HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Evanescent Operators, Schemes, and Prescriptions

Marko Pesut (Zurich U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exciton (De)Localization and Dissociation in Heterogeneous Semiconductors from First Principles Computational Modeling

Prof. Marina Filip (Oxford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Hills Coffee Talks

The enigmatic long-period radio transients

Prof. Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Time-Resolved Collapse and Revival of the Heavy-Fermion State by Pulsed Light

Michael Turaev, University of Bonn.

Seminar Room 2, RDC.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Intuitive knowledge systems for discovery

Akeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Joint 3-flavour neutrino analysis of T2K and NOvA data

Patrick Dunne: Imperial College London.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep Learning many-body electronic structure

Prof. Ji CHEN (Peking University).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

“Old and new physics in the J1-J2 Heisenberg spin chain”

Prof. Chris Hooley (Coventry).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT).

Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 16:15-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exploring charge density waves in twisted bilayer NbSe2 with machine learning

Dr Zac Goodwin (Oxford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Prebiotic Chemistry, Exoplanets and Stellar Flaring

Lukas Rossmanith.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Quarkonia production in jets at LHCb and in Pythia 8

Naomi Cooke: University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searching for Ultra-light dark matter with atomic & nuclear clocks and Interferometers

Hannah Banks (Cambridge U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mothers, Minds, and Matrilines

Dr Molly Fox, UCLA.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Why we should stop talking about ‘Christians’ in connection with the New Testament

Dr Julia Snyder, Faculty of Divinity and Bye Fellow of Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Bayesian anomaly detection for Cosmology - 21cm, Supernovae, and beyond

Samuel Leeney (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Treating Cancer with Proton Beam Therapy

Simon Jolly: University College London.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hydrogen airplanes and why they need Heat Exchangers

Kilian Bartsch, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

New Frontiers in Superconducting Quantum Hardware

Martin Weides (Glasgow).

Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:15-17:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Woe is Me!: Spatial Logic and Memory in the OIMOI Inscriptions of Selinous

Campbell Rosener.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A 21-cm Cosmologist’s Journey: From Cambridge to North America and Back Again

Dr. Peter Sims (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

A general approach to quantum integration of cross sections in high-energy physics

Ifan Williams: Quantinuum.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Blueprints of Life: Understanding the Sex Chromosomes

James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94132066038?pwd=OF2EjwrvRQxl0XgpGK0N5L4bDNaayi.1.

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Tyler Corbett (Vienna U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Prediction and its application to mechanical properties

Peter Gould.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Transposable elements: From DNA parasites to Darwin's best friends

Pío Sierra, Department of Genetics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Pathways towards High-Temperature Superconductivity

Sven Friedemann - HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK.

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

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Einstein-Maxwell instantons, complex structures, and the Geroch group

Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh).

CMS MR14.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Government intervention in linguistic heritage projects in Belfast

Seamus Branch.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Testing the HARPS3 Data Reduction Pipeline with Synthetic Spectra to achieve Earth-Twin RV Precision

Alicia Anderson (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Single charge pion production cross-sections at MicroBooNE

Philip Detje: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Resummation of Non-Global Logarithms

Nicolas Schalch (Oxford U.).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photonic Pseudomagnetism and Landau Levels

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys?

Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

An integrated computational physics approach for magnetically confined plasma

Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, RDC.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Autonomous Robots That Operate in Human Environments

Fethiye Irmak Dogan (University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Computational Physics

Simon Trebst (Cologne).

Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:15-17:15

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

From known to unknown? Investigating Pleistocene landscapes at Happisburgh

Dr Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

General solution to gauged U(1) anomaly equations

Ben Allanach (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Cocktail Effects in Superconductivity: High-Entropy Approach to Antimonide Compounds

Professor Daigorou Hirai, Nagoya University.

RDC Seminar East.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ethnography after Genocide: Working with Ezidi Women in Iraq

Dr. Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate & Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab (CRASSH) .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

LHCb Upgrade II - Flavour Physics at HL-LHC

Dan Thompson: University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Connecting scales in the SMEFT at the LHC and future colliders

Jaco ter Hoeve (University of Edinburgh).

Ray Dolby Centre, Seminar Room - North (Floor: 0 A0.019).

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The mechanical properties of wood at high rates of strain

Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Seminar Room West, Room A0.015, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Modelling Interactions in Biology

Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Opening the Box of Chocolates: a Tasting Introduction to Studies of Cacao and Chocolate

Mika Hyman, History and Philosophy of Science.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Axion dark matter - The Good, Bad and New ways to detect it

Martin Bauer: Durham University, IPPP.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

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

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Gibbs state preparation on digital quantum simulators

Dominik Hahn, Oxford.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

César Milstein Lecture: Mechanisms driving the rapid evolution of genomes

David Pellman - Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97042445746?pwd=rjwSiStXxjdk1Q2tPOdRnqr8aM3qwn.1.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum geometry effects in flat bands

Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma.

Seminar Room 3, RDC.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Extra seminar: Are we all set with materials for qubits?

Sergey Frolov (University of Pittsburgh).

Cluster Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Monday 14 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Modified Cu-charge density wave, altermagnetic property and non-reciprocal transport at manganite/cuprate interface

Subhrangsu Sarkar, University of Fribourgo.

