The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Clinical Medicine. Professor Ronald M. Evans, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, will deliver the Fourteenth Sackler Distinguished Lecture, entitled Nuclear receptors: metabolic engineering and the dawn of synthetic physiology, at 5.15 p.m. on 8 June in the William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road.
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars are held on Wednesdays 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).
| 6 June | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Pär Nordlund, of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Host: John Walker. |
| 4 July | RNase H1: one gene - two proteins, by Professor Robert J. Crouch, of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. Host: Ian Holt. |
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Giovanni da Col, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, will give a seminar entitled The view from somewhen: Tibetan perspectivism and ontologies of fortune around Kha ba dkar po, a sacred mountain in Northwest Yunnan (China), at 4.30 p.m. on 12 June in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.
Isaac Newton Institute. The Rothschild Visiting Professor, Percy Deift, of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, will give a seminar at the Institute at 5 p.m. on 4 June, entitled Universality for mathematical and physical systems. The seminar will be followed by an informal reception at 6 p.m. To receive regular details of the Rothschild Visiting Professor Seminars by e-mail, please send the message 'subscribe monday-seminars' to majordomo@newton.cam.ac.uk.