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tcw24’s personal list of talks. If you have a question about this list, please contact: tcw24. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 8 upcoming talks and 169 talks in the archive. How the Cultural Revolution still shapes ChinaMs Tania Branigan. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cellsProfessor Nick Lane, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30 Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in ArtProfessor Frances Spalding. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 The Exoplanet RevolutionProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisisDr Iain McGilchrist. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 Are Revolutions Justified?Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30 The Genetic RevolutionsProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 On the Disappointment of RevolutionsProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30 Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at playProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 The Self-Imposed Isolation of North KoreaProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30 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 Isolation and Trapping using Optical TweezersProfessor Philip Jones, University College London. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 Antarctica:Isolated ContinentProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 The Closeting of SecretsProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30 The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in AustraliaDr Amy Nethery, Deakin University. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and PearlsProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30 The Political Economy of Conservation and Food SecurityProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the PastProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30 Food and Cultural HistoryDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Food as ExpressionMr Alex Rushmer, Chef. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 X-rays and Food SafetyDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 Food, Power and SocietyMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30 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 Food and Climate ChangeProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York. Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30 Bloodlines of the BritishProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford. Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Dracula, Vampires and the New WomanProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology. Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood FlowProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge. Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern EnglandDr Sara Read, Loughborough University. Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30 Archaeological MysteriesDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist. Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30 Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction eventsProfessor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford. Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 The Enigmatic Premodern BookProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia. Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 The Enigma of EmotionDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London. Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Alan Turing and the Enigma MachineDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer. Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30 Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera MechanismDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author. Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30 Perception of Visual SpaceProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study. Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 Computer VisionProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre. Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30 Viewing the UniverseDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Appearance and Physical RealityProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Vision of Future TechnologyMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs. Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Evolution of the EyeProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University. Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Colour and VisionProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University. Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30 Animal MigrationProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30 Disease MigrationProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley. Friday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Refugees and MigrationMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Art and MigrationProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham. Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30 Black and British MigrationMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster. Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30 Extreme PoliticsProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent. Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Extremes of the UniverseProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Dealing with ExtremismProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 Extreme Events and How to Live with ThemProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York. Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30 The Game Theory of ConflictDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland. Friday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30 Games Animals PlayProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge. Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 Games for the BrainProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge. Friday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 "Losing the New Great Game"Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer. Friday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 Wittgenstein's GamesProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities. Friday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 The Game of Crime and PunishmentMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Personal Principles and the Political GameBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords. Friday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30 Technology DevelopmentDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners. Friday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30 Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable DesignMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture. Friday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 Development of Climate ScienceProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office. Friday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30 Development of an AthleteDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist. Friday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 Reprogramming Animal DevelopmentProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge. Friday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30 Plagues & Economic CollapseProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University. Friday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 Plagues, Populations & SurvivalProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University. Friday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 The Nature of PlaguesProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford. Friday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30 Plagues & HistoryProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 Plagues & MedicineProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. Friday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30 Foresight in Ancient MesopotamiaProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley. Friday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 Foresight and Self-ControlProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University. Friday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30 Foresight in MusicProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Foresight in Scientific MethodProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge. Friday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30 Foresight in Ancient CivilisationsProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30 Life and Death of a CellProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge. Friday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 Life in the Ancient WorldDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge. Friday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 The Spark of LifeProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford. Friday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30 From Genomes to the Diversity of LifeProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge. Friday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30 The Science and Beauty of NebulaeDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Friday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectivesProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield. Friday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30 Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectivesProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland. Friday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholderProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University. Friday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 The Sound of BeautyDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford. Friday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Quantum BeautyProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Friday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30 Beauty & The GrotesqueJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid). Friday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 Beauty & TruthProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford. Friday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30 Risk and (Human-induced) Climate ChangeProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia. Friday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and Natural CatastrophesProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory. Friday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk, Security and TerrorismProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford. Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and HumanitiesProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge. Friday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidanceProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford. Friday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertaintyProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin. Friday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertaintyProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30 The Boundaries of DarwinismProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter. Friday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30 Is Human Evolution Over?Professor Steve Jones, University College London. Friday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Evolution and Conservation of BiodiversityProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California. Friday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Darwin and Human SocietyProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse. Friday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Darwin in the Literary WorldProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia. Friday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30 Darwin's Intellectual DevelopmentProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University. Friday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 The Making of the FittestProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin. Friday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30 Understanding Humans - Serendipity and AnthropologyProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University. Friday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30 Cosmological SerendipitySimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer. Friday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Serendipity as a Force in PhysicsProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge. Friday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 Serendipity in Political LifeOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament. Friday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing LifeSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'. Friday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 HIV and the Naked ApeProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London. Friday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30 The Stratigraphy of SerendipityProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University. Friday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 Serendipity's Guide to the GalaxyProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge. Friday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30 Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group Gamma Chains priors for audio processingOnur 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 SpectrumJonathan 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 AudioMark 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 releaseProf Bjorn Lomborg. Wednesday 03 October 2007, 19:00-20:00 Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group Title to be confirmedOnur 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 SeparationTuomas 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 RecognitionCharles 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 talkJon 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 confirmedAMP Discussion meeting. Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor. Friday 23 March 2007, 15:30-17:00 SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERSPeter Crane, University of Chicago. Friday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 IMMUNOLOGICAL SELFPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado. Friday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30 Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group Variable Rate Sequential Monte Carlo for Musical TranscriptionMatt Scarisbrick. Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor. Friday 23 February 2007, 15:30-17:00 Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group Real-Time Bayesian GSM Buzz RemovalHan Lin. Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor. Friday 02 February 2007, 15:30-17:00 Online Science JournalismBill Thompson. Balfour Room, 2nd floor, Computing Services Building, New Museums Site. Tuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00 Audio and Music Processing (AMP) Reading Group Title to be confirmedCanceled 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 SetsPaul 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 SamplersNick 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 StabilityFred 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 SinusoidalsTaylan Cemgil. Engineering Department, Baker Building, Division F meeting room, 5th floor. Friday 17 November 2006, 15:00-17:00 SURVIVING LONGERCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco. Friday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30 SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINEAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Friday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERSJames Jackson, Cambridge University. Friday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGESPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London. Friday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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