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House University Museum of Zoology.

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

User Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Coupled ice-ocean interactions for the Amundsen Sea glaciers, Antarctica

User Jan De Rydt - Northumbria University.

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Nanosatellites for Quantum Science and Profit

User Dr Daniel Oi, University of Strathclyde.

Monday 21 January 2019, 15:30-16:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

User Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys

User Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Modelling coupled ice-ocean interactions in the Amundsen Sea

User Jan De Rydt (Northumbria University).

House British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution

User Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Fan Vaults

User Professor Jacques Heyman.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3A.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Reading charcoal: Using HEP detectors to decipher papirii

User Jens Dopke (RAL).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Optimal collective coordinate in low-energy nuclear reactions

User Kai Wen (Surrey).

Computational Neuroscience

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Folic acid between science, policy and the market: mainstreaming pre-conceptional vitamins in the 1980s and '90s

User Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?

User Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:00-10:10

Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme - Mathematics of Energy Systems

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User John Moriarty (Queen Mary University of London).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:10-10:20

Planning a 100% Renewable Electricity System

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Andy Philpott (University of Auckland).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:20-10:55

Modelling Flexibility for Future Networks

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Stan Zachary (Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh); James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 10:55-11:30

Decarbonisation, Decentralisation and Digitisation of Energy through Hybrid Storage Systems

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Damian Giaouris (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 11:50-12:25

(R)evolution of Large Electrical Systems

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Patrick Panciatici (RTE).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:25-12:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Time course of memory updating in running span

User Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wind Park Valuation and Risk Management in Germany

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Michael Coulon (University of Sussex).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-12:35

Continuous-time Modelling of Energy Networks

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Valentin Courgeau (Imperial College London; University College London).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:35-12:40

Blowing in the Wind

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Paulina Rowinska (Imperial College London).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:40-12:45

Integrated Offshore Wind Farm Design: Optimising Micrositing and Cable Layout Simultaneously

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Thomas Marge (Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:45-12:50

To be confirmed

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Tommaso Nesti (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:50-12:55

To be confirmed

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User .

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:55-13:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Explanatory directionality

User Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Industry Talk: The Electricity System Operator Perspective

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Cathy McClay (Electricity System Operator, National Grid).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-14:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Athena SWAN Presentation

User Professor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

How to raise MBE wafer requests

User Dr Harvey Beere, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Force Fields and Potential Energy Surfaces

User Professor Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Industry Talk: Renewable Energy Generation

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Alastair Davies (EDF Energy).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:30-15:00

Mathematics for Smart Demand Response Technologies

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Jonas Ströjby (Alpiq Blue Energy AG).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:00-15:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis

User Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:45-16:45

Future Energy System Challenges - a Distribution Operator Perspective

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User Iain Miller (Northern Power Networks).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 15:50-16:20

Panel Discussion - can we/should we do 100% Renewables?

OFBW42 - 100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems

User David Newbery (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:20-17:00

Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass

Tea served from 4.15

User Willemijn Waal, Leiden.

Cambridge University Biological Society

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Learning and memory: a novel insight

User Dr Melanie Stefan.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification

User Dr. Marta Shahbazi (PDN) & Dr. Naoko Irie (Gurdon).

House Postdoc Centre, Biomedical Campus, Bay 13, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:30-20:00

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

Cancer Immunotherapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Seminar Room, BP Institute.

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

User Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

User Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Amyloid-β ‘seeds’ in old vials of growth hormone

User Ryan Prestil, CIMR.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops

User Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

SUPERCHIRALITY AND BLOCH SURFACE WAVES

User Prof. Paolo Biagioni, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano (IT).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature

User Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?

User John Rothwell (UCL).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Numerical Multi-loop Computations: HJ and HH production at the LHC

User Stephen Jones (CERN).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Children's Literature

Fantasy and the Anthropocene

User Prof Brian Attebery, University of Glasgow.

House Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

User Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

House Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

User Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops

User Roy Smith, ETH Zürich .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Microstructure for continuous and localised intrinsic curvature creation – “strong” micromechanics

User Prof Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

House Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Transformational Infrastructure

User Martin Knight BA(Hons) Dip Arch FRIBA FCIHT FIET FRSA, IABSE Fellow IStructE Companion.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 25 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamic performance of rock lighthouses and other vertical curiosities

User Professor James Brownjohn, University of Exeter.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

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

The rise of machine learning and its relevance for the natural sciences

User Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, Wolfson College.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

User Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

TBC

User Professor Luke Bisby, University of Edinburgh.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 28 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Computational Models—who needs them?

