The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Architecture. Professor Francine Houben, of Mecanoo Architecten, Delft, will give a public lecture, entitled Dutch mountains, at 5 p.m. on 12 February in Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.
Chemistry. Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Unilever Lecture Theatre (unless otherwise stated), Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Further information can be found at http://www-melville.ch.cam.ac.uk/seminars.html.
| 31 January | Moving microdroplets: techniques for manipulating picolitre droplets in microchannels, by Dr Graeme Whyte, of the Melville Laboratory. |
| 7 February | Design of new generations of 'smart' materials using controlled radical polymerizations techniques, by Dr Jean-Francois Lutz, of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research. This seminar will start at 3.30 p.m. |
| 14 February | Functional amphiphilic block copolymers prepared via ring opening metathesis polymerization, by Dr Kurt Stubenrauch, of the Melville Laboratory. |
| 21 February | Casting nanostructures for nanophotonics, by Professor Jeremy Baumberg, of the NanoPhotonics Centre. |
| 28 February | (Title to be confirmed) Dr Li Liu, of the Melville Laboratory. |
| 6 March | Biomimetic self-assembly of block copolymers: polypeptide-based vesicle as synthetic model of viral capsid, by Professor Sebastien Lecommandoux, of the University of Bordeaux. |
Divinity and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Ed Noort, of the University of Groningen, will deliver the Annual Tyrwhitt Lecture, entitled Death and justice: shifting paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism, at 2.30 p.m. on 6 February in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor A. J. de Jong, of Columbia University, will give the Seventy-Second Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Geometry of moduli spaces of rational curves, at 5 p.m. on 5 February, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Theoretical Geophysics. The Departments of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics present a series of seminars on Theoretical Geophysics, which will 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.
| 31 January | Geophysical evidence for highly focused fluid flow in sedimentary basins, by Professor Joe Cartwright, of Cardiff University. |
| 7 February | Mixing induced in oceanic overflows and dense gravity currents: a new entrainment parameterization, by Dr Claudia Cenedese, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. |
| 14 February | Rossby waves in the ocean: theoretical advances and recent satellite observations, by Professor Nathan Paldor, of Hebrew University, Jerusalem. |
| 21 February | Models of convective exchange between lava lakes and magma chambers, by Dr Steve Blake, of the Open University. |
| 28 February | Advances in simulating wave propagation in complex media: applications to rotational seismology and scattering, by Professor Dr Heiner Igel, of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. |
| 6 March | Development of hydrocarbon miscibility in water and gas injection, by Dr Tara La Force, of Imperial College London. |
| 13 March | Submarine granular flows: how the interstitial fluid dramatically influences the granular dynamics, by Dr Oliver Pouliquen, of Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels (IUSTI), Marseille. |