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:

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.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/mel.html.

24 April Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics, by Dr Michele Vendruscolo of the Department of Chemistry.
1 May Surface modification of poly(dimethylsiloxane) via self-organization of vinyl-terminated small molecules, by Ms Maaike van Poll, of the Melville Laboratory.
8 May The chemistry, structure and function of the DNA quadruple helix, by Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, of the Department of Chemistry.
16 May Dynamic self-assembly of macromolecules and small molecules (Melville Lecture), by Professor Sam Stupp, of Northwestern University, Chicago. In the Wolfson Lecture Theatre.
29 May N-heterocyclic carbenes: new applications in materials chemistry, by Professor Chris Bielawski, of the University of Texas, Austin.
5 June Probing the internal structure of polymer brushes, by Mr Ron Oren, of the Melville Laboratory.
12 June New approaches for microdroplet control in microfluidic devices, by Mr Luis Fidalgo, of the Melville Laboratory.

Criminology. Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, Chief Executive, National Policing Improvement Agency, will give the 2008 Sir Leon Radzinowicz Fellowship Lectures. Both lectures will begin at 5 p.m. and will be given in the Basement Seminar Room, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue. Please contact Julia Monument on jcem2@cam.ac.uk to reserve a seat.

30 April The role of the National Policing Improvement Agency: supporting a 21st century police service.
1 May Policing and technology: considerations of effectiveness and legitimacy.

Divinity. Professor Natalio Fernández Marcos, Research Professor of the CSIC (Madrid), will deliver the Jeremie Septuagint Lecture for 2008 on the subject 'The Greek Pentateuch and the Scholarly Milieu of Alexandria' at 5 p.m. on Monday, 26 May, in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road. All are welcome.

Divinity (Henry Martyn Centre) and Centre for African Studies. The East African Revival: history and legacies. A Conference to mark the coming of the Joe Church Papers to Cambridge will be held from Friday, 25 April, to Saturday, 26 April at Westminster College, Cambridge. For details/registration form please contact Polly Keen, Administrator (tel. 01223 741088, email pk262@cam.ac.uk). See also http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/.

Education. Education, Equality, and Development Workshops will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. until 6.30 p.m. in Room 2S3 of the Faculty of Education Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Susannah Lacon (email sml44@cam.ac.uk).

27 May Visualising and seeing: an image-based exploration of student experiences in a Croatian higher education setting, by Ms Karin Doolan, of Darwin College.
10 June What it means to be an indigenous in a big Mexican city: young children's processes of identity formation and the intertwines between ethnicity, gender, and class, by Mr Luz Moreno, of Girton College.

Cambridge Mathematics Education Colloquia will take place at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Education, (Room to be confirmed), Mary Allan Building, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Dr Tim Rowland (email tr202@cam.ac.uk). Tea and coffee is available prior to the meeting.

6 May Representation and understanding in primary mathematics, by Dr Tony Harries and Patrick Barnaby, of the University of Durham.
2 June The conceptualization and identification of 'mathematically extremely able' students within the GCSE cohort - a review, by Mr Alastair Pollitt, of the University of Cambridge.

Psychology and Neuroscience in Education Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. until 6 p.m. at the Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Patricia Tynan (email pt302@cam.ac.uk).

29 April Adult influences on children's informal learning by Professor A. Tolmie, of the Institute of Education, University of London (in Room 2S3).
13 May Predicting relational and serious physical aggression: the influences of emotions and social cognitive styles in adolescence, by Professors Marie S. Tysak and John Tisak, of Bowling Green State University, Ohio (in Room GS1).
20 May Children's intuitive physics in thought and action by Professor Friedrich Wilkening, of the University of Zurich (in Room GS1).
3 June Do undergraduates' motivations for study change as they progress through their degrees? by Dr Richard Remedios, of Durham University (in Room 2S3).

English. Professor James Wood will give the inaugural Graham Storey Lecture, entitled Containment: the fiction of Ian McEwan, on Wednesday, 30 April at 5 p.m. in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. There will be a drinks reception at the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, immediately after the lecture.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

1 May Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors, by Andrew Barker, of the University of Birmingham.
8 May What is an organism? by John Dupré, of the University of Exeter.
15 May The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy, by Sylvia Berryman, of the University of British Columbia.
29 May Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world, by James Delbourgo, of McGill University.
5 June The new riddle of causation, by Alex Broadbent, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
12 June A Roman engineer's tales, by Serafina Cuomo, of Birkbeck, University of London.