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

Monday 14 April 2025, 11:15-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum geometry and topology with (a) spin

Dr Gunnar Lange (Oslo).

Meeting Room 3 in the RDC (third floor, close to the cafeteria).

Friday 11 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Transmission of Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Common Mechanism of Disease Progression

Virginia Man-Yee Lee, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99931963515?pwd=6FBGl1amJG2tfvl9ycgkErGpbebGw3.1.

Tuesday 08 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - How small molecules rescue a folding disease: principles learned from the ion channel CFTR

Jue Chen - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93491001276?pwd=2utwaSIeA0haHVdOuRkZlBlQq6wzLb.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Higher Order Transient structures and the principle of dynamic connectivity in membrane signaling

Rod MacKinnon - Rockefeller University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92311841585?pwd=auhAdp8eTD8Ca0xGZpaNlZrChEcHAr.1.

Monday 07 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searching for light-dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters

Prof./Dr. Patrick Knights, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 01 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Unknown Maxwell

The Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2025, 09:00-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field-induced Multi-Q⃗ States in a Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet

Cecilie Glittum (Helmholtz-Zentum Berlin).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractional Charge and Fractional Statistics & how they are connected

Prof. Thors Hans Hansson (Stockholm).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear transport and photocurrent in 2D electronic liquids

Habib Rostami (Bath).

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 24 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Challenges and developments in the determination of Parton Distribution Functions

Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Multi-layer Crystal Field Effect in locally non-centrosymmetric compounds

Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel.

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

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Extreme weather attribution and the evidential grounds for restorative climate justice

Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?

Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Money: a Treasury-centric view

Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A linear PDF model for robust Bayesian inference

Mark Costantini (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From two to three dimensions: Impact of stacking order on electronic properties of graphene and graphite

Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski (Bath).

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

On the beamline: Studying surfaces at a 3rd generation synchrotron facility

Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Generative models, rare events and tensor networks

Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer’s Rejuvenation Trap: Turning Cells Young and Fierce

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function

Professor Clare P. Grey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum circuits models for free independence

Pieter Claeys, MPIPKS Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Coupling Light with Matter to Compute (CANCELLED)

Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 00:00-00:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book of protecting Osiris among those of the Netherworld: An annotated version of the First Hour.

Chike Pilgrim, PhD Student, Department of Archaeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

Lars Henkelmann.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

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

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - One or two membranes? Investigating the transition between monoderm and diderm cell envelopes across the Tree of Bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Simonetta Gribaldo, Intstitut Pasteur.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 10 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A new look for the pion form factor

Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology

Host - Aylwyn Scally

Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)!

Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Survival of the fittest… or the friendliest? Uncovering hidden dependencies in gut microbial communities

Naomi van den Berg.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Health and nutrition among the Maya

Dr Ines Varela-Silva, Loughborough University.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Scott Lectures

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

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials

Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science.

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Revisiting the paradigm of African ape and human origins

Prof David Begun, University of Toronto.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Metaphysics as Communing with the Unknown: Crossing between Emmanuel Levinas and Karl Jaspers

Connor Hayes.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Cygnus X-3 in 2024: many giant radio flares!

Prof. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

What does it mean to Democratize Finance?

Dr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

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

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Cryo-OrbiSIMS – high resolution mass spectrometry imaging in the native biological state

Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92454273602?pwd=kKpRjV53ALrNtk3FXYDG1jqaNTjGa4.1.

Monday 03 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The two-pole nature of the Lambda(1405) from lattice QCD

John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

Helen Chadwick, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene

Steve Simon, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Super-resolution optical microscope for use in the life sciences

Rebecca McClelland.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Porous nitride semiconductors for novel light sources

Rachel Oliver (DMSM).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1.

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

Sigurdur Martinsson, MSt in Sustainability Leadership, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Exoplanet Detection with SPIRIT: Infrared CMOS Photometry and the Discovery of the Hot Neptune TOI-2407b

Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Influence of gravity on atomic interferometers

Jeremiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

Sandi Toksvig OBE.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Robust estimates of theoretical uncertainties at fixed-order in perturbation theory

Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fractal Geometry: War, Peace, Fourier Analysis and the mysterious coastline of Great Britain

Jose Ramon.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for new physics with ultracold molecules

Michael Tarbutt (Imperial College).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

MRC LMB Seminar Series

The Francis Crick Lecture 2025 - The DNA Quadruplex Helix

Shankar Balasubramaniam, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93702571246?pwd=I6zsi0w8N5XcKg2gu0bac58rcyTfba.1.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The S Algebra in Self-Dual Yang-Mills: Twistorial and Spacetime Perspectives

Adam Kmec (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Bloodshed, embodiment, politics, and theology

Professor Daniel Weiss, Faculty of Divinity, Fellow of Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Accounting for Noise and Singularities in Bayesian Calibration Methods for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Past, present and future involvement in the ATLAS experiment

Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice

Professor Stephen John.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 17 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72.

