The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Lea Pulkkinen, of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, will give a public seminar, entitled Social and psychological functioning in the middle-adolescence of young delinquents, at 5.30 p.m. on 15 February in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
Law. The 2007 Baron Ver Heyden De Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies, entitled Escaping the tyranny of the embryo? A fresh look at the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies, will be given by Professor Martin H. Johnson, Professor of Reproductive Sciences and Vice-Master of Christ's College, at 5 p.m. on 12 March in Lecture Theatre LG17 at the Law Faculty, 10 West Road.
Physics. The 2007 Scott Lectures will be given by Nobel Laureate Professor William Phillips, at 4.15 pm. in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.
| 5 March | Almost absolute zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping |
| 7 March | Optics with laser-like atom waves |
| 9 March | A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Assaf Naor, of Microsoft Research and the Courant Institute, will give the Sixty-first Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled The local theory of metric spaces and graph algorithms, at 5 p.m. on 13 February, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. Dr Andrew Wilson, of University College London, will give the Fifth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, entitled After the Orange Revolution: the nature of post-Soviet democracy in Ukraine and Russia, at 5 p.m. on 23 February in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College.
Theoretical Geophysics. Seminars 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.
| 8 February | Mixing in stratified fluids: more questions than answers, by Dr Colm Caulfield, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the BP Institute. |
| 15 February | The stratosphere and climate, by Dr Mark Baldwin, of the University of Reading. |
| 1 March | A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology, by Dr Danny Feltham, of University College London. |
| 8 March | H2O in melt inclusions - what can we learn?, by Dr Madeleine Humphreys, of the Department of Earth Sciences. |