Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures and seminars

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

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Departmental Lectures. Lectures are held on Wednesdays at 4.15 p.m. in the Boys Smith Room, St John's College.

3 November The three sails and the twelve winds: the question of early Irish colour theory, by Dr John Carey, of University College, Cork.
1 December Christmas at Cerne: Ælfric's homilies for Christ's nativity, by Dr Aaron Kleist, of Biola University.

Criminology. Rolf Loeber, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology, New Building (Sidgwick Site) on Individuals' development toward violence: insights from a longitudinal study, on 4 November, at 5.30 p.m. (Co-authors of the study, Professor D. Farrington, and Dr M. Stouthamer-Loeber, will be in attendance.) Please note new venue.

Slavonic Studies. On 4 November, Louise McReynolds, of the University of Hawaii, will give a lecture entitled Nightscape: the commercial night in late Imperial Russia, in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College, at 5.30 p.m.

Theoretical Geophysics. The Departments of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics present a series of seminars on Theoretical Geophysics, which will take place at 2.05 p.m. on Thursdays in Room MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. A varied, informal luncheon will be supplied in the Common Room of Pavilion H before each seminar at a cost of £2.50 per person, commencing at 1.05 p.m.

28 October Seeing though ensembles: the roles of uncertainty in weather and climate forecasting, by Leonard Smith, of the University of Oxford.
4 November New scaling law for the runout of large rock avalanches: from the laboratory to the field, by Eric Lajeunesse, of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.
11 November Mixing of chemicals in an enclosed ventilated space, by Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, of the University of California, San Diego, and Paris.
25 November The behaviour of trace elements during melting and crystallization - theory, experiment, and application to global processes, by Bernie Wood, of the University of Bristol.