Dr Arthur Rothier-Bautzer (Centre for Financial History and GlobalCapital).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 17 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Stefan Schacht (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

 Anomalous fluctuations in stochastic cellular automata

Takato Yoshimura, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum phases of matter under non-unitary dynamics

Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

Leah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Reconstructing the hominin tree

Dr Suzy White, University of Reading.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spacetime extensions in low regularity

Peter Cameron (Imperial).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

Fergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The capacity of Constant Torsion Emergent Gravity to resolve cosmological tensions

Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

ML beyond Neutrino Physics: Cancer Research

Lorena Escudero.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

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

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - Alpha-Synuclein and its aggregation: Past, Present and Future

Maria Grazia Spillantini, University of Cambridge, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom link https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98728840077?pwd=Z0MZ2xWLsyUC6fI31cIklaUbSYALwy.1.

Monday 10 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the SMEFT Likelihood

Peter Stangl (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Oscillons

Andrzej Wereszynski (Jagiellonian U., Krakow).

CMS, MR11.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Sample geometry for shear testing with a UTM

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Benjamin Revie, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:30-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Study of RAM Vessel Diameter on Mixing Effectiveness and Faraday Instabilities

Gereon Leckebusch, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour

Host - Erik Clark

Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic drivers of early lung cancer

Alice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Genetic adaptation to pathogens and the environment in humans and other primates

Dr Aida Andres, UCL.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Exploring Quantum Phases of Matter on Quantum Processors

Frank Pollmann (TU Munich).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Chocolate and Bibles: How Victorian Collectors Spent their Evenings and Shaped Scholarship

Dr Harry Spillane, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University Library and Research Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Results of beamline testing at the MROI

Dr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Proton EDM experiment

Alex Keshavarzi, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Financial History Seminar

A new history of the interwar Bank of England

Dr Robert Yee (University of Oxford).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 03 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home

Maya Youssef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Cosmological tensions? A guide for high energy theorists

William Handley (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?

Host - Kate Baker

Dr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Real Space Approaches to Topological Band Systems

Ryan L Barnett (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cooperative Mechanisms Against Climate Change

Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

What can toothed whales teach us about the evolution of menopause?

Dr Sam Ellis, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Assigning responsibility for the ‘right to die’: moral and legal ambiguity in the regulation of assisted dying

Janna Bryson, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology.

1 Newnham Terrace seminar room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

GScan’s industrial tracker system for the muon tomography applications

Andi Hektor, GScan.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar - The immune system of bacteria - IN PERSON ONLY

Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 27 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The hierarchy problem, UV/IR mixing, nonrenormalisation theorems and new approaches to naturalness

Steven Abel (Durham U., IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare

Host - Cahir O'Kane

Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The second law of thermodynamics and its mesoscopic interpretation

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What Connects Us All? From Fibers to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Tuning dimensionality, magnetism and conduction in van-der-Waals Mott insulators FeP(S,Se)3

Dr. Matthew Coak (School of physics and astronomy, University of Birmingham).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:15-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Unifying foreground emission characterisation across the radio and microwave regimes: implications for cosmology

Dr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

2HDM+a and mono-Higgs at ATLAS

Dr. Nikolai Fomin, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Fermion pairs and loners under the microscope

Martin Zwierlein (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Monday 13 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

2024 Milstein Lecture: 11am Centrioles in homeostasis, disease and evolution: tiny organelles, multiple and critical functions - IN PERSON ONLY

Mónica Bettencourt Dias.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 09 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Efficient on-shell matching

Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Feeling the strain: quadrupoles, octupoles and beyond

Ian Fisher (Stanford).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Chiral spin model: geometry, chaos & quantum teleportation

Jiannis Pachos, Leeds University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Sagittal cresting among apes and capuchin monkeys: implications for understanding fossil hominins

Dr Katharine Balolia (Australian National University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-17:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopole-Fermion Scattering is Weird.

David Tong (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Strongly correlated topological flat bands in the novel class of moiré materials

Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 15:30-16:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A case study of AI education in high schools in the Tema district of Ghana

Salomey Addo, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Aspects of Leptogenesis: from the low to the high scale

Jessica Turner, University of Durham.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

How to disentangle Parton Distribution Functions and new physics signals?

Elie Hammou (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Categorical Landau Paradigm: Phases, Transitions and Lattice Models

Apoorv Tiwari, Niels Bohr Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI

Host - Michael Boemo

Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Infiltrator and Indicator? Understanding the Intricacies of the Cuckoo Bumblebee Lifecycle

Sofia Dartnell, Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Helminth parasites of humans: past, present and future

Dr Thomas Crellen (University of Glasgow).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound

Brad Ramshaw (Cornell).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

“To Illuminate this Proverbial Dark Continent”: Lighting Infrastructure and the South African Night, 1860-1976

Zachary Fleishman, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Latest results from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at the LHC

Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, University of Manchester (GB).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Metabolism, Cellular Decisions and the Language That Unites Them

Jared Rutter.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97590440299?pwd=d3k2U3l1WENLbllGT1ZUODYyd3lFZz09.

