Current Challenges & Future Directions: Mini-Tutorial Series

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A series of free online mini-tutorial ‘tasters’ with Cambridge/Oxford/Yale/McGill experts (April 2020)

Invitation to Register: Current Challenges &amp; Future Directions in Key FieldsA series of free online mini-tutorial ‘tasters’ for pre-GCSE students, with Cambridge/Oxford/Yale/McGill experts (April 2020).A network of students, dons and families are organising a series of Cambridge/Oxford style mini-tutorial sessions online for 14-17+ (pre-GCSE) across the UK and internationally, just 60 minutes per session, through April 2020 over CISDL Zoom.The ‘taster’ sessions will consider current challenges and future directions in law, biomedicine, maths, sciences, sustainable development, led by a mix of well-known/emerging academics and practitioners who lead top research institutes, social enterprises or international organizations in each field.Online tutorials will take place Wednesdays and Fridays from 5-6 PM UK over the month of April. Over zoom, the expert provides a 20-min introduction to the burning issues in their area, then the students can ask questions and discuss interactively for 30 mins, followed by a 10-min round-up. To follow up, the expert provides their personal recommendations of the top 5 current online resources, for any students to pursue the field further.Upcoming Session leadersApril 01, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wednesday 01 April for current challenges and future directions in international law with Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, DPhil, MEM, BCL/LLB, BA Hons (CISDL Senior Director, University of Cambridge Leverhulme Visiting Professor, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change CLGI Executive Secretary, Justicia Fundamentum laureate, author of Sustainable Development Law and other books) and Dr Markus Gehring, JSD, Dr iur, MA, LLM (University of Cambridge Law Lecturer, Jean Monet Chair of European Law and Sustainable Development, CISDL Lead Counsel, Hughes Hall Law Director of Studies, editor of Sustainable Development in World Trade Law and other books).April 03, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Friday 03 April for current challenges and future directions in biomedicine, session with Dr. Mark Kotter, MD, MPhil, PhD (University of Cambridge neurosurgeon, spinal surgery specialist, founder of Bit Bio biomedical social enterprise for command line access to life, National Institute for Health Research Clinician Scientist &amp; Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards Laureate, author of CNS Remyelination in Disease and other studies).April 08, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wednesday 08 April for current challenges and future directions in entrepreneurship and strategy, session with Prof. Chris Coleridge, MBA, MSc, PhD (Univ of Cambridge Judge Business School Senior Faculty in Management Practice; London Business School Adjunct Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation; Univ of Cambridge Judge Master of Studies in Entrepreneurship Founder; Cambridge University Venture Capital &amp; Private Equity Society Senior Treasurer; Goldman Sachs 10ksb, London Stock Exchange ELITE, New Entrepreneurs Foundation instructor; University College London Best Lecturer Awards Laureate; co-editor of The Green Finance and Fintech Book and other studies). April 10, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Friday 10 April for current challenges and future directions in global health, session with Prof. Maya Prabhu, MD, LLD, MSc, AB (global health jurist and policy expert, Yale University Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Yale Center for Asylum Medicine / Yale Institute for Global Health Fellow, CISDL Lead Counsel, Yale Adult Refugee Clinic Co-Lead, graduate of Harvard, LSE and McGill Universities, author of Immigration Health: Law, Policy and Ethics and other studies).April 15, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wednesday for a current challenges and future directions in cell biology session with Professor Margaret Robinson, PhD, BA (Cambridge University Professor and Researcher, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Principal Investigator, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, European Molecular Biology Organization Member, Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow and Royal Society Fellow, graduate of Harvard University and Smith College, co-author of Role of the AP-5 Adaptor Protein Complex in Late Endosome-to-Golgi-Retrieval and other studies. For More Information https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/robinson.Link to Publications https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk /images/ robinson/view).April 17, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Friday for a current challenges and future direction in theoretical physics session with Prof Ben Allanach, PhD, BSc (Cambridge University Professor of Theoretical Physics, STFC Quantum Selves Exhibitor, Science and Technology Facilities Council; Consolidated High Energy Physics Theory Grant