Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risk premium and stochastic equilibrium in generation capacity expansion models

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Yves Smeers (Université Catholique de Louvain ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

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

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risky Capacity Equilibrium Models for Risk Averse Investment Equilibria with Incomplete Markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Danny Ralph (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Modelling 100 percent renewable electricity

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Valuation of floating price contract formulae for financial renewable PPAs

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Gauthier de Maere d'Aertyrcke (Tractebel Engie).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Distributionally robust chance-constrained generation expansion planning

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jalal Kazempour (Technical University of Denmark).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:45-14:30

Dementia Journal Club

Recognition of the amyloid precursor protein by human γ-secretase

Nathan Zaccai (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Asymmetric Risk and Fuel Neutrality in Capacity Markets

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jacob Mays (Northwestern University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:30-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Stochastic auctions to accommodate the future flexi-grid

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Golbon Zakeri (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 15:45-16:30

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems with Application to Spot Markets with Gas Transport

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Michael Hintermüller (Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:30-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservation

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Abigail Burns.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

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

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Societal objectives and their impact on the electricity system of the future

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Andrew Wright (University of Durham).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Energy system decarbonisation: informing reform of energy market and regulatory framework

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Goran Strbac (Imperial College London; Imperial College London; Imperial College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Strategic Storage Use in a Hydro-Thermal Power System with Carbon Constraints

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Afzal Siddiqui (University College London; Stockholm University; Aalto University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 11:15-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Risk and Optimization in Future Network Planning

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Burt Duncan (National Grid, Electricity System Operator).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 12:00-12:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Accounting for uncertainty when using computer models as decision-support tools in energy system planning

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Amy Wilson (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 13:45-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

On the Rigorous Evaluation of Stochastic Approaches to Power Systems Operations

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Jean-Paul Watson (Sandia National Laboratories).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 14:30-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Long-term generation capacity expansion models in JuDGE

MESW02 - Electricity systems of the future: incentives, regulation and analysis for efficient investment

Andy Philpott (University of Auckland).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 22 March 2019, 15:45-16:30

Foster Talks

SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour

Steve Wilson, University College, London.

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

Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Alex Hopkins Lecture - ‘Is the Milky Way Special?’ Professor Chris Lintott

Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford.

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J. Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Deterministic Solution of the Boltzmann Equation: Fast Spectral Methods for the Boltzmann Collision Operator

This is a joint ACA-GAPDE seminar

Jingwei Hu, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University.

MR 14.

Monday 25 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J. Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 14:45-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Morrey sequence spaces

ASC - Approximation, sampling and compression in data science

Dorothee Haroske (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 25 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

The new framework in European Family Law

Lucia Ruggieri, University of Camerino.

Herchel Smith Building.

Monday 25 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J. Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Geometry and assembly at fluid boundaries - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Kathleen J. Stebe (University of Pennsylvania ).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 14:45-15:45

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

The nature of chemistry publishing

Dr Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor Nature Chemistry.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis for Incommensurate 2D Materials - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

ARClub Talks

Longitudinal analysis of intracortical microstructural profiles during adolescent development

Dr Richard Bethlehem, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

David Sontag, MIT.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University; Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Modified nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

Prof Michal Hocek - IOCB Prague - Czech Republic.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 1

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Calcium-mediated processes as a potential common denominator in motor neuron degeneration

Roland Patai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The role of technology in improving the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare and accelerating research

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 2

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 14:45-15:45

Foster Talks

Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis

Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 3

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Supercompatibility and the direct conversion of heat to electricity - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Richard James (University of Minnesota).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 March 2019, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: self-assembled tunable photonic bandgap materials - 4

DNMW05 - Spring school on the mathematical design of materials

Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Friday 29 March 2019, 10:15-11:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

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

Cambridge Concert Orchestra.

Wesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

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

Imagers Interest Group

Towards a theory of functional MRS

Paul Mullins, Bangor University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 01 April 2019, 12:30-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Craig Crews, Yale University..

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts: a new approach to study idiopathic Parkinson's disease

Janelle Drouin-Ouellet, University of Montreal.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Dementia Journal Club

Title to be confirmed

Helen Boffey & Tim Rooney, DDI.

