Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Helen Roberts (Met Office).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

Justine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement

Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jerimiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Exoplanet Detection with SPIRIT: Infrared CMOS Photometry and the Discovery of the Hot Neptune TOI-2407b

Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1.

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Along the thread of the mosquito ovary: apprehending malarias lost and regained

Ann Kelly (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley

Dr Josh Smalley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Impacts of Freshwater Transport on the Weddell Gyre Carbon Budget

Benjamin Taylor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:30-16:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Porous nitride semiconductors for novel light sources

Rachel Oliver (DMSM).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Professor Matthew Davidson, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene

Steve Simon, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

Helen Chadwick, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Intensified shelf break exchange through submarine canyons: upwelling, internal tides, and turbidity currents

Rob Hall (UEA).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004

Isobel Newby (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 Title tbc

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

High-Resolution PM2.5 Mapping Across Malaysia Using Multi-Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTQ5N2Q5ZDYtODRmYi00MzJhLTg0ZjctNjc2NGVlZDUzYmUx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228b208bd5-8570-491b-abae-83a85a1ca025%22%7d

Kasturi Kanniah, Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Chemistry Dept, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Cygnus X-3 in 2024: many giant radio flares!

Prof. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Concrescence in Mughal India: astronomical encounters at royal courts

Anuj Misra (Freie Universität Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Prof Thanh Nguyen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials

Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 2 Title tbc

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Coupling Light with Matter to Compute

Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 3 Title tbc

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)!

Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers

Becky Dell (Geography).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

Alexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

Lars Henkelmann.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How TV made 'The Naked Ape'

Miles Kempton (Christ's College).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Katie Lowry, British Antarctic Survey.

BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Matthew Jackson, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

On the beamline: Studying surfaces at a 3rd generation synchrotron facility

Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Mark Costantini (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution

Jesse Taylor-West (Bath).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

What Descartes's woodblock cutter knew: excavating knowledge from early modern images

Ruth Sargent-Noyes (National Museum of Denmark).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown

Prof Maria Ubiali.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 18:00-19:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Tipping points of the Ross and Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelves: how worried should we be?

Kaitlin Naughten.

BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Gian Giacomo Navarra, Princeton University.

BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Cecilie Glittum (Freie Universität Berlin).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Claire Parrott, University of British Columbia.

BAS Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Yingpu Xiahou, University of Auckland.

BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Gibbs state preparation on digital quantum simulators

Dominik Hahn, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The mechanical properties of wood at high rates of strain

Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Simon Trebst (Cologne).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:15-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Can we design fatigue-resistant alloys?

Mick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: The transformative power of empathy for education: reflection and realisation for teaching and learning

Dr Helen Demetriou, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sven Friedemann - University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Prediction and its application to mechanical properties

Peter Gould.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

Elisavet Baltas, University of Cambridge.

BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Peter Littlewood (Chicago).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:15-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A retelling of the Quantum Mechanics story

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Paul Goddard - University of Warwick.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 16:15-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Chris Hooley (Coventry).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Vedika Khemani (Stanford).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 16:15-17:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 14:00-15:00