The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Peter Raynor, of the University of Wales, Swansea, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology New Building (Sidgwick Site) on British Probation's 'What Works' experiment: what worked and what didn't? on 28 October at 5.30 p.m. Please note new venue.
Land Economy. Lunch-time seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Laundress Lane Seminar Rooms.
27 October | Agricultural land retirement and slippage: lessons from an Australian case study, by Dr Iain Fraser, Imperial College London. (With R. Waschik, La Trobe University.) |
10 November | Determinants of technical efficiency in agriculture and cattle ranching: a spatial analysis for the Brazilian Amazon, by Dr Danilo Igliori, of the Department of Land Economy. |
17 November | Public policy diffusion under uncertainty: theory and applications, by Mr Tun Lin, of the Department of Land Economy. |
24 November | An autoregressive spatio-temporal model of farmland prices, by Dr David Maddison, of University College London. |
1 December | Assembly disassembled: a look at the complexity of horticulture marketing, by Ms Allison Brown, of the Pennsylvania State University. |
Isaac Newton Institute. Rothschild Visiting Professor, Robert Rosner, of the University of Chicago, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on 25 October, entitled Burning stars in one's office. The seminar will be followed by an informal reception at 6 p.m.
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor P. Kronheimer, of Harvard University, will give the Forty-third Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Surgery and the fundamental group, at 5 p.m. in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, on 26 October.