The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Chemical Engineering. Seminars take place from 3.30 to 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street. Tea and cakes are offered from 3.15 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. outside LT1.
| 20 October | Volcanic gas chemistry: measurements, models, and mysteries, by Dr Clive Oppenheimer, of the Department of Geography. |
| 27 October | Developing advanced molecule-specific sensors, by Dr John Archer, of the Department of Genetics. |
| 3 November | Liquid engineering, by Dr Steve Temple, Research Director and Founder of Xaar InkJet Technologies. |
| 10 November | Laser diagnostics: the methodical revolution to improve combustion technology, by Dr Andreas Dreizler, of the University of Darmstadt. |
| 17 November | Thermodynamically guided simulations for bridging the gap in time scales, by Professor H. C. Oettinger, of ETH Zurich, Institute of Polymers. |
| 24 November | Active control of unstable combustion, by Professor Ann Dowling, FRS, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 1 December | Multi-dimensional fluorescence microscopy, by Professor Paul French, of Imperial College, London. |
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.
| 20 October | Automatic program verification by Lagrangian relaxation and semidefinite programming, by Patrick Cousot, of the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. |
| 27 October | What every computer scientist needs to know about software licences, by Andrew Adams, of the University of Reading. |
| 3 November | Track and trace for the global supply chain using RFID, by Steve Hodges, of Microsoft Research, Cambridge. |
| 10 November | Spiking neurons, competing agent populations, and Network QoS through distributed control, by Erol Gelenbe, of Imperial College, London. |
| 1 December | Relative loss bounds and polynomial-time predictions for the K-LMS-NET algorithm, by Mark Herbster, of University College, London. |
Criminology. Professor Tapio Lappi-Seppälä, Director of the National Research Institute of Legal Policy in Finland, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology New Building (Sidgwick Site) on Penal policy and sentencing theory in Finland, on 21 October at 5.30 p.m. Please note new venue.
Divinity. The Stanton Lectures 2004-05 will be given by the distinguished American philosopher based at Notre Dame University, Professor Alvin Plantinga, on the subject of Christian belief and science: surface conflict, deep concord; naturalism and science: surface concord, deep conflict. The lectures will all take place at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, on the following dates:
| 8 November | Evolution and design |
| 10 November | Evolutionary psychology and Christian belief |
| 12 November | Methodological naturalism and games scientists play |
| 15 November | Divine action in the world |
| 17 November | Evolution vs naturalism: an evolutionary argument against naturalism |
Henry Martyn Seminars. A series of seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursdays at various venues:
| 21 October | Issues of Japanese identity today, by Dr Alan Suggate. Jointly hosted with the Christianity in Asia Project. Venue: Faculty of Divinity. |
| 28 October | Infiltrating a male bastion - women and the governance of the Church Missionary Society, 1890-1942, by Dr Ken Farrimond. Venue: Westminster College. |
| 4 November | Evangelical nonconformity divided: John Philip and the Wesleyan mission in South Africa, by Dr Andrew Ross. The third of a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project. Venue: Wesley House. |
| 18 November | Vande Mataram ('I revere the mother'): an inquiry into India's national song and the secular state, by Professor Julius Lipner. Jointly hosted with the Christianity in Asia Project. Venue: Faculty of Divinity. |
| 25 November | Co-existence of customary and civil marriage laws: a source of social and moral dilemmas for African Christians, by Onesimus Ngundu. Venue: Westminster College. |
Divinity and Oriental Studies. Professor Lawrence Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel at Harvard University, who is giving the Schweich lectures on Biblical Archaeology at the British Academy this year, will give a lecture entitled In search of Solomon and his kingdom, on 25 October, at 5 p.m. in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.
