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12 upcoming talks and 2226 talks in the archive.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

UserProfessor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

The cacti and other attractions of Colorado

A last minute change to the programme - thanks to David Minnion for stepping in at the last minute to replace our planned speaker.

UserDavid Minnion.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2024, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

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UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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UserRosemary Fricker.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

UserProfessor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMeeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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UserOlwen Williams.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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UserMorgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

UserProfessor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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UserStephen Tomkins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

UserProfessor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

A personal choice - Cacti and Succulents

Change to programme: Tom was originally going to give his talk on 12th July 2023, but now 9th August 2023.

UserTom Radford.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 09 August 2023, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Cacti of the Río Mantaro, Peru

Change to programme: Paul was originally going to give his talk on 9th August 2023, but now 12th July 2023.

UserPaul Hoxey.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 12 July 2023, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

UserProfessor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

UserProf. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

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UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Annual General Meeting

IMPORTANT: the branch currently has no secretary, and will have to cease activities if a new secretary doesn't come forward.

User..

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

UserProfessor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

HouseVia Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

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

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

User Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

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UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

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UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

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UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

UserProf. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

UserProfessor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The physics of how humans build models of the world

UserProf Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

To see a world in a grain of sand

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological pumping in new territory

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

UserProf Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockTuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

UserUlf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

UserProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

HouseTeams Livestream.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

UserProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

HouseTeams Livestream.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

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

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials

UserMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts

UserDr. Anastasia Fialkov, University of Sussex.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

UserProfessor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"

This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv

UserProf Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

HousePippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv .

ClockWednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Surprising Universe

UserProfessor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

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

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserProf Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Celestial Incantations

UserDr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

A celebration of women in astronomy

UserProfessor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Black holes, galaxies and the Nobel Prize

UserProfessor Roger Davies, University of Oxford.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

UserDr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?

UserProfessor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Severe Space Weather

UserProfessor Richard Horne FRS, British Antarctic Survey.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

UserDr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

UserProfessor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

UserSpeakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information..

ClockTuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

UserProfessor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria

This lecture is a Livestream Event

UserDr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory.

House tinyurl.com/y7ajn97h.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

UserProf Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

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

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

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

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Computing

UserProf Mike Payne (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Househttps://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2021, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Higgs boson as a portal to new physics

UserDr Maria Ubiali (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Househttps://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva

UserSimon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

UserProfessor Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland).

Househttps://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2021, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

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

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The curious case of the pulsating star - the discovery of pulsars

UserProf Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford University).

HouseOnline: CUPS Zoom.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2021, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium

UserProf Vedika Khemani (Stanford University).

HouseOnline: CUPS Zoom.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2021, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death

UserProfessor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Gravity, String Theory and the Structure of Space and Time

UserProf. Elias Kiritsis, Université de Paris, Crete Center for Theoretical Physics.

HouseOnline: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

UserProfessor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum matter: emergent phenomena when electrons team up

UserProfessor Stephen Blundell, Correlated Electrons Group, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

How to measure the spin of a black hole

UserProf. Christopher Reynolds, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn & https://youtu.be/MpfIqW0foJQ.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature

UserProf Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseTeams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Making NanoMachines move

in collaboration with CU NanoSoc

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 19:30-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

’Seeing early cancer in a new light’

UserProf Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory.

Househttps://tinyurl.com/y4og7frr.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Unconventional computing with liquid light

Note unusual time

UserProf Natalia Berloff, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum computation with superconducting qubits

UserDr. Abhinav Kandala, IBM Corporation.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseTeams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

UserProfessor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and the Second Quantum Revolution

Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

UserProf. Duncan Haldane, Princeton University.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos

UserDr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP.

HouseTeams Livestream.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Finding Hidden Order with your Cell Phone

UserProf. Paul Chaikin, New York University.

HouseOnline: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied

Join the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra

UserDr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge.

HouseTeams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Field Theory (in a Nutshell)

Annual Maxwell Talk (in collaboration with the Archimedeans)

UserProf. Anthony Zee, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Physical Society

'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'

UserProf Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

UserProfessor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Soft matter quasicrystals: when can they exist and when will we observe them?

UserDr Priya Subramanian, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

UserProfessor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

UserProfessor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

UserProfessor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

A fusion power plant — why not

UserDr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

UserProfessor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

UserProfessor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

There will be hands-on activities involving Laser Beam equipment.

UserDr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

UserProfessor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Force Awakens

UserProfessor Ben Allanach, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Modern Bootstrap

Annual Maxwell Talk (Collaboration with Archimedeans) - Free Entry

UserProfessor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseBristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Clusters of Galaxies

UserDr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Understanding the Iceland mantle plume: Imaging deep Earth processes with seismic waves

Since this is our first talk, the talk is free admission!

UserDr. Jennifer Jenkins, Bullard Laboratories University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

UserDr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

UserDr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Relativistic fluid flows

UserProfessor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify?

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME

UserProfessor Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

UserDr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

From deep learning to the dark universe

UserProfessor Ofer Lahav, University College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From brain descriptions to brain explanations

UserProfessor Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

This lecture has been cancelled

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Randomness in classical and quantum dynamics

UserProfessor Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The long road to the Higgs boson

UserProfessor Sir Tejinder Virdee, Imperial College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Unsolved mysteries of fundamental physics

UserProfessor John Baez, University of California, Riverside.

HouseBristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

UserProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

UserDr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicist's spin on data science

UserDeborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches

UserDr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseCoslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

THE MATHEMATICAL MAGIC OF MIXED REALITY

User Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon, Partner Scientist at Microsoft HoloLens.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 19 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

UserMatthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm.

HouseHelmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

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

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

THE PYE STORY

UserBob Bates and Richard Howes, Pye History Trust.

HouseAnglia Ruskin University : Lord Ashcroft Building 003, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Volcanoes and Explosions

UserProfessor Andy Woods (BP Institute, Department of Earth Sciences).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Emergence in Physics: Life, the Universe and the Nature of Reality

UserProfessor Stephen Blundell (Correlated Electrons Group, University of Oxford).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Tying Knots in Wavefunctions

UserProfessor Mark Dennis (Theoretical Physics Group, University of Bristol).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

A Turbulent World (...and what happens if you spin it)

UserProfessor Alexander Schekochihin (Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics, University of Oxford).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Polariton Graph Optimisers

UserProfessor Natalia Berloff (DAMTP, Quantum Fluids Group).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

A rose by any other name

N.B. This talk is a change from the original programme.

UserBill Morris.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 13 December 2017, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Geocentric or Heliocentric models of the Cosmos? It’s the Physics, stupid.

UserDr Piers Bursill-Hall, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A Mechanical Basis of Morphogenesis

UserDr John Biggins, University of Cambridge (Theory of Condensed Matter).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The Future for Low Carbon Vehicles - Hybrid and Electric Vehicles?

UserSteven Doyle, Leader business development at Ricardo for hybrid & electronic systems.

HouseAnglia Ruskin University : Lord Ashcroft Building, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Nature's Optics and our Understanding of Light

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry, Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus), University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

What is an Elementary Particle?

UserDr Claudio Castelnovo, Cavendish Laboratory (Theory of Condensed Matter).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Asclepiadaceae

N.B. This talk is a change from the original programme.

UserTom Radford.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics of the Everyday

UserProfessor Dame Athene Donald, Churchill College (Biological and Soft Systems).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Future of Particle Physics

Note unusual time

UserProfessor Ian Shipsey, Univeristy of Oxford (ATLAS Oxford Group, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Quest of Modelling Complex Systems

UserProfessor Kim Christensen, Imperial College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

AI for Better Patient Outcomes

UserMultiple - see http://events.theiet.org/aihealthcare/index.cfm.

