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Dr Yuncheng Mao (Aix-Marseille Université).
Thursday 26 March 2026, 14:00-15:15
ses59’s list of talks.
Contact: Suchitra E. Sebastian
15 upcoming talks View 2486 archived talks
Theory of Condensed Matter
Shift current response in 2D materials – A study in moiré graphene systems and Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fractional Chern and topological insulators
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch
Theory of Condensed Matter
Superconducting pairing correlations on a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Title to be confirmed
Theory of Condensed Matter
The saga of chiral transitions in arrays of Rydberg atoms
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exciton Self-Trapping, Frozen Disorder, and Morphotropic Phase Boundaries in Halide Perovskites
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Revolutionary Linkages across Iran, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, 1904 - 1908
Scott Lectures
2026 Scott Lectures: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage – past present and future
Theory of Condensed Matter
Functional theory of the occupied spectral density and solution of its dynamical Euler-Lagrange equations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seminar Postponed
Theory of Condensed Matter
From Anderson to Many-Body localization: Instabilities in the random-field XXZ chain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Republic of Beavers'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Biophysics of motility of unicellular organisms
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In the Shadow of Minority Rights
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological design of light beams: vortices, knots, textures & beyond
Theory of Condensed Matter
Leveraging theory and simulation to decode and design multidimensional electronic spectroscopies in the condensed phase
Theory of Condensed Matter
First-principles open quantum dynamics based on a density-matrix formalism for spin-optotronic properties in solids
Theory of Condensed Matter
Are the Ce pyrochlores quantum spin liquids - and how could we know for sure?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Extracting Anyon Statistics from Neural Network Fractional Quantum Hall States
Theory of Condensed Matter
First Steps Toward Understanding Ice Formation in Plants
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Gendering Intellectual Labour in Interwar Central Europe and Exile: Marie Jahoda and Hilda Weiss
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topology at Scale: Bridging Topological Phases, Critical Phenomena, and Real-Space Embedding
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In Defence of Universities: Knowledge and its Enemies in Early Modern Europe
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological Non-Abelian Gauge Structures in Cayley–Schreier Lattices
Theory of Condensed Matter
Publishing in Nature Journals: An editor’s insight
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of American Populism
Theory of Condensed Matter
Witnessing the Quantum Spin Liquid in Herbertsmithite
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Macedonianism of Fear: Aristotle versus Rawls
Theory of Condensed Matter
Hyperbolic Fracton Models: Bridging AdS/CFT and Self-Correcting Code
Theory of Condensed Matter
Altering electrical transport in 2D materials through sub-wavelength cavities
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exciton-phonon interaction in semiconductors: theory, coding and applications
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and German Public Law
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum transport in disordered Chern insulators
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Mosca and the Ruling Class
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Coherence of Diamond NV Centers Near Surfaces, Interfaces, and Dislocations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Censors and Recalls: Rousseau on Elite Accountability
Theory of Condensed Matter
Disorder and Symmetries in Lindbladian models
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electronic response to ion projectiles traversing matter from first principles
Theory of Condensed Matter
Artificial Kitaev chains in quantum dots coupled through superconductors
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Hydrodynamics
Theory of Condensed Matter
First-principles Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Crystals using CASTEP
Theory of Condensed Matter
Complexity beyond entanglement - magic of many-body systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
Unveiling emergent phenomena in "digital" quantum trajectories
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fluid dynamics and quantum geometry in the quantum Hall effect
Theory of Condensed Matter
Control of spin current in a canted antiferromagnet
Quantum Matter Seminar
The effect of staggered local environments on quantum spin chains
Theory of Condensed Matter
Approaching precise device scale all-atom simulations of crystallisation of halide perovskites
Theory of Condensed Matter
Entrepreneurship as a Career Option for Physicists
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Book Talk: Contesting Pluralism(s) Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond
Theory of Condensed Matter
Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Chronopolitics across the West and non-West Divide: Populism, History and Historical IR in Turco-European Relations
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exciton (De)Localization and Dissociation in Heterogeneous Semiconductors from First Principles Computational Modeling
Theory of Condensed Matter
Time-Resolved Collapse and Revival of the Heavy-Fermion State by Pulsed Light
Theory of Condensed Matter
Deep Learning many-body electronic structure
Theory of Condensed Matter
“Old and new physics in the J1-J2 Heisenberg spin chain”
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exploring charge density waves in twisted bilayer NbSe2 with machine learning
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Title to be confirmed
Theory of Condensed Matter
Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860
Quantum Matter Seminar
Pathways towards High-Temperature Superconductivity
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experimental Democracy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Photonic Pseudomagnetism and Landau Levels
Theory of Condensed Matter
An integrated computational physics approach for magnetically confined plasma
Quantum Matter Seminar
Cocktail Effects in Superconductivity: High-Entropy Approach to Antimonide Compounds
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability
Theory of Condensed Matter
Modelling Interactions in Biology
Theory of Condensed Matter
Gibbs state preparation on digital quantum simulators
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum geometry effects in flat bands
Quantum Matter Seminar
Modified Cu-charge density wave, altermagnetic property and non-reciprocal transport at manganite/cuprate interface
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum geometry and topology with (a) spin
Theory of Condensed Matter
Field-induced Multi-Q⃗ States in a Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fractional Charge and Fractional Statistics & how they are connected
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nonlinear transport and photocurrent in 2D electronic liquids
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Bounding War: the Institutional Logic of Prohibitions on Militarized Bargaining
Quantum Matter Seminar
Multi-layer Crystal Field Effect in locally non-centrosymmetric compounds
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law
Theory of Condensed Matter
From two to three dimensions: Impact of stacking order on electronic properties of graphene and graphite
Theory of Condensed Matter
Generative models, rare events and tensor networks
POLIS Department Research Seminars
The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CANCELLED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working as an International Journalist
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum circuits models for free independence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought
Contemporary Political Theory
Search Engines and Democracy's Information Dilemma
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)!
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
World of the Right - Radical Conservatism and Global Order
Scott Lectures
2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays
⚠️ Refreshments will be served after the lecture
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech
Scott Lectures
2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering
⚠️ Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture
Theory of Condensed Matter
Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working on Human Rights' Watch Responses to Major Crises
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-Kantian Perfectionism
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Beyond infotainment and digital-only paradigms: Conservative talk radio in rural USA
Contemporary Political Theory
Ghosting and Decency
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom
Theory of Condensed Matter
Anomalous fluctuations in stochastic cellular automata
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum phases of matter under non-unitary dynamics
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Beyond the Wilsonian Moment – Empire and order in world history
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Meet a United Nations Special Mandate Holder
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia
Contemporary Political Theory
The Politics of Spontaneity
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Informers Up Close: Why Do People Report Others to Secret Police?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany
Theory of Condensed Matter
Real Space Approaches to Topological Band Systems
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Being a political organiser and non-profit founder
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Sudan's Tragedy: Popular Revolution to War, Famine, Genocide
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900'
Contemporary Political Theory
Spaces on the Move: Transforming the Politics of Spatial Mobilities in a Changing World
Theory of Condensed Matter
The second law of thermodynamics and its mesoscopic interpretation
Quantum Matter Seminar
Tuning dimensionality, magnetism and conduction in van-der-Waals Mott insulators FeP(S,Se)3
Theory of Condensed Matter
Chiral spin model: geometry, chaos & quantum teleportation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Arabization and the Social Sciences in Algeria: Language, Pan-Arabism, and Nation-Building
Theory of Condensed Matter
Categorical Landau Paradigm: Phases, Transitions and Lattice Models
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century
Contemporary Political Theory
From 'Racial Capitalism' to 'Capitalist Racialization': A Marxist View
Theory of Condensed Matter
Twist to the M-ax(is): A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
What Interests do Algorithms Serve? Is Algorithmic Colonisation Inevitable?
⚠️ Please register here to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1033771597677?aff=oddtdtcreator
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamically localized but deconfined excitations in strained classical spin ice
Quantum Matter Seminar
Non-equilibrium effects in superconducting thin films probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England
Theory of Condensed Matter
A gapless 1D spin liquid as a critical point between fragile Kondo insulators
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control
⚠️ Please register here to attend : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1033765429227?aff=oddtdtcreator
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Locke's Political Legacy
Contemporary Political Theory
Does the Baker Have a ‘Free Speech’ Case? The Expansion of Speech-as-Conduct and Risks to Free Speech
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people
Theory of Condensed Matter
Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Algorithmic Governance: Theory and Practice
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum geometry on physical properties in quadratic band touching
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'
Contemporary Political Theory
Colonizing Free Will
Theory of Condensed Matter
Interfacial Engineering of the magnetism and spin transport in two-dimensional materials
Quantum Matter Seminar
Topology: a new twist to electrons in quantum materials
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought
Theory of Condensed Matter
Superfluidity and superconductivity: their defeat, fluctuation, and respect to U(1) symmetry
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electron-phonon, electron-electron and phonon-phonon interactions: applications to equilibrium and non-equilibrium spectroscopy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Governance and Smart Policing in Kerala, India: Towards a Kerala Model of Algorithmic Governance?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Oikonomia of Conspiracy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet
Contemporary Political Theory
Food as a Problem for Multicultural Theory and Practice
Theory of Condensed Matter
Recent progress on emergent quantum electrodynamics in dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Two countries at birth: The century that co-created Canada and the United States
Quantum Matter Seminar
Structures, superconductivity, and soft chemistry in anti-cuprate square lattice materials
Theory of Condensed Matter
Solid state defects for quantum information processing
Theory of Condensed Matter
EELS and Optical Properties of Layered and 2D Materials
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamical Many-body Freezing in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Africa's Voices' 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Quantum Matter Seminar
Exploring the ordered states of the multi-phase superconductor CeRh2As2
Theory of Condensed Matter
Entanglement Rényi entropies from Ballistic Fluctuations Theory: the free fermionic case
Theory of Condensed Matter
Unravelling emergent quantum phenomena from first-principles
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Superconductivity in Thin-film Infinite-layer Nickelates
Theory of Condensed Matter
Active Elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials
Theory of Condensed Matter
Orbital and spin Hall effect in altermagnetic RuO2
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological defects in spiral spin liquids
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Theory of Rights
Contemporary Political Theory
Rescuing Democracy from Oligarchic Capture
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exact many-body dynamics in quantum circuits via space-time duality
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
AI and Human Rights
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of ‘Catastrophic Technology’ and the Environmental Movement
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Movie Screening: The Cost of Convenience
Theory of Condensed Matter
The entanglement membrane in exactly solvable lattice models
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rights in Roman Republican Thought
Theory of Condensed Matter
Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits
Theory of Condensed Matter
Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Comfort Ero
Clark Lectures
Clark Lecture 4. On the ‘voice of the poem’
Clark Lectures
Clark Lecture 3. ‘Something there is that talks within’
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts
Clark Lectures
Clark Lecture 2. ‘The impersonal personal’
Quantum Matter Seminar
The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research
Clark Lectures
Clark Lecture 1. The ‘inhuman’ aspect of lyric poetry
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The United States of Europe, 1848–1914
Contemporary Political Theory
Race, Dissociated Labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch! Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning
Quantum Matter Seminar
New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Victor Sibaja
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism
Contemporary Political Theory
Tenure Neutrality and State Neutrality, or Can States Promote Home Ownership?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities
Theory of Condensed Matter
Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Albert Fox Cahn
Quantum Matter Seminar
Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers
Contemporary Political Theory
Face/Body Equality: Should We Aspire to It?
Theory of Condensed Matter
State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective
Theory of Condensed Matter
The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions
Contemporary Political Theory
Uncivil Protest, Civil Participation, and Uncivil Non-Participation in Steve Biko’s Ethics of Just Struggle
Theory of Condensed Matter
Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials
Theory of Condensed Matter
“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion
Saxena Group List
Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure
Contemporary Political Theory
A Taxonomy of Injustice
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D
Theory of Condensed Matter
Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices
Political Thought and Intellectual History
An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation
Theory of Condensed Matter
Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response
⚠️ Please note a different venue than the usual
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Tech Design and Human Rights: Six Provocations (and a Card Game!)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument
Contemporary Political Theory
Freedom, Spontaneity, and the Value of our Encounters
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Revolutions, counterrevolutions, and (un)making of order in Europe: the case of Ukraine
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries
Saxena Group List
Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals
Quantum Matter Seminar
Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement
Theory of Condensed Matter
Theoretical minimum
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Elemental Ethics for AI: Mobilising Water in Data Centres and Lithium Activism in Chile
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke and Slavery
Contemporary Political Theory
Futures of Critique in International Political Theory
Theory of Condensed Matter
Waves topology in geophysical flows
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Welcome Drinks!
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology, Policing, Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Student Group 2023-24: Introductory Meeting
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word
Contemporary Political Theory
Protective Falsehoods
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales
Theory of Condensed Matter
Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability
Theory of Condensed Matter
Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics
Theory of Condensed Matter
The quantum Mpemba effect
CRASSH
Queer Hispanisms now
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Autocrats at the Cutting Edge: China, Innovation, and the Global Balance of Power
Saxena Group List
Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Critical Data Research in Praxis
⚠️ If you're interested in joining this event, please contact Dr Sebastián Lehuedé at sal92@cam.ac.uk
Theory of Condensed Matter
Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Personality in Machiavelli
Theory of Condensed Matter
Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: Human Rights for Pragmatists, by Jack Snyder
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of Restauration
Theory of Condensed Matter
Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder
Theory of Condensed Matter
A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book talk: Women and Power in Africa - Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing
Theory of Condensed Matter
Planckian dissipation in metals
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness
Theory of Condensed Matter
Cavity Magnonics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Workshop by Voices 4 Workers in Tech (V4WT)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Suffering, Progress, and Precarity in the West
Theory of Condensed Matter
Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Carly Kind on Tech, Data and AI
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Truth and Loyalty
Contemporary Political Theory
The Empire of Women: Rousseau on Domination and Sexuality
Theory of Condensed Matter
Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Podcasting and Social Justice
Theory of Condensed Matter
Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
POSTPONED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Richard Solly on Extractivism and Mining
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues
Contemporary Political Theory
We Are As Gods: Eschatological Ambiguity and the Politics of Apocalyptic AI
Theory of Condensed Matter
Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids
Political Thought and Intellectual History
TBA
Theory of Condensed Matter
Understanding Metallic Bonding
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Clea Kahn on Conflict and Humanitarianism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations
Contemporary Political Theory
Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Space of the World: Digital Platforms and the Prospects for Human Solidarity in the 21st Century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Jason McCue on Lawfare—Human Rights Litigation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History
Contemporary Political Theory
The Politics of Architecture: Designing a More Hospitable Welfare State
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?
