDr Jean-Francois Mercure, Radboud University, Netherlands..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate

**If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building**

UserDavid Ferreira, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind

Zoology Graduate Student's Invited Speaker

UserKevin Laland (University of St. Andrews).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to do things with sensors

UserProf Jennifer Gabrys, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2018, 12:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

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

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

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Urbanization and Land Use Policy in China

UserProfessor Yuzhe Wu, Zhejiang University, China.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

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

Scott Lectures

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

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

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Internal wave-induced mean flow

UserFelix Beckebanze, Mathematical Institute, Utrecht University.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Unstructured Mesh Generation and Its Applications

UserDr Hang Si, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The fight against malaria using proteasomes

UserDr Paula da Fonseca, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The Long Run Demand for Energy Services and Energy Transitions

UserDr Roger Fouquet, London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Simulating Southern Ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf interactions: model intercomparison and future projections

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserKaitlin Naughten (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Waves, turbulence and large-scale flows in mixed convective-stably-stratified fluids

Note change of venue (MR4)

UserLouis-Alexandre Couston, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

EPRG E&E Seminars Series

Electric Power Distribution in the World: Today and Tomorrow

UserSinan Kufeoglu (EPRG, University of Cambridge) .

HouseCambridge Judge Business School room W2.02.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

See details

UserEdward Hinton, BP Institute and Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seismic Imaging of Eddy‐Dominated Warm‐Water Transport Across the Bellingshausen Sea

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserKathy Gunn, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Polar sea ice variability derived from ice cores: The Bromine approach

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndrea Spolaor, University of Venice.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 10:30-11:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding the Evolution of Seed Plant Reproductive Adaptations Through a Fern

UserDr Andrew Plackett (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 02 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rates and Mechanisms of turbulent mixing in the west Antarctic.

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserRyan Scott, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockFriday 28 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Balancing acts in the control of plant cell reprogramming

UserDr Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 25 September 2018, 15:15-16:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanics and dynamics of cell to cell adhesion in plants

UserDr Stéphane Verger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserNeil Fraser, SAMS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 19 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Uncoupling the processes of development

UserDr Sarah Robinson (University of Bern) .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 14 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Your personal list

Simulation for Intelligent Systems

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

UserVladlen Koltun, Intel.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey

Interconnectivity between volume transports through Arctic straits

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAgatha de Boer, Stockholm University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

ClockThursday 05 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Moving-mesh finite element modeling of ocean circulation near ice shelf grounding lines

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserBen Yeager, Imperial College London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Extreme Environments and Dynamic Morphology: Anticipating and harnessing evolving structure-property relationships

User Jessica Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation and carbon storage

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserAlice Marzocchi, NOC.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

UserProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

The effect of ice shelf dynamics on marine ice sheet stability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Marianne Haseloff, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans PhD Student talks

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserDavid Bett and Rachael Sanders, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockMonday 18 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

UserDr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Understanding uncertainty via statistical analysis of a global aerosol model

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLindsay Lee, University of Leeds.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Dynamics of heat transfer and exchanges across the Antarctic Slope Front

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserAndrew Stewart, UCLA.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Climate of 79N glacier (Greenland)

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserJenny Turton, Friedrich-Alexander Universität.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Processes controlling the flux of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic Shelves.

**If external to BAS, please email organiser in advance to gain access**

UserAndy Hogg, Australian National University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockMonday 11 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

A Lagrangian analysis of the seasonal and interannual variability in Greenland precipitation sources

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJohannes de Leeuw, Utrecht University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

ClockMonday 11 June 2018, 11:15-12:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of color vision in Heliconius butterflies.

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

UserAdriana Briscoe (University of California at Irvine).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Pathways of boundary mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current revealed by a tracer release experiment.

External Visitors - Please contact organiser in advance to gain access

UserMarie-Jose Messias, University of Exeter.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Fukushima and the law

User Dr Julius Weizdorfer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 12:30-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

UserDr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Oceanography to fish population genetics: multidisciplinary studies with numerical models

**If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building**

UserEmma Young, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Sustainable Corporate Innovation and Leadership

Register online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainable-corporate-innovation-and-leadership-tickets-42235753275

UserMike Barry, Director Plan A, M&S.

HouseLT1, Cambridge Judge Business School.

ClockMonday 14 May 2018, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Electricity market reform and development in China

User Professor Guy Liu, Peking University HSBC Business School.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

High-latitude Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by seasonal sea-ice feedbacks during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserChris Fogwill, Keele University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 307.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

UserRahul Pandharipande (ETH).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Fear and loathing in modern warfare

UserProf Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA.

HouseRoom 3, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

Polar low formation: ambient environments and the role of moisture

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAnnick Terpstra, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp

UserDr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rapid laundering of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Plasma Spray and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings

UserProfessor Bill Clyne, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Uni of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

Information Extraction from Airborne Radio-Echo Sounding: Basal Properties and Crystal Orientation Fabric of the Greenland Ice Sheet

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTom Jordan, University of Bristol and Stanford University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches

UserDr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseCoslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The ice-covered Ross Gyre: variability and drivers

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTiago Dotto, National Oceanography Centre.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

UserMatthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm.

HouseHelmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey

Megafolding of englacial layers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

UserNeil Ross, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Transport and Settling of Sediments in River Plumes

UserBruce Sutherland, Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

CANCELLED: The Impact of New Technology on Transport Planning

UserPaul Campion, Transport Systems Catapult..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers

UserAssociate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Data Visualisation

UserProf. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Fukushima and the law

UserJulius Weitzdörfer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

CANCELLED: The Loxbridge Triangle: Integrating the East-West Arch into the London Mega-region

UserProfessor Michael Neuman, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, University of Westminster..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution and Engineering of Plant-Microbe Symbioses

UserJean-Michel Ané (University of Wisconsin - Madison).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation

UserFrancesco Muschitiello, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELED DUE TO USS PENSIONS STRIKE.

UserYannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseCanceled - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

The High Latitude Dust Project

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserProfessor Jo Bullard, Loughborough University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

CANCELLED: The rise and fall of the Shopping Mall: dialogues on the relationship of commerce and city

UserFernando Garrefa, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Methane and the Paris Agreement

UserProfessor Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway and NERC Project MOYA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Prices of peers: identifying endogenous price effects between real assets

UserDr Nikodem Szumilo, The London School of Economics and Political Science..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?

UserProfessor Paul Cairney, Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Planning for sustainable urbanisation in China: a community perspective

UserProfessor Cecilia Wong, Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Digital Fakery and its Consequences

UserDr Ella McPherson, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseRoom G, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2018, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

The role of Birkeland currents in the Dungey cycle

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJohn Coxon, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Developing and Selecting Tribological Coatings

UserProfessor Allan Matthews, School of Materials, the University of Manchester, Director BP International Centre for Advanced Materials.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Bank credit rating changes, capital structure adjustments and lending

UserProfessor Claudia Girardone, Essex Business School, University of Essex.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

UserDuncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey

Understanding model diversity in CMIP5 projections of westerly winds over the Southern Ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserTom Bracegirdle, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Arctic and Antarctic aerosol size distributions

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserManuel Dall'Osto (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Decommissioning the UK’s nuclear legacy: the war between cost and value

UserDr Anna Clark,Head of Decommissioning and Remediation from Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring gravity wave characteristics over the Southern Andes, Antarctic Peninsula, and South Georgia Island

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserCorwin Wright, University of Bath.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Can tax reforms reduce inequality?

UserAhmad Seyf, Department of Management and Human Resources at Regent’s University, London..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Fire, tractors and health in the Amazon: a cost-benefit analysis of fire policy

UserThiago Morello, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Can polar bears change Arctic clouds?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJo Browse, University of Exeter.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Can electricity networks cope with mass uptake of Electric Vehicles (EVs)?

UserTim Jarratt, Group Head of Strategy, National Grid.

HouseRayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Compact Fusion - How Small?

UserProfessor Steve Cowley, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Behavioural science around policy incentives to reduce energy consumption

UserDr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 16 January 2018, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Decadal oceanic variability drives ice sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAdrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 307.

ClockTuesday 09 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Changes in the Export of Weddell Sea Deep Water

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPovl Abrahamsen (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Long Range Predictability of the winter atmosphere in the North Atlantic Sector.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProfessor Adam Scaife, Met Office.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2017, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Open City: its ethics and its design

UserProfessor Richard Sennett, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

CSER Public Lectures

Meat, Monkeys, and Mosquitoes: A One Health Perspective on Emerging Diseases

Sign up via eventbrite: https://goo.gl/EHY9jy

UserDr Laura H. Kahn, Princeton University.

HouseWinstanley L.T., Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Surface roughness: a key to understanding Arctic sea ice from micro to macro scales

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJack Landy, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Solar Energy, Skills Development and Employment Opportunities in India

UserDr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Hunting Monsters

UserDr Darren Naish.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Measuring landscape resilience: tephra, soil and spatial patterns

UserDr Richard Streeter, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity

UserNenad Miljkovic, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing (UIUC).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Challenges in Understanding Decadal Trends and Variability of Oceanic Dissolved Oxygen: Perspectives from MPI-ESM's Large Ensemble Simulations

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserYohei Takano, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 330b.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The Great Recession, unemployment and pensions: the case of Spanish regions

UserPatricia Peinado, University of the Basque Country.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Tagging along: where do Marion Island’s Grey-headed albatrosses go?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKim Stevens, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Natural Capital - A CEO's Perspective

Spaces are limited and attendees must register online in advance.

UserPaul Murphy, CEO, The Jordans and Ryvita Company.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College Old Court.

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

A map in the mind

UserDr Julija Krupic.

HouseLightfoot Room - St John's College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

UserProfessor Joe Smith, Department of Geography, The Open University and Dr. Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Brexit does not mean Brexit

UserDr Yiannis Kitromilides, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Politics and political ecology of charcoal in Uganda

UserDr Adam Branch (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2017, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Glaciers, icebergs and silicon: Preliminary findings from ICY-LAB research expeditions to SW Greenland

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKate Hendry, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Markets caught in the headlights

UserDr Dominik Rehse, Advisor to the Board at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Links between Southern Ocean dynamics and Antarctic ice melt

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLaura Herraiz Borreguero, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

UserDr Anya Schmidt, Department of Geography and Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

UserPete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Putting health and wellbeing evidence into policy

User• Sara MacLennan, Whatworks wellbeing centre.

HouseEnglish faculty room GR04.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Cross-Border Real Estate Investment

UserMcKay Price, Perella Department of Finance at Lehigh University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Anthropogenic carbon estimates in the oceanic carbon cycle

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTobia Tudino, University of Exeter.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Of elephants and men

UserCaitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

HouseCastlereagh room - St John's College.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conference: Centenary of the Russian Revolution

UserOrganisers: Dr David Lane (Cambridge Sociology) and Dr Jeff Miley (Cambridge Sociology).

HouseQueen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 09:45-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

A Digital Architecture for Adaptive Cities

UserDr Ian Lewis, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland

UserProfessor Don Broom, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Welcome Event 2017

Userseveral speakers -- see abstract.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 13:30-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability of the Antarctic slope current system in the northwestern Weddell Sea

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserMarina Azaneu, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Under the Physical Geography Parasol: Climate and History

UserProfessor Christine Lane and Professor Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Lifestyle Dynamics Index: Worldwide Results and household economic implications

UserDr Raúl Sanchis, ICEI (Complutense University of Madrid).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Technical challenges in the upstream oil industry

UserDr Fereidoun Abbassian, BP Wells, Production and Facilities.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View

UserProfessor Antonio Páez, School of Geography and Earth Sciences McMaster University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

UserAndrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Energy Seminars

What's under the pot? Rural women and cooking energy in South Asia

UserProfessor Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 03 October 2017, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The response of ice sheets to climate variability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKate Snow, University of Edinburgh.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

ClockMonday 02 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Thermodynamic balance at ice-ocean interface in theory, models and maybe real life

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlena Malyarenko, NIWA, New Zealand.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockThursday 28 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Measuring pH variability using an experimental sensor on an underwater glider

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserMichael Hemming, University of East Anglia/LOCEAN, UPMC, Paris.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockTuesday 26 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlessandro Silvano, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 19 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Soundscape ecology: what sound can tell us about ecological functioning

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserRachel Buxton, Colorado State University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 06 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The bottom-intensification of mixing causes large, almost cancelling, abyssal upwelling and downwelling

If external to BAS, please email Dr Andrew Meijers (andmei@bas.ac.uk) in advance to gain access to the building

UserTrevor McDougall, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Conference Theatre.

ClockMonday 03 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring complexity in seabird foraging behaviour

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserXavier Meyer, BAS .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockMonday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Histone variants are essential for transmission of epigenetic information

UserDr Frederic Berger, The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cellular Dynamics and Signaling Molecules in Pollen Tube Guidance

UserDr Tetsuya Higashiyama, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University Japan.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

A year in the life of the minutiae in a changing Arctic Ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserBryan Wilson, University of Bergen.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Ecology and diversity of Southern Ocean pelagic amphipods

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserCharlotte Havermans, University of Bremen.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockMonday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst)

UserSophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey

The euphausiid exception in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Jaime Farber-Lorda (Centro de Investigación Cientifica, Ensenada, Mexico) .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 21 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic krill: Life is all about balance in a high CO2 world

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJessica Ericson, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2017, 13:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Using fisheries samples to investigate seasonal and regional variation in Antarctic krill lipids

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserNicole Hellessey, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey

The 2016 K-axis Voyage: A Salpa thompsoni goldmine

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPaige Kelly, Australian Antarctic Division.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockMonday 19 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

2017 PublicHealth@Cambridge Network Showcase

UserPeter Jones; Emma Howarth ; Elizabeth Foyster ; Juliet Foster ; Tim Dalgleish ; Sriya Iyer Sriya Iyer ; Hannah Jongsma ; Maria Ttofi; Andres Roman-Urrestarazu 1;Carol Brayne ;Jane Fleming .

HouseMurray Edwards College (New Hall), Huntingdon Road CB3 0DF.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

UserLaura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Examining mechanisms for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Defining “Good” in “Good Energy Policy”: Insights from Theologies and Religions

UserDr Jonathan Chaplin (Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

UserLord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upscaling Building Semantics to Address Urban Sustainability and Resilience Scenarios

UserProfessor Yacine Rezgui, Director BRE Institute in Sustainable Engineering, Cardiff University School of Engineering .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 02 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seasonal changes in Circumpolar Deep Water in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, using seal-borne tags

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserHelen Mallet, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

SO-AntEco: Contributing information and scientific advice to the CCAMLR South Orkney Islands MPA review

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Madeleine Brasier, University of Liverpool and Natural History Museum, London .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Evaluation of US energy programme on clean energy startups

UserDr Laura Diaz Anadon (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

ECCO version 4: an ocean data analysis and parameter estimation framework

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserGael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockMonday 22 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Bumps and Ramps in the Glacial CO2 Record

UserProfessor Wally Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Measuring Ocean Mixing

UserGreg Ivey, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserRicardo De Paoli-Iseppi, Australian Antarctic Division.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserYvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

The role of law in energy transitions: lessons from community renewables

UserDr Annalisa Savaresi (Law School, University of Stirling).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

UserDr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Global Investment In The 21st Century....And How Sustainability Is Shaping It

Registration required via link below

UserGail Klintworth, Director of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 18:00-19:15

British Antarctic Survey

Krill feeding in fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula (and a few penguins & seals)

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlison Cleary, Norwegian Polar Institute.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Southern Ocean in climate models

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserErik Behrens National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Influence and the role of the expert

UserProf Susan Owens (Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 25 April 2017, 12:30-14:00

The obesity epidemic: Discussing the global health crisis

Plant Based Diets, Obesity, and Health Beneftis

UserDr. Catherine Christie, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, United States.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 20 April 2017, 11:15-11:45

British Antarctic Survey

Different uses for spatial overlap scores: testing gannet sexual segregation & predicting kittiwake foraging areas

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserBeth Clark, University of Exeter/RSPB.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 19 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Making your work ODA-able: refocussing science for official development assistance

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLucy Bricheno, NOC, Liverpool.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

The effects of directional wind shear on orographic gravity-wave breaking

UserMaria V. Guarino, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 04 April 2017, 14:00-15:00

MMP public and schools' events

'Maths vs Disease'

UserDr Julia Gog.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockSaturday 25 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

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

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

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

ABWR Seminar

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Engineering.

ClockThursday 23 March 2017, 09:30-17:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention

UserProfessor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool..

HouseMeeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

ClockWednesday 22 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

ABWR Seminar

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 22 March 2017, 09:30-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

UserDr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Internal BPI Student Seminars

UserEd Hinton, Neerjana Bhamidipati and Thomasina Ball.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Regional financialisation and convergence

UserDr Peter Phelps, University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Clean Air Act panel

UserDr Christine Corton, Dr Jacqueline Lam and Prof Michael Pollitt (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sources and sinks of bioactive trace metals across the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAmber Annett, Rutgers University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century

UserJonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

UserProf. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade

UserAmy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Energy Transitions in the 20th Century

UserProfessor Frank Trentmann, Dept. of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Iran’s Rhetoric Aggression: the Hard Words of Soft War

UserDR ROXANNE FARMANFARMAIAN (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

UserDavid Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Small RNAs as morphogen-like signals in plant development

UserProfessor Marja Timmermans (University of Tuebingen).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Warm periods of the past

UserSee abstract for programme.

HouseMR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Eco-evolutionary dynamics

UserAndrés López-Sepulcre (IEES CNRS Paris).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

UserProf. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cancer Research

UserProf Richard Gilbertson.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation

UserDebbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Critique of Punitive Reason

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice ice baby, under pressure: Ice-ocean interactions in and around ice shelves

If you are external to BAS and would like to attend, please let us know beforehand so that we can schedule this with reception.

UserJim Jordan (British Antarctic Survey, Imperial College London).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Public Presence of the Social Sciences

Distinguished Visitor lecture

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Parasites, Immune Function, and Human Life Histories

UserAaron Blackwell (University of California, Santa Barbara).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Inherent Inconsistency of EU Energy Policymaking

UserDr Oliver Geden, German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Pathological Lives: on the cosmopolitics of losing self-assurance

UserProfessor Steve Hinchliffe, Geography and College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from plants that don’t stay put: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Monetary Sovereignty, Currency Hierarchy and Economic Policy Autonomy

UserProfessor Daniela Magalhães Prates, University of Campinas.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic evolution of humans and closely related species

UserAida Andres (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Turbulent transport and mixing of oceanic sea salt aerosol over the Indian sub-continent: Cloud microphysical and geo-engineering implications

UserProf Dr. S. Ghosh, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

Userprof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The housing market? What does the future hold?

UserDavid Cowans, Places for People.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Ethics and Energy

UserProfessor Simon Caney, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS poster session

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseDepartment of Earth sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities

UserProfessor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Nanomedicine

UserSir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 19:00-20:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Information gaps in ecology and conservation

UserTatsuya Amano (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk / Department of Zoology University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

UserProf. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Politics and Biology

UserDr Julian Huppert.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

The New Institutional Economics of Chinese Power Sector Reform

UserProfessor Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, 1st Floor, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2017, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

The properties of absorbing aerosol in the atmospheric and its role in the tropics and in the Arctic

UserProf Hugh Coe, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 12 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

UserProf. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish

UserDr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 14 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks

UserWalter Robinson, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Submesoscale instabilities at ocean fronts

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserChristian Buckingham (ex-Univ. Soton, soon to be BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

UserDr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The role of materials science in sustainable development

UserDr Rob Wallach (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 18:15-19:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dispersal evolution

UserJean Clobert (Station d’Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS Moulis).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Scaling and Representative Measurements for Snowpack Sampling

UserProf Dr Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Europe’s Energy Security in the Wake of TTIP and Brexit:-A Legal Perspective

UserDr Anna Marhold, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

UserProf. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Peculiar Institutions: Four centuries of race-making in the United States

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology .

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF)

UserLars Hallstadius from Westinghouse.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The uneven impact of welfare reform on Britain's older industrial regions

UserProfessor Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserNayanika Mathur, British Academy postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral research fellow on the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and Internet Research'.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The transient response of ice-shelf melting to ocean change

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPaul Holland, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Microbiology

UserProf Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

British Antarctic Survey

Title to be confirmed

UserJulie Jones (University of Sheffield).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The great devolution debate

Please let us know if you plan to attend this event at gsi-info@anglia.ac.uk

UserPanel of experts from academia and local government.

HouseCoslett Building (COS 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The ghetto and the prison

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology .

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Racialized slavery and racial terrorism

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology .

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Race as symbolic violence and public dishonour

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Investigating Cultures of Community Energy

UserRebecca Willis, Independent Researcher.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, 1st Floor, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel

Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm

UserDr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

FEniCS-Shells: solving thin structural theories using a high-level finite element language

UserDr Jack S. Hale, Research Unit in Engineering Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Luxembourg..

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Deciphering the role of cell wall signalling in plant development

UserSebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Detection of climate and environmental change in the big data era

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Claudie Beaulieu, Univ. Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Is it too early to stand up? Has the epidemiological evidence for sitting and health changed?

UserDr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Science Makers: drones for science

UserTom Swinfield - Conservation Scientist at RSPB, Nigel Butcher - Technical Development Officer at RSPB, David Coomes - Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge .

HouseMakespace Classroom, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX .

ClockSaturday 05 November 2016, 12:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The influence of flowering behaviour on plant architecture in perennials

UserMaria Albani, Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Solar Energies

UserSee event homepage for list of speakers.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 09:30-17:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

What chances for sustainable UK agri-policies after Brexit?

