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House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

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

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

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

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User Duncan Mackay.

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

What and Where I Record

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User Jonathan Shanklin.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Texas 2019

User Martin Edwards.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 19:00-22:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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

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

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

User Ms Tania Branigan.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

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

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

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User Rosemary Fricker.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

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

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

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User Peter Pilbeam.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

User Professor Frances Spalding.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

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

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

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User Olwen Williams.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

User Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

The Exoplanet Revolution

User Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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User Esme Ashe-Jepson.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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

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

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

User Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

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

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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User Morgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Are Revolutions Justified?

User Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

The Genetic Revolutions

User Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

User Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

User Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Members' Christmas Evening and Annual General Meeting

User ..

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

Wednesday 13 December 2023, 19:00-22:00

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

CNHS Seasonal Social

Ticketed Event

User Annual Social Gathering.

Thursday 07 December 2023, 18:30-20:30

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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User Morag Hunter.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

User Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

The Health of the Cam

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User Stephen Tomkins.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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

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

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

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User Paul Krusic.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

User Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

A Biodiverse City

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User Guy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Soqotra Research Project

User Neil Oakman.

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

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 19:00-22:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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User Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

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

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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User Liam Saddington.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Social prescribing - beyond pills

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

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

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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User Will Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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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. .

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

People Power for Nature

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User Pete Exley, RSPB.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

User Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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User Mark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Succulents in Mediterranean Gardens

User John Hughes.

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

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 19:00-22:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Autumn Succulent Plant Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 19:00-22:00

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.

User Tom Radford.

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

Wednesday 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.

User Paul Hoxey.

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

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Summer Cactus Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

User Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 May 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

User Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Members' Evening

User ..

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

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

User Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

Friday 14 April 2023, 18:00-19:00

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

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 14 April 2023, 13:00-18:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

User Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

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

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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User Jonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Plants and animals of the Western Cape (part 2)

User Hazel Taylor.

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

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 19:00-22:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

User Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

User Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

User Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

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User Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

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

Are we alone in the Universe?

User Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

User Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

User Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

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

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

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User Joshua Pike.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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User Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

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

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

User Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

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

In Search of Wild Tulips

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User Brett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

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 ..

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

The Closeting of Secrets

User Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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User Mike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

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

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

User Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

User Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

User Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Members' Christmas Evening and AGM

CANCELLED, due to inclement weather.

User ..

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

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 19:00-22:00

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

CNHS Seasonal Social

User Social Gathering 🍾.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Insects in Flight

User John Brackenbury.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

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..

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

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User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Operation Turtle Dove

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User Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

User Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

The Nature of Cambridge

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User Contributing Authors.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Sundry Succulents

User Chris Davies.

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

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 19:00-22:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

House Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

User Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

User Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

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User Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

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

Natural History from Above

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User Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

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User Georgie Bray, RSPB.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

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User Monica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Autumn Succulent Plant Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 19:00-22:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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User Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

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

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

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

User Stefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Baja California

User David Minnion.

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

Wednesday 14 September 2022, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Crassulas everywhere

User Derek Tribble.

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

Wednesday 10 August 2022, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Patagonia

User Mike Partridge.

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

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 19:00-22:00

House Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

In Search for the Next Magic Stone

User Prof Z X Shen, Stanford.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

User Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Summer Cactus Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

User Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Melocactus and Discocactus

User John Arnold.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 19:00-22:00

House Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

The physics of how humans build models of the world

User Prof Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

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

House Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

To see a world in a grain of sand

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

User Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

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

House Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Topological pumping in new territory

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

User Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Looking for plants in South Africa

User Eddy Harris.

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

Wednesday 13 April 2022, 19:00-22:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

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

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

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

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User Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

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

Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery

User Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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User Martin Davies.

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

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

User Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

House Teams Livestream.

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

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

User Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

House Teams Livestream.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Relativistic jets from black holes: connections to gravitational waves and neutrinos

User Professor Rob Fender, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 19:30-20:45

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

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

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

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

House Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials

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

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

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

User Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

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

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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User Rebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Mexico 2020

User Ian Woolnough.

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

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 19:00-22:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts

User Dr. Anastasia Fialkov, University of Sussex.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

User Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

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

Lower Wood

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User Duncan Mackay.

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

House Pippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv .

Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"

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

User Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Surprising Universe

User Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

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

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

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

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

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

House Pippard lecture theatre and Zoom.

