Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

Dr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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

Monday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics: the irregular case

Clara Bradley (UCL).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The myth of the naïve empiricist

Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Doing your own patient activist research

Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Precision and active knowledge: measuring the fundamental physical constants, 1967–2018

Teru Miyake (NTU Singapore).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities

Felipe Romero (University of Groningen).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The role of diagrams in Euclidean geometry

Chiara Martini (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction?

Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief

Lee McIntyre (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Mobilizing medicine

Eram Alam (Harvard University).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

The Culture Lab

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

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

Friday 30 May 2025, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ahmad Elabbar (Darwin College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

Amy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments

Rebecca L. Jackson (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 13:00-14:30