No 6215
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Vol cxli No 19
pp. 525–568
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.
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.
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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. |
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Paper 5. |
Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida |
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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. |
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Paper 7. |
European languages and literatures |
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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Paper 8. |
English language for literature, 1300 to the present Specified Topics: Argument; Special Period, 1570–1630; Pastiche |
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Paper 9. |
English literature and its contexts, 1300 to the present: Open dissertation |
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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) |
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
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
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
Paper 1. Practical criticism
Paper 2. Tragedy
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
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
Paper 28. A special subject in comparative literature (Paper CS 5 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos): The Body
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:
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Dynamic algorithms for high-frequency trading: generation, developing, and testing |
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Linear series |
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Lagrangians of hypergraphs |
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The Unruh effect – from theory to experiment |
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Bell correlations in quantum field theory |
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The interaction of a buoyant plume with a grid |
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Evaluating models of retinotopic map development |
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Assessing pairwise correlated spontaneous activity in the nervous system |
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Shear flows and instabilities in astrophysics |
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Information causality and quantum mechanics |
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Quantum field theory in curved spacetime |
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Fluid dynamics of flow in confined aquifers |
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Rendezvous search games |
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D-modules, representation theory |
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Carleson’s theorem for Walsh Fourier series |
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Shannon Whittaker reconstruction from irregular sampling |
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Hilbert’s thirteenth problem |
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Optimal transport and Ricci curvature bounds |
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Finding a word problem solver |
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Deformation theory in algebraic geometry, with applications to moduli spaces |
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Allard’s regularity theorem |
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.
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:
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) |
P34 |
Advanced computer design (c) |
L20 |
Categorical logic (c and t) |
R202 |
Data centric networking (c) |
L110 |
Flows in networks (c and t) |
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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) |
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 |