[CEE] Forthcoming events w/c 23rd Feb

From: CEE.Secretary <cee@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:54:36 +0000
Dear all,
Please find below, a list of upcoming CEE related events for the coming week.
Events w/c 23rd February
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Taming sulphur dioxide for synthesis and catalysis –  Queen Mary’s Seminar 
Series

Date & Time:      25th Feb                                                
12:30pm
Speaker:              Mike Willis (University of Oxford)
Host:                     Chris Jones
Venue:               Peoples Palace LT1, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile 
End Rd, London E1 4NS
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Show ‘n’ tell: The living glass  – UCL Grant Museum of Zoology
Date & Time:      25th Feb                                                1:00pm
Speaker:              Eleanor Morgan and Kate Hendry
Venue:               UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, UCL, 21 
University St. London, WC1E 6DE
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Title To Be Confirmed – Imperial Seminar Series
Date & Time:      26th Feb                                                1:00pm
Speaker:              Natasha 
Bloch<http://home.uchicago.edu/~nbloch/Site/Home.html> (University of Chicago)
Venue:               Imperial College London - Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst 
Road, Ascot, West Berkshire SL5 7PY
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Sustainable diets, eco-system damage and disease  –  The Linnean Society
Date & Time:      27th Feb                                                6:30pm
Speaker:              Prof Tim Lang (City University)
Venue:               The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, 
Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF
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Upcoming Seminars
LERN – Medawar Lecture
When: 11th of March, at 5:30 pm
Where: Jevons LT, Drayton House, at UCL

The evolution of the living time machine
Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins, University of Cambridge

Einstein supposedly said: Time only exists to prevent everything from happening 
at once. Although physical time proceeds forever forwards, mental time can 
travel backwards as well, indeed in every direction. Mental time travel allows 
us to re-visit our memories and imagine future scenarios. We make use of this 
process to define multiple realities; ones that define our sense of self in 
space and time. There is, however a downside, for the very nature of mental 
time travel impedes and disorientates memories. But are we unique among the 
animal kingdom in travelling mentally in time? What does this tell us about the 
evolution of mental time travel?

Seminars outside of London
Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Current debates

This satellite meeting, to be held one day before the EHBEA 
(http://www.ehbea2015.org) Helsinki conference, has been generously sponsored 
by the Galton Institute, EHBEA, and the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.

Time: Saturday the 28th of March 2015 (from 9:00-16:00)

Location: University of Helsinki (Fabianinkatu 33, 2nd floor)

Topic:  In recent years there has been much discussion about how to 
conceptualize the relationship between development and evolution: are 
developmental trajectories selected for, and how much does development 
influence evolutionary process?  In this event we will excoriate the 
fundamental assumptions at work in several influential existing arguments, to 
look at the view of development within the modern synthesis, and to look at 
criticisms of this synthesis.

Registration: There is a separate registration fee for this meeting: 50 € for 
full EHBEA members, 25 € for student EHBEA members and 80 € for everyone else. 
This includes teas/coffees, buffet lunch, and wine reception. You can sign up 
for the event by registering and paying the participation fee here 
http://www.ehbea2015.org/. Up to 70 participants can register. Registration is 
on a first come, first served basis. Refunds are not possible. Please note that 
the registration does not include hotel accommodation.

Speakers and titles:

Open reaction norms and human flexibility
H. Clark Barrett, University of California, Los Angeles
(Epi)mutational dynamics and bet hedging
Ben Dickins, Nottingham Trent University
Information as a loom to weave development and evolution
Sinead English, University of Oxford
Developmental changes in aggression and body size: an evolutionary perspective
Tim W. Fawcett, University of Bristol
Developmental niche construction
Emma Flynn, Durham University
Developmental plasticity in the European starling: Empirical observations and 
evolutionary interpretations
Daniel Nettle, Newcastle University

Organisers:
Clark Barrett – UCLA
Tom Dickins – Middlesex University
Willem Frankenhuis - Radboud University Nijmegen

Questions: Contact Tom Dickins at 
T.Dickins@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:T.Dickins@xxxxxxxxx>
For abstracts see: 
http://tomsnonacademicwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/meeting-evolutionary-developmental.html

If you would like to include a seminar, event or a seminar series to the CEE, 
please e-mail details of the event, at least two weeks before the seminar date, 
to cee@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:cee@xxxxxxxxx> . Once accepted your event will be 
publicized on the website calendar, via e-mail and to the twitter community.
Chris Langridge
CEE Administrator
The Centre for Ecology and Evolution
University College London
Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT
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