⚠️ Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetotransport of pyrochlore spin ice Sm2Ir2O7 across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
Contemporary Political Theory
Decolonizing Cultural Globalization: Césaire and the Hierarchy of Creator and Consumer
Theory of Condensed Matter
A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law
Theory of Condensed Matter
Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge
Contemporary Political Theory
Is Drag Morally Objectionable?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe
Contemporary Political Theory
Democratic Futures: Towards a Critical Political Theory of Finance
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites
Theory of Condensed Matter
A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'
Contemporary Political Theory
Commemorating the Dead
CRASSH
Comics and the Global South
Theory of Condensed Matter
Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries
Theory of Condensed Matter
Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor
Cavendish Physical Society
In Search for the Next Magic Stone
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological skyrmion phases of matter
Theory of Condensed Matter
Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon
Theory of Condensed Matter
Theories of Cross phenomena and Zentropy
Legal Histories beyond the State
Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought
⚠️ Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance
Theory of Condensed Matter
Symmetry breaking and entanglement transitions in driven-dissipative systems
Cavendish Physical Society
The physics of how humans build models of the world
Theory of Condensed Matter
Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light
Cavendish Physical Society
To see a world in a grain of sand
⚠️ A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture
Cavendish Physical Society
Topological pumping in new territory
⚠️ A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Young Alumni Practitioners Working in Health & Humanitarian Response
Cavendish Physical Society
Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc
Cavendish Physical Society
Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc
Quantum Matter Seminar
Orbital-dependent scattering in Sr2RuO4 and FeSe probed by uniaxial stress
Cavendish Physical Society
New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials
Legal Histories beyond the State
Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’
⚠️ Paper available for pre-reading
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda"
Quantum Matter Seminar
High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures
Contemporary Political Theory
Should we have kids in the climate emergency?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Kagome metals
Cavendish Physical Society
Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"
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Cavendish Physical Society
: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the lecture
Theory of Condensed Matter
Path integral molecular dynamics for indistinguishable particles
Contemporary Political Theory
Doubt as a Political Virtue
Theory of Condensed Matter
The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-out: RENATA ÁVILA (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation)
Legal Histories beyond the State
Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands
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Contemporary Political Theory
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Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: JONATHAN COHEN (Exec Director, Conciliation Resources)
Quantum Matter Seminar
Exploring the vortex melting transition in cuprate superconductor YBCO
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: Exceptional points, symmetry and breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence
Contemporary Political Theory
Anger and Remorse
Theory of Condensed Matter
Order by disorder and phase transitions
Quantum Matter Seminar
FeSb2: a riddle, inside an insulator, wrapped in a metal Electric and magnetic properties of the unconventional insulator iron diantimonide
Theory of Condensed Matter
POSTPONED
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CANCELLED: The Rights of People with Disabilities in the Climate Crisis, Sébastien Jodoin
Quantum Matter Seminar
Giant suppression of thermal Hall effect in SrTiO3 by isotopic substitution
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
At the Crossroads: The Digital Rights Movement in Times of Data Coloniality, Sebastián Lehuedé
Legal Histories beyond the State
Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989
Contemporary Political Theory
A Reductionist Account of Relationship Duties
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors
Theory of Condensed Matter
From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: ‘When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans’, by Sharath Srinivasan.
Theory of Condensed Matter
New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa, Stephanie Diepeveen
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Thought of Charles Malik
Contemporary Political Theory
Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories
Quantum Matter Seminar
Unconventional superconductivity and quadrupolar-density- wave phases in the locally noncentrosymmetric compound CeRh2As2
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion
Theory of Condensed Matter
Detecting fractional chern insulators of few-bosons
Theory of Condensed Matter
Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation on the square lattice
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-conservative forces in nanoscale conductors
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Exploring the implications of online assemblies
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Low-temperature quantum bounds in simple models
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch: The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World (Severine Autesserre, Barnard College- Columbia University).
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico
Theory of Condensed Matter
Thwarting long-lived dark states to speed up dynamic polarization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
James Bryce and the concepts of constitution
Theory of Condensed Matter
Thermodynamics in the presence of coherences and strong coupling corrections
Cavendish Physical Society
Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topology vs. interaction in fragile bands
CRASSH
Queering Authoritarianisms
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Separation of Powers as a New Theory
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Mária Patakyová [Public Defender of Rights]
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exploring the Mysteries of Collective Quantum Dynamics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
Contemporary Political Theory
Audre Lorde on Care
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nonlinear topological photonics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Aleksandra Dier [CTED]
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experiencing Republican Texts
Contemporary Political Theory
Normative Powers
Theory of Condensed Matter
Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant's 'True Politics'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Lysa John [CIVICUS]
Theory of Condensed Matter
Irradiation-induced defect engineering in two-dimensional materials
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
Contemporary Political Theory
We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell’s Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Deborah Brown [Human Rights Watch]
Theory of Condensed Matter
Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power
Contemporary Political Theory
Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account
Theory of Condensed Matter
The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations
Theory of Condensed Matter
Measurable signatures of quantum chaos and patterns of volume-law entanglement in quantum dynamics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu
Contemporary Political Theory
Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case
Theory of Condensed Matter
Open Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems
Cavendish Physical Society
Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals
Cavendish Physical Society
’Seeing early cancer in a new light’
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Contemporary Political Theory
The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory
Theory of Condensed Matter
Order within disorder: approaching phase boundaries in high-entropy systems
Cavendish Physical Society
Title to be confirmed
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy
Theory of Condensed Matter
A Supramolecular Approach to Templating Hybrid Perovskites
Cavendish Physical Society
Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State
Contemporary Political Theory
Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
(Un)Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological Proximity Effects
Cavendish Physical Society
Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine in the French Revolution
Theory of Condensed Matter
High-fidelity description of spectral functions in correlated materials
Cavendish Physical Society
'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Contemporary Political Theory
Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt
Theory of Condensed Matter
Solving the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks
Theory of Condensed Matter
Emergent topological phenomena in strained pyrochlore iridate thin films
Theory of Condensed Matter
Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry
Theory of Condensed Matter
Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions
CRASSH
POSTPONED: Late Antiquity’s Library: Re-assessing the Classical Canon in the Age of Synesius
⚠️ THIS CONFERENCE IS POSTPONED
CRASSH
POSTPONED: Social Power and Mental Health: Evolving Research Through Lived Experience (25-26 March 2020)
⚠️ This event is postponed
Contemporary Political Theory
"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory
Theory of Condensed Matter
Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch - "Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability" (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931
Theory of Condensed Matter
Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies
Contemporary Political Theory
Grudge Informers Revisited: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes
Legal Histories beyond the State
The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism
⚠️ There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848
CRASSH
From Epistemicide to Global Knowledge: Reconstructing a Decolonised Academy – gloknos Annual Lecture
Theory of Condensed Matter
Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury
Contemporary Political Theory
Political Responsibility
Legal Histories beyond the State
Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law
⚠️ There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
"Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"
Contemporary Political Theory
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electronic State in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Theory of Condensed Matter
Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Title TBC
Quantum Matter Seminar
The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Neoliberal Turn
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
How do African states think about heritage? Historical and ethnographic views from southern Africa
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean?
Contemporary Political Theory
Conceptual Change and Political Judgment: A Wittgensteinian Approach
Theory of Condensed Matter
Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport
CRASSH
Late-Victorian Economists and Empire: Jevons, Marshall and the Cultural Political Economy of Trade
Quantum Matter Seminar
Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Digital Verification Workshop
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Sermonizing on Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Post Colonial Sub Saharan Africa
Theory of Condensed Matter
Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Decolonise what? Archaeology, heritage and the elusive pursuit of locally centred African past(s)
Contemporary Political Theory
Justification and Vindication in Political Philosophy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Decolonising the Missionary Road? An Archaeology of Heritage at the Kuruman Moffat Mission, South Africa
Theory of Condensed Matter
Introducing Topological Quantum Chemistry and Topological Materials Data Base
Legal Histories beyond the State
Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations
⚠️ Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics
CRASSH
Novelty and the Emergence of the Western Global in the Early Sixteenth Century – gloknos Lecture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonizing Practice
Contemporary Political Theory
Radical Reparations
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Student recruitment for research team - "THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ONLINE"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Axial anomalies in Weyl semimetals
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Citizen Voice, Social Change and Africa’s Digital Revolution: Power to the People
Quantum Matter Seminar
Charge-Density-Wave: Fermi-surface Reconstruction and Competing Orders
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Co-creating “Effective” Archaeologies: Reflections from a Digital Heritage Initiative in Banda, Ghana
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality
Theory of Condensed Matter
Spin Transport in 2D Materials and Topological Matter
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Information Session for new Student Group 2019/20 members and coordinator
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Contemporary Political Theory
Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Photonic topological anomalies
Theory of Condensed Matter
Towards the design of molecular materials
Quantum Matter Seminar
A Square-Lattice Spin Liquid Candidate
Theory of Condensed Matter
Accelerating Materials Science through High-throughput First Principles Computations and Machine Learning
Quantum Matter Seminar
The enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors
CRASSH
Book Launch – 'The Transforming Power of Cultural Rights: A Promising Law and Humanities Approach'
CRASSH
Heavens and Earth: An Empirical Approach to Knowledge Across Cultures– gloknos Annual Lecture Series
Theory of Condensed Matter
Vestigial order in quantum materials
CRASSH
Book Launch – 'Making the World Global: US Universities & the Production of the Global Imaginary'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nonequilibrium Materials Engineering
Theory of Condensed Matter
Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dissipative "time crystals"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova
CRASSH
Book Launch – 'Canguilhem'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Computational modelling of itinerant electrons and fluctuating local moments in magnetic materials - permanent magnets, caloric effects and spintronics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny
Theory of Condensed Matter
Flexoelectricity from first principles
Theory of Condensed Matter
Screening materials from high-throughput ab initio calculations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
"Accra to Lagos; Lagos to London": African Engagements with the Higher Education industry *culled from the titles of two music volumes by Mr Eazi
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-Hermitian symmetry-protected topological band theory
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series presents: Reporting Human Rights Today
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Legal Histories beyond the State
American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence
Theory of Condensed Matter
Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
Mini Colloquium on Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Related Materials - Chair and Discussion Lead: Malte Grosche
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
How should the UK govern itself in the time of Brexit?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR at the Cambridge Science Festival - Health crises, digital media and community voices
Legal Histories beyond the State
International Law's Objects: A Conversation
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Britain in Europe, 1973–1975: From Hope to Uncertainty
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Languages of Constituent Power
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africa’s Voices Foundation
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Legitimacy and e ectiveness of the European Semester: does the parliamentary involvement make a di erence?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Learning Europe at its borders: how deployments to migration hotspots a ect Europeans’ understandings of themselves and society
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
BOOK TALK - Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism
Quantum Matter Seminar
Chemical Control of Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors
International Relations & History Working Group
Malcolm X, Human Rights, and A New World Picture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present
Contemporary Political Theory
Left Critiques of Equality
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Future of British Foreign Policy (Book launch celebration)
CRASSH
“Knowledge and War: Paper Technologies in Early Modern Empires” - gloknos Annual Lecture Series
Theory of Condensed Matter
Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Theory of Condensed Matter
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE
International Relations & History Working Group
'Global History and the Place of the International'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism
Contemporary Political Theory
Hannah Arendt in Baddawi: Political Identity without Sovereignty in Refugee History
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Power of Political Arguments in Understanding Referendums (European Centre Seminars)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi
Political Thought and Intellectual History
1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution
Theory of Condensed Matter
Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Humanitarian Club
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body
Contemporary Political Theory
Emancipation for the Unjust Past
Theory of Condensed Matter
50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist
Quantum Matter Seminar
Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures
International Relations & History Working Group
Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the United States (Alcuin Lecture 2019)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance
Theory of Condensed Matter
3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops
Legal Histories beyond the State
The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International
Making Visible project events
Materiality of Early Modern Optical Instruments
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War
Contemporary Political Theory
The Logic of Legitimacy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Seizing the Crisis and Using Europe: The Politics of EU Defence Integration Cooperation after Brexit’
CRASSH
Historiography
Quantum Matter Seminar
High pressure Fermiology studies of YBCO
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum many-body scars
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
‘Why should one care about European Parliament's elections in the post-Brexit European Union?’
Legal Histories beyond the State
Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication
Art at the Alison Richard Building
The Itinerary -Tracing the Refugee Routes
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Memories of Ashura: A photographic essay from Zanzibar before and after the Revolution
Contemporary Political Theory
The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Role of the Catholic Church in the Global Governance of Migration
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dissipative transition in synthetic matter
Quantum Matter Seminar
Ballistic electrons on the hexagonal Fermi surface of PdCoO2
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress
Contemporary Political Theory
Political Theory for the Real World
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Power, authority, and community participation in primary health-care centres: contrasting evidence from health facility committees in South Kivu (DR Congo) and Burundi
Theory of Condensed Matter
Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry
International Relations & History Working Group
"Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minority Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
‘What is “Global Britain”? Brexit and Britain's World Role’
Legal Histories beyond the State
Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africa’s public sphere, 1960s-1970s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Coercion in a Subjective World
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Atomic Junction: The Road to Nuclear Power (documentary film, 30 mins)
Contemporary Political Theory
Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamical quantum phase transitions
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Problematizing The Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin: Sierra Leone Health Infrastructure on the Eve of Ebola
CRASSH
Homi Bhabha in Conversation
International Relations & History Working Group
“Cold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies”
CRASSH
Lecture by Homi Bhabha
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
‘Facing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation: National Governments as the Weaker Actors?’
Theory of Condensed Matter
Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Towards a Relational Understanding of Participation in Social Health Protection
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium
Contemporary Political Theory
Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts
Theory of Condensed Matter
Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Policy of No Policy: Disability and Technology Translation Dilemmas in Uganda
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Theory of Condensed Matter
Predicting the atomic structure of interfaces and extended defects using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Recent developments in EU energy and climate policy
Legal Histories beyond the State
'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan
International Relations & History Working Group
Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Metabolic disorder, global health and ‘noncommunicable’ disease in Malawi
Contemporary Political Theory
A Just Theory of Riots
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius
CRASSH
Reinventing, Rethinking, and Representing Menopause
⚠️ This event is free but registration is recommended. Registration is now open: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27716
Quantum Matter Seminar
Topological Kondo semimetals
Quantum Matter Seminar
Computational and experimental force multipliers for the discovery of new thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials
CRASSH
Theology
Theory of Condensed Matter
An overview of topological crystalline phases, defect physics and novel Floquet systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
New tools to simulate strongly correlated systems
CRASSH
The Visual Worlds of the Royal Society
⚠️ This event is free but registration is recommended. Registration is now open: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27697
Quantum Matter Seminar
High temperature superconductors from fundamental science to hybrid electric aircraft
CRASSH
Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials
⚠️ Registration for this event is now open. The event is free to attend but registration is required. Details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27723
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation
Winton Discussions
The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies
Quantum Matter Seminar
FINDING BETTER MATERIALS FASTER: THE EXAMPLE OF MAGNETOCALORICS
Winton Discussions
Hidden problems in the global wind industry
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models
Legal Histories beyond the State
Histories of International Law, History within International Law: Questions of Method
Theory of Condensed Matter
Effective Edge State Dynamics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
CRASSH
Nine Dots Prize Book Launch
Cavendish Physical Society
A physicist's spin on data science
Quantum Matter Seminar
Wave propagation in complex media: Branching, chimeras and machine learning predictions
CRASSH
Artistic Representations
Theory of Condensed Matter
Computationally Driven Design of New and Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides
CRASSH
Artistic Representations
Legal Histories beyond the State
Civitas and Regnum: Grotius’ account of the sovereign entity in the De Iure Belli ac Pacis
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Practical Competition Policy Implications of Digital Platforms: Taking Schumpeter Seriously (Departmental Seminar)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory
Quantum Matter Seminar
A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES
Contemporary Political Theory
Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Legal Histories beyond the State
Universalizing the Promise of Empire
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fractons
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
From Discord to Cooperation? Armenia and Turkey in the 21st Century
Legal Histories beyond the State
Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Brexit: What happens and where do we go from here?
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
Decolonising African Studies: Revisiting Archie Mafeje on Theory and Method
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic-field Induced Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Vortex Halo
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Representation and the Fall
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Thermalization Dynamics
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space
Theory of Condensed Matter
Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetals
Theory of Condensed Matter
Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells
Quantum Matter Seminar
What is really extraordinary in superconducting cuprates?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum modelling of the interiors of rocky and icy planets
Legal Histories beyond the State
CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-out! Practitioner Series: Elizabeth Davies, BBC World Service
International Relations & History Working Group
Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights
Quantum Matter Seminar
Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization
Quantum Matter Seminar
Inelastic neutron scattering and µSR investigations of an anisotropic hybridization gap in the Kondo insulators: CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os)
Contemporary Political Theory
Procreative Justice and Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits: The Case of Fair Skin
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
A Certain Idea of Britain: Writing the political history of one's own country in one's own times
Theory of Condensed Matter
Delocalised atoms and electrons in quasi-periodic lattices, their edge modes and interactions with heavy impurities
Legal Histories beyond the State
CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices
Theory of Condensed Matter
Ergodicity, dissipation, and large-deviation theory in non-equilibrium systems
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom
Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal growth, structure and magnetic frustration in rare earth pyrochlore oxides
International Relations & History Working Group
Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological Materials with liquid electrons
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, JUSTICE
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution
Contemporary Political Theory
The Doctor’s Plot: How Philosophizing Human Rights Began
Theory of Condensed Matter
Using molecular orbital arguments to explain acene-based chromophore spectra
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic van der Waals Materials: Potentials and Applications
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury
Contemporary Political Theory
Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty
Theory of Condensed Matter
TCM Dragon's Den
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Alix Dunn, The Engine Room
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill on Universal History
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
⚠️ Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar
Theory of Condensed Matter
Metastability in open quantum dynamics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Thermal Conductivity in Quantum Materials Research
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership
Contemporary Political Theory
Liberal Egalitarianism and the Critique of Religion
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies
Theory of Condensed Matter
Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism at the nanoscale
CRASSH
Historiography
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Film screening 'Chauka, please tell us the time' and Q&A
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergent quantum coherent state on the border of ferroelectricity
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Weaponisation of Human Rights
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Stratification, Centralization, and the Structures of International Societies
Legal Histories beyond the State
Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"
Cavendish Physical Society
A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulation
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar- 'A New Global Politics of Religion: Religious Harmony, Public Order, and Securitisation in the Post-colony'
Quantum Matter Seminar
Advanced neutron diffraction for functional materials
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Incorporating Meaning into Fundamental Physics
⚠️ Lecture given at the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 15 Conference: video, with slides included, available at link below.
