Lectures
- Thursday 20 October 2011
- NO. 4966
- VOL. 142
Romanes Lecture
Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow, Astronomer Royal; President of the Royal Society (2005–10); Master, Trinity College, and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Cambridge, will deliver the Romanes Lecture at 5.45 pm on 2 November at the Sheldonian Theatre. No tickets required; places available on a first-come, first-served basis. See: www.ox.ac.uk/romanes.
Subject: 'The limits of science'
Humanities
Faculty of History
Harmsworth Lecture - postponed
Professor Philip Morgan, Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History, was scheduled to lecture on 8 November. This lecture has been postponed due to illness. Professor Morgan's lecture will be delivered during Hilary term 2012 at a date to be confirmed.
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Geoscience Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 2.30 pm on Fridays in Seminar Room 3, Dartington House, Little Clarendon St. For details, see www.maths.ox.ac.uk/groups/mathematical-geoscience.
Professor Carl Wunsch, MIT
21 Oct.: 'The timescales of the ocean circulation and climate'
Dr Frank Kwasniok, Exeter
4 Nov.: 'Data-based stochastic subgrid-scale parametrisation: an approach using cluster-weighted modelling'
Dr Simon Holgate, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool
18 Nov.: 'Insights into the mechanisms of regional sea level variability from wind stress and heat content'
Professor Andrew Fowler, Limerick
2 Dec.: 'The role of carbon in past and future climate'
Department of Materials
Weekly colloquia
The following colloquia will be given at 4 pm on Thursdays in the Hume Rothery Lecture Theatre preceded by tea at 3.30 pm.
Professor Andras Kis, EPFL, Switzerland
3 Nov.: 'Semiconducting alternative to grapheme: single layer MoS2'
Professor Michael Payne, Cambridge
10 Nov.: 'The role of quantum mechanical calculations in materials science'
Dr Ian Farnan, Cambridge
17 Nov.: 'Quantification of radiation damage in ceramics'
Professor Yang Hao, London
24 Nov.: 'Metamaterials and invisibility cloak: what material researchers can offer?'
Professor M Saiful Islam, Bath
1 Dec.: 'From fuel cells to lithium batteries: atomic-scale insights into defects and diffusion in oxide'
Medical Sciences
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
The seminar listed for the following date has been changed. The new information appears below.
Professor Naveed Sattar, Glasgow, will lecture at 1 pm on 30 November in the Robert Turner Lecture Theatre, OCDEM Building, Churchill Hospital. Convener: Professor Stephen Gough.
Subject: 'Novel biomarkers for T2DM and its complications'
Department of Pharmacology
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery seminars
The following seminars will be given at noon on Tuesdays, except where noted, in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Mansfield Road.
Dr Kirill Volynski, UCL
25 Oct.: 'Variable presynaptic calcium influx determines heterogeneity of release probability among small central synapses.' Host: Professor Nigel Emptage.
Dr Peter Oliver
1 Nov.: 'Investigating the role of SNAP-25 in complex behaviour – from schizophrenia to circadian rhythms.' Host: Dr Peter Magill.
Professor Tamas Bartfai, Scripps Research Institute
4.30 pm, Thurs., 3 Nov.: 'The GAP between medical need and choices of drug discovery projects by industry.' Host: Professor Antony Galione.
Dr Sofia Araujo, Institut de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona
8 Nov.: 'Common mechanisms underlying axonal guidance and trachea formation in Drosophila.' Host: Dr John Parrington.
Dr Lora Heisler, Cambridge
15 Nov.: 'Targeting brain serotonin receptors for the treatment of obesity.' Host: Professor Trevor Sharp
Dr Paolo Tammaro, Manchester
22 Nov.: 'Vascular TMEM16/anoctamin channels: towards an understanding of their structure, function and pharmacology.' Host: Professor Chris Garland.
