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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

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Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

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Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

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Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

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Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

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Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

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

You tube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Meeting has been cancelled

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

When algebra meets geometry

Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

This lecture has been cancelled

Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

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

Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

Professor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors

Professor Eugene Terentjev, Department of Physics.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING

Organiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare

Dr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Sir Tony Hoare FRS FREng.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sangar Institute.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Dr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go further

Dr Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

A V HILL LECTURE

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

Professor John Lister, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

Organised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

Lecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

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

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

Mr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Dr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

Professor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Dr Venki Ramakrishnan FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics

Professor Michael Atiyah FRS.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

Professor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Dr Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

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

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory

Professor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

LARMOR LECTURE

LARMOR LECTURE - Professor John Papaloizou, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Professor Gerard Evan FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION

Professor Daan Frenkel FRS, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Sir Gregory Winter FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES

Dr Simon Guest, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Note venue change

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

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Dr R Simmons, Department of Public Health.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms

Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams, Strangeways Laboratory.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Dynamics of Avalanches

Dr Jim McElwaine, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution

Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

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

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

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment

Professor Martin Rees FRS, Astronomer Royal.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology

Professor G Efstathiou FRS, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration

Professor W T Gowers FRS, DPMMS.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Darwin 2009 Lecture

Professor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

Professor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling

Dr Walter Federle, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Professor L M Brown FRS, Department of Physics.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

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

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

Fitzwilliam College Auditorium.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

Professor Sir John Sulston FRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing

Professor Ian Hutchings FREng, Institute for Manufacturing.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

Dr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

Professor Jim Woodhouse, Department of Engineering.

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

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

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

General Discussion Session

All.

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

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

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

Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells

Ron Weiss (Princeton).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 15:50-16:30

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

Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0

Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:40-15:20

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

Biological Engineering of Plant Systems

Jim Haseloff (Cambridge).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 14:00-14:40

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

Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways

Caleb Bashor (UCSF).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 12:10-12:50

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

Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits

Georg Seelig (Caltech).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 11:30-12:10

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

Computational Design in Synthetic Biology

Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 10:20-11:00

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

The iGEM competition: Building with biology

James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team.

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:40-10:20

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

Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)

Gos Micklem (Cambridge).

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

Monday 03 December 2007, 09:05-09:40

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

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

Monday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

Professor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

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

Monday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

NOTE: New start time and New venue

Professor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

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

Monday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

Professor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'

Professor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

Professor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

Professor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

Professor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

Dr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

Professor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

Monday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

Professor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule?

Professor Robin Irvine, FRS.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 13 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins

Professor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

Professor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

Dr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Monday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30