UserProfessor Janet Dwyer, University of Gloucestershire.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mirabilite and salinity dynamics in sea ice brines

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserBen Butler, James Hutton Institute.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Neurobiology

UserProf Ole Paulsen.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Host-parasite coevolution

UserKayla King (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Beyond the rainbow: understanding the multiscale mechanisms of petal patterning

UserEdwige Moyroud, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: Where it stands and how far it can go?

User Professor Keun-Wook Paik, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

UserDr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Direct Detection of Criegee Intermediates and Reaction Products Using Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy

For details of this seminar, please contact Dr Ferracci as above

UserDr Dan Stone, University of Leeds.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Internships Event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

Pembroke College Talks

Can the UK cook its way to better health?

This talks is open to everyone. To register for a place at the lecture, please visit: https://cookscompany2016.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor Martin White (MRC Epidemiology Unit, CEDAR).

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment

UserDr Keri Wong and Dr Laurie Palmer (Dept. of Psychology).

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Surviving the 21st Century

UserMartin Rees, Partha Dasgupta, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wake effects in the ocean - from dolphins to CTDs via western boundary currents

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDave Munday, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Uncertainty quantification for complex simulators using emulation

UserDr Richard Wilkinson, The University of Sheffield.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

2016 Cambridge-Africa Day

Drinks reception with live music, from 17:00-18:45

UserA range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen's Building Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProf. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Elucidating and re-wiring gene regulatory networks mediating plant defence

This talk is part of the Sainsbury Laboratory Seminar Series

UserProfessor Katherine Denby, University of York.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Andrew Wells, AOPP, Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption

UserDr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of butterfly brains

UserStephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

The Highway Boom: Politics, Energy demand and Emissions in China

UserDr Kun-Chin Lin, Dept. of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 12:30-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

National air quality monitoring network and model forecast in China: current status, perspectives and challenges

For details of this seminar, please contact Bin Ouyang, details above

UserXiaoyan Wang and Wei Wang, China National Environment Monitoring Centre.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

British Antarctic Survey

Indicating natural and anthropogenic changes in marine ecosystems: Field studies with seabirds in the North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserStefan Garthe, Research and Technology Centre (FTZ), Kiel University, Germany.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

LAND LAW, MAPS AND MUDDY BOOTS IN A SPECIAL CORNER OF THE COURTS AND TRIBUNALS SYSTEM

UserJudge Elizabeth Cooke, Principal Judge Land Registration Division.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Non-genetic inheritance in mice

UserRahia Mashoodh (University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Chris Lowe, University of Essex.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mixing and phytoplankton dynamics in Antarctica's coastal seas

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserFilipa Carvalho, Rutgers.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 07 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

The History of Prediction and Energy Systems of the Future

UserDr Paul Warde, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2016, 12:30-14:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

A model for super El Ninos

UserDr Saji Hameed, University of Aizu, Japan.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 07 September 2016, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Controls on turbulent mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Alexander Brearley (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The two-timescale response of Antarctic ocean and sea-ice cover to wind changes: a follow-up

Please note change of time and venue. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. David Ferreira, Univ. Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 20 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

CANCELLED Circadian clock function and organisation in Arabidopsis thaliana

UserPaloma Mas, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG-CSIC).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 24 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Momentum budget in the Arctic: Atmosphere - Ice - Ocean

f external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Michel Tsamados, (UCL).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 22 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

BAS work in the Arctic

Please contact the organiser beforehand to arrange access with BAS reception

UserHenry Burgess.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2016, 14:30-15:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Immigrant Access in the Affordable Care Act: Legacies of the Confederacy

UserProf Donald W. Light, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2016, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

How unsteady winds can fuel phytoplankton blooms at fronts in the upper ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Dan Whitt, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

UserProfessor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Political Sociology of Human Rights

UserPROF KATE NASH (Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Supergenes, Sex and Sociality

UserLaurent Keller, University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures

Please register your interest at: reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserAlison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Jesus College.

HouseBentley Room, The Pitt Building.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

UserDana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) .

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

UserMelissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Why BAS science matters for Antarctic Policy: Engaging with Politicians, Managers and other Stakeholders

Please contact the organiser beforehand to arrange access with BAS reception

UserPhil Trathan, Richard Phillips and Jen Jackson.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 10:00-11:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Catalyst

UserMichael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Using tagged seals to evaluate the MODIS record: can perturbations to the base of the Southern Ocean food web be detected in 12 years of data?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLauren Biermann, CEFAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Physics of Surfing

UserChristophe Clanet, LadHyx, GK Batchelor Lecturer - DAMTP.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

MscS-Like Mechanosensitive Ion Channels as Modular Sensors and Reporters of Membrane Tension

UserElizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis (SLCU Sabbatical Visitor).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism

UserProf John Hall, James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University.

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

New thoughts about authigenic carbonate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Sasha Turchyn, Univ. Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Better Medical Research Without Patents? The Good-Pharma model.

UserPROF DONALD W LIGHT (Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

British Antarctic Survey

Heroic reconstructions of polar climate

UserPhilip Brohan (UK Met Office).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Thinking through racial capitalism in our time

UserPROF GARGI BHATTACHARYYA (University of East London).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Causes of War

UserProf Michael Mann, University of California. Los Angeles.

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

UserProfessor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

Winton Discussions

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

UserGareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

UserAlissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks

NOTE UNUSUAL START TIME

UserProfessor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 March 2016, 11:30-12:45

MMP public and schools' events

Hands-On Maths Fair

UserCambridge Science Festival.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockSaturday 19 March 2016, 11:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

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

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mapping main and interacting QTLs within the arabidopsis multiparent RIL (AMPRIL) population

3CS: The Cambridge Centre for Crop Sciences Inaugural Seminar

UserDr Korbinian Schneeberger, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Winter is coming. What happens to sea ice anomalies?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Tackling obesity with Big Data – Seminar 16/03/16 – methods & models

UserDr Michelle Morris, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (Organizer).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 09:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Planetary Vital Signs

UserCharles Kennel (University of California San Diego).

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2016, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pushing the Envelope – Advancing Atmospheric Observations using Aerial Robotics

UserDr Rick Thomas, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Nigeria: energy past to climate future

UserJohn Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Sea ice climate interactions in the Pliocene Arctic

UserFergus Howell (University of Leeds).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water to Changing Surface Buoyancy Fluxes.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Kate Snow.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Democracy and its Discontents

UserProfessor John Shattuck, Central European University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

UserDr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Fusion Power - within our grasp?

UserProfessor Steve Cowley, CCFE.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Expression homeostasis during DNA replication

UserNaama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Government Quality and Foreign Investment in the European Regions

UserDr Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein Folding Homeostasis

UserProfessor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Upper Ocean Dynamics: Waves, Eddies, Turbulence, Spectra, Modelling

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Licensing New Reactors in the UK

UserBen Lindley, AMEC Foster Wheeler.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Estimating the global burden of disease attributable to excess sodium within the GBD2010 study

UserDr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge..

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss

UserDavid Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to Overcome Inequality

UserRobert Wade (London School of Economics).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockMonday 01 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer by the Numbers

UserProfessor Simon Tavaré.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Science Policy and Expertise

UserRob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Remodeling root cells for AM symbiosis’

UserMaria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The economic limits of the ‘originate to distribute’ model

UserProfessor Oscar Dejuan, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The fluid dynamics of a suspension of frazil ice crystals

UserDavid Rees Jones (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Winton Discussions

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

UserEmily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Qualitative methods in urban planning and design

UserGabriela Quintana Vigiola, University of Technology, Sydney.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth Hunter

Read more at http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-18-january-2016-dr-jennifer-badham-dr-ruth-hunter/

UserDr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Urban Climate Risks Under Global Warming

UserProf. Johnny Chan, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong.

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Pat Hyder, Met Office.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 11 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Prof Robert D. Putnam in conversation

UserRobert D. Putnam Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 09 December 2015, 10:00-11:30

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

UserProf Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry Frank

UserProfessor Larry Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

UserDr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

UserSteve Campbell, Cameron Rae, David Wade.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

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

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Power to the people - the neighbourhood planning revolution

UserTony Burton CBE MPhil BA FRIBA FRSA.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Back to the future? Climate clues from a past warm time interval

Please contact the organiser beforehand to arrange access with BAS reception

UserEmilie Capron.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change

UserIan Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

iz220's list

Oil Sands in Canada

UserProf Michael Northcott (Divinity, U. of Edinburgh); Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Tyndale House, Divinity, U. of Cambridge); Rachel Soares tbc (Trade Commission of Canada).

HouseAlison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Seminar Room SG1.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

UserProfessor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Glacier Retreat and the Oceans: A view from Patagonia

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Carlos Moffat.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf

UserAlberto Naviera-Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Collaboration Skills Initiative

Selling for researchers

Numbers are limited. Please indicate your interest by emailing the organiser, Jo Griffiths (jg393@cam.ac.uk)

UserMarcel Dissel.

HouseMoller Centre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 10:00-16:00

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Corporate innovation and leadership - reflections from M&S Plan A

Registration is required (see below)

UserMike Barry, Director Plan A, M&S and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Indian Business & Enterprise, Judge Business School.

HouseLecture Room 3, Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 18:15-19:30

British Antarctic Survey

High-latitude climate sensitivity in a greenhouse world: lessons from the Eocene

If you wish to attend this talk but are not a member of staff at the British Antarctic Survey, you are very welcome but could you please contact us at kelgan@bas.ac.uk to let us know that you are coming. Thank you.

UserAlexander P. Wolfe Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta .

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability Leadership Laboratories

Innovation for Resilience and/or Social Development

There is a fee payable.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 08:45-21:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature

UserJamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Non-genetic inheritance of phenotype in mammals

UserAnne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Role Models: research models to answer policy questions

UserMr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

UserProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Talks related to sustainability and the environment

Taking a global view: How satellites provide a unique perspective on our changing planet

UserDr David Wilkinson and Dr Alan Belward from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.

House8 Mill Lane, Lecture Theatres.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

An Extended-Self, Games and Conflict Resolution Today

UserProfessor Noboru Hidano, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Biophysical Seminars

Microtechnologies for biomolecular complex analysis and cryo-microscopy

All welcome

UserDr Thomas Burg, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

IfM Seminars

Open Innovation Forum Food & FMCG Pitching Event

UserPitching event .

HouseFood Matters Live, London.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

Effect of topography and surface friction discontinuity on tropical cyclone tracks

If external to BAS, please contact the organiser for building access.

UserProf. Johny Chan, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CCFCS event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 14:15-17:15

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21)

Open to all, but space is limited so please register in advance

UserEmily Shuckburgh, Prof. John Pyle, Sir David King, Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers

UserHands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

UserSandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Understanding the relationship between land use regulation and housing markets in Sydney

UserProfessor Heather MacDonald, University of Technology Sydney.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

The South Georgia Gravity Wave Experiment (SG-WEX): investigating the small island problem

If external to BAS, please contact the organiser for building access.

UserTracy Moffat-Griffin, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Janis Baird & Dr Christina Vogel

UserDr Janis Baird and Dr Christina Vogel, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, University of Southampton.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

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

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

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

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method

UserProfessor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

From bud set to bud break: molecular regulators of winter dormancy in trees

UserIsabel Marta Allona Alberich, Technical University of Madrid.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Housing Booms and the Return to Salient Fundamentals

UserProfessor John Clapp, University of Connecticut.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability of eddy-mean flow interactions in atmospheric storm tracks and an application to the ACC.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Maarten Ambaum, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: water vapour and clouds in the climate system

Free Registration

UserLouise Sime, Chris Holloway, Constantino Listowski, Tamsin O'Connell, Jan Zika, Peter Haynes.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 14:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

UserProfessor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Future Energy Needs and Engineering Reality

UserProfessor Michael Kelly ( Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet?

UserPanel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

British Antarctic Survey

Polar lows: recent research on the dynamics of intense high-latitude cyclones

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance for building access.

UserProf. Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

How mammals respond to changing environments, from leopards to devils

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAssociate Professor Tracy Rogers, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of NSW, Australia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Socio-economic impact of agricultural science: the European story

UserProfessor Peter Midmore, Aberysthwyth University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance for building access

UserBen Bronselaer, Univ. Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

jjn1's list

Postcapitalism

UserPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

HouseRoom GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul Singhal

UserProfessor Atul Singhal, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH).

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Dynamics of Airborne Droplets

Joint RIG seminar - note unusual time and place

UserProfessor Jonathan Reid, Bristol University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:15

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Rothera Time Series and the Dutch Collaboration

Please contact David Munday (danday@bas.ac.uk) to arrange access to BAS

UserHugh Venables, BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Salvador Allende Memorial Lecture - The Chilean road to capitalism: the role of agrarian reform and peasant revolt before the coup

UserJosé Bengoa, Rector and Professor of Anthropology Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano Santiago de Chile.

HouseSG1, Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, West Road.

ClockMonday 26 October 2015, 17:15-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

The characteristics of föhn events over the Larsen Ice Shelf, and their representation in Polar WRF

If external to BAS, please contact the organiser for a visiting pass.

UserJenny Turton, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Limits to growth - a new generation

UserIrma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseRoom 302, Helmore Building (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Egg and the Sperm 2.0

UserProfessor Emily Martin ( Department of Social Anthropology, New York University).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge, Bateman Street.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions

UserAnthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and University of Dundee.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Fire sales: Good deals or price of low quality?

UserDr Erkan Yönder, Özyeğin University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Transport barriers, ocean adjustment and a new perspective on the surface Gulf Stream

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. Chris WIlson, NOC, Liverpool.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

UserProfessor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Engaging stakeholders about the science of climate change

Free Registration

UserEric Wolff, Ailsa Benton, John Pyle, Neil Harris, Ian Ellison, David Webb, Linda Capper, Athena Dinar.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The role of plate tectonics in controlling paleo climate and ocean circulation

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserProf. Dan Lunt, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

jjn1's list

The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement

UserJohn Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH.

HouseRoom B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale

Refreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture

UserDr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions

UserSteve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Welcome Event

UserRepresentatives from each CCfCS department/institute .

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

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

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

Fitzwilliam College Talks

Searches for microorganisms in the earth's atmosphere

UserProfessor Jayant V. Narlikar.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-sea interactions and the thermohaline circulation

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College, London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

What governs the propagation speed of SST Anomalies?

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. Stephan Jeffress, Univ. Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 30 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

2nd Graduate Conference: (In)security in a Global Age

UserKeynote speakers: Dr Craig Calhoun, Professor Cristina Boswell, Professor Harry Collins.

HouseSociology Department , Free School Lane.

ClockSaturday 26 September 2015, 09:00-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

2nd Graduate Conference: (In)security in a Global Age

User Keynote speakers: Dr Craig Calhoun, Professor Cristina Boswell, Professor Harry Collins.

HouseSociology Department , Free School Lane.

ClockFriday 25 September 2015, 09:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Wave-turbulence interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 23 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Controls over mesopelagic mineralisation

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserRichard Sanders, National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 21 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Book launch: Becoming Denmark: How societies build control of corruption

UserAlina Mungiu-Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.

HouseSociology Department , Free School Lane.

ClockWednesday 16 September 2015, 12:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Director's Choice student special seminar

Please contact the organiser beforehand to arrange access with BAS reception

UserTom Williams, Martin Black and Emma Smith.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 09 September 2015, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling Submesoscale Dynamics: A new parameterization for symmetric instability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 02 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Spatio-temporal organization of bacterial biofilms

UserDr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Molecular control of cellular collectives

UserDr Hyun Youk (Delft University of Technology).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Henrik Jonsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell-based patterning in developing tissues

UserProfessor Marta Ibanes (University of Barcelona).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 25 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The emergence of positional information in ensembles of mouse ES cells

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 15:30-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cell complexes: A general mathematical framework for modelling development in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions

UserProfessor Przemyslaw Prusinkiwicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

NIPR Atmospheric Science Activities in the Antarctic and Arctic

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserTakashi Yamanouchi, Project Professor of National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 24 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Early results from the SMILES project - observations and models

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. John Taylor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 29 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The dynamical influence of ocean eddy fluxes

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. James Maddison (School of Maths, Univ. Edinburgh).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 22 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

UserFlorian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

HouseGurdon Institute Tea Room.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Ignite 2015

UserVarious speakers and contributors.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School.

ClockSunday 05 July 2015, 09:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sensitivity of the Antarctic sea ice and trends in ocean models

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserJoakim Kjellsson, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 01 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

“Standing up” for young children’s health: How sedentary are young children, what factors may influence sedentariness and what can be done to reduce it?

UserProf Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockMonday 29 June 2015, 10:30-11:30

British Antarctic Survey

Modelling the bioenergetics and foraging behaviours of albatrosses

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserPhilipp Boersch-Supan and Leah Johnson, University of South Florida.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Global tidal dissipation estimates using a simple analytical tool

UserAdrien Lefauve, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing

UserProfessor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 17 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research

UserProf. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Reflections on the Recent Spanish Elections in a European Context: A Roundtable Discussion

UserDr Jeff Miley (Cambridge Sociology Department), Prof Gonzalo Velasco Arias (Camilo Jose Cela University), Vangelis Georgas (Cambridge Sociology Department)University.

HouseSociology Department Tea Room, Free School Lane.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Why fracking works and why not well enough

UserZdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Intense nutrient upwelling and PV mixing in oceanic anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserLiam Brannigan, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project

Please note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels"

UserRod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evidence base

Please note this is on Friday rather than Wednesday

UserDr Genevieve Healy, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland, Australia.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockFriday 05 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Scapegoating "Strangers" in Europe: Deep Structures and Shallow Stereotypes of Fear

UserProf Ray Taras, Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Migration Studies, University of Sussex.

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

UserDaniel Spielman (Yale).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Use of novel technologies to explore effective ways to improve population diets: policy-relevant research from New Zealand

https://diet.auckland.ac.nz/content/dr-helen-eyles

UserDr Helen Eyles, National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Competition between Atlantic and Antarctic overturning and the glacial-interglacial CO2 problem

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserKevin Oliver, NOC Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge AWiSE

Energy for the future: Plugging the decline in energy supply, a gap too big?

UserIman Hill, Oil and gas sector; Jenny Nelson, Photovoltaics and Renewables; Clare Grey, Energy Storage; Sir Brian Heap, Smart Villages.

House Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall..

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 19:00-21:30

Winton Discussions

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

The Last Interglacial period: the key to understanding future ice-sheet stability and sea-level changes under a warm climate

Please can non-BAS students or staff let the organiser know the day before this talk if you want to come along. Thanks.

UserEmma Stone, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey

The Arctic Boundary Layer: Coupling Clouds & Sea Ice

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserProf. Ian M. Brooks, University of Leeds.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

CRASSH

African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability

Register online at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25667

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 15 May 2015, 09:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Dynamics and Instability of straight and helical Vortices

UserProf Maurice Rossi, CNRS-Institut D'Alembert University of Paris 6.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Novel Methods for Determining the Evolution of Turbulence in the Surface Boundary Layer

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserNatasha Lucas, University of Bangor.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Impact of melt ponds on Arctic summer sea ice in the HadGEM3 global coupled climate model

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr. David Schroeder, University of Reading.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

UserDr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Visual Constructions of South Asia (2014-15)

Indian plague maps and the colonial urban

UserNicholas Evans, Postdoctoral Research Associate, CRASSH, University of Cambridge.

HouseS2 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Rd..

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The first CCfCS student symposium

Registration by May 1st required

UserJenny Turton.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying

UserDonal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

HouseAmgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 19:15-21:30

Food Futures in the World

Can GM crops help to feed the world?

Last talk of term!

UserProfessor Sir Brian Heap.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

ag806's list

Innovation Begins at Home

UserAndy Stanford-Clak, Master Inventor, Member IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow BCS, Honorary Professor University of East Anglia, Visiting Professor University of Newcastle.

HouseLecture Room 5, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

All Faculty of Education Seminars

Lunchtime Seminar with CAPREX fellows from Makerere University, Uganda

Tea and coffee will be provided. For catering reasons, it would be helpful to know if you plan to attend.

UserDr. Harriet Nabushawo and Dr. Henry S. Busulwa, CAPREx fellows from Makerere University, Uganda .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Donald McIntyre Building, Room GS5.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

ELPEC Group Seminars

Lunchtime Seminar with CAPREX fellows from Makerere University, Uganda

UserDr Harriet Nabushawo and Dr Henry Busulwa, Makerere University, Uganda.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockTuesday 05 May 2015, 13:00-14:15

British Antarctic Survey

Influence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse on Antarctic surface climate and ice core records

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserEric Steig, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh. Professor, Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 12:15-13:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Causes and effects of recent changes in Antarctic sea-ice transport

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlexander Haumann, ETH Zurich.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

UserProf. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Remaking our future: a radically different approach

Lunch Provided

UserRob Shaw, Director of Sustainability & Climate Change, LDA Design.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Kinneyia, a fossil hydrodynamic instability

UserLucas Goering, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics, Germany.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The Tropical Tropopause Layer

UserStephan Borrmann (Mainz), Neil Harris (Cambridge), Alison Ming (Cambridge) and Amanda Maycock (Cambridge).

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 21 April 2015, 14:30-17:30

Winton Discussions

Patents in theory and in practice

UserDr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

euroscicon

The 2015 Obesity Summit

UserFor info on speakers see: www.lifescienceevents.com/events.

HouseCineworld: The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 09:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water-column nutrient fluxes along the continental margin of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLee Bryant, University of Bath.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Control of Arabidopsis Petal Growth

UserProfessor Vivian Irish, Yale University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 25 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserProf. David Marshall, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 25 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

How does atmospheric chemistry affect your climate modelling results?

