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 p.m. 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.
| 10 October | Design of experiments, by Dr Ian MacPherson/Dr Paul Nelson, of PRISM training and consultancy. |
| 17 October | High-throughput determination of protein stability and refolding in microtiter plates, by Dr Paul Dalby, of University College London. |
| 24 October | Research Student presentations |
| 31 October | Dye-sensitized solar cells - finding out how they work, by Professor Laurie Peter, of the University of Bath. |
| 7 November | Structure formation in rotating turbulence, by Dr Peter Davidson, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 14 November | Studies of contact mechanics employing the quartz crystal microbalance, by Professor Diethelm Johannsmann, of Clausthal University of Technology. |
| 21 November | Mathematical modelling of directed cell migration, by J. Krishnan, of Imperial College, London. |
| 28 November | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Alex Taylor, of Imperial College, London. |
Criminology. Professor David Weisburd, of the Institute of Criminology at Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and the University of Maryland, College Park, will give a public seminar entitled Location, location, location: why crime theory and policy should be focused on places, on 18 October 2007 at 5.30 p.m. in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site).
Divinity. The Stanton Lectures 2007, entitled And was made man: incarnation and metaphysics, will take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, and will be delivered by Professor Robin Le Poidevin, of the University of Leeds.
| 10 October | Without confusion: approaches to theological inconsistency |
| 17 October | Two natures one person: the composite Christ |
| 24 October | One and the same: absolute and relative identity |
| 31 October | A reasonable soul and body: the embodied mind |
| 7 November | Without change: the Kenotic approach |
| 14 November | Two persons: the reduplication problem |
| 21 November | Before the ages: time and incarnation |
| 28 November | Without division: deity and dimensionality |
Education. Mathematics Education Colloquia will take place in the Faculty of Education, Mary Allan Building, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Dr Tim Rowland (e-mail tr202@cam.ac.uk).
| 16 October | Promoting 'relational equity': the case of Railside School, by Professor Jo Boaler, of the University of Sussex. This seminar will take place at 3 p.m. in the Auditorium. |
| 19 November | Mathematical objects and grounds: shifting meanings across pedagogic contexts, by Professor Jill Adler, of King's College London. This seminar will take place at 5 p.m. in Room G07. |
Second Language Education Seminars will take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. in Room 2S4 of the Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Dr Edith Esche (e-mail eme10@cam.ac.uk).
| 22 October | Japanese language education and the impact of testing, by Dr Tomoko Fujita, of Tokai University and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall. |
| 5 November | Maturational constraints on L2 acquisition: do they exist and are they relevant to early L2 instruction?, by Professor David Singleton, of Trinity College, Dublin. |
| 19 November | Micro-teaching and self-evaluation, by Dr Richard Pemberton, of the University of Nottingham. |
Research Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Jenny Symonds (e-mail jes81@cam.ac.uk).
| 23 October | The Catholic Church and sexuality education in Kenya, by Ms Susan Kiragu, of Newnham College (Room GS1). |
| 30 October | Immigrant-origin students' education and human development in the context of the EU, by Ms Christina Hajisoteriou, of Homerton College (Room 2S5). |
| 13 November | Students' thinking when using software and doing maths problems, by Ms Anesa Hosein, of the Open University (Room 2S5). |
| 27 November | 'It'll look good on your CV': a study of self-marketing amongst 16-19 year olds in three British schools, by Ms Lucie Shuker, of Homerton College (Room GS3). |
A Neuroscience and Psychology in Education Seminar will take place on 30 October from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 2S3 of the Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, of University College London, will speak on Specialization in the human brain: the case of numbers. Enquiries should be directed to Nichola Daily (e-mail nd241@cam.ac.uk).
Education, Equality, and Development Book Launch Seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room GS3 of the Faculty of Education Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Susannah Lacon (e-mail sml44@cam.ac.uk).
| 17 October | Sociology of Knowledge and Education (Continuum, June 2007), by Dr Rob Moore, of the Faculty of Education. |
| 14 November | Gender Education in a Global Context: computing frameworks and policy perspectives (Routledge, September 2007), by Dr Shailaja Fennell, of the Department of Land Economy, and Professor Madeleine Arnot, of the Faculty of Education (Eds). |
| 5 December | Knowledge is Power! The Rise and Fall of European Popular Education Movements, 1848-1939 (Peter Lang, 2008), by Dr Tom Steele, of the University of Glasgow. |
A Pedagogy, Language, Arts, and Culture in Education seminar (in conjunction with BERA Creativity-in-Education SIG and National Association of Music Education Regional Events) will take place on 13 December from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 2S8 of the Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Huib Schippers, of Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia will speak on Artistic practice as research - beyond the rhetoric. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (e-mail pab61@cam.ac.uk).
