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Cavendish Physical Society

The physics of how humans build models of the world

UserProf Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

To see a world in a grain of sand

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

UserProfessor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological pumping in new territory

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

UserProf Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockTuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

UserProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

HouseTeams Livestream.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

UserProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

HouseTeams Livestream.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials

UserMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"

This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv

UserProf Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

HousePippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv .

ClockWednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

UserProf Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HousePippard lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria

This lecture is a Livestream Event

UserDr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory.

House tinyurl.com/y7ajn97h.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature

UserProf Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseTeams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

’Seeing early cancer in a new light’

UserProf Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory.

Househttps://tinyurl.com/y4og7frr.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseTeams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos

UserDr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP.

HouseTeams Livestream.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied

Join the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra

UserDr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge.

HouseTeams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'

UserProf Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

2d Semiconductors For Optics & Spin-valley Physics

UserDr Bernhard Urbaszek, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

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

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Diamond For Energy And Optoelectronic Applications

UserDr Daniele M. Trucchi Diamond For Energy And Optoelectronic Applications, CNR-ISM, Italy.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 13 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

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

All Welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Scott Lectures

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

All welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

A Tool Box For Graphene Functionalization

UserDr Kalbáč Martin, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 19 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Publishing in Nature Journals

UserDr Rachel Won, Nature Photonics International Editor, UK.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Edge Engineering Of Graphene Devices

UserProf. Peter Bøggild, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

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

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Graphene In Batteries

UserProf. Vasant Kumar, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 07 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Optical Properties Of Atomically Thin Semiconductors

UserProf. Marek Potemski, Laboratoire National Des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, France.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Chemistry And Mechanics Of Graphene And Related Materials

UserProf. Rodney S. Ruoff, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockThursday 26 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

UserProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

UserDr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicist's spin on data science

UserDeborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Graphene Bolometers

UserICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Cyber-Physical Systems

UserDr Edward R. Griffor, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 13 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Nano Innovation Seminar Series

UserDr. Lakmal Jayasinghe- Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

HouseRayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE .

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Quantum Transport In Graphene Multilayers

UserProf. Thomas Weitz, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Layered Carbon Nitrides

UserProf. Paul McMillan, University College London, UK.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 12 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies Of Photoactive Nanomaterials

UserDr Caterina Ducati, Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Surface Atomic Structure Analysis by Raman Spectroscopy

UserProf. Norbert Esser, Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Berlin, Germany.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Nano-Impulse-Maxwell Innovation Seminar Series

UserProf. Ijeoma Uchegbu Chief Scientific Officer, Nanomerics.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cavendish Physical Society

No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition

UserProfessor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

UserProf Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

UserProf Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

UserProfessor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Carbon Nanomaterial From Waste

UserDr. Alberto Tagliaferro (Politecnico Di Torino, Italy).

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Silicon photonics for near- and mid-infrared applications

UserProf. Goran Mashanovich, University of Southampton, Optoelectronics research Centre.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Visualizing Quantum Matter

UserJ.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University; Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Growth Of Graphene Single Crystals And Graphene/hBN

UserProf. Xie Xiaoming, Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, China.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves

UserGabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University .

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Epochs

UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chemically Processed Inorganic Nanostructures for Energy and Health Applications

UserSanjay Mathur, Chair, Inorganic and Materials Chemistry University of Cologne, Greinstrasse 6, D-50939 Cologne, Germany.

HouseGoldsmiths' Lecture Room 1..

ClockThursday 30 June 2016, 15:00-16:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

UserMelissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Catalyst

UserMichael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Silk - the physics behind the function

Presentation at 6:30 pm, light refreshments from 6:00 pm. These talks are open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr. Peter Laity. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 18:00-20:00

Winton Discussions

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

UserGareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system

UserProfessor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Printed electronics - from lab to pilot

UserDr Henrik Sandberg, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

A Match Made in Heaven: Materials Science and Archaeology in the studies of Invention and Innovation of the Earliest Eurasian Metallurgy

Presentation at 6:30 pm, light refreshments from 6:00 pm. These talks are open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr. Miljana Radivojevic. Anniversary Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Smart infrastructure and construction - the challenges and opportunities for the use of sensors in monitoring infrastructure and construction

These talks are open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr. Jennifer Schooling, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC).

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 18:00-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics

UserProf David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

UserEmily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"

UserProfessor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Perspectives Of Ultrafast Electron Scattering Techniques

UserProf. Fabrizio Carbone, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 04 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Extremely Complex Problems in Metallurgy

This is an open lecture. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be available from 18:00.

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"

UserProf. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities

UserProfessor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Group Theory Of Phonons In Layered Crystals

UserProf. Jenaina Ribeiro Soares, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices

UserDr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research

UserProf. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The prospects for thin film PV solar energy in a world dominated by crystalline silicon

Light refreshments available from 19:00. These talks are open and all are welcome.

