The Society’s G. I. Taylor Lecture will take place at 6 p.m. on Monday, 30 January 2017, in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Professor Michael Cates, FRS, FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, will give a lecture entitled Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices. Further details are available at http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/lectures.shtml.
The next meeting will be held at 8.30 p.m. in the Old Library, Darwin College, on Thursday, 9 February 2017. Mr Mike Petty will give a paper entitled The albatross inheritance – what future for Cambridge’s past; is the internet the answer? Refreshments will be served from 8 p.m.