02 September
2025

New book celebrates CPS founder John Stevens Henslow

'Who was Henslow?' by Dr Kate Hooper explores the life the John Stevens Henslow.

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12 August
2025

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The 8th Biennial Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium, Interventions & Recovery

Registration is open for The 8th Biennial Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium in Cambridge, 10th - 11th September 2025.

Image:Summer Visit to ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

02 July
2025

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Summer Visit to ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

CPS members visit the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a world-leading facility for research in the physical and life sciences, based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

20 May
2025

Parker Library Visit

CPS members view collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College.

14 May
2025

Call for abstracts for the next Research Café on AI & Research

Calling all researchers working with Artificial Intelligence! Submit your abstract NOW!

01 January
2025

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Regenerating the British Countryside: From Evidence to Action

09:00 - 17:00 Cambridge University Engineering Department One-Day Meeting Online Lecture Booking Recommended

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Under control? The hidden technology of automatic control past and future

Professor Malcolm Smith FREng FRS

17:30 - 18:30 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Michaelmas Term Booking Recommended

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From Darwin’s paper on evolution to the development of stem cell research, publications from the Society continue to shape the scientific landscape.

Mathematical Proceedings is one of the few high-quality journals publishing original research papers that cover the whole range of pure and applied mathematics, theoretical physics and statistics.

Biological Reviews covers the entire range of the biological sciences, presenting several review articles per issue. Although scholarly and with extensive bibliographies, the articles are aimed at non-specialist biologists as well as researchers in the field.

The Spirit of Inquiry celebrates the 200^th anniversary of the remarkable Cambridge Philosophical Society and brings to life the many remarkable episodes and illustrious figures associated with the Society, including Adam Sedgwick, Mary Somerville, Charles Darwin, and Lawrence Bragg.

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