Reading 2050: Reading’s Climate Change Strategy
2019-01-31 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
Join Chris Beales from Reading Climate Change Partnership and Ben Burfoot of Reading Borough Council for a lecture: ‘Reading’s Climate Change Strategy’
The lecture is part of the ‘People and Lifestyle’ theme of the Reading 2050 lecture series, which provide a platform to discuss how Reading should evolve into a smarter and more sustainable city by 2050 (www.reading2050.co.uk )
Admission to the lecture is free.
The SBE, Barton Wilmore and Reading UK, established the Reading 2050 group in 2013. The Reading 2050 lecture series is structured around three themes, which underpin the Reading 2050 vision:
*Place and Environment
*People and Lifestyle
*Economy and Employment
In 2017, the School brought together expert speakers to discuss Reading’s heritage and history, the future of its transport and energy and the impact of climate change and floods. A discussion on Reading’s Art and Culture was facilitated earlier this year, and there are other Reading 2050 events planned for 2019.
https://livingreading.co.uk/publications-events

Chemistry Research Colloquium - Dr Robert Rambo, Diamond Light Source
2019-01-28 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Dr Robert Rambo, Diamond Light Source

MPE Wednesday - Benedetta Ferrario (Pavia University)
2019-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Slingo Lecture Theatre, JJ Thompson Building
Department of Mathematics and Statistics – MPE Wednesday.
Benedetta Ferrario (Pavia University)

RSC Bader Award Lecture: New Strategies for the Synthesis of Boronic Acid Derivatives
2019-01-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Professor Joseph Harrity, University of Sheffield

Workshop on Storage Challenges in the UK
2019-01-20 09:30 - 17:00 | Polly Vacher Building, Room 185
The Special Interest Group of High-Performance I/O in the UK (SIG IO UK) organizes this workshop to bring together: users of data-intensive workloads, storage vendors, and system and middleware developers, in order to identify common challenges, to develop strategies for research and funding but also product development.
The workshop series generally covers all aspects of data access and management including I/O workflow handling, parallel file systems, middleware, tuning, performance monitoring, novel interfaces, storage technology, and data center perspectives. The workshop is primarily organized as a series of talks and group discussion slots.
This particular workshop focuses on exchanging information about challenges and the ongoing efforts to overcome them aiming to bring forward RD&E and the use of storage systems (in the UK). Users present their challenges faced dealing with I/O and ongoing RD&E to overcome them. Vendor talks focus on technical solutions for certain challenges accompanied by use cases demonstrating the benefit.
We welcome the submission of talks and short papers (in LaTeX article format) that summarize the challenges and ongoing effort in different institutions that we will lead to a joint paper submitted to Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science as part of the ISC-HPC proceedings.
Jean-Thomas Acquaviva successively worked for Intel, the University of Versailles and the French Atomic Commission (CEA). He participated to the creation of their joint laboratory the Exascale Research Centre, where he led the Performance Evaluation Team. Today he’s actively contributing the development of the DDN Storage Advanced Technology Centre in France. Jean-Thomas has hands-on experience in the HPC ecosystem, with positions in start-up, large research public institutions, SME or global organizations. He has been a direct contributor to the ETP4PH Strategic Research Agenda and he’s chairing two conferences on high performance storage.
Julian Kunkel is a Lecturer at the Computer Science Department at the University of Reading. He manages several research projects revolving around High-Performance Computing and particularly high-performance storage. Besides his main goal to provide efficient and performance-portable I/O, his HPC-related interests are: data reduction techniques, performance analysis of parallel applications and parallel I/O, management of cluster systems, cost-efficiency considerations, and software engineering of scientific software.
Hosted by Julian Kunkel.

