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No 6424

Thursday 5 May 2016

Vol cxlvi No 29

pp. 498–511

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 individual Faculty, Department, and institution websites, on the What’s On website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/), and on Talks.cam (http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/).

Brief details of upcoming events are given below.

Classics

The J. H. Gray Lectures: Agreeing to differ: consensus, culture, and politics in the Roman empire, by Professor Emma Dench, Harvard University, on 24–26 May 2016

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars/special-lectures

Endellion String Quartet

Haydn, Dvorak, and Mendelssohn, at West Road Concert Hall, at 7.30 p.m. on 18 May 2016

https://www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets/events/endellion-string-quartet-5

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

Reindeer and nomads: departing, arriving, and casting time-shadows, by Piers Vitebsky, at 4.30 p.m. on 10 May 2016, in the Mond Building Seminar Room

http://innerasiaresearch.org/category/sem/

Physics

Scott Lecture Series 2016, at 4 p.m. in the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics

16 May: You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and six beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself, ‘Well... how did I get here?’

18 May: These are a few of my favourite things: wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

20 May: What, where,... and how? The future of the LHC and beyond

http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/internal_resources/conferences/seminars/scott_seminars