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. Further information, including abstracts, may be obtained from http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mechanics/seminars/.
| 16 November | Mono-Monostatic bodies: the story of the Gömböc, by Professor Gabor Domokos, of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. |
| 30 November | Future directions in structural dynamics, by Professor David Ewins, of the University of Bristol. |
History. Hexagonal Forum: An interdisciplinary seminar on France. The theme for 2007-08 is L'Etat c'est elle? A new look at the State in France. All meetings are on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, unless otherwise stated.
| 16 October | How 'French' is the French State?, by Dr Eugenio Biagini and Professor Robert Tombs, of the Faculty of History. |
| 30 October | Transitions to decline? The futurity of commercial societies in the French reception of David Hume's 'Rich Country-Poor Country' argument, by Dr Istvan Hont, of the Faculty of History. |
| 13 November | Crown and civil society in French expansion, c. 1500-1789, by Dr Richard Drayton, of the Faculty of History. |
| 30 November | Symposium: Rupture or continuity? Sarkozy's France after six months. This meeting will take place in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. |
Conveners: Miranda Gill (literature), Sarah Howard (cultural history), David Todd (economic history), Sylvana Tomaselli (history of ideas), Robert Tombs (political history).
Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. Plenary Lectures 2007-08. Lectures take place on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. (unless otherwise stated) in the Old Common Room, Wesley House, Jesus Lane.
| 17 October | Jewish Christianity, by Dr James Carleton Paget, of the Faculty of Divinity. |
| 24 October | Maimonides and Aquinas on naming God, by Dr Dan Davies, of the Faculty of Divinity. |
| 31 October | Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Book of Genesis, by Dr Helen Spurling, of the Faculty of Divinity. |
| 7 November | Zion, supersessionism, and the Christian Right, by Professor Robert Gordon, of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. This lecture is part of a memorial event for Dr Carol Dray, and will begin at 6 p.m. There will be drinks afterwards. |
| 14 November | 'O father Abram, what these Christians are!' Gentile and Jew in Shakespeare's Venice, by Mr Adrian Barlow, of the Institute of Continuing Education. |
| 21 November | The basic treaty between the Slovak Republic and the Holy See: the purpose of international legal relations between States and the Holy See, by Dr Marek Smid, of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic, London, former Chief Negotiator of the concordat between the Holy See and the Slovak Republic. |
| 28 November | Divided by religion, united by difference: religious diversity and pluralism in post-Communist Russia, by Dr Marat Shtarin, of King's College London. |
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars are held at 3 p.m. in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For further details please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).
| 17 October | New dimensions of drug discovery: exploring biological and chemical space, by Professor Sir Tom Blundell, of the Department of Biochemistry. Host: Alan Robinson. |
| 5 November | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Dr Jan A. M. Smeitink, of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands. Hosts: Judy Hirst and Leo Sazanov. |
The third Sir William Dunn Scholar, Professor José Antonio Enríquez, of the University of Zaragoza, Spain, will give the following lectures at 3 p.m. in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road.
| 30 October | A mammalian mitochondrial DNA mutagenesis system for functional genetic studies |
| 31 October | Respiratory supercomplexes: fact or fiction? |
| 7 November | ROS metabolism and mitochondrial DNA variability |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Kuwait Foundation Lectures for the academical year 2007-08 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/. The lectures are promoted by a generous benefaction from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.
| 1 November | The shape of an algebraic variety, by Professor Carlos Simpson, of the University of Nice. |
| 20 November | Principal stratification for causal inference with extended partial compliance, by Professor Donald B. Rubin, of Harvard University. |
| 15 January | Estimation of large covariance matrix, by Professor Jianqing Fan, of Princeton University. |
| 29 January | On the proof of Serre's conjecture, by Professor Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, of the University of Strasbourg. |
| 5 February | Geometry of moduli spaces of rational curves, by Professor Aise Johan de Jong, of Columbia University. |
| 19 February | Technology-driven statistics, by Professor Terry Speed, of the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 4 March | Bayesian inference of genetic epistasis in case-control studies, by Professor Jun Liu, of Harvard University. |
| 11 March | Adelic representations of elliptic type, by Professor David Rohrlich, of Boston University. |
| 29 April | Asymptotic problems for stochastic processes and differential equations, by Professor Mark Friedlin, of the University of Maryland. |
| 13 May | Hydrodynamical instabilities in free boundary problems, by Professor Jalal Shatah, of the Courant Institute, New York University. |
| 15 May | The classification of Riemannian submersions from space forms, by Professor Robert Bryant, of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley. |
| 20 May | PDE on singular spaces with applications on geometric analysis, by Professor Rafe Mazzeo, of Stanford University. |
| 21 May | Motives in noncommutative geometry, by Professor Maxim Kontsevich, of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris. |
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.
| 11 October | A brief overview of models of sea ice rheology, by Dr Danny Feltham, of University College London. |
| 18 October | The melt inclusion record of concurrent mixing and cooling in basaltic magma chambers, by Dr John Maclennan, of the Department of Earth Sciences. |
| 25 October | Volatile geochemistry of volcanic eruptions, by Dr Marie Edmonds, of the Department of Earth Sciences. |
| 1 November | Marvellous mathematical models, by Professor Hassan Aref, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the Technical University of Denmark. |
| 22 November | Climate change and the trillion-dollar millenium mathematics problem, by Dr Tim Palmer, of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). |
| 29 November | The stability of ice sheets: current understanding, by Professor Geoffrey Boulton, of the University of Edinburgh. |