If external to BAS, contact the organiser for gaining access to building.

UserPeer Johannes Nowack, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 24 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

CRASSH

The Total Archive: Dreams of Universal Knowledge from the Encyclopaedia to Big Data

Register online at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25660

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

How and why would you do data science in health?

UserDr Philippe Giabbanelli, Investigator Scientist, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Winton Discussions

A remarkable set of contemplations

UserCraig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Earth’s past, present, and future climate

UserProf Eric Wolff (Earth Sciences), Dr Emily Shuckburgh (BAS), Dr Amanda Maycock (Chemistry).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Subtropical icebergs, glacial lakes, and Heinrich Events: How did meltwater trigger past abrupt climate change?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Food Futures in the World

Resource competition: Supporting a growing population whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions

UserDr Astley Hastings, Research Fellow, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

NB Change of date and venue

UserAndrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Balancing selection in Müllerian mimicry: causes and consequences

UserDr Violaine Llaurens, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity?

UserProf Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance in the Digital Society

UserProf Manuel Castells (University of Southern California).

HouseArts School Room A, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS poster session

UserCCfCS Members from across Cambridge.

HouseEarth Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Technology Special Interest Group Student Webinar

Free wine and food! Please email Bob Skelton if you wish to attend (rls1000@cam.ac.uk)

UserTo include Paul Haigh (retired expert in waste treatment) and Ben Salisbury (EDF Energy).

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Arctic Change meeting

UserJulienne Stroeve, Ed Hawkins, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Phil Wookey, Duncan Depledge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 14:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

UserFelicity Bartholomew and Finn Box, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones

UserProf. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Selling nature or saving nature? Theoretical issues and operational challenges for the green economy

UserDr. Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Food Futures in the World

Food Wastage and Global Food Security

UserDr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment, Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

The effects of different sudden stratospheric warming types on the ocean

If external to BAS, contact the organiser for gaining access to building.

UserAmee O'Callaghan, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Transition Cambridge

The Social Cost of Carbon

UserProf. Michael Grubb, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.

HouseFriends Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflection on sense and nonsense

UserChris Rogers (Warwick University; author of ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’ (2014)).

HouseSociology Department Committee Room, Free School Lane.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Neoliberalism and the environment revisited: The North American Free Trade Agreement and the US-Mexico border 20 years on

UserProfessor Diana Liverman Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Regents Professor of Geography and Development and Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment University of Arizona.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

UserDr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Climate Change and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions

Ditch the 2 degree warming goal

User Professor Charles Kennel and Professor Susan Owens.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

CEB Career Talks

"A career in design"

Talk is free but advance registration is required on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talks

UserHarry Claxton, Technology Development Manager Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies.

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase

UserProfessor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Publishing in the Nature Group

UserDr Enda Bergin, Associate Editor, Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, London.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography

Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the Polar oceans

UserLt Cdr Dr John Ash, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseEmmanuel College (Gardner Room).

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

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

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society

Life after death: social evolution in a grave

UserProf Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Designing user behaviour: a new direction for Sustainable Design

UserTracy Bhamra (Design School, Loughborough University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, IfM, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 10:00-10:45

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Tribulations and lots of trails: Nuclear Fuel Technology Development

UserDr Julian Kelly, Chief Technology Officer, Thor Energy AS.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR3.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

UserRichard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Resource efficiency: what are the limits?

UserJonathan Cullen, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Perceptions of property - does our industry undersell itself?

UserLiz Peace CBE, former Chief Executive of the British Property Federation.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

The hidden meteorites of Antarctica

If you wish to attend this talk are not a member of staff at the British Antarctic Survey please contact me at jonngs@bas.ac.uk to let me know that you are coming. Thank you

UserGeoff Evatt, University of Manchester.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Food Futures in the World

Feeding the world without costing the earth

UserProfessor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling cross-shelf heat transport along the West Antarctic Peninsula

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserJennifer A. Graham, Old Dominion University (VA, USA) and University of East Anglia (UK).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

An overview on AIRS observations of stratospheric gravity waves

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr Lars Hoffmann, Juelich Research Centre, Germany..

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2015, 14:30-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

An overview of MIPAS observations of polar stratospheric clouds

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr Reinhold Spang, Juelich Research Centre, Germany..

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2015, 14:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

UserProf. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI Speakers

UserStefano Rocco, Tim Beeson-Jones, Tom Eaves - BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Population Genetics of Greenlanders Evolution and Genetic Adaptation to Climate

UserDr. Matteo Fumagalli (University College of London Genetics Institute, Division of Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences).

HouseBioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Testing nonlinear new economic geography models

UserProfessor Jan Mutl, EBS Business School.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Aesthetics as Intrinsic to Sustainable Design: Architectural Education Projects From Around the World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMarga Jann, RIBA, AIA, DPUC, Chartered Architect, Member Lucy Cavendish College & Wolfson College (FMR Visiting Fellow LCC), Visiting Researcher Sociology Dept .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

CRASSH

Grasping ‘Everyday Justice’: An Ethnographic Approach

Register online at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25658

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 09:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Rebuilding Britain

UserDr Hugh Ellis, Town and Country Planning Association.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm

UserDr Dai Morgan, EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainabilty, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Impact of Glacio-Mediated Sea Level Changes on the Tides in the Past and Future

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserSophie-Berenice Wilmes, Bangor University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

PhD Student Seminars

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserBritish Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

UserProf. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Building ventilation and applications in practice

UserShaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein Nanopores

NB Location and time have changed

UserProf. Hagan Bayley FRS, Department of Chemistry, Oxford.

HouseGordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Housing Markets and the Globalisation of Generational Inequalities

UserProfessor Richard Ronald, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Deep vertical propagation of mountain waves above Scandinavia and New Zealand

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndreas Dörnbrack,Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants

UserProfessor George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Volcanic outgassing

UserDr Marie Edmonds (Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

International Legal Constraints on Energy Transitions

UserProfessor Jorge E. Vinuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy.

HouseRoom B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

International Legal Constraints on Energy Transitions

CUEN Evening Seminars are open to everyone, free of charge, without any registration.

UserProfessor Jorge E. Vinuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy.

HouseRoom B3, Criminology Department, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

The Future of Economics and Public Policy

The Future of Economics and Public Policy

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG18.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 17:30-19:00

Winton Discussions

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

UserDr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

HPV vaccines – are they doing their job?

UserProf. Margaret Stanley OBE, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 19:00-20:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The diversification of birds

UserDr Gavin Thomas, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Modelling polar stratospheric clouds, polar ozone and chemistry-climate interactions in the UM-UKCA model

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJames Keeble, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation in Practise

UserProf. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Ditch the 2 degC goal

UserCharlie Kennel and David Victor (Scripps, UCSD).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Multi-parameter observations from coastal waters to the deepest trenches: challenges studying the carbon system with optode technology

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserDr Anders Tengberg, Aanderaa/Xylem (Bergen, Norway) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 10:30-11:30

Engineering Fluids Group Seminar

Renewable power generation: geothermal and solar thermal systems

UserDr Kamel Hooman, The University of Queensland .

HouseLR3B, Inglis Building, CUED..

ClockFriday 09 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan

Please note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday

UserDr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockThursday 18 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

Equality & Diversity Events

University Staff Carol Service

UserChristmas Carols .

HouseGreat St Mary’s Church.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Global outlook for nuclear

UserMr Tony Roulstone ( Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockThursday 11 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI End of Term Seminar

Note unusual time

UserAndy Hogg, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, Pete Smith.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 14:00-15:20

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Colin Russell (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Planning and Ethics: Should planners be returning to their roots?

UserKelvin MacDonald, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Vorticity Balance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr. Yvonne Firing, National Oceaongraphy Centre Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Sino-Russian Gas and Oil Cooperation : The Reality and Its Impacts towards Regional and Global Trading

UserProfessor Keun Wook Paik, associate fellow of the energy, environment, resource department at Chatham House and senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

HouseRoom B3, Criminology Department, Sidgwick Site.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 17:00-00:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Cliffs and screes

UserKeith Richards / Mike Bethel (Geography).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Fossil pollen and algae reveal Antarctica’s climate as the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserVanessa Bowman (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

CEB Career Talks

"Water for life: From source to tap"

If you wish to attend this free talk you need to register your name on the registration form on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talks

User Alice Elder, Chartered Process Engineer at Mott MacDonald.

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Plenary Lecture 7: Lignocellulose degradation by enriched microbial consortia from cow rumen and termite gut

Understanding Microbial Communities; Function, Structure and Dynamics

UserHernandez-Raquet, G (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - LISBP INSA, Toulouse).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 10:05-10:40

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Event

UserProf. Steve Russell (University of Cambridge), Dr. Tim Weil (University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tracking marine turtles for conservation

UserProfessor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Can information and communication technologies save the environment?

UserProfessor Victor O.K. Li from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 12:00-13:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Assessing the impact of Holocene climate, sea level, and sea ice change on the Ardley Island penguin colony

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Stephen Roberts, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Investigating changes to phytoplankton patterns in the Southern Ocean using the evaluative satellite product Zeu, validated by instrumented southern elephant seals.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLauren Biermann, University of St Andrews.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Climate Ethics and Justice for Africa in the Post-2020 Climate Regime (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:45.......

UserDr Chuks Okereke, University of Reading, UK.

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

SEE DETAILS BELOW

UserAlex Evans, Nicola Mingotti, Kate Miller - BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view

UserDr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 220 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Explaining House Price Dynamics: Isolating the Role of Non-Fundamentals

UserProfessor Joseph Ooi, National University of Singapore.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Arctic Science at Ny-Alesund Research Station

UserNicholas Cox and Kevin Newsham, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

British Antarctic Survey

Foehn jets and warming distributions over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserAndrew Elvidge, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence

UserProf. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience”

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan

Please note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday

UserDr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Science from a sheet of paper

UserDr Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A microscale view of mixing and overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserProf. Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

By invitation

UserFumiya Iida (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseases

UserProf. Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

Dr S T Lee Public Policy Lectures

Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability: a necessity as the mother of many inventions

Registration opens at 5pm

UserProfessor Steven Chu, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AN.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd, Careers Service and student speakers.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Detroit: empty city. A model of market failure and weak public planning

UserProfessor Robin Boyle, Wayne State University, Detroit.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Ad-ab boundaries: Organisers of plant development

UserDr Marcus Heisler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Recent Changes in Antarctic Sea Ice

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserProf. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 14:30-16:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in plant meristems

UserProfessor Rüdiger Simon, Heinrich-Heine University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-10:45

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Computing for the Future of the Planet

UserProf. Andy Hopper (Computer Laboratory).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Bidisperse granular collapses

UserJoshua Caplan (DAMTP).

HouseCMS, MR12.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.

UserProf. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Discussion Meeting

UserProfessor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Dr David Reiner, Professor David MacKay.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 14:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CCfCS IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Symposium

UserProfessor Eric Wolff, Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown, Professor David MacKay.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 14:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

UserCaroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Antarctic ice flow: what can we learn by combining models and measurements?

If external to BAS, please email the organizer in advance for building access

UserRobert Arthern, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Surface texturing for turbulent friction reduction

UserRicardo Garcia-Mayoral, Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth

UserJohan Rockström Professor in Environmental Sciences Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Residential construction activity in OECD economies

UserDr Ana Rosa González-Martínez.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Overturning ideas: Using the mean state of the ocean to understand its role in transient climate change

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserJan Zika, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

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

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

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture

UserSusanna Ferrar: "Stuff: what good is an Antarctic Heritage?".

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014

Hustle, misfits and jugaad: alternative economic models from around the world

UserJaideep Prabhu, Tatiana Thieme, Alexa Clay, Kyra Maya Phillips .

HouseLaw, Faculty of, LG19, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ .

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 11:00-12:30

sa345's list

Shell Lecture 2014 Deploying gas technology for a sustainable energy future

UserAndy Brown, Upstream International Director, Shell.

HouseMcGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 17:30-19:30

sa345's list

Ecomachines: Designing the Cars of the Future

UserIndustry leaders debate the future of the car with special guest Richard Noble, land speed record breaker.

HouseSt Catharine's College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 18:00-19:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy

UserDR CAROLYN PEDWELL (Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

GDGTs as a Temperature Proxy in Antarctic Lakes: Reconstructing Holocene Climate in Yanou Lake, King George Island

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserLouise Taylor, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 11:00-11:30

BSS Formal Seminars

What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured?

UserDr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Self organising developmental systems and evolution

UserDr Tom Bennett, Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The Assembly of Coevolving Interactions

UserProf. John N Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The Teenagers in Leisure Time (TiLT) study – A cluster analysis of adolescent screen time and sport participation

Please note this talk is on Tuesday, not the usual Wednesday

UserHelen Brown, Lecturer, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

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

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

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

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds'

UserDr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A regime diagram for ocean geostrophic turbulence

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndreas Klocker, UTAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Antarctic Bottom Water in CMIP5 models: characteristics, formation, evolution

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserCéline Heuzé, University of East Anglia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Governing European public health nutrition policies – the role of harmonisation

UserProf Monique Raats, Director: Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre, University of Surrey. .

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

You can’t stop progress

Sustainable Lunch Provided. Free to attend.

UserRupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Horizon 2020 Opportunities in Big Data

UserRenata Schaeffer, European Policy Manager, Research Operations Office.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 2, 8 Mill Lane .

ClockThursday 02 October 2014, 14:00-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant cell biology: endocytosis and cell signalling

UserDr Clara Sanchez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 01 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Using simple process models to examine Arctic Ocean dynamics under a changing climate

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserPeter Davis, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Sociology Graduate Conference : Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons

UserKey note speakers: Prof Ted Benton (University of Essex); Prof Donatella Della Porta (Robert Schuman Centre); Prof Goran Therborn (Cambridge Sociology Department); Prof Greg Philo (University of Glasgow).

HouseSociology Department , Free School Lane.

ClockSaturday 27 September 2014, 08:30-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Sociology Graduate Conference : Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons

UserKey note speakers: Prof Ted Benton (University of Essex); Prof Donatella Della Porta (Robert Schuman Centre); Prof Goran Therborn (Cambridge Sociology Department); Prof Greg Philo (University of Glasgow).

HouseSociology Department , Free School Lane.

ClockFriday 26 September 2014, 08:30-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Prospects for Primary Prevention: obesity prevention interventions across pregnancy and early life

Note Thursday, not Wednesday

UserDr Karen Campbell, Associate Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockThursday 25 September 2014, 12:30-13:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Evaluating anthropogenic environmental changes from the north and south coasts of Greenland

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Bianca B. Perren, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2014, 10:15-11:00

British Antarctic Survey

Why do different climate models give different answers? An analysis of 21st century wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, in the CMIP5 climate models

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Thomas Bracegirdle.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson/CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 13:00-15:00

Culture of Scientific Research

Discussion Event: The Culture of Scientific Research

Calling all researchers – what’s it like being you?

UserSpeakers listed below.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 September 2014, 11:30-13:00

dc385's list

Be The Change Cambridge

UserVicky Ford MEP, Cllr Lewis Herbert & Cllr Carina O'Reilly, Dr Julian Huppert MP Guest of honour, The Mayor of Cambridge Cllr Gerri Bird.

HouseThe Lord Ashcroft International Business School Anglia Ruskin University East Road<br /> CB1 1PT Cambridge United Kingdom.

ClockSaturday 13 September 2014, 09:30-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

New insights into past methane cycle changes from ice cores

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserProf. Hubertus Fischer, Institute of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland..

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 09 September 2014, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sensitivity of Dense Shelf Water formation to ice shelf melting -- a modelling study

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserEva Cougnon, University of Tasmania.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 28 August 2014, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rapid sea-level rise in the Antarctic Shelf Sea in response to increased glacial discharge

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserCraig Rye, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 27 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Diagnosing diapycnal mixing in Drake Passage using numerical models and results from the DIMES experiment

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserNeill Mackay, National Oceanography Centre Liverpool.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 06 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

A trio of Antarctic climate variability and meteorology studies

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAdrian McDonald, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 06 August 2014, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Direct Coupling Coherent Quantum Observer

Quantum Control Engineering: Mathematical Principles and Applications

UserPetersen, I (UNSW Canberra, at ADFA).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 05 August 2014, 09:45-10:25

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Planar and outer membrane polarity in the Arabidopsis root epidermis

UserMarkus Grebe, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Becoming bilingual in transport & health to put research into practice

UserLucy Saunders, Consultant in Public Health, Greater London Authority and Transport for London.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The imprint of Southern Ocean overturning on seasonal water mass variability in Drake Passage and the Southern Ocean

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserGwyn Evans, University of Southampton.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Atmospheric bromine: its natural sources and effects on atmospheric chemsitry

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 22 July 2014, 10:15-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic control of cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis

UserKeiko Sugimoto, Cell Function Research Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Southern Ocean phytoplankton: mapping iron stressed communities from space and strong responses to volcanic ash supply

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr. Tom Browning, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson/CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 14 July 2014, 13:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water pathways in the Southern Ocean from Lagrangian particles

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

UserDr. Erik van Sebille, University of New South Wales.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockThursday 10 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic regulation by trxG and PcG in Arabidopsis

UserProfessor Zinmay Renee Sung, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Mass Fabrication of Micro/Nano Dual-scale Structures and its Applications in Energy Harvesting

Everyone is welcome

UserProf. Haixia (Alice) Zhang, Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, China.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 04 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

UserProfessor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

License to kill: The acquisition of cell death competency during plant development

UserMoritz K. Nowack, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 02 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

The amazing recent years in Solar Cells.
 What’s next?

UserProfessor David Cahen, The Rowland and Sylvia Schaefer Chair in Energy Research, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 30 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

Reducing uncertainties in Antarctic ice sheet mass loss projections.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserFrank Pattyn, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 27 June 2014, 15:30-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

The role of pinning-points, marine ice and subglacial channeling in defining the buttressing strength of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserReinhard Drews, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 27 June 2014, 15:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

The Little Ice Age in sea-level records across the North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Dr Leanne Wake (Northumbria University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockThursday 26 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

High latitude temperature evolution across the Last Interglacial

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr Emilie Capron, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 330B, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 24 June 2014, 10:15-11:00

Winton Discussions

Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?

UserProfessor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Feasibility of Wind & Solar Energy Systems for Large Geographic Domains

UserDr Christopher Clack, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

IPCC Climate Change 2014: Key Findings on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Asia and the Role of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=290&subid=7 note unusual venue

UserProf. Joy Pereira, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress

UserPamela C. Ronald, The Genome Center, University of California, Davis.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula in a chemistry climate model

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Two puzzles posed by the Zapiola anticyclone

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAntoine Venaille (CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, ENS-Lyon).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

UserDr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Modelling Workshop

Registration is required

UserModel users and developers across Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 14:00-17:00

Global Food Futures

Climate Change & Food Security Marketplace

UserDame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College; Sir Jonathan Porritt, Founder of Forum for the Future.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 09:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserHugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserDavid MacKay (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 09 June 2014, 13:00-15:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? - CUEN Annual Energy Conference

Please register: www.cuen.org.uk (coffee breaks, lunch and wine reception included)

User14 speakers from academia, policy and industry.

HouseJesus College Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 June 2014, 08:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Methane in the Earth System Symposium

UserJohn Burrows, Nic Gedney, Euan Nisbet, Matt Rigby, Philip Sargent .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 14:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Synovial Fluid Lubrication of Artificial Joints

UserPhillipa Cann, Tribology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Microtubule array patterning in the axially growing hypocotyl cell

UserSidney Shaw, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE Project

The listed speaker is not available; Dr Hunt has very kindly agreed to deliver this lecture in his place

UserDr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBA

UserPietro Cicuta, Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The Comfort Controversy

UserProfessor Fergus Nicol, Professor Michael Humphreys.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

RNA: self vs non-self

UserEric Miska, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

The Chineseness of Chinese Literature: SYMPOSIUM

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseRamsden Room, St Catherine's College.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 14:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Food Environments: defining, measuring and developing interventions

UserDr Amelia Lake, Lecturer in Knowledge Exchange in Public Health at the Centre for Public Policy & Health, University of Durham .

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJoakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Global Food Futures

ICT4Agriculture in developing countries: Innovation and "the last mile"

UserCliff Schmidt, founder of Literacy Bridge; Laura Crow, author of Connected Agriculture; Harsha Liyange, founder of Sarvodaya-Fusion; Benny Dembitzer, founder of Grassroots Africa .

HousePavilion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Wollaston Rd, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 18:00-20:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Sailing to the Sinophone World: On Modern Chinese Literary Cartography

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 1.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mesoscale variability in the Weddell Sea:  gliders, drifters and models

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndrew Thompson (Caltech).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Exploring the Secret Garden of Inequality Effects

UserProf Guillermina Jasso (Sociology, New York University).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 12:30-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Transformational Role of Plants in Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from https://zero-hunger.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor M S Swaminathan.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockSaturday 17 May 2014, 14:00-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Food Security, Biotechnology and Genetic Modification-A Mature Conversation

This event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from http://food-security.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor Ottoline Leyser (Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory) Professor Andy Stirling (Professor of Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex) Doctor Emmanuel Okogbenin (Director of Technical Operations, African Agricultural Technology Founda.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

The Lyrical in Epic Time: On Modern Chinese Literary Thought

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 1.

ClockThursday 15 May 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

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

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

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

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Shell and Natural Gas

This event kicks-off our Annual Conference on Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? Sign-up for conference and poster session via our website: http://www.cuen.org.uk/

UserEmile de Jong, General Manager Expertise and Deployment, Shell.

HouseJudge Business School.