User Dennis Norris (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior

User Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich.

Monday 28 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

User Dr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

User Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

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

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

Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Mental Health of PhD Students

User Dr. Katia Levecque, Ghent University.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects

User Thomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Everything you need to know about Open Research but are afraid to ask!

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-you-need-to-know-about-open-research-but-are-afraid-to-ask-tickets-54873991586

User Claire Sewell (University of Cambridge).

House Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Andre David Tinoco Mendes (CERN).

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Twists, categorification, and hyperKähler manifolds

User Ed Walton (DAMTP).

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Slavonic Studies

Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda

User Prof Eliot Borenstein (Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University).

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From cures to courts of justice: medical encounters, the issue of generation, and social order in early modern Spain

User Carolin Schmitz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists

User Dr Richard Stacey (University of Glasgow).

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come

User Professor Sheila Rowan.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 18:00-20:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean modelling from the Ross to the Tasman Sea

User Erik Behrens (NIWA).

House British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures

User Veronika Sunko, University of St Andrews and MPI-CPfS Dresden.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:15-12:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

User Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

User Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

User Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Biomolecular Hydration Shells: Dynamics and Biochemical Function

User Professor Damien Laage, ENS Paris.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax

Tea served from 4.15

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Queering the Art Classroom

User Tabitha Millett, IoE, University College London.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Cancer Survivorship

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar and Dr Helen Hatcher, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 31 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

User Dr Madeline Lancaster, Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools

User Freddy Foks (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

In Situ Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymers

User Prof. Tae-Lim Choi (Seoul Natinoal University) .

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

TBD

User Marina Riabiz, CUED.

House James Dyson Building Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery

User Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

User Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation

User James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

From the deuteron to the beauteron

User Tim Burns (Swansea).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development

User Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Metamorphic architected materials for dynamic application

User Dr Stefan Szyniszewski, University of Surrey .

House Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reinforced concrete design in Arup: slender walls and strut-and-tie models

User Ian Feltham and Andy Gardner, Arup.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 01 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Small lecture theatre* please note change of time and location.

Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

User Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich.

Friday 01 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

User Matthew de Brett and Luis Andrade, CUED.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

User Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

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

Room Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets for Quantum Computing: A Serendipity or Design?

User David Izuogu, Wolfson College.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

User Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?

User Rik Henson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations

User Troy Margrie.

Monday 04 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines

User Alex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

The ALPHA experiment

User Prof. Jeffrey Hangst (Aarhus University).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Digital quantum geometries

User Anna Pachol (QMUL).

Early Science and Medicine

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surface thinking: skin in early modern medicine

User Hannah Murphy (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

How Churchill Waged War

User Mr Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Fusion Theory and Experimental Plasmas

User Ian Chapman.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective

User Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Non-literal model interpretations

User James Nguyen (UCL).

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Uncertainty-Driven Construction of Markov Models from Accelerated Molecular Dynamics

User Dr Thomas D Swinburne, Aix-Marseille University.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences

Tea served from 4.15

User Maria José Estaran University of Zaragoza.

House Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Children's Literature

Giving Comics Back to Children

User Professor Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

User Oliver Mayeux, University of Cambridge.

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

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

Lecture Cancelled

User Louisa Bellis (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Exploring disease mechanisms in a novel group of neurological diseases caused by mutations in the RNA exosome

User Juliane Muller, University Cambridge (previously Newcastle University).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Mörseburg, Bio Anth.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Image denoising: the man machine contest

User Jean-Michel Morel (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Patient reported outcome measures are different

User Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Testosterone and human gender development

User Melissa Hines (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Experiments with high explosives

User Jiri Pachman, Institute of Energetic Materials, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

CTEQ-TEA: Precise analysis of hadron structure in the LHC era (TEMPORARY TITLE)

User Pavel Nadolski (SMU).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer

User Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

User Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

House Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

User Prof. Peer Fischer, Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

User Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

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

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

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

User Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

How to write good papers

User Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila

User Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

Monday 11 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

User Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading .

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers

User Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London).

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

SBND -- a state of the art Liquid Argon TPC for Neutrino Physics

User Nicola McConkey (University of Manchester).

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Strings, high energy and curved spacetimes

User Giuseppi D'Appollonio (DAMTP and Cagliari).

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Anatomy museum on the move

User Elizabeth Hallam (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Astrobiology at NASA

User Lynn Rothschild .

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Understanding vulnerability and related outcomes in autism using genetics

User Dr Varun Warrier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

User Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Colin Hockings, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

User Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

User Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

User Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Spin-Vibronic Dynamics in Organic Electronics: From Simulations to Molecular Design using Dynamo-phores.

User Dr Thomas Penfold, Newcastle University.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

SILENCE - (Re-)Viewing the concept of silence across multiple perspectives by an interdisciplinary panel of researchers

User Satinder Gill, Hilary Cremin, Elizabeth Maber, Toshi Tsuruhara, Pam Burnard, Helen Lees.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify?

User Professor Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.

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

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

House IPH large seminar room.

Influencing axon regeneration after spinal cord injury

User Mark A. Anderson - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A political history of apolitical science

User Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

User Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

User Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

User Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing

User Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Title to be confirmed

User Scott Melville (Cambridge).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling

User Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Phase field modelling of crack propagation

User Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda, CUED.

House Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE

User Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked

User Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

General theory of the Kanzaki force field: static and dynamic models of dislocations and other extended defects

User Dr Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, CUED.

House Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

TBC

User Miriam Dall’Igna, Foster & Partners .

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 15 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

User Dr Sam Groth, CUED.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Animal models of episodic memory

User Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

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

Finding the right path: How do multidomain proteins avoid misfolding, and how can women avoid the pitfalls in their scientific career paths?

User Professor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

User Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Jian Kai Zhang, Cambridge University and Lanzhou University.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 18 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

User John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

Faculty of Education Seminars

Structures of Governance in English Secondary Schooling and their Antecedents: The Cambridgeshire Village College Meets the Academy Trust

User Dr Gordon Johnson and Dr Gillian Sutherland.

House DMB GS1, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Monday 18 February 2019, 16:15-18:00

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Why do females fight?

User Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Title to be confirmed

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Dr Anja Schmidt (University of Cambridge).

House British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Skyrmions and rho mesons, a successful relationship for light nuclei

User Carlos Naya (INFN, Lecce).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Celebrating Difference- A Whole School Approach to Lgbt+ Inclusion in Schools

User Shaun Dellenty.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Giants and national identity in early modern Europe

User Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology

User Dr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

User Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Beauty, truth and understanding

User Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bio-inspired Photonics: from nature to applications

User Dr Silvia Vignolini ( Department of Chemistry).

House Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Ab Initio Thermodynamics with the help of Machine Learning

User Bingqing Cheng, EPFL.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Capturing complexity in improvisation research

User Dr Leila Heil, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian

User Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University.

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

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

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Exploratory models and exploratory modelling in science

User Axel Gelfert (Technical University of Berlin).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

User Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Higgs-gauge EFT analyses

User Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Hyperplasticity

User Prof. G.T. Houlsby, University of Oxford.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate

User Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Gareth Wyn Jones, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

House Oatley Meeting Room.

Friday 22 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Maximising urban freight: Does size matter?

User Chris Eddy, CUED.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-16:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

User Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

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

My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1

User Professor Paul Murdin.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

User John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

How to make good scientific figures

User Matthew Davis (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:00-17:30

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

User Charlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy

User Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC).

Monday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

User Roderick Page (University of Glasgow).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Oxidation catalysis imparted by donor-flexible ligands

User Professor Martin Albrecht (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Title tbc

User Dr Claire Le Gall and Dr Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:30-16:30

Magnetic Skyrmions at critical coupling

User Calum Ross (Heriot-Watt).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

THE POWER OF CATALYTIC CONVERSATIONS: An unexpected journey and response to the question 'How do we turn STEM into STEAM?

User Carole Bent, Creative Catalyst, Advisor and Art Partner .

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Total knowledge? Handbooks and encyclopedism in the 20th-century life sciences

User Mathias Grote (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Dostoevsky, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: to a stylistic genealogy of Notes from Underground

User Dr Aleksei Vdovin (HSE, Moscow).

