From 2010 I am only part time in Cambridge, I
am based at the
Instituto
de Telecomunicações @ University
Institute of Lisbon.
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Here is a list of my personal diary
for talks, seminars, workshops, summer schools,... The selection is always
driven by my research and personal intellectual interests.
Please always consult the given
links for updates and details! All talks are usually one
hour, unless otherwise stated.
This diary bellow is not including:
- the fortnightly Communications
Team Meetings (on Friday afternoons);
- weekly DTG Meetings (on Monday
afternoons);
- the lectures of the courses I
attend (schedules and venues in the special issue of the Reporter for the
Cambridge Tripos (05/06,
06/07,
07/08
and 08/09);
- Trips to conferences when
presenting a paper (check on list of publications in the main page);
and, of course, nor the hectic daily
Cambridge cultural (mostly debates, opera, recitals, theatre, social and
college events (always with Fotini - she couldn’t exist but in Cambridge), nor
my swimming sessions.
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Date: |
14th June 2012, 8pm, at
the Chemistry Department |
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Title: |
Science, Computation and the
Future |
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Speaker: |
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Link: |
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Date: |
5th May, 2:15pm, at the
Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Approximate Sparsity Recovery from
Noisy Compressed Sensing |
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Speaker: |
Dr Michael Gastpar (University of California - Berkeley) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
6th May, 3pm, at the
Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
60th Anniversary of
EDSAC, the first computer - Celebration Seminar |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Sir Maurice Wilkes, FRS (and
others) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
21st May, 2:15pm, at
the Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Research Challenges in Cognitive
Radio Networks |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Vijay Bhargava (University of British Columbia) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
27th May, 2:15pm, at
the Computer Laboratory (from the 800th Anniversary events) |
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Title: |
The 10 Cultures Problem (10 is to be read as two in binary as in
famous C. P. Snow’s book on the two cultures: sciences and humanities) |
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Speaker: |
Mr Bill Thompson (BBC) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
2nd June, 5pm at the
Old Combination Room of Trinity College |
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Title: |
The Life and Work of Làszló Kozma -
Telecommunications genius and computer pioneer |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Emeritus Geza Gordos
(Technical University of Budapest) |
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Date: |
11th June, 5pm at
Centre for Mathematical Sciences (missed it) |
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Title: |
The Flow of Information in Complex
Networks |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Jon Kleinberg
(Cornell University) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
17th June, 4pm at The
Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Toward
Energy-efficient Computing |
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Speaker: |
Dr. David Brown
(Sun Microsystems – Solaris OS) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
18th June, 2:15pm, at
the Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Routing and Network Coding on Lines, Stars, and Rings |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Gerhard Kramer (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
27th June, all day
event at Imperial College (fallowed by reception by the Ambassador at the
Portuguese Embassy), London |
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Title: |
Third Annual Meeting of Portuguese
Researchers and Students in the UK |
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Speakers: |
Science Minister Prof. Mariano
Gago, Dr. Marçal Grilo (Gulbenkian Foundation) and several Portuguese and UK
scientists |
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Link: |
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Date: |
From 29th June to 3rd
July 2009 at Microsoft Research Cambridge |
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Title:
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Forth Microsoft Research Summer School |
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Speakers: |
Several |
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Link: |
http://research.microsoft.com:80/en-us/events/2009summerschool/
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Date: |
9th July, 5:30pm, at
the Chemistry Department (cannot
make it - travelling) |
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Title: |
The Voyage To the Beagle Letters:
Henslow, Darwin and the Cambridge Philosophical Society |
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Speaker: |
Prof. John S. Parker (Director,
Cambridge University Botanic Garden) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
4th September, 10am, at
Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Network Coding for the Multiple
Access Channel |
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Speaker: |
Mr.
