Reporter 15/3/00: Announcement of lectures and seminars

Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Inaugural Lectures. Professor Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History, will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled The myth of the Second World War, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 May, in Lecture Theatre LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Medieval History, will give her Inaugural Lecture, entitled History and its audiences, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 15 May, in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Melville Lecture. The Melville Lecture, entitled Designed polymers by free radical addition-fragmentation processes, will be delivered by Dr Ezio Rizzardo, of CSIRO Molecular Science, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 20 March, in Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. A supporting lecture, entitled Addressing industrial aspects of controlled polymer synthesis, will be given at 4 p.m. by Dr Derek Irvine, of Uniqema, Wilton.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks, under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, from 26 January to 26 April.

22 March

Synthesis of artists' pigments, by Dr Spike Bucklow, of the Hamilton Kerr Institute for the Conservation of Paintings.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor K. Kato, of the University of Tokyo, will deliver the sixth Kuwait Fund Lecture, entitled Classical Iwasawa theory and its generalization to elliptic curves and modular forms, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 1 May, in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

This first lecture will be aimed at a general mathematical audience. It will be followed by a series of nine additional lectures on the same theme at 11 a.m. on Tuesday-Friday, 2-5 May, and Monday-Friday, 8-12 May, in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

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