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Corruption as a global threat
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Let’s Talk: Power and Powerlessness in Academia
Theory of Condensed Matter
Unconventional Order in some Framework Materials
International Relations & History Working Group
Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Thermodynamics of high-Tc superconductors as related to other spectroscopies – the legacy of John Loram
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Fashion as Transnational Feminist Methodology for African Studies
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jon Elster's Sour Grapes
Contemporary Political Theory
When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exploring Chemical Space with Random Matrix Theory
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar- 'Descriptive Representation Revisited'
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Can We Decolonise the Academy from Within?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: "A murdered journalist and the puncturing of a culture of impunity in Burkina Faso: the pursuit of justice for Norbert Zongo"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Anharmonic and quantum effects in (bio)organic systems with first-principles accuracy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Henri Breuil and the Imagination of Prehistory in Southern Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought
Contemporary Political Theory
Philosophical Racism
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar- "The Jehovah's Witnesses of social policy"? Explaining the rise, fall, and revival of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-2017
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Youth and generational conflict in South African historiography
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
⚠️ CANCELLED
Theory of Condensed Matter
Entanglement and thermodynamics in out-of-equilibrium systems
International Relations & History Working Group
Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited
Legal Histories beyond the State
Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Global Governance and Grand Corruption: The International Politics and Policy of Looted Wealth
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Epistemology and the Dance Archive in Colonial Central Kenya
Contemporary Political Theory
Criminal Accountability, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of States
Theory of Condensed Matter
Surprises from 'simple' metals -- a case study of layered delafossites
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Africa as a “Dissimilar” System? Knowledge Production on Africa in the UK
Theory of Condensed Matter
Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information
Cavendish Physical Society
No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke
Contemporary Political Theory
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Use of the Stilts?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological electronic properties of silicon
International Relations & History Working Group
Hitler's biography
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
'Politics in Uncertain Times: What will the world look like in 2050 and how do you know?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magnetic moments in superconductors: From Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, to topological superconductors and frustrated magnetism
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!)
Cavendish Physical Society
"Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)"
Legal Histories beyond the State
The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States
⚠️ For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion
Theory of Condensed Matter
On signatures of Majorana fermions
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superfluid density, universal scaling of critical current and the quest for room-temperature superconductivity
Theory of Condensed Matter
Correlated electronic structure: What can physicists and chemists learn from each other?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Justice, Human Rights and the Changing International Order - Is Cosmopolitan Progress under Threat?
The Smuts Memorial Fund Lecture
The Whigs and Jacobins of Africa: Traditional Authorities across Francophone and Anglophone Sub- Saharan Africa and the Different Conceptions of Political Order
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice
Quantum Matter Seminar
Strain-tuning of the magnetic compounds Sr3Ru2O7, CeAuSb2, and PdCrO2
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Scattering, Fermi surface reconstruction and the gap above Tc in cuprate superconductors
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer – from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion
Cavendish Physical Society
Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories
Theory of Condensed Matter
Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces
Cavendish Physical Society
“Topology in materials science”
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice
Winton Discussions
The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
A Day in the Life: Bede Sheppard from Human Rights Watch
Theory of Condensed Matter
Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids
Cavendish Physical Society
Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Human Rights Violations and the 2016 Rio Olympics
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Cultural Diversity and International Order Seminar Professor Christian Reus-Smit (Chair of International Relations, University of Queensland)
Quantum Matter Seminar
High pressure synthesis of novel perovskite-type oxides with unusually high valence Co(IV) and Cu(III) ions
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry
Winton Discussions
Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay
Quantum Matter Seminar
Hidden fluctuations close to a quantum bicritical point
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Asylum Monologues
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Wallah Je Te Jure Screening + Q&A
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Parliamentary Engagement and the Syrian Conflict
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: The Religionization of Israeli Society
Quantum Matter Seminar
Engineering Approach to Instrumentation Development for High-Pressure Research
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The future of the world. A new history of the future
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Party Politics, Capital Mobilization and the Rise of ‘Small Boys’ Capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco
Contemporary Political Theory
States, Corporations, Robots
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze over Time in the UK - Eternal Verities or a Changing Game?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
State Security, Torture and the Law
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Quantum Matter Seminar
The pervasive influence of strain coupling and dynamic strain relaxation associated with ferroic, multiferroic and superconducting phase transitions.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Grotius on natural law and supererogation
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
'It's Not My Story to Tell': Ownership, Legitimacy, and the Politics of History in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Sex, Drugs and Mafioso: The rise of illicit economies in the wake of the refugee crisis
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
"Obliterated Families" Film Screening, In Conjunction with PalSoc
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Fiona O'Brien, Foreign Correspondent, Academic, Communications Consultant
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
How can researchers better engage with national and global policymaking?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: Reconstruction: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
ZANU’s Post-1980 Legitimation Strategies: Post-Liberation Demobilization via Development Discourse (with Book Launch)
Contemporary Political Theory
Institutions, Growth, and Global Justice
Theory of Condensed Matter
Unravelling the Mysteries of the Water-Solid Interface with Statistical Mechanics and Ab Initio Simulations
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Marcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Politics of Moving On: Legitimacy and Contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: the Coalition Government with Lynne Featherstone
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Why the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) Backfires (And How to Fix It)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Open Discussion Group: Fighting Female Genital Cutting in India
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: Constitution and Contestation of Norms in Global Governance
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal Subúrbios
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Dealing with Extremism
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: “Wales, the UK and the EU”
Contemporary Political Theory
Should we genetically select for the beauty feature of fair skin? Procreative Beneficence versus Procreative Justice
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: Inequality and Education Policy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Curl forces and beyond
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Graduate Reading Group Series: ‘Challenges to European Unity’
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: UK Foreign Policy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Counting the Uncountable
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: Destination still unknown - the UK's relations with the EU
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The End of the Asian Century?: Trump, Europe, and the Race to Manage the Risks Threatening Asia's Future
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: "Does the environment still matter in the age of Trump?"
Contemporary Political Theory
The Dancer of the Future from a Socialist Point of View: Eleanor Marx, Isadora Duncan, and Choreographing Socialist Feminism
Theory of Condensed Matter
TCM Dragons' Den
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
2016 Annual Public Policy Lecture: Smart and Inclusive Growth, a New Narrative on Wealth Creation
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe
Quantum Matter Seminar
Coordination Frameworks: New routes to multiferroics and low dimensional magnetism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: "Digital Media as Experimental Governance: Shifting the Accountability Paradigm in International Human Rights?"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: Criminal. Why people do bad things. Edit Event
Theory of Condensed Matter
The intimate relation between mechanics and geometry
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum criticality and Fermi surface instabilities in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe
Cavendish Physical Society
Visualizing Quantum Matter
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Righteously Bellicose: The Mental Habits of Religious Violence
Quantum Matter Seminar
Phase diagram and spin dynamics of the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Yb2Ti2O7 in applied field
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'War, displacement, and heritage: a post-conflict material culture in northern Uganda'
Contemporary Political Theory
The Doctrine of Gender Identity - A Critical Examination
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
CRP Panel - From Followers to Leaders: The Challenges of Innovation in East Asia Edit Event
Theory of Condensed Matter
Theoretical Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory: from the Beginning to 1962
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Campaign strategy in a rally-intensive campaign: rallying supporters and canvassing swing voters in Tanzania
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin orbit coupling and magnetism in low dimensions for room temperature applications
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Hinsley Memorial Lecture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'Addressing the Spirit of Discernment: Pentecostal transformation of demonic objects into modern heritage in Sierra Leone
Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing
Title to be confirmed
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Democracy in Africa (Dr Nic Cheeseman): book talk
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'
Contemporary Political Theory
"Cultural v. Clinical v. Cosmetic Surgery: Challenging the Distinction"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Theorising Democracy beyond ‘State’ and ‘Society’
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive'
Cavendish Physical Society
Searching for – and finding! gravitational waves
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Covering the Presidential Election
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyan politics, African politics
⚠️ *Attendance by registration only: email Dr Srinivasan - ss919@cam.ac.uk
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Festival of Ideas - Moving the Tipping Point
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Festival of Ideas - British Movement in the Middle East: 60 years since the Suez Crisis
Contemporary Political Theory
Civil Disobedience and the Disaggregation of Political Authority
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Alcuin Lecture 2016: Global Britain? The future of British trade after Brexit with Greg Hands, MP
Decolonising the Curriculum
Decolonizing the Curriculum (Launch)
Quantum Matter Seminar
The next generation of Dirac materials, from discovery to new physical phenomena realized in the solid state
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Should human rights be apolitical? A debate
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy confronts diversity: Deliberation and representation in Victorian Britain
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
'Borders, frontiers, crossroads. Making the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland'
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
China's Economy: Powerhouse, Menace, or the Next Japan?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Whither South Sudan? Prospects for war, peacebuidling and politics in the world's newest state
Winton Discussions
France’s Nuclear Energy Transition: Turning Points in National Policy and Innovation
Theory of Condensed Matter
Current trends in cold atom physics
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch: Why Comrades Go To War
Cavendish Physical Society
The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Epochs
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reflections on Inequality, Respect, and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft
Contemporary Political Theory
Political Liberalism, Science, and Faith: The Case of Intelligent Design
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
On Feeding the Masses: The Politics of Regulatory Failure in China
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS workshop - Europe and its crises
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS workshop - Europe and its crises
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Workshop on European Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Contested Politics of Social Integration and Identity
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Workshop: European Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Contested Politics of Social Integration and Identity
Theory of Condensed Matter
Liquid-crystalline states of ultracold atomic systems
Making Visible project events
Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images
⚠️ This is a two day workshop (17&18 June) and registration is required. The fee is £20, please register here: http://ow.ly/6Y7I300whCI. For a student fee, please contact jw571@cam.ac.uk
Making Visible project events
Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images
⚠️ This is a two day workshop (17&18 June) and registration is required. The fee is £20, please register here: http://ow.ly/6Y7I300whCI. For a student fee, please contact jw571@cam.ac.uk
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Researching Obama's White House: the case of the healthcare bill
Theory of Condensed Matter
Frustration and Correlations in Stacked Triangular Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-local density functional theory
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Cambridge Public Policy Seminar and Book Launch: Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: 'Governing the slums: Lessons from Kenya and Rwanda'
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS Department Seminar: When war is oikonomia by other means
Theory of Condensed Matter
How to describe inhomogeneous quantum systems in one dimension with (conformal) field theory: lessons from non-interacting Fermi gases
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy SRI Seminar: Whitehall, Hearts, Minds and the Ghost of Sefton Delmer: British Information Warfare in the 21st Century
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Myth, Misogyny, and Magic: Mansplaining Medea in the Middle Ages
Department of Sociology Seminar Series
The Political Sociology of Human Rights
Theory of Condensed Matter
Many-body interaction effects in Dirac-Weyl semimetals
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group: Ruling like Qing China, modelling State Capacity in an Absolutist State
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Investigations and Accountability for Right to Life Violations CGHR in conversation with the lead counsel for the Human Rights Commission, Toby Fisher
The Smuts Memorial Fund Lecture
Freedom Without Equality: Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World
Winton Discussions
Energy Catalyst
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS Department Seminar - Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour: Who Creates and Controls the Digital City?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fermionic spinon and holon statistics in the pyrochlore quantum spin liquid
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Bad Boy in Rough Neighbourhood: North Korea and the Challenges of East Asian Security
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch: 'United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics'
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
CGHR Book launch: United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics and Pragmatics
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS Department Seminar: Patronage Explanations for the Survival of International Organizations
Theory of Condensed Matter
New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Drinking the Sea: The Technopolitics of Pilgrimage, Potable Water, and Petroleum in Arabia
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Coming down with the Classics: a case report (Aristophanes, Lucian, C.M. Wieland et al.)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Taste for Virtue: Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and Rousseau's Political Thought
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: 'Convening citizen engagement: why mediation matters for audience participation in interactive broadcast shows'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
What is left of the international? Professor Hill's valedictory lecture.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From “Enemies of the Cross” To “Brethren in Faith”: Empire, Decolonization, and the Curious End of Europe’s Religious Wars
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The 2016 Antcliffe Lecture with Tristram Hunt MP
Cavendish Physical Society
Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversion
Theory of Condensed Matter
First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering
Technology and Democracy Events
"Social media and political turbulence"
Winton Discussions
Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy
Winton Discussions
Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and science
Cavendish Physical Society
Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Nightmare Series Lecture 2: The "Big Freeze" - exploring the consequences of a Russian "zero gas" supply disruption
Theory of Condensed Matter
Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Decolonising Higher Education: From South Africa to the UK
⚠️ Critical Theory and Practice seminar, co-sponsored by CGHR
Researching (with) Social Media reading group
Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
World Outside My Shoes: Carl Wilkens
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The cause of all our troubles: the American invention of isolationism in World War II
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Yardstick for the Domestic Law of the Member States
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
ALGORITHMIC PREDICTION IN POLICING: ASSUMPTIONS, EVALUATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Policy, Politics and Morality in the Regulation of Gambling: the UK Experience'
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS Department Seminar - Rising Powers and State Transformation: The Case of China
Contemporary Political Theory
The Art of Solidarity
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Research Seminar: Doing Development Differently
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: The UN from Within
Theory of Condensed Matter
Computational Designs for Homogeneous Catalysts for Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity
Quantum Matter Seminar
Large non-saturating magnetoresistance in a novel superconductor Ca3.2Co4Sn12.8
Cambridge-Africa Programme
Complications during pregnancy in Uganda: Researching socio-cultural drivers using innovative methods (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)
⚠️ Wine will be served from 17:15...
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Centre for Gender Studies: Book Launch - Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The World Bank Global Agenda on Jobs and Implications for the Middle East and North Africa region after the Arab Spring
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS Department Seminar - The Reconfiguration of the State
Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)
Directed Assembly of Active Colloidal Devices
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
State Structures, State-Business Relations and Multinational Corporate Behaviour: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The World is not Enough: developing social entrepreneurship in academia and real life
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Book launch: Security: Dialogue across Disciplines, Philippe Bourbeau
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
POLIS Department Seminar - More Integration, Less Federation: The European Integration of Core State Powers
Contemporary Political Theory
Rhetorical Performances
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Special screening of 'A Syrian love story' plus Q and A with director
Theory of Condensed Matter
Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Skills and Techniques of an NGO'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Pamela Aall, Senior Advisor for Conflict Prevention and Management, US Institute of Peace
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francois Chatelet and the Spatial Turn in French Postwar Thought
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
What's in Cameron's Baskets and Why Does It Matter? Renegotiating the UK's Relationship with the EU
Theory of Condensed Matter
Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary.
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Being a Special Adviser (SPAD)'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Roundtable: Digital Publics and Counterpublics in Africa
Cavendish Physical Society
Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Cambridge Review of International Affairs Presents: My Hair is Pink Under This Veil
Theory of Condensed Matter
Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids
⚠️ CPDG meeting
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Inter-Faith Dialogue for the Sake of Governance and Human Rights
Theory of Condensed Matter
Application of CFT to spin chains and the Fractional quantum Hall wave functions on the lattice.
