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Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Professor Signe Horn Fuglesang, of the University of Oslo, will give a lecture, entitled The gold hoard from Hoen, Norway: Scandinavian and European ornaments in a Viking treasure of the ninth century, at 6.15 p.m. on Thursday, 1 November, in the Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College.

Architecture and History of Art. Professor Bernard Lassus, landscape architect, winner of the French Grand Prix National du Paysage, and Distinguished Architect in Residence in the Department of Architecture 2001-02, will give a lecture, entitled Landscapes for tomorrow's stories, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 2 November, in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Computer Laboratory. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Lecture Theatre at Microsoft Research (New Building), J. J. Thomson Avenue, off Madingley Road.

31 October What we got wrong with IP, by Jon Crowcroft, of the Computer Laboratory.
7 November End-user software engineering, by Margaret Burnett, of Oregon State University.
14 November Electromagnetic eavesdropping on computers, by Markus Kuhn, of the Computer Laboratory.
28 November Performance modelling of enterprise IP networks, by Richard Gibbens, of the Computer Laboratory.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminars. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, unless otherwise stated. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

7 November Disorders of mitochondrial DNA maintenance, by Professor Howard Jacobs, of the University of Tampere, Finland. Host: Ian Holt
21 November Folding of action and tubulin assisted by the cytosolic chaperonin CCT, by Dr Jose M. Valpuesta, of the University of Madrid. Host: John Walker
28 November The etiology of type 1 diabetes, by Professor John Todd, of the Department of Medical Genetics. Host: Martin Brand.
4 December Increasing and decreasing risk of colorectal neoplasia: genes and exposures, by Professor John D. Potter, Programme Head, Cancer Prevention Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, USA. Host: Sheila Bingham. (Tuesday.)

Slavonic Studies. It is with regret that the Department have to cancel the lecture entitled Masquerade and carnival: Bakhtin, Bulgakov, and Stalinist public ritual, by Professor Katerina Clark, on Wednesday, 7 November, at 5 p.m.

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment. A seminar, entitled The National Grid for Learning: raising standards or moving goal posts? will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November, in The Music Room, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge. The speakers will be Mr Peter Scrimshaw, Independent Consultant on research and evaluation of educational uses of information and communications technology, and Professor Angela McFarlane, of the University of Bristol. For further details see http://ital.ucles-red.cam.ac.uk/ACNTA/.

It is announced with regret that the seminar scheduled for Wednesday, 21 November (me-learning: mobile electronic learning - future or present? by Russell Prue) has had to be postponed until Wednesday, 17 April 2002.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 31 October 2001
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