Reporter 22/3/00: 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:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Graham Stanton, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled Jesus and Gospel, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 27 April, in Lecture Room 4, Divinity School, St John's Street.

Cavendish Laboratory. Mind-Matter Unification Project. Professor Henry Stapp, of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, will give two lectures on fundamental issues in physics, entitled Signals, influences, and information: from Einstein nonlocality to von Neumann reality, and Decoherence and quantum theory of mind: closing the gap between being and knowing. They will be given at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 April respectively, in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road. Abstracts can be found at http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/lectures/stapp00.html.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks, under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, from 26 January to 26 April.

29 March	Thomas Tompion and his clocks at the Fitzwilliam Museum, by Dr Colin Lattimore, Honorary Keeper of Clocks and Watches, Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
5 April	Changing faces: the evolution of portraiture, by Dr Sarah Baylis, of the Department of History of Art.
12 April	The politics of calendars, by Dr Susan Drucker-Brown, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
19 April	A frozen moment: 'On the brink', by Alfred Elmore, by Ms Frances Sword, Head of Education, Fitzwilliam Museum.
26 April	Changing figures: energy and lethargy in porcelain sculpture, by Dr Julia Poole, Senior Assistant Keeper of Applied Art.

Pathology. Immunology Group. A seminar, entitled Evolution of immune recognition and evasion, will be given by Professor Austin Hughes, of the University of South Carolina, at 6 p.m. on Monday, 3 April, in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road. The speaker will be introduced by Professor Peter Lachmann. Coffee and tea will be available from 5.30 p.m.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor R. Greenberg, of the University of Washington, will deliver the seventh Kuwait Fund Lecture, entitled Mordell-Weil groups and Iwasawa theory, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 9 May, in Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

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