Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The challenges and opportunities of working across the physical and social sciences

Laura Seddon (University of Durham).

Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Fresh Thinking At Fitz

Driving regeneration post-COVID via the Life Sciences

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Anomalies in the gravitational recoil of eccentric black-hole mergers with unequal mass ratios

Miren Radia (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Right ozone, wrong reasons

Mat Evans - University of York.

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Landscape and Gaps in Open Source Fairness Toolkits

Michelle Lee.

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the caesarean operation in New Spain, 1771–1810s

Elizabeth O'Brien (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Inside the Mind

Prof. Paul Bloom: "The Pleasures of Suffering"

Professor Paul Bloom.

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 21:00-22:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations

Andrea Zen.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: A case of a stressful stone

Presenter: Dr Rahul Chattopadhyay.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: After eight: more expensive than you think

Presenter: Dr Matt Carter.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:30-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939

Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series

TBC

Dr Ty Tengan, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Audre Lorde on Care

Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Cauchy Evolution of Asymptotically Global AdS Spacetimes with No Symmetries

Lorenzo Rossi (Queen Mary University).

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

Chris Wingfield.

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Bianca Dumitrascu.

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Economics and disasters

Farnaz Mahdavian and Dr Marcus Wiens (Institute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Dr Emily Wilkinson (Overseas Development Institute), Dr Jana Bacevic (Durham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Medical Staff Round

Title: Cardiovascular risk after bariatric surgery

Presenter: Dr Ahmed Handhle.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 13:30-14:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Space projected electrical conductivity and spectral properties of the conduction matrix

Dave Drabold (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention

Marc Jacobsen (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series

Engaging custodians of coloniality in archaeology: an African experience

Dr Catherine Namono, Wits University.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Amelia Drew (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 12 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

PDG Seminars (Pathogen Dynamics Group)

Transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in China and the United States

For Zoom details please e-mail: pdgcambridge@gmail.com

Sen Pei, Columbia University.

Zoom.

Friday 12 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

KiD-A: How Different Are Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions from a Variety of Microphysics Schemes?

Adrian Hill - Met Office.

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850

Andreas Weber (University of Twente).

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

Dr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning

Qingbiao Li.

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 13:15-14:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940

Aro Velmet (University of Southern California).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Inhomogeneous strain fields in Moiré superlattices

Danny Bennett.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The skill model of mental health

Ellen Fridland (King's College London).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Presenter: Dr Fotios Sampaziotis on behalf of Mr Kourosh Saeb Parsy..

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:30-14:00

Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series

Ethics of archaeology: a post-Soviet (Central Asian) experience

Dr. Gai Jorayev, UCL.

Zoom.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 13:30-14:00

Medical Staff Round

Title: "Surgery for malignant brain tumours - walking the tightrope"

Presenter: Rohit Sinha.

Zoom.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-13:30

Medical Staff Round

Title to be confirmed

Presenter: Dr Ruwanthi Jayasekara.

Zoom.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 13:30-14:00

Medical Staff Round

EASTER BREAK

EASTER BREAK.

Zoom.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Predicting outcome for psychotic disorders, using brain connectivity and transcribed speech data

Sarah Morgan.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 13:15-14:15

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Rees (Newcastle University).

Zoom.

Friday 30 April 2021, 13:45-14:45

Financial History Seminar

The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage

Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London.

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Max Corman (Perimeter).

Zoom.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Andy Minn, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

Thursday 16 December 2021, 13:00-14:00