Contemporary Political Theory
Reparations and Historic Injustice
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Using Research to Influence Government Policy'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Fredrik Galtung, President & Co-founder, Integrity Action
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Constitution and Sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
WHAT NOW? CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY AFTER PARIS
Winton Discussions
Living Laboratory for Sustainability
Theory of Condensed Matter
Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems
⚠️ Please note unusual time
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Research Seminar: ‘What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? Implications of the Scottish and EU Referendum Votes’
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Forum on Geopolitics: The Geopolitics of Ukraine - a public lecture by Yulia Osmalovska
Cavendish Physical Society
"Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"
Quantum Matter Seminar
The magnetic structure and dynamics of the MPS3 family (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)
Quantum Matter Seminar
Multiferroic hexagonal RMnO3: a model system for 2D triangular lattice antiferromagnets
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Technological Displacement of White-collar Employment: Political and Social Implications
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Rating Companies on Responsible Sourcing: Data Sprint
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Contemporary Political Theory
Anarchist Feminism/Anarchism and Feminism: Waves, Exclusions and Intersections
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Health and Policy Research in Africa: Gathering opinions using interactive radio and SMS in East Africa
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Fresh Brew: Exploring Science, Social Impact, & the Third Wave of Coffee
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Charlie Hebdo and the Arab Shia: Instrumental rhetoric and freedom of expression
Theory of Condensed Matter
Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Film screening: Enemies of the People
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All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
US Ambassador Matthew Barzun speaks to POLIS and Clare Politics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Complexity at High Pressure From Pure Elements to Thermoelectrics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
How to run the world: conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy’
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Writing a history of African popular culture
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Pax Academica and the Art of the (Im)possible: Investigating habitus, field and capital with lecturers in peace studies
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Taking a wolf by the ears: What is Putin up to in Syria and Ukraine?
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dragons' Den
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Theorising Borders in an Era of Globalization and Securitization
⚠️ Sponsored by: The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies and the Centre of Governmence and Human Rights, POLIS. This event is free but please RSVP Ann Waterman (EED) at aw244@cam.ac.uk
Quantum Matter Seminar
Ionitronic Effects in Strongly Correlated Oxide Thin Films
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber and some intellectual consequences of the war
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Social media and the making of the New-Baraza; mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Ranking Digital Rights Project
⚠️ Co-hosted by the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and CGHR
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Shared Threat, Executive Constraints, and War
Contemporary Political Theory
Revolutionary Partisanship
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Special panel discussion on Paris attacks
Theory of Condensed Matter
Recent progress in linear scaling DFT: Molecular dynamics, basis sets and applications
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Geopolitics and European Business: The New German Question
Quantum Matter Seminar
Effects of interactions on Lifshitz transition: taking sodium cobaltate as a possible example.
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Metalepsis and Metaphysics
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Media Reading Group
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker?’
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Media influences in contemporary Rwandan dance performances
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Problematic Politics: is the notion of human rights imperialistic?
⚠️ Co-hosted by Cambridge University Amnesty International, CGHR and Clare Politics
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Paul Ginsborg on "Recent Italian Politics in Historical Perspective"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Global Capitalism and its Critics: Discussion Group
Theory of Condensed Matter
Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Policy and Politics: synergy or dysergy?
Cavendish Physical Society
Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Syria Series: War, disasters and data: the need for an evidence-based humanitarian response
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergence of the nematic state in FeSe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
On folles, swageurs and other ambiançeurs; popular culture and queer extraversion in urban Congo
Contemporary Political Theory
It's Not Just the Politics that Are Missing: Realist Political Theory and the Everyday
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
CRP Talk: Brazilian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century by Ambassador Celso Amorim
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Cambridge Public Policy Research Seminar
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Hinsley Lecture 2015: General Sir Mike Jackson
Theory of Condensed Matter
Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
From Cameralism to nineteenth-century socialism: Lorenz Stein's idea of a science of society
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The rifle, the quill, and the rosary; competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: ‘This man does not even know the meaning of peace': conflicting understandings of peace and legitimate violence in Gulu, northern Uganda
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics
⚠️ http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Narrative and the Making of US National Security
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond
⚠️ http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's Wars & the Power of Open Source
Political Thought and Intellectual History
How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Crime fiction, mythomania, and the criminalisation of the South African state
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment
⚠️ http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Future Worlds, future security threats
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Unusual suspects
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Claiming Rights at Sea
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: ELECTION Live!
Contemporary Political Theory
Forms of Differential Social Inclusion
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Africa's peacemakers: Nobel peace laureates of African descent
Theory of Condensed Matter
Experiments with the iterated stockholder atoms procedure in intermolecular interaction models
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
BP, Colombia, Oil & Ethics
Cavendish Physical Society
Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Smith and Rousseau, After Hume and Mandeville
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Disruptive listening in times of conflict: the poetics of war and citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Report Launch: ICTs and Human Rights Practice
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Conference: Organisation, Networks and Policymaking in European Foreign Ministries in the Twentieth Century
Theory of Condensed Matter
Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Book Launch: Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola 1975-2002
Cavendish Physical Society
More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices
Quantum Matter Seminar
Complexity and self-organization in superconducting metamaterials.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931
Contemporary Political Theory
Family Values
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergent phenomena from topological magnets
Theory of Condensed Matter
Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Thermalization vs localization in a solvable circuit model
Theory of Condensed Matter
Superconducting states in time reversal invariant Landau levels
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Drowning Humanity: Panel Discussion on the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis
Theory of Condensed Matter
Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The United States of Europe: myth or reality?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
CISA panel event: 'The Labour Party and political culture: a post-election analysis'
Quantum Matter Seminar
Imaging techniques - Some spectroscopy techniques
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Developmental State as Firm-Level Competitive Disadvantage: Evidence from China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
2015 Alcuin Lecture - 'Our infinite Scotland small?' Choosing worlds to join.
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Brexit: consequences for the EU
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: The Art of Justice and the Justice of Art
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The role of the European Union External Action Service in peace, conflict and security
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
CISA seminar on "UN peacekeeping reform from the operational perspective"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Trions and Biexcitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic Structure Solution of Frustrated Spin Systems
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Innovative Human-Centred Development Approaches: Learn How the UN is Engaging Youth in Peace Building and Development.
Winton Discussions
Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Talking To Terrorists
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
INTERGENERATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (book launch)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought
Quantum Matter Seminar
X-ray Spectroscopy: Photoemission and magnetic dichroism
POLIS Department Research Seminars
International and Regional Approaches to Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Africa: The Cases of Zimbabwe and the DRC
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
WHEN GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM DISAPPOINTMENTS AND DISASTERS IN RECENT CONFLICTS
Theory of Condensed Matter
Wavefunctions of symmetry protected topological phases and conformal field theories
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Subnational peripheries and the comparative method
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Waterloo: the first NATO operation?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Conceptions of Social Pathology in Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant
Quantum Matter Seminar
X-ray spectroscopic methods to measure energy response function (absorption techniques)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The House of Commons select committee system: present and future
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Stifling the Arab Spring: The GCC Perspective
Theory of Condensed Matter
Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War
⚠️ Hosted by CGHR and CRIA
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
MAGNIFICENT AND BEGGAR LAND: ANGOLA SINCE THE CIVIL WAR
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sovereignty and Representation in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: We Know Them: Images of the enemy and decision making in the Sudan-South Sudan secession negotiations
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage and in Peace Negotiations
Theory of Condensed Matter
Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain model
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Film Screening: Kashmir's Torture Trail, followed by a Q&A with film maker Jezza Neumann
⚠️ Hosted by CGHR and Amnesty International Cambridge City Group
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931
⚠️ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Quantum Matter Seminar
Resonant x-ray diffraction techniques to probe magnetic and electronic properties
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exploiting locality: large-scale first-principles simulations of nanostructures
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
GENDER & SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. MILITARY
Winton Discussions
Patents in theory and in practice
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond)
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin and Orbital Order in the vanadium spinels
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Continuities in French Industrial Organisation from Vichy to the Monnet Plan, 1940-1946
Winton Discussions
A remarkable set of contemplations
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-equilibrium steady states in many-body quantum systems
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Antcliffe Lecture: Thatcherism Today
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series, Freddie Carver, DFID
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate on Lying
Quantum Matter Seminar
X-ray diffraction techniques to obtain structural information (powder and single crystal)
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
The EU and migration: A call to action
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Talha Ahsan: the Power of Poetry and the Arts in Extradition Campaigns
⚠️ Hosted by Cambridge Student PEN and CGHR
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
What to do with the 'insoluble' foreign policy problems facing the UK
Cavendish Physical Society
New directions in liquid crystals
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Early Hobbes
Quantum Matter Seminar
Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group "Acephalous Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: The real basis for change?"
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Recall of MPs
Contemporary Political Theory
Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
The Struggle for EU Legitimacy: Public Contestation, 1950-2005
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Selma James, Global Women's Strike
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Political Theory and Real Politics in the Age of the Internet
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Ujamaa: from 1960s Tanzania to 21st century Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The art of ruling minds": Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal
Theory of Condensed Matter
Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution
Quantum Matter Seminar
Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from high pressure and reductive chemistry.
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
New Governance and the European Union: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique
Cavendish Physical Society
Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Is there a republican model of democracy?
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Parliament and the Law
Contemporary Political Theory
Social Contribution Injustice
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
National and Regional Institutional Dynamics in the Aftermath of Non-Traditional Security Crises in Southeast Asia. What role for the EU?
Winton Discussions
Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global south
Combined TCM Seminars and TCM blackboard seminar listing
Topological order from parafermions
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Tech Innovators Working in Human Rights
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
#ICT4HR - Expert Panel on the Uses of Information Communication Technology to Foster Accountability for Human Rights Violations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Political Science before Hobbes: the Aristotelian tradition
Quantum Matter Seminar
Interaction of x-rays with matter
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
Dissident Voices in Theorising Europe: Another Theory is Possible
Theory of Condensed Matter
TCM's "Dragon's Den"
Cavendish Physical Society
Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Film Screening: The Awra Amba Experience, preview screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers
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Political Thought and Intellectual History
The city and the soul in James Harrington's Republicanism
Quantum Matter Seminar
From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group "The Performative Core of Power and Legitimacy in Human Rights Organisations: the Case of the Russell Tribunal"
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Labour in Opposition
Contemporary Political Theory
Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Can the Subaltern Speak
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
Europeanizing Territoriality – Towards Soft Spaces
Theory of Condensed Matter
Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Future of Human Rights in the UK
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Defending Human Rights
Winton Discussions
An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms
Theory of Condensed Matter
From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope
Contemporary Political Theory
Levels of Non-Ideality
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
Contentious politics and public services in the European Union
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
"We are all Charlie?" Lunchtime Seminar
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum criticality in iron-based superconductors
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Borges: After the Classics
Quantum Matter Seminar
High-pressure studies into the thermal properties of MnSi
Theory of Condensed Matter
Making quantum chemistry work for metals
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Asylum Monologues
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service
⚠️ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Diasporic Romance; Marriage, Consumerism and Ghanaian Experiences in Botswana
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: What is being targeted when women become the victims of anti-Muslim hate crime? Religion, or gender, or both?
POLIS Department Research Seminars
The Global Transformation
Theory of Condensed Matter
Long-time behaviour of periodically driven many-body quantum systems
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dystopia: For Dummies
⚠️ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Paradox of Parallel Lives; Immigration Policy and Transnational Polygyny between Senegal and France
Contemporary Political Theory
Naming Abscence: The Politics of Body Counts
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fermions in two dimensions
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Rise of UKIP and its implications
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
International Mediation as the Management of Complexity
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought
⚠️ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Sovereignty Rules: Human Rights Regimes and State Sovereignty
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Cultivating Intergenerational Ideals; The Exchange of Photographs between Migrant Parents in Britain and their Children in The Gambia
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Presidential succession crises in Africa: lessons from South Africa and Namibia
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR film screening: We Are Many, followed by a Q&A with Producer-Director Amir Amirani
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Three Approaches to Concept Analysis in International Relations
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Asking the Audience: exploring museum visitors' responses to classical antiquities
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
Degrees of inclusion. Free movement of labour and the unionization of migrant workers in the European Union
Theory of Condensed Matter
Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A strange afterlife: Pierre Berault and the meaning of Aristotelianism in the late seventeenth century
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
From 'Nairobi East' to 'Little Mogadishu'; Migration and Diaspora in the History of Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate
Contemporary Political Theory
Where do we Find Ourselves? Hawthorne and the Actuality of Political Space
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
Authority after Emergency Rule
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
US Midterm Elections: Domestic and International Implications
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch: The Workers' Movement and Egypt's Long Revolution
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Place of Religion in the European Public Square
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Spaces of Exile and Solidarity; Conviviality, Contention and Transnational Activism for Zimbabwe 1965-1980
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Opting Out of the European Union: Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-equilibrium processes from an ab-initio perspective: generalized Hedin's equations and ultra-fast processes in paradigmatic materials
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Seminar: Big Data, Communications and Media Theory: Conceptual Challenges
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Africa's Voices Project
⚠️ Inaugural Cambridge-Africa Day
Cavendish Physical Society
High magnetic fields as a tool for discovery
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Poland and Ukraine: Passages to Democracy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"
⚠️ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Roots Of Impermanence; Farm Life, Labour, And Migration On The Zimbabwean-South African Border
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Homer's Deep
Contemporary Political Theory
Reading Shakespeare Politically
European Research Seminar Series 2014-2015
Game of Zones: The Quest for Influence in Europe's Neighbourhood
Theory of Condensed Matter
Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Nietzsche's Perfect State
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Zonk! Magazine; Black Modernity and the Marketplace in South Africa
POLIS Department Research Seminars
The State of War
Theory of Condensed Matter
Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Distributive Conflict and the Transition to Democratic Rule
Cavendish Physical Society
The Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory
Quantum Matter Seminar
The heavy-fermion compound CeRhIn5: d-wave superconductivity and density waves
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism
Contemporary Political Theory
Republicanism and Global Politics: Three Requirements in Tension
Theory of Condensed Matter
One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Alumni Festival 2014: Africa's Digital Communications Revolution
Theory of Condensed Matter
CALYPSO: A Useful Tool for Discovering Novel Structures and Properties of Materials at Extreme Conditions
Winton Discussions
Meeting the challenges of cancer through nanotechnology.
Theory of Condensed Matter
Spin Hall Effect
Quantum Matter Seminar
'Surface states and topology in Kondo insulating SmB6 and superconducting Tl5Te3'
Theory of Condensed Matter
The density is not enough
Theory of Condensed Matter
Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol
Quantum Matter Seminar
Thermodynamics and critical current density in HTS superconductors and beyond
Winton Discussions
Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Unlawful Killings in Africa: Launch of a CGHR Study for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Theory of Condensed Matter
First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
"Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Future?" | A Public Lecture by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Photography Competition
Theory of Condensed Matter
Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms
Quantum Matter Seminar
Intermetallic compound for demagnetisation refrigeration just below 0.2K
Quantum Matter Seminar
Exploring quantum magnetism using molecules, magnetic fields and pressure.
Europe Research Seminar Series
A strategic-relational analysis of foreign policy: evidence from the Italian case
POLIS events and lectures
Conference: The Italian Left and Foreign Policy
POLIS events and lectures
The 2014 Alcuin Lecture: The UK in or out of the EU: an Italian/European point of view
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Asking the Audience: using museological theory and visitor studies techniques to explore museum visitors' responses to classical antiquities
POLIS events and lectures
Daniel Drezner on How the World Stopped Another Depression
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
‘The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West’
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin-orbit coupled quantum magnets
Europe Research Seminar Series
'Summit diplomacy, top level of the Council or emerging European government? The European Council's role in the EU institutional system of governance after Lisbon'
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
A balancing act: China-India relations as managed protracted frienimosity
Theory of Condensed Matter
Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity
Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars
Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy
⚠️ Fifth Hewish Lecture
Irregular seminars in TCM
Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.