HouseMicrosoft Research Lab, 21 Station Rd Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB1 2FB United Kingdom.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 08:30-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Novel Worldview Suggested by Quantum Gravity

Maxwell Lecture - Free entry

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique.

HouseBristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition

UserProfessor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

From Mars to Multiverse

UserLord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 19:45-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Keronite

Talk starts 7pm following AGM

UserDr Steve Hutchins, CTO of Keronite.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 18 July 2017, 18:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

UserLord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

UserProf Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

UserProf Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

UserDr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

UserProfessor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

UserDr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Bio Analyser Systems: An introduction to the principles and engineering of equipment to analyse biological samples

UserDavid Molony CEng – independent Engineering Consultant. Formerly technical lead at TAP Biosystems.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Younger Members' Workshop

UserAll of us on the IET Cambridge Committee.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

UserProf. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

3D printing with Ultimaker 3D printing machines

All welcome. Free to attend. Please register

UserDaniel Abram, Technical Support Manager, 3DGBIRE, the UK partner for Ultimaker 3D printing machines.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 18:30-20:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Professional Registration Event

Note unusual time

UserIET Cambridge committee and visitors from IET Central Offices.

HouseLR4, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET PRESTIGE LECTURE - ROBOTS HELPING PEOPLE

Tea is served from 6pm

UserProfessor Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Room , Churchill College, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

UserProf. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

Userprof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

A Comet's Tale

Note new start time of 19:45

UserJonathan Shanklin.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 19:45-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

UserProf. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

UserProf. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

UserDr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

UserProf. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

BRITISH CYCLING

Registration for this event is essential (link below)

UserTony Purnell, Head of Technical Development at British Cycling.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Visualizing Quantum Matter

UserJ.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University; Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The great devolution debate

Please let us know if you plan to attend this event at gsi-info@anglia.ac.uk

UserPanel of experts from academia and local government.

HouseCoslett Building (COS 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Is the Milky Way Special?

UserProfessor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Black Holes: The most extreme physics laboratories in the Universe

NOTE THURSDAY RATHER THAN TUESDAY

UserDr Matt Middleton (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

UserDr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves

UserGabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University .

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProf. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The satellites of the Milky Way

UserGabriel Torrealba (Institute of Astronomy).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 19:30-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Epochs

UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Jupiter and JUNO

FREE FOR ALL

UserDr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2016, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Medical Engineering at TWI (talk and visit)

Free visit. Booking required

UserTom Pinto CEng MIMechE Senior Medical Project Engineer - Electron Beam Processes Section, Joining Technologies Group, TWI .

HouseTWI, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockThursday 22 September 2016, 18:30-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

UserProfessor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

UserMelissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Catalyst

UserMichael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Silk - the physics behind the function

Presentation at 6:30 pm, light refreshments from 6:00 pm. These talks are open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr. Peter Laity. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 18:00-20:00

Winton Discussions

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

UserGareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

UserAlissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

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

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system

UserProfessor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Nigeria: energy past to climate future

UserJohn Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Beers and Careers: Cambridge Engineering Network Event

UserAdvisors from selected Cambridge companies will be in attendance, as well as fellow engineers from early-to mid careers looking to share experiences. .

HouseEspresso Library, 210 East Road, Cambridge CB1 1BG.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

A Match Made in Heaven: Materials Science and Archaeology in the studies of Invention and Innovation of the Earliest Eurasian Metallurgy

Presentation at 6:30 pm, light refreshments from 6:00 pm. These talks are open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr. Miljana Radivojevic. Anniversary Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

UserDr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

PRESTIGE LECTURE - DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE

Tea is served from 6pm

UserProf. Andrew Harrison, Diamond Light Source.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Einstein’s Brane

UserProf Paul Townsend (DAMTP Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Smart infrastructure and construction - the challenges and opportunities for the use of sensors in monitoring infrastructure and construction

These talks are open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr. Jennifer Schooling, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC).

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Clean energy from liquid air – the EpiQair engine [ IMechE ]

Free to attend. All welcome.

UserTony Dye, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer of Epicam Ltd.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Higgs boson and beyond

UserProf John Ellis (King's College London).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 20:00-21:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Building Britain's Most Powerful Steam Locomotive

UserRob Morland, BSc (Hons) CEng FIET, Trustee and Director, Electrical Engineering, The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust .

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 18:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics

UserProf David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Winton Discussions

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

UserEmily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"

UserProfessor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

PICO PROJECT – NO MORE PASSWORDS

Tea is served from 6pm

UserDr. Frank Stajano, Computer Lab, Cambridge University,.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 December 2015, 18:30-20:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Recent Advances in Sensor Technologies for Mobile Healthcare - Prof Chris Lowe

Cambridge Centre of the Biomedical Engineering Association Inaugural Lecture

UserEmeritus Professor Chris Lowe, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Technology Development

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil

UserDr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Computing and Teleportation

UserProf Richard Jozsa (DAMTP University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 20:00-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change

UserIan Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia

This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year

UserProfessor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Roland Smith (Imperial College).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Role Models: research models to answer policy questions

UserMr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Repairing offshore wind turbine blades

UserSimon Sanderson, Technical Director of Rotos 360 Ltd, and Charles Lee, Director of Futureneering Ltd.

HouseUTC Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SZ.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way

Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.

UserProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Women in Engineering - Celebrating Local Achievements

Registration required - see event web page

UserDr Helen Meese CEng MIMechE, Head of Engineering in Society, Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

HouseThe Gallery, Building 38, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Extremely Complex Problems in Metallurgy

This is an open lecture. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be available from 18:00.

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers

UserHands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"

UserProf. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

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

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

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

News from the Large Hadron Collider

UserProfessor Andy Parker (University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Maths and the Arts

The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.

UserProfessor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

THE WINNING FUEL IN FORMULA 1 – PASSION, EDUCATION AND DEDICATION

Buffet from 6pm (booking required)

UserIan Greig, Mercedes Benz Grand Prix Engineering team.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet?

UserPanel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Ghost Imaging

UserProf Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Limits to growth - a new generation

UserIrma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseRoom 302, Helmore Building (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities

UserProfessor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

UserProfessor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices

UserDr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

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

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

ROBOTICS - THE FUTURE OF KEYHOLE SURGERY

Tea is served from 6pm

UserLuke Hares, Cambridge Medical Robotics.

House Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

The Role of Technology Consultancies in R&D Ecosystems: Case Studies from Medical Devices

UserIain Simpson is an Associate Director, Drug Delivery, Global Medical Technology Division, Cambridge ConsultantsSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2015, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research

UserProf. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

High Speed Two: Engine for Growth

See important new information below about parking!

UserPeter Fry, Public Affairs Manager, High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project

Please note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels"

UserRod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The prospects for thin film PV solar energy in a world dominated by crystalline silicon

Light refreshments available from 19:00. These talks are open and all are welcome.

UserProfessor Stuart Irvine, Director of Centre for Solar Energy Research, Glyndŵr University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings

The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials

UserDr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Food Futures in the World

Can GM crops help to feed the world?

Last talk of term!