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

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

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution and development of early land plant rooting systems

UserProf Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, University of Oxford.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

From Mara Poet to Nobel Laureate: On Modern Chinese Literary Culture

UserDavid Der-wei Wang (Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Senica).

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 1.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Winton Discussions

Current Issues in Energy Policy

UserDr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

Starts an hour erlier than usual (12:00 rather than 13:00)

UserDr Fumiya Iida (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

UserDr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Fluvio-centric Currents of River History: From the Mersey to the Po

We regret this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

UserProfessor Peter Coates, University of Bristol.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Seeing the invisible - UV-B perception and signalling in plants

UserRoman Ulm, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Conceptual models of ocean heat and carbon uptake

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserLaure Zanna (University of Oxford).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Paving bicycling’s path to redemption in the future of active travel

Note this seminar is on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserProfessor Kevin Krizek, Environmental Design and Transport, University of Colorado.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms, IMS Level 3, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Feminist Classics revisited 2

UserProf Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department (Chair); Speakers: Michelle Stanworth, Patricia Spallone, Deborah Lynn Steinberg.

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 13:00-16:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

On the origins of mycorrhizal symbioses

UserMartin Bidartondo, Division of Biology, Imperial College London & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

The Art of Fugue

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 20:00-21:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Have Societies Evolved?

UserProf Michael Mann.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What Biologists can learn from bats

UserEgbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Symposium on The Art of Fugue

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Masterclass with Angela Hewitt

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockFriday 25 April 2014, 14:00-17:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Interpreting Bach on the Piano

UserAngela Hewitt.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

The pressure melting point of ice and Jakobshavn's fast flow

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Mauro Werder (University of Bristol).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP

UserRt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 18:00-19:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

ABC Transporters involved in phytohormone transport

UserEnrico Martinoia, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Chemically Synthesised Carbon Nanomaterials

UserDr Mohammad Choucair, Dept of Chemistry, University of Sydney.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 17 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

To grow or not to grow - auxin-dependent differential growth regulation

UserJürgen Kleine-Vehn, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 16 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Upper water variability in the subpolar North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserClare Johnson (The Scottish Association for Marine Science).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 16 April 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson/CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 14 April 2014, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Talking with the neighbours: Understanding spatial accommodation in plant development

User Joop E.M. Vermeer, Department of Plant Molecular Biology (DBMV), University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 09 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Space rocks on ice: Hunting for meteorites in Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKatie Joy (University of Manchester).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

Parasitism, family conflict & success in a North Atlantic seabird

Attendees external to BAS please contact Norman Ratcliffe beforehand so I can arrange admittance with reception

UserHanna Granroth-Wilding, Edinburgh University / BAS.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application

UserSarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Fronts and frontogenesis: a generalised model

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserCallum Shakespeare (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 02 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Winton Discussions

The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?

UserDr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding and engineering salinity tolerance in crop plants

UserMark Tester, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Process intensification technologies at ExxonMobil: Reverse-Flow Reforming, and On-Board Fuel Separation

UserDr. Frank Hershkowitz and Dr. Randall Partridge. Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 24 March 2014, 15:30-16:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 2

This is a normal lecture in the lecture series - and not a special ticketed event as advertised in Polar Bytes 69.

User‘The Life and Work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker and artist ’ by Caroline Walker, Andrew Johnston and Angela Johnston.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 22 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

UserLuke Webster.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Sustainable cities in an uncertain future

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom 3 8 Mill Lane Cambridge CB2 1RW .

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Open Meeting for Early Career Researchers – 19 March 2014

Membership of Energy@Cambridge is free and open to researchers at the University of Cambridge or affiliated institutes who are actively engaged in research related to energy.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePostdoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 17:45-19:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The impact of taste variety in infancy

UserDr Lucy Cooke, Senior Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research, Centre University College London.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

A close up on two aspects of LSW formation

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserRenske Gelderloos (University of Oxford).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Book Evening

In association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserProfs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey

Applying adjoint methods to the glacial isostatic adjustment inverse problem

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserDr Ioannis Brilakis (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 13:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

UserDr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Seminar: Social Networks and Social Movements: a Global Perspective, 2010-2014

UserProf Manuel Castells, University of Southern California.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate Confusion: Lessons and Pitfalls in the Study of Climates Past

UserProfessor John Lowe, Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science of the University of London, Gordon Manley Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Energy Seminars

Horizon2020 Information Meeting for members of Energy@Cambridge

Membership of Energy@Cambridge is free and open to researchers at the University of Cambridge or affiliated institutes who are actively engaged in research related to energy.

UserRenata Schaeffer, European Policy Manger, Research Office.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 14:00-15:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Feminism, Religion, and Women’s Rights

UserMona Siddiqui, Razia Iqbal, Haifa Zangana, Elif Shafak, Ash Amin.

HouseKeynes Room, King's College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes

Come along for this very special lunchtime talk to find out about the future of biodiversity! Feel free to bring your own lunch, but light refreshments will be also provided.

UserEd Turner, Department of Zoology.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wildlife and Environment

"You can't clear scrub and get chalk grassland unless ...." Forty years experience on the Devil's Ditch

All welcome Members free Non-members £3

UserPeter Grubb, Emeritus Professor of Investigative Plant Ecology at the University of Cambridge.

HouseSix Bells Public House, Fulbourn High Street, CB21 5DH.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 19:30-22:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

From the Feminine to Feminism: Women in Islamic Thought and Literature

UserProfessor Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Toward the prediction of Arctic sea ice under global warming : Stochastic dynamical system approach

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserWoosok Moon (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 11:00-12:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Mary in Christian-Muslim Relations

UserProfessor Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Basal lubrication of ice sheets

UserKatarzyna Kowal (ITG, DAMTP).

HouseCMS, MR4.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

Can you Text a Divorce? Negotiating Women’s Rights in Law and Society

UserProfessor Mona Siddiqui (University of Edinburgh).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Public Lecture: Internet and Society: the Culture of Autonomy

UserProf Manuel Castells, University of Southern California .

HouseArts School Room A, New Museum Site.

ClockMonday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin Society

Quantum effects in biology and organic materials: photosynthesis, solar cells and nanomachines.

This talk is free and open to all, and will be followed by refreshments. No registration is necessary.

UserDr. Alex Chin, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

The Nation's Hidden Art College Revealed

UserAndrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 17:30-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Small, medium, large or supersize: Prices and Portions

UserDr Ingrid Steenhuis, Associate Professor Health Promotion, VU University Amsterdam.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Energy Seminars

It’s magnetic resonance – but not as you know it

Live video stream available at this web address http://royalsociety.org/events/2014/magnetic-resonance/

UserProfessor Lynn Gladden is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings

UserProfessor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Energetic constraints on the evolution of life

UserDr Nick Lane (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them?

NOTE THAT EVENT IS ON THURSDAY

UserDr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials

Slight refreshment will be provided.

UserPu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Social inequalities in the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study

Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserDr Aluisio Barros, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit Seminar Room, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Science.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies)

UserDr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources

UserDr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The role of policy in influencing differences between countries in the size of the private rented housing sector

UserProfessor Michael Oxley, Cambridge Centre for Housing Planning Research.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Independence for Catalonia?

UserDr Jeff Miley, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

A V HILL LECTURE

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

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Importance and Application of Chemical Activation in Atmospheric Chemistry

Note this is a joint CAS/Phys Chem RIG seminar.

UserProf Paul Seakins (University of Leeds).

HousePfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 1

UserSubmarines in the Arctic: four decades of pack ice and the Royal Navy by Dr Charles Swithinbank, Prof Peter Wadhams and Dr Nick Hughes.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 22 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Coping with climate change in the next half-century

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserCharles Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Sustainability Solutions Institute (Previous Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1998-2006) (University of California).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Linda Ashton/Christophe Junillon from Atkins.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserDr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation

UserProfessor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Enhanced turbulent mixing driven by wind shear alignment in the ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserTom Rippeth (Bangor University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

“Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”

18:15 for 19:00 start

UserJoanna Kerr and India Weidle.

HouseHarker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 18:15-20:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Baroness Worthington

UserBaroness Worthington (House of Lords).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 17:45-19:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The 20 Years Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: round-table and screening

Event organised by the Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge, and the Radical Americas Network

UserProf Rosalva Aida Hernandez (Simon Bolivar Chair, Cambridge), Prof John Gledhill (University of Manchester), Dr Sarah Washbrook (University of Oxford), Geoff Goodwin (UCL, Cambridge), Dr Jeff Miley (Sociology, Cambridge).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 14:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Open-ocean convection becoming less intense in the Greenland and Iceland Seas

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserG.W.K. Moore, Department of Physics University of Toronto, Canada.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

No Going Back: The Scientific and Political Ethics of Ecological Novelty

Paul Robbins is an International Visiting Fellow in Geography.

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, International Fellow, from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

UserAlan Eales, Fanny Yuen and Alan McCreanor, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Biophysical insights into protein aggregation

UserDr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Global Food Futures

Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management?

Please visit https://newthinkingonfoodmanagement.eventbrite.co.uk to register.

UserDr Andrew MacMillan, former Director of Field Operations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms (Room 4), University of Cambridge, 1 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB21.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India?

Joint seminar, hosted with the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS)

UserDr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Small-scale thermodynamic and dynamic studies using autonomous drifting ice buoys and satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPhil Hwang (The Scottish Association for Marine Science).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sociology of Intellectuals Reading Group: Sartre on Public Intellectualism

UserIntroduced by Prof Patrick Baert, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 09:30-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable Automation

UserAylmer Johnson (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 11:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

THE CHANGING NATURE OF EUROPEAN WAR, 1815-1914

UserProfesor Margaret MacMillan and others: see details.

HouseAlison Richard Building, West Road, Ground Floor.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:00-18:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

PLANNING WAR BEFORE 1914

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLaw Faculty, Room LG19.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian Apes

UserDr David Chivers (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series – 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Townscape, Anti-Scrape and Surrealism

UserJohn MacArthur, Professor, Research Centre for Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History, University of Queensland.

HouseLecture Room 1, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:15-14:15

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

THINKING ABOUT WAR BEFORE 1914

UserProfessor Margaret MacMillan, University of Oxford.

HouseLaw Faculty, Room LG19.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can Research Prevent Crime?

UserProfessor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

CRASSH Humanitas Lectures

EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND WAR

UserProfessor Margaret MacMillan, University of Oxford.

HouseLaw Faculty, Room LG19.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

**EVENT POSTPONED** Cambridge's Future: Green Jobs, Green Growth

UserDr Julian Huppert, Member of Parliament for Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 20:00-21:00

British Antarctic Survey

Tropospheric and stratospheric cloud and dynamics research at the Australian Antarctic Division

UserSimon Alexander, Australia Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era

UserAlexander Summers, Botanic Garden.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

How the environment shapes health-behaviours

UserDr Carlijn Kamphuis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands.

HouseMRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Viscous peeling of an elastic sheet

UserGunnar Peng (ITG, DAMTP).

HouseCMS, MR4.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Resilient Liberalism

UserProf Mark Thatcher (Department of Government, LSE).

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

UserProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Is Austerity good for our Health?

UserProf Larry King, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseYusuf Hamied Lecture Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 18:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

At Home in a Diaspora City: Urban Domesticities and Domestic Urbanism

Co-hosted with the University's ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

UserProfessor Alison Blunt, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Commercialisation Seminar Series

Commercialising your research via consultancy

Lunch will be provided. Please reply to tm487@cam.ac.uk to express your interest in attending so that we can estimate the numbers required for lunch by 15 Jan 2014.

UserCambridge Enterprise and Engineering Department.

HouseOatley Meeting Room, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of Change

UserProfessor Aida Hernandez, Dr Susan Bayly and Professor Sarah Radcliffe.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 17:30-19:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours

UserSarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours

UserSarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance

UserProfessor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Land-atmosphere interactions: what models do and don't tell us

UserProf Rob MacKenzie (University of Birmingham) - Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 14:15-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

Free entry, open to the public and complimentary drink included

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 19:30-20:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic continental shelf

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAlek Petty (University College London).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable automation

UserDavid MacKay (CUED).

HouseCBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

ClockMonday 13 January 2014, 13:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Dietary patterns and health: a cardiovascular disease perspective (title TBC)

Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserDr Janas Harrington, Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

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

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

The Southern Ocean reveals its climate secrets: Paleotemperature insights from marine sediments

All welcome. If external to BAS please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Amelia Shevenell, University of South Florida.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockMonday 06 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The next generation of UK Earth System Models: The UKESM project

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserColin Jones (UK Met Office).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 18 December 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

A Better Start: ‘what works’ to improve nutrition in 0-3 year olds

UserProfessor Carolyn Summerbell, Durham University.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2.

ClockWednesday 18 December 2013, 12:30-13:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

'Careers in Renewables' + 'Shale Gas in the UK: will it solve our energy issue?'

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Vince Pizzoni, Executive Search Consultant, Peng and Associates, London.

HouseGraduate Union Lounge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 07 December 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?)

UserDr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ozone forcing of the coupled climate in the Southern Hemisphere

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDavid Ferreira (University of Reading).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Flow dynamics of marine ice sheets

UserMartin Wearing (ITG, DAMTP).

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant - microbe interactions: when evolution joins the party

UserPierre-Marc Delaux, University of Wisconsin, Madison; USA.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 11:00-12:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

'Second coming: the rebirth of nuclear power in the UK' - CUEN Seminar Series

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr. Simon Taylor and Dr. Eugene Shwageraus, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom LT3, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AG.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 18:00-19:30

Winton Discussions

Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow

UserProf Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

euroscicon

Applications for Synthetic Biology in Industrial Biotechnology

UserProfessor Robert Edwards , Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency.

HouseCineworld: The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0DX.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 09:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Unravelling Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia Using Palaeoecology

UserProfessor Anson W. Mackay, Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Fat fish are a forest product

UserDr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserAlek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Understanding global patterns of mesoscale eddy properties and diffusivities

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAndreas Klocker (Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Afghanistan Post-2014: what does the future hold?

UserHE M Daud Yaar, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UK.

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 15:45-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Various

UserFirst year CPGS talks: Michal Filus, Brendan Mahon, Peer Nowack and Francis Wragg.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 14:15-15:30

AUTOMATE*

Sustainable automation

Meeting by invitation

UserCharles Collis (Dyson / CUED).

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, Meeting Room 1.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-15:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 4

UserBritish Antarctic Survey Aviation by Rod Arnold.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 23 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Industrial Sustainability Seminars

Change-Inspired Scholarship Toward Sustainable Enterprise: Applications in Green Supply Chain Management

UserDr. Timothy Smith, NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise, University of Minnesota.

HouseLecture Block, room 6.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 14:00-15:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Glaciers: from the Kilimanjaro ice fields to the IPCC

Please note the change in venue to the Main Lecture Theatre.

UserGeorg Kaser, Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research, University of Innsbruck, Austria. IPCC Working Group 1 Lead Author in Assessment Report 4 and Assessment Report 5.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The trials and tribulations of school based cluster randomised controlled trials to improve dietary quality in children

Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserDr Charlotte Evans, Lecturer in Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leeds.

HouseIPH large seminar room.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Information Event

User[Careers Service and Former Summer Students and Interns].

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Are you your brain?

UserProfessor Steven Rose (The Open University).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal?

UserProf. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Big Data for Urban Analytics and Land Use Planning

UserProfessor Joseph Ferreira, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserLouise Biddle, University of East Anglia.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance

The CSAR AGM will precede this lecture at 19:15

UserProfessor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 19:15-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Shallow flows: 2D or not 2D?

UserGertJan van Heijst (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserVolunteer staff and students, Faculty of Mathematics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 16 November 2013, 10:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Recent advancements in global biodiversity scenarios

UserPiero Visconti (Microsoft Computational Ecology and Environmental Science).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

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

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

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

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The political economy of austerity

UserDr Yiannis Kitromilides, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Vigorous ice shelf-ocean interactions: zooming in on the Pine Island case

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserPierre Dutrieux (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Bird Island Biosphere-Atmosphere interactions: 2010 studies and future work

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Christine Braban, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, U.K..

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 10:00-11:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Subglacial hydrology and the formation of ice streams

UserTeresa Kyrke-Smith (Oxford, Earth Sciences).

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Laboratory study of nitrate photolysis in Antarctic snow: quantum yield, domain of photolysis, isotope effects and wavelength dependence

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Carl Meusinger, University of Copenhagen.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Quantifying changes in past atmospheric chemistry from ice core records of the oxygen isotopes of sulfate and nitrate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Eric Sofen, University of York.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 13:30-14:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Drivers and biodiversity consequences of landscape-scale deforestation in the western Brazilian Amazon

UserJose Ochoa Quintero, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Event

User[Careers Service and current PhD and MPhil students].

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

The work of Centre for Cities

UserPaul Swinney, Centre for Cities.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

On time delivery - the challenge of intracellular transport logistics

UserAnja Geitmann, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease?

UserProfessor Tim Bussey (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Plant Immune System and Root Microbiome

UserProf. Jeff L. Dangl.John N. Couch Professor.HHMI and Dept. of Biology.Carolina Center for Genome Sciences.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Warm Homes Mill Road

UserVarious speakers throughout the afternoon.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockSaturday 02 November 2013, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy

** Note:one-off THURSDAY seminar - no Wednesday session this week ** Joint seminar with CRASSH - Humanitas.

UserProf. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allostery

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Decarbonisation of the global power sector in the context of climate change mitigation

UserPablo Salas, Energy Systems Modelling Research Group - Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Going beyond public health nutrition: healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices

UserDr Jennie Macdiarmid, Senior Research Fellow, Public Health Nutrition Research group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen.

HouseMRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Testing eddy compensation and eddy saturation in the Southern Ocean

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDan Jones (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive

The ‘Festival of Ideas’ Lecture

UserDr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

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

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

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 2

UserOperation Tabarin by John Dudeney.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 26 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Power in the Global Age: symposium with Michael Mann

UserProf Michael Mann, Prof Anthony Giddens, Prof Goran Therborn, Prof Sylvia Walby, Prof Christopher Bayly.

HouseSt John's College Divinity School.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 14:00-17:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Nanotechnology for the Oilfield

UserJames Tour, BP Lecturer, Rice University, Houston.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Some challenges in modelling influenza

UserDr Julia Gog (CCBI and DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment

UserDr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

A neo-Kaldorian approach to structural change and economic growth

UserProfessor Ricardo Azevedo Araujo, University of Brasilia.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-Sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJeremy P. Grist (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's box

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 17:45-19:15

Department of Chemistry

Graphene Growth & Applications

BP Lectures 2013

UserProfessor James M. Tour, Rice University, Texas.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Applied and not-yet-applied

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

The Postdocs of Cambridge (PdOC) Society

Sustainable Energy - from academia to Whitehall

UserProf David MacKay ( Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change).

HouseAuditorium, Robinson College.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Light and hormonal control of plant development: Application of the knowledge gained in Arabidopsis to crops.

UserSalomé Prat Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Teenagers: A Natural History

UserDr David Bainbridge (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

BioSoc Freshers' Squash

UserJoin BioSoc - light refreshments provided.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius

UserProf. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CUEN squash event

Refreshments will be provided

Userthe CUEN committee.

HouseThe Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 19:00-20:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fishy cognition

UserCulum Brown (Macquarie University).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 1

UserExotic terrestrial mammals in Antarctic regions by Bob Headland.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 12 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Toward an understanding of the barriers to and facilitators of dietary change

UserPetra J Rydén Ph. D., RD, lecturer Department of Food and Nutrition Umea University.

HouseATC 6B Seminar Room, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tropical Atlantic Ocean Impacts on Antarctic Peninsula Area Climate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDavid M. Holland (New York University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: what have we learned, and where do we go next?

UserProf Mat Collins, Prof Gabi Hegerl, Prof Ted Shepherd, Prof David Vaughan.

HouseMcGrath Centre, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 14:00-18:00

Global Food Futures

Launch of the Global Food Futures Year

UserDr Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED).

HouseSainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge, Bateman Street.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 18:00-20:30

British Antarctic Survey

Opening the black box: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) modelling in Antarctica

If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserPippa Whitehouse, University of Durham.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

Winton Discussions

Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

Modeling Land-Ice Retreat, Ice-Ocean Interactions and Sea-Level Rise in the Community Earth System Model

If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserWilliam Lipscomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Xylar Asay-Davis, New York University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 15:30-16:30

British Antarctic Survey

A System of Conservative Regridding for Ice / Atmosphere Coupling in a GCM

If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Robert Fischer (NASA GISS ).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

An Epidemiologist’s View of Obesity Prevention Research

UserJune Stevens, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, AICR/WCRF Chaired Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .

HouseMRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 12:30-13:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware, and Beyond

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserLuis Ceze, University of Washington.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockWednesday 18 September 2013, 10:00-11:00

British Antarctic Survey

North Atlantic Oscillation: teleconnections, mechanisms and long range predictability

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAdam Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockMonday 16 September 2013, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Genetic control of vascular development in plants

UserProf Ykä Helariutta, Research Director, University of Helsinki .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 12 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chris Huhne - UK Government climate, energy and environmental policy

No need to reserve places, but please arrive by 16.50. Doors will close once the venue's capcity has been reached.

UserChris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

HouseEngineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockThursday 05 September 2013, 17:00-18:00

Sustainable Design and Technology Showcase

Please email elaine.craig@cpsl.cam.ac.uk to book a place and to receive a detailed programme.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Centre, Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

ClockTuesday 03 September 2013, 12:15-13:15

British Antarctic Survey

Radar Instrumentation for Polar Research: Status and Future

If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserS. Gogineni, The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, The University of Kansas.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 03 September 2013, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserEric Mijolsness, University of California Irvine.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Material properties and higher-order structure of the cell nucleus define new stem cell phenotypes

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserKevin Chalut, university of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The mechanics of growth in walled cell

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserKC Huang, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 30 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Multiscale Cell Based Modelling of Tissues

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop.

