Reporter 22/1/03: Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures. The Trevelyan Lectures, 2003, entitled, Economy and society in early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean: themes and interpretations, will be given by Professor Chris Wickham, and will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

25 February	Framing the early medieval economy
27 February	Aristocratic wealth in the post-Roman world and its limits
4 March	The logic of a peasant economy in the early middle ages
6 March	Early medieval societies: case studies from France to Egypt
11 March	The origins of the village
13 March	Aristocratic reaction and peasants' revolt

Chemical Engineering. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street. Tea will be served.

5 February Mechanics of interfaces and surfaces, by Professor I. Mahadevan, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

12 February A new method of reducing metal oxides; its discovery and exploitation, by Professor D. Fray, of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

19 February Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) chromatography: an overview, by Dr Sanjeev Katti, Director of Pharmaceutical Development Sciences, GelTex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

26 February Numerical simulation: from blood microcirculation to oil. Recovery enhancement to the virtual plant, by Dr Stavroula Poulou, of Hyperion Systems Engineering, Athens.

Computer Laboratory. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1, William Gates Building, J. J. Thomson Avenue, off Madingley Road.

29 January Supporting mobile mixed-reality experiences, by Chris Greenhalgh, of the University of Nottingham.

19 February Quantum computation - from theory to experiments, by Artur Ekert, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

5 March Part IB and II (G) Group Project Presentations.

Criminology. Dr Coretta Phillips, Lecturer in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will give a public lecture in Room G24, Faculty of Law, on Racism, race, and ethnicity: developing minority perspectives in criminology, on Thursday, 30 January, at 5.30 p.m.

Divinity and Tyndale House. The Tyndale Lectures, 2003, will be given by David Instone-Brewer on Re-assessing the use of Rabbinic literature for New Testament studies, at 3 p.m., in Room 2, Faculty of Divinity, Sidgwick Site. Information is available from Dr Bruce Winter (e-mail warden@tyndale.cam.ac.uk).

6 February Were there any 'Rabbis' in the NT era? Pharisees, Hillelites, Shammaites, etc. in rabbinic and NT sources

11 February Rabbinic sources: datable or undatable? Developing a method for identifying pre-70 CE rabbinic traditions

25 February Rabbinic and New Testament prayers: the Eighteen Benedictions and other prayers which influenced Jesus and the church.

11 March Rabbinic sources which illuminate the NT: NT texts in the light of early rabbinic traditions.

Engineering. Mechanics Colloquia will be held at 2.30 p.m. on the following Fridays in Lecture Room 6, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

31 January Engineering at interfaces, by Dr Anton Middleberg, of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

7 February Semi-classical acoustics: what can quantum physics teach us about plate vibration? by Dr Matthew Wright and Dr Chris Howls, both of the University of Southampton.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site, unless otherwise stated. Tea and cakes will be served in the First Floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.

24 January From 'precedence' to 'sluggishness': the temporal resolution of the binaural auditory system, by Dr Michael Akeroyd, of the University of Glasgow. Host: B. J. Moore.

31 January Inter-temporal choice and the orbital prefrontal cortex, by Professor C. M. Bradshaw, of the University of Nottingham. Host: T. W. Robbins.

7 February Frontal lobology and the 'central executive' revisited, by Professor Trevor Robbins, of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Host: L. K. Tyler.

14 February Time courses for effects of auditory input on development - obtaining consistent answers from diverse methods, by Professor Mark Haggard, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Host: B. J. Moore.

21 February Perceptual relativity: identification and categorization of simple stimuli, by Dr Neil Stewart, of the University of Warwick. Host: Professor T. Robbins.

28 February Multisensory integration and spatial representations: insights from functional neuroimaging, by Dr Emiliano Macaluso, of University College London. Host: Dr G. Davis.

7 March Crossmodal spatial attention and multimodal spatial neglect, by Professor Jon Driver, of University College London. Host: A. Dickinson.

