Alumni Festival 2018
Alumni Festival brings together the Cambridge alumni community for a weekend of learning, networking and fun.
Alumni Festival brings together the Cambridge alumni community for a weekend of learning, networking and fun.
When
21st September 2018 12:01 AM to 23rd September 2018 11:59 PM
Event selections
| Saturday morning | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Internet of Everything – from molecules to the universe : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Rewriting the rules of breast cancer treatment : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : That’s non-sense! The surprising science of your senses : Sidgwick Site | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : The driving forces of future cities: a historical and international perspective : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Tree-rings at the interface of archaeology, climatology and ecology : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : When cuteness goes wrong – the truth about short-faced dogs : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 10.00am - 11.30am : Social Anthropology photography exhibition : Edmund Leach Lecture Room, Department of Social Anthropology | |
| 11.00am - 11.55am : Tour of the Museum of Zoology's research collections : Museum of Zoology Basement storage facilities | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Climate change: a scientific update : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : From gene to device: the route to disease diagnostics in low resource countries : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : From idea to reality: an insider's perspective on building a business : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Girton College library talk: a peek behind the closed doors of the Founder's Library : Girton College, Old Kitchens | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : The inflamed mind: a radical new approach to depression : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : What they best like : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.30pm : Guided tour of Eddington (North West Cambridge Development) : Storey's Field Centre | |
| 11.15am - 12.15pm : The Great War through Fitzwilliam eyes : Fitzwilliam College Auditorium | |
| 12.00pm - 12.50pm : War on culture: the politics of reconstructing cultural heritage : Diamond Room, Selwyn College | |
| Saturday lunch | |
| No lunch | |
| Pre-packed bag : +£8 (inc VAT) | |
| Deli : +£11 (inc VAT) | |
| Saturday afternoon | |
| 1.00pm - 1.55pm : Tour of the Museum of Zoology's research collections : Museum of Zoology Basement storage facilities | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Brexit and taking back control : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Graphene: the future of electronics in a pencil trace? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Movement Matters : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Sustainable cities of the future: the challenge of urban design : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Why are flowers so many different colours? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.00pm - 2.30pm : Tour of new Woolf Institute building : Westminster College | |
| 2.00pm - 2.30pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour : Trinity Hall | |
| 2.00pm - 2.50pm : Truth and invention in The Crown : Diamond Room, Selwyn College | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : 'Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM': Can governments really embrace digital innovation, and should they? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Are your genes to blame when your jeans don't fit? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Environmental stewardship, from the mountain to the sea : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Formation and evolution of galaxies across the cosmic epochs : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : How to fit 1000 miles of string in your handbag: DNA compaction at its extremes : Hopkins Building | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Ideas of nudge: using behavioural insights to influence people : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Small things matter - nanotechnology in action : McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College | |
| 2.30pm - 4.00pm : Searching for Churchill's leadership style : Wolfson Hall, Churchill College | |
| 2.45pm - 3.15pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour : Trinity Hall | |
| 3.00pm - 4.30pm : Investing for the long term : Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College | |
| 3.30pm - 4.00pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour : Trinity Hall | |
| 3.30pm - 4.00pm : Where do cancers come from and how do we make them go away? : Hopkins Building | |
| 3.30pm - 5.30pm : Cambridge University Catholic Chaplaincy - alumni tea : Fisher House | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : Extraordinary possibilities for concrete structures : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : From nano to macro: the latest molecular insights into the causes of Dementia - the greatest threat to modern healthcare : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : Post-truth as post-democracy : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : To Bee or not to Bee: shared immunity through food : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.15pm - 4.45pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour : Trinity Hall | |
| 4.45pm - 5.30pm : The making of a College: The untold story : Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College | |
| 5.00pm - 7.00pm : Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Alumni Reception : ASNC Common Room, West Road | |
| 6.00pm - 7.00pm : Not lost in translation - panel discussion : Hughes Hall | |
| 7.00pm - 9.30pm : Not lost in translation - drinks reception and dinner : Hughes Hall : +£30 (inc VAT) | |
| Sunday | |
| 10.30am - 11.30am : Girton College annual gardens talk: the Botanic Garden and plant biodiversity : Stanley Library, Girton College | |
| 10.30am - 12.30pm : Cambridge University Catholic Chaplaincy - Mass : Fisher House | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : The Newnham Conversation: gender equality in the workplace after the pay gap report - what happens now? : Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College | |
| 11.00am - 12.30pm : Botanic Garden and Sainsbury Laboratory tour : Botanic Garden | |
| 11.00am - 12.30pm : Murray Edwards College art and garden tours : Rosemary Murray Library, Murray Edwards College | |
| 12.30pm - 1.00pm : Newnham gardens tour : Newnham College Gardens | |
| 3.00pm - 4.00pm : Women and power - Professor Dame Mary Beard in conversation with Professor Peter Frankopan : Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 3.30pm - 5.00pm : Alumni tea party : Cambridge University Press Bookshop | |
| Lecture tickets | £12.00 |
| Lecture tickets - concession | £10.00 |
| Lecture tickets - under 12s | £0.00 |
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