Societies, etc.

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Society’s Henslow Fellow Lectures will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 14 May 2014, in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Dr Alexander G. Liu, Henslow Fellow, will give the first half-hour lecture entitled Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota, followed by Dr Stephanie Jacquot, Henslow Fellow, who will give the second half-hour lecture entitled Use of random matrices. Further details are available at http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/lectures.shtml.

Cambridge University Scientific Society

Suggest a speaker for 2014–15

Cambridge University Scientific Society (SciSoc, http://www.scisoc.com/) exists ‘to promote all branches of science and to make science accessible to all members of the University’. It does this via weekly talks on a wide range of subjects. The talks are held every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

SciSoc is now seeking suggestions for speakers for its weekly scientific talks in Michaelmas (October–December) and Lent (January–March) Terms for the 2014–15 academical year. Speakers must be scientists based in the UK or already travelling in the UK during the time of the talk. Talk topics can be in any branch of science and suggestions are invited for any scientist members of the University wish to meet and hear. To suggest a speaker, please visit the SciSoc website and fill in the suggestion form: http://www.scisoc.com/.