Europe Research Seminar Series
European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: Theory and Practice
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Darcus Howe and Black Power in Britain, 1967-1974
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Suspending Rights: The State of Emergency in armed conflicts, legal exception and case-law practice
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
Waiting for Emancipation: The Prospects for Liberal Revolution and a Human Economy in Africa
Theory of Condensed Matter
Active nematics and topological defects
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
TBC
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Internet Communication Technologies Guarding the Truth in 2013-14 Ukraine
Theory of Condensed Matter
IS GREEN TEA GOOD FOR YOU? INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS
Cavendish Physical Society
Higgs Vortices and Black Hole Hair
Winton Discussions
Current Issues in Energy Policy
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
The topography of decline: Gibbon and the city of Rome
POLIS events and lectures
POLIS Seminar on the First World War
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The Great War: causes and consequences
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
20 years after the genocide in Rwanda: Presentation and reflections on the judicial process
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models
⚠️ Note time changed back to usual schedule at short notice.
Europe Research Seminar Series
Reforming the European Court of Auditors: the challenges of financial accountability in the EU
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Human rights education and training programmes in Mexico: A cross-case analysis of practitioners’ professional knowledge and practice
Theory of Condensed Matter
Odd Times for Triplet Pairing
Cavendish Physical Society
Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces
Europe Research Seminar Series
Comparative study on europeanisation of party politics.
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology.
Winton Discussions
The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?
Winton Discussions
Electric buses - can they really compete on the front line?
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
The Classical Basis of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Case of Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Paradigms of the interaction effects in Fermi surface topological reconstruction
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935
⚠️ Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Egypt and the Arab Spring
Europe Research Seminar Series
The European Union's engagement in reforming the Security Sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2003-2013
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
POLIS events and lectures
PhD colloquium 'RMB Internationalization and the Dilemma of East Asian Currency Cooperation'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Advocacy Groups and the New Political Dispensation in Kenya and Zambia
Contemporary Political Theory
Torture, Morality, and Law
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'Nothing like Roehampton': Hercules and the Englishing of classical myth
Europe Research Seminar Series
The Role of Embassies in European Climate Diplomacy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exploring Thermal Transport via Gauge-Gravity Duality and Hydrodynamics
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
POLIS events and lectures
the next Rising Power Reading Group will be taking place next Tuesday 25th February (12:00-13:00) in room 119.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement
⚠️ Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Using courts to build states: The uneven geography of justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Europe Research Seminar Series
How ´European´ is the European Security and Defense Policy? Parliamentary Oversight of the EU NAVFOR Operation Atalanta
Theory of Condensed Matter
The nature of the quantum spin-liquid state in Herbertsmithite
Cavendish Physical Society
Improving cancer survival through molecular imaging
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist
Contemporary Political Theory
Deaths That Matter: NOTE: SEMINAR CANCELLED
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Researching Public Opinion and Political Accountability: Broadcasting and New Media in Contemporary African Context
Europe Research Seminar Series
From nation-states to member states: European integration as state transformation
Theory of Condensed Matter
What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought
⚠️ Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Making China strong: the role of nationalism in Chinese thinking on Democracy and Human Rights
Europe Research Seminar Series
Transforming European diplomacy abroad: insights from Washington D.C
Theory of Condensed Matter
Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4
Cavendish Physical Society
Soft Matter in Motion
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Does Stealing from Foreigners Increase Quality of Life? How Expropriation Affects Domestic Human Rights
⚠️ Chair/Discussant: Dr Nikitas Konstantinidis, POLIS, Cambridge
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Fingerprint: An ethnographic re-visitation
Europe Research Seminar Series
The future of EU Defence Policy.
Contemporary Political Theory
Migration and Distributive Justice
Theory of Condensed Matter
First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Cavendish Physical Society
Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context
⚠️ Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge)
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Was the First World War a just war?
Winton Discussions
Business-oriented Solutions for Resource Recovery and Reuse at Scale in Developing Countries
Theory of Condensed Matter
Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan: Roundtable
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Contemporary Political Theory
Theory Construction in Political Theory: A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nucleation pathways in partially disordered lattice models
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Winton Discussions
Open-ended inorganic nanotubes: band-gap and bands-engineering of a photo-catalyst
Theory of Condensed Matter
Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors
Theory of Condensed Matter
Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems
Cavendish Physical Society
Cosmic Reionization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'
⚠️ Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979
Winton Discussions
Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: When the state kills, the boundaries of state responsibilities and the right to life
POLIS events and lectures
How different are the 'nonaligned' and 'harmonious' worlds?
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Fragmentation and Unity: Psychoanalytical adaptations of the Hippolytus
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamics in one dimension: from fractional excitations to new out-of-equilibrium states of matter
Europe Research Seminar Series
‘Leading’ Europe’s Foreign Policy? Britain, Germany and the CFSP
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Contestation, Backlash, and the Politics of International Justice Twenty Years on
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Overlapping Sovereignties and the Politics of Legal Pluralism in Mozambique
Contemporary Political Theory
Crimes Against Humanity, and Future People
Cambridge-Africa Programme
Africa's digital communications revolution: Valuing new voices in African public spheres
⚠️ This seminar is part of the King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar Series
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Creative Copies: Eudocia's 'Homerocentones' and the Scribe as Author in Christian Late Antiquity
Theory of Condensed Matter
Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space
Quantum Matter Seminar
How supersolids melt: vortices near a high-symmetry phase coexistence point.
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's *History of America*
⚠️ Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Transition and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Europe Research Seminar Series
War Without Americans: the real challenge for the European Council on Defence
POLIS events and lectures
King Rama X: The Thai Monarchy and Democracy
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons
Cavendish Physical Society
Title to be confirmed
Europe Research Seminar Series
Norms Resistance in European Foreign Policy: The Case of the European External Action Service
Political Thought and Intellectual History
English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlow’s Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Prosecution of Rape in Wartime: Evidence From Kenya, 1952-1960
Contemporary Political Theory
How Should We Aggregate Competing Claims?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields
Europe Research Seminar Series
Value Added Diplomacy? The European External Action Service and the EU Member States.
POLIS events and lectures
The Stab in the Back Legend
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Legal Layering and Substitution: A Theory of Strategic Behaviour around International Treaty Membership
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975
⚠️ Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Narratives of Violence: Historicizing Representations of Child Combatants in African Conflict, c. 1980-2010
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: Framing Peace: The case of conciliatory radio programming in Burundi and Uganda
Cavendish Physical Society
"Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms"
Europe Research Seminar Series
European budgetary politics, a Parliamentary Paradox?
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Bangladesh Genocide
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What Makes Representation Democratic?
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979
⚠️ Canceled
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Panel “What’s left? The European left beyond the Third Way”
⚠️ The panel will be chaired by prof. Andrew Gamble (Cambridge, POLIS)
Contemporary Political Theory
Benificence and Blackmail
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis
POLIS events and lectures
In Hobbes's Wake: Theorising Agency and Language in International Politics
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
In Hobbes's Wake: Theorising Agency and Language in International Politics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Critical dopings and superconducting domes in doped SrTiO3
POLIS events and lectures
If You Are Not A Conspiracy Theorist Then You are an Idiot
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens
⚠️ Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Culpable Identities: Homicide Jurisdiction and the Politics of Culture in Late-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Europe Research Seminar Series
Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense: An Institutional Perspective
POLIS events and lectures
Craash Conference: Iraq: A Decade of New Governance
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Climate change and energy scarcity
Theory of Condensed Matter
Title to be confirmed
Cavendish Physical Society
Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
'Africa's Voices' project seminar
Europe Research Seminar Series
Executive Privilege Reaffirmed? Patterns in Parliamentary Scrutiny of the CFSP and CSDP
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What is Liberalism?
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Panel ‘2013 German Elections’
Contemporary Political Theory
Moral and Institutional Desert
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system
Quantum Matter Seminar
The New Superconducting Quantum Devices
Winton Discussions
Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery
Quantum Matter Seminar
Materials design and functionality in oxide heterostructures
Quantum Matter Seminar
Universal behaviour in critical current density in HTS conductors
Winton Discussions
Using sunlight-activated photo-catalysts to disinfect water
Winton Discussions
The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment
Winton Discussions
Energy efficient magnetic cooling technology
Irregular seminars in TCM
Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism
Quantum Matter Seminar
Insulators, metals, pseudogaps and cuprate superconductivity
Winton Discussions
Creating Impact from Research
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'Directing the Cambridge Greek Play'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices
Quantum Matter Seminar
Disorder driven superconductor-insulator transition: Do Cooper pairs still exist in the insulator?
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
‘Rising Powers in the Western Imagination’
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'A Twenty First century ancient Greek play': an interview with Helen Eastman, director of the 2013 Cambridge Greek play in Greek, currently in rehearsal.
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bad metals
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superconductivity and magnetism in doped graphene
POLIS events and lectures
Alcuin Lecture 2013, Is there a future for the European Union - and with Britain in it?
⚠️ Applications to attend should be received by 12 noon on 31 May, please email cahg2@cam.ac.uk
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
Exploring the Contours of African Sexualities: Statutory, Customary and Religious Laws
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'The Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush'
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
‘The Politics of Nation-building: Making Co-nationals, Refugees and Minorities’
The Smuts Memorial Fund Lecture
Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa
Theory of Condensed Matter
Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Contested Narratives of the Past: Politics of Regret vs Myths of Self-Pity
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'Modern Greek political uses of Theodorakis' ancient Greek music in recent film and opera'
⚠️ Note unusual time
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: The Kenyan Elections of 2013: A triumph of democracy?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality.
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
‘The American tributary system in international politics’
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology
⚠️ Comment: TBC
Winton Discussions
Biological photovoltaic systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Labour Rights: A Sectoral Approach
POLIS events and lectures
Symposium on The Future of Deadly conflict is Optimism Defensible
⚠️ Note online registration required
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Aspects of Indirect Democracy in Ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics
POLIS events and lectures
Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: An Impossible Dream?
POLIS events and lectures
Ending Mass Atrocity crimes: A Hopeless Dream
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
‘The History of Authenticity: aka the 19th-century Western origins of the “original”'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?
POLIS events and lectures
Ending the Deadly Conflict: A Naive Dream?
Cavendish Physical Society
Exoplanet Science, the way forward
Political Thought and Intellectual History
J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought
⚠️ Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: Human rights and South-South Development Cooperation: reflections on the "rising powers" as international development actors
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
CRDG Symposium on "Greece and/or Rome"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime
Cavendish Physical Society
The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six
⚠️ On twitter @closefrank
Quantum Matter Seminar
Fermi surface determination using positron annihilation
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Stylised Facts on Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Outcomes and Political Institutions in OECD Countries
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? The Dystopic Liberal Imagination in Political Thought
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
‘The return of the sacred in politics’
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Gender and Classical Reception
Theory of Condensed Matter
Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order
Winton Discussions
Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!
Theory of Condensed Matter
Towards a quantitative analysis of core-level and valence photoemission spectra of dye-sensitized solar cell interfaces
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic Properties of the Spin Chain Antiferromagnet Ca3Co2O6
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Reflections on the Kenyan Elections - A Panel Discussion
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
International Women's Day Film Screening - Peace Unveiled
Theory of Condensed Matter
Is the theory of neutral evolution right?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Quantum Matter Seminar
Fictitious spin waves in a frustrated classical antiferromagnet
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The Political Economy of Military Organization?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Terahertz radiation from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 interlayer Josephson junctions: Progress and future strategies.
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Buddha and the ballot in South East Asia
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'
⚠️ Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Demonisation’s Implications for Britain-Zimbabwe Diplomatic Relations (1997-present)
Contemporary Political Theory
Well-Being Policy and Paternalism - CANCELLED
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
When Authoritarianism fails in the Arab World: understanding the recourse to the Muslim lexicon
Theory of Condensed Matter
Helical correlations and unbroken symmetry in FCC-stacked triangular Ising antiferromagnets
Quantum Matter Seminar
Lawlessness in low dimensions: Violations of laws, limits and symmetries in quasi-one-dimensional Li0.9Mo6O17
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Before the Democratic Peace: Racial Utopianism and the Elimination of War
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility
⚠️ Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)
Winton Discussions
Sustainability and Architecture
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'The Resurrection, Rejection and Reincorporation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in Early Modern Europe’
Theory of Condensed Matter
Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Cavendish Physical Society
CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin-resolved momentum densities: What we can learn from magnetic Compton scattering.
POLIS events and lectures
'What is British foreign policy for?’
POLIS events and lectures
'What is British foreign policy for?’
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Hybrid-networks: Elements of Hierarchy in Transnational Advocacy Networks Alexandra Bocse, PhD Candidate, POLIS
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire
⚠️ Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: Increasing Citizen Demand for Good Government in Kenya
Quantum Matter Seminar
Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach
Theory of Condensed Matter
Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach
Quantum Matter Seminar
Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: ”Small“ Fermi Surface Reference of YbRh2Si2
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Italy’s missing holocaust museum: memory, amnesia and post war Italian politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895
⚠️ Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
Freud, Classics and Cryptomnesia
Theory of Condensed Matter
Statistical Topological Insulators
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Cavendish Physical Society
Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility
Quantum Matter Seminar
Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Politics and The Sacred
⚠️ Hard copies available at the POLIS office. Digital copies by request.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Research Group: Rethinking the Role of Ideology in Atrocities
Contemporary Political Theory
Legitimate Authority in the Morality of War
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
‘The Other Classical Past: Germans and Romans 1800-1819’
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases
Quantum Matter Seminar
Visualization of Novel Electronic Structures in Topological Quantum Matter
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Russia and the Origins of the First World War: Time to Re-consider?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning
⚠️ Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Sudan: Regional Impacts and Strategic Challenges
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exact Density-Functional Potentials for Time-Dependent Quasiparticles
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
The Hewish Lectures
“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”
Quantum Matter Seminar
Fermi surface and superconductivity in URhGe and other nonsymmorphic crystals
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
Winton Discussions
Improving industrial energy efficiency through technology, process and behaviour innovation - policy applications of research
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
From Suez to Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa
Contemporary Political Theory
Must Criticism be Constructive?
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
One-day Colloquium on 'German Philhellenism'
European Research Group
Workshop: St Malo’s impetus for European Security and Defence: Much Ado about Nothing?!
European Research Group
"The role and place of Central Europe in the EU”
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Monte Carlo Modeling of π-bonded Transition-metal Organometallics
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Fall and Rise of Keynesian Economics
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
PhD Triangle: Research Day (Cambridge--LSE--Essex)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history
⚠️ Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Art of the Bambui fondom/Kingdom
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
A right to enjoy culture in face of climate change: Implications for climate migrants
Contemporary Political Theory
Legitimacy in(between) Realism and Moralism
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
‘Performance as translation and translation as performance’
⚠️ Note unusual time: 6.15pm instead of 5.15pm. Drinks and supper with the speakers will follow - you are welcome to join us.
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Panel on the Politics of Wellbeing
Cavendish Physical Society
Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Initial New Domain Structures: Statics and Dynamics
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
An informal discussion about the 2012 US Elections
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Africa’s Voices: Reflections on a pilot study using mobile phones and interactive radio to survey public opinion in Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy
⚠️ Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
A Museum for Heritage and Culture at Aba Island, Sudan
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Cobden and the problem of war
Theory of Condensed Matter
Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century
⚠️ Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Northcote W Thomas and Northern Edo history
Winton Discussions
Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?
European Research Group
European Research Group meeting
Contemporary Political Theory
Limits to Growth: An Idea Whose Time has Come Again?
