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:

Chemical Engineering. Seminars take place on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Department of Chemical Engineering, New Museums Site, from 3.30 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. Tea and cakes are offered from 3.15 p.m. until 3.30 p.m. outside LT1. All are welcome.

24 January Knowledge based process engineering: hybrid modelling of industrial fed-batch processes, by Professor S. Feyo de Azevedo, of the University of Porto, Portugal.
31 January (Title to be confirmed) Research Students' seminars.
7 February Creating and harnessing complex reaction networks, by Professor Linda Broadbelt, of Northwestern University.
14 February Stresses in drying films, by Dr Bill Clegg, of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.
21 February Mixing in stratified fluids, by Dr Colm Caulfield, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the BP Institute.
28 February International interfaces, by Dr Jacquin Wilford-Brown, of International Coatings.
7 March Extensional rheometry of inhomogeneous thickener solutions for coating applications, by Professor Norbert Willenbacher, of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
14 March New technologies in bioseparations and biosensing from engineered multi-domain self-modifying proteins, by Professor David Wood, of Princeton University.

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. For further information, including abstracts, please see http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mechanics/seminars/.

26 January Biomechanics of the cytoskeleton: cell contractility and mechanosensitivity of cell adhesion, by Dr Vikram Deshpande, of the Department of Engineering.
16 March Materials information: from testing machines to drug-eluting stents, by Professor David Cebon and Professor Mike Ashby, of the Department of Engineering.

Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site, as follows:

18 January Alteration of the continental water cycle by anthropogenic land cover change, by Dr Shannon Sterling, of the University of Paris.
8 February The respiratory hazards of volcanic ash. Is volcanogenic silica really bad for you?, by Dr Claire Horwell, of the Department of Earth Sciences.
22 February Psychogeography in theory and practice, by Dr Drew Mulholland, of Glasgow Caledonian University.
1 March Sovereignty, corruption, and failed agreements: international law and tropical forests, by Dr Catherine MacKenzie, of the Department of Land Economy.

Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. The following seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 2 p.m., at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley House, Jesus Lane, in the Old Common Room.

23 January European Jewish thinkers and the dangers of Messianic politics, by Dr George Wilkes, of St Edmund's College and the Faculty of Divinity.
30 January Recent trends in Pauline scholarship, by Dr Justin Meggitt, of the Institute of Continuing Education and the Faculty of Divinity.
6 February Christian influence on the Jewish diaspora, by Dr Edward Kessler, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations.
13 February The exegetical encounter between Jews and Christians in late antiquity, by Drs Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations and the Faculty of Divinity.
20 February Jewish-Christian dialogue in the 11th-14th centuries, by Dr Eva de Visscher, of the University of Oxford.
27 February Aspects of Christianity and Judaism in the 15th-17th centuries, by Dr Richard Rex, of the Faculty of Divinity.
6 March The Vatican's peace plans in the two world wars: Benedict XV and Pius XII, by Ms Lucia Faltin, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. The following research seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

23 January Corpses and the work of separation in the Ferghana valley, by Madeleine Reeves, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
6 February Special Seminar: Mongolia's development: challenges and opportunities, by Ambassador Dalrain Davaasambuu, of the Mongolian Embassy, London.
20 February Severing the silken knot? Separating Church and State in contemporary Bhutan, by Richard Whitecross, of the University of Edinburgh.
6 March Tibetan-Mongolian research: new life from old books, by Hildegard Diemberger, Stephen Hugh-Jones, and Karma Phuntso, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
13 March Revolutions, lamas, and soup: the oral history of twentieth-century Mongolia, by Christopher Kaplonski, of William Paterson University.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars are held on Wednesdays 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).

14 February Evidence for the assistance of transmembrane electron transfer by transmembrane proton transfer in a dihaem-containing membrane protein complex, by Dr Roy Lancaster, of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main. Host: Edmund Kunji.
28 February Redox modifications of cardiac protein thiols: from detection to functional impact, by Dr Philip Eaton, of The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London. Host: Mike Murphy.

Plant Sciences. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. All are welcome.

25 January Exploiting Cowpea mosaic virus in bio- and nano-technology: 101 things to do with a plant virus, by Dr George Lomonossoff, of the John Innes Centre.
1 February The first cyanobacterium. A redox switch hypothesis for the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis, by Professor John Allen, of Queen Mary, University of London.
8 February Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes, and plant development, by Professor Garry Whitelam, of the University of Leicester.
15 February About the importance of molybdenum for life, by Dr Florian Bittner, of the Technische Universität Braunschweig.
22 February The role of fungi in self-organization of the soil-microbe complex, by Professor John Crawford, of the University of Abertay, Dundee.
1 March Are treelines responding to climate change?, by Professor Emeritus Robert Crawford, of the University of St Andrews.
8 March Natural variation in Antirrhinum and Arabidopsis, by Dr Andrew Hudson, of the University of Edinburgh.
15 March The legume toolbox for the Rhizobium root nodule symbiosis, by Professor Ton Bisseling, of Wageningen University.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars will be held on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, New Museums Site. The Common Room (G1, ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.

19 January Provincializing God? Apprehensions of an anthropology of religion, by Professor Michael Lambek, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
26 January Religion, ethnicity, and politics in Israel, by Dr David Lehmann, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
2 February East Timor: a failed nation-state?, by Dr David Hicks, of Stony Brook University.
9 February Hagiographic narrative and monastic practice: Buddhist morality and mastery amongst Thai Buddhist nuns, by Dr Joanna Cook, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
16 February Loving and forgetting in tribal India, by Dr Piers Vitebsky, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
23 February (Title to be confirmed) Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, of the University of Durham.
2 March The appearance of identity politics in a south Indian village, by Dr David Mosse, of the University of London.
9 March Sacrificial devotion and Tamil Tiger hero rites, by Professor Michael Roberts, of the University of Adelaide.