Danail Traskov (TU Munich) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
4th September, 11:30am, at
Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation
Systems with Quantized Soft-Out Demodulators |
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Speaker: |
Mr. Clemens Novak (Vienna University of Technology) |
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Link: |
A course I
would suggest this term:
·
Advanced wireless
communications, by Dr. Albert
Albert Guillén i Fàbregas (Engineering Department), Engineering Tripos
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Date: |
24th February, 2pm, at
the Centre of Mathematical Sciences |
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Title: |
A Survey of Results for Deletion
Channels and Related Synchronization Channels |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
24th
February 2009, 8.30pm at Fitzwilliam College |
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Title: |
“This House
believes that now is the time to migrate to America.” |
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Chairman: |
Mrs Vera
Lethbridge (spouse of the Master) |
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Judges: |
Professor
Robert Hanna and Dr. Matt Wingate |
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Date: |
25th February 2009,
2.15pm at Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Filter Design with Secrecy
Constraints |
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Speaker: |
Dr Miguel R. D. Rodrigues
(University of Porto) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
25th February 2009, 8pm
at Chemistry Department (Talk to the Cambridge Astronomy Society) |
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Title: |
The Next 20 Years in Astronomy |
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Speaker: |
Professor Lord Martin Rees, The
Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College and President of the Royal
Society |
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Link: |
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Date: |
26th February 2009, 4pm
at The Computer Laboratory (clashes with Brendan’s Frey Tutorial) |
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Title: |
Wireless Networks: Overcoming the
Challenges, Leveraging the Opportunities |
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Speaker: |
Dr Kyle Jamieson (University College London) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
26th February 2009,
4-6pm at The Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
An
Introduction to Transcriptomics |
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Speaker: |
Professor Brendan Frey, Canada Research Chair (University of Toronto) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
5th March 2009, 6pm at
Fitzwilliam College |
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Title: |
The Brain Drain: Emigration of
British Scientists Abroad |
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Chairman: |
Prof. Lord Martin Rees, Master of
Trinity College and President of the Royal Society. |
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Link: |
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Date: |
9th March 2009,5:30pm
at the Chemistry Department (talk to the Cambridge Philosophical Society) |
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Title: |
Machines
that see |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Andrew Blake, FRS, FREng
(Microsoft Research) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
11th March 2009, 8pm at
Clare College (talk to BlueSci society – science productions) |
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Title: |
Making
Science Documentaries |
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Speaker: |
Mr David Dugan (BBC Horizon
producer, winner of three Emmys, one Royal Television Society award and two
British Science Writer Awards for science productions, and chairman of
Windfall Films) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
12th March 2009, 6pm
(popular science talk from the Cambridge Science Festival) |
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Title: |
How your mobile phone works |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Chris Cox (author of
“Essentials of UMTS”, Cambridge University Press) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
21st
October 2008, 7:30pm at Newnham College MCR |
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Title: |
Tulips, Toxic Derivatives and Economic Contagion:
What you need to know about the financial crisis |
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Speaker: |
Dr D'Maris Coffman (Mary Bateson Research Fellow,
Newnham College) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
23rd October 2008, at New Hall |
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Title: |
Networks & Neuroscience (one day workshop
organised by the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute - CCBI) |
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Speaker: |
Several |
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Link: |
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Date: |
23rd October 2008, 5:30pm at Royal
Cambridge Hotel |
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Title: |
Pervasive
Messaging |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM Distinguished
Engineer and Master Inventor; Visiting Professor at Newcastle University) |
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Date: |
25th
October 2008, at Fitzwilliam College |
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Title: |
Graduate Students Conference |
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Speaker: |
Several PhD students and Fellows of the college (I presented a poster) |
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Link: |
http://www.fitzmcr.org/2008/08/graduate-conference-and-matriculation-dinner/
http://www.fitzmcr.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/graduate-conference-detailed-programme.doc |
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Date: |
28th October, at Queens’ College |
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Title: |
CamBridgeSens Launch Event (one-day workshop) |
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Speaker: |
Several |
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Link: |
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Date: |
29th
October 2008, 2:15 pm at Engineering Department (missed) |
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Title: |
Power
allocation in delay-limited wireless channels |
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Speaker: |
Dr Albert Guillen i Fabregas (Engineering Department - Signal Processing and
Communications Laboratory) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
4th November
2008, 8pm at the Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU
Science Society) |
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Title: |
Computing for
the Future of the Planet |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Andy
Hopper, CBE, FRS, FREng (Head of the Computer Lab) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
5th
November 2008, 8pm at the Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU Physics Society) |
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Title: |
What
Scientists and Engineers need to know about patents |
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Speaker: |
Dr Rhian
Granleese (Marks & Clerk Patent Attorneys) |
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Link: |
http://www.srcf.ucam.org:80/physics/wiki/index.php?title=Dr_Rhian_Granleese
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Date: |
12th
November 2008, 1pm at the Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Careers in
academics, industry, research and college fellowships |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Cecilia Mascolo (Computer Lab), Ms May
Glover-Gunn (IBM Hursley Lab), Dr. Matthew Parkinson (Computer Lab) and Dr.
