Darwin College Science Seminars

Spiking irregularity in cortical inhibitory interneurons

Philipe Mendonca, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

A highly sensitive approach to determine replication kinetics of influenza type A viruses by plaque assay

Ramona Mogling, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is Carbon Storage safe? Insights from the >400,000 year old Green River natural analogue , Utah

Alexandra Maskell, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Solid oxide fuel cell's and the electricity generation of the present

Riza Dervisoglu.

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Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Novel materials for high temperature structural applications

Ayan Bhowmik.

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Thursday 11 October 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How the East was won: travels of cereals in Eurasia

Diane Lister, Archaeology.

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Tuesday 09 October 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Could the earliest limbed animals walk?

Dr Stephanie E Pierce.

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Thursday 14 June 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How failed is North Korea, James Pearson

James Pearson.

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Tuesday 12 June 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Diagnostiques Sans Frontières: Low-Cost, Rapid Diagnostics for Everyone

The talk will be nontechnical. Especially, those interested in global health and telecommunications are encouraged to join.

Ali Yetisen.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Living on Sacred Ground: The Priests’ Houses in the Temple of Amun in Karnak

Dr. Aurélia Masson.

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Thursday 31 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ancient Chinese Mathematics in Action: The Mathematics and Politics of Inspiration

Jiri Hudecek.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Marine Seismic to Climate Models: Using streamer data to understand ocean currents

Timothy Grant.

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Thursday 24 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Finding a Home for Modern in Cambodia: Preserving Phnom Penh's Olympic Stadium and the New Khmer Architecture

Ian Dull.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton

Jan Löwe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

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Thursday 17 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

China before China: structural history of Chinese archaeology

Xinyi Liu.

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Tuesday 15 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Structures of Membrane Proteins

Vinothkumar K.R..

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Thursday 10 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Union's Role in Strike Resolution in China

Cheng Chang.

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Tuesday 08 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution: where would we be without viruses

Jonathan Luke Heeney.

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Thursday 03 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Homer's 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' and the Meaning of Parody

Paul Dean.

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Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

"Life" Before the Start of Evolution

Aleksandr Sahakyan.

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Thursday 26 April 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Economic Thought and the Victorian Individual: Examining Narratives of Daily Life

Hannah Scally.

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Tuesday 24 April 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What is it like to be an anxious monkey? : Characterising trait-anxiety phenotypes in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

Yoshiro Shiba.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Agriculture before Yangshao: a Geoarchaeological Survey of Lost Agrarian Diversity in North China

Yijie Zhuang (Archaeology).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Live Forever - Germ cells provide the enduring link between all generations

Nils Grabole.

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Thursday 01 March 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Contested History, Kwangju and Korea's Cold War Politics: New perspectives on South Korea's Democratization and Foreign Policy from the British Archives

Dr John Swenson-Wright (Senior Lecturer, Japanese Politics and International Relations).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Where's all the Technetium? The radioisotope crisis!

Will Webster.

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Thursday 23 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trading Protection: The Rationality behind Anti-dumping

Josué F. Mathieu (Centre for Rising Powers, POLIS).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Next generation sequencing facilitates the interpretation of the human genome.

Stefan Gräf.

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Thursday 16 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Using consumers to protect labour standards

Prof. William Brown (Master of Darwin College).

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Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Human Genome: from 1 to 1,000, and back to 1.

Jie Huang.

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Thursday 09 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Homelessness and the Migrant Domestic Worker

Dr Jessie Hohmann (Faculty of Law).

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Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

West to east: tracing the spread of cereal cultivation across Eurasia

Diane Lister.

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Thursday 02 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Religion, Trade and Chinese Merchants in East Africa

HUNG, Wing Lok (Centre of African Studies).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Erebus volcano, Antarctica: The southernmost active volcano in the world from the inside out

Kayla Iacovino.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Before the Silk Road: tracing the earliest East West contacts

Martin Jones ( George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science ).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Community characteristics and their effects on the structure and survival of a deep-sea fish community

Thea Powell.

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Thursday 19 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Peter Abaelard and the Development of Logic

Prof. Christopher Martin, Auckland University, New Zealand (Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Philosophy).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetics of obesity: How are genes shaping us

Elena Bochukova, Institute of Metabolic Science.

