Events, courses, etc.

History of Art

Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2015–16: ‘Suddenly I forgot which comes first, 7 or 8.’ Making sense of the Russian avant-garde, by Professor John Bowlt, on Tuesdays at 5 p.m., starting Tuesday, 13 October, at Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, 1 Mill Lane. First lecture is entitled: In vino veritas? My sentimental journey into Russian art.

http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/aboutthedept/sladeprofs

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

Research seminars, on every other Tuesday at 4.30 p.m. in the Seminar room, The Mond Building, Free School Lane; first seminar: Communities of the Altai mountains and climate change works, by Chagat Almashev

http://innerasiaresearch.org/

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Francis Crick Lecture 2015: The transformative CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering technology: lessons learned from bacteria, by Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, at 11 a.m. on Friday, 2 October, in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Laboratory of Molecular Biology

http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/scientific-seminars/

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit

The 3rd annual Sir John Walker lecture: Human obesity: causes and consequences, by Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, 28 September, in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Laboratory of Molecular Biology

http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/event/1079/seminar-professor-stephen-orahilly

Physics

Scott Lecture Series 2015, by Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics of the University of Florida, in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, at 4 p.m. on the following dates:

26 October: Lecture I. Was Einstein right? A centennial assessment

28 October: Lecture II. The cosmic barber: counting gravitational hair in the solar system and beyond

30 October: Lecture III. On the unreasonable effectiveness of post-Newtonian theory in gravitational physics

http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/5376