
Fri 24 Oct 13:00: (TBC)
(TBC)
- Speaker: Flavio Rossetti (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
- Friday 24 October 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Potter Room / Zoom .
- Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar; organiser: Daniela Cors.
Fri 17 Oct 13:00: (TBC)
(TBC)
- Speaker: Robyn Munoz (Sussex University)
- Friday 17 October 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Potter Room / Zoom .
- Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar; organiser: Daniela Cors.
Fri 10 Oct 13:00: Advancing black-hole perturbation theory beyond the linear regime with the hyperboloidal framework
The hyperboloidal framework builds upon Penrose’s seminal work on the “Conformal Treatment of Infinity.” It’s an elegant concept that enables us to approach the black hole event horizon and the wave zone “at the same time”. Over the decades, it has become an indispensable tool in black hole perturbation theory, particularly when considering an expansion beyond the linear regime. In this presentation, I will delve into the latest advancements in the field. This includes introducing the so-called Minimal Gauge, a simple strategy to construct hyperboloidal slices and exploring its applications in gravitational wave physics. After reviewing contributions to fundamental concepts in the ringdown phase, I’ll discuss technical advances in the modeling of extreme mass ratio inspirals through the self-force program.
- Speaker: Rodrigo Panosso Macedo (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
- Friday 10 October 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Potter Room / Zoom https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.
- Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar; organiser: Daniela Cors.
Thu 09 Oct 12:00: Einstein metrics, Interacting QFT’s and Confinement in four and Five dimensions
M-theory provides a geometric framework to describe a variety of interesting quantum field theories in which the QFT ’s arise from Einstein metrics. We motivate a precise definition of this framework which (partly) takes the form of the space of complete, asymptotically conical Ricci flat manifolds in various dimensions. We show how this provides insights into various strongly coupled systems such as non-Abelian gauge theories in four and more dimensions and leads to confining string theories in four and five dimensions. The four dimensional strings can be compared to flux tubes in Yang-Mills theories.
- Speaker: Bobby Acharya (ICTP Trieste)
- Thursday 09 October 2025, 12:00-13:00
- Venue: MR9/Zoom https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81827907718.
- Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar; organiser: Daniela Cors.
Mon 06 Oct 14:00: Aspects of the long-time behavior of ideal fluids
We will discuss various results related to the long-time behavior of inviscid fluids. We will start with a discussion of steady and traveling wave solutions. We will then discuss results related to small scale creation, filamentation, and mixing. We will do this based on joint works with many co-authors.
- Speaker: Tarek Elgindi, Duke University
- Monday 06 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.
- Series: Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar; organiser: Zoe Wyatt.
Mon 20 Oct 14:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Gabriele Benomio, GSSI
- Monday 20 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.
- Series: Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar; organiser: Zoe Wyatt.
Mon 27 Oct 14:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Matilde Gianocca, ETH
- Monday 27 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.
- Series: Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar; organiser: Zoe Wyatt.
Mon 03 Nov 14:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Diego Cordoba, ICMAT
- Monday 03 November 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.
- Series: Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar; organiser: Zoe Wyatt.
Mon 10 Nov 14:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Gerard Orriols, University of Cambridge
- Monday 10 November 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: MR13.
- Series: Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar; organiser: Giacomo Ageno.
Mon 13 Oct 14:00: On admissibility criteria for the compressible Euler equations
In the past years, results based on a technique called convex integration have drawn lots of interest within the community of mathematical fluid mechanics. Among other fascinating results, this technique allows to prove existence of infinitely many solutions for the multi-dimensional compressible Euler equations. All these solutions satisfy the energy inequality which is commonly used in the literature to identify physically relevant solutions. On the other hand, intuitively at least some of the infinitely many solutions still seem to be non-physical. For this reason one has studied additional admissibility criteria like the maximal energy dissipation criterion or the least action criterion—to no avail: such criteria do not select the solution which is expected to be the physical one. In this talk we give an overview on the aforementioned non-uniqueness results, and we explain why maximal dissipation as well as the least action criterion fail to single out the solution which is presumably the physical solution.
