Neurons, Fake News, DNA and your iPhone: The Mathematics of Information

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Centrosome amplification and cancer: reaching out

Hosts: David Glover & Paula Coelho

User Dr Susana Godinho, Barts Cancer Institute, University of London.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles

User Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

House MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Lattice investigation of charmed and bottom hadrons

User Padmanath Madanagopalan (Regensburg).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Random explorations of materials space

User Chris Pickard, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

House Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Scaling laws in blood platelets cytoskeleton

User Francois Nedelec, University of Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Simplified models for long-lived particles and reinterpretation of LHC searches

Note unusual time and room of this seminar

User Giovanna Cottin (FONDECYT Chile).

Monday 18 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

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

User Jacob Bruggeman.

House Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

TBC

User Davide Napoletano .

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Black hole interiors and modular inclusions

User Ro Jefferson (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm).

House MR11.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes

User Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First-principles Investigation of Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries (ASSBs)

User Bora Karasulu, TCM.

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

TBC

User Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish Inspiring Womxn Talks

Physics over the Rainbow

User Claire Malone (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 17:30-18:30

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 Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Minimal and Ancestral Genomes

Host: Richard Durbin

User Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA .

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

Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport

User Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

House MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Analytic two-loop multi-scale scattering amplitudes in QCD

User Harald Ita (Freiburg).

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

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins revealed by ribosome profiling

User Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center.

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

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Imaging materials structure and bonding using coherent and incoherent electron imaging

User Peter Nellist, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Properties of Elementary Particle Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station

User Jie Feng (MIT).

House Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopoles and Number Theory

User Harry Braden (Edinburgh).

House MR11.

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

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

Quantum Matter Seminar

The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12

User Dr Kathrin Götze, Department of Physics, University of Warwick.

House Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:15-12:15

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 Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The Flux Capacitor: How mitochondria shape the evolution of complexity

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Nick Lane, University College London .

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Ptychography

User John Rodenburg, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

House Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Per aspera ad astra: Impact of high precision standard model predictions for new physics searches

unusual venue

User Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham).

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Di-Higgs at the LHC: A Window on our Universe and BSM New Matter

User Mike Nelson (Stockholm University).

House Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

User Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980), Cavendish Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

unusual venue

User Graham Ross (Oxford).

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Host factors that shape influenza evolution.

User Wendy Barclay.

Friday 06 December 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Potter Room, B1.19.

Leptoquark Pair Production at Future Hadron Colliders

User Maeve Madigan (DAMTP).

Thursday 12 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute .

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:15-17:15

House Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Predictive models of bacterial response and the evolution of resistance to antibiotics

User Bartek Waclaw, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Human Origins

User Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Hansong Ma

User Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Venue to be confirmed.

Title to be confirmed

User Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Deep learning for tomographic image reconstruction: some recent approaches

User Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Mysteries of Modern Physics

User Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

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

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Milstein LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Elain Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

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

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

User Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

User Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Moire superlattice effects in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials

User Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Venue to be confirmed.

Title to be confirmed

User Luigi del Debbio (Edinburgh).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

User Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Eric Miska

User Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

Integrating Imaging and Computational Modelling to Gain Therapeutic Insights for Cancer

User Becky Shipley, University College London.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

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

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Jodi Nunnari, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences.

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

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

User Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden .

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Mitochondria and Cancer: Metabolites and Beyond

User Christian Frezza, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

The Enigma of Emotion

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

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

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Frank Jiggins

User Dr Kayla King, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

Title to be confirmed

User Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User John Diffley, Associate Research Director, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.

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

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

House Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Host: Ben Steventon

User Dr Edwige Moyroud, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

TBA

User Helen Byrne, University of Oxford.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Title to be confirmed

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

User Dr Jean-René Huynh, Collège de France, CIRB, Paris .

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

House Venue to be confirmed.

Title to be confirmed

User Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Archaeological Mysteries

User Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

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

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

User James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

The Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

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

House Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Julie Ahringer, PhD FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Member of the Department of Genetics.

Friday 27 March 2020, 00:00-00:00