Earth Sciences. Frontiers in Earth Sciences seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.
| 19 October | Why petrography matters, by Marian Holness. |
| 26 October | Sea level rise from Antarctica, by Andy Shepherd, of the Scott Polar Research Institute. |
| 2 November | The fertilization of the Solar Nebula: new constraints on the old myth, by Albert Galy. |
| 9 November | Elastic collapses and high speed diffusion in minerals, by Ekhard Salje. |
| 16 November | Making sense of the Cambrian explosion, by Nick Butterfield. |
| 23 November | Volcanism in the earth system: past, present, and future, by David Pyle. |
| 30 November | Erosion: does climate matter? by Niels Hovius. |
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 Second Floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.
| 22 October | Adaptation for navigating and remembering events in space: hippocampal lateralization and homing in pigeons, by Professor Verner P. Bingman, of Bowling Green State University. Host: Nicky Clayton. |
| 29 October | Detecting the cognitive basis of foraging routes in primates, by Professor Dick Byrne, of the University of St Andrews. Host: Nicky Clayton. |
| 5 November | Mediating the mapping between language and the visual world, by Professor Gerry Altmann, of the University of York. Host: Lorraine Tyler. |
| 12 November | The prefrontal cortex and amygdala in primates: a behavioural and autonomic analysis of their role in reward processing, by Dr Angela Roberts, of the Department of Anatomy. Host: Trevor Robbins. |
| 19 November | In search of memory's trace: the case of visual imprinting, by Professor Sir Gabriel Horn. Host: Anthony Dickinson. |
| 26 November | Seeing red: a study in consciousness. Part I. The not-so-easy problem, by Professor Nicholas Humphrey, of the London School of Economics and Political Science. (Professor Humphrey will give Part II of his talk on 21 January 2005 at the Zangwill Club.) Host: Nicky Clayton. |
Gender Studies. A research and methods mini-conference, entitled Discourse and difference, will be held on 11 November from 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Keynes Hall, King's College. Organizers: Veronique Mottier and Lucy Delap. Speakers: Terrell Carver, Judith Squires, Lucy Delap, Natalia Gerodetti.
Gender Theory Seminars take place in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. (unless otherwise stated).
| 14 October | Young women, work, and family in England, 1918-50, by Selina Todd. |
| 28 October | Maternal depression: from mother-child relationship. Intergenerational or contextual risk? by Barbara March. |
| 11 November | Discourse and difference (at Keynes Hall). |
| 25 November | The lived experience of social classes: older women's relation to bodily appearance, by Alex Dumas. |
Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site (unless otherwise stated) as follows:
| 14 October | Effects of flow regulation on frequency of floodplain inundation, Murrumbidgee River, by Dr Ken Page, of Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia. |
| 21 October | The missing links: a trans-scalar examination of biodiversity patterns, by Dr Richard Field, of the University of Nottingham. |
| 27 October | 'A man is a man completely and a wife is a wife completely': reflections on homosexuality and masculinity among ladies and gents in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, by Dr Graeme Reid, of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesberg, and the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. |
| 28 October | FDI and regional economic disparities in China, by Professor Wei Houkai, British Academy Visitor, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
| 8 November | Poverty and famine: Malawi in 1949 and 2002, by Professor Megan Vaughan, of King's College, Cambridge. (This seminar is in association with the Centre for African Studies and takes place in the Centre for African Studies, Free School Lane, at 5 p.m.) |
| 11 November | Rethinking citizenship: spaces of 'hope and hopelessness' in South Africa, by Dr Cheryl McEwan, of the University of Durham. |
| 17 November | Geography militant: resistance the essentialization of identity in colonial Ireland, c.1600-41, by Dr John Morrissey, of the National University of Ireland, Galway. |
| 18 November | The spaces of modernity in Paris, by Professor Ulf Strohmayer, of the National University of Ireland, Galway. |
| 24 November | Quarantine, empire, and anti-slavery: Eclair and Vista incidents of 1845 and their aftermath, by Dr Mark Harrison, of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford. |
History. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar 2004-05. Seminars on the theme of Gossip and rumour are held fortnightly in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College at 5 p.m. (*except the second seminar which will be held on Thursday, 28 October, at 5 p.m. in the Panelled Combination Room, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College). For a programme, please e-mail Gemma Tyler in the Faculty of History (gft21@cam.ac.uk).
| *28 October | Reason of state in the barbershop: behind the rumour, by Filippo de Vivo, of Birkbeck College, London. |
| 9 November | Rumours of poison and poisonous rumours in early modern France, by Silje Normand, of Trinity College. |
| 23 November | Rumour and panic in late Stuart England: Hugh Speke and the 'Irish Fright' of 1688, by Adam Fox, of the University of Edinburgh. |
Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., in Wesley House, Jesus Lane.
| 20 October | Leonard Woolf: First Jewish Apostle: attitudes to integrity and integration in 'The Three Jews' and 'The Wise Virgins', by Dr Jane Liddell King. |
| 10 November | Towards a pastoral and practical interfaith agenda, by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. |
| 24 November | A Christology for Jewish-Christian dialogue in 21st century, by Revd Professor John Pawlikowski. |
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The following seminars will be held at 3 p.m., in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).
| 20 October | mRNA 5'cap-interacting proteins - a diversity of structures and functions, by Professor John McCarthy, of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Host: John Walker. |
| 3 November | Spatial and temporal aspects of calcium signalling, by Professor Sir Michael Berridge, FRS, of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. |
Modern and Medieval Languages. Cultural History and Literary Imagination seminars will be held on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, as follows:
| 22 October | Human suffering: exposure and resistance, from Camus and Vittorini to Nancy and Agamben, by Martin Crowley, of Queens' College. |
| 12 November | Imagine there's no heaven: church and state, or holy births, unlawful deaths in the art of Paula Rego, by Manucha Lisboa, of St John's College. |
| 3 December | Picaresque fiction as political imagination in Grass, Rushdie, and literature about the Shoah, by Bernhard Malkmus, of St John's College. |
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room G, 17 Mill Lane.
| 19 October | Moralities of the Mongolian 'market': a genealogy of trade relations and the 'Zah Zeel', by Alan Wheeler, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
| 2 November | Danzan Ravjaa, the drunken madman of the Gobi: the conflict between 'Red' and 'Yellow' Buddhism in Mongolia, by Hamid Sardar, of the Axis-Mundi Foundation, Switzerland. |
| 16 November | Mice, crickets, and pashminas: international economics, environmental cascades, and the future of pastoralism in Mongolia, by Roger Blench, of Mallam Dendo Ltd. |
| 30 November | Household buildings of the Khori-Buryats, by Balzhan Zhimbiev, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
Isaac Newton Institute. Rothschild Visiting Professor, Charles Bennett, of IBM, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on 22 November, entitled Information is quantum. The seminar will be followed by an informal reception at 6 p.m.
Oriental Studies. An additional Japanese Studies seminar will be held on 25 October, in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13) of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at 2 p.m. Dr Nathalie Kouamé, of INALCO, Paris, will speak on The Lords of Mito and religion during the Edo period.
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics announces its proposed Kuwait Foundation Lectures for the academical year 2004-05. These lectures are promoted by a generous benefaction from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. Lectures will take place at 5 p.m. in the Wolfson Room at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. Further information can be obtained from http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/.
| 19 October | Galois representations in arithmetic geometry, by Professor T. Saito, of the University of Tokyo. |
| 26 October | Surgery and the fundamental group, by Professor P. Kronheimer, of Harvard University. |
| 18 January | Hyperbolic lattice points and the theory of automorphic forms, by Professor F. Shahidi, of Purdue University. |
| 1 March | The Kummer conjecture today, by Professor S. Patterson, of Gottingen University. |
| 3 May | Modular and hypergeometric functions, transcendence, and monodromy, by Professor P. Cohen, of Texas A & M University. |
| 24 May | Elliptic curves and main conjectures, by Professor C. Skinner, of the University of Michigan. |
Scott Polar Research Institute. Seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Main Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, as follows:
| 27 October | Ice stream switching during deglaciation of the northwestern sector of the Laurentide ice sheet, by Dr Chris Clarke, of the University of Sheffield. |
| 3 November | Evidence for ice flow direction change in central West Antarctica, by Professor Martin Siegert, of the University of Bristol. |
| 10 November | Environmental, social, and developmental problems in the Russian arctic, by Dr Boris Morgunov, of Russia. |
| 17 November | Tidal interactions with Antarctica and its ice sheet, by Dr Matt King, of the University of Newcastle. |
| 24 November | The Neoglacial (late Holocene) mass balance history of the Greenland ice sheet, by Professor Antony Long, of the University of Durham. |
Slavonic Studies. On 21 October, Jukka Gronow, of Uppsala University, will give a lecture entitled Caviar with champagne. Common luxury in Stalin's Russia, in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College, at 5.30 p.m.
Veterinary Medicine. A Tea Club Seminar will be held on 8 December at 4.30 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road. Tea is served at 4 p.m. in the SCR. Professor Jonathan Heeney, of the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, The Netherlands, will speak on Virus stowaways on Noah's ark.