Alumni Festival 2019
When
27th September 2019 12:00 AM to 29th September 2019 11:59 PM
Event selections
| Saturday morning | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Are we ready for Artificial Intelligence? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Can fertilisers can be replaced with microorganisms? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, mother, political leader, legend : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Shining light on neurodegeneration : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 9.30am - 10.30am : Why do some people gain weight more easily then others? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 10.00am - 10.45am : Private Tour of Kettle's Yard House : +£12 | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Collaborating with Men lecture : Buckingham House Lecture Theatre : Murray Edwards | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Can smartphone apps help people change their behaviour? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Circular economy - How should the private sector address plastic waste? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : A bioelectronic model of the human gut : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Curating 'The Rising Tide - Women at Cambridge' : Old Kitchens, Girton College | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Inside the mind - the quest to understand how brain makes sense of the world around us : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Tour the Museum of Zoology's galleries : Museum of Zoology | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Where in the world is your carbon footprint? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Worlds Beyond our Own : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 11.00am - 12.30pm : Guided tour of Eddington : Storey's Field Centre | |
| 11.15am - 12.00pm : Private Tour of Kettle's Yard House : +£12 | |
| Saturday lunch | |
| Two Course Deli Bar : +£11 (inc VAT) | |
| 'Grab and go' lunch bag : +£8 (inc VAT) | |
| No lunch | |
| Saturday afternoon | |
| 12.00pm - 12.50pm : Life on Earth - Co-evolution of life and the planet : Selwyn College | |
| 12.00pm - 1.00pm : Not a Convent - Building a College for Women : Buckingham House Lecture Theatre : Murray Edwards College | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Britain from the air - 1945-2000 : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Mini-placentas - studying pregnancy in a dish : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Playing and learning right from the start of life : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Skycrapers - The Next Generation : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm : Tour of the Museum of Zoology's galleries : Museum of Zoology | |
| 2.00pm - 2.30pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour | |
| 2.00pm - 2.45pm : Imaging and fixing the heart beat in the 21st Century : Hopkins Building, Department of Biochemistry | |
| 2.00pm - 2.50pm : Slow Opera - Open-Air Spectacle in the French Midi c1900 : The Diamond - Cripps Court, Selwyn College | |
| 2.00pm - 3.30pm : Tea at the Woolf Institute : The Woolf Institute : +£5 | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Autism in a dish? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : If your symptoms are influenced by your attitude, does this make them psychosomatic? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Unionising Domestic Workers in India : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 3.30pm : Urban tunnelling - the challenges of creating underground space in cities : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 2.30pm - 4.00pm : Medical Education Today : School of Clinical Medicine | |
| 2.30pm - 4.00pm : Professor Bjarne Stroustrup - A personal view of the evolution of C++ : Wolfson Hall : Churchill College | |
| 2.45pm - 3.15pm : Sleeping sickness - how a parasite can determine human history and what to do about it : Hopkins Building | |
| 2.45pm - 3.15pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour | |
| 3.30pm - 4.00pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : A Great Recorded History - Queer Cambridge Audio Trail : Emmanuel College | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : Climate Change Lecture by Dame Polly Courtice : Buckingham House Lecture Theatre : Murray Edwards | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : Cultural heritage and war: from destruction to reparations : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : How to pack 2000 miles of string in your handbag : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : Making a global impact - self-healing concrete : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : The origins of cancer - What's in our genes, and what isn't? : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm : Trade War : Sidgwick Site : Lecture fee applies | |
| 4.00pm - 5.30pm : Serena Chair of Italian - Centenary Celebration : McGrath Centre : St Catharine's College | |
| 4.15pm - 4.45pm : Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library tour | |
| 5.00pm - 6.30pm : Grand Opening of the Cambridge Ice Arena and Gattiker Ice Rink : Cambridge Ice Arena, Newmarket Road : +£20 (inc VAT) | |
| 5.00pm - 7.00pm : Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Alumni Reception : ASNaC Common Room, The Faculty of English | |
| 7.30pm - 9.30pm : Academy of Great St Mary's concert with international soloist Chloe Hanslip : Great St Mary's | |
| Block A (Front nave) +£18 (£16 concession) (inc VAT) | |
| Block B (Rear nave) +£16 (£14 concession) (inc VAT) | |
| Block C (Side aisles) +£14 (£12 concession) (inc VAT) | |
| Block D (By the wall) +£9 (inc VAT) | |
| Sunday | |
| 9.00am - 12.00pm : Come and explore what it takes to win the University Boat Races! : +£22.15 | |
| 10.00am - 10.45am : Private Tour of Kettle's Yard House : +£12 | |
| 10.30am - 11.30am : Girton College's Old Orchard : Stanley Library : Girton College | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Murray Edwards College art and garden tours : Rosemary Murray Library : Murray Edwards | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : Newnham College gardens tour : Porters' Lodge : Newnham | |
| 11.00am - 12.00pm : The Newnham Conversation : Cynthia Beerbower Room : Newnham | |
| 11.00am - 12.30pm : Tour of the Botanic Garden and Sainsbury Laboratory : Brookside Gate : Botanic Garden | |
| 11.15am - 12.00pm : Private Tour of Kettle's Yard House : +£12 | |
| 3.30pm - 4.30pm : Alumni tea party : Cambridge University Press Bookshop | |
| Lecture tickets | £15.00 |
| Lecture tickets - concession | £12.00 |
| Lecture tickets - under 12s | £0.00 |
| Concert tickets | |
| Block A (inc VAT) | £18.00 |
| Block A concession (inc VAT) | £16.00 |
| Block B (inc VAT) | £16.00 |
| Block B concession (inc VAT) | £14.00 |
| Block C (inc VAT) | £14.00 |
| Block C concession (inc VAT) | £12.00 |
| Block D (inc VAT) | £9.00 |