The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Biotechnology. Dr Kathryn Lilley, of the Department of Biochemistry, and Head of the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, will give a seminar entitled Quantitative proteomics and its application to determining the organelle, on Thursday, 19 October, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Sanger Building), Institute of Biotechnology, Tennis Court Road.
Criminology. Andromachi Tseloni, Associate Professor at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, will give a public seminar in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site, entitled Concentration of personal and property crimes in England and Wales, on Thursday, 19 October, at 5.30 p.m.
Engineering. Mechanics Colloquia will be held on Fridays at 2.30 p.m. in Lecture Room 6 at the Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street. All visitors are welcome. Please report to Reception on arrival. For further information, including abstracts, please see http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mechanics/seminars/.
| 27 October | Some counter-intuitive problems in dynamics and vibration, by Dr Hugh Hunt, of the Department of Engineering |
| 17 November | Dynamic neck retardation under quasi-static and dynamic stretching, by Professor John Hutchinson, of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. |
Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays, in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site, as follows:
| 19 October | Protecting the environment: Criminal law and the European Union, by Mrs Nicky Padfield, of the Faculty of Law. |
| 2 November | Strategies of similarity and the movement of governance knowledge: region-building, indigenous identity, and international development in the circumpolar North, by Dr Elana Wilson, of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. |
| 16 November | ''Miracles' on a geographical map': geodetic utopias and cartographic realism in the Soviet Union, 1920-1938, by Dr Nick Baron, of the University of Nottingham. |
| 30 November | Demarcating boundaries. Geopolitical, legal, and ethical considerations in the construction of an Israeli-Palestinian border, by Professor David Newman, of Ben Gurion University, Israel, and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Bristol, 2006-07. |
Music. The Robin Orr Memorial Lecture 2006, entitled Shostakovich, ideological music, and bureaucratic muddle, will be given by Professor Simon Morrison, of Princeton University, on Wednesday, 25 October, at 5 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the University Music School, 11 West Road.