UserJames Osborne, University of Oxford .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modelling multicellular mechanics in root growth

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOliver Jensen, University of Manchester.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling the mechanics of cellular expansion

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop.

UserRosemary Dyson, University of Birmingham.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 29 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserJan Trass, ENS-Lyon/Christophe Godin INRIA.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Why are they fractal? The interplay between geometry and physics in the development of plant form

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserPrzemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The groovy side of biomechanics

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOlivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 28 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Biomechanical analysis of stalk failure in maize

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserDouglas Cook, NYU Abu Dhabi.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling plant cells in 3D

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Smith, Max Planck Institute Cologne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The mechanical identity of stem cells in Arabidopsis

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserArezki Boudaoud, ENS-Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 27 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Cytokinin signaling in shoot and root of Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserChristian Fleck, Wageningen UR.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 August 2013, 15:30-16:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Vleaf plataform for modelling the molecular and mechanistic basis of organ growth regulation

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserGerrit Beemster, University of Antwerp.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 26 August 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The rewardsand pitfalls of computational modelling

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserGraeme Mitchison, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adding a dimension to embryogenesis: the role of auxin in cell division

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserPierre Barbier de Reuille, University of Bern.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Auxin signalling and transport in leaf venation

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserEnrico Scarpella University of Alberta.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockFriday 23 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant reprogramming using DNA binding domains with custom sequence specificity

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserSebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Programming languages for synthetic biological systems

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserAndrew Phillips, Microsoft Research .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Modeling stem cell population dynamics in the C. elegans germline

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserHillel Kugler, Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 22 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

An update model of the Arabidopsis circadian clock

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserCarl Troein, Lund University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Using large dataset analysis to reveal temperature and light dependent changes in clock network topology

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserAnthony Hall, University of Liverpool .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Reduced models of circadian clock networks

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserOzgur Akman, University of Exeter.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 21 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment: computational mdeling on the stochastic nature of cell fate decisions

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserJose Teles, University College London.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 11:15-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Compressible components reveal network architectures

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserSebastian Ahnert (University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 10:00-10:45

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Specificity and cross-talk in the cytokinin perception network

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserVijay Chickarmane, California Institute of Technology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 20 August 2013, 09:15-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk is part of the 2013 Computational Biology Workshop

UserDavid Rand, University of Warkick.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockMonday 19 August 2013, 14:00-14:45

British Antarctic Survey

The response of Antarctic marine ice streams to strong ocean forcing - a modelling approach

If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Daniel Goldberg (University of Edinburgh).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockThursday 15 August 2013, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Ancillary service to the grid from deferrable loads: the case for intelligent pool pumps in Florida

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserMeyn, S (University of Illinois).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 14 August 2013, 13:30-14:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Understanding plant development - a computational morphodynamics approach

UserHenrik Jönsson, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics Lund University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockThursday 01 August 2013, 16:00-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Deep ice cores from Dome Fuji, East Antarctica

If external to BAS, please contact the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Kumiko Goto-Azuma, National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockThursday 01 August 2013, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement in the Bisicles Ice Sheet Model

CHANGE OF TIME! Now at 11 am. If you are coming from outside BAS please let the organiser know in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr Stephen Cornford, University of Bristol.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 25 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lattice Boltzmann Methods for multi-phase turbulent flows

Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Complex Fluids and Active Media in Evolving Domains

UserBiferale, L (Universit degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 24 July 2013, 11:30-13:00

MMP public and schools' events

Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards

UserProfessor Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College, Atlanta.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockThursday 18 July 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

OPDA perception and signalling - a novel plant regulatory network

UserDr Andrea Chini, Department of Plant Molecular Genetics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 17 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Structural variability in plant genomes. The case of Cucurbits.

UserProfessor Pere Puigdomènech. Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics. CSIC-IRTA-UAB_UB. Barcelona. Spain.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 10 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The undernourished child with an overweight mother: a statistical artifact or an emerging public health concern?

UserDr Colleen Doak, Department of Health Sciences, Section of Infectious Disease, VU University Amsterdam.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockFriday 05 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Bioenergy Initiative

The Cambridge University/BAS Innovation Centre - Potential for New Collaborations

Bioenergy Initiative

UserProf Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBiochemistry, Hopkins Bldg, Seminar Rm 1 .

ClockFriday 05 July 2013, 09:30-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

The influence of the Amundsen Sea Low on the climate of West Antarctica and its representation in coupled climate model simulations

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserScott Hosking (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 03 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Lifestyle and cancer prevention – the elephant in the room

UserProfessor Annie S Anderson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, Centre for Research into Cancer Prevention and Screening, University of Dundee..

HouseMRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

ClockWednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Playing with fire: Ice core biomass burning records from four continents

If you are external to BAS, please contact the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserDr. Natalie Kehrwald, University of Venice, Italy.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 02 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Modelling subglacial hydrology

If you wish to attend this talk are not a member of staff at the British Antarctic Survey please contact me at jonngs@bas.ac.uk to let me know that you are coming. Thank you

UserIan Hewitt, Universtiy of Oxford.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockFriday 28 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Transition Cambridge

Insulating Solid Walls

UserMargaret Reynolds RIBA - architect (independent consultant, formerly with AC Architects).

HouseSt Lukes Community Centre, Victoria Road.

ClockThursday 27 June 2013, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’

Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 19:30-20:30

MMP public and schools' events

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 10:30-11:30

Communications Research Group Seminar

Energy-efficient wireless communications

UserDr. Fernando Rosas, Wireless Technologies Laboratory, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

HouseSigProC seminar room (3rd floor of Dept. of Engineering).

ClockThursday 20 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Optoelectronics Group

Probing charge carriers in carbon materials with optical pulses

UserDr. Enrico Da Como, Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 18 June 2013, 10:00-11:00

Winton Discussions

Creating Impact from Research

UserDr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The BioSHaRE project

UserProfessor Ronald Stolk, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Gronigen.

HouseMRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Bioimaging across scale: from cells to embryos

UserDr. Lars Hufnagel, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

The evolutionary invention of food-webs: a palaeobiological and macroecological approach

If external to BAS, please email Anje Neutel (anjute@bas.ac.uk) in advance to gain access to the building.

UserNick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Is Venice UNESCO World Heritage Site sustainable?

UserProf. Giorgio Gianighian, Visiting Scholar, St. John's College, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 13:15-14:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Transient responses of the Southern Ocean to climate change

Note unusual day! If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserAndy Hogg (Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

UserStuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The SnRK1 signaling pathway – connecting environmental stress and plant growth

UserDr Elena Baena González, Plant Stress Signaling, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal .

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

gl332's list

Progress in making organic solar cells highly efficient and stable

UserProf. Michael McGehee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 31 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Next-Generation Smart Grid: Completely Autonomous Power Systems (CAPS)

UserQing-Chang Zhong, IET Fellow, SMIEEE Chair in Control and Systems Engineering Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

ClockFriday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Alumni Energy Society

Energy Project Finance : Oil & Gas

Details and registration at: http://eneryprojectfinance.eventbrite.co.uk/

UserDavid Cole – Global Head of Energy Project Finance at BNP Paribas.

HouseOxford & Cambridge Club, London.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 18:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Tipping Points in Social, Economic and Biological Systems

UserDr Philip Garnett, Tipping Points Project, Department of Anthropology, Durham University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

UserMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

ajb295's list

“Energy, water, food and the nine billion."

Booking Required contact organiser

UserLord Oxburgh.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 18:00-19:15

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Teaching Sustainability to Chemical Engineering students”

Students, visitors, academics and alumni are invited to attend this talk. Register your name on www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

UserProfessor Ryszard Pohorecki Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT).

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Mineral Separation by Froth Flotation: Research Tools and Techniques

UserProfessor Jan Cilliers FREng, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Intracellular Protein Transport in Plants

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Michael Sauer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 16:30-17:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Unravelling the calcium machinery responsible for the nucleoplasmic calcium oscillation in legume symbioses

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Myriam Charpentier, John Innes Centre.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 15:50-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Morphogenetic mechanisms underlying germinal and somatic fate acquisition in maize anthers

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserTim Kelliher, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Endodermal cell responses and size control regulate lateral root formation

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Joop Vermeer, University of Lausanne.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Stochasticity and regulation in plant tissue growth

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Karen Alim, Harvard University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 13:30-14:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Mechanical regulation of morphogenesis at the shoot apex

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Naomi Nakayama, ENS, Lyon.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 11:50-12:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Applying system metabolism to improve synthetic metabolism

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Arren Bar-Even, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 11:10-11:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Rewiring cell fate decisions to uncover MAPK specificity in the stomatal lineage

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Diego Wengier, Stanford University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 10:10-10:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Lucy Colwell, Harvard University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 09:30-10:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Shifting protein-protein interactions in the evolution of the grasses: when, how, and why?

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Madelaine Bartlett, Brigham Young University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 16:50-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Genome-wide association study of drought tolerance in A.thaliana

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Artur Korte, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 16:10-16:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The blossoms and the roots of developmental evolution in genotype-phenotype maps

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Ulises Rosas, New York University.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 15:30-16:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adaptation and its genetic basis in plants

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Marco Todesco, University of British Columbia.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 14:30-15:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Uncovering the genomic landscape of speciation through population-level resequencing of two Aquilegia species

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Daniele Filiault, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 13:50-14:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The “Endless Forms”: Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Flower Colour and Shape

This is part of the Dynamic Networks in Plant Biology Symposium. The event is free but registration is required. Please go to www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamic.html for further information

UserDr Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 21 May 2013, 13:10-13:50

Winton Discussions

Biological photovoltaic systems

UserProf Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The UK'S facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements

Tea is served from 6pm

UserJamie Trembath, FAAM, Cranfield University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 18:30-20:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Innovating Technologies for the Poorest 2 Billion

UserProfessor Ashok Gadgil Division Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean heat uptake, the stratification of the Southern Ocean, and the ACC

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserTill Kuhlbrodt (University of Reading).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

UserProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

lb447's list

University-Industry Interactions and Research in Construction at IIT, Madras

Construction Lecture for All

UserDr Koshy Varghese.

HouseLecture Room 6 Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption cloud last so long?

UserMark Jellinek, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Low Energy Buildings: CFD Modelling for Natural Ventilation and Thermal Comfort Prediction

UserProf. Malcolm Cook,Professor of Building Performance Analysis,Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 13:15-14:15

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Contested Fields: Our Lost pastoral

UserTom Holbrook,Director, 5th Studio,Design Advisor for the Greater London Authority, a member of the Quality Panel for the London Legacy Development Corporation, and a Built Environment Expert for Design Council CABE..

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 13:15-14:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Weddell Gyre: Freshwater and carbon budgets and exports to the global ocean abyss

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserPete Brown (UEA & BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

UserProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

“Technology Management in a large integrated Oil Company”

if you would like to attend this free talk just register your name on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

UserDr David Söderberg, BP Group Technology, Director Technology Management.

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Reconstruction of past atmospheric aerosol load and composition (organic and inorganic): The case of the European aerosol since 1920 inferred from Alpine ice cores, and prospective for various polar ice cores.

If external to BAS, please contact the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserMichel Legrand, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE), France.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 15:30-16:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP 3rd Years PhD Talks

Talks by 3rd Yr PhD students in the Materials RIG

Uservarious.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 10:15-16:30

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

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

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

ClockWednesday 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

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Life on the edge: transcription factors that regulate organ boundaries in Arabidopsis

UserPatricia Springer, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

URBAN RESILIENCE - addressing risk and uncertainty in rapidly growing cities in the developing world

UserTony Lloyd Jones, Architect-planner, Development Practitioner, Reader and Course Director of Westminster’s International Planning and Sustainable Development Masters programme, Director of Research and Consultancy at the Max Lock Centre.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 13:15-14:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling and Forecasting of Network Time Series

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserNason, G (University of Bristol).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2013, 11:30-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Wind Problems for the Electricity Planner and Operator

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserPlumptre, P (National Grid).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2013, 10:15-10:45

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The weather and climate: emergent laws and multifractal cascades

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

UserProfessor Shaun Lovejoy (McGill University).

HousePfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Semi-Parametric Models for Electricity Consumption Forecasting

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserGoude, Y (EDF, France).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 14:45-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature

This is a special additional talk taking place outside of term time.

UserProf Murry Salby (Macquarie University).

HousePfizer Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

A Range of Methods for Electricity Consumption Forecasting

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserBrossat, X (EDF, France).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 14:00-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Electricity Market Reform in the UK

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserPollitt, M (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 22 April 2013, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Energy saving when manufacturing high value castings

Our talks are open to all with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments will be available from 7:00 pm.

UserProf. Mark Jolly, Cranfield University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 17 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance

Note unusual time

UserProf Jerzy Paszkowski, Laboratory of Plant Genetics, University of Geneva.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

A video-plankton and microstructure profiler for the exploration of in situ connections between zooplankton and turbulence

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserTetjana Ross (Dalhousie University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 10:30-11:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The plant circadian clock in the lab and the field

UserDr Seth Davis, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

HouseAuditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Transition Cambridge

Rolling out energy efficiency for homes and community buildings

UserNicola Terry, Transition Cambridge & Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

HouseStoneyard Centre (Lower hall), 43 St Andrews Street, CB2 3AR.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Microbial pathogen effectors modulate plant development and plant-insect interactions

UserDr Saskia A. Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Beyond symmetry and asymmetry: Complexity and the stability of ecological networks

UserDr Anje-Margriet Neutel, Biosphere Complexity Analyst, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 27 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 4

User'DROMLAN: a travelogue, A personal experience of the Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) in the austral spring of 2004' by Peter Clarkson..

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 19:30-00:00

MMP public and schools' events

Mathematics and Smallpox

Cambridge Science Festival free public talk

UserProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

UserProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Consider the Icicle

UserStephen Morris, Dept of Physics, University of Toronto.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Economics for a Finite Planet

UserProfessor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey

Occam's razor and modelling ecological complexity

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserJon Pitchford (York University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Seismic behaviour pile foundations in improved and unimproved soft clays

UserProfessor K.K. “Muralee” Muraleetharan, Kimmell-Bernard Chair in Engineering, David Ross Boyd and Presidential Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma.

HouseSchofield Centre.

ClockTuesday 19 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Winton Discussions

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

UserDr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Lent Symposium: Time scales in Climate Science.

UserProf. David Beerling, Dr. Pierre Dutrieux, Dr. Dan Lunt.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 14:20-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge College Retrofit and Energy Efficiency

UserPeter Armitage, PhD Student, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The Next Generation of Lighting for our Homes and our Health

Our meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track

**Last talk in Series!**

UserFrans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Good Daylighting and Compliance – Pulling in the Same Direction?

UserProfessor John Mardaljevic, Professor of Building Daylight Modelling, University of Loughborough.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 3

User'Discovering Bellingshausen' by Rip Bulkeley.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 09 March 2013, 19:30-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Leaf-Like Materials Capable Of Solar Energy Conversion

UserProf. Bao-Lian Su (University of Namur, Belgium).

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

UserAndrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Learning from the Mistakes of Others…

UserProfessor David J Elton Ph.D., P.E., S.M., F. ASCE, Civil Engineering Department, Auburn University, USA.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Overcoming peak water: moving to sustainability

UserDr Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, Oakland , California.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Why "shaken but not stirred"?

UserProfessor Richard Zare, Stanford University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

British Antarctic Survey

Climate models and Earth system models: why the differences are and why they're important

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserManoj Joshi (UEA).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

UserDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The dynamics of land-atmosphere interaction in West Africa

UserDoug Parker (Leeds, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Panel Debate: Climate change control strategies: Top-down or bottom-up?

FREE refreshments; Note later start time

UserChair: Prof Howard Griffiths, Speakers: Prof Steve Yearly, Bob Ward, more speakers TBC.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Next to the Eagle Pub.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Retrofit

UserDr Anna Mavrogianni and Dr Rokia Raslan.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 13:30-15:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Next generation sustainability at the University of British Columbia

UserProfessor John Robinson, Associate Provost, Sustainability, University of British Columbia.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation?

UserDr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Measuring real estate investment performance: A European comparison of different approaches

UserDr Steve Devaney, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

The Fabric of Place

UserDiane Haigh, Director of Allies and Morrison Architects and Fellow Commoner, Trinity Hall.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

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

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

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

Winton Discussions

Sustainability and Architecture

UserProf Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Modelling the plumbing of ice sheets

UserIan Hewitt (Oxford, Mathematical Institute).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 2

User'The Sirius Dog Sledge Patrol' by Lieutenant Commander John S Ash.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 23 February 2013, 19:30-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Housing Pathways of Young People Towards 2020

UserProfessor David Clapham, University of Reading.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

Simulations of single clouds and what a LES-type model can tell us about larger scales

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserMichael Herzog (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Last Campaign

UserProf Jeffrey Alexander, Pitt Professor for 2012-13.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Optoelectronics Group

Charge separation in bulk heterojunctions

UserDr. Martijn Kemerink, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

UserProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle

CPPS seminar

UserRichard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Nuclear reprogramming

UserSir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Commercialising Sustainability

UserDr Mike Biddle, Chief Executive and Founder of MBA Polymers.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Managing the tensions: CANCELLED

UserTerrie Alafat, Director of Housing Growth and Affordable Housing - Department of Communities and Local Government.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

Possible impacts of a future Grand Solar Minimum on surface climate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserAmanda Maycock (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 43rd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Transforming River Catchments - Linking Ecology, Society and the Economy

UserProf. Philip James, Professor of Ecology, School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 13:15-14:15

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Obama in Power

UserProf Jeffrey Alexander, Pitt Professor for 2012-13.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

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

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

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

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 1

User'Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins' by Gavin Francis.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 09 February 2013, 19:30-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Multiphase Hele-Shaw Flows: from Beaches to Dredgers

UserOnno Bokhove, Astro- & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

The revolution of capitalism

UserPeter Bakker, Chief Executive of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Engineering Challenges of Realising Fusion Power

UserProfessor Steve Cowley, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

UserGracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Deconstructing visual signals in social butterflies

UserSusan Finkbeiner - University of California, Irvine, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FLOW the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge.

UserDocumentary screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockSunday 03 February 2013, 20:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Big Trees for Big Problems

UserSam Brockington, Molecular Development.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 19:00-20:30

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

" Multiphase flow in oil and gas production "

if you would like to attend thsi free talk just register your name on www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

UserTrevor Hill, BP Exploration Operating Co Ltd.

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer

Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!

UserHaley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger

UserBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Strategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions: the case of Milan's “Città di Città” project.

UserAlessandro Balducci, Professor of Planning and Urban Policies, Politecnico di Milano.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 7.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Importance of Being Civil

UserPROF JOHN HALL (Mc Gill University, Quebec).

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

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

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

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Turbulence and energetics in Jupiter's atmosphere

UserPeter Read (Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Control design for amplifier and oscillator flows

UserProfessor Peter Schmid, LadHyX - CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Intelligent Nanomaterials - Will It Answer Energy Problems?? And What Policies Will Make Them Attractive For Commercialisation.

Talks open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserBy Dr. Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture

**First for Lent Term**

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Loss mechanisms in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells

UserPD Dr. Carsten Deibel, Experimental Physics VI, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg Am Hubland, Germany .

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir 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.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Piezoelectric Polymer Nanowires For Energy Harvesting Applications

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan (Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, UK).

HouseCentre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

ClockFriday 14 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

All-atom Monte Carlo approach to protein dynamics and interactions

UserSteffan Wallin, Assistant Professor Computational Biology and Biological Physics, Lund University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A novel regulator of shoot stem cell proliferation in Arabidopsis

UserDr Christoph Schuster, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

**last for Michaelmas Term**

UserProf. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Regulation of cellulose synthesis - the cytoskeleton, trafficking and beyond

UserDr Staffan Persson, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Atmospheric flow over South Georgia and the impacts on regional climate

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDaniel Bannister (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Air-Sea Interaction in the Southern Ocean: New Results from the SOFS Air-Sea Flux Mooring

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserSimon Josey (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Computational Building Performance Analysis

UserSam Wilkinson, PhD Candidate, University College London.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age

UserProf. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Good City Process

UserMichael Neuman, Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of New South Wales.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Borderlands of the EU: The Spanish Enclave of Ceuta in Morocco

UserDr. Max Sternberg + Dr. Felipe Hernandez, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Inferring Currents from Streamers

UserTimothy Grant, BAS/Schlumberger Gould Research.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Butterfly defense against predation

UserChrister Wiklund - Stockholm University, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

UserProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 4

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start

UserBy Wind Power Across Antarctica by Ramon Larramendi.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 24 November 2012, 19:30-00:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Studentships Event

UserFormer Summer Students & Careers Advisor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Reactors - New Build, Future Designs and Novel Applications

A copy of the slides are available by emailing you request to nuclear-mphil-enquiries@cam.ac.uk

UserDr John Lillington, AMEC.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

"Made Happy" Designing in Sustainability in a Fast Moving Consumer Goods Business

Free talk - just register your name on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

UserSimon Fox MA CEng FIChemE Senior Principal Engineer – Mondelēz International (Kraft Foods UK R&D Ltd).

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster

UserMr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy.

UserDr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Self-Build Society

Self-building in Cambridge: what are the options?

This meeting is organised through the Cambridge Self-Build Society and CambPlants, but is open to all.