13 March Joint Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Chaucer Colloquium/Zangwill talk. Remote memory in

(Thursday) amnesia: pitting the standard model of consolidation against the multiple trace theory, by Professor Suzanne Corkin, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Host: K. Patterson. This talk will take place in the Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd, from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Centre for Family Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Tuesdays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane.

28 January Genesis and diversity of the explanations about inheritance, by Silvana Santos.

11 February Complex marriage and stirpiculture in the Oneida community, 1848-80, by Martin Richards.

25 February Working children on the Algarve: family, school, and futures, by Antonella Invernizzi.

11 March Greater expectations? Changes in women's expectations and experiences of intrapartum care from 1987 to 2000, by Jo Green.

Centre for Gender Studies. The Gender Theory Study Group meets on Tuesdays in Room 10, 8 Jesus Lane, from 8.15 p.m. to 9.45 p.m. Refreshments will be available at 7.45 p.m. This term's theme is Masculinities.

28 January Culture, gender norms, and population policy in rural China, by Rachel Murphy.

25 February Feminism and the politics of masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain, by Ben Griffin.

11 March 'He was one of the most perfect men I ever saw': Cambridge culture and the death of the zoologist F. M. Balfour, by Helen Blackman.

This term's Gender Lunch is entitled Gender on planet earth. Juliet Mitchell will be in conversation with Ann Oakley on Tuesday, 4 February, in the Upper Hall, Jesus College, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.

The sixth Gender Symposium Day will be entitled Universal concepts of masculinities, and will be held on Saturday, 8 March, in the Palmerston Room, St John's College, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

History. Social Capital seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. The seminar convenors are Professor Robert D. Putnam and Dr Simon Szreter, both of St John's College. For further information or to be added to the seminar's mailing list, please e-mail pr211@cam.ac.uk.

28 January Bridging networks, social capital, and racial segregation in the American metropolis, by Xavier de Sousa Briggs, of Harvard University.

11 February Trust and contracts in transition, by Martin Raiser, of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

4 March Student presentations:

Community effects on political participation: evidence from American cities, by Daniel Rubenson, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Applying social capital to address AIDS/HIV in Cuba and Thailand, by Laura Corbett, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

Community, state, and utopia: national social policy and local social cohesion in the English Garden City and Israeli Kibbutz, by Nir Tsuk, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

11 March The idea of social capital: a critical examination, by Amartya Sen, of Trinity College.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will take place on Fridays at 1 p.m. in the Main Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

31 January From the demographic transition to life-cycle poverty in the family: the significance of dependency ratios at macro- and micro-scales, by Jim Oeppen, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

14 February The European fertility transition: can we move beyond the Princeton project? by Tim Guinnane, of the Faculty of Economics and St John's College.

28 February 'Filth is the matter of corruption'. Plague and plagues in early modern Italy, by John Henderson, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

14 March Nutrition and scarlet fever mortality during epidemics of 1860-90 in the Sunsdsvall region of Sweden, by Stephan Curtis, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. in the Old Common Room, Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

5 February Claude Montefiore and Jewish views of the Apostle Paul, by Daniel Langton, of the University of Manchester.

19 February Christians reading the Book of Esther: constructing self, nation, and Jewishness, by Jo Carruthers, of the University of Manchester.

26 February Origen, Jerome, and the Hebraization of Christian scripture, by Alison Salveson, of the University of Oxford.

12 March Civil society as a context for Jewish-Christian relations: perspectives from sociology and political philosophy, by David Herbert, of the Open University.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.

5 February The Temper Project: training, education, management, and prehistory in the Mediterranean, by Louise Doughty.

19 February From land art to landscape archaeology, by Colin Renfrew.

5 March Cognition, art, and the rock surface - prehistoric carvings from Russian Karelia, by Lila Janik.

Modern and Medieval Languages. Cultural History and Literary Imagination seminars will be held on Fridays as follows:

31 January Writing dancing: aspects of the interface between literature, dance, and aesthetics, 1760-1840, by Ms Lucia Ruprecht, of Churchill College. 4 p.m., Mong Building, Sidney Sussex College.

