Conference Events
Welcome Reception. Monday 19th August, 18.30 – 19.30.
Opening drinks reception in the Old Courts of Gonville and Caius College. Entry to the College is via the main gate next to the Senate House or the Porter’s Lodge in Trinity Street. Please present your MTNS delegate badge on arrival.
Wren Library Exhibition, Trinity College. Wednesday 21st August, 14.30 – 17.30.
Private exhibition for MTNS delegates with material on display from Newton, Maxwell, Faraday, Rutherford, the Braggs, Hardy, Ramanujan, Russell, Wittgenstein, Hodgkin and Huxley. Trinity College Librarian Dr Nicolas Bell will be in attendance to describe the exhibition and the Wren Library. Entry to the College is via the Great Gate on Trinity Street or from the Trinity punts entrance on Garret Hostel Lane. You will need to present your MTNS delegate badge on entry. You may visit at any convenient time in the 3-hour window.
Organ Concert, Trinity College Chapel. Thursday 22nd August, 18.00 – 18.30.
The Trinity College Chapel Organ has pipes dating back to Isaac Newton’s time. Norman Harper will be our guest organist. The programme will include music by Purcell, Mozart and Bach. Norman will also demonstrate the historic pipes, with explanatory remarks by Malcolm who will also explain some interesting facts with regard to Newton’s Principia (and may possibly play a piece himself). Please enter the College via the Great Gate on Trinity Street showing your MTNS delegate badge. If you wish to attend the concert it is recommended that you allow at least 30 minutes to walk from the Sidgwick site to Trinity and to find a seat in the Chapel.
Banquet pre-dinner drinks (all conference attendees). Trinity College, Wren Cloisters. Thursday 22nd August, 18.40 – 19.25.
This is a short walk from the Chapel if you are attending the concert. Otherwise, please enter the College via the Great Gate on Trinity Street showing your MTNS delegate badge.
Banquet. Trinity College Hall and St John’s College Hall. Thursday 22nd August, 19.30 – late.
No College Hall is large enough for all MTNS delegates – the menu and dining experience will be very similar in each Hall. Please note carefully which Hall you have been assigned as indicated on the banquet ticket. Delegates with banquet tickets for St John’s will have a slightly longer walk from the Wren cloisters for their dinner – instructions will be given at the pre-dinner drinks, otherwise please go to the main gate of St John’s College in Trinity Street for 19.25. Please be sure to bring your banquet ticket and to display it next to your place serving to indicate if you will have the standard menu or special dietary requirements.
Farewell Reception. The “Backs” of St John’s College. Friday 23rd August, 18.00 – 19.30.
Drinks and canapés by the famous Bridge of Sighs. Entry to the College with MTNS delegate badge from the Queens’ Road gate (18.00 – 18.30) or the main gate in Trinity Street.
Other Events and Attractions
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. Every night at 7.30 pm except Sundays.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (St John’s College Gardens), Richard II (Trinity College Gardens) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (King’s College Gardens). Tickets online.
Punting on the River Cam. Hire your own punt or book a chauffeured punt tour with Scudamore’s from Mill Lane or Bridge Street. Alternatively Trinity College punts can be conveniently hired close to the Garret Hostel Lane bridge at a discounted price of £20/hour on presentation of the MTNS delegate badge.
The Orchard Tea Garden, Grantchester. Famous from Edwardian times from the patronage of Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes and others. About 45 minutes walk from the Sidgwick Site. See website.
King’s College Chapel. View the famous fan vaulted ceiling and the Adoration of the Magi by Rubens. Well worth the entrance price.
The Fitzwilliam Museum. Open Tuesday-Saturday: 10.00-17.00. Free admission.
Kirk Public Lecture: Managing bottlenecks using diffusion and reflection Ruth Williams (University of California, San Diego), 21 August 2024 – 16:00 to 17:00, INI Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH.