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No 6345

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Vol cxliv No 28

pp. 495–508

Events, courses, etc.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The University offers a large number of lectures, seminars, and other events, many of which are free of charge, to members of the University and others who are interested. Details can be found on Faculty and Departmental websites, and in the following resources.

The What’s On website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/) carries details of exhibitions, music, theatre and film, courses, and workshops, and is searchable by category and date. Both an RSS feed and a subscription email service are available.

Talks.cam (http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/) is a fully searchable talks listing service, and talks can be subscribed to and details downloaded.

Brief details of upcoming events are given below.

ESRC Doctoral Training Centre for Social Sciences

Inaugural guest lecture: The power and peril of narrative: policy-relevant research using the British Birth Cohort studies, by Professor Jane Elliott, at Lady Mitchell Hall at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 May 2014. For further details, please contact esrcdtc@admin.cam.ac.uk

http://esrc-dtc.cshss.cam.ac.uk/events

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

Lawless lives in the taiga of black powers: shamanism, law, and fear among the Duha Tuvinian reindeer nomads of Northern Mongolia, a seminar by Benedikte Møller Kristensen, in the Seminar Room, the Mond Building, Free School Lane, at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 May 2014

http://innerasiaresearch.org/

Physics

The 2014 Scott Lectures will be given by Professor Serge Haroche, in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, at 4 p.m.:

5 May 2014: Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

7 May 2014: Counting and controlling photons non-destructively

9 May 2014: Rydberg atoms in interaction: a new kind of quantum matter

http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/5376