UserProfessor Stuart Irvine, Director of Centre for Solar Energy Research, Glyndŵr University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Patents in theory and in practice

UserDr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Cellulose: Future technology for the world’s most utilised material

Anyone with an interest in the topic is very welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProf Steve Eichorn, Head of Engineering, University of Exeter.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockThursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

A remarkable set of contemplations

UserCraig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

New directions in liquid crystals

UserProfessor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities

UserProfessor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Signature Materials – metal thieves, your card is marked!

These talks are open to everyone interested in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserDavid W Arthur, Project Manager, Signature Materials, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Winton Discussions

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

UserDr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

High Speed VCSELs And Optical Interconnects

UserProf. Anders Larsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) .

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 12 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The winding road to topological insulators

Note unusual location

UserEugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseCavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Biosensors; Past Present and Future: The role of materials over the past two decades - With a look to the future

The lecture is open and anyone with an interest in the subject is welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProfessor Seamus Higson, Head, Cranfield Biotechnology Centre, Cranfield University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Biomaterial Scaffolds

Please register your interest by email, if possible by Friday 14 November 2014, to: Events Coordinator, Society of Biology East Anglia Branch - societyofbiologyea@gmail.com - including your affiliation (Society of Biology / CAMSOC) and a contact number.

UserVarious members of the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 18:30-20:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Energy storage: Understanding supercapacitors for improving them

UserDr Céline Merlet, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scientific instruments before science

UserDr Alexi Baker, CRASSH & History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High magnetic fields as a tool for discovery

UserDr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Richard III: Wounds, Weapons and Armour

The lecture is open and anyone with an interest in the subject is welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProfessor Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory

UserMalcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Silicon Photonics For The Zettabyte Era

UserProf. Marco Romagnoli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?

UserProfessor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Strain Engineering Of Graphene

UserProf. Francois Peeters (University of Antwerp, Netherlands).

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Bugs 'n Steel Afloat and On Shore

Prof. Lindsay Greer has kindly offered to provide a tour of the Department. Please arrive by 6:30 pm if you wish to join the tour. Light refreshments from 7:00 pm. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome to attend.

UserDr James Cleland, Camcor.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Higgs Vortices and Black Hole Hair

UserProfessor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Current Issues in Energy Policy

UserDr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Social Perceptions of Sustainable Materials

Cancelled as speaker is not available

UserSarah Wilkes, Institute of Making, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces

UserProf Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?

UserDr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Welding & Joining Developments in the Aerospace Industry

Joint meeting with Eastern Counties branch of The Welding Institute. Buffet available from 18:00. If attending, please contact Alan Shand (Lloyds Register) Tel: 0207 423 2833 Email: alan.shand@lr.org

UserDr Richard Freeman, TWI Ltd.

HouseG3, Bevan Braithwaite Building, TWI Ltd, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL .

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 18:30-20:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Molecular Systems Architectures

UserDr Jonathan Nitschke (University of Cambridge, UK).

HouseCambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Improving cancer survival through molecular imaging

UserDr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Soft Matter in Motion

UserDr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY

UserDr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Realising the SKYLON Spaceplane

Light refreshments available from 19:00. Anyone interested is welcome. Please note the new venue - on the West Cambridge site.

UserMark Hempsell, Reaction Engines.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Bubbles-Particles-Capsules-Fibres at all scales!

Anyone interested in the topic is welcome. Light refreshments from 19:00. Note - new venue on West Cambridge site.

UserProf. Mohan Edirisinghe, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockWednesday 11 December 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmic Reionization

UserDr Chris Carilli, NRAO.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow

UserProf Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

More Bang for your Buck – formulation and characterisation of explosive materials

Talk is open to all. Light refreshments from 19:00. Note - new venue on West Cambridge site

UserAnnette Glauser.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton .

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms"

UserProf Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Richard III: Wounds, Weapons and Armour -CANCELLED DUE TO SPEAKER'S ILLNESS

Note: This meeting will be held at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at their new location on the West Cambridge site. Please come along. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserProf. Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested

UserProf Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Single-Layer MoS2: Transport Properties, Devices And Circuits

UserProf Andras Kis, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 26 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Mesoscopic Solar Cells And Solar Fuels

UserProf Anders Hagfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden.

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 19 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Hybrid Nanomaterial Platforms For Improved Performance In Sensing And Solar Harnessing

UserProf Gerasimos Konstantatos, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain.

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 05 July 2013, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Creating Impact from Research

UserDr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Challenges In Silicon-Based PV Technologies

UserProf Miro Zeman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 07 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Biological photovoltaic systems

UserProf Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Exoplanet Science, the way forward

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six

On twitter @closefrank

UserProfessor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England .