14 February Lessings Horizonte: Grenzen und Grenzenlosigkeit der Toleranz, by Professor Karl S. Guthke, of Harvard University. 5 p.m., Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College. (This is a joint seminar with the Research Colloquium of the Department of German.)

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.

27 January Multifield theory for materials, by Professor Tom Pence, of the University of Michigan.

3 February Mathematical models and computation of flux penetration in type II superconductors, by Professor Charlie Elliott, of the University of Sussex.

17 February Mathematical and computational aspects of nonconvex minimization problems allowing for microstructure, by Professor Carsten Carstensen, of the University of Vienna.

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. Seminars will be held at 5.15 p.m. on the following Tuesdays in the Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Tea will be available from 5 p.m.

28 January Painting and sculpting in corsets and tiaras: women artists at the Russian Court, by Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley.

11 February Anarchists or Bolsheviks? The ideological inspirations of Constructivism, by Dr Catherine Cooke.

25 February Local administration in Russia in the sixteenth century: towards a re-interpretation, by Dr Sergei Bogatyrev.

11 March Bogatstvo gibnet, da nishcheta vse zhivet: beggars and the poor in Russian history, by Dr Hubertus Jahn.

Table of Contents

5 February	Mechanics of interfaces and surfaces, by Professor I. Mahadevan, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
12 February	A new method of reducing metal oxides; its discovery and exploitation, by Professor D. Fray, of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.
19 February	Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) chromatography: an overview, by Dr Sanjeev Katti, Director of Pharmaceutical Development Sciences, GelTex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
26 February	Numerical simulation: from blood microcirculation to oil. Recovery enhancement to the virtual plant, by Dr Stavroula Poulou, of Hyperion Systems Engineering, Athens.

29 January	Supporting mobile mixed-reality experiences, by Chris Greenhalgh, of the University of Nottingham.
19 February	Quantum computation - from theory to experiments, by Artur Ekert, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
5 March	Part IB and II (G) Group Project Presentations.

6 February	Were there any 'Rabbis' in the NT era? Pharisees, Hillelites, Shammaites, etc. in rabbinic and NT sources
11 February	Rabbinic sources: datable or undatable? Developing a method for identifying pre-70 CE rabbinic traditions
25 February	Rabbinic and New Testament prayers: the Eighteen Benedictions and other prayers which influenced Jesus and the church.
11 March	Rabbinic sources which illuminate the NT: NT texts in the light of early rabbinic traditions.

31 January	Engineering at interfaces, by Dr Anton Middleberg, of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
7 February	Semi-classical acoustics: what can quantum physics teach us about plate vibration? by Dr Matthew Wright and Dr Chris Howls, both of the University of Southampton.

24 January	From 'precedence' to 'sluggishness': the temporal resolution of the binaural auditory system, by Dr Michael Akeroyd, of the University of Glasgow. Host: B. J. Moore.
31 January	Inter-temporal choice and the orbital prefrontal cortex, by Professor C. M. Bradshaw, of the University of Nottingham. Host: T. W. Robbins.
7 February	Frontal lobology and the 'central executive' revisited, by Professor Trevor Robbins, of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Host: L. K. Tyler.
14 February	Time courses for effects of auditory input on development - obtaining consistent answers from diverse methods, by Professor Mark Haggard, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Host: B. J. Moore.
21 February	Perceptual relativity: identification and categorization of simple stimuli, by Dr Neil Stewart, of the University of Warwick. Host: Professor T. Robbins.
28 February	Multisensory integration and spatial representations: insights from functional neuroimaging, by Dr Emiliano Macaluso, of University College London. Host: Dr G. Davis.
7 March	Crossmodal spatial attention and multimodal spatial neglect, by Professor Jon Driver, of University College London. Host: A. Dickinson.
13 March	Joint Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Chaucer Colloquium/Zangwill talk. Remote memory in
(Thursday)	amnesia: pitting the standard model of consolidation against the multiple trace theory, by Professor Suzanne Corkin, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Host: K. Patterson. This talk will take place in the Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd, from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

28 January	Genesis and diversity of the explanations about inheritance, by Silvana Santos.
11 February	Complex marriage and stirpiculture in the Oneida community, 1848-80, by Martin Richards.
25 February	Working children on the Algarve: family, school, and futures, by Antonella Invernizzi.
11 March	Greater expectations? Changes in women's expectations and experiences of intrapartum care from 1987 to 2000, by Jo Green.

