Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Methods for information transfer within populations of structures

Dr Tina Dardeno, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

Michael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War

Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY).

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

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology

Clive Oppenheimer (Department of Geography).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues

Prof. Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TOWARDS QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)

Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future

Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University).

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

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?

Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville and Caius College).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan

Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

MONITORING, UNDERSTANDING AND MAINTENANCE OF RAIL DEFECTS ON A EUROPEAN METRO SYSTEM

Dr Stuart Grassie, RailMeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise

Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Quickest Change Detection Using Mismatched CUSUM

Prof. Sean Meyn, University of Florida.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00-13:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The global health focus on early life: origin stories

Michelle Pentecost (King's College London).

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

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution

Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Unravelling the Mechanics of MAX Phases: Investigating Deformation and Failure Mechanisms in Single and Polycrystalline Structures

Professor Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

On Reduced Order Models for Jointed Structures

Dr Paolo Tiso, ETH Zurich.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465–1700

Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute).

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

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

Nick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Henry Allen, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Inverse design of multiscale structures and meta-materials by topology optimization and dehomogenization

Prof. Ole Sigmund, Technical University of Denmark.

Department of Engineering - tbc.

Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00