: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

User Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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

Food and Cultural History

User Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

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

Peatbogs

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

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supernovae: origin, extremes and a future bursting with potential!

User Dr. Cosimo Inserra, Cardiff University.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related Coronaviruses

User Professor Jonathan Heeney, Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Food as Expression

User Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

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

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

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User Arik Kershenbaum.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Merging neutron stars, kilonovae and the origin of the heavy chemical elements

User Professor Nial Tanvir, University of Leicester.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

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

Should we Automate?

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

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

The Fenland Flora

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User Owen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

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

X-rays and Food Safety

User Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

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

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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User Ann Miles.

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

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Celestial Incantations

User Dr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.

User Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Food, Power and Society

User Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

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

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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User Daniel Field.

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

House Delivered online via Zoom.

A celebration of women in astronomy

User Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee.

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

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

User Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

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

Audience Choice

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

User Jonathan Shanklin.

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

House Delivered online via Zoom.

Black holes, galaxies and the Nobel Prize

User Professor Roger Davies, University of Oxford.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

User Dr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

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

Food and Climate Change

User Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Annual General Meeting

Canceled - not being held in-person this year.

User ..

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

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Members' Open Forum

User ..

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

Wednesday 08 December 2021, 19:00-22:00

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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User Ellie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tales of gravity from few-body interactions

User Dr. Hongsheng Zhao, University of St Andrews.

Tuesday 30 November 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?

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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User CNHS Members.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The evolution, diversity and habitability of planetary systems

User Dr Edward Gillen, Queen Mary University of London.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The First Images of a Black Hole from the Event Horizon Telescope: Past, Present, and Future

User Dr. Ziri Younsi, University College London.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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User April Bagwill.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Severe Space Weather

User Professor Richard Horne FRS, British Antarctic Survey.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

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

House Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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User Gwenda Kyd, Author.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Sundry Succulents

User Rodney Sims.

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

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 19:00-22:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Watching Stars Explode: Observing Supernova Neutrinos with Hyper-Kamiokande & SNEWS 2.0

User Dr. Jost Migenda, King’s College London.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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User Dr Steve Boreham.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

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

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How rare is our Solar System? Probing the formation and evolution of planetary systems

User Dr. Joshua Lovell, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Pye Story: The history of one of Cambridge’s iconic technology companies.

User Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation.

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 01 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Black holes, Einstein's gravity and rocket science!

User Professor Chris Done, Durham University.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

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User Dr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

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

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Neutrino physics: Ghostly particles whose behaviour has cosmic consequences

User Dr. Patrick Dunne, Imperial College London.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

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

House Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

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

Trees for Streets

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User Simeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Autumn Cactus & Succulent Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 19:00-22:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Simulating Cosmic Dawn

User Dr. Harley Katz, University of Oxford.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

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

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Texas, and the hunt for the elusive Epithelantha

Note change from the talk/speaker originally planned.

User Martin Edwards.

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

Wednesday 08 September 2021, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Welcome back meeting - plant display and social evening

User ..

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

Wednesday 11 August 2021, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

POSTPONED (until August) Welcome back meeting - plant display and social evening

POSTPONED (until August)

User ..

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

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

User Speakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge..

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information..

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.

User Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 21 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Asteroids, comets and impacts: should we worry?

User Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 07 June 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing

User Professor Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 24 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

User Professor 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.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

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

House tinyurl.com/y7ajn97h.

Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria

This lecture is a Livestream Event

User Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 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

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

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growth

User Lord David Sainsbury, University of Cambridge.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 29 March 2021, 19:30-21:00

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

User Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

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

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

YouTube upload date to follow soon

User Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

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

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

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

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

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

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

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

How do you turn a quantum computer into a product?

User Dr Leonie Mueck (Riverlane).

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 19:00-20:30

Blood Sculptures

User Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

House Online.

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

Quantum Computing

User Prof Mike Payne (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

CSAR webinar: Space Weather - exploring the science, impacts and challenges posed by space weather.

User Professor Richard B. Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere, British Antarctic Survey..

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 08 March 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cold Blood

User Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

House Online.

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

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

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

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

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

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

YouTube Lecture available online now

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

User Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford University).

House Online: CUPS Zoom.

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

Hydrogen: Its Role in the UK Economy

User Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London.

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

Monday 25 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

Battle Blood

User Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

House Online.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium

User Prof Vedika Khemani (Stanford University).

House Online: CUPS Zoom.