Nick Benton (Microsoft Research Cambridge) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
12th
November 2008, 6:30pm-9pm at the Judge Business School |
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Title: |
Workshop on
"Open Innovation: how to swim with the big fish?" (by the Cambridge
University Technology and Enterprise Club) |
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Speaker: |
Billy Boyle
(Owlstone - Small Firm Delegate), Ruth Thomson (Kodak - Large Firm Delegate)
Jason Pinto (Amadeus Capital Partners - Investor), Tim Worden (Taylor Wessing
- Lawyer), Tim Minshall (Institute for Manufacturing - Moderator) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
12th
November 2008, 11am-4pm at the Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Industrial
Supporters’ Club Annual Recruitment Fair |
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Link: |
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Date: |
18th
November 2008, 2:15pm- 3:30pm at the Computer Labortory |
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Title: |
Annual
Meeting of the Faculty of Computer Science & Technolog |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Andy
Hopper, CBE FRS FREng (Head of Department) and other staff members |
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Date: |
18th November
2008, 8pm at the Chemistry Department (Talk to the Cambridge Scientific
Society) |
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Title: |
Anything
before the Big Bang? Possibly, reveals new evidence |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Roger
Penrose, FRS (Oxford University) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
19th
November 2008, 8pm at the Maxwell Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site (Talk to
the Cambridge Astronomy Society) |
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Title: |
Fred Hoyle:
Man of Many Ideas |
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Speaker: |
Dr Simon Mitton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
26th
November 2008, 2:15pm at The Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
An Automatic
Theorem Prover for Real-Valued Special Functions |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Larry
Paulson (Computer Laboratory) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
27th
November 2008, 6:50pm-7:10pm, at Fitzwilliam College |
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Title: |
Graduate
Talks (fallowed by Formal Hall at High Table) |
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Speaker: |
Graduate
students from Engineering Department
(I gave one talk) |
·
Visited the Communications Group of the ECE Department of the University of Toronto for 1 month (late June
– late July).
·
Attended the IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory in
·
Attended the IEEE International Workshop on
Information Theory in
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Date: |
21st
April 2008, 2pm at Engineering
Department |
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Title: |
Lattice
Decoding for Digital Communications: Where Minkowski Meets Shannon |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Cong Ling
(Imperial College) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
28th April 2008, 7:30 pm at McCrum
Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College |
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Title: |
Is Peer
Review a Process in Ruins?: The Politics Behind Getting Your Paper Published |
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Speakers: |
Dr. Stephen Simpson (Senior Editor of Science) and Cambridge academics |
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Link: |
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Date: |
21st May 2008, 2:35 pm at Dep. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
(during the one-day workshop by the Cambridge Computational Biology
Institute) |
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Title: |
Biological
learning and memory from a theoretical perspective |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Máté Lengyel (Engineering Department) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
12th
June 2008, 10.30-12pm at the Hopkinson Room (Phoenix Building, New Museums
site) |
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Title: |
Academic
Publishing in the 21st Century |
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Speaker: |
Josie Dixon
(Publishing Director for the Academic Division at |
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Link: |
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Date: |
21st
June at Taylor Institution, Oxford University |
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Title: |
2nd
annual meeting of Portuguese Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom |
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Speakers: |
Several |
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Link: |
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Date: |
24th
June, 2pm at Engineering Department (will
not be able to attend; flying to Toronto) |
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Title: |
MIMO systems:
myths and realities |
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Speakers: |
Prof. Ralf
Müller (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
27th
June 3pm at Lady Mitchell Hall (will
not be able to attend; in Toronto) |
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Title: |
Deep
questions of cosmology: did something happen before the Big Bang? |
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Speakers: |
Professor Sir
Roger Penrose FRS (Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Oxford) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
9th
July, 12:45 - 2:00 pm at ISIT, Toronto (parallel panel discussion) |
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Title: |
Balancing
your career and personal life - a perspective from the Information Theory
community |
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Speakers: |
Prof. Andrea
Goldsmith (Stanford Univ.) , Prof. Robert Gray (Shannon Award, Stanford
Univ.), Dr. Muriel Médard (MIT), Prof. Ubli Mitra (Univ. of South California) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
10th
July, 1pm at ISIT, Toronto (students parallel panel discussion) |
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Title: |
What makes a great researcher? |
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Speakers: |
Prof. Alexander Barg, Prof. Tom Cover, Andrea
Goldsmith (Stanford Univ.), Prof. Prof. Alon Orlitsky (Univ. of California at
San Diego), and Prof. Sergio Verdú (Shannon Award, Princeton Univ.). |
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Link: |
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Date: |
17th July, 2pm at Electrical Engineering
Department of the University of Toronto |
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Title: |
Power Allocation for Discrete-Input Delay-Limited
Block-Fading Channels |
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Speakers: |
Prof. Lars K. Rasmussen
(Institute for Telecommunications Research - University of South Australia) |
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Link: |
Talks.cam.ac.uk
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Date: |
12th
August (19th August and 26th August), 2pm at The
Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Wireless
Physical Player for Computer Scientists - A 3 Hours Course |
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Speakers: |
Dr. Fletcher
Wicker (The Aerospace Corporation, USA) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
18th
August 2008, 2pm, at Digital Technology Group, Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Demo of a new
MAC Layer implementation over FPGA’s |
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Speakers: |
Bogdan Roman
(Digital Technology Group, Computer Laboratory) |
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Date: |
3rd September 2008, 2:15pm at The Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Structure and
Dynamics in Complex Systems |
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Speakers: |
Prof. Luciano da Fontora Costa,
(University of São Paulo, Brazil) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
11 September
2008, 2pm at the Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Cooperative
Localization with Turbo-Networks |
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Speakers: |
Dr Henk Wymeersch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
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Links: |
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ic231/wirelesscomms/wct_meetings.html |
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Date: |
25th
September 2008 at the Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Two
Generations of Many-core Computational Arrays |
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Speakers: |
Bevan Baas,
University of California, Davis |
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Links: |
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Date: |
26th
September 2008, at Milton Keynes |
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Title: |
Visit to Bletchley Park (the
historical WW II coding centre), with the Computer Lab. |
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Date: |
29th-30th
September 2008, at the Computer Laboratory (William Gates Building) |
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Title: |
Show and Tell
Event (Industrial showcase) |
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Link |
·
Visited the Communications Group of the ECE Department of the University of Toronto during 3 months (early
December 2007 – end of February 2008).
