Welcome to the Home Page for the IEE Cambridge Committee of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 

Important.  This site is on the move.  Please update your book marks as follows:-

New web site:- http://www.iee-cambridge.org.uk

This site will remain in place but will not be updated.

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The IEE Cambridge Committee is one of three in East Anglia.  Other Branches are based in Ipswich and Norwich.

Some of these now maintain their own Web sites, and you can get more details of local activities by clicking the hyperlinks below.

• IEE Cambridge Branch Committee (this page)
• Cambridge Branch Younger Members' Section
• IEE Suffolk Branch Committee (programme available here)
• IEE Norwich Branch Committee
• IEE Norwich Branch Younger Members' Section (programme available here)
• IEE South Anglian Younger Members' Section

Some Historical Information

The origins of the  IEE Cambridge Committee stretch back to World War II, when the IEE set up a Wireless Section in Cambridge.
The evolution of this group first into the Cambridge Area Committee of the IEE, and, most recently, into the IEE Cambridge Branch, is described in a short history (information supplied by Peter di Mambro).

Electronic Mailing List and Usenet Newsgroup

There is an electronic mailing list for the Branch, which provides an excellent means for the dissemination of information by email on IEE activities. This is well worth joining as there's useful information and no "spam" on this mailing list. Non-members are most welcome to join this mailing list. To subscribe, simply visit the following link:-

http://www.iee-cambridge.org.uk/mlist/maillist.html

Information on local IEE events is also posted to the Usenet newsgroup news:cam.misc and distributed by the IEE's regional electronic mailing list.

Visitors Welcome

The IEE Cambridge Committee welcomes visitors, IEE members and non-members alike, to its lectures and other events.  For the majority of these there is no charge and no requirement to book in advance.  However, certain meetings do require pre-booking.   Where this is the case it is clearly stated on the printed programme card and in the information below.

Important note:  the information presented here was believed to be correct at the time it was compiled.
It is impracticable to update the information to take into account changes of affiliation and other factors that might affect the current validity of the content.  Viewers must verify for themselves whether presenters' names and corporate affiliations are still valid.

You can obtain more details about any of the meetings listed below from the Honorary Secretary of the IEE Cambridge Committee.

Other Committee members are listed here.

To avoid disappointment, if you are proposing to travel any significant distance to attend a meeting, you are strongly advised to check with the Honorary Secretary in case there has been a last-minute programme change. 

Venue for the events

Many of the meetings in the Cambridge Branch are held in Lecture Theatre 0 of the University Engineering Department.  At this venue most meetings take place at 6.30 p.m., and for these it is normally possible to park in the Engineering Department Car Park; however please read the warning below. 

Click here for a map showing access to the Engineering Department.

Warning: Prospective visitors are warned that there is a security barrier adjacent to the Department entrance.  The associated red/green traffic lights should be observed at all times.  Also, the barrier restricts the maximum width adjacent to the entrance - some care needed. It is not advisable to leave cars in the Department Car Park after meetings are over, as in the interests of security the barrier is programmed to close some time after meetings finish.  A special swipe-card is needed to operate the barrier when it is closed.  Security guards patrol the Department, but may not always be within easy range for much of the time.

Programme of Events

This Event Calendar has been generated from the IEE Cambridge Committee's Programme List which is distributed to all IEE members within the neighbourhood. It contains details of of events taking place in and around Cambridge. 

Information on events staged by the Cambridge Younger Members' Section is available separately.

Certain  meetings (marked with a *) are held at BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich.  To attend these, visitors must be in possession of a pass, obtainable in advance, from the Ipswich Area Secretary.

IEE Cambridge Programme 2000/2001

Unless stated otherwise, meetings are held in Lecture Theatre 0 of the University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge. 

Click here for a map showing access to the Engineering Department.

Content last updated Monday April 12, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Lecture Synopses

Ninth Anual Prestige Lecture

Origins of the Universe
Professor Malcolm Longair
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

There have been many remarkable recent developments in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe and its contents as a result of observations from space and ground-based telescopes. Many different types of observation have contributed to these developments; each of them employ instruments at the frontiers of engineering innovation.  

In the Ninth Annual Prestige Lecture, Professor Longair will review recent developments in understanding the origin and evolution of galaxies.  The lecture will be delivered at a non-technical level and will be profusely illustrated with animations, interactive displays and recent images from a wide variety of telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope.

Biographical details

Maicolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, is Head of the Department of Physics in the University of Cambridge and Vice-President of Clare Hall. His previous posts include those of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. He has also carried out research at the California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Harvard and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore. His many publications include Our Evolving Universe, High Energy Astrophysics and Galaxy Formation as well as over 200 scientific papers.

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