UserProfessor Sir Brian Heap.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

UserProf. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Remaking our future: a radically different approach

Lunch Provided

UserRob Shaw, Director of Sustainability & Climate Change, LDA Design.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Patents in theory and in practice

UserDr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Cellulose: Future technology for the world’s most utilised material

Anyone with an interest in the topic is very welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProf Steve Eichorn, Head of Engineering, University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

A remarkable set of contemplations

UserCraig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Topological insulators: an experimentalist's perspective

Postponed due to speaker illness - until start of Easter term

UserProfessor Thorsten Hesjedal (University of Oxford).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 20:00-21:00

Food Futures in the World

Resource competition: Supporting a growing population whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions

UserDr Astley Hastings, Research Fellow, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity?

UserProf Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Silicon in the 21st century

UserProfessor Gabriel Aeppli (UCL).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

New directions in liquid crystals

UserProfessor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Food Futures in the World

Food Wastage and Global Food Security

UserDr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment, Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Measuring the Universe with a 10^26 inch ruler

UserProf Alan Heavens, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Making light from the dark universe

UserDr Joseph Conlon (University of Oxford).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

How cold is dark matter?

UserProf Martin Haehnelt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture: Advanced Materials and 3D Printing for the Regeneration of Human tissues

Tea is served from 6pm

UserProfessor Kevin Shakesheff, Director Wolfson Centre for Tissue Engineering .

HouseWolfson Lecture Room , Churchill College, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities

UserProfessor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Food Futures in the World

Feeding the world without costing the earth

UserProfessor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

UserProf. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Philip Campbell (editor-in-chief, Nature).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Gaia satellite / 3D map of the galaxy

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore (IoA, Cambridge University).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

UserProf. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Cosmology/inflation talk (title TBC)

UserDr Daniel Baumann (DAMTP, Cambridge University).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Signature Materials – metal thieves, your card is marked!

These talks are open to everyone interested in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserDavid W Arthur, Project Manager, Signature Materials, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Chemical Compositions of Extrasolar Planets

UserDr Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Winton Discussions

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

UserDr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From gas to stars in galaxies

UserDr Adrianne Slyz (University of Oxford).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Hidden Universe Revealed

UserProf Robert C. Kennicutt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation in Practise

UserProf. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Everything from nothing

Change of speaker; Prof Bower will now be giving a talk.

UserProfessor Richard Bower (University of Durham).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Biosensors; Past Present and Future: The role of materials over the past two decades - With a look to the future

The lecture is open and anyone with an interest in the subject is welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProfessor Seamus Higson, Head, Cranfield Biotechnology Centre, Cranfield University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Weighing the Universe with the Lightest Elements

UserProf Max Pettini, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 19:30-20:30

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Engineering the Future of Medicine

UserProfessor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science, Cambridge University.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 18:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 220 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Cosmology (Title TBA)

UserDr Anthony Challinor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) & Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Biomaterial Scaffolds

Please register your interest by email, if possible by Friday 14 November 2014, to: Events Coordinator, Society of Biology East Anglia Branch - societyofbiologyea@gmail.com - including your affiliation (Society of Biology / CAMSOC) and a contact number.

UserVarious members of the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence

UserProf. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience”

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge University).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Asteroseismology (Title TBA)

UserProf Donald Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Capturing light on the nanoscale

UserProfessor Sir John Pendry (Imperial College).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

50 Years of X-ray Astronomy

UserDr Stephen Walker, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.

UserProf. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Nanomagnetism: from green computing to cancer therapy

UserProfessor Russell Cowburn (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High magnetic fields as a tool for discovery

UserDr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

How to simulate our Universe?

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

How quantum physics democratized music

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry (University of Bristol).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Richard III: Wounds, Weapons and Armour

The lecture is open and anyone with an interest in the subject is welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProfessor Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory

UserMalcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Night Vision: exploring the infrared universe

UserProf Michael Rowan-Robinson, Imperial College London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

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

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

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

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

You can’t stop progress

Sustainable Lunch Provided. Free to attend.

UserRupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?

UserProfessor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Feasibility of Wind & Solar Energy Systems for Large Geographic Domains

UserDr Christopher Clack, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

UserDr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE Project

The listed speaker is not available; Dr Hunt has very kindly agreed to deliver this lecture in his place

UserDr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Bugs 'n Steel Afloat and On Shore

Prof. Lindsay Greer has kindly offered to provide a tour of the Department. Please arrive by 6:30 pm if you wish to join the tour. Light refreshments from 7:00 pm. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome to attend.

UserDr James Cleland, Camcor.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Higgs Vortices and Black Hole Hair

UserProfessor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Current Issues in Energy Policy

UserDr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

UserDr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Social Perceptions of Sustainable Materials

Cancelled as speaker is not available

UserSarah Wilkes, Institute of Making, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces

UserProf Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

Winton Discussions

The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?

UserDr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!

UserLuke Webster.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The Tornado Story: From Dream to Steam

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRob Morland BSc (Hons) CEng, FIET, Director Electricals, A1 Steam Locomotive Trust.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 20 March 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Welding & Joining Developments in the Aerospace Industry

Joint meeting with Eastern Counties branch of The Welding Institute. Buffet available from 18:00. If attending, please contact Alan Shand (Lloyds Register) Tel: 0207 423 2833 Email: alan.shand@lr.org

UserDr Richard Freeman, TWI Ltd.

HouseG3, Bevan Braithwaite Building, TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL .

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Book Evening

In association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserProfs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

UserDr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes

Come along for this very special lunchtime talk to find out about the future of biodiversity! Feel free to bring your own lunch, but light refreshments will be also provided.

UserEd Turner, Department of Zoology.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Advances in Laser Based Manufacturing – Prof Bill O’Neill

UserProfessor Bill O’Neill, Professor of Laser Engineering within the Cambridge University Engineering Department and Director of the Centre of Industrial Photonics.

HouseInstitute for Manufacturing, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings

UserProfessor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials

Slight refreshment will be provided.

UserPu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

A V HILL LECTURE

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserDr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Improving cancer survival through molecular imaging

UserDr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture - Pushing back the boundaries of computer science

All are welcome: Tea is served from 6pm

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research.

HouseThe Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Soft Matter in Motion

UserDr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can Research Prevent Crime?

UserProfessor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era

UserAlexander Summers, Botanic Garden.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY

UserDr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Realising the SKYLON Spaceplane

Light refreshments available from 19:00. Anyone interested is welcome. Please note the new venue - on the West Cambridge site.

UserMark Hempsell, Reaction Engines.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance

UserProfessor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

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

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Cambridge Branch

RAF Bomber Command Pathfinder Force

UserJohn Clifford, WO James Blackwood & Andy anderson (RAF Pathfinder Museum).

HouseHughes Hall, Cambridge University.

ClockThursday 12 December 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Bubbles-Particles-Capsules-Fibres at all scales!

Anyone interested in the topic is welcome. Light refreshments from 19:00. Note - new venue on West Cambridge site.

UserProf. Mohan Edirisinghe, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 11 December 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmic Reionization

UserDr Chris Carilli, NRAO.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Photonics in Nature

UserDr Silvia Vignolini, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 20:00-21:00

Winton Discussions

Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow

UserProf Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserAlek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Comets - Omens of Doom

UserJonathan Shanklin, Director of the BAA and SPA Comet Sections.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Prof. George Efstathiou – The Birth of the Universe

UserProf. George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserLouise Biddle, University of East Anglia.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

More Bang for your Buck – formulation and characterisation of explosive materials

Talk is open to all. Light refreshments from 19:00. Note - new venue on West Cambridge site

UserAnnette Glauser.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance

The CSAR AGM will precede this lecture at 19:15

UserProfessor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Cambridge Branch

Operation ELLAMY - The RAF in Libya 2011

Notification of attendance required: please send full name to Jon Land at hon.secretary@cambridgeraes.info or call 01223 373033

UserSqn Ldr Smith RAF.

HouseMarshall Aerospace Conference Room No 1. Cambridge City Airport, Newmarket Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 18:00-20:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Venezuela - a BCSS digital presentation

To be confirmed. Not the talk on Lithops which was originally planned, as this was moved to September.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

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

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton .

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Billy Boyle, Owlstone

Free refreshments served from 18.30. Talks starts at 19.00

UserBilly Boyle, Co-Founder and President, Operations, Owlstone.

HouseLecture Room 6, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 18:30-20:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Bits and their relation to Nanotechnology

UserProf. Charles Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Fireworks Universe: a Brief History of the Big Bang Theories

UserDr Simon Mitton, Vice President Royal Astronomical Society, St Edmund's College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Beyond Nano: Manipulating Matter at the Single Bond Limit

UserProf. Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham .

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms"

UserProf Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Gaia: ESA's next big astrophysics mission

UserProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2013, 19:30-20:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Realising your potential at an early stage

Free event - All welcome

UserVarious (see programme).

HouseGirton College, Cambridge, CB3 0JG.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2013, 11:30-13:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Murphy's Law and the Large Hadron Collider

UserDr Chris Lester, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive

The ‘Festival of Ideas’ Lecture

UserDr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

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

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

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Richard III: Wounds, Weapons and Armour -CANCELLED DUE TO SPEAKER'S ILLNESS

Note: This meeting will be held at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at their new location on the West Cambridge site. Please come along. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProf. Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Applied and not-yet-applied

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

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested

UserProf Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

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

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Lithops and other mesembs.

Originally planned for November 2013, but moved due to Jonathan having another commitment.

UserJonathan Clark.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 11 September 2013, 19:00-22:00

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Cambridge Branch

SR71 - Flying a Secret Mission

A unique insight into the history, development and flying of the SR-71 from a distinguished SR-71 Blackbird Pilot.

UserCol. Richard H Graham USAF (Ret'd).

HouseLecture Theatre '0' of the Cambridge University Engineering Department on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ..

ClockTuesday 10 September 2013, 19:00-21:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Recent Advances in Tunnelling Technology – Potential for Cambridge Underground Transport?

UserProfessor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Room 4, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockTuesday 10 September 2013, 18:30-20:30

Winton Discussions

Creating Impact from Research

UserDr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

UserStuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

UserMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Winton Discussions

Biological photovoltaic systems

UserProf Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The UK'S facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements

Tea is served from 6pm

UserJamie Trembath, FAAM, Cranfield University.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 16 May 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

UserProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Exoplanet Science, the way forward

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

UserProfessor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England .

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

UserProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Cyber Security: Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Tea is served from 6pm

UserPaul Beechey, Senior IT Security Specialist - QinetiQ.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Energy saving when manufacturing high value castings

Our talks are open to all with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments will be available from 7:00 pm.

UserProf. Mark Jolly, Cranfield University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 17 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Branch members: interesting plants

Note: change of talk. Please bring interesting plants to discuss.

UserBranch members.

HouseGreat Shelford Memorial Hall, Woollards Lane, Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22 5LZ.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2013, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Economics for a Finite Planet

UserProfessor Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Winton Discussions

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

UserDr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Eastern Counties Branch of The Welding Institute

M52 – Britain’s wartime supersonic project

Please email Carol Johnston if you plan to attend.

UserRod Kirkby, Former Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Future Projects Department.

HouseMeeting Room G3, Bevan Braithwaithe Building, TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The Next Generation of Lighting for our Homes and our Health

Our meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The British Interplanetary Society and the UK Space Industry

UserAlistair Scott, President of the British Interplanetary Society.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

UserProf. Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, University of Cambridge .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Overcoming peak water: moving to sustainability

UserDr Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, Oakland , California.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

TBC

UserDr Stephen Serjeant, Open University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

To Higgs or not to Higgs?

UserProf John Ellis, King's College London.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

UserDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Next generation sustainability at the University of British Columbia

UserProfessor John Robinson, Associate Provost, Sustainability, University of British Columbia.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Physics and Medical Imaging

UserDr Richard Ansorge, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

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

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

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

Winton Discussions

Sustainability and Architecture

UserProf Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture - Raspberry Pi

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRobert Mullins, Computer Laboratory & Raspberry Pi Foundation.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson

UserProfessor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

UserProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

The Eastern Counties Branch of The Welding Institute

Ultrasonics

Please email Carol Johnston if you plan to attend.

UserPeter Mudge, Technology Fellow, NDT, TWI Ltd.

HouseMeeting Room G3, Bevan Braithwaithe Building, TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 18:00-20:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Commercialising Sustainability

UserDr Mike Biddle, Chief Executive and Founder of MBA Polymers.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella

UserProf. Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Cambridge Branch

‘Airbus A400M Flight Test Programme’

The 13th Sir Arthur Marshall Lecture Cambridge Branch Prestige Event

UserEd Strongman, Airbus Military Chief Test Pilot .

HouseHoward Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 18:00-20:00

Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

The revolution of capitalism

UserPeter Bakker, Chief Executive of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

UserProfessor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

UserGracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Genius of Michael Faraday

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

UserProf. Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Intelligent Nanomaterials - Will It Answer Energy Problems?? And What Policies Will Make Them Attractive For Commercialisation.

Talks open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserBy Dr. Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 19:30-21:00

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

An astronomer in Antarctica

UserDr Jon Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Black Holes, Holograms and Hard Problems

Free for all!

UserProf. David Tong, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

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

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Instrumentation and structures in Antarctica

Tea is served from 6pm

UserMike Rose, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 13 December 2012, 18:30-20:00

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Cambridge Branch

HP Hampden - More than a Restoration

Parkig: Please use nearby Queen Anne car park or Grand Arcade car park.

UserDarren Priday, RAF Museum Cosford.

HouseHughes Hall, Cambridge University.

ClockThursday 06 December 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Multi-scale Mechanics in Tendon: Understanding Structure-Function Optimisation

Light refreshments from 19:00. Open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr Hazel Screen, Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

An Introduction to Econophysics

Last talk of term. Please note this talk is on Monday.

UserDr Alex Baldon, University of Manchester.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

UserProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physics

UserProfessor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’

UserJon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Protoplanetary Discs

UserDr Meng Xiang-Gruess, DAMTP, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Pointless Universe

Please note this talk is on Monday

UserProf. Michael Green, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

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

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

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

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Art and the environment

Lunch will be provided

UserDave Pritchard, CIWEM Arts and Environment Network Steering Group.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Superconducting Spintronics: a tantalizing possibility for dissipation-free logic

This meeting is open to anyone interested in the topic. Light refreshments will be available from 7:00 pm.

UserDr Jason Robinson, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Winton Discussions

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

UserDr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Cambridge Branch

JARIC - The Eyes that guide the Talons

Advance notification of attendance required: Please email Jin.Yu@marshallaerospace.com

UserGp Capt Steve Thornber.

HouseMarshall Aerospace Conference Room No 1. Cambridge City Airport, Newmarket Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”

UserProfessor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

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

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

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Physics in the Science of Social Systems

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

UserProf. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"

UserProfessor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Cambridge: Sundials and Time

UserDr Frank King, The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge .

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Colour Vision

Please note this talk is on Monday

UserProf. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

UserProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Pulsars and Extreme Physics

Please note this talk is on Monday

UserProf. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

The Eastern Counties Branch of The Welding Institute

Icebreakers

Please email Carol Johnston if you plan to attend, for the catering numbers. Buffet from 6pm, talk starts 6.30pm.

