Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Criminology. Professor Rolf Loeber, of the University of Pittsburgh, will give a public seminar entitled Violence and serious theft: development and prediction from childhood to adulthood, at 5.30 p.m. on 15 March in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.

Gates Distinguished Lecture. Dr William Burgwinkle, of King's College and the Department of French, will give the final Gates Distinguished Lecture for Lent 2007, entitled The visual and the visceral: pornography and sanctity, modern and medieval, at 6 p.m. on 7 March at the Cripps Theatre, Magdalene College. There will be a wine reception at 5.30 p.m.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars are held at 3 p.m. in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For further details please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).

8 March Darwin at the molecular scale: engineering energy, by Professor P. Leslie Dutton, of the University of Pennsylvania. Host: John Walker
13 March Darwin at the molecular scale: making myoglobin, by Professor P. Leslie Dutton, of the University of Pennsylvania. Host: Judy Hirst
14 March Molecular archaeology of human colorectal cancer, by Professor Andrew Wyllie, of the Department of Pathology. Hosts: Graduate Student Society

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor K. Soundararajan, of Stanford University, will give the Sixty-Fourth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Multiplicative functions, at 5 p.m. on 13 March 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. Professor John Kelsay, of Florida State University, will give a seminar entitled Developments in Jihad and just war traditions since the 1980s, from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on 8 March in the Garden Theatre 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).