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Thursday 01 December 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How and when did the first Chinese crops arrive in Europe?

Dr Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Carbon, Forests and the REDD Paradox

Dr Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

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Tuesday 22 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Crystallisation in the Energy Landscape

Vanessa de Souza.

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Thursday 17 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Fieldwork in Afghanistan - A Personal Reflection

Dr Mark de Rond.

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Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Terahertz technology: Detecting terrorists and breast cancer

Philip Ashworth.

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Thursday 10 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Challenges of Preparing Educators in Kenya

Moses Orwe-Onyango (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Emergence and reduction combined in infinite systems

Nazim Bouatta.

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Thursday 03 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The G20 in a World of Financial Crises

Maha Kamel (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Shrinking Sheep to Growing Marmots: Linking Trait and Population Dynamics in Changing Environments

Arpat Ozgul ( University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Reviewing the Criminal Law's Guiding and Evaluative Functions

Mark DSouza (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Emergence in Solid State Physics

Sven Friedemann.

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Thursday 20 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nanotechnology: challenging chips and crime

Russell Cowburn.

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Thursday 13 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Zhijun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Galaxies

Dan Stark (Institute of Astronomy).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The greatest show on earth?

Shane Guy.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Quantum information processing with semiconductor nanotechnology

Antoine Boyer de la Giroday.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Individual variation in female orgasmic capacity: pre-natal androgen, sociosexuality and the menstrual cycle

Lara Eschler.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Climate Change on Mars: Could extreme axial tilt drive glaciers to low latitudes?

Andrew Britton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cultures of capitalisms in Argentina and Chile

Tomas Undurraga.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

X-ray Emission from around Active Black Holes

Dominic Walton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Maintaining and enhancing marital quality: preliminary findings of an examination of the mechanisms by which marriages become more or less satisfactory over the first four years

Jan Ewing.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Under Pressure: probing the quantum world under extreme conditions

James Fowler.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The rise of new powers and the challenges of global trade governance

Amrita Narlikar.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bioelectronics: The interface of biology and electronics (Now In 3D)

Justin Pahara.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Computational constraints on human representation of number

Claudia Uller.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

A Case for Astrobiology

Ms. Katinka Apagyi (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Modern Korea: two perspectives on its extraordinary ascent

John Swenson-Wright and Harry Bhadeshia.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Chip and PIN: Exploring the EMV system

Omar Choudary.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pockets of Faith: Institutional Change in the Church of England

Joachim Krapels.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fast Mobile Text Entry using Gestures and Speech

Per Ola Kristensson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The EU and China's energy diplomacy: an institutionalist approach

Pietro De Matteis.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Emergence of Chemical Complexity - Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Molecules

Jameel Zayed.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Psychological effects of wrongful conviction and imprisonment

Adrian Grounds.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How can we see biomolecular structure and dynamics by measuring side-chain chemical shifts?

Aleksandr Sahakyan.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Greece & Rome at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Kate Cooper.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Notes on the (live) synthesis of music

Sam Aaron.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

What Does Time and Space Mean for the Airman?

Ian Shields.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Catch and release chemistry in 3D gels

Christine Boehner.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The constraints of civilian capabilities for European Civilian Crisis Management

Hubertus Jürgenliemk.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

RNA maps pave the way for a better understanding of splicing regulation

Jernej Ule.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Subsistence and changing culture: new approaches to Chinese prehistory

Xinyi Liu.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cluster expansion and Monte Carlo simulation of the Ga-doped Ba2In2O5 fast anionic conductor

Riza Dervisoglu (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Race to Court as a Race to the Bottom? National Labour Law after the Laval quartet

Aristea Koukiadaki.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing neutron stars

Ed Cackett.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Tension Between Necessity and Ethics: The Development of Confucian Political Thought of Chosŏn Korea

Choong-yeol Kim.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of iced airfoils

Tiziano Ghisu.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Preserving a Violent Past: Politics and the Transmission of the Saga of Icelanders

Vicky Cribb (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Citrus canker, Cramer-Rao and cosmology: beyond Euclidean geometry

Matthew Parry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Sustainable development of culturally significant urban areas

Tatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Medical Image Computing - The role of computer science in clinical routine

Ben Glocker.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Publishing practices around 1600: the case of the Antwerp publisher Jan Moretus I

Dirk Imhof.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From genes to neural circuits, how C. elegans generates its behaviour.