UserDes Upcraft, Ice and Cold Operations Business Manager, Lloyd’s Register.

HouseMeeting Room G3, Bevan Braithwaithe Building, TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Metallic Glasses: Order in Disorder

Please note this talk is on Monday

UserProf. Lindsay Greer, University of Cambridge .

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A century of the proton: from Rutherford to Higgs

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

UserProf. James Stirling, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”

UserProfessor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

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

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

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

Winton Discussions

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

UserDr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Water meter debate: vital for adapting to climate change or doomed to failure?

Lunch will be provided

UserAndy Brown (Anglian Water) and Dr James Jenkins (University of Hertfordshire).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

UserProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

High Efficiency III-V Solar Cells: past, present and future

Light refreshments from 19:00. Open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr Ned J Ekins-Daukes, Imperial College.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?

UserProfessor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

UserProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Efficient Lighting

UserWinton Community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Engineering challenges in Antarctica

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome

UserMike Rose, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Biofuels

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Climate models and uncertainty

UserErica Thompson (Imperial College London) and Emma Boland (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoslett 408 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Prospects for economic CCS using mineral carbonation

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserMichael Priestnall, Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

UserProfessor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Chaos in Action

UserProf. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Hershel Program

UserProf Matt Griffin , Cardiff University.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Winton Discussions

Tea time conversation

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Size Matters

UserDr Mark Miodownik, King's College London.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

F-16 : Ready for the Future

Advance registration essential. Photo ID required for site access.

UserPaul Livingston, Director UK, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.

HouseLockheed Martin UK, Ampthill, Bedfordshire MK45 2HD.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Asteroid Deflection

UserDr Max Vasile - University of Strathclyde.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Hydrogen fuel cells

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Science and Technology in Parliament

UserDr Stephen Allen, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Prestige Lecture - Bloodhound SSC

Tea is served from 6pm

UserRichard Noble OBE.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Evolution applied to extraterrestrials

UserProf Simon Conway Morris , University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Graphene: Materials in the Flatland

UserSir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities

UserProfessor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

I don't believe in Climate Change

UserDr David Viner, Red Kite Enterprise and Environment.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

UserDr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Fermi Paradox

UserMr Ducan Lunan of Astronomers of the Future Ltd.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

DOT-DASH TO DOT.COM: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet

Tea is served from 6pm

UserDr Andrew Wheen - Mott MacDonald (Technology & Communication).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 15 December 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Thermal Spray Coating Developments at TWI

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserHeidi Lovelock, Section Manager, Surfacing, TWI Ltd.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 December 2011, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

UserProf Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Do biological cells care about physics?

UserDr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Galactic Archeology

UserDr Chris Lintott , University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Photonic quantum information science and technologies

UserProf. Jeremy O'Brien, Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer Solar Cells

UserProf Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

UserProfessor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Neutrinos - ghost particles of the cosmos

UserProf. Frank Close, University of Oxford.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.

UserProf Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Hubbles space telescope and Supernovae

UserProf Stephen Smartt , Queen's University Belfast.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Mixing lightning with water to get the most out of aluminium

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserDr James Curran, Keronite International Ltd and Royal Society Industry Fellow, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

UserVivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?

Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserProf Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Electrons in a spin: the physics of gadgets

UserDr Gareth Conduit, University of Cambridge.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

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

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

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Charles Dickens and Victorian Disasters

Light refreshments available from 19:00. All welcome.

UserDr Peter Lewis, Materials Engineering, The Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb, behind the scenes - RAeS/IMechE talk

Watch the film on Channel 4 Saturday 24th September 7.30pm then meet the engineers and find out how it was done!

UserDr Hugh Hunt, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Room 0, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

100 years of superconductivity

UserProf. Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 20:00-21:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

The Hawker Hunter – beautiful to look at, deadly to be in front of!

Free talk organised by The Welding & Joining Society Eastern Counties branch. RSVP to Alan Shand 0207 423 2833 alan.shand@lr.org

UserPeter Jenkins, ex Royal Air Force Engineer Officer.

HouseTWI, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 18:00-20:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid Applications

UserProfessor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Post nubes lux: Aerospace propulsion ("after darkness light")

To book your place, please visit: www.imeche.org/events/L210 or email Lisa Meenan at l_meenan@imeche.org with your name, job title, company, contact details and IMechE membership number (if you have one). Or call her on 020 7973 1242

UserProfessor Emeritus Riti Singh, Cranfield University.

HouseVincent Building, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge.

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

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Cambridgeshire Area)

Next Generation Lighting from Research to Manufacture - IMechE talk and visit

Registration is required as numbers are limited. Please contact: Ian Henthorne, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd, ihenthorne@cdtltd.co.uk T: 01480 387327

UserDr Julian Carter, Director - New Technology, Cambridge Display Technology.

HouseCambridge Display Technology’s Technology Development Centre, Unit 12 Cardinal Park, Cardinal Way, Godmanchester, PE29 2XG.

ClockWednesday 21 September 2011, 18:30-21:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

UserProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

UserPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The evolution of welding engineering: Milestones and lessons

. If you plan to attend, can you please let Philippa Moore know beforehand to help with catering arrangements etc. (tel - 01223 899399; e-mail - philippa.moore@twi.co.uk)

UserDr Richard Dolby OBE, FREng FIMMM HonFWeldI.

HouseTWI, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imagined

UserSabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

UserTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

UserProfessor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Quality in Digital Audio

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserJohn Dawson, Arcam.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 18:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

User Prof. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserSusan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Fukushima What went wrong?

All welcome. Light refreshments from 7:00 pm

UserTony Roulstone, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (formerly Head of Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engineering).

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 12 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

High Temperature Superconductors

Venue back to normal

UserProfessor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Residual stresses: their role in structural integrity assessment and advanced techniques for their analysis

Light refreshments available from 7:00 pm

UserProfessor Mike Fitzpatrick, Head of Department of Design, Development, Environment and Materials, The Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Heat Pumps for Energy Conservation

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserDaikin and the Cambridge Renewable Energy Centre.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 18:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Active Galaxies and the Amateur

UserDr Nick Hewitt, British Astronomical Association.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 20:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

UserProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

A Journey Around Saturn, its Rings and Moons

Observation Night

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 20:00-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array

UserProf Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Free Software and Your Freedom

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserRichard Stallman, Free Software Foundation.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2011, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Smart Building Lighting Controls

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserStephen Ades, Simmtronic Ltd.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 18:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics)

UserProf Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The Power of Carbon

Light refreshments available from 19:00

UserDr Krzysztof K K Koziol, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE

UserDr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseThe Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

2050 Pathways: Kicking the fossil fuel habit

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (it's free).

UserProf David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change / Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Hall, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Roman Mining Technology in Britain

Light refreshments from 7:00 pm

UserDr Peter Lewis, Reader in Forensic Engineering, Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

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

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

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Biosensors for point of use applications

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserChristian Reccius, Philips Research Labs.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Contact Networks

UserDr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics of Wind Turbine Placement

UserTim French, Technical Manager, RES Group.

HouseBateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

UserJohn Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University.

HouseLT6, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Imaging the Deep Sky

Observation Night

UserNik Szymanek.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors

UserProfessor Hans Kraus, University of Oxford.

HouseBateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy in the UK

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Ancient Astronomy in South America

UserProf. Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Measuring Stellar Radial Velocities

Observation Night

UserProf. Roger Griffin, IoA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

What's Cool in Antarctica - Technology in Support of Ice-Sheet Research

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserD Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Einstein's Universe

UserProfessor Brian Foster and Jack Liebeck.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall, West Road.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics

This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM

UserDr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Jupiter and its Climatic Cycles

Observation Night

UserDr John Rogers, Director of Jupiter Section, BAA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Hunting for Meteorites in Antartica and Australia

CANCELED

UserDr Gretchen Benedix, Natural History Musuem, London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Innovation Lecture: Making Digital Copies of the 3D World

Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (its free).

