Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures and seminars

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.