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The Art of Central Banking in Today‘s and Yesterday‘s Crises
POLIS events and lectures
Talk on the American Presidency
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
CANCELLED In Defence of Politics
Cavendish Physical Society
“Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Community Based Organisations and the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes and Sexual Desire
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
The Challenge of the Traditional Collection and the possibilities of "Tribing and Untribing the Archive: the Material Record of the Thukela-Mzimkulu region, c. 1750-1910”
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The fiscal politics of road building in China
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
From Visible to Invisible: Tunisia's Gendered Democracy Paradox
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'Greek sculpture and ‘stuffed natives’ at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Defining the classical body in 1850s London'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations
Cavendish Physical Society
"Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"
Quantum Matter Seminar
Application of the Focused Ion Beam to Transport Measurements under High Pressure
Irregular seminars in TCM
Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)
⚠️ Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Grace Note - a talk by artist ATTA KWAMI
Contemporary Political Theory
Benefitting from the Wrongdoing of Others
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Dilemmas of the New Interventionism: Foreign Policy-Making and Civil Society in Europe
Quantum Matter Seminar
Title to be confirmed
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Beyond the Academy: Working with Think Tanks and Polling Organisations to Reach a Wider Audience
Theory of Condensed Matter
From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Authority: Some Fables
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Origins of the Afro comb Project: 6000 years of African combs
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Containment and territorial transnational actors: Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The 2012 Obama-Romney Presidential Election: Issues, Voter Groups, Swing Districts, Projections
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series
'Flirting Classical Colours!* Greco-Roman figures, forms and structures in Victorian Trade Union Emblems'.
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Moral Externalities: Globalisation, Human Rights, and the Demand for Multinational Responsibility
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love
⚠️ Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)
Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars
Collections, critique and contemporary art: Africa and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Contemporary Political Theory
Freedom as Independence
Theory of Condensed Matter
The many structures of foams
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Keynote Lecture: Giancarlo Corsetti on the Politics and Economics of the Euro Crisis
Cavendish Physical Society
Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry
⚠️ Commentator: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)
Winton Discussions
Climate finance: barriers and opportunities
gc121's list
Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic versus dielectric pairing in cuprate superconductors
Winton Discussions
What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can't
Quantum Matter Seminar
Expanding the topological insulator horizon
Winton Discussions
The limits to energy and material efficiency
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Creative Mind and Physical Reality
⚠️ Video now available at http://youtu.be/6FdLOIc6bvM
Irregular seminars in TCM
Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The Hague Tribunal and the Serbian Elites
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The diplomacy of the Doha Development Round
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergent chirality in charge ordered materials
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
Slobodan Milosevic: Legacy of an Unfinished Trial
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Rehearsing the state: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Theory of Condensed Matter
Status and Outlook of Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments: Evidence of Nonabelions?
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The transitions of the Arab Spring
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The power of persuasion in Plato
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Demand Driven Democratisation - the work of the UN Democracy Fund
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
’Demand Driven Democratisation – the work of the UN Democracy Fund’
Winton Discussions
Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of Efficiency
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of the Partially Ordered Phase of MnSi
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Hitler and the Have Nots
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetothermopower in heavy fermion metamagnets CeRu2Si2 and YbRh2Si2
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The exclusion effects of two partite power sharing: the link between Sudan's Comprehenisve Peace Agreement and the insurgency in Darfur
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
'Human-centred' development? Rethinking 'freedom' and 'agency'
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superconductors, multiferroic and magnetic materials
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Liberty
Theory of Condensed Matter
Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Roundtable: Crisis in the Sudans
Cavendish Physical Society
COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENT
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commerce and monarchy in David Hume's History of England
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Political Transition in Myanmar (Burma)
Cavendish Physical Society
The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations in the rise of American Power
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Workshop: People’s Power in the Struggle for Freedom
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Fergsuon
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
Does war change our DNA? Implications of recent research in epigenetics
Winton Discussions
Energy Efficient Lighting
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW Approximation as a Universal Framework for Electronic Structure
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superconducting phase and pseudogap in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors.
Winton Discussions
Biofuels
European Research Group
Workshop - 'Managing Migration and Asylum in Europe: Current Challenges and Policy Responses'
European Research Group
'Faltering alliances and emerging faultlines: the political complexities of EU immigration policy'
⚠️ Lecture followed by a drinks reception. For more information, see http://cambridgemigrationworkshop2012.blogspot.com/
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The future of the CSDP
⚠️ RESCHEDULED
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
A Dynamic Political Stakeholder Theory Model of Firms' Response Strategies Towards Marginalized Stakeholders
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
"The Formation of African Intellectuals"
Scott Lectures
Metadynamics
European Research Group
The Strategic Construction of the Urgency of Climate Change? The Role of Discourses in the Negotiations on the 'EU Energy and Climate Change Package
Scott Lectures
Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship
Scott Lectures
Colouring the Noise
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: Umar Salam, 'Foucault, Governmentality and the Knowledge Economy'
Contemporary Political Theory
Living with the Enemy: Military Occupation
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
ExPRESSion RePRESSion: Expert panel on international efforts to protect journalists at risk
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us?
Winton Discussions
Tea time conversation
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Human Rights and Practice: February 2012 Crisis in the Maldives, with Dr. Farahanaz Faizal, Fmr High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815
⚠️ Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar
Winton Discussions
Hydrogen fuel cells
Contemporary Political Theory
Revisiting Ruddick: Feminism, Non-violence and Pacifism
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Scotland out of the Union? The rise and rise of the Nationalist agenda
Clark Lectures
Seminar after "Shakespearean Invention" lecture series
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
After Blue Labour? State and Democracy on the British Left
Clark Lectures
Shakespeare and rhetorical closure
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Faraday Institute Events
From Physics to Theology - a Personal Story
⚠️ Followed by free refreshments and a bookstall
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The Institutionalisation of the EU Defence Equipment Market
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sismondi contra Rousseau
Clark Lectures
Shakespeare and the rhetoric of narrative
Cavendish Physical Society
Graphene: Materials in the Flatland
Quantum Matter Seminar
Hole Doping and Dimensionality in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Consensual and non-consensual politics in medieval Roman law
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group seminar: Why do some countries retract extraterritorial jurisdiction over issues of human rights while others step forward?
Contemporary Political Theory
Justifying the Special Significance of Equality of Opportunity
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared from today’s ‘development’ discourse
Clark Lectures
Shakespeare on beginning to speak
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
David Miliband in conversation
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The notion of incitement to hatred in international human rights law
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
On origins
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The EU as a Global Conflict Manager
Clark Lectures
The Renaissance theory of rhetorical invention
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Egypt Study Trip
Cavendish Physical Society
The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Study Trip Armenia Info Meeting
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory
Contemporary Political Theory
What is the Speech in 'Free Speech'?
Irregular seminars in TCM
Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Democracy and Governance in Afghanistan: What has been achieved?
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Relationalism in Political and Social Analysis: Promises, Problems and Prospects
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio
Cavendish Physical Society
Do biological cells care about physics?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Rising China and Global Justice
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The false cosmos of new music: Adorno's Philosophie der Neuen Musik as modern political pedagogy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Rule by law in Ethiopia: Rendering constitutional limits on government power nonsensical
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Religion-State Relations in Comparative Perspective. How much Religion can Democracy take?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
*CANCELLED* Ethnographic Approaches to the New Media: The Case of Ghana and Uruguay
Cavendish Physical Society
Polymer Solar Cells
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The Judicialisation of Politics in Southern Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
A Global Civics: Do we need one? What would it entail?
Contemporary Political Theory
Female Quotas, Egalitarianism, and Public Policy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fluctuation-driven first order transition in the chiral magnet MnSi
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The business enterprise as organisation and as association in nineteenth-century Britain: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Marking the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: How the US created the UN to win the war and the implications for IR
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
⚠️ Workshop participation is limited: to register your interest, please email Iginio Gagliardone (ig282@cam.ac.uk) describing your background and why you would like to participate.
Theory of Condensed Matter
Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The Stabilisation Unit's role in the UK Government's Integrated Approach
Cavendish Physical Society
Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Political Change and the Politics of Small Things
Contemporary Political Theory
On the Relationship between Principles of Justice in Schooling and Education
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Corporate Social Responsibility and Business’ Contribution to Governance in Areas of Regulatory Void
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
State of Citizenship: Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement and Citizen Action
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, the common good and the rule of law: Lippman and Hayek on economic planning
Irregular seminars in TCM
Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Phones, foreigners and the fluctuating digital divide in Southern Mozambique
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Future of Nonviolent Conflict
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
CISA Inaugural Lecture: "War - The Coming of the Machines"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Crystallography on curved surfaces
Contemporary Political Theory
Egalitarian Theories of Religious Freedom
Theory of Condensed Matter
Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
A Quiet Media Revolution? Mediatization, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Some new sources and contexts for the De Legibus Hebraeorum (1685) of John Spencer, father of 'Enlightened' sacred history
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Right to Information & Accountability: New Challenges in the Digital Era
Cavendish Physical Society
Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid Applications
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Three Views of Democracy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
'Facts on the Ground' and the Subversion of the Global in Israeli Activism
Contemporary Political Theory
The Idea of Immanent Criticism
Theory of Condensed Matter
Plasma Analogy and non-Abelian Braiding Statistics in Ising-type Quantum Hall States
Theory of Condensed Matter
Interplay of disorder and interactions in 1d cold fermi gases
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Civilian personn for dp
Theory of Condensed Matter
Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
The Hewish Lectures
Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
CISA Annual Garden Party
⚠️ Members free entry, non-members 3£
Irregular seminars in TCM
The topology of smectics
Theory of Condensed Matter
Modelling non-classical mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Exlusionary Rhetoric- Expansionist Policies? Reflections on the Italian Centre-Right Immigration Approaches
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Elif''s recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Urban governance as labour rights: The case of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view
Theory of Condensed Matter
Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Sailing with the Sea Shepherds: Preliminary Findings from Participant Observation of Anti-whaling Direct Action in the Southern Ocean
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Teale's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Clapham Junction: The place of the Protestant Ethic in Max Weber's intellectual biography
Cavendish Physical Society
Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imagined
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historicising the French Revolution in the Third Republic: the case of Ernest Lavisse
Theory of Condensed Matter
Bulk-boundary correspondence of topological insulators
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Migration Systems, Pioneers and the Role of Agency
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Agnieszka's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
European Research Group
Inside Immigration Law: Immigration Offices and Migration Management in Germany
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke in liberal memory
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The transformation of Turkey from Empire to Republic
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Conspiracy Theories As Social Imaginary: The Case of Blackwater in Pakistan
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
Cavendish Physical Society
Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Scholarship, Morals and Government: Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey's and Johann Gottfried Herder's Responses to Rousseau's First Discourse
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Europe's New Security Architecture from a Transatlantic and Eurasian Perspective
Theory of Condensed Matter
Ultracold atoms and fermionic simulations
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Defining Dependence- The Hydrocarbon Society and the Dangers of Foreign Oil
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Sebastian's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Fusion Power: Sometime/Never, or This Year/Next Year?
European Research Group
How to Manage Europe's Decline
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magnetic field-induced anisotropy in specific heat and transport properties of unconventional superconductors.
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The primacy of foreign policy in British history
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
From Path Dependence To Chinese Whispers: Institutions, Institutional Change, And EU Defence Policy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference
⚠️ A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Human rights in employment: Definitions, applications, and future prospects
⚠️ Followed by a Wine Reception right after the talk
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Wine Reception (after talk)
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference
⚠️ A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Politics of international administration of post-conflict societies
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Mateja's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The Race of Life": Republican Revisionism Revisited
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference
⚠️ A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Human Rights education and the Palestinian Authority Security Services
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
Contemporary Political Theory
Reality Lost, Reality Regained? Ethics, Politics and Realism in the Imagination of Raymond Geuss
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
In the Wake of War - "Getting Out: Exit Strategies and Transitions"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Superconductor proximity effects in half-metallic ferromagnets
Cavendish Physical Society
Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
Kosovo's Emergence as a European Nation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Luxury and the route to revolution in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Why WTO? Forum Shopping for New Aid for Trade Regime
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Dan's on-going research. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
European Research Group
European civilian crisis management – the national dimension of supplying capacities
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
The politics of EU energy policy
Irregular seminars in TCM
Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The Case of Multilateralism
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Rising Powers and Global Order
⚠️ Joint event with the Centre for Rising Powers
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The rule of law in Afghanistan. Missing in inaction
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and the sea. International trade in Hegel's political philosophy
Contemporary Political Theory
The Relevance of the Real World
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The G8/G20: the Core of Global Leadership?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Ice
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Screening of Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' followed by Panel Discussion
⚠️ Joint event with the Centre of International Studies and the Centre of Latin American Studies
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
Screening of Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border'
Cavendish Physical Society
Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Addison's Empire. Whig conceptions of empire in the early eighteenth century
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Human Rights and Academic Freedom
European Research Group
Immigration management in Italy: A patchwork of contradicting approaches?
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
The EU as a Diplomatic Actor in the Post-Lisbon Era'
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
The Evolution of Telepathy (Perrott-Warrick Lecture)
⚠️ Recording now available at http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1097239
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The Comparative Politics of Human Rights
⚠️ Jointly organized with the Centre of Governance and Human Rights
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The role of national parliaments in post-Lisbon Europe
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Julie's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The Egyptian Crisis
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Beyond “Asian Values”: A Reassessment of Western and Asian Perspectives on Human Rights
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy
European Research Group
The EU's Strategic Partnerships: What They Tell us about the World and about Europe
Contemporary Political Theory
The Arrogance of Politics: A Hallmark of Thinking Politically
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
EU and state-building in the Western Balkans
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the full configuration interaction problem
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Climate Change in Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
Has the Lisbon Treaty made the EU more democratic?
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
'Resilience: aiming for security in an age of risk'
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Olaf's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
James Mill on the French Revolution
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The integration of human rights into official development assistance: towards reorienting South Korea’s ODA policy
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
Contemporary Political Theory
Human Rights as Constraints on States' Corporate Responsibility
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The resurgence of German capital in Europe: EU integration and the restructuring of Atlantic networks of interlocking directorates after 1991
Theory of Condensed Matter
Groebli solution for three magnetic vortices
Centre of International Studies Lectures and Events
The Tunisian Crisis
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
European Research Group
Trade-offs in aid effectiveness: coordination, ownership and EU development policy
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
Immigration Policy in Italy
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The UN Global Compact (2000-2010): What Has Been Achieved?
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
'The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Border Control Regime: Consequences for the UK and Norway'
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Marianne's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
One China, Two Sudans? Sovereignty, self-determination and the 'referendum for freedom'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest'
European Research Group
Socialisation and European Foreign Policy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Reordering South African Townships
Cavendish Physical Society
The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between science and technology
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Muslim Marriage in Western Courts : Lost in Transplantation
Faraday Institute Events
Victor Stenger's Scientific Critique of Christian Belief
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Society as the Mode of Redemption: The Idea of Individuality in Georg Simmel's Early Sociological Writings'
European Research Group
Reproduction of National Identity: Norway's New National Library
Contemporary Political Theory
Responsibility for Refugees: A Duty to Do More Than One's Fair Share?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Preventing Violent Attacks on Education in Afghanistan: Considering the Role of Community-Based Schools
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
'Working for the Palestinians, Accredited to Israel and Reporting to the EU - A case study in diplomatic confusion'
Theory of Condensed Matter
Towards realistic calculations of molecular adsorption and desorption on surfaces
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
Selling security in the risk society
Cavendish Physical Society
How English Libel Law Threatens Science
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
'1914 in World Historical Perspective: The "Uneven" and "Combined" Origins of the First World War'
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Alex's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology'
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
Development Cooperation Post-Lisbon: Challenges of Actualising the Joint Africa-EU Strategy
Irregular seminars in TCM
Domain wall in a chiral p-wave superconductor: Majorana fermions and their transport properties
Cavendish Physical Society
Charge transport in molecular semiconductors – Bloch electron or hopping transport ?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
'What's in a Label? The Aid Community's Perceptions of Success and Failure'
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Teresa's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Self-Possession and Carelessness: Two Versions of Liberty in Montaigne's Essais'
European Research Group
Intensifying European Military Cooperation: New Opportunities
Contemporary Political Theory
Do we own our Bodies? More Thoughts on Property in the Person and in the Body
Irregular seminars in TCM
Layered Systems of Cold Polar Molecules
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamics and critical behaviour of the spin-boson model
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The Relevance of National Security Cultures in International Studies
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Thinking with Satan: diabolical inspiration and human agency in late antiquity'
Jean Monnet - Marie Curie Seminar Series
Europe as a Small Power
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Governance and Human Rights Research Group
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations in Weak States
⚠️ CGHR Research Group
European Research Group
France and its Migrants Today: Facts, Fictions and Lies
Irregular seminars in TCM
The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity
Cavendish Physical Society
The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Supersolidity
Faraday Institute Events
A Philosopher's Perspective on Anthropic Fine-Tuning
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers'
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
The Politics of Naming and Responding to 'Genocide': The Practices of France, Germany and the UK from Biafra to Darfur
CISA Talks - Cambridge International Studies Association
A World Order without Superpowers: Decentered Globalism
Theory of Condensed Matter
Force generation in the lamellipod of crawling cells
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye'
Contemporary Political Theory
The Idea of Global Citizenship
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
New Media|Alternative Politics: Communications technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa
⚠️ Note unusual time: 5pm 14 October to 3pm 16 October
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?