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Integrated Photon-Counting Technologies: CMOS And Beyond

UserProf Edoardo Charbon, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 19 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Energy saving when manufacturing high value castings

Our talks are open to all with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments will be available from 7:00 pm.

UserProf. Mark Jolly, Cranfield University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 17 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

UserDr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The Next Generation of Lighting for our Homes and our Health

Our meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 19:30-21:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Leaf-Like Materials Capable Of Solar Energy Conversion

UserProf. Bao-Lian Su (University of Namur, Belgium).

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Printing, Ink Systems And Processes

UserChris Jones (Novalia, Cambridge, UK) .

House9, JJ Thomson Ave. Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Sustainability and Architecture

UserProf Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson

UserProfessor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

UserProfessor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Intelligent Nanomaterials - Will It Answer Energy Problems?? And What Policies Will Make Them Attractive For Commercialisation.

Talks open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Light refreshments available from 19:00.

UserBy Dr. Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 19:30-21:00

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

Dressing Molecules And Materials With The Vacuum Field

UserProf. Thomas W. Ebbesen, (ISIS, University of Strasbourg, France) .

HouseCentre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Multi-scale Mechanics in Tendon: Understanding Structure-Function Optimisation

Light refreshments from 19:00. Open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr Hazel Screen, Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physics

UserProfessor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Superconducting Spintronics: a tantalizing possibility for dissipation-free logic

This meeting is open to anyone interested in the topic. Light refreshments will be available from 7:00 pm.

UserDr Jason Robinson, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

UserDr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”

UserProfessor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"

UserProfessor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”

UserProfessor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge).

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

UserDr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

High Efficiency III-V Solar Cells: past, present and future

Light refreshments from 19:00. Open to anyone with an interest in the topic.

UserDr Ned J Ekins-Daukes, Imperial College.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?

UserProfessor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Efficient Lighting

UserWinton Community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Engineering challenges in Antarctica

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome

UserMike Rose, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Winton Discussions

Biofuels

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Prospects for economic CCS using mineral carbonation

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserMichael Priestnall, Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Tea time conversation

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Winton Discussions

Hydrogen fuel cells

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Graphene: Materials in the Flatland

UserSir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities

UserProfessor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Thermal Spray Coating Developments at TWI

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserHeidi Lovelock, Section Manager, Surfacing, TWI Ltd.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 December 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Do biological cells care about physics?

UserDr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer Solar Cells

UserProf Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.

UserProf Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Mixing lightning with water to get the most out of aluminium

Light refreshments from 19:00. All welcome.

UserDr James Curran, Keronite International Ltd and Royal Society Industry Fellow, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Charles Dickens and Victorian Disasters

Light refreshments available from 19:00. All welcome.

UserDr Peter Lewis, Materials Engineering, The Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid Applications

UserProfessor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

UserProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The evolution of welding engineering: Milestones and lessons

. If you plan to attend, can you please let Philippa Moore know beforehand to help with catering arrangements etc. (tel - 01223 899399; e-mail - philippa.moore@twi.co.uk)

UserDr Richard Dolby OBE, FREng FIMMM HonFWeldI.

HouseTWI, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AL.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imagined

UserSabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

User Prof. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Fukushima What went wrong?

All welcome. Light refreshments from 7:00 pm

UserTony Roulstone, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (formerly Head of Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engineering).

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 12 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Residual stresses: their role in structural integrity assessment and advanced techniques for their analysis

Light refreshments available from 7:00 pm

UserProfessor Mike Fitzpatrick, Head of Department of Design, Development, Environment and Materials, The Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array

UserProf Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics)

UserProf Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

The Power of Carbon

Light refreshments available from 19:00

UserDr Krzysztof K K Koziol, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society meetings

Roman Mining Technology in Britain

Light refreshments from 7:00 pm

UserDr Peter Lewis, Reader in Forensic Engineering, Open University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 19:30-21:00

The Hewish Lectures

Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity

User Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM

UserTom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 02 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease

UserProf Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole

UserProfessor James Pinfold, University of Alberta.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power Grid

UserProfessor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'

UserProfessor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Synthetic structures and machines from DNA

UserProf Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!

UserProfessor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleships

UserProfessor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Examples

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Methodologies

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : An Overview

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserSir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams

UserProfessor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter

UserProfessor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Lord Rayleigh's Legacy

UserProfessor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

The Hewish Lectures

Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

UserProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3He

UserProfessor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Quarks and their quirks

UserProfessor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray Crystallography

UserDr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously

UserProfessor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping

Refreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer

UserProfessor William Phillips.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid Surfaces

UserProf Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?

UserProf Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmology

UserDr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detection

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter

UserProfessor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

"Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"

UserProfessor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

"The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"

UserProfessor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Scanning the cosmological horizon

UserProfessor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons

UserProfessor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2005, 16:15-17:15

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