Patrick Laurent.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific observation

David Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Computer games and mental health interventions

Dr David Coyle (Computer Laboratory).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Crossing the Sahara: The Role of Climate in the early Human Occupation of North Africa

Hazel Reade (PhD Candidate Department of Archaeology).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fantastic Plastic: Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers

Jenny Clark.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Hilary Powell's research

Hilary Powell.

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Tuesday 19 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Stable Isotopes and Diagenesis: determining the effects of post-depositional processes on the preservation of collagen in archaeological bone

Lindsey Friedman.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Changing Narratives of Diet and Society: using stable isotope analyses to investigate the Jomon-Yayoi cultural transition in western Japan

Lindsey Friedman (PhD Candidate in Archaeology, Darwin College).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why are the GATES still OPEN ? Understanding the Binding-Gating problem of the receptors involved in Calcium signalling

Last talk of term - DCSA President!

Samir Khan.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Childhood origins of crime and violence in Brazil and Britain: Review and 5-year project plan

Dr Joseph Murray (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The city in a bird’s eye view

Dr. Marco Iuliano.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 June 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing late Middle Pleistocene human environments using evidence from land and freshwater molluscs

Tom S. White, Department of Zoology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cinema and Censorship in Post-war Poland

Dr Matilda Mroz.

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Tuesday 25 May 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

No Talk This Week

Speaker to be confirmed.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Hidden Arena: Locating Slave Resistance in Ancient Sparta

Dr Daniel Jew, Darwin College.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 May 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nanocapillaries: Cheap and Safe Nanotech

Lorenz Steinbock ( Cavendish Laboratory).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Search for Truth in the American Justice System

Andrew Porwancher.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The evolution of wing colour patterns in butterflies and the problem of speciation

Patricio Salazar.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Business Evolution and a Holistic Response

Suthikorn Kingkaew.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Listen to your heart: How the brain consults the body when facing risky decisions

Bettina Studer (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How graduate students came to Cambridge

Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automatic Visual Recognition in Natural, Medical, and 3D Imagery

Jamie Shotton (Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

No Olympus without Ares: security expressions of first-class global citizenship

Daniel Bernhardt (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 April 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

What matters for well-being: Quality of life over the life course

Dr Anke Plagnol.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft

Last talk of term!!! Not to be missed!

Paul Robertson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Transparency of Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy

Ana Neves.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

A look into the cell’s warehouse with metabolomics

Sara Dietz.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Was Spain under Franco Fascist? Juan Linz and his Critics on the Nature of the Franco Regime

Jeff Miley.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

"Why am I smoking when I know I'm harming the baby?" - unravelling the mysteries of prenatal smoking

Felix Naughton (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Underground printing during the English Civil War, 1646-1666

Dr David Adams.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dr. Energyefficient or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain!

Nikon Rasumov (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The methodological complications and opportunities of video documenting activism in India

Heather Plumridge Bedi, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Families Created Through Surrogacy: Is There Cause For Concern?

Polly Casey (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A British Army Officer and Caesar's Bridge across the Rhine

L.G. Kelly.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Aesthetics of architecture and geology in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century

Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Black holes: weather and landscape

Alexander Blustin (University of Cambridge; IoA and Darwin College).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

To within minutes of a black hole

First talk of term!

Prof Andy Fabian.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Is there any problem with nationalism? Some remarks about the Basque Nationalist Party's ideas in Spain

Dr Javier Beneitez.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Smart Integration of Decentralised Energy Generation with the Electrical Grid

Dr Tamas Bertenyi, Quiet Revolution Ltd..

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Intercultural Relations in the late Middle Kingdom in Egypt (1820-1720 BC)

Dr Bettina Bader, Research Fellow of McDonald Institute for archaeological research.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Magnetism Under Pressure: Using Diamonds to Study Quantum Matter

Lara Sibley, Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Finance and Economic Growth in a Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model

Carolina Troncoso Baltar, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can worms unlock the secrets of our mind? Automatic quantitative analysis of C.elegans behaviour

Tadas Jucikas, William Schafer group, Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

What _is_ the Right to Housing?

Dr. Jessie Hohmann, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Balancing conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon: do win-win solutions really exist?

Dr Toby Gardner, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Interdisciplinarity Rules! A radical re-appraisal of the countryside of Roman Italy (200 BC - AD 100)

Dr. Alessandro Launaro, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Three years since the murder of Steven Hoskins: How do we treat, support and manage offenders and suspected offenders with learning disabilities in our communities?

Jessica Wheeler, Department of Psychiatry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

"A Single Grand Science": Anthropology and Genetics after the Second World War

Jenny Bangham, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

John Bell and the nature of Reality

Dr Carlos Lobo, Department of Physics.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

From Democrats to Kings: the brutal dawn of a new world

Dr Michael C. Scott, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Similarity Judgements in Visual, Auditory and Audio-visual Stimuli

Michelle To (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Sodom and Gomorrah in Archaeology and Cultural Imagination

Dr Astrid Swenson, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From the laboratory to the market: how the results of scientific research are transformed into products on the market

First talk of term - All welcome!

Dr. Franz Wittwer, Strategic IP Manager, BIOTRONIK AG.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: Drug Discovery in the 21st Century

Last talk of term!

Max Macaluso, Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

European Security Governance and Civilian Crisis Management

Hubertus Jürgenliemk.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 June 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Microcephaly genes & the evolution of primate brain size

Stephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Chromatin: How a cell fits 10,000 miles of spaghetti into a basketball

Sam Rowbotham, The Babraham Institute.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Does It Take Enemies to Make Friends? or, What would Hegel say to Nehru?

Esben Hegnsholt Olsen.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evo-devo and neo-Darwinism: hostility, synergy or indifference?

Special guest speaker - Professor Wallace Arthur, Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland

Professor Wallace Arthur.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The European Union: Well-Meaning Partner or Selfish Superpower?

Brandon Miller-De-La-Cuesta.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cuckoo-host arms races

Earlier start time! Talk starts at 1pm

Dr Justin Welbergen, Department of Zoology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 12:45-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Sociology Visits the Studio: The Case of Young Artists in Berlin

Martin Fuller (Darwin).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is it the pits?: an introduction to schizophrenia's past, present and future

Divya Krishnamurthy.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Once Upon a Time a Gene - Standing on the Shoulders of Molecular Giants

Katinka Apagyi, Department of Biochemistry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Superconducting Motor with Its Perspective

First talk of term!

Ruilin Pei, Department of Engineering.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Reconstructing Milton's Library: or, What does the Munby Fellow do?

Deirdre Serjeantson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Intelligent Polymers.... just add water

Jameel Zayed, Department of Chemistry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Global Footprint of Emerging Market Firms

Sourindra Banerjee.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to teach a computer to recognize digits

Nicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Wages of the Weak: Protecting Labour Standards in an increasingly Competitive World

William Brown.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Keeping positive: protein evolution and the tree of life

Gregory Jordan (Darwin College).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Healing Words: Hagiographic Evidence for Medieval Medical Practices

Hilary Powell.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

On the use of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine

200th Anniversary of Darwin's Birth - join us for a celebration!!!!

Nick Darton, Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Predicting the Past: Filling in the Gaps of the Palaeontological Record

Jeroen Smaers.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From building blocks to systems: where do we go next?

Sarath Janga, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Representations of Grief and Mourning in modern European and American cinema

Richard Armstrong.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Schizophrenia: is it all in the mind?

Dr James Kirkbride, Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Media Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: David vs. Goliath, Gaza, September 2000

Gili Brenner.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Conical cells and pollinator attraction - A bee's eye view of molecular evolution

All welcome to attend!

Katrina Alcorn, Department of Plant Sciences.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Theatre and the State in Ireland

Lauren Arrington.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Sensing DNA with a Single Pore

First talk of term!

Lorenz Steinbock, Cavendish Laboratory.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Übermensch and the Bodhisattva: the two Offspring of Nihilism

Antoine Panaioti.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Green Certification in the Hotel Sector? Does it actually reduce global CO2 emissions?

Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, Department of Architecture.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cultural Performance in the Beijing Olympics: An Anthropological Approach

Luo Jialing.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Repairing DNA lesions: making the right choice at the right time

Max Yun.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

In search of England: war in the countryside, 1930-1960

Sophia Davis.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Materials and devices for flexible electronics

Jessica Winfield.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Assassination, Abduction and Normalisation: Historical Mythologies and Misrepresentation in Post-War South Korea-Japan Relations

John Swenson-Wright.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuned passive control of combustion instabilities

Dan Zhao, Acoustics Lab, Department of Engineering.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

You Are What You Eat: Changing diet over the Jomon-Yayoi transition in western Japan

Lindsey Friedman.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The role of Insigs in nutritional sensing and fat accumulation

Rachel Hagen, IMS, Clinical Biochemistry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Jihad: Meaning and Misappropriation of a Quranic Concept

James Holmes.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

De novo assembly of next-generation sequencing technologies using de Bruijn graphs

Daniel Zerbino.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Coping With Bullying:Healthy Strategies used by males to counter Peer Bullying in Secondary Schools

Katheryn Schopp.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Manipulating single electrons in silicon quantum dots

Michael Tanner, Cavendish Laboratory.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Capturing time. William Henry Fox Talbot's universal scholarship and the common ground between Photography and the Antique

Mirjam Brusius.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing thin liquid films at the nanometer scale

David Barbero (University of Cambridge).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Illness, gods and healing in Greek-ruled Egypt, 332-30 BC

Dr Phillippa Lang.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

IP3 receptor clustering: when togetherness redefines individuality

Taufiq-ur-Rahman (University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

David Hume goes to War, or: What is Intellectual Biography?

Moritz Baumstark.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How do we estimate the number of current and past injecting drug users?

Mr Michael Sweeting (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

‘Viking' Audiences and Agents: Analyzing display to interpret the social significance of free-standing human imagery in Scandinavia, AD 500-1200

Thea Thompson, Department of Archaeology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Boeing 787 vs. Airbus 380

Sungho Yoon, Department of Engineering.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Approaches to enforce fiduciary duties of corporate officers: Civil remedies or criminal penalties? - from the perspective of comparative law

Alex Yu Wang.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hillary Clinton, Siamese cats and HIV: defects in transport of proteins within a cell

Patrycja Kozik, Clinical Biochemistry/CIMR.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

“We Hanoverians are all so glad to be half-English”: Hanover and the legacy of the Anglo-Hanoverian Personal Union, 1866-1918

Jasper Heinzen, Faculty of History.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Back to The Future: Cell tracing assays to study developmental events in a vertebrate embryo

Katerina Bilitou, Department of Oncology, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Some Novel Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

Xiaozhi Wang, Department of Engineering.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The 'Missing' Picture in the Family Album. Photographic Essays by the Children of the Victims of State Terrorism in Argentina (1976-1983)

Jordana Blejmar.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Measuring Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone in the Atmosphere

Will Flynn, Department of Chemistry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Spitting in your (monumental) face: political infighting at the centre of the ancient Greek world

Michael Scott.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Kuiper Belt: Clues to the Formation of the Solar System

Zoë Leinhardt, DAMTP Astrophysics.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Innovations from Grassroots Organizations in Meeting Unmet Social Needs in China Today

Xiaoyang Zhang.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why Galaxy Clusters Ignore Gravity

Mark Rosin, DAMTP Astrophysics.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

I am not a statue!: Aristotelian Anthropology's Inner Demons

Jose-Javier Beneitez Prudencio.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What was the Impact of the Last Glacial Maximum on the Landscape and Human Environment?

Lenka Lisa, Department of Archaeology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Originals, Copies and Fakes: The Visual Culture of Heritage

Astrid Swenson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Chemistry of Volcanic Plumes

Tjarda Roberts, Centre for Atmospheric Science.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

'Dear Tom, Dear Richard': The Kuhn-Rorty Exchange (1976-86)

Juan V. Mayoral de Lucas.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Genetic Code -Insights into its Origin and Evolution

Hiroyuki Oshikane, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Of Informants and Archaeologists: Knowledge and Power in 19th-Century Explorations of the Peruvian pre-Hispanic Past

Stefanie Gänger.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nonverbal Communication and Autism

Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Small Island Developing States' Access to High Seas Fisheries

Kerry Tetzlaff.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What a fish can do for our sight!

Elena Dreosti, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

The origin of the chemical elements - where the atoms in our bodies came from

Gary J. Ferland, Physics, U of Kentucky.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How to become a Member of Parliament? Pathways to the House of Commons and the Deutscher Bundestag

Daniel Wigbers.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Watts up with the ultimate 'green' aircraft?

Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How the camel lost its hump: Tales from the study of semantic disorders

Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Listening to God: A categorical analysis of event-based revelation in a comparative context

A. J. Watson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecules and Computers

Ali Shah, Department of Chemistry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

'Let's get it over with': Early findings on the factors affecting detainees' access to custodial legal advice

Layla Skinns.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Massive Nanocrystalline Metals

Harry D.K. BHADESHIA PhD, FREng, FRS (Physical Metallurgy).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 13:00-13:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Funerals in early modern England

Ken Sneath.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How C. elegans navigate their environment

Emanuel Busch (MRC-LMB and Darwin College).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 13:00-13:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Investigating the Policies of New Academic Structure for Secondary Education in Hong Kong

Dennis Fung Chun Lok.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Between Streets and Schools: An Investigation About Dropout Students And Their Path Towards Educational Inclusion In Brazil

Cleonice Puggian, Department of Education.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Effects of parental imprisonment on children: A four year update

Joe Murray.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 October 2007, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How bleak was the environment of early modern humans? examining the chemistry of Central European loess

Dr Lenka Lisa.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The development of the representation of magnitude in children

Dénes Szucs.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Photonic crystals: new fabrication tricks for tricky optical materials

Dr Nicolas Tetreault.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 June 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Living with explosive remnants of war. A Southeast Asian perspective

Krisna Uk.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Towards an understanding of mental disorders in urban areas

Dr James Kirkbride.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Organizing knowledge: The interplay between texts and images in medieval compilation manuscripts

Hanna Vorholt.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

City of Strangers: Love and Mourning in Modern London

Richard Armstrong.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Sustainable energy - without the hot air

David MacKay.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Consumption, wealth, indebtedness and social structure in early modern England

Ken Sneath.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Body weight regulation and brown adipose tissue: can this fat make you thinner?

Andy Whittle.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

British intelligence and Britain's end of empire in Africa

Calder Walton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Do Plants Make Methane?

Dr Ellen Nisbet.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

One Bad Argument for Civic Virtue, and One Good One

Simon Hope.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 May 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Chasing snails in Siberia

Dustin White.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Performance of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations: Current Legal Issues

Kerry Tetzlaff.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 March 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Magnetic Targeting of Nanoparticle Labelled Gene Therapy Vectors

Nick Darton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

'Who I Am' to 'Who I Am Not' - Self-alienation at the Workplace

Jana Costas.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

It's great but I never use it: Why IT systems fail at user-level

Cecily Morrison.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cancelled talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Viruses that infect bacteria - a cure for 'superbugs'?

Nico Petty.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Secrets of Adolescence: a psychological perspective of adolescent development in the English school context

Jenny Symonds.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Epitaxy and Interface Magnetism for Device Applications

Jean-Baptiste Laloë.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Astrid Swenson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Iceland: small country, big hazards! TALK CANCELLED

Dr A. C. Hinton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cows, curation and carbon dates: strange goings on in Roman Yorkshire

David Orton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Humid Power : High efficiency gas turbines for power generation

Ronan Kavanagh.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Reinventing China: from the perspective of the Olympics

Jialing Luo.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 January 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Where's My Rocket:? Six-Degree-of-Freedom Stochastic Simulations of Rocket Flight Paths

Simon Box.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Co-operation or contest? The civilianization and pluralization of staff in police custody areas

Dr. Layla Skinns.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Where is Tibet? Locating the Modern Tibetan Identity

Aidan Harris.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 December 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

"Now where was I∑?": Designing Assistive Technologies to Support Conversation in Dementia

Lorisa Dubuc.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Human-animal relations in the Neolithic Balkans

David Orton, Darwin College Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Thin films

David Barbero.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

MI5 and counter-terrorism in the early Cold War

Calder Walton, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Using sunlight to save the earth

Suil In, Chemistry Department.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

So what's so special about Abruzzese?

Roberta D'Alessandro.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecules of Cognition

Tomas Ryan.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Poet as Prophet: Ovid and the Alchemists

Louis Kelly.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic determinism and four-letter words: how unique are unique genomes?

Giselle Walker, University Museum of Zoology/ Dept of Earth Sciences/ Darwin College.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Autonomy in Medical Ethics

Gemma Mitchell, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

If it ain't broke, break it: using large scale RNAi gene knock-down screening in human cells to determine gene function.

Ian Sudbery, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Why are so many prisoners unemployed at the time of their arrest, and what are the implications for public policy?

Michael Rice, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Clinical Neuroscience

Ramez Reda Moustafa.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Justifying Republican Freedom: On a Difference Between Pettit and Skinner

Simon Hope, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Machine Learning

Ankur Agarwal.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Remote Sensing

Sarah Hamylton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How does a black hole heat up a galaxy?

Professor Andy Fabian, X Ray lab, Institute of Astronomy.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Who gained and who lost from Britain's Minimum Wage

William Brown.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hands-free writing

David Mackay, Darwin College/Inference Group, Cavendish Lab.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Lean Thinking in IT Outsourcing - A Case Study of Fujitsu Service

Wenjin Xu.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dissecting biological pathways with small molecules

David Marsden.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The youth labour market problem revisited

Rebekka Christopoulou.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

One third of life's diversity

Giselle Walker, Darwin College/ University Museum of Zoology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Spatial dialectics - montage and spatially arranged narrative in stories without human protagnonists

Stavros Alifragkis.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

Kevin West.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Talking Passionately - What the philosophy of language is missing

Joab Rosenberg.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 16 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

If I only had a brane

Carlos Martins, DAMTP.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Greco-Roman Views on Indian Philosophers

Joachim Lacrosse.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Climate Change: The case for burying CO2

Mike Sheppard, Schlumberger Cambridge Research (Honorary Fellow).

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Challenging the orthodoxy of strategic pay

Jonathan Trevor.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The organizational theory of sexiness

Gordon Euchler.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cumulative underdevelopment in Brazil: viewing growth through the demand side keyhole

Gustavo Rocha.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

Sian Piper.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

"The Past is a Foreign Country"? Representations of Greece in the Travel Literature of Nikos Kazantzakis & Lawrence Durrell

Helena O'Neill.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

Rosienne Farrugia.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The invention of the cartographic tradition of the terra australis incognita in the context of the scientific tradition of the XVI century

Jorge G. Guzman.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

Amir Chaudhry.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Tipping Point: Human Behaviour and the Takeoff Phenomenon of New Technologies

Thomas M. Bohné.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer and DNA - tying up loose ends

Peter Ahnesorg, Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Institute.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How can we talk about the world? Likely cosmology in Platos Timaeus

Jenny Bryan.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tissue Engineering

Rachael Walker.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Parents and Children doing Homework: Cycles of Self-Regulated Learning

Deborah Pino-Pasternak.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Seismic Data

Tim Sears.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Management and Multiple Identities

Kate Kenny.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 January 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer cells are your own cells. So how do you kill the cancer cells without killing your normal cells?

Sarah Drayton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 January 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Blood-brain barrier an armed guard in the brain

Shanshan Wang, Darwin.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 December 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Hunting Stone Age hunters and herders: a southern African perspective

Isabelle Parsons.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 December 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer cells are your own cells. So how do you kill the cancer cells without killing your normal cells?

Sarah Drayton.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 December 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

An archaeological perspective on trade and travel in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Jennifer Gates.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The 'Widget'; an interesting and useful companion to the art of drinking beer

Paul Robertson.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

New Questions from Old Hands: Outlines of human representation in the Palaeolithic

Iain Morley.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

TBA

Mark Shinwell, Darwin.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

"Things that talk": the voices of Victorian objects

Melanie Keene.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Teaching sustainability to engineering students

Tam�s Bert�nyi, Darwin.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Science and political debate in ancient China

Christopher Cullen.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tiny embryos: a massive universe for the study of evolution

Monica Garcia-Solache, Darwin.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The People of Anglo-Saxon England

Andrew Bell.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Plants. They're not just green animals!

Nick Hartman.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 October 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Nature or Nurture? Does early childhood development predict mental illness in adulthood?

Ian Colman.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 October 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The role of maternal care in mediating offspring behavioural development

James Curley, Darwin.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 October 2005, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Alliance of Net Contributors? The British Budgetary Question - Germany and the UK in the EC

Pyeongeok An.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 October 2005, 12:45-14:00