UserProf R Cipolla, CUED.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

On High Power Laser Physics

UserProfessor Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Note venue change

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

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physics

Please note that this lecture is not at the usual spacetime coordinates.

UserProfessor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00

The Hewish Lectures

Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity

User Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM

UserTom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease

UserProf Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

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

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

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

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Holographic Technologies

UserDr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

UserClaire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole

UserProfessor James Pinfold, University of Alberta.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Brood Parasitism

UserDr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

UserSteven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power Grid

UserProfessor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond E. Goldstein (University of Cambridge).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Building in the UK

UserDavid Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal

UserDr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Mars

Observation Night with a Talk

UserDr Richard McKim, BAA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Getting started in deep sky observing

Observation Night with a Talk

UserDr Stewart Moore, BAA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Self-assembling colloids under the guidance of DNA

UserErika Eiser (University of Cambridge).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Life in Extreme Environments for Astronomers

UserProfessor Charles Cockell, Open University.

House Mill Lane Room 4.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 17:50-18:50

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

How to be a Quantum Realist

UserDr. Andreas Doering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Sir Arthur Eddington: Man, Myth & Mystic

UserMark Hurn, Institute of Astronomy.

House Mill Lane Room 4.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 17:50-18:50

Cavendish Physical Society

'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'

UserProfessor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo

Please Note this lecture is not on a Monday

UserProfessor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

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

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

Probing the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

UserDr. Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Synthetic structures and machines from DNA

UserProf Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational Lensing

UserDr Lindsay King, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) for Europe: Economics, Technical and Social Issues

UserDavid Faiman - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Centre.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

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

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

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Comets, meteors and other phenomena of the night sky

Observation Night with a Talk

UserDr Jonathan Shanklin, BAS and BAA.

HouseSackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Robotic Surgery

UserProfessor David Neal, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Pulsars - 42 Years On

Free to all

UserProfessor Antony Hewish, MRAO.

House Mill Lane Room 4.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 18:00-19:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars

UserMartin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Laser Photonics

Please note the return to our usual venue

UserDr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Third Generation Machine Intelligence

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Laboratory, Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

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

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE

Free & open to all (suitable for families)

UserDr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics Challenges of Fusion Power

UserProfessor Steve Cowley, Director of the JET Fusion lab.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

Please note our temporary venue

UserQuentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World".

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Festival of Ideas

Qudduson: Sacred Songs of East and West

UserAward-winning vocal ensemble The Clerks and singers from Syria.

HouseTrinity College Chapel, Trinity Street.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 20:00-21:30

Festival of Ideas

Cambridge School of Art Contemporary Music Ensemble

UserCambridge School of Art Contemporary Music Ensemble.

HouseSt Pauls Church, Hills Road.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 19:30-22:00

Festival of Ideas

How can we best encourage social mobility

UserAnastasia de Waal, Director of Fmily and Education at Civitas, Professor Diane Reay, Joe Baden, Manager of the Open Book programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Brenda King, Chief Executive of ACDiversity.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Towards the embrace: movement and communication

UserSculptor Bonnie Kenske, dancer Adele Thompson and the Queens' College Contemporary Dance Society.

HouseMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 17:30-19:00

Festival of Ideas

Reading Beckett

UserDaniel Gunn and George Craig, editors of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume I 1929 - 1940.

HouseDrama Centre, Faculty of English, West Road.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 19:30-21:00

Festival of Ideas

Mark Pigott Lecture: Henry VIII: famous for 500 years

UserDavid Starkey, historian and broadcaster.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Can there be peace in the Middle East?

UserDr Glen Rangwala, lecturer in international policies. Professor Anoush Ehteshami, Head of the School of Government and International Affiars at Durham University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

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

Festival of Ideas

Becoming Barbie: the pros and cons of female stereotypes

UserDr Rebecca Munford, Professor Ruth Holliday, Dr Helena Cronin and Ben Barry, founder of the Ben Barry modelling agency.

HouseThe Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street.

ClockSaturday 24 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

Festival of Ideas

Kresna Denawa: Javanese shadow puppet theatre

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall, West Road.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 19:15-22:00

Festival of Ideas

What will the recession's lasting legacy be?

UserRobert Chote, Head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Professor Jacqueline Scott, Bob Rowthorne, Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Dr Alistair Milne of Cass Business School will lead the discussion, chaired by Professor Willy Brown.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Britten Sinfonia & Christopher Hogwood - talk and performance

UserChristopher Hogwood, conductor.

HouseWest Road Concert Hall, West Road.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 19:00-22:00

Festival of Ideas

The secret language of music

UserPaul Robertson, Visiting Professor in Music and founder leader of the Medici String Quartet.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 18:30-19:30

Festival of Ideas

How to read poems

UserMembers of the English Faculty.

HouseFaculty of English, West Road.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 18:00-19:00

Festival of Ideas

Are we entering a new era of austerity for the arts?

UserPeter Florence, Hay Festival Director, Sue Hoyle, Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies and Professor Shearer West, Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Coucil,.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Choreographing knowledge

UserUrban (Col)laboratory; architect/theorist Helen Stratford and media/performance artist Diana Wesser.

HouseNew Hall Art Exhibition, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Festival of Ideas

The future development of Cambridge

UserProfessor Peter Landshoff of the Cambridge Preservation Society.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

Festival of Ideas

Life in the stone

UserRuth Padel.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

Festival of Ideas

Where do ideas come from?

UserDame Gillian Beer, Professor Rosamond McKitterick, author Lisa Appignanesi, President of English PEN, and author Andrew Robinson will lead the discussion, chaired by Professor Adrian Poole.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Plant Orchestra

UserLuke Jerram.

HouseBotanic Garden, Brookside.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 17:30-20:00

Festival of Ideas

Debate on the social and emotional aspects of learning: dangerous concept or vital link

UserProfessor Kathryn Ecclestone, Dr Hilary Cremin, Dr Colleen McLaughlin, Prof Felicia Huppert.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Main faculty building, 184 Hills Road.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plagiarism in Science

Please note our temporary venue

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!

UserProfessor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

UserBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL

Free & open to all

UserProf. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE

Tickets £5 (over 18s only)

UserRichard Naisby, Milton Brewery, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Darwin 2009 Lecture

UserProfessor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED!

Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3.

UserBotanic Garden guides.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

A Green New Deal: Climate Change Mitigation as an Economic Stimulus

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series. Please bring your lunch.

UserDr Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

HouseLand Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

ClockFriday 05 June 2009, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling

Rescheduled from February

UserDr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 01 June 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series

UserDr Karsten Neuhoff & Dr Jevgenijs Steinbuks. Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLand Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works

UserDr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium ).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

On the rebound: could energy efficiency improvements backfire?

UserHugh Parnell - Cambridge Energy Forum (CEF), Dr Terry Barker - 4CMR, Dr Philip Sargent - CEF, Steven Sorrell - University of Sussex, Blake Alcott, Prof Roger Kemp - Lancaster University, Dr Tim Foxon - University of Leeds, Tina Dallman - UK govmt DEFRA.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 13:30-17:10

Cavendish Physical Society

Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleships

UserProfessor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

UserWilliam McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Examples

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserPavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Methodologies

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : An Overview

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE

Free & open to all.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 19:00-20:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

UserProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserSir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

UserProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Institution of Civil Engineers (Cambridge Branch)

Riverside Bridge, Cambridge

UserPhil Crack, Cambridgeshire County Council.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 18:30-20:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

UserNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

UserDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Where is it safe to go on holiday?" Antigenic Cartography; a mathematical method for mapping the spread of viruses

UserProfessor Derek Smith (Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Next 20 Years in Astronomy

Free to all

UserProfessor Sir Martin Rees, The Astronomer Royal.