- Speaker: Simon Markfelder
- Monday 13 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.
- Series: Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar; organiser: Zoe Wyatt.
Tue 18 Nov 14:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Earl Campbell (Sheffield/Riverlane)
- Tuesday 18 November 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.
- Series: Quantum Computing Seminar; organiser: Tom Gur.
Tue 18 Nov 17:00: Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland)
- Tuesday 18 November 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: Generation to Reproduction Seminars; organiser: Philippa Carter.
Tue 28 Oct 17:00: The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland)
- Tuesday 28 October 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: Generation to Reproduction Seminars; organiser: Dr. Rosanna Dent.
Tue 25 Nov 17:00: Infrastructures, power and filiation: genetic information and the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh)
- Tuesday 25 November 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: History of Modern Medicine and Biology; organiser: Dr. Rosanna Dent.
Tue 11 Nov 17:00: Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Timothy Sim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
- Tuesday 11 November 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: History of Modern Medicine and Biology; organiser: Dr. Rosanna Dent.
Tue 14 Oct 17:00: Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex)
- Tuesday 14 October 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: History of Modern Medicine and Biology; organiser: Dr. Rosanna Dent.
Tue 02 Dec 17:00: A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Mark Jenner (University of York)
- Tuesday 02 December 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: Early Science and Medicine; organiser: Philippa Carter.
Tue 04 Nov 17:00: Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
- Tuesday 04 November 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: Early Science and Medicine; organiser: Philippa Carter.
Tue 21 Oct 17:00: Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern Britain
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Martha McGill (Faculty of English)
- Tuesday 21 October 2025, 17:00-18:30
- Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Series: Early Science and Medicine; organiser: Philippa Carter.
Fri 23 Jan 17:30: Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?
Abstract
Nature is full of music, from tiny birds with melodious songs and elaborate repertoires to majestic whales with inaudibly low voices propagating around the globe. As far as we can tell, however, the music is not often just for pleasure and has evolved serving a purpose. Animals are almost continuously busy with their sonic flirts and fights, whether we hear them or not, in air and water, day and night. The acoustic ecology of species-specific habitats has shaped this music over evolutionary time. The circumstances, however, for the function and evolution of animal communication have changed in air and in water, with the global spread of noisy human activities. In the Anthropocene, we can even speak of ‘acoustic climate change’ and attention and action is required for moderating the acoustic future of the earth for the sake of animal song persistence and our own physical and mental health.
Biography
Hans Slabbekoorn is professor in Acoustic Ecology & Behaviour. He did his BSc and MSc in Biology at Utrecht University (1988-1994), and received his PhD at Leiden University (1994-1998). After post-doctoral positions at San Francisco State University (1998-2001) and back at Leiden University (2001-2004), he stayed in Leiden at the Institute of Biology and became Assistant Professor in 2004, Associate Professor in 2012, and Full Professor in 2022. He has been away for brief periods as visiting professor, at Paris Nanterre, France (2011), NFU , Harbin, China (2015), FUB , Salvador, Brazil (2017), and Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Paramaribo (2025). Over the years, he has worked on plants, primates, birds, fishes, marine mammals, and invertebrates. In recent and ongoing projects, he is investigating the effects of noise and light pollution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and he is particularly interested in applying the one health concept to urban ecology and providing fundamental knowledge to ecological impact assessments of the offshore wind energy transition. Besides research, he is dedicated to teaching and has been responsible for courses on: Behaviour & Conservation, Trends in Behaviour & Ecology, Animal Behaviour and Experimental Design, Advanced Academic Skills, Urban Ecology & Evolution, and seminar series on Human Evolution and Animal Personality.
- Speaker: Professor Hans Slabberkoorn, Leiden University
- Friday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.