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Mon 21 Oct 2019

Monday 21 October 2019

09:00	CUL: Book a Buddy! Finished 09:00 - 09:30 Cambridge University Library: Entrance Hall Nervous or intimidated about visiting the UL for the first time? Don’t know where to begin with a Literature search? Can never find the books you need on the open shelves? Book a buddy! Email reference@cam.ac.uk to arrange a session. Tell us what you need help with and we’ll match you with a member of library staff who can show you what you need to know, whether it’s searching the catalogue, using Electronic Legal Deposit, finding open shelf books or something else entirely. Don't suffer in silence - Book a buddy!
09:30	Chemical Safety Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Hall A safety course for anyone either directly working with chemicals or who is responsible for persons working with chemicals including PIs, Post Grads, Post Docs and technicians.
10:00	CULP: French Intermediate 1 for Academic Purposes (LAP) (1 of 15) Finished 10:00 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research. The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion. Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	Amicus Volunteers overview Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 For users unfamiliar with the Volunteer module in Amicus, this overview will cover many of the major areas that are used by volunteer professionals. We will look at the work that you do in your team and how it benefits the users of this area in Amicus. We will cover the following areas: Activity Opportunities Creating a Volunteer
10:30	English: Writing for Engineers (PhD) (2 of 4) Finished 10:30 - 12:00 Department of Engineering, CLIC 1 Writing for Engineers: Workshop focuses on common errors and problem areas for research students writing up dissertations and publishing papers, plus an assessment of your personal areas for improvement through individual supervisions at the end of the course. The course consists of 4 workshops followed by 1 individual supervision. NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.
11:00	CULP: Spanish Basic 2 (1 of 15) Finished 11:00 - 13:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
11:30	CULP: French Intermediate 2 for Academic Purposes (LAP) (1 of 15) Finished 11:30 - 13:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research. The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion. Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
12:00	Chemistry: Philosophy for Chemists (2 of 3) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Unilever Lecture Theatre Science is a striking, successful and powerful feature of contemporary human cultures: it has transformed lives, enabled great technological feats and often revealed the world to be a much stranger place than appearances suggest. But what is science, really, and how and why has it been so successful? This 3 week course aims to introduce graduate students to some main themes in the philosophy of science generally, and the philosophy of chemistry in particular. Lecture 1. What Is Science? What makes science scientific? Is there something distinctive about scientific investigation which distinguishes it from other things humans do? Does science give us infallible knowledge? Or at least the kind of knowledge that always gets better? These questions will be discussed in relation to the views of some well-known philosophers of science including Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. Lecture 2. Measurement Measurement is the foundation of any quantitative empirical science. We make all sorts of measurements routinely in the lab, but there are actually deep difficulties in knowing if our instruments and procedures correctly measure what we intend to measure. The epistemological issues involved here will be discussed through various scientific examples, including temperature and pH. Lecture 3. Reductionism Does all science ultimately boil down to fundamental physics? This is a pertinent issue to all areas of science, but an urgent one especially for chemistry. Considering the success of quantum chemistry one might imagine that chemistry is just applied physics, but the matter is not so simple. Looking at the longer history of the attempts to reduce chemistry to physics will also be instructive.
	CULP: Russian Basic 1 for Academic Purposes (LAP) (1 of 22) Finished 12:00 - 13:30 Zoom Video Communication Software Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading Russian documents that they have come across or may meet in their research. Students are encouraged to bring along their own texts and work in pairs to enhance the learning experience. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: French Intermediate 2 (1 of 15) Finished 12:00 - 14:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. More detailed information is available on our website.
	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese Finished 12:00 - 12:20 John Trim Centre A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.
12:20	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese Finished 12:20 - 12:40 John Trim Centre A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.
12:30	English: Writing for Engineers (Postdoc) (2 of 4) Finished 12:30 - 14:00 Department of Engineering, CLIC 1 Writing for Engineers: Course for postdocs on refining papers for publishing. The course consists of 4 workshops followed by 1 individual supervision. NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.
12:40	JTC: Speaking practice for learners of Chinese Finished 12:40 - 13:00 John Trim Centre A 20-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese pronunciation, tones and general conversation.
13:00	JTC: German Advanced Conversation Hours (1 of 6) Finished 13:00 - 14:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 3 This conversation hour offers learners with an independent conversational ability (B2/C1 level upwards) a chance to practice speaking German with others in a relaxed and informal group led by a native-speaker facilitator. The content of the sessions is decided by the participants, with members taking turns to propose a topic and source materials (newspaper articles, web links, video etc.) to use as a basis for discussion. The groups are ideal for those who wish to retain or improve upon the language skills they already have or for those studying for a language degree who would like another forum for low-pressure, informal practice. This is also a great follow-up activity for CULP German learners and can be repeated year after year. Previous participants from German Advanced CULP are warmly invited to attend the German Conversation Hour. If the course is already 'in progress' please click on 'register your interest' in order to book a place.
	CULP: French Intermediate 1 (1 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available on our website.
