Monthly Archives: February 2012
CUPS Event: Omega Dinner 2012
Location: Trinity College Old Kitchens Time: Sparkling wine reception from 7pm, Dinner from 7:30pm After Dinner Speaker: Professor James Stirling, head of the Cavendish Laboratory Price: £29 for CUPS members (in advance) Dress Code: Black Tie For more information and to register, visit the Cambridge University Physics Society website.
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CUPS Event: Chaos in Action
Professor Mohamed Sobhy See the Cambridge University Physics Society website for more information.
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CUPS Event: Size Matters
Dr Mark Miodownik, University College London Dr Miodownik gave a talk with the same title at the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. As this is an outreach talk, it will be free for everyone! For more information, see the Cambridge University Physics Society website.
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University Careers Service Event: Working in the Media
This long-established, informal careers event is the prime focus for Cambridge students who want to find out more about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. Many of our alumni/ae now working in the sector benefitted from attending this event whilst at Cambridge. The February 2011 Event attracted around [...]
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New cancer drug target discovered
Scientists at the University of Leicester have identified a new molecule that could serve as a target for an entire family of future cancer drugs. Cancer research has been booming in the last decade with an estimated global annual spend of over €14,000 million (£11,600 million). While more than 800 drugs are currently in development, a failure [...]
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Solving a monkey puzzle
In a study published recently in the journal Cell, scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in the USA announced that they have created the first chimeric primates. Comprising cells from multiple genetically distinct individuals, chimeras occur only rarely in nature but are important tools for studying embryonic development. Chimeric mice are frequently generated [...]
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Energising Cambridge
A new student campaign, Energise Cambridge (http://www.energisecambridge.org/), has been launched to try and persuade the University of Cambridge to buy a larger proportion of its energy from renewable suppliers. The University is currently the fourth largest emitter of carbon dioxide of all UK higher education institutions. On 31st January, representatives from Energise Cambridge submitted a [...]
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CUCaTS Event: The Theory behind TheoryMine
Professor Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) speaks on “The Theory behind TheoryMine”. We describe the technology behind the TheoryMine novelty gift company, which sells the rights to name novel mathematical theorems. A tower of four computer systems is used to generate recursive theories, to speculate conjectures in those theories and then to prove these conjectures. All stages [...]
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CUCaTS Event: Intelligence and Security in a Digital Age
Professor Sir David Omand (King’s College London; Former Director of GCHQ) speaks on “Intelligence and Security in a Digital Age”. In the talk I will look at the way that successive technological advances have shaped the past world of secret intelligence and suggest that the process continues with the application of digital technologies to intelligence access and [...]
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Feature: Psychedelic Psychiatry