The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Biotechnology. Dr Mark Evans, of the Department of Medicine, will give a lecture entitled Glucose sensing, diabetes, and the brain - physiology and biotechnology?, on 26 October, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., in the Biochemistry Lecture Theatre (Sanger Building), Tennis Court Road.
Divinity and Oriental Studies. Dr Francesco Zanella, of the University of Florence, will speak on The contribution of componential analysis to the semantic analysis of a lexical field in Ancient Hebrew, at an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar, on Wednesday, 25 October, at 2.30 p.m., in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.
Education. Arts, Culture, and Education Seminars will take place from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m., in Room GS1 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (e-mail pab61@cam.ac.uk).
| 23 October | Music and children's empathizing: stories, songs, and frameworks, by Dr Felicity Laurence, of the University of Newcastle. |
| 1 November | What is a culturally relevant model of music education?, by Dr Ruth Wright, of the University of Wales, Cardiff. |
| 22 November | Music and evolution, by Professor Ian Cross, of the Faculty of Music. |
A Neuroscience and Psychology in Education Seminar will take place on Tuesday, 21 November, at 4.30 p.m., in Room 1 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Dr Chris Donlan, of University College London, will speak on The role of language in mathematical development. Enquiries should be directed to Usha Goswami (e-mail ucg10@cam.ac.uk). Please note that this seminar was originally scheduled for Tuesday, 28 November.
German Studies. As part of the Clare Hall German Celebrations (see http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/), members of the Department of German will present a series of short lectures on German language, literature, and culture, on 20 October, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Umney Theatre, Robinson College. The programme is as follows:
Writing Goethe writing Goethe: problems of a literary biography, by Professor Nicholas Boyle.
Schiller in English. The interdependency of critical opinion, comparisons with Shakespeare, and translations after 1945, by Ms Bettina Göbels.
Classical plays on the contemporary German stage. Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus' adapted by Botho Strauss ('Schändung') and Schiller's 'Maria Stuart' in Berlin, by Dr John Guthrie.
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Subversion in the steelyard, by Dr Sheila Watts.
Berlin as palimpsest, by Dr David Midgley.
Murder in Munich and the making of modern Germany: the 1972 Olympic Games, by Dr Christopher Young.
Centre for History and Economics. Meetings will take place on Wednesdays, at 5 p.m., in the Seminar Room, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.
| 18 October | At the limits of toleration: Rousseau and atheism, by John Hope Mason, of Queen Mary, University of London. |
| 1 November | 'Demagogue', 'Tyrant', and 'Statesmen' in ancient Athens, by Melissa Lane, of King's College. |
| 15 November | British consular intervention and legal pluralism: Buenos Aires, 1825-1875, by Caitlin Anderson, of Trinity College. |
| 29 November | The Enlightenment and the origins of modern economics, by William Nelson, of the Centre for History and Economics and Trinity Hall. |
Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. The following seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 2 p.m., at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, in the Old Common Room.
| 24 October | Exploring inter-faith dialogue through the involvement of women and the young, by Dr Amineh Ahmed Hoti, of Lucy Cavendish College. |
| 31 October | 'There's no business like Shoah business': commemoration, commodification, and the Holocaust, by Ms Gwyneth Bodger, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. |
| 7 November | Diaspora in antiquity? Examining the evidence, by Dr James Aitken, of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. |
| 14 November | Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, and the Jews, by Dr Carol Dray, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. |
| 21 November | Ignaz Maybaum and Jewish-Christian relations, by Professor Nicholas De Lange, of the Faculty of Divinity. |
| 28 November | Handel's Messiah: Isaiah and the Christian story, by Dr Margie Tolstoy, of the Faculty of Divinity and Westcott House. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Kuwait Foundation Lectures for the academical year 2006-07 will take place at 5 p.m, in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise stated) at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Further information can be obtained from http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/. The lectures are promoted by a generous benefaction from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.
| 21 November | The topology of the geodesic flow on the modular surface, by Professor Etienne Ghys, of ENS, Lyon. Please note that this lecture will be held in the Founder Patrons Room. |
| 30 January | Hilbert's 14th problem and Verlinde type formulas for rings of invariant polynomials, by Professor Shigeru Mukai, of Kyoto University. |
| 6 February | A capital charge for operational risk: utopia or not, by Professor Paul Embrechts, of ETH, Zurich. |
| 13 February | The local theory of metric spaces and graph algorithms, by Professor Assaf Naor, of Microsoft Research and the Courant Institute. |
| 20 February | The arithmetic of dynamical systems, by Professor Joseph Silverman, of Brown University. |
| 21 February | Diagonal cycles and triple L-series, by Professor Shou-Wu Zhang, of Columbia University. |
| 13 March | Multiplicative functions, by Professor Kannan Soundararajan, of Stanford University. |
| 1 May | Large solutions of small equations, by Professor Henri Darmon, of McGill University. |
| 21 May | Diophantine equations after Wiles, by Professor Mike Bennett, of the University of British Columbia. |
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.
| 19 October | Differentiation and rates of generation of the continental crust, by Chris Hawkesworth, of the University of Bristol. |
| 26 October | Volcanism on Santorini: past, present, and future, by David Pyle, of the University of Oxford. |
| 2 November | Rare Earths, unlikely transitions, and Carter's anthropic model of evolution, by Andy Watson, of the University of East Anglia. |
| 9 November | Excited by flow: Fluid models for volcanic tremor, by Alison Rust, of the University of Bristol. |
| 16 November | Seismological constraints on core composition and structure, by George Helffrich, of the University of Bristol. |
| 23 November | Subglacial floods, by Andrew Fowler, of the University of Oxford. |