An introduction to Bayesian approximations in deep learning and their application to adversarial detection
2019-01-17 13:00 - 14:00
Department of Mathematics and Statistics – Postgraduate Seminars series.
Thomas Pinder (PhD Student, Lancaster University)

What really happened at COP24?
2019-01-16 12:30 - 14:00 | 1L06, Agriculture building, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BZ
Join the Walker Institute for its annual post-COP debrief. The team that travelled out to the COP24 conference in Katowice, Poland, will be speaking along with:
Prof Nigel Arnell – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Lead Author
Peter Gibbs – Ex BBC Weather Forecaster
SCENARIO DTP Students
The event promises to be an interesting and lively debate about what really happened in Katowice.

RSC Bourke Award Lecture: Spectroscopy and dynamics of free radicals, metal oxide clusters, and transition states
2019-01-14 03:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Research Colloquia.
Professor Daniel Neumark, Berkeley

Research Impact (Research Staff Development Opportunity)
2018-12-18 10:00 - 12:30
Researcher Development Programme – Communications Training Sessions
This session is aimed at all research staff within all disciplines. It will introduce the topic of Research Impact, the good that our research has on the world outside academia, and outline its importance and the steps that can be taken to achieve it. The Research Impact Team will work with you to understand the impact that your research could have, the stakeholders that would be interested in your work (including organisations, policy makers and the general public) and how to approach them and finally how to plan to gather evidence to support impact claims. Pathways to Impact (part of RCUK grant applications) will also be covered. This session will be tailored to suit academics with developed, developing or potential research impact.
To book your place on this session, please contact peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Approach To Understanding Drug Mechanisms Of Action
2018-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | M212, WhiteKnights, Reading, RG6 6AX, United Kingdom
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Mathematical Biology Group Meeting
Emily Roashan- University of Reading
For further information on this seminar, please email; maths@reading.ac.uk or telephone; 0118 378 8996

Biological Sciences Seminars Series
2018-12-11 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Biological Sciences Research Seminar Series – Autumn Term 2018
Dr Mary J. O’Connell – University of Leeds
‘On the malleability of proteins and the emergence of novel coding elements’
Hosted by Dr Louise Johnson

Scholarly Publishing: Requirements and Opportunities
2018-12-05 09:30 - 11:00
Researcher Development Programme- Communications Training Sessions
This session is intended for early career researchers or for those needing a general overview.
We provide practical information about maximizing the visibility of your research publications for the benefit of both you and the University.
Following the session you will be able to:

recognise the different types and benefits of open access
comply with key open access policies
know what to deposit in CentAUR
apply to the University’s fund to cover open access publishing costs
make informed choices about where to publish
make informed decisions about sharing networks
access key bibliometric tools and Altmetric
register for and populate an ORCiD (See also OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS POLICIES AND WHAT THESE MEAN FOR YOU for a shorter, focused course for researchers who need to comply with REF and funder open access policies. There is an overlap between the courses.)

To book your place on this session, please contact peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

Reading 2050: Future Health and Quality of Life in Reading
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00
Please join Dr William Bird from Intelligent Health, for a lecture: ‘Future Health and Quality of Life in Reading’
The lecture is part of the ‘People and Lifestyle’ theme of the Reading 2050 lecture series, which provide a platform to discuss how Reading should evolve into a smarter and more sustainable city by 2050 (www.reading2050.co.uk )
Admission to the lecture is free.
The SBE, Barton Wilmore and Reading UK, established the Reading 2050 group in 2013. The Reading 2050 lecture series is structured around three themes, which underpin the Reading 2050 vision:
*Place and Environment
*People and Lifestyle
*Economy and Employment
In 2017, the School brought together expert speakers to discuss Reading’s heritage and history, the future of its transport and energy and the impact of climate change and floods. A discussion on Reading’s Art and Culture was facilitated earlier this year, and there are other Reading 2050 events planned for 2019.
https://livingreading.co.uk/publications-events

A Mathematical Model of the Role of Aggregation in Sonic Hedgehog Signalling
2018-11-27 13:00 - 14:00 | M212, WhiteKnights, Reading, RG6 6AX, United Kingdom
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series – Autumn Term 2018
Mathematical Biology Group Meeting
Daniel Derrick – University of Reading
For further information about this seminar email; maths@reading.ac.uk or telephone; 0118 378 8996

