The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested.
Criminology. Professor Dan Olweus, Research Professor of Psychology, University of Bergen, will give a public seminar entitled Bullying in school: large-scale interventions with the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), on Thursday, 30 October 2008, at 5.30 p.m. in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Avenue Site).
Engineering. Dynamics and Vibrations tea time talks will take place on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Oatley Seminar Room. Tea will be available from 3.30 p.m. Enquiries should be directed to Helen Slater, Division C Administrator (email has22@cam.ac.uk). Please note that this is a revised timetable, replacing the notice published previously (Reporter, p. 52).
| 24 October | Development of a novel high-frequency tribometer, by Mr Kevin Wang, of the Engineering Department. |
| 31 October | Approximating large dynamic systems using reduced order models, by Mr Christophe Lecomte, of the Engineering Department. |
| 7 November | Mechanics Colloquium - 2.30 p.m. in LR6 |
| Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration, by Professor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences. | |
| 21 November | Performance of lightly trafficked roads, by Mr Will Goodrum, of the Engineering Department. |
| Fracture mechanics for bitumen and bituminous mixtures, by Mr Oscar Portillo, of the Engineering Department. | |
| 28 November | Into deep water, the hybrid modelling of offshore systems, by Mr Richard Lines, of the Engineering Department. |
| Effect of inclined soil layers on vibration from underground railways, by Mr Simon Jones, of the Engineering Department. | |
| 5 December | Active steering: is it safe?, by Dr David Cole, of the Engineering Department. |
Gender Studies. Public Event Series. Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, will speak on Women's status, men's states, on Thursday, 23 October 2008, at 3 p.m. in the Faculty of Law Room LG17.
Mr Larry Kramer will speak on What AIDS says about America's gays: the founding of GMHC and ACT UP, on Monday, 27 October 2008, at 1.30 p.m. in the Howard Building, Downing College.
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).
| 11 November | Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control, by Dr Richard J. Youle, of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Porter Neuroscience Research Centre, Bethesda, USA. Hosted by John Walker. |
| 26 November | Professor Pietro Ghezzi, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School - title to be confirmed. Hosted by Michael Murphy. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Chandrashekhar Khare, of UCLA, will give the Eighty-Third Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Modular forms and Galois representations, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 28 October, 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 £3.00 per person, commencing at 1.05 p.m.
| 23 October | Past changes in the marine carbon cycle, by Harry Elderfield, of the Department of Earth Sciences. |
| 30 October | Physical limnology: a review, by Jorg Imberger, of the University of Western Australia. |
| 6 November | Influence of lateral variations in the mantle on the geodynamo, by David Gubbins, of the University of Leeds. |
| 13 November | Air-sea exchange of trace gases, by Peter Liss, of the University of East Anglia. |
| 27 November | Underwater granular flows, by Olivier Pouliquen, of Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels (IUSTI), Marseille. |