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Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Our first Friday Seminar of the semester will be by Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard) on 'The neurobiology of zombie flies: mechanisms of parasite...
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Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu
Talk by Akira O'Connor
Akira O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, will give a talk on his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on jamais vu....
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Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology
Professor Sir Peter Bruce (University of Oxford)
Please note the change of venue for this event to Lecture Theatre 3 in The Gateway. To mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology,...
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Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech
Prof Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow)
Weekly Friday Seminar hosted by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Professor Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow) will be hosted by Prof James Ainge...
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Professor Primal de Lanerolle
Colloquium of the School of Physics and Astronomy
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Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner
Cefic, the European Chemistry Industry Council, and the University of St Andrews will collaborate to organise another edition of the 'Green and...
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Professor Phillip Mannheim
Colloquium of the School of Physics and Astronomy
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Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club
The thinking person's comedy night
A brand new thinking person's comedy night, where Dr Bobbie May becomes a stand-up comedian. Topics of every flavour are set to stimulate our funny bones...
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Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Katerina Mentzou (University of Dundee) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on "Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their...
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Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)
Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership
This hybrid event can be accessed online, and is part of a "University of St Andrews day" at Charles University. It is intended for University...
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Special Seminar: Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)
Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications
Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications Abstract: What if we could catalyse game-changing advances in renewable...
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Professor Monika Lendl
Colloquium of the School of Physics and Astronomy
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Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Dr Markus Perlman (University of Birmingham) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on 'Language is iconic to the core'. The event will be...
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Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'
Preceded by a PhD talk from Alexandra Safryghin (St Andrews): 'Commonalities and group differences in the communicative efficiency of chimpanzee gesturing'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Alexandra Safryghin will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "Commonalities...
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Professor Päivi Törmä
Colloquium of the School of Physics and Astronomy
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The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on: 'The social origins of language and...
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Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'
Preceded by a PhD talk from Gal Badihi (St Andrews): 'The Influence of Social Dynamics on The Gestural Communication of East African Chimpanzees'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Gal Badihi will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "The Influence of Social...
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Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics
A speaker and networking event on biophotonics.
This event is open to all women & non-binary students in STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges. Equate is delighted to be partnering with...
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Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl
Delving into the Foundations of Future Technologies, One Atom at a Time
The success of today's technology is a result of in-depth materials research. It involves manipulating materials at incredibly tiny scales, just a few...
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Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
In recent decades, dogs have become one of the most popular animal species in comparative psychology. One reason for this is the unique evolutionary history of...
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Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Internal state dependent control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin signalling. Hunger is an internal state that not only invigorates feeding, but...
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Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions
Panel discussion with four Principal's office members to celebrate, inspire and promote Women in Science
Five years ago, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, said: "In St Andrews, as in other UK higher education...
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International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.
International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen. Speakers: Mihails Kusnezoff (Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Köhler
Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)
Porous carbons as sustainable energy materials
This event is open to academic staff, final year undergraduate project students, MSc students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The talk, titled...
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Adam Amara
Presented by Professor Adam Amara of the University of Surrey and hosted by Vivienne Wild and Rita Tojeiro.
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Themistoklis Prodromakis
Presented by Professor Themistoklis Prodromakis of the University of Edinburgh, hosted by Peter Wahl.
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Dr Anna McLeod
Presentation by Dr Anna McLeod of the Durham University on 'The interdependence between stellar feedback and environment'. Hosted by Claudia...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko
1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole and Dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione -- Novel Building Blocks for Optoelectronics
Recently we have discovered and optimized the first practical synthesis of non-fused pyrrole[3,2-b]pyrroles via domino reaction of aldehydes, primary amines,...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)
Developing tools for supramolecular materials discovery
Molecular materials and supramolecular systems have great potential in multiple applications, but their synthesis and scale-up is still challenging. When...
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Dr Sara Shinton
Presentation by Dr Sara Shinton of the University of Edinburgh, hosted by Janet Lovett and Vivienne Wild.
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Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Prof Alistair Lawrence, (Scotland's Rural College), will present on "The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare", hosted...
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Open Night at the University Observatory
Astronomy, telescopes, and art -- visit the University Observatory for the annual Open Night.
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Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Prof Manuel Spitschan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen): "What does the eye tell the clock? Mechanisms underlying the impact of...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin
Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin (University of Aberdeen)
Investigation of Ionic Conductivity and Exotic Electronic Properties in Transition Metal Oxides
Solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and proton ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs) offer a viable option to produce clean energy from sustainable resources, with low emission...
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Alexander Lvovsky
Presentation by Professor Alexander Lvovsky of the University of Oxford on 'Optics and neural networks: a natural symbiosis'. Hosted by Ifor...
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Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): "Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees", hosted by Prof Andy Whiten.
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler
Photoredox Catalytic Strategies for the Activation of Strong Bonds
Over the past decade, photocatalysis has become a powerful synthetic tool, offering novel reaction pathways that were previously inaccessible by other methods....
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School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar
On Friday 22nd, at 12noon we'll have Shiwen Li (Oxford) present on "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence --...
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Alexander Tartakovskii
Presentation by Professor Alexander Tartakovskii of the University of Sheffield, hosted by Hamid Ohadi.
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Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Shiwen Li (Oxford): "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence -- what humans and bumblebees have taught us", hosted...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)
Revealing Reactions at Electrochemical and Catalytic Interfaces with Operando X-ray Spectroscopy
The performance of materials for energy storage and conversion depends critically on reactions taking place at the interfaces between these materials and their...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill
Unique data sets for robust and authentic online open book assessments
Online assessments where there is a clear 'correct' answer are susceptible to students working together, sharing (or even selling) answers. The...
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School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Daniella Goldfarb
Presentation by Professor Daniella Goldfarb of the Weizmann institute of Science, hosted by Janet Lovett.
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Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Abstract: Recent class of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms driving artificial intelligence (AI) are primarily based on deep learning. These classes of methods...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis
Title and Abstract TBC
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek
Stimuli responsiveness in molecules, cages, and dynamic libraries
Photoswitchable molecules can reversibly interconvert between two different isomers. With new applications for photoswitches constantly emerging, the necessity...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko
Death and Life of Homogeneous Carbonyl Reduction Catalysts: Navigating the Maze of Deactivation Chemistry for Sustained Performance
Catalytic reduction of carbonyl moieties in ketones and esters is fundamental to the production of high-value fine chemicals. Although traditional precious...
