No 6160
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Vol cxl No 1
pp. 1–56
The Society’s 2009 Ladds Lecture will be held on Wednesday, 21 October, at 7.30 p.m. in the Library, Princes Street, Huntingdon. Paul Spoerry of Oxford Archaeology East will speak on The lodes and hithes of Huntingdonshire: an illustrated journey. Free tickets for this open meeting are available from Huntingdon Library (tel. 0345 04505225).
The following Israeli documentary films will be shown during Michaelmas Term 2009 in Room 1, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, from 1.15 p.m. All films are in Hebrew with English subtitles. All are welcome.
19 October Dreamers and builders, by Ya’akov Gross (Israel, 1966, 50 mins.)
26 October The wordmaker, by Eli Cohen (Israel, 1991, 90 mins.)
2 November Children of the sun, by Ran Tal (Israel, 2007, 70 mins.)
9 November Degania- the last battle, by Yitzhak Rubin (Israel, 2008, 60 mins.)
16 November My mother’s first Olympics, by Ran Carmeli (Israel, 1994, 53 mins.)
23 November Imagined autobiography, by Michal Bat-Adam (Israel, 1993, 90 mins.)
2 December Promises, by Carlos Boldo and B. Z. Goldberg (USA, 2001, 106 mins.)
Professor W. T. Gowers, FRS, of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, will deliver the Larmor Lecture entitled The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, on Monday, 12 October 2009 at 5.30 p.m. The lecture, intended for an audience with wide interests, is open to all. This will be a joint meeting with the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research.
The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Monday, 19 October 2009, at 4.30 p.m., in the Arts School.
The office of the Society is situated in the Arts School, Bene’t Street (tel. 01223 334743, email philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk).
The Society was founded in 1819 ‘for the purpose of promoting scientific inquiry’ and was granted a Royal Charter by King William IV in 1832. Membership is open to graduates of the University, and to other graduates who at the time of application are resident in Cambridge or its neighbourhood.
Members may receive one of the journals of the Society (Mathematical Proceedings or Biological Reviews) on payment of such sum as shall from time to time be determined by the Council and approved at a General Meeting; a Fellow who is a registered Graduate Student resident in Cambridge on 1 January of any year need pay no additional charge for the year for one of these journals which her or his Supervisor deems is relevant to her or his studies, provided that it is delivered to a College or Department. Members are also entitled to apply to the Society for Research Studentships and for grants towards the cost of translations and travel. Brief details of these facilities are given below; further particulars and forms of application may be obtained from the Executive Secretary at the Society’s office.
Research Studentships. The Society will award one or more Studentships to Graduate Students to enable them to conclude a promising piece of research nearing completion. Awards are made expressly for this purpose, for periods not longer than three months. The closing dates for applications are 31 March and 30 September. Applicants must have been members of the Society for at least one year before the relevant closing date.
Translation Grants. In connection with the Central Science Library’s Advisory Service on Translations, the Society, in approved cases, will make grants to its Fellows towards the cost of written or oral translations. Preference will be given to those who have been members of the Society for at least one year and who are not eligible for grants from the General Board of the University. A condition of the grant will be that part of the cost must be paid by the applicant. A copy of any written translation must be deposited in the Central Science Library. Applications from Graduate Students should be certified by their Supervisors.
Travel Grants. The Council of the Society will consider applications from Fellows for a limited number of grants for travel within and outside the United Kingdom on projects which are consistent with the aims of the Society. Preference will be given to projects involving the promotion of research rather than the presentation of results. The closing dates for applications are 1 November, 1 February, 1 May, and 1 July for travel in the following vacations. Applicants must have been members of the Society for at least one year before the relevant closing date. Each application should be accompanied by a letter of support.
The following events will take place during October, November, and December.
6–10 October at 7.45 p.m. (with 2.30 p.m. matinée on 10 October)
Cambridge American Stage Tour presents Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
6 October at 11 p.m.
Improvised Comedy Ents presents Captain Improv
7–10 October at 11 p.m.
Cambridge Footlights present Wishful Thinking
11 October at 7 p.m.
WRiTEON! presents Naked Stage
13–17 October at 7.45 p.m.
Top Goat Theatre presents Electra by Sophocles, translated by Frank McGuinness
13 October at 11 p.m.
Footlights Smoker
14 October at 7.30 p.m.
The Triple Helix Society, sponsored by the Medical Research Council, presents Shrinking Down Nutrition: Nanofoods with Dr Dora Pereira
14–17 October at 11 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents Struts and Frets by Simon Haines
18 October at 7 p.m.
WRiTEON! presents Naked Stage
20–24 October at 7.30 p.m.
Cambridge University Players, in association with Tongue-in-Chic Theatre, present The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
20 October at 10.30 p.m.
Cambridge Contemporary Dance presents
Contemporary Dance
21–24 October at 10.30 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents Red Demon by Hideki Noda
25 October at 7 p.m.
WRiTEON! presents Naked Stage
27–31 October at 7.45 p.m.
Alter Ego Productions presents A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
27 October at 11 p.m.
Footlights Smoker
28–31 October at 11 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Cˇapek
1 November at 7 p.m.
WRiTEON! presents Naked Stage
3–7 November at 7.45 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
3 November at 11 p.m.
Improvised Comedy Ents presents Tales of the Unanticipated
4–7 November at 11 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents The Bear and The Anniversary by Anton Chekhov
8 November at 7 p.m.
WRiTEON! presents Naked Stage
10–14 November at 7.45 p.m, with 2.30 p.m. matinées on 12 and 14 November
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society presents The Wizard of Oz
10 November at 11 p.m.
Footlights Smoker
11 November at 7.30 p.m.
The Triple Helix Society, sponsored by the Medical Research Council, presents Using Bacteria to Battle Cancer with Dr Guillermo de la Cuerva Mendez
11–14 November at 11 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents What’s Wrong With Angry? by Patrick Wilde
15 November at 9 p.m.
Footlights Bar Smoker
17–21 November at 7.45 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
17 November at 11 p.m.
Blueprint
18–21 November at 11 p.m.
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer
22 November at 9 p.m.
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society presents CUMTS Bar Night
24 November–5 December at 7.45 p.m. (excluding Sun 29 November), with 2.30 p.m. matinées on 28 November and 5 December
The CUADC/Footlights Pantomime Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
24 November at 11 p.m.
Footlights Smoker
25–28 November at 11 p.m.
The RSC/Marlowe Other Prize Winner
Going Short by Izzy McCann
29 November, all day
Cambridge Wordfest presents Winter Wordfest (see http://www.cambridgewordfest.co.uk/ for further details)
30 November at 11 p.m.
6.0 Productions presents 24-hour plays
1 December at 11 p.m.
Jonny and Nick present Jonny Sweet and Nick Mohammed
2–5 December at 11 p.m.
University Players present The Blue Room by David Hare
8–12 December at 7.45 p.m., with 2.30 p.m. matinée on 12 December
BAWDS, in association with Combined Actors of Cambridge, presents Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, in a new stage adaptation by Nick Warburton
9 December at 7.30 p.m.
The Triple Helix Society, sponsored by the Medical Research Council, presents Genetic Testing: Truth or Dare? with Dr Caroline Wright
17–20 December at 7.45 p.m., with 2.30 p.m. matinées on 19 and 20 December
Hope Players present The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The ADC Box Office telephone number is 01223 300085. Further details on all events and online booking are available from the ADC Theatre website: http://www.adctheatre.com/.