Monday 25 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour deconstruction: from the electroweak scale to the GUT scale

Mario Fernández Navarro (Glasgow U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Materials for the future

Konstantin Novoselov (Manchester).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 22 November 2024, 10:30-11:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Neutral Atom Microscopy: Science and Applications

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Paul Dastoor, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Twist to the M-ax(is): A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting

Dumitru Calugaru, Princeton and Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions

Host – Alex Cagan

Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Future of Coding

David Vella Zarb, Computer Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamically localized but deconfined excitations in strained classical spin ice

Jonathan Nilsson Hallen (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Non-equilibrium effects in superconducting thin films probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy.

Chiara Ciccarelli.

West Hub, South Room.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the sky-goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis

Dr Or Graur.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Characterising Nitrogen-Rich Galaxies at z>6

Dr. Yuki Isobe (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

New measurement of the K+ → π+ν¯ ν decay by the NA62 Experiment

Joel Christopher Swallow, INFN-LNF.

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Two attempts to study a SU(2) pure gauge lattice theory on two quantum hardware.

Emanuele Mendicelli (Liverpool U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Title to be confirmed

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Olivia Morley. Formerly of PCS.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A gapless 1D spin liquid as a critical point between fragile Kondo insulators

Nick Bultnick, University of Ghent.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Programmed DNA elimination in insects

Host – John Welch

Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tiny animals, mighty impacts: modelling polar species on the move

Jen Freer, British Antarctic Survey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Are we the storytelling apes: great ape gesture and beyond

Prof Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Information scrambling and quantum advantage in quantum simulation

Andrew Daley (Oxford).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

L^2 geometry of hyperbolic monopoles

Derek Harland (Leeds).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Sensing of Quantum Matter

Amir Yacoby (Harvard).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Studying Research Culture at Cambridge: The Action Research on Research Culture Project (ARRC)

Dr Lara Abel, Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Action Research on Research Culture project (ARRC), Research Fellow at Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Measuring tau g-2 at the LHC

Lydia Beresford, DESY.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

2024 Max Perutz Lecture: Antisense Modulation of RNA Splicing for Rare Disease Therapy - In Person Only

Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D., St. Giles Foundation Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 11 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The ρ and K* resonances using lattice QCD with physical quark masses

Nelson Lachini (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

London EvoDevo meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

Queen Mary University of London (Math Building Lecture Theatre).

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits

Katja Klobas, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it

Host – Frank Jiggins

Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Climate is on Thin Ice: Can We Thicken It?

Jacob Pantling, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Intensive kinship and violence against women

Dr Olympia Campbell .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The changing values of feathers and their wearers: Transformation of the British society’s relationship with birds at the turn of the 20th century

Dr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor at the Social Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, University of Lodz and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Radio AGN with the LOFAR all-sky survey

Prof. Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

3 Flavour Oscillation Results from NOvA with 10 Years of Data

Alex Booth (Queen Mary University of London).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

2024 John Kendrew Lecture: Wiring Specificity of Neural Circuits - In Person Only

Liqun Luo.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 04 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons

Michele Pizzochero (University of Bath).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wondering What Our Blood Holds

Laura Magnani, Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Denisovans, Dragon Man and more

Prof Chris Stringer.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Flat bands: an obstruction or a resource?

Sebastian Huber (ETH Zurich).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Data Flows & Menstruation: How Users of Period Trackers Navigate the Datafication & Commodification of their Menstrual Cycles

Dr Stefanie Felsberger, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum geometry on physical properties in quadratic band touching

Changgeun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Hills Coffee Talks

To be or not to be: Are JWST-discovered AGN real black holes?

Dr. Xihan Ji, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Summer Student Talks Part 2

Joseph Garvey, Cecilia Bombari, Ritwik Mangrulkar.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quarkonium fragmentation from HF-NRevo: A low-to-high-energy approach

Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH, Madrid).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The FINDER Project: a (molecular) journey across Eurasia to identify new Denisovans

Dr Katerina Douka, University of Vienna.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Friday 25 October 2024, 10:00-11:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rate, temperature and their coupled effects on the deformation process of polycarbonate and its composite

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Peihao Song, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Bacterial evolution in the lung

Host – Kate Baker

Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Interfacial Engineering of the magnetism and spin transport in two-dimensional materials

Prof. Haichang Lu (Beihang University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dopamine signalling in the octopus visual system

Anna Jansson, Cambridge -- Translational Neuroscience.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity

Dr Adam Hunt (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Topology: a new twist to electrons in quantum materials

Andrew Boothroyd.

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

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pre-Christian Typologies in Greece and Rome

Dr Peter Martin, Mary and Moses Finley Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Summer Student Talks Part 1

Jonas Dej, Jesse Zhang, Shikang Ni.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 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.

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Higher Order Corrections and the Higgs Production Cross Section

Tom Schellenberger (RWTH Aachen U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for Anyon in Quantum Materials

Philip Kim (Harvard).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 18 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superfluidity and superconductivity: their defeat, fluctuation, and respect to U(1) symmetry

Prof. Wei Ku (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:30-14:50

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

How is Small different from Big?

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electron-phonon, electron-electron and phonon-phonon interactions: applications to equilibrium and non-equilibrium spectroscopy

Giovanni Marini (University Of Trento).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scaling Up Mental Health Support: Automated annotation for Recovery Stories using AI

Shrankhla Pandey (University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Visualizing strongly interacting quantum phases of matter

Ali Yazdani (Princeton).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploration, Empire, and a Revolution in the Natural History of the Pacific, 1769-1840

Dr Edwin Rose, AHRC Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

JADES census of broad line AGN and their hosts

Ignas Juodžbalis (KICC).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Heavy Neutral Leptons and Slow-Moving Particles at ATLAS

Dr. Gareth Bird University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development - In Person Only

Kathy Niakan.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 14 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

From Flavor Bounds to Charming Higgs Discoveries

Mauro Valli (Universita` La Sapienza Roma).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet

Revaz Ramazashvili (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier).

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Genetics Seminar

What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers?

Host – Richard Durbin

Dr Konrad Lohse from Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh.

Part II room, Department of Genetics and Zoom.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Recent progress on emergent quantum electrodynamics in dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice

Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Producing carbon nanotubes and hydrogen from natural gas: can fossil fuels assist the energy transition?

Jack Peden, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Structures, superconductivity, and soft chemistry in anti-cuprate square lattice materials

Nicola Kelly.

West Hub, South Room.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Isotope ratios in transiting and directly-imaged exoplanetary atmospheres

Siddharth Gandhi (Warwick).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Exploring the Performance of the CODEX-b Detector

Paul Swallow (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

EW physics at very high energies: A multi-TeV muon collider as a case study

Tao Han (Pittsburgh U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 04 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

CANCELLED - LMB Seminar: RNA Meets DNA: Dangerous Liaisons in the Genome

Karlene Cimprich - Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry.

CANCELLED.

Thursday 03 October 2024, 10:30-11:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Low-Energy Excess Results from MicroBooNE

Steve Dennis (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 01 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Francis Crick Lecture 2024: Neuronal circuits for body movements - In Person Only

Silvia Arber.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 30 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

TCM talks

Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature

Brian Skinner, Ohio State University .

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 27 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Feedback control of mitosis in the context of the kinetochore

Andrea Musacchio, Director, Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96608781341?pwd=MG5QMXVmOStXcFVtalBqUlBYc0tEdz09.

Monday 23 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Linking nanoscale synapse organization, function and plasticity

Dr Daniel Choquet - University of Bordeux Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and the Bordeaux Imaging Center.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94686992877?pwd=Q0VlRmFsRXNta0ZJMVhlRnZqNEs3QT09.

Monday 16 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

High-performance Semiconductor Quantum Light Sources

Dr Jin Liu.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 13 September 2024, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Nonlinear and Quantum Technologies in Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

Dr Kartik Srinivasan .

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 13 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Laser phase plate in cryo-EM and cryo-ET

Holger Müller.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99208619370?pwd=MkR4anNjVFhtbHlIQmRSZzBobWxNdz09.

Monday 09 September 2024, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solid state defects for quantum information processing

Song LI (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:30

AMOP list

Quantum Computing with Silicon and Germanium Hole Spins

Professor Dominik Zumbühl.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 20 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

EELS and Optical Properties of Layered and 2D Materials

Shangpeng Gao.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 31 July 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical Many-body Freezing in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems

Sayan Choudhury, Harish-Chandra Research Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 01 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Separate yet connected: mitochondrial and nuclear genome stability

Agnel Sfeir.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91614790739?pwd=QncrTFFvNG1xWVZJOWhqL0lTcHVIQT09.

Monday 01 July 2024, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Darwin Gas Heating: smart sensor trial review and future prospects

Kilian Bartsch, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

How do you dream whilst living with uncertainty - Artist Robert Ssempijja in conversation with Professor Helen Mason

Robert Ssempijja, Cavendish Arts Science Fellow.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 11:15-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Mechanosensing in cancer invasion and metastasis

Laura M Machesky, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99537530757?pwd=UVk1YjIyeFY4QzNjNkhwa0xwbERoQT09.

Monday 17 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Determining the proton structure with 1% accuracy

Roy Stegeman (U. Edinburgh).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Analogue Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms

Dr Alexei Bylinskii, QuEra Computing Inc, Boston.

Cambridge Graphene Center Conference Room (entrance via Electrical Engineering reception, West Cambridge) .

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature

Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Applied artificial intelligence to cosmological data analysis

Dr. Boris Bolliet (Assistant Teaching Professor, Cavendish Laboratory and KICC).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 15:30-16:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The MUonE Experiment: Understanding Muon g−2 Puzzle via Muon- electron Scattering

Ce Zhang (University of Liverpool).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nuclear PDFs

Ingo Schienbein (LPSC, Grenoble).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum-Resolved EELS

Peter Abbamonte (UIUC).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Unveiling the ionising properties of galaxies at the Epoch of Reionisation with NIRCam

Dr. Charlotte Simmonds (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Supernova Neutrinos

Susan Cartwright (University of Sheffield).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Exploring the ordered states of the multi-phase superconductor CeRh2As2

Dr. Konstantin Semeniuk, MPI-CPfS Dresden/Germany.

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

Monday 03 June 2024, 11:15-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Identification of alternative pathways for metabolism or cell death using haploid genetics

Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands Cancer Institute/Oncode Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link:https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95178919042?pwd=OUp6RUN3a0dkNFZqWGxQV0p0T0JOZz09.

Monday 03 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

QFT constraints as Bayesian priors for Standard-Model tests

Andreas Juttner (Southampton U./CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 31 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Entanglement Rényi entropies from Ballistic Fluctuations Theory: the free fermionic case

Paola Ruggiero, Kings College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Unravelling emergent quantum phenomena from first-principles

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.saeed.bahramy

Mohammad saeed Bahramy (University of Manchester).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superconductivity in Thin-film Infinite-layer Nickelates

Professor Danfeng Li, Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong.

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

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:15-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Inside-out growth in the Early Universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc

William Baker (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Global EFT fits for the LHC and future colliders

Eleni Vryonidou (Manchester U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials

Dr. Jack Binysh, University of Amsterdam.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice QCD studies of doubly heavy tetraquarks

William Parrott (York U., Toronto).

MR11 (B1.39), Pavilion B, CMS.

Friday 24 May 2024, 11:30-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Benchmarking and developing models for molecule-surface potential energy surfaces. The difficulties and opportunities arising from experimental data which is too detailed and too sensitive

Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Orbital and spin Hall effect in altermagnetic RuO2

Dr Lishu Zhang (Forschungszentrum Jülich).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Entanglement

Prof Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological defects in spiral spin liquids

Han Yan, University of Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Interacting quantum gases in optical lattices with periodic driving.

Prof. Elmar Haller, University of Strathclyde.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Wind farms and power companies: from test sites to fossil fuels divestment, 1990-2019

Mercedes Galindez.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The ALPHA axion dark matter experiment

Dr Jón Guðmundsson (Stockholm).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Diffusion meets Nested Sampling

David Yallup (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

How can we learn mathematical structures of physical systems? String compactifications as a tool

Sven Krippendorf (LMU).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Gram-scale explosions to inform numerical modelling and FREM development

Adam Dennis, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exact many-body dynamics in quantum circuits via space-time duality

Bruno Bertini, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing humanity’s ghosts: genetic evidence for interbreeding among archaic humans

Trevor Cousins.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases

Prof Jean Dalibard, Collège de France, Kaster Brossel Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

From Twistors to celestial symmetries and their AdS deformations

Lionel Mason (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can International Law Stop Genocide? Investigating Whether States Have a Responsibility to Protect

Kiran Basra.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Blue Phase Liquid Crystals & Their Potential for Astronomy

Oana Niculescu (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Experimental status of exotic spectroscopy (and thoughts on the future)

Mark Whitehead (Glasgow).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.

Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Daniel Yeo (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS

Host - Cahir O'Kane

Professor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA.

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Image-based high strain rate testing of materials

Fabrice Pierron, MatchID, Ghent, Belgium.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The sense of smell: from an overlooked research field to new approaches

Chloe Guillaume.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes

Elvan Boke, Group Leader, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain .

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92134536179?pwd=bHVnRkpmamhnWWY2bXpVMHAyblhlZz09.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Split signature supergravity - Hypersymplectic geometry via new geometric structures

Jan Gutowski (Surrey).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The neuro-ethics of brain-computer interface tool use

Dvija Mehta, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA

Yuchen Liu and Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection

Dr Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Froggatt-Nielsen Models Meet the SMEFT

Eetu Loisa (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

Rob Morris (IMPA Rio).

MR2, CMS.

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

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Energetics now and future trends

Bill Proud, Institute of Security Science and Technology, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale

Host – Richard Durbin

Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The entanglement membrane in exactly solvable lattice models

Michael Rampp, MPIPKS.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Overcoming challenges to sustainable heat using physics-informed machine learning

Javier Sandoval.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Chirality and Topology

Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rethinking Development from the Ethics of Care

Blanche Tardif-De-Moidrey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:10-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope

Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

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

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

New physics searches at colliders using HEFT

Anisha (Glasgow U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas

Host - Frank Jiggins

Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits

Benjamin Remez (Yale).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Entangled Lives - Exploring plant biology through the fungal lens.

Alan Wanke.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 13:10-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems

Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavor Hierarchies from Minimal U(2) Symmetries

Anders Eller Thomsen (Bern U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 19 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

E. coli and the Game of Clones

Host – Kate Baker

Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 18 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells

Ibrahim Cissé, Department of Biological Physics, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99208619370?pwd=MkR4anNjVFhtbHlIQmRSZzBobWxNdz09.

Thursday 11 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Biosynthesis and degradation of the underappreciated green polymer cyanophycin

Martin Schmeing, Ph.D., James McGill Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Directeur, Centre de recherche en biologie structurale, McGill University.

In person in the LMB's Klug Seminar Room (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96568201418?pwd=c3F0aCtOeTVwR3IyQzZYdkxoWHdPUT09.

Thursday 04 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Hills Coffee Talks

Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies

Dr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Multi-scale cross-attention transformer encoder for event classification

Mihoko Nojiri (KEK).

***note unusual venue*** MR 9 (Pavilion B), CMS .

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Terahertz-chip-scale Systems for Intelligent Sensing and 6G Communication: Can AI help?

Prof. Kaushik Sengupta.

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

Friday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Bones of Contention: Piecing together the puzzle of fossil hominin long bones

Dr Julia Aramendi (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Attoscience, Nobel 2023, and Quantum Simulators

Prof Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A Second Charter: Imagining a Renewed United Nations

Augusto Lopez-Claros, Global Governance Forum.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 18:30-19:30

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Financial History Seminar

How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.

Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searching for Instantons at Hadron Colliders

Valentin V. Khoze (Durham IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing humanity’s ghosts: genetic evidence for interbreeding among archaic humans

Trevor Cousins.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:30-19:20

Genetics Seminar

Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas

Dr Jake Funkhouser (University of Zurich) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 16:30-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research

Prof. Greg Boebinger.

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

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 11:15-12:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Rejection of Magic in Early Greek and Chinese Medicine

Arthur Harris, History and Philosophy of Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 18:30-19:30

Hills Coffee Talks

New Space & the CubeSat Revolution

Dr. Dolev Bashi.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Prototyping the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Jingyuan Shi - University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

NNLO + Strings

Peter Skands.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Are we bearing the fruits of the personalized 'omics revolution?

Yasemin Cole.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Genetics Seminar

Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development.

Host - Erik Clark

Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA .

Zoom meeting.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The challenge of developing materials for fusion

Jim Pickles, Tokamak Energy, Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Evolution of Locomotion Through the Development Lens: Insights into the Morphology of the Human Talus and Calcaneus

Dr Carla Figus (University of Bologna) .

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Protonic Electrochemical Synapses for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Computing

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Modelling of LHC Collisions in PYTHIA - Physics and Uncertainties

Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University).

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Farming of Bones: Ethics in Bioarchaeology - a conversation with Myesha Jemison around the study and treatment of indigenous human remains

Chike Pilgrim, Archeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Real-time pipelines for SKA — Progress and challenges

Dr. Ying-He Celeste Lü (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:15-12:00

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Financial History Seminar

How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance man’s view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks.

David Neckar (WTW Financial Solutions).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 26 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

CANCELLED: LMB Seminar: New therapeutic modalities based on pseudo-natural peptides, products, and neobiologics

Prof. Hiroaki Suga, Ph.D, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry.

N/A.

Monday 26 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On amplitudes and field redefinitions

David Sutherland (University of Glasgow).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mechanical force guided cell migration in early embryonic development

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Shock and Impact Deformation: A Geological Perspective

Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality

Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland.

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation

Dr Valeria Amoretti (Archaeological Park of Pompeii).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Denying religious exemptions to secure LGBTQ+ equality

Sam Cole, Philosophy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

PUEO and Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Stefano Vergani (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Financial History Seminar

The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.

Kofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

One Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Baryon-baryon interactions and the H dibaryon from lattice QCD

Jeremy Green (DESY, Zeuthen.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Harnessing quantum mechanics to predict the properties of materials

Benjamin Shi.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Conditions

Vatsa Gandhi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The Water Insecurity Experiences Scales (wwwWISEscales.org): The Value of Globally Comparable Data on Water Access, Use, and Reliability.

Dr Sera Young (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Merons, bimerons and skyrmions in α-Fe2O3: from cosmology to spintronics

Prof Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Crime and Punishment: Rethinking Right Wing Authoritarianism

Malia Marks, Criminology .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Overview and Status of the 2x2 NDLAr Demonstrator: A Pixel-Based LArTPC Prototype for the DUNE Near Detector

Karolina Wresilo (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Financial History Seminar

Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy

Sir Tim Lankester (University of Oxford).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 12 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Closing in on New Physics with the Flavor, Collider, and Electroweak Triad

Benjamin Stefanek (King's Coll. London).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Discovering the 2D world with XPS

Shaoliang Guan, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Lake Malawi Cichlids – A Model System for Speciation Research

Moritz Blumer.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity

Host - Steve Russell

Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Unpacking the Beauty Premium: A multidimensional and evolutionary exploration of the impact of physical attractiveness on social and economic outcomes

Dr Jeanne Bovet (Northumbria University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 16:30-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry

Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapore

Amelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Cell volume and dry mass across time scales in cultured mammalian cells: from milliseconds in migrating and circulating cells to homeostasis during cycles of growth and division

Matthieu Piel, Institut Curie.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96572384351?pwd=MkJzbE1qM2dGd0ZSTi9hTmV0elZ5dz09 .

Monday 05 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quantum entanglement of top quarks

Claudio Severi (U. Manchester).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:45-16:45

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot

Nick von Jeinsen, Surface and 2D Nanoscience, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Epigenetic Inheritance

Host - Ritwick Sawarkar

Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg.

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dancing in the sunlight: Light-responsive materials for drug delivery to energy storage

Bea Jones.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Darwinian fitness

Prof Lloyd Demetrius (Harvard University).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Mixing, stopping, coupling, lifting, and other keys to the second Monte Carlo revolution

Prof Werner Krauth, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Farming of Bones: Ethics in Bioarcheology - conversations with indigenous communities and other stakeholders with respect to Holocene Era human remains in Trinidad and Tobago

Canceled

Chike Pilgrim, Archeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

An Experimental and Phenomenological dissection of heavy quark decays into light leptons

Davide Lancierini (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: The allosteric landscape of a protein

Ben Lehner FRS FMedSci, Head of Generative and Synthetic Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, ICREA Professor, Systems and Synthetic Biology, CRG, Barcelona, ES.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96896374524?pwd=VFJYbkZmRlZQREJ6a1QwelRSdEZwdz09.

