Hey Fitz! 

Not my best goat pun, but hey, it's the end of term -- I've used up all my best material. 

Congratulations on making it through eight weeks of Lent term! It's finally time to take a well-deserved break, before we head into Easter term and exam season -- but let's not think about that just yet.

If you'll be hanging around Cambridge over the next week and need something to do (or just need to escape the library), check out the items below: 

 

ELGAR: SYMPHONY NO.2

Saturday 18 March West Road Concert Hall 8.00pm

  Shchedrin Concerto for Orchestra No.1, ‘Naughty Limericks’ R. Strauss Death and Transfiguration Elgar Symphony No.2

CUMS Symphony Orchestra Jamie Phillips conductor

  For their final concert of Lent Term, CUMS Symphony Orchestra presents a bold and dramatic programme under the baton of Jamie Phillips. 

  Phillips is one of the most exciting and energetic young professional conductors of today, who has built a strong guest conducting profile including engagements with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and many more. He has been described on Bachtrack as having “an uncommon ability to pick up a familiar piece by the scruff of its neck and shake invigorating new life into it.”

  Don’t miss this striking programme, ranging from Shchedrin’s witty ‘Naughty Limericks’ to Strauss’s portrayal of an artist on his deathbed in ‘Death and Transfiguration’, and finishing with Elgar’s Symphony No.2, a gigantic work full of musical and emotional contrast. Tickets for the last two CUMS SO concerts have sold out, so be sure to book your ticket in advance!

  Tickets: £20, £14, £10 Concessions: £18, £12, £8 Students: £5 Booking: www . adcticketing . com; tel: 01223 300085

 
IN[SCI]TE

IN[SCI]TE is an interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Engineering conference based in Cambridge University.

IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both delivered by and aimed at undergrads. Our student speakers will be presenting the results of research they have done, as well as sharing experiences from STEM internships. Several Keynote speakers will be giving talks as well.

The aim is to give Cambridge undergraduates the opportunity to speak on their research as well as to draw undergraduates' attention towards the blurry boundaries between different disciplines of science, and to illustrate to them how scientific research in this area transforms into real-life applications.

 

IN[SCI]TE will be held on 18th - 19th March 2017, at the Old Divinity School of St. John's College, Cambridge.

 

For more information see website: http ://inscite . co/cambridge/about/

 
MARCH FOR SCIENCE

Hello everyone! On April 22nd, Earth Day, people all around the world will march for science. It will be a celebration of discovery, of reason, but it will also be a direct response to the recent devaluing and disparagement of scientific thought and progress.

 

We are organizing to get as many Cambridge people over to London for the march. Not just scientists, but anyone who values evidence-based decision making. Join us!

https://www . facebook . com/MarchforScienceCAM/

@ScienceMarchCAM

 

Key Points

1) Please sign-up to our event and for more information!

https://www . facebook . com/events/178343069337362/

 

2) Do not forget to also sign-up for the main event in London:

https://www . facebook . com/events/1699660986990593/

https://www . facebook . com/groups/380032399019822/

 

3) Fill this very brief survey if you want to go together as a Cambridge group or to indicate if you would like to help out and volunteer (signs, T-shirts, group transportation).

https://goo . gl/forms/slNB0TzaKgRCUgr63

 

Let's get all of Cambridge to march!!

Cambridge for Science Team

 

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

(see attached poster)

 

 
BRAIN STIMULATION STUDY

Participants needed for brain stimulation study!

 

Our lab at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge is currently looking for participants in psychological research. The purpose of this study is to examine the brain’s mechanisms for perception.

 

If you are interested and would like more information,please contact Reuben Rideaux via email:rr513@cam.ac.uk

 

This study will include six sessions (each lasting between 60 to 90 minutes) that will take place over separate days. All sessions will involve observing images on a screen while making responses by pressing buttons. In three of the sessions will receive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) while performing the task. This procedure is a safe, non-invasive technique that has no known medium or long-term risks and has been used for more than 15 years.

 

All sessions will take place in the Department of Psychology (Downing Site, CB2 3EB). You will be compensated £7.5 an hour.

 

To be eligible to participate, you should have normal or corrected-to-normal vision without major visual impairments. If you have corrected-to-normal vision, you must be comfortable wearing contact lenses for the duration of each session. During the experiment, you have the right to withdraw from the study at any time and you will be entitled to any agreed payment up to the point where you withdraw. The information which you supply will be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.  No identifiable personal data will be published.

 

Contact Information:

Dr Reuben Rideaux

Email: rr513@cam.ac.uk

 
MECHANISMS OF 3D DEPTH PERCEPTION

Participants needed for brain stimulation study!

 
The Adaptive Brain Lab at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge is currently looking for participants in psychological research. The purpose of this study is to examine the brain’s mechanisms of 3D depth perception.

 
Most of the experiment will take place over separate days in the Department of Psychology (Downing Site, CB2 3EB). During the experiment, you will be asked to perform a 3D visual task. You will receive brain stimulation to investigate the role of certain brain networks in visual perception. You will be financially compensated for your participation in the study.

 
If you are interested and would like more information, please contact Lukas Schaeffner (lfs36@cam.ac.uk)

 
This study will include the following:

  ·       Four sessions (each 1h) in which you will perform a visual task in front of a screen. You will be compensated £7 per hour.

·       Five sessions (each 1h) that will involve the use of non-invasive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). The TMS technique we are going to use is a safe and widely used neurophysiologic method for non-invasive stimulation of the neural tissue of the brain in both clinical and research settings. It should not bring any lasting discomfort, but during the session you might experience gentle tapping feeling on the scalp. Eight of the total number of session includes TMS. You will be compensated £7.50 per hour.  For more details about the study, please see the experiment information document attached to this email. You will be asked to sign this document in our laboratory to confirm that you agree with the terms of the experiment.

 
How to take part:

·       To be eligible to participate, you should have normal or corrected-to-normal vision without major visual impairments. Please note that during the experiment you will have to wear contact lenses, it will not be possible to wear your glasses.

·       Please fill out the Screening Form attached to this email. Send the filled out form to: lfs36@cam.ac.uk. If no forms are attached to this email please contact us and we will send the forms to you.

·       Next we will get in contact with you and invite you for your first experiment session.

 
During the experiment, you have the right to withdraw from the study at any time and you will be entitled to any agreed payment up to the point where you withdraw. The information which you supply will be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.  No identifiable personal data will be published.

  Contact Information: Lukas Schaeffner Email: lfs36@cam.ac.uk

 
LIVI.CO FREE USAGE

How to consolidate your work and support a Cambridge Startup at the same time

Do you use Gmail, Hermes Webmail, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype etc all in parallel?

Then you'll be familiar with spending an unnecessary amount of time trying to navigate these disconnected silos, logging in and out in search of content or chasing alerts.

https://livil . co/  is a Cambridge start-up founded recently by an alumni and a professor. The concept is to integrate all of your existing tools that you use for your work (email, file sharing, calendar etc) into one central dashboard.

Your content from the tools gets organized centrally, rather than randomly sitting in dispersed siloes. You can then filter the content and see only what is relevant for the task at hand. Also, you can connect information stemming from different sources: Attach a Google Doc to a Hermes email in one click for example, or save it in one folder together with documents from Box, OneDrive or Dropbox. 

Curious to see how it works? The team at livil is offering every Cambridge student exclusively one year free usage.

Just pre-register your interest with your @cam . ac . uk address at https://livil . co/invite/ before the end of the month to qualify.

 

Have a great Easter vacation, and see you all next term! 

Billy love,
Tara Ahluwalia
JCR Secretary & Communications Exec