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

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Wildlife and Environment

Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!

UserDavid MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Free & open to all

UserDr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

UserAndreas Schäfer, Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams

UserProfessor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancer

UserProfessor Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Head of the Cancer Genome Project).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Darwin in his time - and in ours

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

"Why study insulators?"

UserProf J F Scott, Earth Sciences Department.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Electromagnetism and Black Holes

UserProf. Donald Lynden-Bell, IoA, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

UserDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy use in the University of Cambridge

UserPaul Hasley, University Energy Manager - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Red Spirals and Voorwerpen: Exploring the Galaxy Zoo

UserDr. Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

HouseMaxwell Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2009, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

All things bright and beautiful: The science of biological colour

UserProf Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

From Babylon to the Big Bang

First talk of term

UserHeather Couper and Nigel Henbest.

HouseMaxwell Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter

UserProfessor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can do

This lecture is joint with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserDr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Manufacturing Flexible Displays

UserTim Von Werne, Senior Manager, Research and Development Plastic Logic, Ltd. Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

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

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

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

UserProf David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2008, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM

UserDavid Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Particles and the Universe

UserProf. Peter Kalmus, Queen Mary University of London.

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

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy efficiency opportunities from heat pumps

UserAlex White - Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)

UserBenjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation

UserDr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 19:00-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Britain’s building stock: a carbon challenge

UserMichael Kelly - Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Lord Rayleigh's Legacy

UserProfessor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

Listening in Place

UserDr Katharine Norman, City University.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

What scientists and engineers need to know about patents and related things

UserDr. Rhian Granleese, Marks & Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

UserProfessor Sir John Sulston FRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)

UserDr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2008, 19:30-21:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserTim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy plans that add up

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Hewish Lectures

Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

UserProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Carbon aspects of the cycles of metals

UserThomas Graedel - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy

UserOliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse".

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3He

UserProfessor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture: "Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scale"

This lecture is jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre Department of Physics. University of Cambridge).

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

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-19:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

What to do with the CO2 we can’t eliminate?

UserMr. Derek McLeish (Carbon Sciences Inc).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 14:15-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Future of Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cells

UserMr Richard Blundell (Think UK) and Mr Michael Evans (CMR Fuel Cells).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 12:30-13:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Possibilities – Changing How We Approach Design

UserMr. Ross Lovegrove (Lovegrove Studios).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 11:45-12:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Public Policy

UserSpeaker TBC (AEA Technology).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 10:30-11:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Education of Climate Change at Cambridge & Beyond

UserProfessor David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Behaviour Change and the Role of NGOs

UserMr Duncan McLaren (Friends of the Earth Scotland) and Mr Gavin Starks (AMEE).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Solar Power: Incentives for Scaling Up

UserPanel (chair: Prof. Peter Guthrie).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 15:00-15:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Large Scale Deployment of Solar Energy, Working with Policy and Investment

UserProf. Doenitz (MAN/ Solar Millennium), Dr. Joachim Reiss (Q-Cells) and Dr. Harry Zervos (IDTechEx).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon

UserProf. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-11:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Venture Capital, Risk and the Business of Global Climate Change - A Global View

UserMr. Bernie Bulkin (Vantage Point Venture Capital) and Prof. Michael Manielli (ZYen, London Accords).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Policies for an Environmentally Sustainable Economy

UserMr. Roman Webber (Deliotte) and Paul Ekins (Green Fiscal Commission).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear Power – What else?

UserDr Fabian Roques (CERA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 15:15-16:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Overview of Alternative Technology Expansion & Its funding

UserFilipe Santos (Martifer Solar) and Sarah Forrest (Goldman Sachs).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 13:15-14:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

UserProf David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 11:30-12:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Economics of A Zero Carbon Society

UserDr Terry Barker (Tyndall Centre, 4CMR).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 10:45-11:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Global Context of Energy Crisis

UserProf Robert Watson (DEFRA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 09:30-10:15

Institution of Structural Engineers

Spring Dinner

UserSarah Buck, President of ISE.

HouseKimbolton Castle.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 19:00-22:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR

LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Policies for Reducing Personal Carbon

Registration Required:

UserDr Terry Barker, 4CMR, and others.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:45-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"

UserProfessor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Ecological Thought

UserTimothy Morton, UC-Davis.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Micro Air Vehicles

ALL WELCOME - FREE EVENT - Joint IET / RAeS Lecture

UserGFS Projects Ltd.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 19:30-21:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

International environmental governance

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

UserProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

www.Antibodies_Direct.com

UserDr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World

UserNorman Myers, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Future Transportation Fuels: A Vision of a Viable Negative CO2 Energy Economy

ALL WELCOME - FREE EVENT - Joint IET / IMechE Lecture

UserJamie Turner, Chief Engineer - Powertrain Research SI Combustion and Charging Specialist, Lotus Engineering.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 March 2008, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Not Mammoth Steaks Again?!

UserProfessor Martin Jones, Archaeological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Lighting for the 21st Century

UserColin Humphreys - Professor of Material Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

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

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

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

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost

UserMelanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

UserProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Searching for Evil

**** CHANGE OF SPEAKER ****

UserDr Richard Clayton, Security Group, Computer Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 19:00-20:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserSian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

A Critical Point for Science?

UserProfessor Brian Josephson, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computing

UserDr David Williams, Head of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

UserSimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Can we live on renewables?

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

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

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

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

The Cultures of Climate Change

Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development

UserDr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh).

HouseCRASSH Meeting Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern World

UserTony Sale, Hon Fellow of the British Computer Society.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

UserOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserAdair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

High efficiency, low emissions: Power generation on the road to thermotopia

UserJohn Young - Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserDr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

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

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

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change

UserKathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture 2008: Biomedical Diagnostics - Trends & Opportunities

ALL WELCOME - FREE EVENT

UserProf. Chris Lowe, Director of the Institute of Biotechnology,.

HouseWolfson Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Journey of the Future

UserDr Liz Orme, Director of Transport, Cambridge Consultants.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 04 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

UserProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Directions to 2050

UserDavid Hone - Group Climate Change Adviser, Royal Dutch Shell.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Imaging the Arctic

UserNick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

UserProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserBarbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Through-Wall Radar - Meeting an Operational Need

Free IET Event. Members & non-members welcome.

UserAlan Wiltshire, Cambridge Consultants Ltd.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008

Please visit www.soci.org for updated details/late cancellation notification.

UserProf Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?

UserDr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 19:00-20:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England

UserBettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 03 December 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

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

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

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2° C?

UserDr Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester & Dr Terry Barker, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:45-15:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Material, Energy and Climate Change

UserErnst Worrell, Lead-author of the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Quarks and their quirks

UserProfessor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Detox

UserGeorge Marshall, COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network).

HouseDebating Chamber, Union Society.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio)

UserProfessor Lisa Jardine CBE, Queen Mary College, University of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

ICT and Climate Change

UserMolly Webb, The Climate Group.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The Internet - Where It Came From & Where It Is Going

Refreshments at 6:30 p.m.