Professor Kate Lambertsen, Southern Denmark
29 Nov.: 'Protective neuroinflammation in ischemic-induced neurodegeneration.' Host: Dr Daniel Anthony.
Institutes, Centres and Museums
Botanic Garden
Science lecture series: Plant genetics for a sustainable future
The following lectures will be given at 8 pm on Mondays in Daubeny Lecture Theatre at the front of the Botanic Garden.
Professor Rob Edwards
7 Nov.: 'Plants in a chemical world'
Tina Barsby
14 Nov.: 'GM crops – where do we go from here?'
International year of forests lecture
Tony Kirkham will deliver the International year of forests lecture at 8 pm on 24 November at the Saïd Business School. Tickets £12.
Subject: 'Trees - a cut above the rest'
Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
London lecture
David Pritzker will deliver the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies lecture as part of Asian Art in London. The lecture takes place at 6 pm on 7 November in the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE.
Subject: 'The visual culture of the Tibetan Imperial Period (7th – 9th century)'
Lecture series
The following lectures will be given at 5.30 pm on Mondays in lecture room XXIII at Balliol.
Dr Stephen Berkwitz
24 Oct.: 'Moralism and colonialism in Sinhala Buddhist poetry'
Dr Yu-Shuang Yao
14 Nov.: 'The essence and appeal of engaged Buddhism in contemporary Taiwan'
Bruno Galasek
21 Nov.: 'Narrative transmission in the Suttas of the Majjhima Nikāya'
Professor John Taber
28 Nov.: 'Dharmakīrti and the Mīmāṃsakas in conflict'
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
European Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies: Old Yiddish: old texts, new contexts
The following seminars will be given at 2 pm on Thursdays in the Radcliffe Science Library. Conveners: Professor Simon Neuberg and Dr Zehavit Stern.
Dr Claudia Rosenzweig, Bar Ilan
27 Oct.: 'Rhymes to sing and rhymes to hang up. Preparing a new edition of two lampoons by Elye Bokher'
Professor Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University
3 Nov.: 'Between Yiddish and Hebrew: describing daily life and current events in the early modern period'
Professor Erika Timm, Trier
17 Nov.: 'The text on the Cologne slate tablet 596-10' (This paper will be in German)
Professor Simon Neuberg, Trier
24 Nov.: 'Components of western Yiddish literature. The shorter genres' (Part 2)
Dr Diana Matut, Halle-Wittenberg
1 Dec.: ' "Ashkenaz un' Polak": Yiddish sources on a complex relationship in early modern times'
Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit
David Patterson seminars
The following seminars will be given at 8 pm on Wednesdays at Yarnton Manor. Convener: Dr Alison Salvesen.
Professor Siegbert Prawer
26 Oct.: 'Moyshe Kulbak's Byronic pilgrimage: the creation of a Yiddish masterpiece'
Dr Daniel Falk, Oregon
2 Nov.: 'Penitence and supplication in 4 Ezra'
Professor Shlomo Berger, Amsterdam
9 Nov.: 'Between Amsterdam and Prague: on Information on the Jews of Cochin'
Dr Miriam Wagner, Cambridge
16 Nov.: 'Regressed, corrupt, hypo-correct? The origin and evolution of Judaeo-Arabic'
Professor Chava Turniansky, Hebrew University
23 Nov.: 'A woman's life: the memoirs of Glikl Hamel (1645–1724)'
Dr Zehavit Stern
30 Nov.: 'The (re)birth of the Purim-shpil from the spirit of Russian avant-garde: Moyshe Broderzon and the Jewish Pierrot'
Colleges and Halls
Mansfield College
Topical symposia
The following seminars will be given at 9 pm on Wednesdays in Mansfield College, Main Building Room I. Open to the public and all welcome.
Gerald Moule
26 Oct.: 'Coping with national crises: responding to events like riots, massacres and natural disasters'
Siobhan Fraser, icon painter
2 Nov.: 'The art of iconography'
Andrew Rhodes
9 Nov.: 'Disability rights in theory and practice'
Helena Kennedy
16 Nov.: 'Human rights in our modern world'
Michael Enright
23 Nov.: 'Time delays in central banking, Part II: How different countries used monetary policy during the financial crisis of 2008'