Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Cambridge Assessment. Professor James Flynn will give a seminar on the subject Is intelligence (or something else important) rising?, on 15 December, in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Tea and coffee will be available from 2 p.m., and the seminar will take place from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. The seminar will be followed by a reception. Admission is free, but reservation is required. To register, and for more information, see the website at http://www.thepsychometricscentre.co.uk/about/items/newsflynn.asp. Alternatively, e-mail psychometrics@cambridgeassessment.org.uk, or telephone 01223 553741.

Engineering. Professor Tom O'Rourke, of Cornell University, will give a lecture entitled Hurricane Katrina: geosystems in crisis, at 5 p.m. on 30 November, in Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

History of Art. Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar: Art and Governance in the Medieval West. Dr Frithjof Schwartz, of Universitaet Mainz, will give a seminar entitled Political crises as impulses for the development of sepulchral art: the case of Florence, mid-thirteenth to early fourteenth century, at 5.30 p.m. on 27 November, in the History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street.

Virology. Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 12 noon in the Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke's Hospital.