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  1. Test your dog's theory of mind
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    Test your dog's theory of mind

    Bring your dog and join Professor Josep Call to discover if your dog can read your mind. Every dog can do amazing things if you ask in the right way and this...

  2. Test your dog's theory of mind
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    Test your dog's theory of mind

    Bring your dog and join Professor Josep Call to discover if your dog can read your mind. Every dog can do amazing things if you ask in the right way and this...

  3. Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'

    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...

  4. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Yi Jin

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Yi Jin

    Metal Fluoride Complexes Reveal Changes of Dynamic and Modified Oncogene Proteins

    Abstract: GTP hydrolysis is central to biology, being involved in regulating a wide range of cellular processes. In recent years, there has been more success in...

  5. Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    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....

  6. Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology

    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,...

  7. Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    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...

  8. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Chris Coxon

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Chris Coxon

    Fluoroaromatics as tools to define and probe peptide & protein conformations

    Please note the change of venue for this event to Lecture Theatre D in Purdie. Perfluoroaromatic reagents are valuable but underexplored tools with which to...

  9. Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    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...

  10. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Ruth Webster

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Ruth Webster

    Mechanistic insight into iron(salen) catalysed reactions

    Note -- the event is being held in School of Physics and Astronomy not Chemistry Iron catalysis offers an attractive alternative to precious metal...

  11. Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    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...

  12. Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    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...

  13. Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    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...

  14. Special Seminar:  Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)

    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...

  15. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Imogen Riddell 

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Imogen Riddell 

    Designing Metal-Organic Materials with Biological Applications in Mind

    Metallosupramolecular chemistry has come a long way in the past decade enabling research focus to shift from understanding design rules to developing novel...

  16. Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    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...

  17. Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    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...

  18. The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    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...

  19. Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    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...

  20. Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    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...

  21. Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    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...

  22. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Ross Denton

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Ross Denton

    Phosphorus and Silicon -- Design, Development and Applications of New Synthesis Methods

    The first part of the lecture will describe the design, development and applications of new synthesis methods and catalysts based upon organophosphorus and...

  23. Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    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...

  24. 8th Annual Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium

    8th Annual Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium

    This year's Postgraduate Symposium will be held over two days on the Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th December. More details to follow on abstract submission...

  25. Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    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...

  26. International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.

    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...

  27. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor David Smith

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor David Smith

    Hard Facts About Soft Matter: From Supramolecular Gels to High-Tech Applications

    Supramolecular gels are fascinating materials formed when low-molecular-weight gelators (LMWGs) self-assemble via intermolecular non-covalent interactions.[1]...

  28. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Köhler

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Köhler

    Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.

  29. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)

    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...

  30. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko

    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,...

  31. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)

    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...

  32. Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    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...

  33. Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    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...

  34. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin

    Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.

  35. Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    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.

  36. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler

    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....

  37. School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    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 --...

  38. Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    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...

  39. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)

    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...

  40. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill

    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...

  41. Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    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...

  42. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis

    Title and Abstract TBC

  43. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek

    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...

  44. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    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...

  45. Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees' competitiveness and other curiosities Over the last decades, captive researchers have...

  46. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    Molecules in Metal Boxes

    Simple organic subcomponents can come together around metal-ion templates to produce intricate hollow capsules, which can bind guest molecules selectively. This...

  47. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Roly Armstrong

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Roly Armstrong

    Title and Abstract TBC

  48. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by...

  49. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff.

  50. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.