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Atoms for Peace (and War): a history of the Italian nuclear programme during the Cold War

User Dr Elisabetta Bini (University of Naples, Federico II).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?

User Professor Danny Dorling.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 18:00-20:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Sarah Crockford, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

User Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

User Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations

User Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

First Year PhD Report

User Maria-Anna Trapotsi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-14:35

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

User Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:40-15:00

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

User Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Long-term stability of human neurons in an organotypic slice culture system – a new model to study disease mechanisms of neurological disorders

User Henner Koch, University of Tübingen.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory

User Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

TBC

User Riccardo Cristoferi, Heriot-Watt University.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s

User Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

User Tamar Makin (UCL).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis

User Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Unileaver Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Samir Zard, Ecole Polytechnique, France.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary

User Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

User Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

House Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Biotechnology meets Breeding in Baker's Yeast

User Professor Ed Louis, University of Leicester.

House Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons

User Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

User Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

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

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

User Professor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

User Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

User Matt Lambon Ralph (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 04 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

User Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Changing understandings of the human fetus over five decades of legal abortion

User Sally Sheldon (University of Kent).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad Shah

User Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London).

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics

User Dr Anne Corcoran.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 18:00-20:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

User Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

User Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

The Vibrational Dynamics of the Hydrated Proton: A Challenge for Theory (and Experiment).

User Professor Joel Bowman, Emory University.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

User Bill Short University of Exeter .

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

TBC

User Albert Quintana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Title to be confirmed

User Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

V-Dem: measuring democracy

User Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

User Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling

User Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

User Sebastian Trojanowski (NCNR Warsaw & CFP, Sheffield).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics

User Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:15-13:55

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Pasquali, Rice University, Huston Texas.

House Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

User Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München.

House Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title - tbc

User Professor Ashwin Seshia, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

User Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

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

The Science of Musical Meaning

User Professor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

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

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

User Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

How to write a Fellowship proposal

User Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Monday 11 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Microbial evolution in the human gut

User Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Establishing meso-methyl BODIPYs as viable visible-light excitable photocages

User Roy Weinstain - Tel-Aviv University.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Phi^4 kinks on a wormhole spacetime

User Alice Waterhouse (DAMTP).

Early Science and Medicine

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Ladies at sea: seasickness and the female body

User Gabor Gelleri (University of Aberystwyth).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Politics Gone Missing

User Dr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

User Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Alexandra Rutz, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

User Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

User Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic: Endangered communities and languages in contact

User Prof Eleanor Coghill, Uppsala University.

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 17:15-18:15

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

Lecture Cancelled

User Lecture Cancelled.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

User Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system

User Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Far beyond the back of the brain

User Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Stereoelectronic control of cyclizations, fragmentations, and unusual molecules

User Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Sterile Neutrinos in Reactor and Accelerator Experiments

User Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (KIT).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C

User Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

User Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

User Prof. Antoine Browaeys, University of Oxford.

Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

User Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

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 Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

User Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?

User Professor John Ellis FRS .

House Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Transforming cancer care

User Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

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 NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Title to be confirmed

User Please volunteer!.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

User Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

User Steve Wilson, University College, London.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

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 NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Alex Hopkins Lecture

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

TBC

User Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

TBC

User Roland Patai.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

User Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Charlotte Coles (University of Cambridge) Breast Cancer Programme and Hilary Stobart.

Thursday 18 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

User Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

The role of transcription factors in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

How atoms became real

User Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Slavonic Studies

History is a rehearsal of the future: How Russia’s past defines its perspectives and how it still can change

User Mikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

House Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:00-18:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Stephen Cox, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Ovarian cancer - demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

User Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

User Henrice Altink (University of York).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

User Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

User Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Friday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

User Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Numerical homogenisation

User Ralf Kornhuber (Freie Universitaet Berlin).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

TBD

User Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Friday 10 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Title to be confirmed

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User TBC.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London; Senior Lecturer, King's College, London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

TBC

User Madhavi Krishnan, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

TBD

User Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 17 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich.

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems

User Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

TBD

User Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 06 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

TBC

User Jeff Calder (University of Minnesota).

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

User Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Monday 10 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan.

Monday 08 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 10:30-11:30

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

User Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

Monday 21 October 2019, 16:00-17:00