Talks at the
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Date: |
11th
January 2008, 2pm at the Electrical and Comp. Eng. Department of the Univ. of
Toronto |
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Title: |
Designing Synthetic Biological
Networks |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Desmond Lun (The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) |
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Date: |
17th
January 2008, 2pm at the Electrical and Comp. Eng. Department of the Univ. of
Toronto (ECE Distinguished Lecture Series) |
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Title: |
The Affinity Algorithm |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Brendan Frey (University of Toronto) / Paper on Science Magazine |
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Link: |
Talks and
workshops, attended this term (after returning from the
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Date: |
3rd
March 2008 at Whipple Museum of the History of Science |
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Title: |
“Science behind the sound” |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Jim Woodhouse (Engineering Department) |
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Link: |
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/Science_of_sound/
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Date: |
10th
March 2008, one day Wireless Forum, at New Hall |
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Title: |
Wireless Development Forum |
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Speaker: |
Several |
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Link: |
http://www.wirelessdeveloperforum.org/index.asp?page=event_agenda&id=126
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Date: |
12th
March 2008, 2:15pm at the Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Sustainable
Energy -- without the hot air |
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Speaker: |
Prof. David J.C. MacKay
(Cavendish Laboratory) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
3rd
April 2008, 2 pm, at Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Algorithms
for Sparse Recovery and for Compressed Sensing |
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Speaker: |
Prof. David Donoho (Stanford University) |
(Visiting the
University of Toronto Communications Group from early December onwards.)
Talks,
courses, seminars, attended this term (before expected departure to
|
Date: |
3rd
October 2007, 7 pm at the Cambridge Union (talk to the CU Scientific Society) |
|
Title: |
Book Launch
of “Cool it” |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Bjørn
Lomborg (Copenhagen Business School) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
16th
October 2007, 8 pm at the Britsol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of
Chemistry (talk to the CU Scientific Society) (Can’t make
it; will be at a conference in Norway) |
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Title: |
The History
of the Universe in 60 minutes |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Simon Singh (science writer, author of “Fermat’s Last Theorem,
“The Code book” and other science best sellers) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
22nd
of October 2007, 5:30 pm, at Engineering Department |
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Title: |
The Power of Procrastination |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Jorge
Cham, creator of the popular comic strip “Piled High and Deeper” (PHD Comics) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
22nd
October 2007, 2pm at Trinity College (talk to The Trinity Mathematical
Society) |
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Title: |
What banged
the Universe (at the Big Bang)? |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Neil
Turok (Dep. of Applied Math. and Theoretical Physics) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
29th
October 2007, 7:30pm at Churchill College Wolfson Lecture Theatre |
|
Title: |
The invention
of the high-power microscope |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Brian J. Ford (science writer and author of BBC docs on science) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
22nd November 2007, 4pm-6pm, at
Engineering Department |
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Title: |
Error
Correcting Codes |
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Speaker: |
Prof. David J.C. MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
22nd November 2007, 6:30pm-8pm, at Law
Faculty (talk to the CU Entrepreneurs Society) |
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Title: |
Demystifying Intellectual Property (talk) - followed
by multi-sessions on intellectual property |
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Speaker: |
Trevor Baylis (talk) and Patent Attorneys from
several Law Firms |
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Link: |
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Date: |
26th November 2007, 5.30 pm, at
Department of Chemistry |
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Title: |
Hands-free Writing (Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture) |
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Speaker: |
Prof. David MacKay(Cavendish Laboratory) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
27th November 2007, 8pm at Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU
Scientific Society) |
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Title: |
Computers and
Illusion - from photography to computer vision |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Corporation) |
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Links: |
Courses
attended this term:
·
Systems Biology,
by Dr. Johan Paulsson
(
Talks,
courses, seminars, summer schools and visits this term:
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Date: |
1st
