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

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

The evolution of animal construction and why it matters to anthropologists

User Dr. Sally Street, University of Durham.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Learning and memory: a novel insight

User Dr Melanie Stefan.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

House 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation, territoriality and social support in our evolutionary cousins

User Robin E Morrison (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines

Host: Jane Charlesworth

User Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading .

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops

User Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Numerical Multi-loop Computations: HJ and HH production at the LHC

User Stephen Jones (CERN).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Colour and Vision

User Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Darwin College, Old Library.

The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the world’s first soundly-funded pension plan

User David Pitt-Watson, Judge Business School.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

User Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

Monday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cavendish Inspiring Women Talks

Mental Health of PhD Students

User Dr. Katia Levecque, Ghent University.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Blockchain & crypto: A legal view

User Ann Sofie Cloots.

House Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Title to be confirmed

User Andre David Tinoco Mendes (CERN).

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Twists, categorification, and hyperKähler manifolds

User Ed Walton (DAMTP).

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

LMB Seminar Series-Epigenetic inheritance in mammals

User Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures

User Veronika Sunko, University of St Andrews and MPI-CPfS Dresden.

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 11:15-12:30

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

User Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Folktales, languages and genes: the plot thickens

User Dr. Jamshid Tehrani, University of Durham.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Planet Nine: To Be or Not To Be

User Mr Antranik A. Sefilian.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

A new force awakens: Evolution of tissue morphogenesis in early development of insects

Host: Berta Verd

User Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden .

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

50 years on recollections of a former young theoretical physicist

User Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

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

From the deuteron to the beauteron

User Tim Burns (Swansea).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Small lecture theatre* please note change of time and location.

Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

User Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich.

Friday 01 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Evolution of the Eye

User Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Inflamed Depression

User Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Rhythm: A personal act of 'knowing'

User Satinder Gill.

House Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The ALPHA experiment

User Prof. Jeffrey Hangst (Aarhus University).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Digital quantum geometries

User Anna Pachol (QMUL).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

User Professor Anne Stone, Arizona State University.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

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 John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Hearing and seeing things that are not there: Quantifying brain structure related to hallucinations

User Colleen Rollins (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems

User Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Experiments with high explosives

User Jiri Pachman, Institute of Energetic Materials, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

CTEQ-TEA: Precise analysis of hadron structure in the LHC era

User Pavel Nadolski (SMU).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

User Prof. Peer Fischer, Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems.

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Vision of Future Technology

User Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Darwin College, Old Library.

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

User Nicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

When algebra meets geometry

User Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

Monday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Strategic Donor Competition in Foreign Aid - Evidence from a Spatial Panel Model for Sub-Saharan Africa

User Luca Messerschmidt.

House Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

SBND -- a state of the art Liquid Argon TPC for Neutrino Physics

User Nicola McConkey (University of Manchester).

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Strings, high energy and curved spacetimes

User Giuseppi D'Appollonio (DAMTP and Cagliari).

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

User Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

New approaches to modeling technological evolution

User Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld, University of Cambridge .

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Genome sequencing paves the way for precision medicine in the NHS: the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) point of view

User Dr Stefan Gräf.

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

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

An evolutionary perspective on meiotic recombination in vertebrates

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Molly Przeworski from Columbia University, New York .

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

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

Title to be confirmed

User Scott Melville (Cambridge).

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

House Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked

User Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Appearance and Physical Reality

User Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cancers and the tumour microenvironment

User Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Game Theory and Anti-Microbial Resistance – Examining the Global Response to AMR

User James Beringer.

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

Skyrmions and rho mesons, a successful relationship for light nuclei

User Carlos Naya (INFN, Lecce).

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

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

North American Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions: was it murder or climatic mayhem?

User Professor David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Evolution, development and function of flower patterns

User Ms Alice Fairnie (Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden Cambridge).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Higgs-gauge EFT analyses

User Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg).

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

Title to be confirmed

User Paul Dastoor, Department of Physics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

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

Viewing the Universe

User Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Darwin College, Old Library.

Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.

User Dr John Gent, KCL.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

User A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Creating a Commonwealth intelligence culture? Security sector reform and the politics of assistance in building the Tanzanian state, 1945-1989

User Thomas Maguire.

House Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

AMOP list

Title tbc

User Dr Claire Le Gall and Dr Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 15:30-16:30

Magnetic Skyrmions at critical coupling

User Calum Ross (Heriot-Watt).

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

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

User Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building, Division of Biological Anthropology, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Homo sapiens evolution through the Asian lens

User Professor María Martinón-Torres, CENIEH.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Observing active galaxies, the sites of growing supermassive black holes

User Dr George Lansbury (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Epigenetic inheritance: mechanism and function of genomic imprinting

Host: Sam Lewis

User Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Using scanning probes to fabricate and characterise nanoscale donor devices in silicon

User Neil Curson, Centre for the Advanced Characterisation of Materials, University College London.

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

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

LMB Seminar Series - Stem cells, regeneration and organoid cultures

User Meri Huch.

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

House Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons

User Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Computer Vision

User Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

House Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

AMOP list

Spin-Josephson coupling and the phase diagram of polariton condensate arrays

User Prof. Jeremy Baumberg NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor

User Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Sophie Calle: Turning Love Backwards

User Jezebel Mansell.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

LMB Seminar Series Milstein Lecture - Title TBC

User Pietro Di Camilli, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Solving Darwin’s 'abominable mystery': the evolution and development of nectar spurs

User Ms Erin Cullen (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

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

Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Ian Clark

User Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling

User Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

User Sebastian Trojanowski (NCNR Warsaw & CFP, Sheffield).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Assembly and Function of Complex Systems

TBC

User Prof. Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München.

House Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

LMB Seminar Series - Animating Molecular Biology

User Janet Iwasa, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, University of Utah.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Perception of Visual Space

User Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

House Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.

User Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England.

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

User Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

Monday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Scenarios, forecasts, and projections – thinking about the future of technological change and climate change mitigation

User Ida Sognnaes.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Phi^4 kinks on a wormhole spacetime

User Alice Waterhouse (DAMTP).

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

User Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

User Mary-Claire King, human geneticist professor, University of Washington.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 10:30-11:30

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

User Dr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

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

House Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Sterile Neutrinos in Reactor and Accelerator Experiments

User Alvaro Hernandez Cabezudo (KIT).

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

Fracture by a million impacts: Erosion of polycrystalline diamond at temperatures up to 600 ˚C

User Arthur Henderson, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

House Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

User Prof. Antoine Browaeys, University of Oxford.

Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How do we measure quality in higher education?

User Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 18 March 2019, 19:30-21:00

House Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

User Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

House MR2, CMS.

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

House Lecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

Friday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

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

LMB Seminar Series - Title TBC

User Jorge Galan, PhD, DVM, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.

Friday 05 April 2019, 16:00-17:00