Principal Investigator, Cambridge University Pheno Working Group &amp; also former PPARC Advanced Fellow, CERN Theoretical Physics Fellow, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Higher Scientific Officer, CERN Council Strategy Group Scientific Secretary, also Guerilla Science Stage Show Consultant, Quantum Selves Artist and TEDx Presenter, author of Review of Particle Physics and other books. For More Information: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research /hep/person /bca20. Link to Publications https://inspirehep.net/literature?sort=mostrecent &size=25&page=1&q=f%20a %20allanach#with-citation-summary). April 22, 2020: Connect at 10:30 am Wed 22 April for a current challenges and future directions in online engineering session with Prof. Richard Prager, MA, PhD, CEng, FIET, FREng (Cambridge University Head of Engineering Department, Royal Academy of Engineering fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellow, Queens' College Cambridge Fellow, Cambridge Medical Imaging Group Founder, i-want-to-study-engineering.org Editor, Stradx and Stradwin Freehand 3D Ultrasound System Principal Architect, Cambridge University Professor teaching a Third Year Course on Medical Image Acquisition, former Cambridge University School of Technology Head. Currently writing a novel on Algorithms for High-Resolution Ultrasonic Beam-Forming, also co-author of A Spatial Coherence Approach to Minimum Variance Beamforming for Plane-wave Compounding and other studies. For More Information http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rwp12. Link to Softwarehttps://mi.eng.cam. ac.uk/Main/MedIMSoftware). April 24, 2020: Connect a 5:00 pm Wed 24 April for a current challenges and future directions in global human rights session with Dr. Ashfaq Khalfan, DPhil, BCL/LLB, MA, BA Hons (international human rights jurist, Amnesty International Director of Law, CISDL Board of Governors Chair, former Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Advisor, graduate of McGill and Oxford Universities, author of Odious Debt Doctrine and other studies. For More Information:https://www.cisdl.org /team/dr-ashfaq-khalfan/. Link to publication https://cisdl.org/public /docs/pdf/ Odious_Debt_Study.pdf).andDr. Alexandra R. Harrington J.D., LL.M., D.C.L (international law and global governance expert, Balsillie School of International Affairs Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance; University of Albany School of Law Professor; former United Nations Environment Programme Expert Advisor, CISDL Research Director &amp; Lead Counsel, graduate of McGill and other universities, author of International Organizations and the Law and other books. For More Information: https://www.cisdl.org/team/dr-alexandra-harrington/. Link to Publication: https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/262336260 _Sovereignty_on_Ice_ The_Relationship_between_ Indigenous_Land_Rights_the_Quebecois_and _Canadian_ Territorial_ Claims_ to_the_Arctic).Further resources for learning:Video: With great thanks, we are able to share the '100 Years of Universes' lecture of Professor John Barrow, BSc, DPhil, DSc (University of Cambridge Professor of Cosmology, Mathematics and Astrophysics, Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, graduate of Durham and Oxford Universities, Dirac Prize / Institute of Physics Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics / Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal laureate, author of The Book of Universes and other volumes). * Note: Prof Barrow is unavailable, but has kindly donated this brief video-lecture on gravity and relativity, perhaps most appropriate for A-level students.Coming up this summer: Connect this summer for a current challenges and future directions in heart and chest surgery session with Dr. Aman Coonar, FRCS(CTh), FRCS, MD, MRCP, MBBS, BSc (Papworth Hospital Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Clinical Consultant; Clinical Research specialized in thoracic cancer with emphasis on surgery, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Education Committee Medical Student Lead, Cambridge University Tutor, Multi-Centre Evaluation of Renal Impairment in Thoracic Surgery Lead, Medico-Legal Group Founder,Royal Society of Medicine Past President Cardiothoracic Section, Toronto General Hospital past Lung Transplant Fellow, Toronto General Hospital past Thoracic Surgery Fellow, co-author of the best-selling Thoracic Surgical Techniques and other books/studies. For More Information: https://amancoonar.com/. Link to Publication https://www.springer. com/gp/book /9783319662688).* invited but not confirmedPlease note: Students participate with permission under supervision of parents/guardians from their homes.

This event was made possible through a collaboration of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and the Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Cambridge, with special thanks to  experts from the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the Centre for Climate Change Engagement,  and Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

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