May 2007, 8pm at Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU Scientific
Society) |
|
Title: |
10 Years of
Biotech Crops: Global Economic and Environmental Impacts |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Nigel
Halford (Rothamsted Research) |
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Link: |
http://www.scisoc.com/events/list_events.php?show=past&order=DESC |
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Date: |
8th May 2007, 2pm at The Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Capacity
Approaching Codes for Non-Coherent Orthogonal Modulation |
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Speaker: |
Dr Albert
Guillén i Fàbregas (Engineering Department) |
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Link: |
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ic231/wirelesscomms/wct_meetings.html
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Date: |
9th May 2007, 2:15pm at The Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Modelling
Biochemical Pathways with Stochastic Process Algebra |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Jane
Hillston (University of Edinburgh) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
30th May 2007, 2:15pm at The Computer Laboratory |
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Title: |
Smart-card
based authentication on an insecure network |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Peter
Sweeney (Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey) |
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Link: |
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/ |
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Date: |
30th May 2007, 6pm at Fitzwilliam College
(Graduate talk before Graduate at High Table Dinner) |
|
Title: |
Life on a
branch: isotopes, clouds and Bromeliads |
|
Speaker: |
Miss Mónica Mejía-Chang
(Plant Science Department and Fitzwilliam College) |
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Date: |
31st May 2007, 11:30pm at Judge Business School
(Cambridge Leadership seminars) |
|
Title: |
From a eureka
moment on a freeway to a wireless technology phenomenon—the father of 3G
talks |
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Speaker: |
Dr Irwin
Jacobs (Founder & Chairman of Qualcomm Inc., former professor at MIT) |
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Link: |
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Date: |
5th June 2007, 9am-3:30pm, at Camborne Business
Park |
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Title: |
One-day
seminar on state of the art MIMO technologies |
|
Speaker: |
Several from
industrial companies and academia |
|
Date: |
9th
June at Downing College |
|
Title: |
1st
Annual meeting of Portuguese Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom |
|
Speaker: |
Several |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
11th July 2007, 12:30-6:30pm, at Terling Place,
Witham, Essex (trip for Fellows of the Cambridge Philosophical Society) |
|
Title: |
Visit to Lord
Rayleigh’s Laboratory (original labs preserved in the family since 1800’s) |
|
Speakers: |
Rayleigh
family members and professors from Cambridge |
|
Date: |
9th
-13th July 2007 (on 12th and 13th open to
all CL PhD students), at The Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Microsoft
Research World PhD students Summer School |
|
Speakers: |
Several, both
from academia and Microsoft Research |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
15th
July - 4th August 2007, at Fitzwilliam College |
|
Title: |
|
|
Speakers: |
Several |
|
Link: |
http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/intsummer/science/plenaries.html |
|
Date: |
10th August, 2:30-3:30 pm, at the
Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Multidimensional
Communications |
|
Speaker: |
Dr Wasim Q. Malik (University of Oxford) |
|
Link: |
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ic231/wirelesscomms/wct_meeting_070810.html |
Courses
attended this term:
·
Quantum Computing
by Dr. A. Dawar, Computer Lab.
Course.
Talks,
courses, seminars attended this term:
|
Date: |
17th January 2007, at Fitzwilliam College (Grads
dinner talk) |
|
Title: |
Leviathans of
the Cosmos: Supermassive Black Holes |
|
Speaker: |
Ranjan
Vasudevan (Institute of Astronomy) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
30th January 2007, 8pm at Pharmacology Lecture
Theatre (talk to the CU Scientific Society) |
|
Title: |
Privacy and
Identity - System Engineering and the Database State |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Ross
Anderson (Computer Laboratory) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
12th
February, 8pm at Cockcroft Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge
Philosophical Society) |
|
Title: |
Carbon
Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics? |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Bill
Milne (Department of Engineering) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
13th
February 2007, 8pm at Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU Scientific
Society) |
|
Title: |
Religious and Scientific Belief |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Lewis
Wolpert, CBE FRS FRSL (Department of Anatomy, UCL) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
14th
February 2007, 2:15 pm at The Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Computing for
the Future of the Planet |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Andy
Hopper CBE FRS FREng (The Computer Laboratory) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
22nd February 2007, 4-6pm,
at Engineering Department |
|
Title: |
An
Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian Networks |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani (Engineering Department) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
28th
February 2007, 2pm at The Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Security and
Cooperation in Wireless Networks |
|
Speaker: |
Prof.