Biological Sciences Seminars Series
2018-11-27 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences
Research Seminars Series – Autumn Term, 2018
Tuesdays 1:00- 1:50pm
Venue – Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building
Dr Chris Faulkes – Queen Mary University London
‘The extraordinary biology of the naked mole-rat: applications to biomedical research’
Hosted by Prof Ketan Patel

Inorganic Metal-Fluoride Complexes- Toward Next Generation PET Imaging Radiotracers
2018-11-26 15:30 - 16:30
Chemistry Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Professor Gill Reid- University of Southampton
All are welcome
For further information contact b.l.parr@reading.ac.uk

Coral Bleaching: A Global Perspective On Heat Stress Over Time
2018-11-22 14:00 | Meteorology Building, Room HP175, WhiteKnights Campus, Earley Gate, Reading, RG6 6BB, United Kingdom
Visiting Speaker – William Skirving, NOAA and University of Queensland, Australia

Human Rights, Global Wrongs: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70
2018-11-21 19:30 | Palmer Building, Room G10, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Professor Rosa Freedman, School of Law
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in 1948, as a method to combat the horrors of Nazi Germany ever happening again. The Declaration sets out that there are fundamental rights that all people have by virtue of being born human. Seventy years later and we see violations of those rights across the world. Torture, enforced disappearances, gender-based violence, repression of political dissidents, and many more. Recent years have seen the rise of totalitarian regimes and of state-sponsored racism and xenophobia.

In this public lecture Professor Rosa Freedman will explain what human rights are, why they matter, and the challenges we face in ensuring that individuals have their fundamental rights protected.

Part of the University of Reading’s Public Lecture series
ADMISSION FREE – BOOKING ADVISABLE

Register to attend here.

Stakeholder Mapping for Research Staff
2018-11-21 13:30 - 16:00
Researcher Development Programme- Communications Training Sessions
Understanding your key stakeholders and what they want from your research is a fundamental part of any successful communications or engagement plan. This session will introduce some simple tools to help identify and prioritise potential stakeholders and to decide how best to work with them. We will use case studies from research teams across the University and live examples from participants to show how understanding your audiences can help you to improve your research and its impact. Led by Research Communications and Engagement team. This is a new session that is currently being developed.
Please reserve the date and time if you think this may be of interest to you, as it is not yet available to book via Employee Self Service.

Research Data Management: An Introduction
2018-11-21 09:30 - 11:30
Researcher Development Programme – Communications Training Sessions
The aim of this course is to introduce general principles and practices of research data management that will be applicable to researchers at all stages of their careers working with research data in any discipline, whether in the sciences, social sciences or humanities. The course will cover public funders’ and the University’s research data policies and requirements; data management plans for funding applications; ethics and legal compliance; storage, organisation and documentation of data; ownership of rights in data; data preservation and sharing.
To book a place on this session, please email peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

Chemical and Physical Methods For Making Nanoparticles and Their Application, Especially In Heterogeneous Catalysis
2018-11-19 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Dr Peter Ellis and Dr Alistair Kean
All are welcome
For further information on this seminar contact b.l.parr@reading.ac.uk

Engaging with Policymakers
2018-11-14 13:30 - 16:00
Researcher Development Programme- Communications Training Sessions
At some point in their career, many researchers will be asked to provide advice to policymakers in government, the public sector or the private sector. In this session, we will discuss some of the different ways that researchers can engage with Westminster and with Whitehall. We will look at how policymakers access information to help them make decisions and explore some of the different routes that researchers can use to engage in parliamentary processes. We will also discuss how to write an impartial summary of your research and situate your work in a wider policy context. We will work with practical examples with plenty of time for discussion.
To book a place on this session, please contact peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

