The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Engineering. Dynamics and Vibration Tea-Time Talks. Talks are held on Fridays at 4 p.m. in Lecture Room 11 at the Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. Tea is served at 3.30 p.m. in the South Wing Mechanics Laboratory, followed by presentations at 4 p.m., lasting approximately 30 minutes. All visitors are welcome. Please report to Reception on arrival. Further information is available from Tore Butlin, Dynamics and Vibration Research Office (e-mail tb267@cam.ac.uk).
| 2 February | Identification of driver steering and vehicle control, by Mr Andrew Odhams, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 9 February | The design of robust helium aerostats, by Mr Jonathan Miller, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 16 February | Impact of rigid body with friction and tangential compliance, by Mr Khairul Ismail, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 23 February | Optimal stabilization and path-following controls for a bicycle, by Professor Robin Sharp, of Imperial College. |
| 2 March | (Title to be confirmed) Mr Oscar Portillo, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 9 March | Recent progress in understanding driver-vehicle dynamics, by Dr David Cole, of the Department of Engineering. |
Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea and cakes will be served in the common room on the second floor from 4 p.m. Talks start at 4.30 p.m.
| 26 January | Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memory, by Professor Graham Hitch, of the University of York. Host: Tony Dickinson. |
| 2 February | (Title to be confirmed) Dr Jane Taylor, of Yale University. Host: Trevor Robbins. |
| 9 February | Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex, by Professor Jim Haxby, of Princeton University. Host: Lorraine Tyler. |
| 16 February | Is theory of mind necessary for teaching, by Dr Douglas Frye, of the University of Pennsylvania. Host: Jim Russell. |
| 23 February | Reanalysing ungrammatical sentences: evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEG, by Professor Fernanda Ferreira, of the University of Edinburgh. Host: Lorraine Tyler. |
| 2 March | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Maurizio Corbetta, of Washington University. Host: Lorraine Tyler. |
| 9 March | (Title to be confirmed) Dr Marius Usher, of Birkbeck College. Host: Greg Davis. |
Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies. 37th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures. Lectures are held in the Seminar Room at the Martin Centre, 6 Chaucer Road, on Wednesdays at 12.15 p.m. Tea, coffee, and cake are provided after each lecture for a small charge. There is more information and an abstract each week at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/. Further information is available from Alistair Fair (tel. 01223 331704, e-mail ajf56@cam.ac.uk).
| 31 January | People's homes: Span in the twenty-first century, by Ms Madeleine Adams and Mr Charlie Mackeith, of Research Design Architects. |
| 7 February | Vivacity 2020: an overview of the urban design decision making process, by Dr Chris Boyko, of the University of Lancaster. |
| 14 February | Decision making in design and service practice, by Dr Julie Jupp, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 21 February | 'Greasepaint, glamour, and Gropius': modern architecture in the heyday of regional repertory theatre, 1945-75, by Ms Elain Harwood, of English Heritage. |
| 28 February | CABE's take on design research: can it be quantified?, by Ms Elanor Warwick, of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. |
| 7 March | Designing dynamic environments for the performing arts, by Ms Anne Dye, of the Martin Centre. |
| 14 March | Adolf Loos, architecturelessness, and architectural art, by Professor Joseph Masheck, of Hofstra University. |
Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars. Seminars, on the theme of Art and governance in the Medieval West, are held fortnightly on Mondays at 5.30 p.m. in the History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street. Further information is available from Dr Claudia Bolgia (e-mail cb402@cam.ac.uk), or via the website at http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/events.html.
| 29 January | The art of governing in absentia: twelfth- and thirteenth-century papal perspectives, by Dr Brenda Bolton, of the University of London. |
| 12 February | Saint Francis, patriarch of poverty: Sassetta's Sansepolcro altarpiece and its precursors in Franciscan Umbria, by Dr Donal Cooper, of the University of Warwick. |
| 26 February | The Tavole di Biccherna: religious and secular roles in medieval Siena, by Dr Frances Andrews, of the University of St Andrews. |
| 12 March | The long goodbye: the artistic patronage of the Italian cardinals 1305-1343, by Professor Julian Gardner, of the University of Warwick. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Shigeru Mukai, of RIMS, Kyoto University, will give the Fifty-ninth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Hilbert's 14th problem and Verlinde type formulas for rings of invariant polynomials, at 5 p.m. on 30 January, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Cambridge Seminar on Religion, Conflict, and its Aftermath. Dr Emile Perreau-Saussine, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, will give a seminar entitled Religious wars in France: from the civil constitution of the clergy (1790) to the separation of Church and State (1905), from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on 25 January in the Okinaga Room, St Edmund's College. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Further information can be obtained from Lucia Faltin (e-mail lf225@cam.ac.uk) or Dr George R. Wilkes (e-mail grw1000@cam.ac.uk).