Jean-Pierre Hubaux (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
6th
March 2007, 4:15pm at The Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Alternative Security Mechanisms for WiFi Networks |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Daniel Cvrcek (The Computer Laboratory) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
2nd
to 5th April 2007, at the Computer Laboratory (and Fitzwilliam
College) |
|
Title: |
BIOWIRE 2007:
A workshop on bio-inspired design of networks, in particular wireless
networks and self-organizing properties of biological networks. |
|
Speaker: |
Several |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
3rd
April 2007, 1pm at the Engineering Department (Lecture Room 5) |
|
Title: |
Analysis of
Channel Coding for Redundant Sources |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Joseph Boutros
(Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France) |
|
Link: |
Courses
attended this term:
·
Machine Learning
by Prof. Zoubin
Ghahramani,
Talks,
courses, seminars attended this term:
|
Date: |
9th
October 2006, 8:30pm at Trinity College (talk to The Trinity Mathematical
Society) |
|
Title: |
Finding large
primes and factorizing large numbers: is there any alternative to a
brute-force search? |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Tim
Gowers, FRS, Fields Medal (Dep. of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical
Statistics) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
16th
October 2006, 2pm at the Cavendish Lab |
|
Title: |
Leaf Selection for Maximising Diversity in a Tree |
|
Speaker: |
Fabio Pardi |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
16th
October 2006, 8:30pm, at the Cockcroft
Lecture Theatre (Talk to the Cambridge Philosophical Society) |
|
Title: |
Sentient Computing |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Handy Hopper FRS FREng (The Computer
Laboratory) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
18th
October 2006, 4:15pm, at the
Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Learning Probabilistic Sequence Models for Uncovering Gene Regulation |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
25th
October 2006, 2:15pm, at the
Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
All-Optical Networks |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Noriaki Kamiyama (NTT Service Integration
Laboratories) |
|
Link |
|
|
Date: |
26th
October 2006, 4pm-6pm, at the
Engineering Department |
|
Title: |
Gaussian
Processes for Machine Learning |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Edward
Snelson (Microsoft Research) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
31st
October, 8pm, at Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU Scientific
Society) |
|
Title: |
Cracking the Cipher Challenge |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Simon Singh |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
2nd
November, 8pm, Trinity College |
|
Title: |
Computation
based on quantum entanglement |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Vlatko
Vedral (University of Leeds) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
15th
November, 2pm at the Cavendish Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Vector Gaussian processes |
|
Speaker: |
Ryan Adams (Inference Group, Cavendish Lab.) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
16th
November 2006, 4pm-6pm, at the
Engineering Department |
|
Title: |
Expectation Propagation |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Tom Minka
(Microsoft Research) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
20th
November, 8pm at the Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU Biological
Society) |
|
Title: |
Francis
Crick’s place in history |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Matt Ridley |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
23rd
November 2006, 4pm-6pm, at the
Engineering Department |
|
Title: |
Advanced MCMC Methods |
|
Speaker: |
Ian Murray (UCL) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
23rd
November, 8pm, Pharmacology Lecture Theatre (talk to the CU Scientific
Society) |
|
Title: |
Can Science
be Communicated Through the Media? |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Raj Persaud |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
27th
November 2006, 6pm, at the Royal
Society, London |
|
Title: |
Information
Theory and Mobile Communications |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Joachim
Hagenauer (Munich University of Technology - TUM) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
29th
November 2006, 4pm, at the
Engineering Department |
|
Title: |
Engineering
Connections – The current research in the Information Division of the Engineering Department |
|
Speaker: |
Several |
|
Link: |
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2006/engineering%20connections%20event/
|
|
Date: |
1st
December, 9am (all day) at the Cavendish Laboratory |
|
Title: |
One-day
Meeting on Sustainable Energy (organized by the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Prof. David Mackay) |
|
Speaker: |
Several |
|
Link: |
Courses
attended this term:
·
Systems Biology,
by Dr. Johan Paulsson,
MPhil on
Computational Biology
·
Complexity Theory,
by Dr. Arthur C. Norman, Computer
Science - Part II. (partially attended)
·
Genomics, by
Dr. Pietro Lió, MPhil on
Computational Biology (partially attended)
Talks,
courses, seminars attended this term:
|
Date: |
1st
May 2006, 8pm, at the Department of
Chemistry |
|
Title: |
Biological
Computation: The Machinery of the Cell |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Sir
Sydney Brenner, FRS, Nobel Prize |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
5th
May 2006, 11am, at the Computer
Laboratory, FW26 |
|
Title: |
Modelling and
Handling Seams in Wide-Area Sensor Networks |
|
Speaker: |
Joseph Newman
(Technical Universities of Vienna and Graz and Computer Laboratory) |
|
Date: |
11th
May 2006, 3 pm, at the Computer
Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Scalable
Solutions for Distributed Compression and Inference in Wireless |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. João Barros ( |
|
Link: |
See the Radio Communications sub-group Meetings link |
|
Date: |
16th
May 2006, 12pm, at Mill Lane Lecture Rooms |
|
Title: |
The
Mathematics of Million-Dimensional Probabilities |
|
Speaker: |
Professor
Adrian Smith, FRS, Principal of Queen Mary (University of London) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
25th
May 2006, at the Fitzwilliam College (Graduate dinner and Talks) |
|
Title: |
The Eyes of
NanoScience: How to See the Invisible |
|
Speaker: |
Ed Simpson
(Material Science Dpt) |
|
Date: |
26th
May 2006, 2pm, at the Cavendish
Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Joint LDPC
Decoding and Timing Recovery Using Code Constraint Feedback |
|
Speaker: |
Dr.
