Norah Boyce Science Lectures

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This lecture series will continue to be held in the Sackler Lecture Theatre of the Institute of Astronomy on Tuesdays. In the academic year 2009-10, the lectures will start 15 minutes later than last year, ie at 5.45pm. Please do not arrive before 5.30pm as access to the room is not available until this time. The Institute of Astronomy is up a side road marked 'University of Cambridge, Madingley Rise', on the north side of the Madingley Road, roughly opposite J J Thomson Avenue. It is 300 yards from the bus-stops there. Leaving the Madingley Road there is a car park on the right hand side and the Institute of Astronomy is the second building on the right further on. If the first car park is full, continue pas the Institute and bear right for a second car park. The OS map reference is 543050 259390 or TL430594.
All Welcome

Spring 2010

19 January
Polar Insects - Survival of Cold and Climate Change
Dr Bill Block

9 February
Stem Cells: Hope or Hype?
Dr Kate Quinlan & Professor Roger Pedersen

2 March
Paul Dirac: Britain's Einstein
Graham Farmelo

9 March
Post-war Ornithology in Cambridge
Peter Bircham

16 March
Discovering What Genes Do By Knocking Them Out: Control of Puberty and Fertility
Professor Bill Colledge

Summer 2010

11 May
The Science and Beauty of Nebulae
Dr Carolin Crawford

25 May
Moving in an Uncertain World: How the Brain Controls the Body
Professor Daniel Wolpert, MD, PhD