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No 6215

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Vol cxli No 19

pp. 525–568

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Conference of lecturers

Classics

The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Classics gives notice that a Conference of Lecturers will be held at 1.45 p.m. on Thursday, 26 May 2011, in Room 1.11 of the Faculty Building, for the purpose of discussing the Lecture-list for 2011–12.

English Tripos, 2011: Texts and topics

The Faculty Board of English give notice that the following texts, periods, and portions of subjects are for special study for the English Tripos, 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 318) [page number corrected from printed edition].

Unless otherwise stated, editions of texts are not specified.

Part I

Paper 1.

English Literature and its contexts, 1300–1550

Set texts and specified topics

Specified text for translation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, rev. N. Davis, (Oxford, 1967), lines 1998–2530;

Specified texts for commentary: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, ed. B. A. Windeatt (Penguin) or in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford, 1987), Book 2, Lines 1–931;

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, (B Text), ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, second edition (London, 1995), Passus XVIII–XIX.

Topics on which optional questions will be set:

Christ’s Body; Arthurian Settings.

Paper 5.

Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida

Paper 6.

Literary criticism

The following topics are specified for special study: Section A: Practical Criticism

Section B: The Function of Criticism; Theories of Versification; Writing and the Unconscious.

Paper 7.

European languages and literatures

Classical Greek

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Plato: On Poetry, ed. Penelope Murray (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1996)

Sophocles: Antigone, ed. Mark Griffith (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1999)

Recommended Text for Section C

Homer: Iliad, 1, ed. with introduction, translation, and commentary by Simon Pulleyn (OUP, 2000)

Classical Latin

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Virgil: Aeneid, VI

Horace: Odes 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12, 1.22, 1.37, 2.14, 2.20, 3.1, 3.13, 3.30, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.15.

Recommended Text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of Latin verse:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/latin/frameset.htm.

French

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Racine: Andromaque

Flaubert: Trois Contes, ed. P.-M. de Biasi (GF-Flammarion, 1986, variously reprinted)

Recommended Text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of French verse:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/french/frameset.htm.

German

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Goethe: Faust, lines 354–4612 (i.e. Part One), excluding 3835–4398 (‘Walpurgisnacht’ and ‘Walpurgisnachtstraum’)

Brecht: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Recommended Text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of German verse:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/german/frameset.htm.

Italian

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Dante: Inferno, XVIII–XXXIV (no edition specified)

Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo (Einaudi Tascabili, 1953, many times reprinted)

Recommended text for Section C

An online anthology of selections from: Cavalcanti; Dante; Petrarch; Ariosto; Tasso; Michelangelo; Leopardi; Ungaretti; Montale. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/latin/frameset.htm

Old English

Set texts for Sections A and B

SECTION A: Beowulf: A Student Edition, ed. George Jack (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), ll. 710–1191

SECTION B: Beowulf (entire)

Recommended Texts for Section C

Caedmon’s Hymn; Preface to the Translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care; Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, selections: ‘Proem’, ‘On Government’, and ‘Orfeus and Eurydice’; The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Deor; Wulf and Eadwacer; Riddles 5, 7, 12, 29, 43, 45, 55; The Wife’s Lament; The Husband’s Message; The Ruin; The Dream of the Rood; Passion of Saint Edmund; The Battle of Maldon; Judith; Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos; Apollonius of Tyre. All these texts are available in Old and Middle English: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Treharne (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

Paper 8.

English language for literature, 1300 to the present

Specified Topics: Argument; Special Period, 1570–1630; Pastiche

Paper 9.

English literature and its contexts, 1300 to the present: Open dissertation

Paper 10.

Early medieval literature and its contexts, 1066–c. 1350 (also serves as Paper 14 of Part II and as Paper 11 of Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)

Early Middle English

English:

Set Texts. The following texts and line numbers are taken from A Book of Middle English, ed. J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, third edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004):

The Peterborough Chronicle 1137, lines 1–82

The Owl and the Nightingale, lines 1–390

Lawman’s Brut, lines 1–173

The following texts are taken from Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse, eds. Bella Millett and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990):

Seinte Margarete, p. 50 line 4 to p. 62 line 21

Ancrene Wisse, Part 7, p. 110 line 1 to p. 122 line 20

Lay le Freine, in The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995), lines 1–120, 135–310

Anglo-Norman:

Set Texts

Beroul, Le Roman de Tristan, ed. Alfred Ewert (1939; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), lines 1437–1834

‘1 The Service for Representing Adam’, in Mediaeval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), lines 358–590

La Chanson de Roland, ed. Frederick Whitehead, rev. T. D. Hemming (1942; Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1993), lines 2570–2685 and 3130–3236

Marie de France, Lais, ed. Alfred Ewert (1944; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987; Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1995), ‘Le Fresne’, lines 1–312

Wace’s Roman de Brut: A History of the British, ed. and trans. Judith Weiss (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1999), lines 12977–13298

Latin:

Set Texts

‘19 The Slaughter of the Innocents’, in Mediaeval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)

Nigel of Longchamps, Speculum Stultorum, ed. J. H. Mozley and R. R. Raymo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960), lines 2665–2872

Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the Historia Regum Britannie, ed. Michael Reeve, trans. Neil Wright (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), chapters 137–142

Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, ed. and trans. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (1914; Oxford: Clarendon press, 1983), p. 286 line 17 to p. 296 line 32

‘The Songs of Peter of Blois’, printed in Fleur Adcock, ed. and trans., The Virgin and the Nightingale (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1983), nos X–XVII

