Reporter 9/5/02: Announcement of lectures and seminars, etc.

Announcement of lectures and seminars, etc.

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

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture, entitled A search for structure: from molecules to morphogenesis, on Thursday, 16 May, at 5 p.m. in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Professor Rosemary Huisman, of the University of Sydney, will give a lecture entitled Beowulf and narrative, on Thursday, 9 May at 5 p.m. in the Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College.

Criminology. Professor Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, will give the Institute's Nigel Walker Lecture on Reassessing robbery in Room LG17, Faculty of Law, West Road, on Thursday, 16 May, at 6 p.m.

Divinity. The Faculty of Divinity will be offering a Summer School in Medieval and Modern Judaism from 24-28 June. For further details, please consult the Faculty's website at http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/summer.html, or contact Ms Rosalind Paul (e-mail rmp24@cam.ac.uk).

Isaac Newton Institute. A series of seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. and there will be an informal reception afterwards. To receive regular details of the Monday Seminars by e-mail, please send the message 'subscribe monday-seminars' to majordomo@newton.cam.ac.uk.

20 May	Complex geometry and M-theory, by Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf, of the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
27 May	Update on 3-folds, by Professor Miles Reid, of the University of Warwick.
10 June	A hiker's view of K3: geometric aspects of conformal field theory, by Professor Katrin Wendland, of the University of North Carolina.

Modern and Medieval Languages.

Modern French Research Seminar. Professor Susan Rubin Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard, will give a paper entitled Great men to the Pantheon: André Malraux and Jean Moulin, at 5.30 p.m. on 27 May, in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site. For information please contact Dr I. Wassenaar (ipw20@cam.ac.uk) or Dr J. Hiddleston (jbh1002@cam.ac.uk).

German Department Research Group Seminars, under the title of Cultural history and literary imagination, will take place on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, unless otherwise stated:

10 May	Problems of intermediality: the 'pictorial turn' and the end of literary studies? by Gabriele Rippl, of the Universität Konstanz. This seminar will take place in the Mong Building, Sidney Sussex College.
31 May	Scientific paradigms in German proto-sociological literature of the 1830s and 40s, by Martina Lauster, of the University of Exeter.

Further information on the Group's activities can be obtained from David Midgley, St John's College (e-mail drm7@joh.cam.ac.uk) or Christian Emden, Sidney Sussex College (e-mail cje22@hermes.cam.ac.uk). Please note that a conference, entitled The fragile tradition: the German cultural imagination since 1500, will take place from 1 to 3 October 2002 in St John's College.

Philosophy. Professor Jamie Tappenden, of the University of Michigan, will lecture on Proof style, visualization, and understanding in mathematics, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 22 May, in Room 9 of the Sidgwick Site Lecture Block.

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