Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Architecture. Sustainable Design Series 2007. Seminars will take place on Mondays from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at the Department of Architecture, Trumpington Street. A drinks reception will follow. Further details may be found under 'News and Events' at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/. Places are limited; anyone wishing to attend should contact Carolyn Bartley (tel. 01223 331700, e-mail cb520@cam.ac.uk).

29 October Making sustainable communities: the 20 year challenge for UK growth areas, by Mr Mike Hayes, Chief Executive of the West Northamptonshire DC, RTPI President 2004.
5 November Emerging trends in education design: transformation, regeneration, and legible sustainability, by Mr Richard Woods, Architect, Associate Director of Capita Architecture.
12 November Sustainable cities, by Professor Marcial Echenique, Head of the Department of Architecture.

Criminology. Professor Andrew Simester, of the National University of Singapore and the University of Nottingham, Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Law Faculty, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, will give a public seminar entitled Necessity, torture, and emergency State powers, at 5.30 p.m. on 1 November in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site).

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Carlos Simpson, of the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, will give the Sixty-Eighth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled The shape of an algebraic variety, at 5 p.m. on 1 November, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).