UserRoger Scantlebury, Consultant & Paul Shreve, Cisco Systems.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 19:00-20:30

Institution of Structural Engineers

Inaugural Dinner with President

UserSarah Buck, President of I Struct E.

HouseEmmanuel College (Robert Gardner Room).

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

NOTE: New start time and New venue

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

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

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !

UserDr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs

UserAlan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray Crystallography

UserDr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ancient Vaults

UserProfessor Jacques Heymen, Former Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

What is a Climate Refugee?

UserDeborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Science of the Skies - what the government needs to know in the fight against climate change

UserDr Victoria Pope, Head of Climate Change for Government at the MET Office Hadley Centre.

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

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

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

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants

UserAndy Woods, BP Professor - BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously

UserProfessor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill

UserDr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen.

HouseLG18, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 14:45-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The invention of the High Power Microscope

Celebrating Antony van Leeuwenhoek's 375th Birthday

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 22 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham.

HouseDavid Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales

UserGareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION

UserProf Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Agrofuels and the risk of ecosystem collapse

UserDeepak Rughani, BioFuelWatch.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 19:00-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities

UserJulian Allwood, Senior Lecturer - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?

UserProf. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

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

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS

UserDr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

British Antarctic Survey

Sustainable Energy - Without the BS

Open to non-BAS; please contact Ryan Woodard (rywo@bas.ac.uk or 221383) if you would like to attend.

UserDavid MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Conservation Science Talks

CCF Seminar: The Global Oil Depletion Debate

UserSteven M. Gorelick, Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, Stanford University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Environmentally informed material choice: strategies, tools, data and difficulties

THE NINTH KELLY LECTURE

UserProfessor Mike Ashby CBE, FRS, FREng., Engineering Department, Cambridge University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2007, 17:30-18:30

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Novel Nanostructured Hydride Composites: Hydrogen Storage Materials for Zero-Emission Car

UserProfessor Dr Rüdiger Bormann, Institute for Materials Research, GKSS Research Centre, 21502 Geesthacht,, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2007, 14:35-15:05

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Take the Eurostar to Stratford...

UserDr Mike Glover, Director, Arup Engineering, London, project manager of the High-Speed link.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockSaturday 09 June 2007, 19:30-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of packaging in society

UserDick Searle, Chief Executive of the Packaging Federation.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Actually you were' and I can prove it"

UserMr Skip Palenik, President, Microtrace, Illinois, USA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockSaturday 02 June 2007, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED

Free & open to all

UserProf. Peter Lillford, CBE, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development

UserProfessor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System

UserProfessor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 30 April 2007, 19:30-21:00

Institution of Structural Engineers

Collapse of Palau Bridge

The talk will be preceded by the branch AGM

UserChris Burgoyne, University of Cambridge.

HouseBarns Hotel, Cardington Road, Bedford MK44 3SA.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2007, 18:00-20:00

Stephen Stretton's list

An Environmental Case for Nuclear Energy? Talk and kick-off meeting

UserStephen Stretton: Cambridge Zero Carbon Society & Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.

HouseBowett Room, Queens College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics of Volcanic Eruptions

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 20:00-21:00

Soc Doc Soc

'Garbage Warrior' sneak-preview screening with director and producer for Q&A

FREE members, £2 non-members

UserOllie Hodge and Rachel Wexler.

HouseRobinson College, Umney Theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

UserPeter Crane, University of Chicago.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear power in the light of climate change

UserKeith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dave Elliott (Open University), Steve Kidd (World Nuclear Association), Bill Nuttal(Cambridge University Judge Business School).

HouseLaw Faculty LG17.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:45-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

One Planet Living

UserPooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Scott Lectures

Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping

Refreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer

UserProfessor William Phillips.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

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

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

UserRaymond Tallis, Manchester University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Calculation and your personal footprint

UserRosemary Randall and Andy Brown, Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

HouseQueen's College, Bowett's Room.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the Antarctic

UserProfessor David Vaughan, Deputy Director, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

UserLionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

UserMarcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Institution of Civil Engineers (Cambridge Branch)

St. Ives and the Hemingfords Flood Alleviation Schme

UserP. Cowie - Environment Agency; M. Anderson - Atkins; S.Ayres - Jackson Civil Engineering.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

UserAdrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Young Universe

UserDr Mike Hobson.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

UserLudmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Institution of Structural Engineers

Soil Structure Interaction

UserProf John Burland, Imperial College.

HouseCourtyard Marriott Hotel, newport Pagnell.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 18:00-20:00

fpk1's list

Global Earth Science and Sustainability

C. P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego).

HouseTheatre, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repair

joint meeting with Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Steve Jackson, Wellcome Trust, CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture

UserDr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 19:00-20:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Nanotechnology and precautionary risk management

NOTE: Rescheduled from Tuesday 5th.

UserProfessor Roland Clift (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hurricane Katrina - A Study of Geosystems in Crisis

5.00pm *LR0*

UserProfessor Tom O’Rourke (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University).

HouseEngineering Department - LR0.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Zero Carbon City Dongtan

UserDr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup.

HouseChemical Engineering Department LT1.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Rubbish

UserClaire Barlow, Production Process Group.

HouseSeminar Room B, Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockFriday 24 November 2006, 10:00-10:40

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction

UserMalcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Gilmore.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Institution of Civil Engineers (Cambridge Branch)

Dynamic Mentoring

UserThomasTelford Training.

HouseThe Trinity Centre, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 00:00-00:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the UK

UserJulian M.Allwood, Søren E Laursen, Cecilia M de Rodriguez, Nancy M P Bocken (IfM, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid Surfaces

UserProf Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable Vaccines

UserDr Bruce Roser, Chief Scientific Officer, Cambridge Biostability, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

UserSir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?

UserProf Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft Nanotechnology

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 23 October 2006, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

Quantum Chaos: Kicking Atoms About

UserMischa Stocklin, UCL.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmology

UserDr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Colision Course - How Science is abused by the Media

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, Writer, Broadcaster and CSAR Member of Council.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 09 October 2006, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Looking inside a star (and other stories) - Developments in Radio Astronomy made here in Cambridge

UserProfessor Richard Hills, Professor of Radio Astronomy, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2006, 19:30-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Emissions trading, energy efficiency, and the law of unintended consequences

UserMichael Grubb, Director of the Carbon Trust, and professor of economics in Cambridge and Imperial College.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockMonday 08 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detection

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD)

UserProfessor Phil Sutton, Director-General (Research and Development), Ministry of Defence, Whitehall.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 April 2006, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

UserDiana Liverman, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter

UserProfessor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

UserCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

"Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"

UserProfessor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

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

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

UserAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces species

UserProfessor Sir David Hopwood, FRS, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 20 February 2006, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

UserJames Jackson, Cambridge University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

UserRichard Feachem, Global Fund.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronics

UserDr Henning Sirringhaus, Chief Scientist at Plastic Logic, Cambridge Science Park, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2006, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

UserPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

UserEdith Hall, Durham University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

"The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"

UserProfessor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft Initiative

UserProfessor Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2006, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

UserPaul Kennedy, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

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

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

UserProfessor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

UserProfessor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Scanning the cosmological horizon

UserProfessor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosome

UserDr Alison Coffey, The Sanger Centre and the Human Genome Project, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 07 November 2005, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

UserDr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition Technology

UserDr John Daugman OBE, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 October 2005, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons

UserProfessor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2005, 16:15-17:15

Offtopic Lunch

Sustainable computer workstations

UserSeb Wills, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseRoom 911, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2005, 12:30-13:30

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HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2005, 12:30-13:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum Information

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HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2005, 16:30-17:30

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