	CULP: Italian Basic for Academic Purposes (LAP) (1 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 14:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 This course will start at Basic level and move quickly through the basics of Italian grammar. Students with some background in the Italian language (Intermediate level) are most welcome to join the group in January (Lent term) when we start reading more complex, original texts. Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading Italian documents that they have come across or may meet in their research. Students will be encouraged to bring along their own texts and work in pairs to enhance the learning experience. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
13:30	Maths: Teaching and Supervising Mathematics Undergraduates Finished 13:30 - 16:00 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Meeting Room 4, AL.08 This course complements the supervising training and information your Department will provide. It is a course that consists of: an online module, which introduces practices and principles of undergraduate supervision at Cambridge, and a face-to-face workshop in which you will explore challenges and approaches to supervising. By the end of this course you will know: The purpose of supervisions at Cambridge How to deal with common supervision scenarios How to provide effective feedback The practicalities of starting to supervise Topics covered: Introduction to supervisiong (including what supervisions are, format, preparing for them) Background information for those who need it (British education system, Cambridge undergraduate system) Role of a supervisor Dealing with different supervision scenarios Departmental information Summary of what you have learnt Practical tips and advice Resources for ongoing support and information
	ourcambridge seminar - Introducing Communities of Practice Finished 13:30 - 15:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Norwich Auditorium The seminar is being held in response to staff ideas submitted under the Supporting our Staff work stream. It is designed to introduce the concept of CoPs and will look at what they are and how they can support collaboration, communication, peer to peer support and career development. There will also be an opportunity to hear from UCL (University College London) and UIS (University Information Services) about how they have introduced CoPs and the benefits they have brought, plus their future plans. Why attend? The seminar is an ideal opportunity for you to find out more about CoPs and discuss with your colleagues how they can support the work of our professional services staff. Your opinion really counts and we are very keen to hear your thoughts and ideas.
14:00	CULP: German Intermediate 1 for Academic Purposes (LAP) (1 of 15) Finished 14:00 - 15:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 3 This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	Part II Database Searching and Bibliographic Training: Pathology and Pharmacology (for Part II Pathology or Pharmacology students only) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Department of Pathology, Seminar Room Learn how to search databases effectively, and cite references correctly using citation software. Get the most out of your literature search for your projects.
	Physics Health & Safety: Introduction to Laser Safety - for Users of Class 3B and Class 4 Lasers Finished 14:00 - 17:00 Department of Physics, Kapitza Building, Seminar Room K16 This is an introductory course which is required for users and supervisors of Class 3B and Class 4 lasers, before they receive hands-on training for use of specific lasers, and for registering as an "Authorized Laser User" in accordance with University of Cambridge and Department of Physics policy and procedure.
14:30	All about conferences (Engineering RDC Division B) Finished 14:30 - 15:30 Electrical Engineering, Seminar Room A guide to conferences and giving presentations: What to expect at a conference, how to plan your trip (including risk assessment, insurance), how to present a great talk or poster.
15:00	Research Ethics Finished 15:00 - 18:00 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 6 Ethics is becoming an increasingly important issue for all researchers and the aim of this session is to demonstrate the practical value of thinking seriously and systematically about what constitutes ethical conduct in social science research. The session will involve a lecture component and some small-group work. Aims: To allow students to distinguish between values, moral and ethical issues, encourage students to think about problems and dilemmas in conducting research, help students to gain an overview of ethical relationships, enable students to know when to ask for help, and prepare students in terms of defence of possible criticisms of their own research. Topics: What do we mean by ethics? National and international policy frameworks Ethics and risk Ethics across disciplinary boundaries Dealing with ethical dilemmas The processes of applying for ethics approval within the University of Cambridge
	CULP: Italian Basic 1 (1 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Russian Basic 1 (1 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 Sidgwick Site, Lecture Block Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from on our website.
	CULP: German Advanced (1 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At advanced level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
	CULP: French Basic 2 (1 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available on our website.
	CULP: Spanish Intermediate 2 (1 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
15:30	CULP: German Basic (total beginners) for Academic Purposes (LAP) (1 of 15) Finished 15:30 - 17:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 3 This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
17:00	CULP: Russian Intermediate 1 (1 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, Room 207 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please go to the Language Centre CULP page.
	CULP: French Intermediate 2 (1 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. More detailed information is available on our website.
	CULP: Italian Intermediate 2 (1 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Faculty of English, GR05 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
	CULP: Spanish Basic 1 (1 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Italian Intermediate 1 (1 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
	CULP: Spanish Advanced (1 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At an advanced level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater for the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
17:30	CUL: Orientation tour for Undergraduates Finished 17:30 - 18:15 Cambridge University Library, Catalogue Hall Are you a new undergrad who is intimidated by the thought of entering the UL? Are you a second or third year who has never set foot in the UL and is embarrassed to admit that you don't know what you're doing? Have you been struggling on your own and just need a few tips and tricks to get what you need? If you answered yes to any of the above questions then this tour is for you! Finding the UL intimidating and confusing is perfectly normal. It is also normal for undergraduates to only use the UL for the first time in their third year, so you are definitely not alone! On this tour a friendly member of our Reader Services team will show you around, explain the UL's unique way of shelving books, explain what Electronic Legal Deposit is and answer any questions you may have. Most importantly we will show you where to go if you find you need help. Don't suffer in silence! Help is here!
19:00	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), French Intermediate 2 2019 - BLOCK A (9 of 10) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Clinical School, Seminar Room 12 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.
	CULP: Spanish Intermediate 1 (1 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Chinese (Mandarin) Intermediate 1 (1 of 15) CANCELLED 19:00 - 21:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website.
	CULP: Japanese Elementary 2 (1 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 The courses are delivered in a blended-learning mode, face-to-face and online through CamTools (the Cambridge University virtual learning environment). The focus is on spoken, oral/aural communicative competence. Students are required to attend to online multimedia materials and read the proscribed texts in their own time so that the classroom time is dedicated to face-to-face communication/discussion. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: German Intermediate 2 (1 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), German Intermediate 1 2019 - BLOCK A (9 of 10) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 2 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.