Putting Things in the Right Place: How do bacteria get organised?
2018-11-14 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Professor Judith Armitage, University of Oxford
Putting things in the right place; How do bacteria get organised?
Lowry Lecture 2018, School of Biological Sciences,
Hosted by Prof Kim Watson

Mathematical Modelling of Immunoglobulin Class Switching
2018-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 | M212, WhiteKnights, Reading, RG6 6AX, United Kingdom
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Mathematical Biology Group Meeting
Osamah Alayafi – University of Reading
For further information, please email maths@reading.ac.uk or telephone 0118 378 8996

Biological Sciences Seminars Series
2018-11-13 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences
Research Seminars Series – Autumn Term, 2018
Tuesdays 1:00- 1:50pm
Venue – Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building
Dr Grishna Pirianov – Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
‘Modulation of macrophage polarization by novel monosaccharide-based Toll-like receptor 4 antagonists (FP7 derivatives): implications in treatment of CVD’
Hosted by Prof David Leake

Biological Sciences Seminar Series
2018-10-30 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences
Research Seminars Series – Autumn Term, 2018
Tuesdays 1:00- 1:50pm
Venue – Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building
Prof Eric Allan – University of Bern, Switzerland
‘Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning: from experiments to the real world and back again’
Hosted by Prof Tom Oliver

Open Access Week 2018: The Game of Open Access
2018-10-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Carrington, Room 201
Play an open access board game about open access!
At this informal session you will develop an understanding of open access through the initial idea for an article to its acceptance for publication.
Bring your lunch.

Reading 2050: Transforming the MERL
2018-10-25 18:00 - 19:00
25 October 2018, 18:00–19:00 Building L022 G01 London Road campus, University of Reading RG1 5AQ
Transforming the Museum of English Rural Life: Past, Present and Future
Please join Kate Arnold-Forster for a lecture: ‘Transforming the Museum of English Rural Life: Past, Present and Future’
The lecture is part of the ‘People and Lifestyle’ theme of the Reading 2050 lecture series, which provide a platform to discuss how Reading should evolve into a smarter and more sustainable city by 2050 (www.reading2050.co.uk )
Admission to the lecture is free.
The SBE, Barton Wilmore and Reading UK, established the Reading 2050 group in 2013. The Reading 2050 lecture series is structured around three themes, which underpin the Reading 2050 vision:
*Place and Environment
*People and Lifestyle
*Economy and Employment
In 2017, the School brought together expert speakers to discuss Reading’s heritage and history, the future of its transport and energy and the impact of climate change and floods. A discussion on Reading’s Art and Culture was facilitated earlier this year, and there are other Reading 2050 events planned for 2018 and 2019.
For details of future lectures visit: www.reading.ac.uk/architecture

Open Access Week 2018: Open Access FAQs with the CentAUR Team (drop-in session)
2018-10-22 13:00
Do you have questions about ROSS, REF, or open access? The CentAUR team answers your frequently asked questions. If you are not able to come along tweet us at @UniRdg_CentAUR using the hashtag #askthecentaur.

Our Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future
2018-10-17 19:30 | Palmer Building, Room G10, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Part of the University of Reading’s Public Lecture Series
ADMISSION FREE – BOOKING ADVISABLE

The hot and dry summer of 2018 was a reminder of just how vulnerable society can be to unusual weather through overheating buildings, transport disruption, lower crop production and risks to human health. Such heatwaves are now hotter because the planet has warmed over the past century, largely due to human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases. Other consequences of a warming world are that extreme rainfall events have become more frequent and sea levels have risen as the oceans expand and the glaciers melt.
This lecture will outline how our climate has already changed, and what we might expect in the future. Further changes are inevitable. The Paris Agreement aims to stabilise global temperatures but society’s choices will decide how much change we should expect.
Professor Ed Hawkins is a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, based in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. He is a Lead Author for the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report and was awarded the Royal Society’s Kavli Medal in 2018.
Register to attend here.
