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Fri 24 Jan 2020

Friday 24 January 2020

09:30	Pressurised Gas and Cryogens Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room This course will cover safe storage and use of cryogens, safe use and stores of compressed gas, and aspects of oxygen depletion with respect to the above.
	CULP: Italian Basic 1 (9 of 15) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting 2019-20 (7 of 17) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 First Intuition The course details are being finalised, for now please book a provisional place here and we will let you know when the details and application packs are available AAT Level 4, Professional Diploma in accounting. Students will be placed on the public day release programme with an external provider Once you have registered here you will need to complete the application form at the back of the briefing pack. This pack is available on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme Dates will be added once they have been confirmed
	Student Immigration Finished 09:30 - 12:00 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room This course is recommended for any members of faculties and departments who are involved in student administration. The University is required to ensure compliance with the responsibilities of its Tier 4 sponsor licence, granted by the Home Office to provide visa sponsorship for non-EEA students. The aim of the course is to provide an overview of the immigration regulations affecting students, with a focus on the requirements for visiting students and the practicalities of supporting this activity within the Cambridge context.
10:00	Starting Your PhD (STEMM) Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Postdoc Centre@ Mill Lane, Eastwood Room You are beginning one of the most exciting, yet challenging programme of your academic career. You have entered a new lab, with a new supervisor, new lab colleagues and a new project. Where do you start? How do establish productive working relationships, get up to speed with literature and establish a project that will be worthy of a PhD at the end? This half day workshop will explore what it means to do a PhD, think about how to establish meaningful student-supervisor relationships and plan for a productive PhD project.
11:00	CULP: German Basic 1 (total beginners) for Academic Purposes (LAP) (2 of 15) Finished 11:00 - 12:30 Zoom Video Communication Software This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
11:30	CULP: French Basic 2 (9 of 15) Finished 11:30 - 13:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available on our website.
12:00	JTC: Advanced French Conversation Hours (1 of 6) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 This conversation hour offers learners with an independent conversational ability (B2 level upwards) a chance to practise speaking French with others in a relaxed and informal group led by a native-speaker facilitator. The content of the sessions is decided by the participants, with members taking turns to propose a topic and source materials (newspaper articles, web-links, videos etc.) to use as a basis for discussion. The groups are ideal for those who wish to retain or improve upon the language skills they already have or for those studying for a language degree who would like another forum for interaction at advanced level. Participants from French Advanced CULP are warmly invited to attend the French Conversation Hour. If the course is already 'in progress' please click on 'register your interest' in order to book a place.
	Medicine: Creating Conference Posters for Your SSC (for Year 4 clinical students only) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room A course to take you through conference poster design, with tips and resources to help with the content and presentation in order to ensure you communicate your research effectively. The course will cover where to source good quality, free graphics, how to include references in your poster, and advice about how best to present it at a conference. The session will NOT involve hands-on creation of a poster.
	Introduction to Literature Searching and Referencing Finished 12:00 - 13:00 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 5 This session aims to address the following: How to define and refine your research question Building up your search skills Learning what databases to use and when Getting Google to work for you Evaluating your sources Referencing what you find
13:00	CULP: German Intermediate 1 (9 of 15) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Language Centre, Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please go to the Language Centre CULP page.
13:30	CULP: French Intermediate 1 (9 of 15) Finished 13:30 - 15:30 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available on our webiste.
	iProcurement Part 2: Month End processes in the Buyers Work Centre (1 of 2) Finished 13:30 - 15:30 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course covers the various month-end processes that need to be completed within the iProcurement module.
14:00	Chemistry: DD3 Modern Tactics to Optimise Potency Finished 14:00 - 15:00 Unilever Lecture Theatre When you have 1000s of possible compounds you could make from any one start point what do you make first? This lecture will cover some general basic principles on designing more potent molecules, as well as some practical tips on how to run an optimization program and how to focus synthetic efforts. Binding modalities (reversible, covalent) will be briefly covered, as well as some newer non-traditional modalities. This lecture will also serve as an introduction to the medicinal chemistry game.
	CULP: German Basic (total beginners) for Academic Purposes (LAP) - PRIMARILY FOR CLASSICISTS (9 of 15) Finished 14:00 - 15:30 Faculty of Classics, Room 2.03 PLEASE NOTE: This course is PRIMARILY FOR CLASSICISTS. This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
14:15	Managing your data (Engineering RDC Division A - Energy) Finished 14:15 - 15:15 Department of Engineering, Hopkinson West Meeting Room An RDC session for 1st year PhD students (Division A-Energy), Department of Engineering. Learn how and why to keep your information and data organised, stored and accessible by creating a Data Management Plan. The session will cover: What data are you using?, Creating vs reusing data, Storage, organisation and version control, Data safety and backing up, Sharing your data. Please bring a laptop or other web-enabled device with you to the session. Slides from the session will be made available on Moodle.
15:00	CULP: Japanese Basic 2 (9 of 15) CANCELLED 15:00 - 17:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Spanish Basic 1 (9 of 15) Finished 15:00 - 17:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	An Introduction to Critical Reading (for Psychology Students) Finished 15:00 - 16:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 5 This workshop session aims to address the following: What is critical reading? Reading productively Reading critically Effective note-taking techniques The course will be a mixture of front-led instruction and interactive small group discussions.
15:30	iProcurement Part 2: Month End processes in the Buyers Work Centre (2 of 2) Finished 15:30 - 16:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course covers the various month-end processes that need to be completed within the iProcurement module.
16:00	CULP: Portuguese Basic 2 (8 of 15) CANCELLED 16:00 - 18:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre.
16:15	English: Living in Britain Finished 16:15 - 18:15 Department of Engineering, CLIC 2 Living in Britain This practical seminar provides a further opportunity for participants to learn more about key aspects of living in Britain. As in the previous seminar (Michaelmas Term 2019), it will focus on the intercultural understanding needed to study and work successfully within the University environment; it will also focus more widely on aspects of British life and culture, considering any topics (e.g. tourism, history, politics, class, customs) that participants would like to discuss, and drawing where possible on their impressions and experiences. Those who attended the previous seminar are welcome, and all participants are encouraged to email any questions or particular areas of interest in advance to Sheila Dodds (smd48). NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.
17:00	CULP: Spanish Intermediate 1 (9 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Spanish Basic 2 - SEMI-INTENSIVE (3 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 Faculty of History, Seminar Room 3 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Japanese Basic 1 (9 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 1 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
	CULP: Korean Basic 2 (9 of 15) Finished 17:00 - 19:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website.
18:00	CULP: Portuguese Advanced (9 of 15) Finished 18:00 - 20:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 4 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At advanced level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater for the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. More detailed information is available on our website. NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July.
19:00	CULP: Chinese (Mandarin) Elementary 1 (9 of 15) Finished 19:00 - 21:00 17 Mill Lane Teaching Room 2 The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre webiste.