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Fri 27 Sep 2019 – Tue 1 Oct 2019

Friday 27 September 2019

09:30	Chemical Safety Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room 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.
10:30	IT Community and UIS Mentoring Scheme: Mentors' Coffee Morning Finished 10:30 - 12:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Huntingdon Room An informal guidance session for members of the IT Community and UIS Mentoring Scheme. The session will provide the opportunity to meet with other mentors on the scheme. You’ll be able to talk openly as a group and share any successes or challenges while being a mentor. Please think of examples before coming along so we can discuss in the session and this will hopefully encourage confidence to help you gain the most out of your mentoring relationship and the scheme.
11:30	CUL: Book a Buddy! Finished 11:30 - 11:50 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! Book this 20 minute slot 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. Sign up today! We’ll contact you to find out exactly what you need to know and then we’ll arrange your perfect match with an experienced member of the Reader Services team! This a trial service running throughout the summer vacation. We will appreciate any feedback that you provide.
13:00	Governance at the University of Cambridge Finished 13:00 - 14:00 Student Services Centre, Exams Hall, Room AG03b This talk will take place on Friday 27th September at 13:00 in room AG03b Exams hall, Student Services Centre Topics covered: Mission and values of the University Principles informing governance at Cambridge Overview of governance bodies Senior University offices and officers Key governance bodies: Regent House, Council, General Board, Board of Scrutiny Key governance resources: Statutes and Ordinances, Reporter, Governance hub
14:30	Annual Leave Briefing- Managers Finished 14:30 - 15:30 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room The HR team will be holding a number of briefing sessions covering the new E-days system, demonstrating how it works and some of the key principles that sit alongside it, such as flexible working. They will also be an opportunity to take questions.
18:30	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), French Intermediate 2 2019 - BLOCK A (2 of 10) Finished 18:30 - 20:30 Clinical School, Seminar Room 12 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.
19:00	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), Spanish Basic 2019 - BLOCK A (2 of 10) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 3 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.

Monday 30 September 2019

09:30	Pressurised Gas and Cryogens Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room This course will cover safe storage and use of cryogens, safe use and stores of compressed gas, and aspects of oxygen depletion with respect to the above.
	Introduction to working with UNIX and bash Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building Using the Linux operating system and the bash command line interface, we will demonstrate the basic structure of the UNIX operating system and how we can interact with it using a basic set of commands. Applying this, we will learn how to navigate the filesystem, manipulate text-based data and structure simple pipelines out of these commands. Building on this foundation, the course will use a bioinformatics example to demonstrate how the skills learnt can be applied to connecting to external resources/servers, installing specialist tools and ultimately combining commands into scripts for automation and reproducibility. This course is targeted at participants with no prior experience working with UNIX-like systems (OSX, Linux) or command line interfaces. The training room is located on the first floor and there is currently no wheelchair or level access available to this level. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to Book or register Interest by linking here.
	Web Recruitment Training - Offers Finished 09:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 This course covers the new functionality regarding recording an offer in release 4 of web recruitment.
	CUL: Book a Buddy! Finished 09:30 - 09:50 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! Book this 20 minute slot 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. Sign up today! Please let us know in the special requirements box when you book, what you would like help with: Using iDiscover Using Electronic Legal Deposit Finding books in the stacks Literature searching Using Electronic Resources Special Collections Other
10:00	Annual Leave Briefing- Managers Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room The HR team will be holding a number of briefing sessions covering the new E-days system, demonstrating how it works and some of the key principles that sit alongside it, such as flexible working. They will also be an opportunity to take questions.
14:30	Getting Started in Cognos Finished 14:30 - 16:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) Cognos is a reporting tool that utilises data from CUFS to provide users with additional reports and options. This master class is designed to get existing CUFS users going with the reporting tool. It covers everything from running a report successfully as well as a number of useful tips and shortcuts. Note: What it does not do is go through in detail the outputs of each individual report. Less experienced users of the Grants and/or General Ledger modules in CUFS are recommended to attend instead one of the following courses: Grants Part 2: Grant reports in Cognos General Ledger Reporting These two courses not only cover the mechanics of running the reports but also more advice on how to interpret and use the information as well as discussion about when to use which report.
	Cambridge University Libraries Staff : Induction Workshop: Part I Finished 14:30 - 16:30 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room This is an interactive workshop, designed to help new staff learn more about the Cambridge University Library, meet some of the key people who work in it and learn more about key library policies.
19:00	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), French Intermediate 2 2019 - BLOCK A (3 of 10) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Clinical School, Seminar Room 12 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.
	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), German Intermediate 1 2019 - BLOCK A (3 of 10) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 2 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.

