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Engaging Indigenous Communities in Malaysia: Snapshots of Culture, Genomics and Health

User Maude E Phipps, Monash University Malaysia.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Looking ahead in the world of science

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

User Prof Brian Josephson (Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

User Professor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

User Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Things Seen and Heard: Regional Identity in Sigurd F. Olson’s Environmental Ethic

User Jacob Bruggeman.

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Is Obesity a Choice?

User Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

User Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Conservation and plant diversity

User Dr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

User Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

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

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

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

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

User Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of "The Spirit of Inquiry" 200 years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

User Professor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

User Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

User Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Virtual reality to facilitate multi-sensory molecular simulation and design: from quantum chemistry to ligand-protein binding

User Dr David Glowacki (University of Bristol).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson College - The Lee Hall.

The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.

User Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London.

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

The periodic table: foundations and elaborations

User Prof Peter Atkins (Oxford).

Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre.

One

User Dr Andrew Szydlo.

Friday 29 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Mendeleev's Gift to Everyone (including you and me)

User Sir Martyn Poliakoff (University of Nottingham).

Saturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

(Periodic) Table Talk — the beginnings of the Periodic Table

User Dr Peter Wothers (University of Cambridge).

Saturday 30 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

User Max Long (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

User Professor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

User Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

The theory-led hunt for extreme materials

User Professor Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 05 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

House Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?

User Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL.

Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

User Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

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

Monday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

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

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

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

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Professor Nigel Peake - title to be confirmed

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

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneering genetic therapies for Huntington's disease and its relevance for neurodegeneration

User Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

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

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

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

House Wolfson College, Gatsby Room.

Climate change (TBC)

User Dr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Structures Research Group.

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

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

A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Eske Willerslev - title to be confirmed

User Professor Eske Willerslev, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen.

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

User Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

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

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

The Enigma of Emotion

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

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

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

User Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

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

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

Professor Rebecca Kilner - title to be confirmed

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

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

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Professor David Baulcombe FRS- title to be confirmed

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 David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Eruptions, emissions and enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

User Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

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

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Let food be thy medicine.

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

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

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