Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Annual meetings of the Faculties

Human, Social, and Political Science

The Chair of the Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 20 November 2014, in the Seminar Room, Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street. The main business will be the election of two members of the Faculty Board in class (c), in accordance with the General Regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 600). Nominations, signed by the proposer and seconder, for which the consent of the candidate must be obtained, should reach the Secretary of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, Free School Lane, not later than lunchtime on Tuesday, 18 November 2014. Notice of any other business should reach the Secretary by the same date.

Veterinary Medicine

As previously noted (Reporter, 6359, 2014–15, p. 39), the Chair of the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine has given notice of a change to the published date of the Annual Meeting of the Faculty, which will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 20 November 2014 in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road.

The main item of business will be to elect, in accordance with the General Regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 600), one member in class (c) to serve for four years from 1 January 2015.

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, 17 November 2014.

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III, Physics; and Master of Advanced Studies in Physics, 2014–15

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 2015.

Major Topics

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’ (Paper 1/QFT) from Part III of the Mathematics Tripos (taken in June).

Minor Topics

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/BP.	Biological physics
Paper 2/EXO.	Exoplanets
Paper 2/FSU.	Formation of structure in the universe
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/PNS.	The physics of nanoelectronic systems
Paper 2/QI.	Quantum information
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 (Paper 2/LVP) (based on pre-approved project work undertaken during the previous Long Vacation)

• The Entrepreneurship option (Paper 2/ENP), which is examined by course-work

• The paper ‘Advanced quantum field theory’ (Paper 2/AQFT) from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (examined in June)

• The examination paper ‘Nuclear power engineering’ (Paper 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 Interdisciplinary papers in ‘Materials, electronics, and renewable energy’ (Paper 2/IDP3); ‘The Earth system and climate change’ (Paper 2/IDP2); and ‘Atmospheric chemistry and global change’ (Paper 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.