Faraday Institute Events
Neuronal Imaging of the Religious Brain
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Contemporary Political Theory
‘La verità effettuale della cosa’: On the Practice-Dependence of Political Values
Theory of Condensed Matter
Possibility of Hot Superconductivity in Charged Graphene
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
The Supramolecular Chemistry of the Homeopathic Remedy
Quantum Matter Seminar
Common behaviors of unconventional superconductors indicating non-BCS condensation and spin-mediated resonant pairing
Irregular seminars in TCM
Marginal Fermi liquid behaviour and competing orders with topological characteristics in bilayer graphene.
The Hewish Lectures
Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Health in Africa Workshop, panel on "Health and new Information and Communication Technologies"
Cavendish Physical Society
LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Title to be confirmed
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Samir's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
International Political Economy Research Group
IPE and Foreign Policy groups symposium
⚠️ Chaired by Dr. Amrita Narlikar.
Faraday Institute Events
"A Passion for the Universal": Science, Jews and Others
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Cavendish Physical Society
Harnessing the Interactions of Ultrasound Waves and Acoustic Cavitation With Biological Tissue for Non-Invasive Therapy and Drug Delivery
Rausing Lecture
From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren
⚠️ Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Political Legitimacy and the Management of Calendrical Time
International Political Economy Research Group
'Hoy Dista Mucho de Ayer': July 25th, 1936 and the Seeds of Republican Defeat in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
⚠️ Chaired by Dan Kim
Cavendish Physical Society
The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum criticality and dynamical scaling in YbRh2Si2
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Point of No Return: Kabila, Rwanda and the Internal Dynamics of Africa's Great War
Scott Lectures
Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer
⚠️ This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics
International Political Economy Research Group
Argentine-Chilean frontier dispute: Conflict Escalation to Violence in the Beagle Channel
⚠️ Chaired by Helen Coskeran
Scott Lectures
Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope
⚠️ This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
‘Who is Guarding the Guardians? Patterns of Government Accountability in Bulgaria, Germany and Russia’
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Gergana's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Mateja Peter at mp423@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Faraday Institute Events
Animal Suffering - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848
Scott Lectures
Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe
⚠️ This lecture is for a general audience.
Irregular seminars in TCM
Critical parameters from generalised multifractal analysis at the Anderson transition
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
What Explains Diverging Paths of Genocidal Violence? Evidence from Rwanda, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Chad and Senegal
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
The First Historian of Human Rights
Cavendish Physical Society
Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes
Cavendish Physical Society
Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes
Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series
Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells
⚠️ This talk is jointly organised with TCM
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
‘Statebuilding and the subject: tolerance, appropriation and resistance in Mozambique’
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Meera's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Mahatma Gandhi's Political Thought
Theory of Condensed Matter
How a non-Fermi liquid can emerge at a metal-insulator transition
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Life, extended mind, and physical reality
⚠️ Device Materials Group (Materials Science) Special Seminar
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Domestic Violence and International Law
International Political Economy Research Group
Crossing the River, by Feeling for Stones: China’s Gradual Currency Internationalization
⚠️ Chaired by Dr. Amrita Narlikar.
Faraday Institute Events
Human Enhancement - Threat or Promise?
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On Equality
Jean Monnet Seminar Series
Informal Governance in the European Union
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum phase transitions and novel phases.
Cavendish Physical Society
Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom
International Political Economy Research Group
A Least Human-Restrictive GATT Environmental Model at the G-20
⚠️ Chaired by Dan Kim
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Local Approach to Electronic Structure and Band Gaps
Quantum Matter Seminar
Nanodomains in Ferroelectrics and Magnetoelectrics
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
Theories of global politics
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Olaf's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Quantum Matter Seminar
Probing the normal and superconducting state electronic structure of iron-pnictide superconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics
⚠️ Joint TCM/QM seminar - note non-standard time.
Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal structures from nothing - new materials from random numbers
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion
Quantum Matter Seminar
From vacuum tunnelling to quantum transport: Recent developments and new opportunities in Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
European Research Group
Religion in the EU
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE!
Cavendish Physical Society
High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power Grid
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Afghanistan: the Peace-Building Process
Faraday Institute Events
Sustainable Development - Is Religion Relevant?
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Corporate Complicity in Human Rights violations in Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Law and Religion. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antiquity
European Research Group
Think Tanks and Europe
Centre of International Studies Lecture Series
"Croatia - 28th EU Member State"
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Copenhagen: Realism Bites
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The return of the state in post-war Angola
Irregular seminars in TCM
Influence of Thermal Order Parameter Fluctuations on the Spectral Function of 2D Superconductors
European Research Group
The politics of immigration control in the UK: What is the role of the political elite discourse in policy approaches and outcomes?
Theory of Condensed Matter
From ultracold atoms to ultracold molecules. Prospects for novel physics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Uniaxial pressure effects on the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4
Quantum Matter Seminar
Interference between an s-wave superconductor and Sr2RuO4
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Ecological Citizenship: A Dead End?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
False Twins dealing with their pasts: Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Burundi
⚠️ *Note Venue*
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
'Secession and International Order'
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of James's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Joanne Wallis at jew44@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Faraday Institute Events
The Religious Roots of the Idea of Scientific Laws
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Montesquieu and Machiavelli: Appropriation and Critique
Cavendish Physical Society
Title to be confirmed
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historia Literaria in the Field: German Academics and the Search for the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Understanding New Wars
International Political Economy Research Group
The New Geopolitics of Multilateralism: Brazil's Economic Diplomacy in the WTO Doha Round Agriculture Negotiations
⚠️ Chaired by Dr. Amrita Narlikar (POLIS)
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Understanding New Wars
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Global Taxes on Natural Resources
Theory of Condensed Matter
Exciton condensation in quantum Hall bilayers: disorder and transport
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Exiled Liberation Movements in Southern Africa
⚠️ *Note venue*
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Russia in a Global World
⚠️ This is a joint meeting organized by CamCREES, POLIS and the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Faraday Institute Events
Biology in the Service of Natural Theology
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Crisis of Global Citizenship
Faraday Institute Events
Religious Influences in the Founding of the Royal Society
⚠️ Drinks and a book stall afterwards
Cavendish Physical Society
'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'
Quantum Matter Seminar
Possible field-induced superconductivity in the quasi-1D purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
SMS Uprising: How mobile communications are changing the public sphere in Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575-1618
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Cashing in on Climate Change: Political Theory and Global Emissions Trading
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
‘Prefab Politics: The rise and fall of Zambia's donor-built reform coalition’
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Alaistair's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before his colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Jonathan Agensky at ja413@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Faraday Institute Events
Scientific Explanations of Religious Experience and their Implications for Belief
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Security as a Norm in Hobbes's Theory of War: A Critique of Schmitt's Interpretation of Hobbes's Approach to International Relations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848
All CRASSH events
Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture
Cavendish Physical Society
Synthetic structures and machines from DNA
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Republican King: The Creation of Executive Power in America
Quantum Matter Seminar
The long-standing puzzle of missing inelastic neutron scattering intensity in the cuprates
⚠️ ** Note non-standard date and location **
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum transport beyond the independent-electron approximation
Irregular seminars in TCM
Quantum Optics Experiments with Multiple Qubits and Multiple Photons in Superconducting Electronic Circuits
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
"How Rights Move: Liability, Forfeiture and the Lesser Evil"
Quantum Matter Seminar
Neutron scattering studies of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 under pressure
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
An Initial Problem with the Nation State
Religion, Conflict and its Aftermath
Open Hands and Clenched Fists: Obama's foreign policy in the Greater Middle East
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergence of local broken symmetries with hole-doping in Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2
Jean Monnet Seminar Series
The Europeanization of Migration policy in South-East Europe: Changing Narratives and Institutional Adaptation
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Thoughtless About Violence: The Paradoxical Fate of Liberal Imperialism
Quantum Matter Seminar
Evidence for Unusual Magnetic Order in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
The Inadequacy of International Law for Private International Security
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Ian's recent work. Hard copies of Ian's paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before his colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Mateja at mp423@cam.ac.uk for a copy.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Role of Conceptions of History in Shaping Political Ideas: The Case of the Early-Fourteenth-Century Dominican John of Paris
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Globalization after Neoliberalism’s Troubled Decline
⚠️ Note change of day
Religion, Conflict and its Aftermath
A short history of jihād in the Islamic west: justifiable war on a religious frontier
Theory of Condensed Matter
Theory of exchange splittings of bands in diluted magnetic semiconductors
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Centre Launch and Inaugural Lecture by Francis M Deng, 'Managing Diversity as a Strategy for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities'
Faraday Institute Events
Calvin's Contributions to the Emergence of Modern Science
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Hobbes and Late Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
International Political Economy Research Group
Small States in the International Political Economy
Faraday Institute Events
Playing God?: Toward Machines that Deny Their Maker
⚠️ Bookstall and free refreshments afterwards
Jean Monnet Seminar Series
EU Policing and Organised Crime
Religion, Conflict and its Aftermath
Religion and International Relations after 9/11: Increased Cooperation or More Conflict?
Hinsley Lecture Series
Hinsley Lecture: "Can There Be A Single Great Power?"
Quantum Matter Seminar
Low temperature transport in an electron-hole bilayer: search for excitonic phases and collective modes.
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
‘The Power of Words: A Critical Investigation of the Language of Security’
⚠️ Please join us as we host our first colloquium exchange of the year, to discuss the work of Faye Donnelly from the University of St Andrews. Hard copies of Faye's paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane one week before her colloquium.
European Research Group
The Europeanization of Migration policy in South-East Europe: Changing Narratives and Institutional Adaptation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Christian Wolff's Critics and the 'Foundation of Morality' in the Early German Enlightenment
Theory of Condensed Matter
Amplified stochastic oscillations
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Senator David Coltart - Human Rights in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
"Just War: A State of the Art"
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Is Global Democracy Possible?
Faraday Institute Events
The Necessity of Chance: Randomness, Purpose and the Sovereignty of God
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dutch Accounting Practices and the Cultural Origins of Political Economy in Europe 1600-1730
Irregular seminars in TCM
Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
'US Liberalism: The Perennial Tradition in US Foreign Policy'
⚠️ Please join us for a discussion of Geraldo's recent work. The paper will be circulated shortly, and hard copies will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane closer to the time. As usual, the colloquium will be followed by drinks in the Mill.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought
Theory of Condensed Matter
Polarised Fermi Gases.
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
"More Than Just War: Modern Moral Imaginaries of War"
Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast measurements of the nonequilibrium charge-transfer state of Sr2CuCl2O2
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
All CRASSH events
José Scheinkman, 'Speculation and Bubbles'
Jean Monnet Seminar Series
Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty
Cavendish Physical Society
The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!
POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium
‘Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique’
⚠️ Please join us for the first POLIS Staff/PhD colloquium session of the year, a discussion of Dr Tarak Barkawi’s recent work.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Karl Marx and the Production Organism
Theory of Condensed Matter
Hybrid density functionals for accurate semiconductor band gaps
Faraday Institute Events
Information, Biological Complexity and Emergence
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Irregular seminars in TCM
Kinetics and Bose-Einstein condensation of parametrically driven magnons at RT.
Irregular seminars in TCM
Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys
Quantum Matter Seminar
Exotic or conventional - the physics of High-Tc Superconductors
Irregular seminars in TCM
Electronic Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the Iron Pnictides
Irregular seminars in TCM
What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium?
Irregular seminars in TCM
Heterogeneities in granular media
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'
TCM Informal Seminar Series
Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Coupled Arrays of Cavities
⚠️ Joint TCM/AMOP seminar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Transatlantic Dimension of Portuguese Political Thought, c. 1790-1840'
International Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Voice, Subjectivity and the Politics of Democratic Claim-Making
Quantum Matter Seminar
Theory of the Phase Diagarm of the Cuprates
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Economic Downturn and the Carbon Economy
Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series
Techniques of Totalitarian Power: comparing Mobilization Strategies of Mao, Hitler and Stalin
Faraday Institute Events
Natural Disasters and Christian Theology
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'"The Time Is Coming When Politics Will Have a Different Meaning"'
TCM Journal Club
Local density of states of electron-crystal phases in graphene in the quantum Hall regime
Theory of Condensed Matter
Kondo physics in multilevel quantum dots.
TCM Informal Seminar Series
Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic interactions
⚠️ Note changed time
Irregular seminars in TCM
Glasses, Jamming and Spin Glasses
Cavendish Physical Society
Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleships
Quantum Matter Seminar
Natural Optical Activity of Metals
Faraday Institute Events
The Secret History of Victorian Evolution
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Protagoras on Political Skill: Plato Protagoras 320c-328d'
TCM Informal Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Clark Lectures
Clark Lecture seminar in conjunction with the History of the Book seminar
⚠️ All are welcome, but it would be helpful if persons who do not regularly attend the History of the Book Seminar would contact Prof. Boyd Hilton beforehand (ajbh1@cam.ac.uk)
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fermi-surface and volume-collapse transitions in heavy fermions and pnictide superconductors
Clark Lectures
Cardenio Lost. Or, How to Make a Play with Don Quixote?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'From divine inspiration to empirical enquiry in the German Enlightenment: J. D. Michaelis on language and civilisation'
Scott Lectures
Physics and Complexity : Examples
Scott Lectures
Physics and Complexity : Methodologies
Quantum Matter Seminar
de Haas-van Alphen studies of the YbRh2Si2 Fermi surface: Lifshitz transition at H0 ~ 10 T
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Plan for Perpetual Peace: From Saint-Pierre to Rousseau'
Scott Lectures
Physics and Complexity : An Overview
Theory of Condensed Matter
QMC applied to two-component molecular systems
Faraday Institute Events
Creation ex Nihilo and What It Means for Science
⚠️ Free light buffet lunch from 12.30
CRASSH events
Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia
⚠️ NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings
International Political Economy Research Group
Smut's Memorial Lecture 2009: "Negotiating from Weakness in International Trade Relations"
Clark Lectures
Oisin Comes Home: Yeats as Inheritor
Cavendish Physical Society
Title to be confirmed
Quantum Matter Seminar
Electric Field Tuning of Manganites and Cuprates
Clark Lectures
Lost in the Big House: Anglo-Irishry and the Uses of the Supernatural
⚠️ Note change of day to Thursday
Cavendish Physical Society
The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview, Motivation and Status of the Project
International Political Economy Research Group
"Anything New Under the Sun? Trade and development in the EU's Economic
Theory of Condensed Matter
Ehrenfest Simulations of Radiation Damage in Metals
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin-Excitation Spectroscopy: Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale
Irregular seminars in TCM
Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritons
⚠️ Joint TCM/AMOP/NP seminar
Cavendish Physical Society
Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams
Clark Lectures
The Politicisation of Irish Literature
International Political Economy Research Group
Flexibility in carbon emissions trading: "when, where, how" and "why"?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Towards an understanding of how general anaesthetics work
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update
⚠️ Please note change of venue
Quantum Matter Seminar
Skyrmion lattice in chiral magnets
Theory of Condensed Matter
Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should be Interested
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading Group
Cavendish Physical Society
Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electron-phonon contribution to the photoemission kink in cuprate superconductors
Irregular seminars in TCM
Layered Kondo lattice model for novel quantum critical compound beta-YbAlB4
CRASSH events
Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century
⚠️ Closing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from £20 - £60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi
CRASSH events
Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo
Cavendish Physical Society
Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.
Irregular seminars in TCM
Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual Vacua
⚠️ Joint TCM/QM Seminar
Irregular seminars in TCM
Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the magnetic quantum critical point
Cavendish Physical Society
Inaugural Lecture: "Blink, and you miss it"
Quantum Matter Seminar
Larmor diffraction from antiferromagnetic and hidden order in URu2Si2
The Cultures of Climate Change
Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation
Theory of Condensed Matter
Freezing of cluster solids and the Gibbs phase rule
Quantum Matter Seminar
Heavy fermion states and quantum criticality
Cavendish Physical Society
Lord Rayleigh's Legacy
The Cultures of Climate Change
Listening in Place
Theory of Condensed Matter
Fractal superconductivity near localization threshold
⚠️ Note unusual time and day
Quantum Matter Seminar
Unconventional superconductivity originating from disconnected Fermi surfaces in the iron-based compounds
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900
The Hewish Lectures
Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity
Quantum Matter Seminar
Interactions and the dHvA Effect
Theory of Condensed Matter
Towards density functional theory calculations of defects in crystals
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum oscillations in an iron-based superconductor
The Cultures of Climate Change
Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy
Cavendish Physical Society
Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3He
Theory of Condensed Matter
Random searching: shining a light on structure space
Quantum Matter Seminar
Brian Pippard and non-local response in normal metals and superconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Ferromagnetic insulating state of manganites: Is it an electron glass?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Novel quantum phases on Kondo lattices due to quantum criticality and geometrical frustraton
Quantum Matter Seminar
Orbital Physics in Spinel Oxides
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008
⚠️ Lectures start June 30th. They will be available for viewing on the site later.
Irregular seminars in TCM
Dynamics of 1d quantum liquids
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008
⚠️ Lectures continue till July 3rd. They will be available for viewing on the site later.
Quantum Matter Seminar
THE FLUCTUATING BOND MODEL – A WAY TO UNDERSTAND CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS?
Quantum Matter Seminar
"Room-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnet
Irregular seminars in TCM
SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronics
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Irregular seminars in TCM
Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensates
Irregular seminars in TCM
Quantum Dynamics in the Thermodynamic Limit
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergent Behaviour in Heavy Electron Materials
Quantum Matter Seminar
Recent Progress on the Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Andreev reflection spectroscopy in CeCoIn5
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electronic structure in real space: optimised local orbitals for linear scaling, band structure and polarisation
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Disjointed Temporality of Climate Change
Irregular seminars in TCM
Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life)
⚠️ Note unusual time
Quantum Matter Seminar
Probing the electronic structure of layered 4d transition metal oxides by ARPES
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Ecological Thought
Theory of Condensed Matter
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for resonant fermions.
Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin Correlations in the Paramagnetic Phase of Quantum Magnets
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop
The Cultures of Climate Change
Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World
Theory of Condensed Matter
Complex dynamics in simple models of shear banding.
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum criticality in slightly Ir- and Co-doped YbRh2Si2
Irregular seminars in TCM
An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wells
Irregular seminars in TCM
Bound states of 2D electrons induced by the spin-orbit interaction
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Why is the violin so hard to play?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite
Theory of Condensed Matter
Single electron transistors coupled to resonators: from cooling to lasing
The Cultures of Climate Change
"Serious Things": On Literature and Environmentalism
The Cultures of Climate Change
Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetism under Pressure with Synchrotron Radiation
⚠️ Note non-standard date and time
Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)
A Critical Point for Science?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Grain boundaries in strontium titanate
The Cultures of Climate Change
The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change
Cavendish Physical Society
Title to be confirmed
Quantum Matter Seminar
Competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in low-dimensional magnets
Theory of Condensed Matter
Maximally-localised Wannier functions as building blocks of electronic structure
Quantum Matter Journal Club
Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
The Cultures of Climate Change
Imaging the Arctic
Cavendish Physical Society
Title to be confirmed
Quantum Matter Seminar
Peer Review and Citation Analysis in Physical Review Letters: An Editor's Perspective
⚠️ Note: Non-standard day and place
Irregular seminars in TCM
Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth
Mott Colloquium
Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth
Theory of Condensed Matter
Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Irregular seminars in TCM
A Numerical Renormalization Group for Continuum One Dimensional Systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superconductivity and the dark side of magnetism
Quantum Matter Seminar
Heavy fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd5Al2
The Cultures of Climate Change
Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England
Quantum Matter Seminar
Structure-dependent ferromagnetism in Au4V: Investigations into magnetic gold
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut
Cavendish Physical Society
Quarks and their quirks
Quantum Matter Seminar
Measuring correlations at the critical temperature of a dilute Bose gas
The Cultures of Climate Change
ICT and Climate Change
Theory of Condensed Matter
Resonant Level Hybridized with Luttinger Liquid
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
TBC
Cavendish Physical Society
The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray Crystallography
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality in two-dimensional helium
The Cultures of Climate Change
What is a Climate Refugee?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Shear Banding in Complex Fluids: Wall effects and unstable dynamics
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
The Global Conservation Crisis
⚠️ offered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series
Cavendish Physical Society
Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously
Quantum Matter Seminar
A Ginzburg Landau Approach to Superconductivity in the Cuprates
The Cultures of Climate Change
Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of Imagination
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electrons in bilayer graphene
Quantum Matter Seminar
Transport and Thermodynamic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors Calculated from the Energy-Momentum Dispersion.
The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08
The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin
Quantum Matter Seminar
Simulating the solid state with ultracold atom gases
Cavendish Physical Society
Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons
Theory of Condensed Matter
Are deterministic nanomachines viable? - A simulation study of energy dissipation in carbon nanotube-based devices.
Quantum Matter Seminar
Unconventional Kondo lattice systems: Eu-compounds and ferromagnetic Ce-systems
Irregular seminars in TCM
The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
High pressure synthesis, structural and physical properties of the new A-site ordered double perovskite oxides CaCu3Fe4O12 and (Ca,Y)Cu3Co4O12
Irregular seminars in TCM
Density-functional perturbation theory goes time dependent: from static properties, to lattice vibrations, up to optical excitations
Quantum Matter Seminar
Novel Experiments in Superfluid Helium-3 at Ultralow Temperatures
Quantum Matter Seminar
Exploring metallization and superconductivity in elements and simple molecular systems at megabar pressures
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of the high-T_c superconductor YBCO
Theory of Condensed Matter
Coherent coupling of excitons in quantum dots probed by two-dimensional four-wave mixing
Mott Colloquium
How do animals detect sensory stimuli? Experiments in photoreceptors, pain-sensitive receptors and magneto-receptors
Quantum Matter Seminar
NaxCoO2 and Related Oxides from the Perspective of their Electronic Structures
Theory of Condensed Matter
Record dynamics in spin glasses, superconductors and biological evolution.
Mott Colloquium
Time and Frequency as New Frontiers in Microscopy
Theory of Condensed Matter
Multiscale Simulations of Mechanical Properties: From General Issues to Fracture and Friction
Quantum Matter Seminar
Interlayer tunneling in Bi-2212: Evidence for strong-coupling features and impurity effects
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Title to be confirmed
Scott Lectures
A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics
Theory of Condensed Matter
Monte Carlo methods in cosmology
Scott Lectures
Optics with laser-like atom waves
Scott Lectures
Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping
⚠️ Refreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer
Mott Colloquium
Collapse of a Granular Column
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-Flâneur
Philosophy of Physics
Realism, the Interpretation of Quantum Theory, and Idealism
Theory of Condensed Matter
Polariton Bose-Einstein condensation: Theoretical analysis in terms of a two-component weakly-interacting Bose gas
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything
Philosophy of Physics
Introduction to Algebraic Quantum Statistical Mechanics
Mott Colloquium
What's Cooking in Mining
Irregular seminars in TCM
Cold and dense dipolar exciton quantum fluids in two dimensions.
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Title to be confirmed
Philosophy of Physics
The nature of time in a closed system
Quantum Matter Seminar
Metal to metal transitions (Joint TCM/QM seminar)
Cavendish Physical Society
Planar Photonics meta-materials: spectral selectivity, "invisible metals", magnetic mirrors, chirality, asymmetric transmission and nano-focusing
Philosophy of Physics
The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity
The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH
Alternative spatialities for a global city
Theory of Condensed Matter
Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in suspensions: Coarse-graining over time and length-scales
Cavendish Physical Society
SOME MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF FILMS AND BUBBLES DEMONSTRATED
Quantum Matter Seminar
Phonon anomalies in superconductors studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering
⚠️ *** Note non-standard date ***
Philosophy of Physics
On classical limits of quantum theory
Quantum Matter Seminar
Some Controversial Issues in High Tc Superconductivity - a Specific Heat Perpective
Quantum Matter Seminar
High pressure study of a quasi one dimensional two band conductor
Irregular seminars in TCM
Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high doping
Quantum Matter Seminar
From solitons to magnons via transverse field in an Ising magnet
Theory of Condensed Matter
The Energy Crisis on the back of an envelope
Quantum Matter Seminar
Understanding superconductivity in spin ladders: new tools and a hard climb!
Philosophy of Physics
Is Teleportation a (quantum) mystery?
Mott Colloquium
Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
Philosophy of Physics
Against Pointillisme about Geometry and about Mechanics
Theory of Condensed Matter
Determination of protein structures using NMR chemical shifts
Cavendish Physical Society
Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid Surfaces
Quantum Matter Seminar
Search for Stripes in Lightly Hole Doped YBa2Cu3O6 by ESR and IR Transmission
Philosophy of Physics
Stochastic Einstein Locality : Part Two
Mott Colloquium
The rich physics of nanowires
Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetic frustration and ferroelectricity
Philosophy of Physics
MACHIAN DYNAMICS: THE END OF TIME? PART TWO
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electron Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors
⚠️ Joint TCM/OE seminar
Cavendish Physical Society
WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?
Philosophy of Physics
Machian Dynamics: The End of Time?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Origin of large electromechanical coupling in relaxor ferroelectrics
Mott Colloquium
QED in a Pencil Trace
Philosophy of Physics
Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited
Cavendish Physical Society
Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmology
Philosophy of Physics
Reconsidering Relativistic Causality
Quantum Matter Seminar
Giant sharp magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic epitaxial La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 on BaTiO3
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon
Quantum Matter Seminar
Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5: Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases
Quantum Matter Seminar
Doing low temperature physics six decades ago
Quantum Matter Seminar
Competing orders in low-dimensional doped quantum spin systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
Unconventional Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality in CeCoIn5
Quantum Matter Seminar
Metamagnetism and Quantum Criticality in Sr3Ru2O7
Quantum Matter Seminar
The Dual Nature of Electrons
Quantum Matter Seminar
Emergent phases in tuneable quantum materials
Quantum Matter Seminar
Electrons on the Magnetic Quantum Roundabout - Measuring Fermi Surfaces and Band Renormalisation in Correlated Materials
Theory of Condensed Matter
Investigating quantum matter with cold atomic gases
⚠️ Note time - Wednesday, 2.00pm
Quantum Matter Seminar
The quest for imperfection
Quantum Matter Seminar
Tunability and self-organisation of quantum matter
Mott Colloquium
Spin Ice - a Laboratory for Statistical Physics
Quantum Matter Seminar
From quantum critical magnets to superconductivity in graphite intercalates
Theory of Condensed Matter
New Challenges in the physics of high temperature superconductors
⚠️ note change of Venue
Theory of Condensed Matter
Condensates in Flatland - Bose gases in two dimensions
⚠️ note change of time - 10.00am Friday
Mott Colloquium
Fusion of Relativistic Vortices in Josephson Arrays
Quantum Matter Seminar
The Generation and Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Dissipationless Fluid--4He at 20 mK
Theory of Condensed Matter
Electronic-structure challenges in biomimetic catalysis
Cavendish Physical Society
Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detection
Quantum Matter Seminar
High magnetic fields: A tool for studying strongly correlated systems
Quantum Matter Seminar
Unconventional noise and aging experiments in manganites and superconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Transport and thermodynamic properties of cuprate superconductors: E(k) dispersion, pseudogap and isotope effects
Theory of Condensed Matter
To be confirmed
Mott Colloquium
Through a Glass Darkly - and Other Optical metastabilities"
Tarner Lectures
Objects and the Scientific Self II: Wastelands and Wilderness
Theory of Condensed Matter
Is the Hidden Electronic Order in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered?
Quantum Matter Seminar
Is the "Hidden Electronic Order" in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered?
Cavendish Physical Society
Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter
Tarner Lectures
Objects and the Scientific Self I: What Machines Demand of Us
Tarner Lectures
Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: Picturing Objectivity
Cavendish Physical Society
"Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"
Theory of Condensed Matter
Spin and charge quantum phase transitions in narrow-band metals
Mott Colloquium
Quantum computing with electron spins in quantum dots
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superfluid stiffness and defect-assisted pair-breaking: getting a handle on organic superconductors
Mott Colloquium
No Mott Colloquium this week
Quantum Matter Seminar
New Effects in Vortex Resistivity and Pinning in Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6+x
Theory of Condensed Matter
Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics
Scott Lectures
New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem
Mott Colloquium
Fluorescence imaging on the micro- and the nanoscale
Theory of Condensed Matter
Dynamics of network motifs
Cavendish Physical Society
"The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
Polymorphism in organic and inorganic solids
Mott Colloquium
Controlling the Flow of Colour: Photonic Systems in Biology
Quantum Matter Seminar
Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment
Theory of Condensed Matter
Photon Anti-bunching
Theory of Condensed Matter
Local correlation methods for molecular electronic structure calculations
Cavendish Physical Society
Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control
Quantum Matter Seminar
Dispelling Shadows in the Photoemission of Bi-2212
Mott Colloquium
Charge Transport in Organic Single-crystal Transistors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?
Cavendish Physical Society
Scanning the cosmological horizon
Mott Colloquium
Nano-Ferroelectric Materials and Devices
Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems
Theory of Condensed Matter
Nanomechanical Oscillators: from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation
Mott Colloquium
"Mott Centenary Lecture" - Present Status of the Theory of High Temperature Superconductors
Quantum Matter Seminar
Observation and Non-Observation of Vortex Matter Phase Transitions in Niobium
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
This House believes that the European Union is bad for Britain
Theory of Condensed Matter
Mapping Phase Diagrams by Atomistic Simulation
Cavendish Physical Society
The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
Robert Frisk
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
Sir Jeremy Greenstock
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
This House would rather warm up the planet than cool down the economy.
Scott Lectures
Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem
Quantum Matter Seminar
Dynamics in Cuprates and Manganites: From Femtoseconds to Minutes
Quantum Matter Seminar
Heat Transport in Quantum Materials
Theory of Condensed Matter
Evolutionary genetics
Quantum Matter Seminar
Sr2RuO4: Inflating the Fermi Surface
Theory of Condensed Matter
TBA
Quantum Matter Seminar
Tangles in Infinity: The Kagome Spin Glass
Theory of Condensed Matter
TBA
Theory of Condensed Matter
Non-Equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Riemann Hilbert Problem
Cavendish Physical Society
Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal Growth, X-Ray and Neutron Scattering - Fun with Complex Oxides
Theory of Condensed Matter
Superconducting pairing in small metallic nanoparticles
Cavendish Physical Society
Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996)
Quantum Matter Seminar
Alpha-Uranium and Its Superconductivity
Cavendish Physical Society
Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum Information
Theory of Condensed Matter
Analogies between superfluid helium Three and the Universe
Quantum Matter Seminar
Superfluid 3He: The Universal Substance from Cosmology to Hydrodynamics via NMR (and OR)
Cavendish Physical Society
Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with Light
Theory of Condensed Matter
Squids
Quantum Matter Seminar
Microtesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A New Clinical Modality?
Theory of Condensed Matter
Field theoretic methods in polymer stat mech
Quantum Matter Seminar
Negative Thermal Expansion, Phonons, and Neutron Scattering
Quantum Matter Seminar
Intrinsic Inhomogeneities in the Strongly Correlated Electron System CeNi1-xCux
Theory of Condensed Matter
"Quantum turbulence"
Theory of Condensed Matter
The electronic structure of proteins as obtained by first principles total energy calculations
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