The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing, Chaired by Professor Lawrence Sherman in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the...

Taking infrastructure in a narrow material sense, Civic Matter is about thinking through the social, ethical and political work of infrastructural design, (re)construction and maintenance, and the ways in which anticipated and obsolete infrastructures are imagined, remembered, destroyed, recycled...

The Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society is an independent society run by and for Cambridge University students, registered and supported by the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. The Society undertakes and supports legally- related volunteer work for the benefit of the community...

In the second term of every academic year since 1986 Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multi-disciplinary way, and with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her...

Professor Onora O'Neill discusses philosophical conceptions of press freedom in historical and contemporary terms, raising some thought-provoking questions. Festival of Ideas talk recorded Wednesday 22 October 2008.

The purpose of the T.anner lectures is to advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning related to human values

The BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall gave the Selwyn College Ramsay Murray lecture on Friday May 1st about Vladimir Putin, Russia and the West. Ms Kendall is a former Moscow correspondent, and she has interviewed Putin and many other world leaders for the BBC. There was a capacity...

The Wolfson Law Society (WLS), at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, hosts a range of educational, professional and social events for students interested in the law.

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA, and the approaching centenary of the birth of Francis Crick, the Federation of European Biochemical Soceities (FEBS) and the Agouron Institute are sponsoring in conjunction with Gonville and Caius College a unique...

The purpose of this programme is to bring together scientists from very different perspectives in models of the dynamics of the fluid components of the Earth system. This interest may be directly into the modelling, also numerical, or at a more abstract modelling level in terms of understanding...

The Darwin 2009 Festival, 5-10 July 2009, celebrated the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentenary of the publication of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species. About 1500 people attended the core Festival and at least the same number again attended the related exhibitions,...

Many important real world problems give rise to an Inverse problem (IP). These include medical imaging, non-destructive testing, oil and gas exploration, land-mine detection and process control. For example, in the exploration for oil and gas, one needs to assess the structure of the interior of...

As a preamble to the first international conference on Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods, Cambridge, UK, 15-16 March 2013, the Centre of South Asian Studies is organising a seminar series that will introduce the theme of the conference. Several historians and...

Various recorded seminars, talks, lectures and debates which are held and filmed at the Institute of Criminology

Perhaps the greatest challenge in plasma science is to understand the multiscale interaction between small-scale fluctuations and large-scale plasma dynamics. This is crucial both in fundamental astrophysical and space physics research (e.g., turbulence in the solar wind) and in more practical...

2013 marks the ten year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by US and UK forces, the swift and catastrophic collapse of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime, and the beginning of a period of occupation and radical societal change. On 16th October 2003, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1511...

In the second term of every academic year since 1986 Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multi-disciplinary way, and with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her...

The Stanton Lectures is an endowed series of lectures on the subject of the philosophy of religion in the Faculty of Divinity. The 2012-13 Stanton Lectures are given in the Lent Term by Professor Paul Griffiths, Warren Professor of Catholic Theology, Duke Divinity School, in the Runcie Room of...

Clare Hall Literary Talks aim to introduce us to some of the most interesting contemporary British writers

Liquid crystals have a multitude of applications, notably those in flat panel display technology, which has fundamentally impacted modern life. From a theoretical point of view, liquid crystals offer a unique opportunity for the study of partial order, as complex liquid crystal phases represent...

The I-CAMP'13 school took the form of a summit, bringing together prominent scientists as well as students and postdoctoral fellows. It provided education for young scientists working in the fields of liquid crystal materials science, optics, photonics, mathematics, biophysics, nanoscience, and...

The Earth's mantle is almost entirely solid, but on geological timescales it convects vigorously, the well-known surface expression of this being plate tectonics. At depths up to ~100 km beneath plate-tectonic boundaries (mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones), and beneath ocean islands such as...

A showcase of seminars from the Isaac Newton Institute programme 'Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to Climate Modelling and Prediction'. For more information visit: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/CLP/

The main objective of the programme is to bring together specialists in periodic, almost- periodic and random problems to discuss recent developments and deep connections between the methods intrinsic for each of these research areas. In the last several years there emerged a number of methods...

Algebraic geometry is a key area of mathematical research of international significance. It has strong connections with many other areas of mathematics (differential geometry, topology, number theory, representation theory, etc.) and also with other disciplines (in the present context,...

Cambridge Shorts is a film project run by the University of Cambridge which gives researchers at an early stage of their career the opportunity to work with professional film makers to make films about their research that are creative, accessible and engaging.

Cutting-edge expert commentary, analysis and business insights on the issue of diversity in business from Cambridge Judge Business School's global faculty, associates and guest speakers.

Big Data is everywhere, no matter what you do – from humanities to natural sciences, from social sciences to engineering to medicine. Yet, data on its own, no matter how “Big”, is of little use. Distilling Big Data into actionable, useful information requires a range of tools from mathematics,...

Christof Schwiening (physiologist) and Kevin O'Holleran (physicist) take a rational scientific approach to marathon running in this 2-part talk. Neither is a sports scientist; Christof is a cellular neurophysiologist and Kevin is an physicist, but both are competitive runners obsessively...

The Sidney Greats lecture series is designed to provide an introduction to great texts and ideas for all Sidney members -- undergraduate and graduate students, Fellows, staff, and alumni. They are aimed at a general audience.

The Darwin 2009 Festival, 5-10 July 2009, celebrated the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentenary of the publication of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species. About 1500 people attended the core Festival and at least the same number again attended the related exhibitions,...

The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, was formally opened by Lord Mustill at the conclusion of its first conference on 'Shareholder's Rights and Remedies' (held on the 12 April 1997). The 3CL has links with similar institutions in...

A complete course in crystallography. Associated materials such as lecture notes, books, and much more can be found on: http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans/teaching.html H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia Image credit: Natural Philo

2013 marks the six-year anniversary of the Festival of Ideas, a University of Cambridge public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences by showcasing a diverse mix of inspirational talks, performances, films, exhibitions and other creative displays. The...

From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance...

Following the 2003 INI programme Granular and Particle-Laden Flows, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications has held two conferences on Dense Granular Flows at the Isaac Newton Institute: 5 - 9 January 2009 IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows 1 - 4 July 2013 2nd IMA Conference on...

Recordings of talks, lectures and seminars at or arranged by St John's College, Cambridge

The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network brings together people from a wide variety of disciplines in Cambridge and beyond who are engaging with performance as a concept, from music and literary studies to anthropology, architecture and medicine. It asks how these varied interests...

Energy policy can be a highly contentious area of government policy, which is often described as requiring the reconciliation of affordable, clean, efficient and secure provision of electricity, heating and transportation fuel. Unpacking each term in itself can be fraught: promoting energy...

In recent decades, the theory and practice of translation has become an increasingly prominent area of academic discussion and debate. Offering important opportunities for interdisciplinary research, this flourishing field inevitably promotes interactions across and within a wide range of...

The Shrinking Commons What do we mean by common property? What resources do we continue to hold in common? What is their fate? The commons have been described as a drama, even - famously - a 'tragedy'. Their fate, their future, has never seemed more parlous, with climate change, population...

Over the last ten years, tremendous progress has been made in understanding scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills and gravity theories. On the technical side, new explicit formulae for general n-particle scattering amplitudes have been discovered that exhibit remarkable new mathematical structures....

A collection of lectures organised by the Wolfson College Cambridge Science Society.

An audio and video collection of seminars, talks and events held at the Centre of African Studies

The recent financial crisis has underlined the importance of financial stability and systemic risk in the financial sector, and the monitoring and regulation of systemic risk has become a major concern for regulators, governments and financial institutions. Insights from the crisis include the...

Retellings of ancient Greek and Roman stories (see www.classictales.co.uk for transcripts, further information and teaching resources to accompany these recordings). The Metamorphoses tales and other Greek myths featured here often involve some form of transformation and explore many aspects of...

We are currently entering a new technological era in which we are able to build systems whose performance is limited by quantum physical effects and in which it may be possible to exploit non-classical phenomena in novel ways. To this end, there has been considerable recent interest in...

In the last decade there have been several important breakthroughs in Number Theory and Diophantine Geometry, where progress on long-standing open problems has been achieved by utilising ideas originated in the theory of dynamical systems on homogeneous spaces. Dynamical systems techniques are...