Reporter Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.//: 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 Lecture. Professor David W. Phillipson, FBA, FSA, Professor of African Archaeology, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture entitled Archaeology in Africa, and in Museums, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 22 October 2002, in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Divinity. The 2002 Yerushah Lecture will be given by Claudia Roden, food writer, in conversation with Nick Lander, food critic of the Financial Times. The Lecture is entitled We are what we eat: Jewish identity and Jewish food and will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 October, in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road. To book a place at the reception after the lecture, please contact Ms Rosalind Paul (tel. 01223 763017, e-mail rmp24@cam.ac.uk). This lecture is sponsored by the Righteous Persons Foundation.

Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminar. On Wednesday, 16 October 2002, Dr Elio Riboli, Head of the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, will speak on The role of nutrition in colorectal cancer etiology: current evidence and controversies. The seminar will be held at 3 p.m. in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. Host: Sheila Bingham. (Jointly hosted by the Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory, and the MRC Cell Cancer Unit, Hutchison/MRC Centre.) For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

Earth Sciences. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Harker Room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

15 October Dynamics of volcanic eruptions, by Professor Steve Sparks, of the University of Bristol.

22 October Chicxulub: the end of an era, by Dr Joanna Morgan, of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

29 October Fracturing assisted fluid migration in rocks, by Professor Bjorn Jamtveit, of the University of Oslo.

5 November Simulation of climate-biosphere interactions during the last glacial maximum with a climate system model of intermediate complexity, by Dr Victor Brovkin, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

12 November The conodont controversies: implications for the origin of the vertebrate skeleton, by Professor Dick Aldridge, of the University of Leicester.

19 November Glacial/interglacial changes in atmospheric CO₂, by Dr Richard E. Zeebe, of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven.

26 November Dynamic basin-floor topography: mass transport complexes (MTCs), and rate of depocentre migration in foreland-basin submarine fan systems, Mid Eocene, Pyrenees, Spain, by Professor Kevin Pickering, of University College, London.

Engineering. The Mechanics Colloquia Seminar Series will take place on Fridays, at 2.30 p.m. in Lecture Room 6 of the Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

11 October Power MEMS, amazing devices, and some interesting mechanics, by Professor Mark Spearing, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

8 November Ground vibration from trains, by Professor Chris Jones, of the University of Southampton.

29 November (Loco)motion of(f) interfaces: creeping, crawling, slithering, and sliding, by Professor L. Mahadevan, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures will be held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

16 October The Jewish mother in Israeli fiction, by Dr Smadar Shiffman, of Tel Aviv University.

30 October Centre, periphery, and the elusive self in contemporary Israeli literature, by Kobbie Freund, Israeli writer and critic.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Twenty-sixth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Periods, zeta values, and diophantine problems, will be given by Professor Michel Waldschmidt, of Université de Paris 6, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 October, in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance near the Isaac Newton Institute on Clarkson Road).

Table of Contents

15 October	Dynamics of volcanic eruptions, by Professor Steve Sparks, of the University of Bristol.
22 October	Chicxulub: the end of an era, by Dr Joanna Morgan, of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
29 October	Fracturing assisted fluid migration in rocks, by Professor Bjorn Jamtveit, of the University of Oslo.
5 November	Simulation of climate-biosphere interactions during the last glacial maximum with a climate system model of intermediate complexity, by Dr Victor Brovkin, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
12 November	The conodont controversies: implications for the origin of the vertebrate skeleton, by Professor Dick Aldridge, of the University of Leicester.
19 November	Glacial/interglacial changes in atmospheric CO₂, by Dr Richard E. Zeebe, of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven.
26 November	Dynamic basin-floor topography: mass transport complexes (MTCs), and rate of depocentre migration in foreland-basin submarine fan systems, Mid Eocene, Pyrenees, Spain, by Professor Kevin Pickering, of University College, London.

11 October	Power MEMS, amazing devices, and some interesting mechanics, by Professor Mark Spearing, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
8 November	Ground vibration from trains, by Professor Chris Jones, of the University of Southampton.
29 November	(Loco)motion of(f) interfaces: creeping, crawling, slithering, and sliding, by Professor L. Mahadevan, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

16 October	The Jewish mother in Israeli fiction, by Dr Smadar Shiffman, of Tel Aviv University.
30 October	Centre, periphery, and the elusive self in contemporary Israeli literature, by Kobbie Freund, Israeli writer and critic.