Darwin College Sciences Group

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure?

Prof Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester, Uppsala University).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge RNA Club

R-loop coupled chromatin silencing at Arabidopsis FLC

Pr. Caroline Dean.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge RNA Club

How cells manage ribosome collisions

Szymon Juszkiewicz.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925

Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Topics in Political Philosophy: Luck Egalitarianism & Comparative Fairness

Ben Jooste-Jennings.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies

Mr Peter Thompson: Chief Executive, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Hows and Whys of Living in Groups: Perspectives from Birds and Apes

Prof Dora Biro (Oxford).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning

Dr Chandrima Ganguly .

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India

Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto).

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Whatever they (weigh) will be given to him in plenty”: Commemorative Objects as Expression of Mercantile Religious Identities in the Ancient Near East

Dr Nancy Highcock.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

How electron cryomicroscopy is revolutionising structural biology

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prof Richard Henderson (MRC LMB).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Stepping up climate change mitigation

Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Biology and Engineering 18.00-19.00.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Dr Frédéric-Guillaume Schneider.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

Dr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Development of petal nanoscale ridges that scatter light and influence animal behaviour

Director of Cambridge Botanic Garden

Prof Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s

Chris Manias (King's College London).

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Image-based quantitative morphology with geometrical models

Dr Virginie Uhlmann from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Want to stop fake news? Become a fake news tycoon!

Jon Roozenbeek.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

Professor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

From Mars to the Multiverse

Astronomer Royal

Prof Lord Martin Rees.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen.

MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Wolfson College Science Society talks

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches

Dr Evangelina Petsalaki from EMBL-EBI in Hinxton.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

Professor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

The Renormalisation Group

Prof David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa

Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia).

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence

Prof Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence

Prof Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s

J'Nese Williams (Stanford University).

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

Professor Clare Baker: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

Friday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Professor Valentina Boeva from Institute for Machine Learning in Zurich.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 30 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

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

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00