Christopher R. Jones (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
30th
May 2006, 2pm, at StatsLab, Centre for
Mathematical Sciences |
|
Title: |
Using
percolation to compute transport capacity in wireless multi-hop networks |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Patrick
Thiran (EPFL, Lausanne) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
1st
June 2006, 10am, at INTEL Research |
|
Title: |
Cross-Layer
Design of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Bozidar
Radunovic (Ecole Normale Superieure) |
|
Link: |
http://www.intel-research.net/cambridge/ViewSeminarAbstract.asp?Index=577
|
|
Date: |
22nd
June 2006, at INTEL Research |
|
Title: |
INTEL Open Day |
|
Date: |
28th
June, 2pm, Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. |
|
Title: |
Information-Theoretic
Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice |
|
Speaker: |
Miguel Rodrigues, Digital Technology Group, Cambridge |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
18th
July 2006, 2pm, HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory. |
|
Title: |
Implicit learning in Music |
|
Speaker: |
Martin
Rohrmeier, Centre for Music and Science |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
2nd
August 2006, 2pm at Cavendish Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Neural phase codes |
|
Speaker: |
Bob Wilson,
Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
22nd
August 2006, 2pm at Cavendish Laboratory |
|
Title: |
How to veto anonymously under surveillance? |
|
Speaker: |
Piotr
Zielinski, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory |
|
Link: |
Courses
attended this term:
·
Information Theory,
Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks by Prof. David Mackay, Part
III Physics course at the Cavendish Laboratory
·
Monte Carlo Inference, Part
III Mathematics
·
Statistical
Methods in Bioinformatics by Professor S.
Tavaré, and Dr. Richard Durbin, MPhil on
Computational Biology
·
Advanced
Complex Variable, Part
III Mathematics
·
Reading
Club on Statistical Signal Processing
·
Some other lectures of the MPhil on
Computational Biology
Talks,
courses, seminars attended this term:
|
Date: |
18th
January 2006, 2 pm, at the Mathematical Centre, MR5. |
|
Title: |
Genomics at the Sanger Institute |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Richard
Durbin (Sanger Institute) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
25th
January 2006, 2 pm, at the Computer Lab, LT 2 |
|
Title: |
Solving the
Protein Folding Problem: Computational Challenges |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. David
Jones (UCL - Dept. of Computer Science) |
|
Link: |
N/A at Microsoft Research |
|
Date: |
25th January 2006, 4:15 pm, at the Computer
Lab, LT1 |
|
Title: |
Unseen |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Steve Boreham (Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group,
Department of Geography) |
|
Link: |
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Seminars/ http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/boreham/ |
|
Date: |
31st January 2006, 8 pm, at the Pharmacology
Lecture Theatre Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University Scientific Society) |
|
Title: |
Catastrophe Theory and the Nude |
|
Speaker: |
Dr Allan McRobie (Dep. of Engineering) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
6th February 2006, 8:30 pm, at |
|
Title: |
Life at interfaces |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Dominic Vella (Dpt. of Applied Math and Theoretical
Physics) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
7th February 2006, 1 pm at the Craik-Marshall Building |
|
Title: |
The Trefethen Effect |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. David J.C. MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
8th February 2006, 4:15 pm, at the Computer
Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Excursions on Exact Real-Number Computation |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Martín Escardó ( |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
10th February 2006, 1 pm at the Cavendish
Laboratory |
|
Title: |
New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks:
Reforming Hadron Spectroscopy |
|
Speaker: |
Prof
Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize (MIT) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
15th February 2006, 4:15 pm, at the Computer
Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Towards an Odor Communication and Synthesis System |
|
Speaker: |
David Harel (The Weizmann Institute
of |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
15th Febuary 2006, 7:15 pm, at the |
|
Title: |
Simulations
of the Universe |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. John Regan ( |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
20th February 2006, 8:30 pm at
The Union Society |
|
Title: |
“Speak to the Society” |
|
Speaker: |
Prof
Stephen Hawking (Dep. of Applied Math. and Theoretical Physics) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
28th February 2006, 8 pm, at the Pharmacology Lecture
Theatre Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University Scientific Society) |
|
Title: |
What is the "Dark Energy" Filling our Universe? |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Martin
Bucher (Dep. Ap. Math and Theo. Physics and Université Paris-Sud) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
6th March 2006, 8:30 pm, at |
|
Title: |
Random triangles |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (Stats Lab) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
8th March 2006, 7:30 pm - 9pm, at |
|
Title: |
Mathematics and thinking |
|
Speaker: |
Dr Piers Bursill-Hall (Dep. of Pure Math. and Mathematical
Statistics) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
13rd March 2006, 8.30 pm at the Cockcroft Lecture
Theatre, New Museums Site |
|
Title: |
The Puppet Master- How the brain controls the body (talk
to the Cambridge Philosophical Society) |
|
Speaker: |
Prof. Daniel Wolpert (Dep. of Engineering) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
15th March 2006, 3:30 pm, at the Computer Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Google Presentation to the Computer Laboratory |
|
Speaker: |
Shannon Maher
(Engineering Director at Google) |
|
Date: |
15th March 2006, 4:15 pm, at the Computer
Laboratory |
|
Title: |
Email & Email Standards: Past & Future |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Steve Kille
(Isode.com) |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
21st March 2006, 1 pm at the Craik-Marshall Building |
|
Title: |
Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes |
|
Speaker: |
Prof.
