Reporter 3/6/99: Announcement of lectures and seminars

Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Environmental Security. Mr Steven Sawhill, of the Scott Polar Research Institute, will speak on Cleaning-up the Arctic's Cold War legacy: nuclear waste and military co-operation in the north of Russia, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 10 June, in the Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road.

German Studies Group. Dr Nicholas Stargardt of Royal Holloway, University of London, will talk on The defeat of 1945 through the eyes of German children, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 10 June, in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

Mathematics. The 1999 Dirac Memorial Lecture will be given at 11 a.m. on Monday, 14 June, in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street. Professor David Gross, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, will speak on From QED to QCD.

Professor Andrew Wiles, of Princeton University, will deliver the first Kuwait Fund Lecture on Number theory past and present at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 July, in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street.

MRC Human Nutrition Research. The Tea Club Lecture announced for Tuesday, 13 July, on The early life origins of osteoporosis, by Professor Cyrus Cooper and Dr Frazer Anderson, of the University of Southampton, has been rescheduled for 4.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 14 September. The lecture will be held in the Spaceway Unit, MRC Human Nutrition Research (formerly the MRC Dunn Nutritional Laboratory), Downham's Lane, Milton Road. Tea will be served beforehand at 4 p.m.

Sociological Research Group. Kim Perren will talk on The influence of biography on women's well-being at midlife at a lunchtime talk from 1 to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 June, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane. Participants are welcome to bring lunch.

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