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

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

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

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

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

How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer

Host: Hansong Ma

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

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

Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals

User Dr Adolfo G. Grushin.

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

Intersection Theory and Feynman Integrals

User Pierpaolo Mastrolia (Padova).

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

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

From differential equations to deep learning for image processing

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: Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

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 - The Silent Flight of the Owl

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

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?

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Topics in Political Philosophy: Luck Egalitarianism & Comparative Fairness

User Ben Jooste-Jennings.

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

Surface charges for gravity in tetrad variables: some surprises explained

User Simone Speziale (Marseille).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Anubis

User Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge).

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

User Justin Crocker, EMBL.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

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

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

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

Quasi-PDFs as observables

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

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

User Professor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

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

User Dr Nancy Highcock.

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

Overview of ATLAS jet measurements

User Jennifer Roloff (BNL).

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Conformal geodesics, gravitational instantons, and integrability.

User Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

Host: Eric Miska

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

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

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

User Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

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

Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems

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

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

Field emitters at atomic scale: Insights from density functional theory

User Chris Edgcombe, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Title to be confirmed

User Ward Haddadin (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 06 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

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.

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

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

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

User Dr Frédéric-Guillaume Schneider.

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

Skyrmions from monopoles and calorons

User Josh Cork (Lancaster).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

TBC

User Giulio Falcioni (University of Edinburgh).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Genomics of speciation and adaptation in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish radiation

Host: Aylwyn Scally

User Professor Richard Durbin, Department of Genetics.

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

Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics

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

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

Modelling energy dissipation at surfaces

User Jörg Meyer, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Gravitational wave probes of new physics

User Pedro Schwaller (Mainz).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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.

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

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

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

User Jon Roozenbeek.

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

The homology of correspondence spaces and some massless tree amplitude identities

User Hadleigh Frost (Oxford).

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

CMS HGCal upgrade

User Samuel Webb (Imperial College London).

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Rapid microbial evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum

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

Title to be confirmed

User Peter Newton, Thin Film Magnetism Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving: applications to human disease and expanding populations

User Jacob Scott, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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.

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

User Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

User Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

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

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

Searches for dark matter with the ATLAS detector

User Phillip Gadow (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

TBA

User Tzany Kokalova Wheldon (Birmingham).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?

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: How our chromosomes are replicated

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 - 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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Highways and byways in the history of high rate mechanical testing

User Stephen Walley, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ryle Seminar (Rutherford 930).

Multiscale approaches to modelling vascular tumour growth

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

Random surfaces and Liouville quantum gravity

User Ewain Gwynne (DPMMS).

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Search for new physics with kaons at NA62 and beyond

User Prof. Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham).

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Mixing mitosis and meiosis in Drosophila

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

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

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

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

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

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

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

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

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

House Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Jet substructure and top-taggers for highly boosted tops

User Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester).

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

Forensic explosives analysis

User Mike O'Donnell, PCS Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

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).

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

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

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

User Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

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

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

The Double Copy of a Point Charge

User Ricardo Monteiro (Queen Mary).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

TBC

User Raquel Gomez (Durham).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

TBC

User Raquel Gomez (Durham).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin.

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

Title to be confirmed

User Steven Abel (Durham).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

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

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Gerry Rubin, Vice President, HHMI, and Executive Director, Janelia Research Campus.

Friday 03 April 2020, 00:00-00:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis

User Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

House Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: David Summers and John Welch

User Dr Trevor Lawley, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Karyn Le Hur, Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS .

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

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

Perutz LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User David Baker, PhD, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 00:00-00:00

DUNE - Precision Neutrino Physics of the Future

User Prof. Alfons Weber (University of Oxford).

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Ben Steventon

User Professor Kate Storey, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Leibniz University Hannover.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

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

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

User Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

House MR2, CMS.

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

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

User John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

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

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

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

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Peijun Zhang, Director of the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC).

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 00:00-00:00

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Helene Rangone-Briatte and David Glover

User Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier .

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

Title to be confirmed

Hosts: Ben Steventon and Michael Imbeault

User Dr Kim Judge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Marco Schiro, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay.

Thursday 14 May 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 15 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

User Nieng Yan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Monday 18 May 2020, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

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

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

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

Neutrino interactions and long-baseline oscillation experiments

User Stephen Dolan (CERN).

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College London.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

Title to be confirmed

Host: Richard Durbin

User Professor Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge .

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Jovana Milic, EPFL.

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

User Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Prof. Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

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

TBA

User Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute.

Friday 05 June 2020, 16:00-17:00