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture. John Krige, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, will give a public lecture entitled Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power, on 22 May at 4.30 p.m. in Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.

Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. - but note the early start for the seminar on 30 April - in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.

30 April The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s, by Barbara Wurm, of the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. At 4.30 p.m., prior to the talk, Barbara Wurm will show an edited version of Mekhanika golovnogo mozga (The Mechanics of the Brain) by Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR 1925/26. Her paper will follow on directly.
14 May Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community, and communication, by Gavin Miller, of Manchester Metropolitan University.

Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

28 April Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates, by Neil Rennie, of University College London.
12 May Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections, by Stéphane Schmitt, of Université Paris Diderot.
19 May Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris, by Ralph Kingston, of Auburn University.
26 May Triangulations: poetry, plants, and politics in the late eighteenth century, by Patricia Fara, of Clare College and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
2 June Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand, by Michael Stevens, of the University of Otago.

History of Art. Professor Stephen Bann of the University of Bristol will give a lecture on 'Paul Delaroche and French painting after David' on Wednesday, 7 May, at 2 p.m. in the Department of History of Art, Lecture Room 2.

Mathematics. The Rouse Ball Lecture for 2008 will take place on Tuesday, 20 May, and will be given by Professor John Morgan, of Columbia University, and entitled Geometry and topology of 3-dimensional spaces. The abstract is available at http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/rouseball.html. The Lecture will be held in Room 3 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms at 12 noon.

Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m., on Thursdays, in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue:

1 May The portrait of the female artist in modern Greek prose fiction, by Dr Philothei Kolitsi, of the University of Thessaloniki.
8 May Answers without questions: the emergence of fragments in child English and Greek, by Dr Dimitra Kolliakou, of Newcastle University.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. The following research seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Seminar Room, the Mond Building, Free School Lane:

6 May Faced with extinction: myths and urban legends in contemporary Mongolia, by Frank Bille, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
20 May Secret lovers: notions of family and kin in contemporary Ulaanbaatar, by Ann Fenger Benwell, of the University of Copenhagen.
3 June Reconstructing the memory of an Inner Mongolian national hero: the case of Injannashi and his family temple, by Hürelbaatar and David Sneath, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.

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).

28 April Mitochondrial adaptation to high altitude hypoxia by Dr Andrew Murray Monday, of the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience. Host: John Walker.
14 May Mitochondrial FAS - from respiratory deficient yeast to cardiomyopathic mice, by Professor Kalervo Hiltunen, of the University of Oulu, Finland. Host: John Walker.
28 May A crystal structure based study of NhaA, a Na+/H+ antiporter with orthologues from bacteria to human, by Professor Etana Padan, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hosts: John Walker and Israel Edmund Kunji.

The 4th Sir William Dunn Scholar, Professor Shahid Khan, of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan, and the Molecular Biology Consortium, Chicago, USA, will give the following lectures in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, at 3 p.m.

Wednesday, 21 May The motile response of bacteria to pH jumps.
Thursday, 22 May Construction of the bacterial flagellar rotor.
Tuesday, 27 May Light triggers for visualization of signal protein dynamics.

Professor Khan will be visiting the Unit from Monday, 19 May, until Friday, 30 May. If you wish to meet with the Professor please contact Penny Peck/Jean Seymour (01223) 252703/4.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Mark Freidlin, of the University of Maryland, will give the Seventy-Sixth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Asymptotic problems for stochastic processes and differential equations, at 5 p.m. on 29 April, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars take place on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. The common room (G1 ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.

25 April Returning effects of the wartime dead, by Dr Simon Harrison, of Ulster University.
2 May (Title to be announced), by Professor Paul Rabinow, of the University of California, Berkeley.
9 May To know or not to know? Practices of knowledge and ignorance among Bidayuhs in an 'impurely' Christian world, by Dr Liana Chua, of Gonville and Caius College.
16 May The Merographic Embryo, or the return of biological form, by Professor Sarah Franklin, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
23 May A feeling for genealogy, by Professor Jeanette Edwards, of the University of Manchester.
30 May An Amazonian plant in clinical trial: intersections of knowledge and practice, by Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman, of the Department of Social Anthropology.

The CUSAS End of Year Lecture, entitled Pretend play and the social, will be given by Professor Maurice Bloch, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 29 May, in Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane.