Pudding Seminars take place on a Friday and are an excellent opportunity to unite two of life’s great things: new research, and pudding!
Pudding Seminars are led by members of the College (undergraduates, postgraduates, Senior Members and staff), who give a brief 20 minute talk on their current research, followed by informal discussion.
Seminars start promptly at 1.15pm and end by 1.50pm. Tea, coffee and cake are available from 1pm.
There are usually seven pudding seminars in Michaelmas and Lent Terms and four in Easter Term. The talks begin at 1.15 pm and finish by 1.50 pm in order to enable everyone to get to 2.00 pm commitments. Tea, coffee and cake are available from 1.00 pm.
If you are interested in giving a pudding seminar, or would like further details about the series please contact Delphine Mordey (dmm36@cam.ac.uk). In 2024-25, seminars will take place in the Lucia Windsor Room.
Lent Term 2025
31 January: Dr Claire Barlow (Department of Engineering), 'Is recycling just a load of rubbish?'
7 February: Janna Mueller (MCR), ''What Makes a Planet? Conceptualising the Solar System in the Early 1800s'
14 February: Dr Sam Lucy (SCR), will be talking about her new book
21 February: Marie de la Burgade (MCR), 'Forces, signals, and fate: Unravelling an asymmetric division in the Zebrafish trunk neural crest'
28 February: Roz Delap (JCR), will be talking about Victorian Argonautic ships
7 March: TBC
14 March: Amelia Cordwell (Rescheduled from last term): 'Pretty Pictures of Protoplanetary Discs: Understanding the birthplace of planets'
Michaelmas Term 2024
11 October: Chapa Sirithunge (SCR), 'Navigating the Physical World: The Essential Role of Robots' (Cynthia Beerbower)
18 October: Prof Mary Joannou, 'A Summer School of Their Own: The Newnham College Summer Schools for Working Women. An Illustrated Talk' (Cynthia Beerbower)
25 October: Ming Khan (MCR), 'Ming's Journey to the Arctic'
1 November: Liz Blackwell (MCR), 'I 'um' from a land down under: the sociolinguistics of Australian filled pauses'
8 November: Siao Chi Mok (MCR), 'From doodles to exploding shapes: Recipe for making geometry from discrete mathematics'
15 November: Professor Rachel Worth (Alumna), 'The Fabric of our Lives: Why clothes matter'
22 November: Els Curry (JCR), 'Wild Things from "Wild Things": Understanding the Collaborations of Maurice Sendak and Oliver Knussen'
29 November: Amelia Cordwell (MCR) (Postponed) 'Pretty Pictures of Protoplanetary Discs: Understanding the birthplace of planets'