UserDr Helen Mulligan, Cambridge Architectural Research; Adam Broadway, Instinctively Green; Jon Seaman, Integrity Buildings.

HouseComputer Lab, William Gates Bldg, Room F11, CB3 0FD (directions: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/directions/).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Regaining Relevancy: Making the Economic Case for Planning

UserMitchell Silver, President, & Paul Farmer, Executive Director, American Planning Association.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Characterising receptor complexes and endosomal proteomes during plant defence responses

UserDr Alex Jones,The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Temporary Urbanism

UserProfessor Ali Madanipour, Professor of Urban Design and the Director of Global Urban Research Unit (GURU), School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’

UserJon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

RAPID-MOC 26N: a Heat budget for the North Atlantic and eddy impacts on the Florida Current

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserEleanor Frajka-Williams (University of Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Body temperature regulation in passerines

UserJan-Åke Nilsson - University of Lund, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

New approaches to understanding marine climate-carbon cycle feedbacks

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Tilla Roy, LSCE/IPSL, Paris.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

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

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

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

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Art and the environment

Lunch will be provided

UserDave Pritchard, CIWEM Arts and Environment Network Steering Group.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Aspects of science, technology and government

Please note that this is a Mechanics Colloquia and will be held in LR4 at 2.30pm

UserProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainability Measures in Universities: Cambridge as a Case Study

UserDavid Green, Superintendent of Engineering Workshops, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals

UserDr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Predicting health and wealth performance within cities using network models

UserProfessor Chris Webster, Professor of Urban Planning and Head of the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

LiDAR derived sea-ice observations from the Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserVictoria Hamilton-Morris (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

From Self Build to Passivhaus

UserBob Hayes and Jonathan Hines, Directors, Architype.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:15-14:15

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

APS practice talks

UserVarious speakers.

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

SciScreen

March of the Penguins

UserDavid Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 18:00-20:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

EDF R&D: creating value today and preparing for tomorrow

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Filomena La Porta - Head of Smart Energy Supply, EDF Energy R&D UK Centre.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 17:15-18:30

Winton Discussions

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

UserDr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Influences of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field on the Ionosphere

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserKathryn McWilliams (University of Saskatchewan, Canada).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 3

Doors open at 3pm for a 3:30pm start - note this is an afternoon talk and will finish at approx. 5pm

UserFrozen Planet - the making of the TV Series by Vanessa Berlowitz.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

ClockSaturday 10 November 2012, 15:30-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Issues in fuel supply and utilisation

UserDr John C. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?

UserMatias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

A comedy of the commons: Toward sustainable use of the Louisiana public oyster grounds

UserThomas M. Soniat, Department of Biological Sciences and Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Integrated Circuits in Plants

UserProf Ben J.G. Scheres, Plant Systems Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research Centre.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBA

UserPeter Dudfield, Daan van Sommeren, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Using selfish genes to reduce malaria

UserProf. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Smarter ways to monitor wildlife

UserProf Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Leverage, Timing and Real Estate Performance

UserProfessor Tony Key, Cass Business School.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

The Frailty of Certainty

UserGordon Benson OBE RA AADip SADG ARIBA FRIAS, Director of Benson + Forsyth LLP Architects.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:15-14:15

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Fingerprints of past carbon cycle-climate changes in the Bern3D model

UserFortunat Joos, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

HouseHarker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

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

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

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

Cambridge University Biological Society

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics

UserProf. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge).

HouseWinstanly Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Do Public Real Estate Returns Really Lead Private Market Returns?

UserElias Oikarinen (Turku School of Economics), Martin Hoesli (University of Geneva) & Camilo Serrano (IAZI AG, Zurich).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Nature, Design and Digital Production

UserProfessor Richard Weston, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Losing your world while falling asleep'

UserDr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour

UserDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Return of Class.

UserPROF GORAN THERBORN (Cambridge University, Sociology).

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

UserProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Epigenetic reprogramming during sexual reproduction in plants

UserFred Berger, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 2

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start

UserHenry 'Birdie' Bowers - Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie .

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 27 October 2012, 19:30-00:00

BP Lectures 2012

Functionalized Antibodies

UserProfessor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

HouseBP Institute.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Delivering Growth in Difficult Times

UserAlex Plant - Executive Director for Economy, Transport & Environment, Cambridgeshire County Council .

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

BP Lectures 2012

Polyrotaxanes and Supramolecular Catalysis

UserProfessor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Associations between Urban Form and Mortality Rates in Great Britain

UserDr. Daniela Fecht, Research Associate, Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), Imperial College.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 13:15-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ecological genetics of life history and host plant adaptation in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

PLEASE NOTICE CHANGE OF VENUE!!!

UserMaaike de Jong - University of Helsinki, Finland.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

BP Lectures 2012

Macroscopic Self-Assembly and Self-Healing through Molecular Recognition

UserProfessor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Challenges

UserProf. Rowan Suttion, University of Reading. Prof. Seymour Laxon, University College London. Dr Phillip Goodwin, University of Cambridge. Prof. David Fowler, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology..

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:00-17:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE 2012 Symposium Summary

UserAaron Gillich (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation?

UserDr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series

Energy efficiency and house prices: Is there a link?

UserDr Franz Fuerst, Department of Land Economy.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

DIAL seminars

Boeing research and technology

UserWilliam Krechel, Boeing Research and Technology.

HouseSeminar room 3, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 13:30-14:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

From Parish to Neighbourhood Planning in England

UserProfessor Nick Gallent, Professor of Housing and Planning and Head of the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 13:15-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Markets, social opportunities, and the evolution of fairness

UserJean-Baptiste André - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Spin down of a stellar interior

UserRosie Oglethorpe (BPI, DAMTP) .

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

1st Year CPGS talks

UserSarah Connors, Antara Banerjee and Ewa Bednarz.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 14:15-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

Phase-synchronization of tropical variability in global climate model simulations of the recent past

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

UserScott Osprey (University of Oxford).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michael Term Lecture 1

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start

UserThe Third Reich in Antarctica – the story of the Third German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39 by Colin Summerhayes.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 13 October 2012, 19:30-00:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future?

** First talk of term **

UserDr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Connecting sugar-sensing with Arabidopsis meristem activation

Tea and coffee will be served proceeding the seminar, starting at 15:30

UserProfessor Xuelin Wu, University of Southern California, LA.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

‘Meetings with Machines’ - Architecture, Health and the Tyranny of 'Standards'

UserRory Coonan Hon. FRIBA, Former Director of Architecture, Design and Planning for Circle Healthcare.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 13:15-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

MAD World

PLEASE NOTICE CHANGE OF VENUE!!!

UserAlasdair Houston - University of Bristol, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Why changes in snow fall matter when interpreting temperature from polar ice cores

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Louise Sime, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

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

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

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

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Parasite-induced swarming behaviour in Artemia spp.

UserNicolas Rode, Center for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, Montpellier, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic and Arctic temperature trends

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserChristian Franzke (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Winton Inaugural Symposium on Energy Efficiency

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, visit event website: http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/energyefficiency.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockMonday 01 October 2012, 09:00-18:30

Winton Discussions

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

UserDr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Water meter debate: vital for adapting to climate change or doomed to failure?

Lunch will be provided

UserAndy Brown (Anglian Water) and Dr James Jenkins (University of Hertfordshire).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Paper discussion group: High-resolution interpolar difference of atmospheric methane around the Last Glacial Maximum

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr. James Levine, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2012, 15:30-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRay Goldstein, DAMTP, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 31 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJim Haseloff, Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 31 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserAlistair Middleton, Heidelberg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 30 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserEric Mjolsness, UCI.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 30 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Smith, Bern.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserChristophe Godin, INRIA and Jan Traas, ENS-Lyon.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 29 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserOlivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 28 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPetros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 28 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJames Locke, SLCU, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 27 August 2012, 10:15-11:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPhil Wigge, SLCU, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockMonday 27 August 2012, 09:15-10:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserPrzemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserEnrico Scarpella, U Alberta.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserMalcolm Bennett, Nottingham.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 23 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserRichard Morris, JIC.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJulio Saez-Rodriguez, EBI.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserVijay Chickarmane, Caltech.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Computational Biology Workshop

UserJill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 21 August 2012, 09:00-10:00

British Antarctic Survey

Meteorological Research at UNIS, Svalbard

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserAnna Sjøblom Coulson (The University Centre in Svalbard).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Towards a quantitative mechanical model of plant cells and tissues

UserRichard Smith, University of Bern Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium.

ClockThursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Modelling wave-ice interactions

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserLuke Bennetts (University of Adelaide).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 25 July 2012, 14:00-15:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Summer Lunch Talk

For lunch attendees only - pre-booking required

UserIn the spirit of Scott. by Lt. Col. Edwards.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 14 July 2012, 12:30-00:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Functions for some evolutionarily conserved transcription regulators in rice inflorescence and flower development

UserDr. Usha Vijayraghavan, Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockThursday 12 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Links between ice loss, stratification and ocean heat content in the Rothera time series (RaTS)

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserHugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 04 July 2012, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Gravity wave activity in the lower stratosphere above Rothera and the Falkland Islands

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserTracy Moffat-Griffin (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

NUCLEAR: CLEAR OR UNCLEAR? - CUEN Annual Conference 2012

Sustainability, policy and prospects

UserFor a list of confirmed speakers, please visit the conference website: http://cuens.soc.srcf.net/conference12.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2012, 09:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Is the increase of Southern Ocean winds, and SAM, caused by the ozone hole rather than by increased greenhouse gases?

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserHoward Roscoe (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The RCUK Digital Economy Theme – A Catalyst for Change

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserDr. John G. Baird, Lead for the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, EPSRC.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Southern Ocean overturning under past and future climate change

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserAdele Morrison (Australian National University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?

UserColm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London.

HouseTBC.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Energy Debugging in Smartphones

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserY. Charlie Hu, Purdue.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 10:00-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The impact of heritable DNA methylation

UserSandra Cortijo, Université Paris Sud 11, V. Colot lab.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockMonday 18 June 2012, 14:30-15:15

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

UserPaul Seidel (MIT).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Behaviour and Energy Use

UserIrina Shaorshadze, Margaret Thorley, Dr Rosie Robison, Aaron Gillich.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 12:00-14:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Granular segregation in driven binary monolayers

UserDraga Pihler-puzovic, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Uni of Manchester.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Collaborative Design Platform

UserProfessor Dr. Ing. Frank Petzold + Gerhard Schubert, Technische Universität München.

HouseGround-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 13:15-14:15

MMP public and schools' events

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Please note - pre-booking is not required for this lecture, but please arrive on time for the start of the talk.

UserDr James Grime - University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The role of temperature and HOS1 in seed dormancy control

UserSarah Kendall, University of Exeter, Penfield lab.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Board Room.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Investigation of some electrostatic effects in aircraft fuel systems

CCA Industrial Seminar

UserDr J. Ogilvy, EADS.

HouseMR14.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Of Its Time and of Its Place

UserRichard Murphy OBE, Director, Richard Murphy Architects.

HouseGround-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 13:15-14:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sensing the Historic Environment – Its Nature and Relevance

UserProf. DEAN HAWKES, Dr. HENRIK SCHOENEFELDT, Prof. COLIN PORTEOUS,.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 12:00-14:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Solar 'Affordances' – Research and Observation Retrospective

UserProfessor Colin Porteous, Professor of Architectural Science, University of Glasgow.

HouseGround-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:15-14:15

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

FUTURE of PHOTOVOLTAICS in BUILDINGS

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Hamish Watson - CEO, Polysolar Ltd - Cambridge.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 18:30-19:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Departmental Lecture

UserProfessor Andrea Ferrari, Department of Engineering.

HouseScott Polar Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Institute.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:30

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron

UserDr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Where might we find evidence of a Last Interglacial West Antarctic ice sheet collapse in Antarctic ice core records?

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserSarah Bradley, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

UserProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Scratching the surface: Evolutionary developmental genetics of the land plant cuticle

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sam Brockington, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The footprint of mating system shift and colonization on the genome of a young species

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Daniel Koenig, Max Planck Institute.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Adaptation to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Angela Hancock, University of Vienna.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:30-14:10

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Towards Urban Energy Micro-simulation – the Primordial Role of the Urbanite

UserProfessor Darren Robinson, Chair in Building and Urban Physics, University of Nottingham.

HouseGround-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Understanding climate model biases in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude variability.

NOTE - unusual time and venue

UserDr Isla Simpson, Department of Physics, University of Toronto.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Quantifying leaf morphology: perspectives on development, environmental regulation, and natural variation in leaf shape and size

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please seehttp://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Daniel Chitwood, University of California, Davis.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 12:00-12:40

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Hormonal networks in plant development: Fundamentally simple?

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Tom Bennett, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:20-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The East Greenland Boundary Current System South of Denmark Strait

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserAlex Brearley (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Smoke and mirrors: The curious connection between post-fire germination and shoot branching regulation

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr David Nelson, University of Georgia.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 10:20-11:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

A novel carotenoid-derived molecule functions in periodic root branching

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Jaimie van Norman, Duke University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 09:40-10:20

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Can we make Arabidopsis into Striga?

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Yuichiro Tsuchiya, University of Toronto.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 09:00-09:40

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Positional information by differential endocytosis splits auxin response to drive Arabidopsis root meristem growth

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Emanuele Scacchi, University of Lausanne.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:30-17:10

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sebastian Schorack, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 15:50-16:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Interpreting the influence of air mass origin on the atmospheric composition of long term measurement stations

If external to BAS, please email the organiser to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Zoe Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Leicester.

Houseroom 330b, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

DNA methylation dynamics during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Pauline Jullien, ETH Zürich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:50-15:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Finding love: Intercellular communication during plant reproduction

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Sharon Kessler, University of Zurich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:10-14:50

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

How cell walls mechanically control growth

This talk is part of the Dynamics of Plant Biology event. Please see http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/dynamics.html for further information.

UserDr Siobhan Braybrook, University of Bern.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 13:30-14:10

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds.

UserDr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Plant power at the Botanic Garden

UserPlant scientists, biochemists, horticulturists and representatives from the plant science industries.

HouseCambridge Botanic Garden.

ClockSaturday 19 May 2012, 10:30-16:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Hammersmith Flyover – What is the problem?

UserDr Chris Burgoyne Department of Engineering (CUED).

HouseEngineering Department - **LR5**.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

High Efficiency III-V Solar Cells: past, present and future

Light refreshments from 19:00. Open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr Ned J Ekins-Daukes, Imperial College.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Special GreenBRIDGE Seminar - Key-requirements for Evaluating Smart and Sustainable Development in Cities and Communities

UserDr Patrizia Lombardi - Politecnico di Torino, DIST – Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Energy efficiency and the design of brains

User Professor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City

UserProfessor Sonia Hirt, Associate Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech and Harvard University.

HouseLecture Room, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

The Carrington event not observed in most ice core nitrate records

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserProf. Eric Wolff FRS, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 330B, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Arabidopsis immune system and root microbiome

UserProfessor Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 12:15-13:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical properties of metal organic frameworks

UserProfessor Anthony K Cheetham, Materials Science, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Easter Term Young Scientist Afternoon

UserYama Dixit, Emilie Capron, Zadie Stock, Jo Johnson, Steve Fuller, Scott Hosking.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 14:20-17:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

GASLAND the documentary - screening

The event is FREE of charge. Due to the limited number of spaces, please sign up at our webite: www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 20:00-22:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

The Other Cambridge

UserDr. Marco Iuliano, Senior Research Associate and Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 13:15-14:15

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conceptualising the Quality of Employment

UserDr B Burchell (Cambridge Sociology Division)m Dr K Sehnbruch (University of Chile).

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy

UserProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Building Energy Performance for Refurbishment – Baselines, Monitoring and Benchmarks

UserKerry Sykes from the University of Cambridge, George Bartley from Building Sustainability.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 12:00-14:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

(What's the Story) Internal Solitary Waves?

UserBruce Sutherland, Dept of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Computational Environment Design for Online Communities

UserProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Future of Capitalism

UserProfessor Michael Mann (UCLA).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Rafael Moneo and the Problem of the Arbitrary

UserNicholas Ray, Director of NRAP Architects and Reader Emeritus, Jesus College.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 13:15-14:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes

UserDr Sebastian Schornack, Sainsbury laboratory, John Innes Centre Norwich.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

UserProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Efficient Lighting

UserWinton Community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Geohazards in On-shore Energy Projects

UserDavid Shilston - president designate of the Geological Society.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Engineering challenges in Antarctica

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome

UserMike Rose, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Observational Abstraction

UserJonathan Hendry, Principal of Jonathan Hendry Architects and Design Fellow, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 13:15-14:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Qualitative Analysis of Patterns Induced by Active Transport and Auxin

UserDr Etienne Farcot, CIRAD / UMR AGAP, Virtual Plants, Montpellier.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

CANCELLED: Statistics and characteristics of mid-latitude travelling ionospheric disturbances observed by HF radars

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

UserDr Adrian Grocott (University of Leicester).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Humanitas

The Road to Rio: Recommitting to sustainable development

UserHelen Clark (Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and Chair of the United Nations Development Group; former Prime Minister of New Zealand).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 17 April 2012, 17:00-18:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Antarctic climate variability during past Interglacials: new findings from the EPICA Dome C ice core.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser to gain access to the building.

UserDr. Katy Pol, British Antarctic Survey.

Houseroom 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 17 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Winton Discussions

Biofuels

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

British Antarctic Survey

Symposium: “Joining up the atmos-spheres” organised by BAS and CCfCS

UserRichard Horne, Hua Lu, Howard Roscoe, Tom Bracegirdle and John Pyle.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockMonday 02 April 2012, 14:00-17:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mapping plant diversity across the scales

UserLaurens Geffert, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 30 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Your Abstractions are Worth^H^H^H^H^HPowerless!Non-Volatile Storage and Computation on Embedded Devices*(*Batteries Not Included)

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserKevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2012, 11:00-12:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Erebus volcano: from mantle to atmosphere

If external to BAS, please email the organiser to gain access to the building.

UserClive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Climate models and uncertainty

UserErica Thompson (Imperial College London) and Emma Boland (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoslett 408 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Understanding variability and temporal trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange through integrating models with data

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserDr. Trevor Keenan, Harvard University.

HouseLarge lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 10:00-11:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

“Buro Happold – Innovations and SMART Solutions”

UserDr Shrikant Sharma & Colin McKinnon of Buro Happold SMART Solutions.

HouseEngineering Department - *LR3B*.

ClockFriday 16 March 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement?

Last in Series for 2012!

UserArild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

An Integrated Approach to Modelling the Direct and Indirect Impacts of Heatwaves in London

UserDr. Katie Jenkins, Researcher, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:15-14:15

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Social Mobility over three Generations in Britain

UserDr Tak Wing Chan (University of Oxford) and Dr Vikki Boliver (Durham University).

HouseSocial Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2012, 12:30-14:00

MMP public and schools' events

A Mathematical Look at the Olympics

UserProfessor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

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

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

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Downwelling in Basins Subject to Buoyancy Loss

UserClaudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risk aversion in LP models of investment in electricity plants

Open for Business

UserRalph, D (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 11:45-12:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Short and long-term effects of climate, disturbance, and forest management on regional carbon storage and emissions under current and proposed policy plans

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserTara W. Hudiburg, Oregon State University.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 10:00-11:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Title to be confirmed

Lent Term Lecture 3

UserDavid Baillie.

HouseTrinity House, London.

ClockSaturday 10 March 2012, 18:45-00:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Jet Engine: What Happens If....?

UserDr Ivor Day, Department of Engineering.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

PhD Colloquium - Dept of Architecture

PhD Colloquium at the Department of Architecture

Open to all. Followed by drinks reception.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLecture Theatre, Dept of Architecture.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 14:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Biodiversity after forty years of human re-colonization in the Amazon forest

UserJose Manuel Ochoa-Qunintero, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Prospects for economic CCS using mineral carbonation

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserMichael Priestnall, Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CAREERS in ENERGY

Refreshments will be provided!

UserMr Vince Pizzoni - Executive Search Consultant, Preng and Associates, London.

HouseLecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 18:30-19:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

GE - PRISM Fast Reactor for UK

UserDavid Powell, Vice President Europe Region, GE Hitachi.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock

UserDr James Keirstead, Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Imperial College London.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 11:45-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

The ITER project

UserProfessor Steve Cowley, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Ends Middles Beginnings

UserTed Cullinan, Chairman, Edward Cullinan Architects.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 13:15-14:15

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

RNA Biology of Plant Embryos

UserDr Michael Nodine, Whitehead Institute, MIT.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

There and back again; the migration of the garden warbler

UserUlf Ottosson - A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos, Nigeria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Paper discussion group on: “Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming”

It helps if you've read it beforehand, but if you're interested come along anyway!

UserDr. Ailsa Benton (British Antarctic Survey).

Houseroom 187, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

UserProfessor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Public Policy Seminar Series

Algae for energy and industrial biotechnology

UserDr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Do's and Don'ts in Chemistry-Climate Modelling

UserDr Peter Braesicke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:15-17:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Architectural Design between Ethics and Aesthetics

UserProf. Christian Illies, Chair for Practical Philosophy (Ethics), Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg.

HouseLecture Room 1, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 13:15-14:15

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Political Challenges of an Oil Boom: Resource Curses and Resource Blessings in Post-Soviet Countries

Coffee and tea are available from 4:45pm

UserHeiko Pleines (Centre for East European Studies, Bremen).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Winton Discussions

Tea time conversation

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and it's role in Climate.

UserDr Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 14:15-15:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

How vulnerable is reindeer herding in the European Arctic?

