No 6202
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Vol cxli No 6
pp. 141–180
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Economics gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, 22 November 2010, in the Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue. The agenda for the meeting will be circulated to each member of the Faculty. One of the items of business will be to elect, in accordance with Statute C, IV, 2(c), two members of the Faculty Board in class (c) to serve for four years from 1 January 2011, and two members in class (c) to serve for three years from 1 January 2011.
Nominations in writing, signed by the proposer and seconder, together with an indication of the nominee’s willingness to serve, should reach the Secretary, Marie Butcher, Faculty of Economics, Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue, by 5 p.m. on Thursday, 18 November. It would be convenient if notice of any other business that members wish to be discussed were sent in writing to the Secretary by 10 a.m. on Monday, 15 November.
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of History gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 23 November 2010, in Seminar Room 6 in the Faculty of History. All members of the Faculty are invited to attend. The main business will be the election of three members of the Faculty Board in class (c), in accordance with Statute C, IV, 2(c), to serve from 1 January 2011.
Nominations for the election and notice of any other business should reach the Secretary at the Faculty of History, West Road, not later than 12 noon on Tuesday, 16 November.
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 18 November 2010, in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road. The date of this meeting replaces the previously published meeting date of 10 November 2010.
The main item of business will be to elect, in accordance with Statute C, IV, 2(c), one member in class (c) to serve for four years from 1 January 2011.
Nominations for election, signed by the proposer and seconder, and accompanied by the consent of the person nominated, together with notice of any other business for this meeting, should reach the Secretary of the Faculty Board, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, not later than Monday, 15 November 2010.
The Faculty Board of Music gives notice that the titles of Paper 7 in Part Ib and Paper 14 in Part II of the Music Tripos, 2010–11, are as follows:
Part Ib
Paper 7. Encounters in Balinese music
Part II
Paper 14. Globalization
The Head of the Department of Physics gives notice that the following Major Topics, Minor Topics, and types of further work will be available for examination in 2011.
These papers will be taken at the start of the Lent Term. Each Major Topic will be examined by a written paper of two hours’ duration. Each paper will consist of three questions of which candidates will be required to answer two; all questions carry equal weight. Candidates are required to take a minimum of three papers. The titles of the papers are as follows:
Paper 1/AQC. |
Advanced quantum condensed matter physics |
Paper 1/SMB. |
Soft matter and biophysics |
Paper 1/RAC. |
Relativistic astrophysics and cosmology |
Paper 1/PP. |
Particle physics |
Paper 1/PEP. |
Physics of the Earth as a planet |
Paper 1/QCM. |
Quantum condensed matter field theory |
Paper 1/AOP. |
Atomic and optical physics |
Candidates may replace one Major Topic with the paper ‘Quantum field theory’ (1/QFT) from Part III of the Mathematics Tripos (taken in June).
These papers will be taken at the start of the Easter Term. Each Minor Topic will be examined by a written paper of one and a half hours’ duration. Each paper will consist of three questions of which candidates will be required to answer two; all questions carry equal weight. Candidates who are not replacing Minor Topics by other work, as specified below, are required to take a minimum of three papers. The titles of the papers are as follows:
Paper 2/AP. |
Atmospheric physics |
Paper 2/BP. |
Biological physics |
Paper 2/FSU. |
Formation of structure in the universe |
Paper 2/FECM. |
The frontiers of experimental condensed matter physics |
Paper 2/FOA. |
The frontiers of observational astrophysics |
Paper 2/GFT. |
Gauge field theory |
Paper 2/MP. |
Medical physics |
Paper 2/NOQL. |
Non-linear optics and quantum states of light |
Paper 2/PA. |
Particle astrophysics |
Paper 2/PTP. |
Phase transitions and collective phenomena |
Paper 2/QI. |
Quantum information |
Paper 2/PNS. |
The physics of nanoelectronic systems |
Paper 2/SQC. |
Superconductivity and quantum coherence |
Each paper or piece of further work listed below may replace one Minor Topic: A Long Vacation Project (2/LVP) (based on pre-approved project work undertaken during the previous Long Vacation)
•The Entrepreneurship option (2/ENP), which is examined by course-work
•The paper ‘Advanced quantum field theory’ (2/AQFT) from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (examined in June)
•The paper ‘Galaxies’ (2/GAL) from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (examined in June)
•The examination paper ‘Nuclear power engineering’ (2/4M16) from Part IIb of the Engineering Tripos; these candidates will take the same examination paper as candidates from Engineering (examined at the start of the Easter Term)
•The examination paper ‘Nuclear materials’ (2/415) from Part III Materials Science; these candidates will take the same examination paper as candidates from Engineering (examined at the start of the Easter Term)
•The Interdisciplinary papers in ‘Materials, electronics, and renewable energy’ (2/IDP3); ‘The Earth system and climate change’ (2/IDP2); and ‘Atmospheric chemistry and global change’ (2/IDP1) (all examined in the second half of the Easter Term)
Where candidates take more than three Major Topics, the examiners will use the best three results in determining the class; where candidates take more than three Minor Topics, the Examiners will use the best three results in determining the class: all marks will appear on the transcript.
The Centre of South Asian Studies, under the aegis of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of History, gives notice that the mandatory and optional modules available to study for the M.Phil. in Modern South Asian Studies (Reporter, 2008–09, p. 21) in the academical year 2010–11 will be:
SA1 |
Debates in South Asian Studies (Core Course) |
This will be examined by an essay of not more than 5,000 words, on a topic chosen from a list approved by the Degree Committee. |
SA2 |
Optional Course |
This will be examined by an essay of not more than 5,000 words on a topic under either (i) or (ii) below, chosen by the candidate from a list approved by the Degree Committee: |
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(i) Violence and non-violence: politics of modernity in twentieth-century South Asia |
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(ii) Modern Indian society: politics, development, and ecology |