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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

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

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Online.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Online.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Online.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Online.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Online.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Online.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reporting from Extreme Environments

Lyse Doucet, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

Dr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

Professor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

Dr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

Professor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

Professor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

Professor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

Professor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

Mikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

Professor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

Professor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

Professor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

Dr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

Professor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

Professor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

Robert J Sawyer, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

Ms Bridget Kendall, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

Professor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

Professor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

Dr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

Dr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

Professor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

Dr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

Professor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

Dr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

Professor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

Professor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

Professor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

Dr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

Professor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

Jose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

Professor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

Professor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

Professor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

Professor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

Professor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

Professor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

Professor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

Dr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

Professor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

Professor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

Professor Steve Jones, University College London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

Professor Craig Moritz, University of California.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

Professor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

Professor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

Professor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

Professor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

Professor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

Simon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

Oliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

Professor Robin Weiss, University College London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

Professor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Gamma Chains priors for audio processing

Onur Dikmen, Bogazici University.

Engineering Department, Signal Processing Lab meeting room.

Monday 26 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Monaural Acoustical Scene Analysis through Harmonic-Temporal Clustering of the Power Spectrum

Jonathan Le Roux, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France and University of Tokyo.

Engineering Department, Signal Processing Lab meeting room.

Monday 12 November 2007, 15:00-16:30

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Analysing Musical Audio

Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London.

Engineering Department, Signal Processing Lab meeting room.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest release

Prof Bjorn Lomborg.

The Cambridge Union.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Onur Dikmen.

Engineering Department, Signal Processing Lab meeting room.

Friday 03 August 2007, 14:00-15:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Machine Learning Methods for Monaural Sound Source Separation

Tuomas Virtanen.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 20 July 2007, 14:00-15:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Variational Inference with Bayes Net Fragments for Beat Tracking and Rhythm Recognition

Charles Fox.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 01 June 2007, 15:30-17:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Project talk

Jon Matthews, Leigh Simpson.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 04 May 2007, 15:30-17:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

AMP Discussion meeting.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 23 March 2007, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

Peter Crane, University of Chicago.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

Raymond Tallis, Manchester University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Variable Rate Sequential Monte Carlo for Musical Transcription

Matt Scarisbrick.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 23 February 2007, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Real-Time Bayesian GSM Buzz Removal

Han Lin.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 02 February 2007, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

Ludmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Online Science Journalism

Bill Thompson.

Balfour Room, 2nd floor, Computing Services Building, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

Christopher Hogwood.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Title to be confirmed

Canceled

Maurice Fallon.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 19 January 2007, 15:30-17:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Multi-Target Bayes Filtering with Random Finite Sets

Paul Peeling.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 15 December 2006, 15:30-17:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Nick Whiteley.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 01 December 2006, 15:30-17:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability

Fred Desobry.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 24 November 2006, 15:30-17:00

Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group

Overview of Subspace Methods for estimating Sinusoidals

Taylan Cemgil.

Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor.

Friday 17 November 2006, 15:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

Diana Liverman, Oxford University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

James Jackson, Cambridge University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

Richard Feachem, Global Fund.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

Peter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

Edith Hall, Durham University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

Paul Kennedy, Yale University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30