Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Chemical Engineering. Seminars take place on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1) from 3.30 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. Tea and cakes are offered from 3.15 p.m. until 3.30 p.m. outside LT1. All are welcome.

8 February	Microcapillary film extrusions, by Dr Bart Hallmark, of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
15 February	'Old' and 'new' cyclic adsorptive processes: simulated moving bed (SMB) and pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technologies, by Professor Alirio E. Rodrigues, of the University of Porto.
22 February	Trace gas detection and studies of chemical reactivity with cavity ringdown spectroscopy, by Professor Orr-Ewing, of the University of Bristol.

Divinity. Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Seminars take place at the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley House, at 2 p.m. for 2.15 p.m.

1 February	Paul Tillich's treatment of Jewish-Christian relations, by Dr Russell Re Manning, of the Faculty of Divinity.
2 March	He also spoke as a Jew: The mystery of the Rev. James Parkes, by Mr Haim Chertok, of Ben Gurion University.
8 March	Grace Aguilar and Lily Montagu, by Dr Daniel Langton, of the University of Manchester.

Engineering. Mechanics Colloquia will be held on Fridays at 2.30 p.m. in Lecture Room 6 at the Department of Engineering. All visitors are welcome. For further information, including abstracts, please see http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mechanics/seminars/.

27 January	Structures and geometry, by Professor Robert Connelly, of Cornell University.
10 February	Improving lorries, by Dr David Cebon, of the Department of Engineering.
10 March	Integrated design, by Professor John Clarkson, Professor Bill Dawes, Dr Geoff Parks, and Dr Jerome Jarrett, of the Department of Engineering.

Oriental Studies. Japan Centre Seminars. Seminars are held in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13) of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, at 2 p.m. on Mondays. Please note that there will be no seminar on 6 March. For further information, please contact Professor Peter Kornicki (tel. 01223 335173, e-mail pk104@cam.ac.uk).

30 January	In search of the flaming pots: heritage and identity in the snow country, by Dr Simon Kaner, of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
6 February	Intelligence blowback: the policy implications of pre-war Japanese SIGINT (signals intelligence), by Dr Toshihiro Minohara, of the University of Oxford.
13 February	Conservative dissatisfaction with Japanese emperors, by Professor Ben-Ami Shillony, of the Hebrew University.
20 February	Smash the university! The university struggles of 1968-69 and the interrogation of progressivism in post-war Japan, by Dr Rikki Kersten, of Leiden University.
27 February	German origins of Japanese beer: business and consumption in the Meiji period, by Dr Harald Fuess, of Sophia University.
13 March	Beyond the Samurai: Bushido as a multivocal ethical tradition, by Professor Christopher Goto-Jones, of Leiden University.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars take place on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology. The Common Room (G1, ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.

27 January	Imagining homelessness: street life as performance, by Dr David Napier, of University College London.
3 February	Monsters and caricatures: spirit possession in Tana Toraja, by Dr Dimitri Tsintjilonis, of the University of Edinburgh.
10 February	Giving in the city, taking in the city: homeless encounters in central Cardiff, by Dr Tom Hall, of the University of Cardiff.
17 February	The power of the senses: ethnicity, embodiment, and history in East Java, Indonesia, by Dr Kostas Retsikas, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
24 February	Excluding the city: expatriates in Jakarta, by Dr Ann-Meike Fechter, of the University of Sussex.

Theoretical Geophysics. The Departments of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics present a series of seminars on Theoretical Geophysics, which will take place at 2.05 p.m. on Thursdays in Room MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. A varied, informal luncheon will be supplied in the Common Room of Pavilion H before each seminar at a cost of £2.50 per person, commencing at 1.05 p.m.

2 February	On the stability of continents, by Claude Jaupart, of the Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris.
9 February	The role of eddies in the Southern Ocean, by Emily Shuckburgh, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
16 February	Modelling high energy convective processes, by Hans Graf, of the Department of Geography.
23 February	Brain surgery and rocket science: spatiospectral estimation on a sphere, by Frederik Simons, of University College London.
2 March	Local air-sea interaction as seen by the HiGEM model, by Warwick Norton, of Reading University.
9 March	Braided rivers, by Phillip Hall, of Imperial College London.