Criminology. Tom Daems, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, and the Leuven Institute of Criminology, K.U.Leuven, will give a public seminar, entitled Making sense of penal change: the intellectual life-course of four key thinkers in the recent sociology of punishment, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 7 May, in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
Divinity. Professor David Thompson, of the Faculty of Divinity, will give his valedictory lecture, entitled Is popular Christianity a contradiction in terms? Some historical lessons for the twenty-first century, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 May, in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.
Engineering. Dynamics and vibrations tea time talks will take place on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, unless otherwise stated. Tea will be available from 3.30 p.m. Enquiries should be directed to Anita Clayson, Dynamics and Vibration Research (email ac651@cam.ac.uk).
| 1 May | Numerical simulation of the acoustic radiation from distributed mode loudspeakers, by Dr Max De-Castro-Magalhaes, of the University of Minas Gerais. |
| 8 May | Shape optimization for crashworthiness of structures, by Dr habil. Fabian Duddeck, of Queen Mary, University of London. |
| 15 May | Dynamic pile modelling, by Ms Kirsty Kuo, of the Department of Engineering. |
| Improving heavy vehicle emergency braking systems, by Mr Jonathan Miller, of the Department of Engineering. | |
| 22 May | Mechanics Colloquium (2.30 p.m. in LR6). |
| Why is brake squeal so twitchy? Modelling and sensitivity studies of friction-driven vibration, by Professor Jim Woodhouse, of the Department of Engineering. | |
| 29 May | Sensorimotor learning lab (Wolpert-lab) visit and demonstrations, with Professor Daniel Wolpert, of the Department of Engineering (Room 438). |
| 5 June | The effects of steering torque feedback on the driver's steering control, by Mr Namho Kim, of the Department of Engineering. |
Isaac Newton Institute. The Rothschild Visiting Professor, Laurent Lafforgue, of l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, will give a seminar, entitled Langlands' functoriality viewed as a kind of function theoretic Poisson formula problem, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 11 May, at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road. The seminar will be followed by an informal reception at 6 p.m.
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Mathematics. The Mordell Lecture for 2009, entitled KAM and rigidity, will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 7 May, and will be given by Professor Anatole Katok of Penn State University. The lecture will be held in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. A reception will follow.
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.
| 30 April | 'Thou shalt not translate': the 1901 gospel riots in Athens, by Dr Victoria Solomonidis, of Imperial College London. |
| 7 May | Reconsidering modernism: the exile poems of Giannis Ritsos, by Dr Maria Athanassopoulou, of the University of Cyprus. |
Physics. The 2009 Scott Lectures, entitled Physics and complexity, will be given by Professor David Sherrington, FRS, of the Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, and the Sante Fe Institute, at 4.15 p.m. in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue. Further details are available from http://talks.cam.ac.uk/ or contact Leona Hope (tel. 01223 337429, email lh294@cam.ac.uk).
| 29 April | Physics and complexity: methodologies (followed by a drinks reception in the Pippard Foyer). |
| 1 May | Physics and complexity: examples |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Nancy Reid, of the University of Toronto, will give the Ninety-First Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Likelihood-based inference for complex data structures, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 May, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).