Please note the earlier start time. Lent Term Lecture 2

UserGareth Rees.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 25 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents a Special Event: Post Durban Panel Discussion

UserSpeakers include: Prof. Doug Crawford-Brown, Jazmin Burgess, Dr Alison Cooke.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Predictive models in ecology: case studies of invasive fire ants and fire risks

UserYohay Carmel, Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

Nuclear Reactors - Present New Build, Future Designs and Novel Applications

UserJohn Lillington, Chief Technologist, Nuclear Power Generation, Serco Assurance.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science Symposium II

UserProf Corinne Le Quéré, Prof Peter Cox and others.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 14:00-17:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Promoting Sustainability Through Knowledge Exchange

UserNicholas Ridley, Managing Director of NC Real Estate Consulting Ltd and Ex-President of British Council for Offices.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

HOME the movie - screening

The event is free of charge. Due to the limited number of seats available, please sign up at www.cuen.org.uk

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseWolfson College (Barton Road). Roger Needham Room (W Block).

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 20:00-22:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Design of Light Perception Networks: Learning from Nature

UserDr Christian Fleck, University of Freiburg.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Palladio’s Palazzo Della Torre, Verona, 1551

UserProfessor Lionel March, Emeritus Professor in Design and Computation, University of California, Los Angeles.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Open your Mind

UserDr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Hydrogen fuel cells

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Science and Technology in Parliament

UserDr Stephen Allen, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Regulating the Internet

UserMr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Giving proteins addresses

UserKathryn Lilley, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

AP1000 Projects and Prospects

UserMike Tynan, Chief Executive, Westinghouse UK.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Post Grad/Post Doc Poster Afternoon

UserAround 25 post-grads and post-docs from CCfCS.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 16:15-17:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics

Please note the change in the time

UserDr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 15:00-16:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wombats, Weapons & Water: the making of international conservation treaties.

UserCatherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Lessons from Earthquakes

UserDr. Emily So, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Light-in, Light-out - the yin and yang of sustainable materials chemistry

RSC Lecture (Sustainable Energy Award)

UserDr Ed Constable, University of Basel.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

EDF Keeping the AGR running

UserNeale Brittain, Head of Fleet Critical Programmes, EDF Energy.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: Green League Table Decomposed

UserDr Ben Russell, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics (CCM).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

Organic Electronics

UserProf Henning Sirringhaus.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 21:00-22:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How high should Climate Change taxes be?

UserChris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

EPR Projects

UserRobert Davies, Vice President, New Plants, AREVA UK.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Graphene: Materials in the Flatland

UserSir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Modelling Approaches to Urban Energy Systems: Optimization, Simulation, and More

UserDr. James Keirstead, Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 13:15-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why are defensive toxins so variable?

UserJohanna Mappes - University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Different types of El Niño and impact on Eurasian Climate

UserProf Hans Graf, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 16:15-17:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

MMP public and schools' events

Maths in the City

General public, Age range 15+ Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential, please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserRachel Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

WNA Uranium Resources

UserSteve Kidd, Director, Strategy and Research, World Nuclear Association.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Applying Sustainability in Universities

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

PlaqueTec Limited

UserJoseph Corrigan, Head of R&D, PlaqueTec Limited.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour

First in Lent Term's Series

UserDavid Roberts, DICE, University of Kent.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

More precise predictions of future polar winter warming

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserDr Tom Bracegirdle (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series

Forgetting Architecture

UserKevin Fellingham, Principal of Kevin Fellingham Architecture + Urbanism.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

I don't believe in Climate Change

UserDr David Viner, Red Kite Enterprise and Environment.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

UserDr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Encapsulation of microorganisms in colloidosomes / Encapsulation of Inhibitors for Down-well Applications

UserPolly Keen, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Wei Jin Gun, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

Dynamical heating controls the stratospheric temperature reduction associated with the Antarctic ozone hole

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserDr Andrew Orr (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Gelation phenomena in cluster-cluster aggregation

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserColm Connaughton (Mathematics Institute and Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

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

British Antarctic Survey

The response of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system to changes in the dipole moment of the Earth's magnetic field

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserDr Ingrid Cnossen (NCAR).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 06 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Screening of FUEL - the documentary

This event is FREE of charge. Due to limited spaces available, please SIGN UP at http://www.cuen.org.uk/

UserDocumentary Screening.

HouseClubroom, Wolfson College (Barton Road).

ClockMonday 12 December 2011, 20:00-22:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Geoengineering Mini Symposium.

Note unusual time and location

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Arcadia Lectures

Revolutions (and Elephants) in the Library: the Third Arcadia Lecture

Please email Michelle Heydon (mh569@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend

UserProfessor Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queen's Road.

ClockFriday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:50

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Thermal Spray Coating Developments at TWI

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserHeidi Lovelock, Section Manager, Surfacing, TWI Ltd.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 December 2011, 19:30-21:00

British Antarctic Survey

The edge region of the Antarctic stratospheric vortex: its existence and its importance.

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserDr Howard Roscoe (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 07 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Sir Joseph Hooker and the Ross Antarctic Expedition

Please note earlier start time. Doors open at 18:30. A chance to preview the These Rough Notes exhibition.

UserDr Peter Donaldson.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

From cell-specific genome expression to specific cell fate determination

UserDr Yuling Jiao, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 05 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Analysis for Sub-sea Engineering

UserDr Andrew Lennon - Senior Analysis Engineer and Lead Engineer (Cambridge Office), Aquaterra Energy Ltd..

HouseEngineering Department - **LR5**.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

UserProf Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Brine Fluxes from Sea Ice

UserProf. Grae Worster, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 16:15-17:30

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Reading of Digital Memories

UserStefano Pirandola (University of York).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

On the propagation of non-isothermal gravity currents in an inclined porous layer / Propulsion in Stokes flow

User Will Rayward-Smith, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Tom Johnson, University of Birmingham.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss.

Last talk of term

UserKerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 42nd Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

How to Live in Low Energy Architecture

UserProf. Chris Tweed - BRE Trust Research Chair, Director of the BRE Centre for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment, Cardiff University..

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:15-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The fate of Sundaland's degraded forests

UserDavid P Edwards - James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

The Meaning of Liberal Learning

UserRight Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education.

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

A geological perspective on climate change: forcings, feedbacks and tipping points.

UserDr Luke Skinner, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Science.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

CEB Alumni Speaker Series

Delivering sustainable development

Attendees' registration is required on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/alumni-speaker-series.html

UserAnthony Hyde, Director at ARCADIS UK.

HouseDept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Irrigation Resurrected in South Thailand

UserJanice Stargardt, Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock

Unfortunately, this talk has had to be postponed until later in the academic year

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 12:00-14:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer Solar Cells

UserProf Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College

Capitalism, the Anthropocene, and climate process?

Room changed

UserDr Barbara Bodenhorn, Newton Trust Lecturer, Social Anthropology, Cambridge University.

HouseGraduate Parlour (GP), Pembroke College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 19:30-20:30

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy

Refreshments will be provided!

UserDr Michael Pollitt - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Room 4, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

EPRG Energy and Environment (E&E) Series Michaelmas 2011

Investment in Generation and Network-Capacity

UserDominik Ruderer (University of Munich) and Stephen Ashley (EPRG).

HouseMeade Room, Faculty of Economics.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd and previous interns.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

The Recent Increase of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

UserProf. John Turner, British Antarctic Survey.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential

UserRuth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Climate Histories Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

Past Climates and Modern Histories: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

UserMark Aldenderfer, University of California, Merced and chief editor of Current Anthropology.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 14:30-16:30

BP Lectures 2011

What are the battery technologies around the corner with or without Li

UserProfessor Jean-Marie Tarascon, University of Picardie.

HouseBP Institute.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

BP Lectures 2011

The Li-ion technology: its state of the art

UserProfessor Jean-Marie Tarascon, University of Picardie.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Colours of speciation in fish and frogs

UserMartine Maan - University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Modelling the living world?

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Mike Harfoot, United Nations Environment Programme - WCMC.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Retooling Reproductive Sustance: IVF as a stem technology

UserProf Sarah Franklin, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

UserProfessor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

BP Lectures 2011

Energy: Stakes and challenges of sustainable Electrochemical storage

UserProfessor Jean-Marie Tarascon, University of Picardie.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Cyber Warfare

UserProf Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 17:30-19:00

Lucy Cavendish College public lecture series

Towards a Silent Aircraft

UserProfessor Ann Dowling (Head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department).

HouseWoodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird, Lucy Cavendish College.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 18:00-18:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions around Greenland

(Please note unusual location)

UserDr Poul Christoffersen, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 16:15-17:30

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Melville Lecturer 2011 - Development of New Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials

UserProf Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Carbon Markets and Eastern Europe

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

The Existence and Significance of Deeply Buried Landscapes

UserDr Nicholas White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Organic electronics: Applied nanotechnology

UserPaul Dastoor, Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

The mathematics of the oil industry

CCA Industrial Seminar

UserTerry Redshaw, BP Exploration Operating Company.

HouseMR11.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Science Symposium

(Note unusual time and location)

UserDr Andrew Friend, University of Cambridge, Prof. Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey and Prof. Julia Slingo, Met. Office..

HouseRiley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court (off Queens Road), Clare College..

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 15:00-17:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Interfaces and mixing in CO2 sequestration

UserDr Jerome Neufeld, BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

UserVivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserProf Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Event

UserPhD students and others.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 18:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Contemporary revolution in religious life

UserDr David Lehmann, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Timescales of chemical reactions

Joint with Phys. Chem. (NOTE unusual date and place)

UserProf Michael Pilling, University of Leeds.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

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

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

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The rise of Sartre and French existentialism

UserDr Patrick Baert, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

HouseFaculty of English.

ClockSaturday 22 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Left in Crisis: what is next?

UserProf Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) and Prof Richard Sennett (New York University and London School of Economics).

HouseFaculty of Law.

ClockSaturday 22 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Water Photolysis in Biology: Photosystem II

Joint Materials/Biological Colloquia

UserProfessor Bill Rutherford, Imperial College, London.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water mass transformations and air-sea exchange in the Barents Sea

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserMarius Årthun (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockFriday 21 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Talking to Terrorists

UserJonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge (Behind The Eagle pub).

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: The Creative Campus

UserDr David Fowler, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Cambridge Festival of Ideas event: Why do people works so hard?

UserDr Brendan Bruchell, Cambridge Sociology Division, Department of Social Sciences.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Similarity measures, similarity searches, and network inferences on genome-wide datasets

UserDr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

aa596's list

The Regenerative Economy: a technical solution to meet world's population needs while preserving the environment.

Open to all - please send email if not from Darwin College

UserAleix Altimiras-Martin, Land Economy Dept, 4CMR.

HouseDarwin College, Entertaining Room.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Evolution of gene content in cellular organisms, viruses and in the Last Universal Common Ancestor

UserDr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year PhD Presentations - II

UserJames Keeble (University of Cambridge), Matthew McLeod (University of Cambridge) and Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

British Antarctic Survey

How does the data assimilation method in the Northern Hemisphere affect the representation of mid-Holocene climate?

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserAurélien Mairesse (Université catholique de Louvain).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Summer School Proceeedings

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Natural ventilation of double-skin facades, Energy Implications of Stratification

UserNicola Mingotti, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviour

Arranged in conjunction with the Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund

UserProfessor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water transport onto the Amundsen Sea shelf

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserKaren M. Assmann (BAS).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics

UserDr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cells

UserJames Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Second Year PhD Presentations - I

UserOliver Squire (University of Cambridge), Pete Gallimore (University of Cambridge).

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

"Transparency Creates Values: Corporate Environmental and Social Disclosure in China"

Open to all. No registration required. Refreshments will be provided.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department LR6.

ClockSaturday 08 October 2011, 14:00-16:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

Climate Change -- A summary of latest IPCC results

UserProf John Pyle, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 16:15-17:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Real-time PCR Training Course

Registration required - email: Rowan.Gibson@lifetech.com

UserChris Maddren - LifeTech Field Application Scientist.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 09:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Building a wall: Genetics of exine formation in Arabidopsis pollen

UserDr Anna Dobrista, University of Chicago, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 03 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Colony defense by post-reproductive adults and young nymphs in a social aphid

UserKeigo Uematsu. Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 30 September 2011, 13:00-14:00

4cmr seminar

Technology and "Green" Innovation

UserPaul Haynes, Land Economy, Cambridge University.

HouseLaundress Lane, Seminar Room 1.

ClockTuesday 27 September 2011, 12:00-13:30

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

47th UKELG One Day Discussion meeting on “Condensed and Gas Phase Detonation Phenomena”

UserProfessor Martin Braithwaite, LSC academic visitor and Organiser of UKELG meeting.

HouseCavendish laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 September 2011, 10:00-16:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

PINs and Knots: Auxin-transport mediated patterning in the grasses

UserDevin O’Connor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

Euroscicon

Future Technologies in Downstream Processing

UserJohn Moys, Sartorius Stedim.

HouseThe Penridge Suite, 470 Bowes Road, London N11 1NL.

ClockFriday 16 September 2011, 09:00-17:00

4cmr seminar

Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice

UserDr Stanislav E. Shmelev, University of Oxford.

HouseLaundress Lane Seminar Room 1.

ClockTuesday 06 September 2011, 12:00-13:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

3D and 4D Image Visualization & Analysis - Workshop with IMARIS

Contact Dr. Delisa Gracia (delisa.garcia@bitplane.com ) to book a place.

UserDr Delisa Gracia, Bitplane.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockThursday 25 August 2011, 10:00-16:30

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Chemical and Genetic Dissection of ABA Signaling

UserDr Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockFriday 19 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Imaging Structure and Function in Biological Systems

UserDr James A.J. Fitzpatrick, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 16 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Specification of New Cell Populations in Arabidopsis Root

UserDr Miguel Moreno-Risueno - Duke University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 15 August 2011, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Dense water cascading off the continental shelf - overview and recent modelling results

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserFred Wobus (Plymouth University).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 10 August 2011, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

ESF-IMCOAST: a European South American integrated study of coastal climate change at King-George Island

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserDoris Abele (AWI).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 28 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Anisotropic eddy transport in models and observations

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserIgor Kamenkovich (RSMAS, University of Miami).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 27 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Metabolic Rate in Seabirds – Influences, Limits & Consequences

Please contact the organiser if you plan to attend from outside BAS so I can advise reception

UserJon Green, Liverpool University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockTuesday 26 July 2011, 15:00-16:00

alm1000's list

Planning in an age of climate and energy uncertainty

UserAaron Tuley, Meta-pattern.

HouseThe Cafe Project, 22 Jesus lane.

ClockThursday 21 July 2011, 20:00-21:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice edge to island blooms: carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserElizabeth Jones (NIOZ).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 20 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Mapping Epithermal Gold Deposits on the Island of Milos, Greece, using an integrated Spectral Reflectance and Spectral Emissivity Dataset

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserDr Graham Ferrier (University of Hull).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockMonday 18 July 2011, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Optimal model-based design for experiments: some new objective and constraint formulations

Design and Analysis of Experiments

UserMacchietto, S (Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 18 July 2011, 11:30-12:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The convoluted evolution of behavior: insights from bird eggs and songs

UserDavid C. Lahti, Department of Biology, Queens College, The City University of New York (CUNY).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 15 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

4cmr seminar

No Policy Without Discourse?

UserRichard Dent, University College London's Environment Institute & CEO of Climatecom Strategies.

House4CMR board room, 21 Silver Street.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2011, 12:00-13:00

Corporate Associates Scheme

Corporate Associates Summer Event

UserDepartment of Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 01 July 2011, 11:00-16:00

4cmr seminar

Overview of AIM (Asia-Pacific Integrate Assessment Model) projects

UserDr. Tatsuya Hanaoka, 4CMR, and National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES).

House4CMR board room, 21 Silver Street.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Gale Force: Offshore Wind Power - 2011 CUEN Annual Conference

UserElke Delnooz (Operation Support Manager, Shell/NordZee Wind); Stephanie McGregor (Director of Offshore Transmission, Ofgem); Richard McMahon (Electricity, Power and Energy Conversion Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) and others.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockTuesday 28 June 2011, 09:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics II: issues workshop

Talk postponed until Michaelmas 2011

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 12:00-14:00

DIAL seminars

Industrial Energy Efficiency with Automation

UserIkechukwu Ofodu Postgraduate Student, DIAL, IfM.

HouseSeminar 2, Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

UserProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic Meteorological Data at the British Antarctic Survey

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserSteven Colwell (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease

UserProfessor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 19:30-20:30

British Antarctic Survey

Genetic monitoring and single stock assessment of the New Zealand subantarctic southern right whale

Please contact the organiser if you plan to attend from outside BAS so I can advise reception

UserEmma Carroll, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 10:30-11:30

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Controlled Synthesis Of Graphene For Electronics And Energy Storage

UserDr Xinliang Feng (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany).

HouseCentre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

ClockFriday 10 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Inorganic Chemistry

Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Chemistry

What's wrong with density-functional theory?

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, University of Oxford.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

4cmr seminar

Comparing Public Rationales for Justice in Mitigation and Adaptation Climate Policy Dilemmas

UserDr. Sonja Klinsky, Department of Economics, Cambridge University (Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia).

Houseseminar room 1, Laundress Lane.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

From SPS [PPSIS] to The House of Commons: Social Science, Evidence and Policy

Stella Creasy graduated from Social and Political Sciences Tripos (now PPS) and Magdalene College in 1999, and was elected as a Labour MP in 2010. Between these two she worked as a councillor in local government, obtained a PhD in social psychology from

UserStella Creasy, MP, PhD.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 16:00-17:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion

UserProfessor James Durrant, Imperial College London.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics I: a survey of local practice

Part II is postponed until Michaelmas 2011

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 12:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Australian HFC, PFC and SF6 emissions: atmospheric verification

Note unusual day and time

UserDr Paul Fraser, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Theoretical Chemistry

Simulations of ionic liquids for energy applications

UserProfessor Mathieu Salanne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in the service of the developing world

This lecture is now fully booked.

UserProf. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development.

HouseJudge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Optical Materials for Applications

UserDr. Hernán Míguez, Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Spain.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Polymer solar cells

UserNeil Greenham, Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

PUBLIC LECTURE: Cooperation

UserProf Richard Sennett, Distinguised Visiting Professor at Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Flow of rivers through lakes

UserCharlie Hogg, ITG, DAMTP.

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What NanoAssembly can do for real world Nano-applications

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

UserPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

British Antarctic Survey

Reclaiming South Georgia from its rats: the story so far

External attendees please contact the organiser before attending so reception can be forewarned of your arrival

UserProf Tony Martin, Dundee University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Experiential Learning, Ecological Literacy and Sustainable Design Training

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

How little we know about geological carbon storage

UserProf Mike Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Zero Degrees of Empathy

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Postponed

UserProf Sir Martin Evans.

HousePostponed.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 20:00-21:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CANCELLED ##### Air Pollution and health: myths and realities #######

Unfortunately this seminar has been canceled but will be rescheduled for next term.

UserProf Jon Ayres, Director of Institue of Occupational and Environmental Medicene, University of Birmingham.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inorganic Chemistry

Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Lewis Lecture 2011

UserProfessor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

UserTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

TEPUI: Biological islands lost in space and time. From origins to conservation

UserFabian Michelangeli, Simon Bolivar Professor, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge 2010-11.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Effects of natural convection on thermal explosions in a closed vessel

UserTing-Yueh Liu, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society?

Talk open to All - Registration required: www.dar.cam.ac.uk/connections

UserDr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

UserProfessor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Emergent logics of expulsion: beyond social exclusion

UserProf Saskia Sassen, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 17:15-18:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Director-General of the BBC

UserMark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Energy, Fluids and Thermo seminars

New Wine in Old Wineskins – Nuclear Safety & Fukushima

UserMr Tony Roulstone, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Nuclear Energy Seminars

New Wine in Old Wineskins – Nuclear Safety & Fukushima

UserMr Tony Roulstone, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 17:00-18:00

EPRG Energy and Environment Seminar Series

A new payment rule for package auctions

UserAytek Erdil (University of Cambridge).

HouseJudge Business School Room W2.01.

ClockMonday 02 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Experimental and Theoretical Modeling of Internal Tide Generation

UserMorris R. Flynn, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Alberta.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Why We Resist The Truth

UserClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

HouseMichaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Sir Richard Dearlove

UserSir Richard Dearlove.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The Future of Plant Science

UserHeads of 5 Plant Research Institutes in East Anglia.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserSusan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring Self-Organisation

UserDr Giovanni Sena, New York University.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockMonday 18 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Wildlife and Environment

The Staffordshire Treasure

tickets cost £10, to include a glass of wine

UserDr Kevin Leahy, National Finds Adviser for early mediaeval metalwork.

HousePerse Upper School, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 April 2011, 19:00-22:00

YES! to Fairer Votes

Referendum Debate

UserVoting YES: Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy. Voting NO: Richard Normington, Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate..

HouseSt. Lukes United Reform Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

fzr20's list

Designing the Urban Environment

A public panel discussion open to the University, alumni of the Programme for Sustainability Leadership's executive education programmes, and current students on our Masters in Sustainability Leadership. Followed by refreshments till 7pm.

UserTerry A'Hearn, WSP Energy & Environment; Paul King, UK Green Building Council; Sebastian Moffatt, Consensus Institute; Professor Randall Thomas, Engineering Department.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2011, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Analysis of a rapid sea-ice retreat event in the Bellingshausen Sea

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr John King (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

4cmr seminar

The value of nature and the nature of value

UserNigel Cooper, Anglia Ruskin University.

House4CMR board room.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

DIAL seminars

Software testing in Safety Related Systems: A case study from Nuclear Industry

UserNirav Chokshi, C&I Engineer, Data Processing & Control Systems Group C&I Services Branch EDF.

HouseSeminar room 1, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

The current nuclear situation in Japan

UserBob Skelton, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Bird tango

UserProfessor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseNewnham College.

ClockSunday 27 March 2011, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

You are what you hear: music and the brain

UserDr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockFriday 25 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers

UserProfessor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Is evolution predictable?

UserProfessor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

British Antarctic Survey

Climatology and recent change of westerly winds over the Amundsen Sea Embayment derived from six re-analyses

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr Thomas Bracegirdle (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Elastic response of an ice sheet-ice shelf system near the grounding line

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr. Roiy Sayag (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 22 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Climate week Seminar

Climate Change and India: Between energy, environment and development

This seminar is a Climate Week event, open to all

UserSharachchandra Lele, Senior Fellow and Convenor of the Centre for Environment and Development at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (ATREE).

HouseLaundress Lane Seminar Room 1.

ClockTuesday 22 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

High Temperature Superconductors

Venue back to normal

UserProfessor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Heat Pumps for Energy Conservation

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserDaikin and the Cambridge Renewable Energy Centre.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector

UserProf. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Time-series modelling of aggregated wind power output

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserSturt, A (Heriot-Watt).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 11:20-11:40

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling problems posed to the electricity system planner and operator by wind power

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserPlumptre, P (National Grid).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 09:50-10:10

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generation adequacy in future power systems

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

UserDent, C (Durham).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 09:30-09:50

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm

UserProf. David Banister Professor of Transport Studies and Director of the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

UserProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

This Time it Will be Different

UserSir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Atmospheric Responses to Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr Hua Lu (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Continental Shelf and Slope Variability in the Southeast Weddell Sea

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserCedric Chavanne (University of East Anglia).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

Urban Metabolism at MIT

UserProf. John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Building Technology, Architecture Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk..

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Energy Conference

Cambridge Energy Conference

Please sign-up online

UserDr Nuttall ( University of Cambridge), Jean-Pierre Hansen (GDF SUEZ), Pr Michael Kelly (University of Cambridge), David White (Schlumberger), Dr Cleevely (University of Cambridge), Pr Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester), Jim Krane (EPRG).

HouseUniversity Centre, Granta Place.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 10:00-18:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Emergencies

Talk open to All - Registration required for reception

UserAndrew Miller, MP and Chair for the Science and Technology Select Committee.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Part III Presentations

UserHarry Frankish Becky Welbourn Paul Verhaak Earth Sciences Part III students.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

4cmr seminar

Urban energy systems: applied and academic perspectives

UserSarah Cary: Sustainable Developments Executive at British Land.

House Room 7 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Erotic Capital: Extending Bourdieu

UserDr Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Modelling the distribution of Freshwater Invasive Species across Europe

UserDr Belinda Gallardo, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Smart Building Lighting Controls

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserStephen Ades, Simmtronic Ltd.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 18:00-20:00

Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series

The politics of EU energy policy

UserDavid Buchan, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

House Senior Common Room, Polis, 17 Mill Lane..

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

TBA

UserThierry Alboussiere (ENS Lyon).

HouseCMS, MR9.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 14:05-15:15

DIAL seminars

Sustainable Computing

UserGerard Briscoe.

HouseSeminar room 1, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

How to Enhance Value to Historic Context Through Contemporary Interventions

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response

UserDr Ellen Williams – Chief Scientist BP, Dr Andy Leonard – Cambridge coordinator BP.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Thoughts about Chemistry-Climate Modelling and Geoengineering

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr Peter Braesicke (University of Cambridge).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Sainsbury Laboratory Seminars

The timing of cell divisions underlies developmental patterning in Arabidopsis

UserDr Adrienne Roeder, California Institute of Technology.

HouseThe Sainsbury Laboratory Theatre.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

4cmr seminar

Recent trends in the emissions and sinks of carbon dioxide

UserCorinne Le Quéré: Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

House4CMR board room.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 12:00-12:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Energy and Environment Seminar, Lent 2011

Evaluating the Carbon-Macroeconomy Relationship

UserJulian Chevallier (University Paris Dauphine).

HouseRoom W2.02 , Judge Business School.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Untangling Alzheimer's disease

UserMr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-20:30

Inorganic Chemistry

Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies"

UserProfessor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

Sustainability of Antarctic krill

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr Simeon Hill, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Numerical modelling of the respiratory system.

UserBertrand Maury, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency

UserMargareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00

British Antarctic Survey

A dynamical mechanism for Southern Hemisphere climate change due to the ozone hole

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser

UserDr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Can we have our tropical biodiversity and eat it too?

UserDr. Ben Phalan, Dept. Of Zoology, Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Melville Laboratory Seminars

Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy

UserThuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

UserGodfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Nuclear Renaissance

UserDr. William Nuttall, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Implementation of System-Wide Reduced Carbon Emissions Solutions

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Effects of turbulence on the ignition of flames.

UserProf. Epaminondas Mastorakos, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Migration and the rise of the radical right in Europe

UserProf Montserrat Guibernau, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE

UserDr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks

UserProfessor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of culture

UserProf. Kevin Laland, University of St. Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Nature of Empathy

UserProf Simon Baron-Cohen, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

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.

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

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

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

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 29 January 2011, 10:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Carbon Capture from Solid Fuels

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

4cmr seminar

Going Beyond Dangerous: brutal numbers and tenuous hope: Exploring the void between reality and rhetoric on climate change mitigation

UserProfessor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (Manchester).

House4CMR board room.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Sociology of Resentment: the American Tea Party Movement

UserProf Bryan Turner, University of Western Sidney.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism

UserConvenor: Dr Mirca Madianou (Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 14 January 2011, 00:00-00:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conference: Digital Diasporas: Migration, ICTs and Transnationalism

UserConvenor: Dr Mirca Madianou (Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 13 January 2011, 00:00-00:00

British Antarctic Survey

Genetic and stable isotope studies on a top marine predator, the killer whale

UserAndrew Foote, The Centre for GeoGenetics, Universiy of Copenhagen.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 16 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Seminar: Greater gender equality, (un)happier families?

UserProfessor Karen Henwood, Cardiff University Professor; Janet Walker, University of Newcastle; Lynn Prince Cooke, University of Kent; Emilia Del Bono, Institute for Social & Economic Research; Vanessa Gash, University of Manchester; Denise Hawke.

HouseMond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockThursday 09 December 2010, 10:00-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: 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.

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

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

MMP public and schools' events

Number Play

Level Suggested: Primary - 9 - 11, general public. Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential. Please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserLiz Woodham - NRICH, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

clp31's list

TBC

UserSeung Yeon Lee, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Seminar: Shock Tactics: health inside out

UserDr Simon Cohn, Cambridge General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Contact Networks

UserDr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Parliament

The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm

UserJulian Huppert, PhD, Member of Parliament for Cambridge..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 17:30-19:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The key stakeholders' response to climate change

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 12:00-14:00

clp31's list

Numerical studies of droplet impacting and splashing.

UserKensuke Yokoi, Uni of Cardiff.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

UserJohn Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University.

HouseLT6, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The long march of the human genes.

UserDr. Andrea Manica, Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

4cmr seminar

RAPID ENERGY SYSTEM DECARBONISATION: HOW?

UserStephen Stretton, co-founder, E3 Foundation.

HouseLaundress Lane Seminar Room 1.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

The Northern Party – in the shadows of the heroic age?

Doors open 7:30PM

UserRobin Back, Chairman, Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 20 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

London 2012 Olympic Games

UserDenis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission.

HouseJudge Business School, LT2.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

To be connected or not? Floodplain restoration and aquatic diversity

UserDr Amael Paillex, Aquatic Ecology and Biology Lab, University of Geneva.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Southern Ocean iron fertilisation by baleen whales and Antarctic krill

UserDr Steve Nicol (Australian Antarctic Division).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Drumlins

UserAndrew Fowler (Oxford).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 14:05-15:15

clp31's list

TBC

UserRichard Trueman, Richard Mott, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Seminar: Autonomy and Dependence: the paradox of the believer as subject

UserProfessor Daniele Hervieu, Former President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy in the UK

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

The Great White Silence

Unique first preview of the digitally remastered, official record of Scott's Terra Nova expedition 1910-13

UserBryony Dixon, Curator Silent Film, British Film Institute.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 16:00-18:00

MMP public and schools' events

Hands-on Cambridge Maths Circle workshop: Algorithms

UserProfessor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCMS.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 10:15-11:15

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCMS.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 10:00-12:30

Sustainable Development Research Seminars

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

UserAssociate Professor John Andrews, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

HouseEngineering Department - Sir Arthur Marshall Meeting Room (2nd floor, Inglis Building).

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Climate science informing policy

UserEmily Shuckburgh (BAS).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:05-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy consumption from dwellings : do we understand it?

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 12:00-14:00

clp31's list

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

UserProf Helmuth Mohwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media

UserAnthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine.

HouseBateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

DNA and Cancer

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit.

HouseBar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 19:30-20:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Missing mixing in the ocean mixed layer

UserStephen Belcher (Reading).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:05-15:15

clp31's list

Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Urban Flows

UserWengbo Tang, ASU.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Tanner Lectures

Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' Discussion

UserKate Barker, Gavin Wood, Marja Elsinga, Matthew Bullock.

HouseRobinson College Umney Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 09:30-13:00

Tanner Lectures

Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?

Tickets for this event can be picked up from the Porters' Lodge (32360)

UserProfessor Susan Smith FBA, Mistress of Girton College.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Cave rings

UserEmma Boland (DAMTP/BAS).

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

CANCELLED

UserDr Julian Hibberd.

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics

This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM

UserDr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Melting ice - rising seas: Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment

Doors open 7:30PM

UserDr. Colin Summerhayes, a marine geologist, is a past Director of the UK's Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory and a former Deputy Director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton..

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 30 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Natural Resource Management - An Ecologist's Perspective

UserDr. Martyn Murray, MGM Environmental Solutions / University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Decadal climate variability over the past 100 years

UserPeter Baines (Bristol/Melbourne).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:05-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Conservation + Sustainability: Can Conservation and Retrofits Work Together?

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystals

UserDavid L. Patrick, Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

4cmr seminar

Modelling co-benefits of climate change mitigation with an application to Mexico

UserTerry Barker ( 4CMR - Department of Land Economy).

HouseLaundress Lane Seminar Room 1.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Seminar: Alternative Economic Cultures in a Context of Crisis

UserProf Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Public Lecture: The Multidimentional Crisis of Informational Capitalism

UserProfessor Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 14:00-16:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Setting meaningful restoration goals for a globally imperiled habitat

UserPhiline zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

clp31's list

From Confinement to Composites: Bio-inspired Crystallisation

UserFiona Meldrum, Uni of Leeds.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC)

CUTEC RECRUITMENT EVENT 2010

http://www.cutec.org/?n1=news&n2=news

UserCUTEC.

HouseJudge Business School.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

'Dementia and an ageing society'

Please note a change in day and venue.

UserProfessor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseBar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 19:30-20:30

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sympatric speciation on islands

UserVincent Savolainen, Imperial College London & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Public Lecture: Bourdieu Race and the Penal System

UserProfessor LoïcWacquant, University of California at Berkeley.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 14:00-16:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

“Sir Hubert Wilkins – Forgotten Hero?”

Doors open 7:30PM

UserJim McNeill, Explorer and Adventure Travel organiser.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 16 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Social scientific methods for understanding climate change policy

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 12:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric Reactions of Peroxy Radicals – Key Intermediates in Ozone Formation and Loss

NOTE unusual DAY and LOCATION Joint with Physical Chemistry

UserDr Geoff Tyndall, NCAR Colorado USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Note venue change

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

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physics

Please note that this lecture is not at the usual spacetime coordinates.

UserProfessor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00

clp31's list

How to control structure and rheology of particle-laden interfaces

UserJan Vermant, Uni of Leuven.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey

The evolutionary history of baleen whales in an Antarctic context

UserJennifer Jackson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockTuesday 05 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Cities and the ethic of care among strangers

UserProfessor Ash Amin, Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 21 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

The unified neutral theory of biodiversity

UserRobin Hankin (Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 21 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Understanding and using the tropopause: trends and characterization

UserDr. Juan Anel, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, Spain..

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 September 2010, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Turbulence profiling beneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound with particular attention to topographic and cryographic effects

UserCraig Stevens (National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 08 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

CANCELLED - Physical Limnology: Recent Results from Lake Iseo

UserJorg Imberger (University of Western Australia).

HouseCMS, MR11.

ClockThursday 29 July 2010, 14:05-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Observing the behavior of individual crustacean zooplankton using optics and acoustics.

If you are external to BAS and wish to attend please email the seminar organiser

UserDr Jules Jaffe (SCRIPPS, University of California).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 21 July 2010, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Synthetic Biology: Making Artificial Life?

UserDr Gos Micklem, Department of Genetics.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 July 2010, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Environment

CEI - Water Workshop

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLecture Room 4, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 07 July 2010, 14:00-19:00

British Antarctic Survey

Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An Observationally-Driven Theoretical Study

UserDr. Stephanie Waterman, National Oceanography Centre and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 30 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Gambling and the brain

UserDr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2010, 19:30-20:30

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring Antarctic Lichen Biodiversity

UserDr William Purvis (Natural History Musuem).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey

Management of Antarctic baleen whales amid past exploitation, current problems, emerging threats and complex marine ecosystems

UserRebecca Leaper (Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute University of Tasmania) & Cara Miller (Pacific Islands Programme, WDCS International).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009

Note unusual time and day

UserDr Yvonne Hinssen, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 10:30-11:30

Energy and Environment Seminar, Lent 2010

Title to be confirmed

UserMax Grenz & Thorsten Beckers (TU Berlin).

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockMonday 14 June 2010, 12:30-14:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Engineering a low carbon future for the UK

UserDr Scott Steedman, FREng, Royal Academy of Engineering.

HouseEngineering Department - Lecture Room - LR3A.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI Research Colloquium:

UserJoel Taylor, BPI & Harry McLelland, Earth Sciences.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures

A new theory of the city

UserProfessor Bill Hillier, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory, University College London.

HouseFirst-floor Classroom, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, www.arct.cam.ac.uk.

ClockWednesday 09 June 2010, 13:15-14:15

The Hewish Lectures

Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity

User Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Organic Aerosol: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

Note unusual time and unusual location

UserProf. Colette Heald, Colorado State University..

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Panagrolaimus davidi, an Antarctic nematode model for the survival of extreme environmental stress

If you are external to BAS and wish to attend this talk please email the organiser in advance.

UserDavid Wharton, Department of Zoology, University of Otago.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

NATO in the 21st Century

UserAdmiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command.

HouseTBC.

ClockMonday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Energy and Environment Seminar, Lent 2010

The new EU Regulation on gas supply security

UserPierre Noel & Sachi Findlater (EPRG).

HouseCastle Teaching Room.

ClockMonday 31 May 2010, 12:30-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Engineering in the cryosphere

UserBen Lishman (Earth Sciences, University College, London).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Research Office Linked Events

EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" Matters

UserDr Cora O'Reilly, EPSRC.

HouseLT2, Judge Business School.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?

UserDr Giles Yeo, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 19:30-20:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Where is the Worl Going? Understanding World Dynamics - Public Lecture

UserProfessor Goran Therborn, University of Cambridge.

HouseArts School Room A.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Seminar, Lent 2010

An electric planet?

UserWalt Patterson (Chatham House).

HouseCastle Teaching Room.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 12:30-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Soil Mechanics at the Particle Scale - Discrete Element Modelling and Micro Computed Tomography

UserCatherine O'Sullivan & Joana Fonseca Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

UserProfessor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Holographic Technologies

UserDr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly

UserProfessor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCambridge Union Society.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Energy and Environment Seminar, Lent 2010

Smart metering: what and how can we learn from the data?

UserAoife Brophy Haney & Philipp Brutscher (EPRG).

HouseCastle Teaching Room.

ClockMonday 03 May 2010, 12:30-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Taking Stock: Methods for Built Environment Research

Pecha Kucha evening will be on the 29th April and include complimentary wine and cheese for all participants of the conference

UserNick Baker, Alan Blackwell, Paul Chamberlain, Robert Evans, Wybo Houkes, Michael Pollitt.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 30 April 2010, 09:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

UserClaire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with Conservation

UserDr Susan Cheyne, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-20:30

Wildlife and Environment

Flowers of the Brecklands

UserTim Pankhurst, Breckland Officer for Plantlife.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-21:45

Wildlife and Environment

Flowers of the Brecklands

UserTim Pankhurst, Breckland Officer for Plantlife.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-21:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Science - facts and frictions

UserDr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

On Critique in a Time of Crisis

UserLuc Boltanski, Ecoles des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and Professor Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Simultaneous Resurgence of Russia and Russophobia

UserProfessor Ray Taras, Eurpean Institute, Florence, and Tulane University.

HouseThrikill Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 27 April 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Brood Parasitism

UserDr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00

Wildlife and Environment

Wimpole Hall, Past and Present

UserSimon Damant, Head Ranger at Wimpole Hall, National Trust property.

HouseSix Bells Public House, Fulbourn High Street..

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 19:30-21:45

Wildlife and Environment

Enchanted Galapagos

UserJean Burns, RSPB.

HouseUniversity Chemical Labs, Lensfield Road,.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2010, 20:00-21:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainable Development: Answers from Different Actors, such as State, NGOs and Business

Open to all. No registration required. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served during the seminar

UserKsenia Gerasimova.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 15 April 2010, 12:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Extending our knowledge into the Past: The rescue, reanalysis and accessibility of historic plankton data from the Discovery Investigations 1925-1951

If you are external to BAS and wish to attend this talk please email the organiser in advance

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockThursday 15 April 2010, 12:00-12:30

Wildlife and Environment

Wildlife Gardening in a Landscape Garden

UserRichard Todd, Head Gardener at Anglesey Abbey.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton.

ClockWednesday 31 March 2010, 19:30-21:45

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcuts

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2010, 19:30-20:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

The South Sandwich Islands

Free lecture in conjunction with South Georgia Association

UserRobert Headland, Scott Polar Research Institute and South Georgia Association.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 20 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Efficient Cities

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 18 March 2010, 12:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Variability and trend in the Brewer-Dobson circulation

UserHoward Roscoe, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

EPRG Public Events

Will the lights go out? : Energy policy in the UK to 2020

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLittle Hall.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

clp31's list

Global Water Initiative

UserCharlie Kennell Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

UserSteven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

British Antarctic Survey

SEISMIC ACOUSTIC IMAGES OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT

UserK. L. Sheen, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

British Antarctic Survey

Evaluating CO2 as a primary driver of Mesozoic climate change

UserGregory D. Price, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond

UserJoe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign.

HouseCambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Constraints on Atmospheric CO2 from other Trace Species

UserDr Parvadha Suntharalingam, Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

British Antarctic Survey

Southern Ocean thermocline ventilation

UserJean-Baptiste Sallee , CSIRO in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft

Last talk of term!!! Not to be missed!

UserPaul Robertson.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Turbulent plumes with heterogeneous chemical reaction

UserSilvana Cardoso (Chemical Engineering).

HouseCMS, MR15.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Building in the UK

UserDavid Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Pinatubo and UKCA hindcasts

UserDr Paul Telford, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Special Sociology Lecture: The Increasing Significance if Guanxi

UserProf Yanje Bian, University of Minnesota.

HouseArts School, room B.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Regime change in volcanic systems

UserGeoff Wadge (Reading).

HouseMR13, CMS.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 14:05-15:15

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Our Place in the Cosmos

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 19:30-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal

UserDr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

MMP public and schools' events

Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic Ice

Admission to the lecture is free and no ticket required – for more information please contact Kerstin Enright, Millennium Mathematics Project, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (01223 766839) or email: mmptalks@hermes

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Politics of Exile in Latin America

UserProf Mario Sznajder, Leon Blum Chair at Jerusalem Hebrew University.

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 12:30-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Did Neogene climate change impact the mountain belts of Europe?

UserHugh Sinclair, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Penguins to Polar Bears

For non-members of the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute, there is an entry fee of £5 payable at the door.

UserPaul Goldstein.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 20 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Ice- not just H2O: The Chemistry of Ice Cores

UserDr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 19:30-20:30

Manufacturing Thursdays

Cut waste, boost revenue: practical examples from industry

UserDr Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Material Processing, IfM.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 17:30-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Part III Reports

UserAlice Mannion, Peter Breen & Adam Brewer (Chemistry).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 11:30-12:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Engineers of Jihad

UserDiego Gambetta (Oxford).

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Scenarios for strategic planning in the built environment

Tea, Coffee and Biscuits will be served throughout the presentation

UserJeff Vickers.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 12:00-14:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'

UserProfessor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo

Please Note this lecture is not on a Monday

UserProfessor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Detection and Attribution of changes in European Temperature and Precipitation

Note unusual time

UserProf. Simon Tett, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseU202, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Direct Coupling between the Solar Wind and the Thermosphere

UserGeorge Siscoe, Center for Space Physics, Boston University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Café Scientifique

Pandemic! Where do new infections come from?

UserDr Chris Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 19:30-20:30

Wildlife and Environment

Wildllife Sounds and Sound Recording

UserWilliam Seale, Madingley Toad Rescue.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 19:30-21:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Global Models of Mammal Distribution

UserDr Carlo Rondinini, Sapienza University of Rome.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The sociology of elite distinctions

UserJean-Pascal Daloz (CNRS/Oxford).

HousePPSIS Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 12:30-14:00