Tuesday 1 October 2019

09:00	Fire Warden and Use of Fire Extinguishers Training (1 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 10:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room Fire Warden training (0900-1030) will give clear instruction of the roles of designated fire wardens and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation. Use of Fire Extinguisher training (1045-1145) provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers.
09:30	CUL: Book a Buddy! Finished 09:30 - 09:50 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! Book this 20 minute slot 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. Sign up today! Please let us know in the special requirements box when you book, what you would like help with: Using iDiscover Using Electronic Legal Deposit Finding books in the stacks Literature searching Using Electronic Resources Special Collections Other
	AP Part 2: Matching, Amending and Foreign Invoices in Accounts Payable Finished 09:30 - 16:15 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course builds on the knowledge gained in AP Part 1. The delegates will learn how to match invoices to purchase orders, add in freight charges and process invoices from other departments. The course also covers international payments including accounting for VAT and foreign currencies. Delegates will also learn more about month end procedures and AP Reports.
	Reproducible Research with R Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building This course introduces concepts about reproducibility that can be used when you are programming in R. We will explore how to create notebooks - a way to integrate your R analyses into reports using Rmarkdown. The course also introduces the concept of version control. We will learn how to create a repository on GitHub and how to work together on the same project collaboratively without creating conflicting versions of files. The training room is located on the first floor and there is currently no wheelchair or level access available to this level. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book or register your interest by linking here.
10:00	Physics Health & Safety: Physics of Medicine (PoM) Induction Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Department of Physics General induction for users of the Physics of Medicine (PoM) building. This includes a guided tour of the facility. Participants will gain access to PoM only after successfully completing the Physics H&S Induction - see "Related Courses" below.
10:45	Fire Warden and Use of Fire Extinguishers Training (2 of 2) Finished 10:45 - 11:45 Greenwich House, Cairo Room Fire Warden training (0900-1030) will give clear instruction of the roles of designated fire wardens and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation. Use of Fire Extinguisher training (1045-1145) provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers.
12:00	Annual Leave Briefing - All Staff Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room The HR team will be holding a number of briefing sessions covering the new E-days system, demonstrating how it works and some of the key principles that sit alongside it, such as flexible working. They will also be an opportunity to take questions.
13:00	Chemistry: FS8 Supervising Undergraduates Finished 13:00 - 14:00 Wolfson Lecture Theatre In this short talk we will cover what supervisions are, the role they play in Cambridge teaching, and how supervisors are recruited. We will then go on to look at how you can prepare for supervising, how you can conduct a supervision, and how to deal with common pitfalls.
13:30	Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) Training for Outreach Finished 13:30 - 16:30 Student Services Centre, Exams Hall, Room AG03a These sessions are aimed at those who are brand new to HEAT (Higher Education Access Tracker) and who will want to be added to the live database as their institution’s Operational Lead or User. If you are only going to need Read Only or Read Only with Export permissions this training is not required.
	Amicus - For new starters Finished 13:30 - 15:30 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 This course covers the foundation knowledge required to get you started using Amicus. The following topics are covered in the course: An overview of Amicus and it's uses How to log in and navigate Viewing contact and prospect records How to update biographical details A look at contact preferences How to run reports
14:00	Fire Safety Awareness and Use of Fire Extinguishers Training (1 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 15:00 Greenwich House, Cairo Room The Fire Safety Awareness course (1400-1500) will raise attendees' awareness of fire safety and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation. Use of Fire Extinguishers training (1515-1615) provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers. University staff working in embedded accommodation at Addenbrooke's Hospital should attend the NHS' fire training for its tenants. This will cover general fire safety awareness specific to the main hospital. (See related courses below for further details.)
14:15	Chemistry: IS1 Library Orientation Finished 14:15 - 14:45 Library This is a compulsory session which introduces new graduate students to the Department of Chemistry Library and its place within the wider Cambridge University Library system. It provides general information on what is available, where it is, and how to get it. Print and online resources are included. You must choose one session out of the 9 sessions available.
15:15	Fire Safety Awareness and Use of Fire Extinguishers Training (2 of 2) Finished 15:15 - 16:15 Greenwich House, Cairo Room The Fire Safety Awareness course (1400-1500) will raise attendees' awareness of fire safety and assist fire safety managers to comply with current fire safety legislation. Use of Fire Extinguishers training (1515-1615) provides hands on experience in the correct use of portable fire extinguishers. University staff working in embedded accommodation at Addenbrooke's Hospital should attend the NHS' fire training for its tenants. This will cover general fire safety awareness specific to the main hospital. (See related courses below for further details.)
18:30	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), French Intermediate 1 2019 - BLOCK A (3 of 10) Finished 18:30 - 20:30 Clinical School, Seminar Room 11 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.
	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), Spanish Intermediate 1 2019 - BLOCK A (3 of 10) Finished 18:30 - 20:30 Clinical School, Seminar Room 10 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.
	CULP: Languages for Medics (SSC), Chinese Mandarin Basic 2019 - BLOCK A (3 of 10) Finished 18:30 - 20:30 Clinical School, Seminar Room 16 Language courses for Y4 students of the School of Clinical Medicine.