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

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Multi-Hazard Modelling of Dual Row Retaining Walls

Dr Srikanth Madabhushi, UC Davis.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

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

Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diversity Oriented Biosynthesis: Making Complex Cyclic Peptides Using a Combination of Synthesis and Enzymes

Prof. Marcel Jaspars (Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Crystallography and strain mapping: some new theory for Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA)

Prof. Martin Hytch, CEMES-CNRS.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Monday 08 April 2019, 10:00-11:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Wood Hemicelluloses: Molecular Structure and Interactions in Woody Tissues

Prof. Francisco Javier Vilaplana Domingo, UNIVERSITETSLEKTOR.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 13:00-13:50

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Assessing the role of deformation behavior on hydrogen environment-assisted cracking susceptibility in a precipitation-hardened Ni-base superalloy: a multiple length-scale approach

Dr Zachary Harris. University of Virginia.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Assembly of nano-polysaccharides and plant polyaromatics at interfaces

Prof. Orlando J. Rojas, Aalto University (Finland) & North Carolina State University (US).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 14:00-14:50

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Melville Mini-symposium: Programming materials with classical conditioning algorithms

Prof. Olli Ikkala, Molecular Materials (Molmat) - Aalto University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 15:10-16:00

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Phenomapping mtDNA. New perspectives in personalised medicine

Aurora Gomez-Duran, University of Cambridge.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual General Meeting

The President and Officers.

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

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

Free Public Exhibition.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

TBC

Soheil Kouri, HRL Laboratories.

MR 14.

Monday 22 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simulating the Quantum Behavior of Matter: Algorithms and Applications

Professor Michele Ceriotti, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions

Dr Marwa El Zein.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

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

Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

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

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

University Library tour : 200 years of the Cambridge Philisophical Society

Prof Jim Woodhouse (jw12).

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:30-17:30

Imagers Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Molecular Theory of Ion Transport through Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

Professor Akihiro Morita, Tohoku University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

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

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

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

Slavonic Studies

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

Mikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr Stephen Cox, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

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

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2018

Henrice Altink (University of York).

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

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

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

From the deuteron to the beauteron

Tim Burns (Swansea).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Anton Tamtögl, Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes

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

Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Direct electricity production from photosynthetic microorganisms

Professor Chris Howe.

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

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

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Numerical homogenisation

Ralf Kornhuber (Freie Universitaet Berlin).

MR 14.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Title to be confirmed

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

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

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Tim Albrecht, University of Birmingham.

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

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

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

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

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

Second Language Education Group

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

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Highly Polar Supramolecular Species with Enhanced IR Activity

Professor Fedor Naumkin, University of Ontario.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

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

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

TBC

Rosa Chiara Paolicelli, University of Lausanne.

TBC.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Jack Denny, Department of Engineering, University of Southampton.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

The effect of pore structure and pore fluids on the elastic moduli and wavespeeds in porous rocks

Prof. Robert Zimmerman. Imperial College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

Bringing electrostatics to light: Electrometry probes a new dimension at the molecular scale

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

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Zangwill Club

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation in plants

Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure

Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Directions for Random Search

Professor Chris Pickard, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

3D nanostructures for biosensing in living tissues

Dr. Francesco De Angelis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

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

Prof. Rex Godby, University of York.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Alice Thorneywork, Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

TBC

Dr. Brian Sheil, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Christian F. Niordson, DTU.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 May 2019, 14:00-14:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Energy Landscape to Elucidate Protein-Ligand Interactions

First Year PhD Report

Alasdair Keith, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:40-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

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

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Numerical stability in hard and infrared regions in OpenLoops2

Jean-Nicolas Lang (Zurich).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?

Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Jorge Ramírez García, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Clinical Neurosciences Seminars

Crossing over OMICS in mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve

Guy Lenaers, University of Angers - France.

James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

TBD

Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

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

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

TBC

Jeff Calder (University of Minnesota).

MR 14.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

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

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Title to be confirmed

Crispin Barnes, Thin-Film Magnetism Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Title to be confirmed

Fabrizio Caloa (Oxford).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

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

Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol.

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.

Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

Leigh Whitehead (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

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

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

Prof. Malte Gather, University of St Andrews.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

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

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovative engineering: From the Antikythera Mechanism to the Square Kilometer Array

Prof. Danielle George, University of Manchester.

Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA.

Monday 24 June 2019, 19:30-21:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

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

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

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

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan.

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

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

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

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

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney.

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

Friday 12 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

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.

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

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Transformation of perception

Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

Professor Patrick Rabbitt.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Susannah Gibson, Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - title to be confirmed

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

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

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Medieval Book

Dr Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Volcanic Behaviour

Dr Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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