Alexandre Pouget ( |
|
Link: |
|
|
Date: |
30th March 2006, 3 pm at the |
|
Title: |
Statistical audio models for blind source separation and denoising |
|
Speaker: |
Dr. Cédric Févotte (Department of Engineering) |
Courses
attended this term:
·
Signal Detection
and Estimation by Prof. William
Fitzgerald,
·
Information and
Coding by Dr.
Oliver Johnson, Part III
Mathematics course
·
Reading
Club on Statistical Signal Processing
·
Some lectures of the MPhil on
Computational Biology
Talks,
courses, seminars attended this term:
|
Date: 29th September 2005,
11:30 pm, at the Newton Institute. |
|
Date: 12th October 2005, 3 pm,
at the Cavendish Laboratory. |
|
Date: 10th October 2005, 8
pm, at the Pharmacological Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University
Biological Society). |
|
Date: 18th October 2005, 8
pm, at the Pharmacological Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University
Scientific Society). |
|
Date: 28th October 2005, 8
pm, at the Pharmacological Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University
Scientific Society). |
|
Date: 31st October 2005, 8
pm, at the Pharmacological Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University
Biological Society). |
|
Date: 1st November 2005, 6:10
pm, at New Hall, followed by Scientific Society Formal Hall. |
|
Date: 4th November 2005, 11
am, at Intel Research ( |
|
Date: 8th November 2005, 12:15
pm, at the Computer Laboratory. |
|
Date: 8th November 2005, 8 pm,
at the Pharmacological Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University
Scientific Society). |
|
Date: 9th November 2005, 3 pm,
at the Cavendish Laboratory. (Last minute change to this agenda to attend
the event with Prof. James Watson at the Clare College http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005110702
) |
|
Date: 9th November 2005, 4:15
pm, at the Cavendish Laboratory. (
Last minute change to this agenda to attend the event with Prof. James Watson at Clare College http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005110702
) |
|
Date: 9th November, 5:15 pm,
at the Lady Michell Hall, Sidwick Site (talk to the Cambridge Philosophical
Society) |
|
Date: 11th November 2005, 2
pm, at the Eng. Dpt. (Control Group) |
|
Date: 14th November 2005, 3
pm, at the |
|
Date: 16th November 2005, 7:15
pm, at the |
|
Date: 22nd November 2005, 8
pm, at the Pharmacological Lecture Theatre (talk to the Cambridge University
Scientific Society). |
|
Date: 23rd November 2005, 11
am, at the Computer Lab - DTG. |
|
Date: 23rd November 2005, 1
pm, at the Computer Laboratory. |
|
Date: 23rd November 2005, 2
pm, at the CCBI (at the Centre for Math Sciences). |
|
Date: 23rd November 2005, 4:15
pm, at the Cavendish Laboratory. |
|
Date: 28th
November 2005, 8 pm, at the Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Dpt. (talk to the Cambridge University
Biological Society) Postponed
to Lent Term |
|
Date: 29th November 2005, 8
pm, at the |
|
Date: 30th November 2005, 8
pm, at the |
|
Date: 8th December 2005, 10:30
pm, at the Computer Laboratory, Lecture Theatre 2 |
|
Date: 13th December 2005, 2:30
pm, at Microsoft
Research |
|
Date: 13th December 2005, 4:15
pm, at the Computer Laboratory |
Talks,
courses, seminars, summer school attended this term:
|
Date: 4th May 2005, 4:15 pm, at
the Computer Lab. |
|
Date: 9th May 2005, 1 pm at the
Centre for Mathematical Sciences |
|
Date: 9th May 2005, 4:30 pm at
the Centre for Mathematical Sciences |
|
Date: 10th May 2005, 4 pm at
the Cavendish Lab. |
|
Date: 11th May 2005, 4:30 at
the Cavendish Lab |
|
Date: 17th May 2005, 4:30 pm at
the Cavendish Lab |
|
Date: 18th May 2005, 4:15 at the
Computer Lab |
|
Date: 25th May 2005, Centre for
Mathematical Sciences. |
|
Date: 26th May 2005, one-day
workshop at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. |
|
Date: 10th June 2005, Eng. Dpt. |
|
Date: 13th June 2005, one-day
course at the |
|
Date: 15th June 2005, Computer
Lab. |
|
Date: 29th June – 1st
July 2005, at the Computer Lab and |
|
Date: 17th July – 3st
August 2005, at the |
|
Date: 22th July 2005, 3:00 pm at
the Cavendish Lab |
|
Date: 3th August 2005,
12:30 pm at the Cavendish Lab |