28 January	Culture, gender norms, and population policy in rural China, by Rachel Murphy.
25 February	Feminism and the politics of masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain, by Ben Griffin.
11 March	'He was one of the most perfect men I ever saw': Cambridge culture and the death of the zoologist F. M. Balfour, by Helen Blackman.

28 January	Bridging networks, social capital, and racial segregation in the American metropolis, by Xavier de Sousa Briggs, of Harvard University.
11 February	Trust and contracts in transition, by Martin Raiser, of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
4 March	Student presentations:
	Community effects on political participation: evidence from American cities, by Daniel Rubenson, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
	Applying social capital to address AIDS/HIV in Cuba and Thailand, by Laura Corbett, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
	Community, state, and utopia: national social policy and local social cohesion in the English Garden City and Israeli Kibbutz, by Nir Tsuk, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
11 March	The idea of social capital: a critical examination, by Amartya Sen, of Trinity College.

31 January	From the demographic transition to life-cycle poverty in the family: the significance of dependency ratios at macro- and micro-scales, by Jim Oeppen, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
14 February	The European fertility transition: can we move beyond the Princeton project? by Tim Guinnane, of the Faculty of Economics and St John's College.
28 February	'Filth is the matter of corruption'. Plague and plagues in early modern Italy, by John Henderson, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
14 March	Nutrition and scarlet fever mortality during epidemics of 1860-90 in the Sunsdsvall region of Sweden, by Stephan Curtis, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

5 February	Claude Montefiore and Jewish views of the Apostle Paul, by Daniel Langton, of the University of Manchester.
19 February	Christians reading the Book of Esther: constructing self, nation, and Jewishness, by Jo Carruthers, of the University of Manchester.
26 February	Origen, Jerome, and the Hebraization of Christian scripture, by Alison Salveson, of the University of Oxford.
12 March	Civil society as a context for Jewish-Christian relations: perspectives from sociology and political philosophy, by David Herbert, of the Open University.

5 February	The Temper Project: training, education, management, and prehistory in the Mediterranean, by Louise Doughty.
19 February	From land art to landscape archaeology, by Colin Renfrew.
5 March	Cognition, art, and the rock surface - prehistoric carvings from Russian Karelia, by Lila Janik.

31 January	Writing dancing: aspects of the interface between literature, dance, and aesthetics, 1760-1840, by Ms Lucia Ruprecht, of Churchill College. 4 p.m., Mong Building, Sidney Sussex College.
14 February	Lessings Horizonte: Grenzen und Grenzenlosigkeit der Toleranz, by Professor Karl S. Guthke, of Harvard University. 5 p.m., Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College. (This is a joint seminar with the Research Colloquium of the Department of German.)

27 January	Multifield theory for materials, by Professor Tom Pence, of the University of Michigan.
3 February	Mathematical models and computation of flux penetration in type II superconductors, by Professor Charlie Elliott, of the University of Sussex.
17 February	Mathematical and computational aspects of nonconvex minimization problems allowing for microstructure, by Professor Carsten Carstensen, of the University of Vienna.

28 January	Painting and sculpting in corsets and tiaras: women artists at the Russian Court, by Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley.
11 February	Anarchists or Bolsheviks? The ideological inspirations of Constructivism, by Dr Catherine Cooke.
25 February	Local administration in Russia in the sixteenth century: towards a re-interpretation, by Dr Sergei Bogatyrev.
11 March	Bogatstvo gibnet, da nishcheta vse zhivet: beggars and the poor in Russian history, by Dr Hubertus Jahn.