Welcome to the Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series page!
This weekly seminar series aims to provide a platform for researchers in the fields of evolution and ecology from across the UK to showcase their work here at Silwood Park.
Location
Seminars are in person in the Georgina Mace Centre (GMC) common room, Silwood Park campus, Thursdays at 13.00. The seminars are also streamed live on teams so are accessible to those working remotely.
Overseas speakers
Throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns we were able to invite speakers from around the globe to share their research with us. We will continue to do this for the forseeable future with seminars presented from overseas speakers being held online on MS Teams.
Meeting a speaker
If you would like to meet with the seminar speaker, please contact the host listed below.
Inviting a speaker
If you are faculty or a postdoc and have a speaker you would like to invite to give a seminar, please see the timetable below for available slots.
Once you have a speaker provisionally interested in giving a talk and you have agreed a slot for them to come, please email silwood.seminars@imperial.ac.uk with contact information and the preferred slot. We will double-check availability and provide further details to the speaker. Accommodation can also be arranged if required. Hosts are in charge of organising the day for their invited speaker (greetings, meetings, dinner, etc...).
PhD students: You are very welcome to invite speakers, though please bear in mind that you will be responsible for hosting the speaker while they are at Silwood.
Please be aware the timetable is not updated daily.
Speaker expenses / budget
When speakers are on site we can cover some costs with our yearly budget. The maximum amount that can be claimed when hosting seminar speakers is £200 per speaker, and includes travel expenses, one night accommodation and dinner for host and speaker. Please bear this budget in mind when considering invitations. Travel should be booked using cheap, advance options in line with the College’s Expenses Policy (requires College login). Entertainment costs are detailed in the Expenses Policy. Normally speakers should be travelling from within the UK. Exceptionally we can include speakers from Europe if they can travel here within budget: in such cases, the host must notify the seminar organizers for departmental approval ahead of time. Hosts are, of course, welcome to use any alternative source of funding to cover expenses above the £200 limit if required.
Panopto recordings
Most presentations will be recorded/uploaded using Panopto (Imperial login required). You can find all of the recorded talks in the Silwood Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series folder, here. Note that not all talks are recorded, for various reasons.
Previous seminars
The schedules for previous terms (including links to Panopto recordings) can be found here.
Questions
The seminar is organised by a seminar committee (see here for a list of present and former members). Please email silwood.seminars@imperial.ac.uk with any queries.
Timetables
Schedules for upcoming terms are given below. Blank slots are free. Times given are based on UK time.
AUTUMN TERM 2024:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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10th October | 1pm | GMC | Gergana Daskalova | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | Cristina Banks-Leite | |
17th October | ||||||
24th October | 1pm | GMC | Silwood research groups | Imperial | N/A | Research group introduction session |
31st October | 1pm | Jie Deng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / University of Oxford | Quqiming (Danica) Duan | Understanding community changes in ecological systems | |
7th November | ||||||
14th November | ||||||
21st November | ||||||
28th November | 1pm | Gustavo Burin Ferreira | Durham University | Cristina Banks-Leite | ||
5th December |
SPRING TERM 2025:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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16th January | ||||||
23rd January | ||||||
30th January | Mike Hoffmann | ZSL | Rob Ewers | |||
6th February | ||||||
13th February | ||||||
20th February | ||||||
27th February | ||||||
6th March | ||||||
13th March |
SUMMER TERM 2025:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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8th May | ||||||
15th May | ||||||
22nd May | ||||||
29th May | ||||||
5th June | ||||||
12th June | ||||||
19th June |
BONUS SEMINARS:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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