Beverley Larner

Public lists managed by Beverley Larner

• Cambridge Philosophical Society

Talks given by Beverley Larner

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Talks organised by Beverley Larner

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• Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?
• Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice
• To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals
• Signals from the beginning of the universe
• A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?
• LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows
• Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries
• SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting
• Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms
• The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope
• Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens
• The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting
• A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory
• Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story
• LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials
• Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting
• Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics
• Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe
• Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?
• Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes
• Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery
• A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress
• Cambridge Darwins in Conversation
• Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age
• Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end
• G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids
• Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting
• Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?
• Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic
• Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life
• Should we Automate?
• Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc
• Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic
• LECTURE - title to be confirmed
• G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed
• Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty
• Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk
• Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks
• A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas
• ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed
• Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting
• Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?
• Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?
• Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl
• The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science
• How to Hunt a Submarine
• Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again
• LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?
• 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences
• 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences
• Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers
• A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind
• When algebra meets geometry
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder
• The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops
• Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set
• Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics
• LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story
• What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING
• New micro-machines, new materials
• A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship
• Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system
• HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive
• Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity
• Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine
• On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction
• LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life
• New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING
• Environmental diversity of Architecture
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability
• A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology
• A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One
• G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices
• Climate change and local wildlife
• Molecular medicines for the lysosome
• LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture
• Packing dominoes and other shapes
• Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING
• Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease
• Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence
• A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs
• Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage
• The human brain - a lesson in green technology
• On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere
• LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate
• Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material
• A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited
• Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors
• Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING
• MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare
• HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs?
• The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells
• Perception and belief in psychosis
• LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe
• The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices
• Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota
• Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go further
• Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running
• The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action
• Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide
• COLOUR
• Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing
• Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute
• The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?
• Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns
• Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation
• The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?
• The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants
• Low Carbon Road Freight Transport
• A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy
• Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful
• ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW
• Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Seeing is believing: how a Century after its discovery, Bragg's Law allows us to peer into molecules that read the information in our genes
• Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings
• How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns
• LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe
• "When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"
• Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics
• Quantum chemical games of life
• Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development
• Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications
• ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science
• Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses
• Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory
• Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe
• The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migration
• SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
• UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
• FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS
• ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK
• FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION
• THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINES
• HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENT
• TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES
• LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
• Title to be confirmed
• What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiology
• The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms
• Title to be confirmed
• The Dynamics of Avalanches
• G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution
• ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication
• Tracing human ancestry using DNA
• Hearing loss and hearing aids
• HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment
• The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology
• LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration
• The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society
• Machines that see
• The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling
• Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?
• G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I Taylor
• ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells
• All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others
• Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals
• HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?
• Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing
• LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales
• RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?
• Unpredictability and chance in science and technology
• Sundials and the calendar
• G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities
• Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?
• Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience
• Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system