Part II

Group A

Paper 1. Practical criticism

Paper 2. Tragedy

Group B(i)

Paper 3. Chaucer

Paper 4. Medieval English literature, 1066–1500 (also serves as Paper 13 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)

Subject for special study: Dreams and visions

Paper 5. Special period of English literature: 1500–1547

Paper 6. Special period of English literature: 1847–1872

Paper 7. Special subject I

(a) Shakespeare and the development of English literature: Shakespeare in performance

(b) Literature, culture, and crisis, 1631–1671

(c) This paper is not available in 2011

(d) Modernism and the short story

Group B(ii)

Paper 8. The English moralists

Paper 9. The history and theory of literary criticism

Paper 10. Postcolonial and related literatures

Set Texts: Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land (Granta/Penguin, 1992); Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Picador, 1988); J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (London: Secker and Warburg, 1999); Bessie Head, Maru (Heinemann African Writers, 1990); Derek Walcott, Omeros (Fararr, Straus, and Giroux; Faber, 1990); Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987; Penguin); John Kinsella, The Silo (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1995); Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman (Methuen, 1975).

Paper 11. American literature

Section A of the exam paper will consist of passages for comment from the period 1835–1865.

Paper 12 Special Subject II

(a) This paper is not available in 2011.

(b) Literature and visual culture

Specified topic for Section B: Kubrick: text and genre

(c) Contemporary writing in English

Group C(ii)

Paper 28. A special subject in comparative literature (Paper CS 5 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos): The Body

Mathematical Tripos, Part III, 2011: Amendments

Further to their Notice of 27 October 2010 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 95), in accordance with Regulations 16 and 17 for the Mathematical Tripos, the Faculty Board of Mathematics give notice of the following amendment to the papers set for the Mathematical Tripos:

Paper 51: Quantum foundations will be a two-hour examination

Further to their Notice of 17 November 2010 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 185), in accordance with Regulations 18 and 19 for the Mathematical Tripos, the Examiners give notice that a candidate may submit an essay on one of the following additional topics:

83

Dynamic algorithms for high-frequency trading: generation, developing, and testing

84

Linear series

85

Lagrangians of hypergraphs

86

The Unruh effect – from theory to experiment

87

Bell correlations in quantum field theory

88

The interaction of a buoyant plume with a grid

89

Evaluating models of retinotopic map development

90

Assessing pairwise correlated spontaneous activity in the nervous system

91

Shear flows and instabilities in astrophysics

92

Information causality and quantum mechanics

93

Quantum field theory in curved spacetime

94

Fluid dynamics of flow in confined aquifers

95

Rendezvous search games

96

D-modules, representation theory

97

Carleson’s theorem for Walsh Fourier series

98

Shannon Whittaker reconstruction from irregular sampling

99

Hilbert’s thirteenth problem

100

Optimal transport and Ricci curvature bounds

101

Finding a word problem solver

102

Deformation theory in algebraic geometry, with applications to moduli spaces

103

Allard’s regularity theorem

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (Biological and Biomedical Sciences), 2011

The Faculty Board of Biology give notice that, notwithstanding the provision of Regulation 30 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 386) the date for submission of dissertations in 2011 will be Tuesday, 3 May 2011.

Examination in Advanced Computer Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy, 2010–11: Notice

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology give notice that the modules available for study for the examination in Advanced Computer Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy (Statutes and Ordinances, 2010, p. 500, as amended by Notice, Reporter, 2010–11, p. 430) in the academical year 2010–11, and the form of the examination of each module, will be as follows:

Number/title/mode of assessment (course-work(c), written test (t))

Michaelmas Term 2010

C00

Research skills (mandatory) (c)

P33

Building an internet router (double module) (c)

R01

Advanced topics in computer systems (c)

L11

An algebraic approach to internet routing (c)

L12

Category theory for computer science (c and t)

R05

Chip multiprocessors (c and t)

R03

Innovative user interfaces (c)

L100

Introduction to natural language processing (c)

P31

Low power embedded systems programming (c)

R204

Multicore programming (c)

R02

Network architectures (c)

P36

Programming for mobiles (c)

L106

Spoken language processing (c)

R08

Topics in security: forensic signal analysis (c)

L112

Denotational semantics (half module) (t)

R07

Introductory logic (half module) (t)

R06

Set theory for computer science (half module) (c)

Lent Term 2011

P34

Advanced computer design (c)

L20

Categorical logic (c and t)

R202

Data centric networking (c)

L110

Flows in networks (c and t)

L104

Lexical semantics and discourse processing (t)

L101

Machine learning for language processing (c)

L19

Programming logics and software verification (c and t)

L102

Statistical machine translation (c and t)

L107

Syntax and semantics of natural language (c and t)

P35

System on chip design and modelling (c and t)

L15

Topics in logic and complexity (t)

L17

Advanced category theory in computer science (half module) (c)

L109

Social and technological network analysis (half module) (c)

Easter Term 2011

L21

Interactive formal verification (c)

R201

Usability of programming languages (c)

L111

Advanced data flow analysis (half module) (t)

L22

Advanced topics in concurrency (half module) (t)

Further details can be found by following the appropriate links from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/current/acs.html.

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology reserve the right to withdraw any module should fewer than five students enrolled in the examination in Advanced Computer Science for the degree of Master of Philosophy elect to study them.

The following modules have been withdrawn by the Degree Committee:

L105

Advanced speech technology

R200

Deep language modelling