Monday 29 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On the uses of Geometry for Higgs Physics

Rodrigo Alonso (IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Genetics Seminar

The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division

Host - Ben Steventon

Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Measuring chaos: ongoing chromosomal instability in cancer through the lens of single-cell DNA sequencing

Michael Schneider.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The human pelvis and childbirth: reframing 'normality'

Dr Lia Betti (University College London).

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 16:30-17:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4

Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

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

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 11:15-12:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Results from the world’s largest trial of the 4-Day Week: imagining the future of work

Jon White, Sociology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Genetics Seminar

Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila

Host - Felipe Karam Teixeira

Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Probing the M Dwarf Cosmic Shoreline with JWST

Dr. James Kirk, Imperial College London.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD

Dr Kimberly Palladino (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

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

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Enhancing dimensionality of in-vitro GPCR drug discovery

Ned Wills.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting the Quantum Future

Prof Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The History of MRAO

Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: From regeneration to homeostasis: tissue-scale decision making

Pros. Prisca Liberali.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97161414783?pwd=UEhEZUdDSVVLbDU0Q2lPdFhPQ3M2UT09.

Monday 15 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models

Andrew Cheek.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 15 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

*CANCELLED* LMB Seminar: Alpha-Synuclein and its aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases

Prof Maria Grazia Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology, University of Cambridge.

N/A.

Monday 11 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Genetics Seminar

An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages

Host - Zach Baker

Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Power to the protein: analyse, signal and protect with bacterial superglues

Professor Mark Howarth, University of Cambridge.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95625236862?pwd=NGttT1d6ay9SWFRqUHMvRWNPdDhyZz09.

Monday 04 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

PhD and post-doc speed talks

Various.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

AI & Arbitration: A Compatible Marriage?

Canceled

Maroof Rafique, Law.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

Dr Emily Sandford (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Why be a monk?

Prof Ruth Mace, UCL.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Monday 27 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Crick Lecture 2023: Innovating metagenomics to explore the strange world of archaeal extrachromosomal elements

Jill Banfield, University of California, Berkeley.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96751041497?pwd=SDgyU1NMdjFVdENscUZqams4Z1RWUT09 .

Monday 27 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Tagging rare top, Z and Higgs decays at colliders

Jernej Kamenik.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Revealing the tales of post-Viking migration between UK and Denmark through 1 million personal genomes

Xiaolei Zhang.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Hardening effects in metals

Claire Lincoln, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development

Host - Ben Steventon

Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism

Note different time and room

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Hills Coffee Talks

What are the Clouds of Venus made of?

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Physics for Sustainable Development

Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Saxena Group List

Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure

Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University.

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

Monday 20 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

MRC LMB Seminar Series

Perutz Lecture 2023: Decoding the protein dance

Prof. Dr. Paola Picotti, Associate Professor for Molecular Systems Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Monday 20 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Road to Future Roads: Carbon Data Ontology

Jinying Xu.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Build the future: Design concrete with machine learning

Bogdan Zviazhynski, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

The evolution of organs and cell types.

Host - Francesco Nicola Carelli

Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Scribbles and archaeological pareidolia, or technaesthetic explorations? Considering Neanderthal material engagements

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, University of Liverpool.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting up superconductivity

Prof Eugene Demler, ETH Zürich.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Surprising Uses of Dating Apps in Times of Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Covid Sex Lives Project

Note different time

Rachel Katz, Digital Media Sociology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Revisiting the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources with LOFAR

Vijay Mahatma.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Jet Propulsion: Advancing the performance and understanding of hadronic objects in ATLAS for Run 3

Dr Matt LeBlanc (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

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

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

High Energy Resummation for Jet Processes at the LHC

Jennifer Smillie.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 10 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Novel protein-based vaccine technologies to tackle global health threats

Gabrielle Admans.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Challenges in capturing transient thermal evolutions in materials using IR imaging

Janice Barton & Karthik Ramakrishnan, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new

Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

The myth of archaic introgression into humans: 3 more telling vignettes!

Prof William Amos, Dept of Zoology, Univ of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Forces from fluctuations in and out of equilibrium (in QED and Active Matter)

Prof Mehran Kardar, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

High Resolution Stabilised Spectrographs and HARVY

Clark Baker, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar Series

LMB Seminar: Pharmacological Adaptation of Proteostasis to Ameliorate Aging-associated Degenerative Diseases

Jeffery W. Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94698100541?pwd=L0RIZUcvY0dvYjhaRW5VU0pXNThKUT09.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

How To Upgrade A Hardware Trigger

Gareth Bird (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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

Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Tetraquarks, Pentaquarks, and the Legacy of the Three-Body Problem

Mikhail Mikhasenko.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Predicting outcomes for patients with dementia requiring psychiatric inpatient care

Oriane Marguet.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The stochastic wave function method for diffusion of alkali atoms on metallic surface

Elena Torres, Institute of Fundamental Physics, Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:00-16:00