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

POSTPONED - Annual General Meeting

POSTPONED

User ..

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

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

CANCELLED - Members' Open Forum

CANCELLED

User Branch members.

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

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 19:00-22:00

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

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

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

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

Formation and evolution of galaxies across the cosmic epochs

User Professor Roberto Maiolino.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 19:30-21:00

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

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

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

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

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Quantum matter: emergent phenomena when electrons team up

User Professor Stephen Blundell, Correlated Electrons Group, University of Oxford.

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

The Dawn of a new Era: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves

User Dr Ulrich Sperhake.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

How to measure the spin of a black hole

User Prof. Christopher Reynolds, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

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

House Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

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

User Prof Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Making NanoMachines move

in collaboration with CU NanoSoc

User Professor Jeremy Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Is Dementia Preventable?

User Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, UCL..

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

Monday 16 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

CANCELLED - Sundry succulents

CANCELLED

User Rodney Sims.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 19:00-22:00

House https://tinyurl.com/y4og7frr.

’Seeing early cancer in a new light’

User Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory.

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

The effect of impacts by small bodies on the ancient atmosphere of Earth

User Catriona Sinclair.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Unconventional computing with liquid light

Note unusual time

User Prof Natalia Berloff, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

Quantum computation with superconducting qubits

User Dr. Abhinav Kandala, IBM Corporation.

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

House Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

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

House Location: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

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

Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and the Second Quantum Revolution

Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

User Prof. Duncan Haldane, Princeton University.

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

Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos

User Dr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP.

House Teams Livestream.

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

Why do galaxies die?

User James Trussler.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Finding Hidden Order with your Cell Phone

User Prof. Paul Chaikin, New York University.

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

House Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied

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

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

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

Influence of observations of total solar eclipses on cultures in old times

User Dr Alexander Prokofiev.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

CANCELLED - Autumn Cactus & Succulent Show

CANCELLED

User ..

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

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 19:00-22:00

Quantum Field Theory (in a Nutshell)

Annual Maxwell Talk (in collaboration with the Archimedeans)

User Prof. Anthony Zee, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'

User Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Phosphine and Photochemistry on Venus

User Dr Paul Rimmer.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Electronics on the brain

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

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

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

House Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

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

User Dr Priya Subramanian, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

CANCELLED - Further explorations in Peru

CANCELLED

User Paul Hoxey.

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

Wednesday 09 September 2020, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

CANCELLED - The hunt for the elusive Epithelantha

CANCELLED

User Martin Edwards.

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

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

CANCELLED - Patagonia

User Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

CANCELLED - Mexico 2016: Puebla, Oaxaca, and much more

CANCELLED

User Ian Woolnough.

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

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside Story

User John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

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

TO BE ADJOURNED - AGM

AGM WILL BE ADJOURNED

User AGM.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

User Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Echinocereus

User Julian Cooke.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:00-22:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sounds of Space

User Nigel Meredith.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

User Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

User Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

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

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

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

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

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

User Mal Faloon.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

User Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

User Stephen Eales.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

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

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

User Sophia Upton.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

User Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

User Sarah Bosman.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

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

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

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

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

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

User Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

(Nobel Laureate Lecture - CUAS & CUPS Joint Talk): The Exoplanet Revolution

User Prof. Didier Queloz.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 20:00-21:00

The Enigma of Emotion

User Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

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

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

Lines in nature and the landscape

User Martin Davies.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

User Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

User Gareth Collins.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

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

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

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

Harrold-Odell Country Park

User Richard Dowsett.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Understanding and exploiting self-assembly in liquid crystals on multiple length scales

User Dr Mamatha Nagaraj, University of Leeds Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

User Nicholas Walton.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

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

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

User James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

User Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

User Dave Wealthy.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

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

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

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

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

User Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

A fusion power plant — why not

User Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

User Sanjeev Gupta.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

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

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

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

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

Thursday 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.

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

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

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Annual General Meeting

User ..

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

Wednesday 08 January 2020, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

The Oxford Expedition 2016 (South Africa)

User Rodney Sims.

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 19:00-22:00

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

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets £10 to be purchased in advance.

User Members' Event.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

User Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets

User Laura Rogers.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Members' enthusiasms

User Rod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

User Professor Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

All Welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

User James Kent.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

All welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

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

The short Arctic summer

User Robert Burton.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Is equilibrium overrated? Processing of optical materials at finite time scales

User Prof. Ursula J. Gibson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets

User Professor Mark Wyatt.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

NO TALK

User .

House (no venue).

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

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

User Dr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Just a little out of the ordinary

User Graham Evans.

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 19:00-22:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Apollo at 50 - and the next giant leap for human kind

User Dr Christopher Riley.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

User Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

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

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How to Hunt a Submarine

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

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

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

An astronomer in Antarctica

User Jonathan Shanklin.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Force Awakens

User Professor Ben Allanach, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Active Galactic Nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies

User Amy Rankine.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 20:00-21:00

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

Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...

User Abigail Stancliffe-Vaughan.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

The Modern Bootstrap

Annual Maxwell Talk (Collaboration with Archimedeans) - Free Entry

User Professor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Clusters of Galaxies

User Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy).

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology

User Dr. Pearce Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

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

The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewhere

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Searching for exoplanets with PLATO

User Dr Dominic Ford.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Bob Jarman.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

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

User Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, Bullard Laboratories University of Cambridge.

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

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

Dark Matter and Dark Energy - the hunt for the missing 95 per cent

User Brian Clegg.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

User Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

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

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

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

(Re-)discovering Moths

User Annette Shelford.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Autumn Cactus & Succulent Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:00-22:00

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

Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?

User Mark Hill.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.

User Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 30 September 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

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.

User Duncan Mackay.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Open Forum

User Branch Members.

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

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Plants and animals of the Western Cape

User Hazel Taylor.

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

Wednesday 14 August 2019, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

What I saw last Winter

User Paul Klaassen.

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

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Favourites of the High Desert

User Trevor Wray.

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

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

User Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Summer Cactus & Succulent Show

User ..

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

Sunday 02 June 2019, 10:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

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

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

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

Sinews of Sustainable Development Distinguished Speakers Series

Britain after Brexit: How to redesign the UK's role in sustainable development

User Rt Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP.

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:45-18:45

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Cacti and Succulents on Stamps

User David Minnion.

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 19:00-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?

User Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Annual General Meeting

User The President and Officers.

Friday 12 April 2019, 18:00-18:30

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

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

User Free Public Exhibition.

Friday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Adventures in Mexico

User Paul Spracklin.

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

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 19:00-22:00

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

Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology

User Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

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

User Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

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

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

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

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

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Abigail Burns.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

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

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

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

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

User Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

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

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

User Kevin Hand.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Relativistic fluid flows

User Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Mexico - Giants and Gems

User Rick Gillman.

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 19:00-22:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Catching Comets by their Tails

User Professor Geraint Jones.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

User Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

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

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

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

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

Parasitic plants

User Helen Moore.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Glucose monitoring for diabetes

User Dr Hannah Hare, TTP plc.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Infrared Astronomy at NASA Ames Research Centre in the late 1980s, KAO to SOFIA

User Paul Mulvaney.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.

User Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Classification Game: Topological Insulators and Other Beasts

User Professor Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The geology of Mercury and the BepiColombo mission

User Professor David Rothery.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Hyde Park: a history through trees

User Greg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Ultracold Atomic Gases: The Coldest Stuff in the Universe

User Professor Zoran Hadzibabic, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

A job out of this world: my research and journey as a space scientist

User Dr Ghina Halabi.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

User Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

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

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

Cheetah conservation in Namibia

User Chris Heron.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify?

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME

User Professor Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Exploring the early Universe with super radio-telescopes: HERA and SKA

User Nicolas Fagnoni.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

When algebra meets geometry

User Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

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

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

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

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

Venom

User Leah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Playing ping-pong with single electrons

User Professor Chris Ford, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Leading the New Space Age

User Claire Barcham.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Inflamed Depression

User Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Energy, entropy and the physics of deep learning

User Dr Alpha Lee, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Characterising Exoplanet Atmospheres

User Ryan MacDonald.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

User Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

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

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The evolution of Bell's thinking about the Bell theorem in quantum mechanics

User Professor Harvey Brown, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Gaia - the Milky way census

User Professor Gerry Gilmore.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Visions

User Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

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

Annual General Meeting

User ..

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

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Ramble through my greenhouse and Automation

User Julian Cooke.

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

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 19:00-22:00

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

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

User Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

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

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

User Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Harnessing the quantum world — can lab experiments become practical technologies?

User Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

User Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

Discovering lichens

User Mark Powell.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking

User Professor David Tong, DAMTP.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Cassini-Huygens: Odyssey to Saturn and Titan

User Professor David Southwood.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

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

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

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

Wildlife photography

User Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

From deep learning to the dark universe

User Professor Ofer Lahav, University College London.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Mesembs - Actual and Digital

User Tony and Suzanne Mace.

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 19:00-22:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Asteroseismology as a tool for astrophysics: from the deep interiors of stars to the evolution of the Milky Way

User Andrea Miglio.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

User Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

User Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

House Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

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

Getting to know British reptiles

User Terry Moore.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

From brain descriptions to brain explanations

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

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

‘How to make a bigger supernova’ and ‘Optical interferometry: Because sometimes a 40-meter telescope just isn’t big enough’.

User Andrew Sellek and Dan Mortimer.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

This lecture has been cancelled

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

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How to find an exoplanet from your sofa

User Professor Chris Lintott.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters

User Prof. Nick Lane, UCL.

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

User Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

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

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

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Sam Buckton.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Randomness in classical and quantum dynamics

User Professor Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

User Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Listening to the Universe – LISA Pathfinder and LISA

User Professor Timothy Sumner.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

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

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

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

User Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

User Chris Preston.

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

‘Watching’ atoms move on atomic length and time scales with helium spin echo

User Dr John Ellis, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

How to hunt for dark matter: telescopes, lab experiments, colliders, and putting it all together.

User Dr Pat Scott.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine

User Dr. Hannah Fry, UCL.

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

Monday 15 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

A trip to the Galapagos islands

User Paul Hoxey.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The long road to the Higgs boson

User Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee, Imperial College London.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Autumn Cactus & Succulent Show

User ..

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

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 19:00-22:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Everything from nothing: how our universe was made

User Carlos Frenk.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

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

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

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

Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world today

Opening Autumn Lecture

User Lauren Gardiner.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Unsolved mysteries of fundamental physics

User Professor John Baez, University of California, Riverside.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohort

User Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 01 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Zone 6 Convention

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Harston Village Hall, 20 High Street, Harston, Cambridge, CB22 7PX.

Sunday 23 September 2018, 00:00-00:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

South American Opuntioids

User John Arnold.

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

Wednesday 12 September 2018, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Hunting for cacti in the caribbean

User Paul Hoxey.

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

Wednesday 08 August 2018, 19:00-22:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

In search of amethysts, black gold and yellow gold

User John Hughes.

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

Wednesday 11 July 2018, 19:00-22:00

Winton Discussions

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

User Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

House Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Summer Cactus & Succulent Show

User ..

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

Sunday 17 June 2018, 10:30-16:30

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

User Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

House Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Succulents with Altitude

User Terry Smale.

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

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 19:00-22:00

House Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

A physicist's spin on data science

User Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis.

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

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND INSTRUMENTATION IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

User Dr. Wes Maru, R & D Manager, OGM Ltd.

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

Thursday 17 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Southern Africa; Northern Cape

User Derek Tribble.

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 19:00-22:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

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

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

House Coslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Tuesday 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.

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

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

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Small Opuntioideae

User Tony Roberts.

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

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 19:00-22:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Debating Nature's Value Conference

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 09:30-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

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

House Helmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

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

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

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

Saturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00

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

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

User ..

Friday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00

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

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

User Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

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

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

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.

User Kevin Hand.

Thursday 22 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

User Prof. Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

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

Monday 19 March 2018, 19:30-21:00

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

Breckland, birds and conservation

User Robert Hawkes.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

THE PYE STORY

User Bob Bates and Richard Howes, Pye History Trust.

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

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

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

The Intimate Relation between Mechanics and Geometry

User Professor Mark Warner (Theory of Condensed Matter Group).

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

British Cactus & Succulent Society (Cambridge Branch)

Plants of the Richtersveld

User Eddy Harris.

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

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 19:00-22:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

The Fullness of Space: discerning cosmic thermal evolution from the intergalactic medium

User Dr Girish Kulkarni.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 19:45-21:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

New micro-machines, new materials

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

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

Animal Migration

User Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

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

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

The importance of seed testing

User Pam Butler.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 18:45-20:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

What quantum computers tell us about physics (even if no one ever builds one!)

User Dr Toby Cubitt (Intelligent Systems Group, UCL).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 20:00-21:00