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Thu 12 Jul 2018 – Tue 17 Jul 2018

Thursday 12 July 2018

09:15	Assertiveness in Management Finished 09:15 - 16:45 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room As a manager, handling relationships is one of your key skills. An ability to think, speak and act assertively in these relationships will enhance your reputation and success. If you want to motivate staff, earn their loyalty and enable them to achieve the best possible results, then this course is for you. It will also deal with the challenges of managing your own manager assertively.
09:30	Grants Part 2: Grant reports in COGNOS Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course will concentrate on how to use the COGNOS reporting tool to help manage departmental research grants. These reports can be divided into three main categories: Summary financial information for Projects Detailed expenditure analysis Management reports for Grants due to close In this course we will not access the Grants module in CUFS.
	An Introduction to Solving Biological Problems with Python (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building This course provides a practical introduction to the writing of Python programs for the complete novice. Participants are lead through the core aspects of Python illustrated by a series of example programs. Upon completion of the course, attentive participants will be able to write simple Python programs and customize more complex code to fit their needs. Course materials are available here. Please note that the content of this course has recently been updated. This course now mostly focuses on core concepts including Python syntax, data structures and reading/writing files. Functions and modules are now the focus of a new 1-day course, Working with Python: functions and modules. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
10:00	Amicus Yellow Box Searching Workshop Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 This session is a working session to help you use yellow box searching for your own data requests. We will cover: Creating a search Checking the results Saving the search
	How to help researchers navigate Open Access requirements (for librarians and administrators) Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room Are the researchers in your department confused about what they need to do about Open Access? This support session will equip you to help them understand: what Open Access policies actually mean for researchers across the disciplines what they are required to do in order for their research to be eligible for REF 2021 Dr Arthur Smith of the Office of Scholarly Communication will discuss everything you need to know to guide researchers through the process of making research Open Access, and will demonstrate how to manage key tasks in Symplectic Elements.
13:00	Spanish: Beginner Intensive (6 of 9) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Department of Engineering, CLIC 1 Fun introductory course to Spanish. This course is for those with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
14:00	Introduction to CamSIS Finished 14:00 - 17:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 CamSIS is Cambridge’s system for handling student information, records and transactions, from initial contact and application all the way through to graduation. This course will teach you the basics of using the system to view student records and to produce basic lists of students. Supporting documentation Introduction to CamSIS https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=138371 Understanding Student Data in CamSIS https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=139441
16:30	JTC: Language Study Group - Summer Season (3 of 10) Finished 16:30 - 18:00 John Trim Centre Do you need a date in your diary* to keep your language study ticking over?* Many language learners are in the same boat. We need to fill a hungry gap between courses, begin tackling an academic article in another language, prepare to speak to friends or family abroad, or maybe study a lesser-known language for fieldwork... Whatever your goal for your language learning, you will need to execute your plan. A weekly commitment can help focus the mind! If this applies to you, join this informal, supportive and adventurous study group. Make yourself at home in our learning centre and press on with what you need to do, alongside other learners and with support from Emma, a language learning adviser, interested in talking to you about your learning strategies. Receive weekly reminders to keep you on track. This is a little melting pot: open to learners of any language, in a learning centre with resources for 170. Tea and quality biscuits are on hand for whenever you want to take a break! If the course is in progress, registering your interest equals booking a place. If you don't wish to join at this stage but would like to be added to the mailing list to be kept up to date with the study group, please follow this link and search for 'Langcen-studygroup.

Friday 13 July 2018

09:30	Python 3: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (4 of 4) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with programming experience, even if it is just in shell scripting or Matlab-like programs. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming.
	An Introduction to Solving Biological Problems with Python (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building This course provides a practical introduction to the writing of Python programs for the complete novice. Participants are lead through the core aspects of Python illustrated by a series of example programs. Upon completion of the course, attentive participants will be able to write simple Python programs and customize more complex code to fit their needs. Course materials are available here. Please note that the content of this course has recently been updated. This course now mostly focuses on core concepts including Python syntax, data structures and reading/writing files. Functions and modules are now the focus of a new 1-day course, Working with Python: functions and modules. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
	Introduction to Lean in HE (Equivalent to Yellow Belt Level) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Norwich Auditorium The course is designed to give participants an overview of Lean six sigma thinking as applied within Higher Education, and an explanation of some of the basic tools used to improve business processes.
	Chemical Safety Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room A safety course for anyone either directly working with chemicals or who is responsible for persons working with chemicals including PIs, Post Grads, Post Docs and technicians. If you have attended the 2-hour departmental chemical safety training it is not necessary to attend this course as well.
10:00	Finance Division Taster Sessions - Investments Finished 10:00 - 13:00 To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Division to spend half a day in the Treasury & Investments Team to get an overview and appreciation of what they do. The Treasury & Investments team are offering two sessions, one on Treasury and one on Investments. Ideally the Treasury session should be attended before this one (Investments) however this is not a pre-requisite.
11:00	Year end 2018 seminar - General Finished 11:00 - 12:00 Todd-Hamied This event is for accounts staff from the UAS and non-schools institutions. There will be a short presentation from the Finance Division team and then a session for institution specific questions relating to the year end process. Questions and topics for discussion can be submitted in advance via your School Finance manager
12:00	French: Beginner Intensive (9 of 9) Finished 12:00 - 14:00 Department of Engineering, CLIC 1 Introductory course to French. This course is for those with no previous knowledge of French. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
14:30	Risk Management (Seminar) Finished 14:30 - 17:00 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room The University must ensure that there are appropriate arrangements in place to promote effective risk management; this is a condition of grant under the terms of the Financial Memorandum between the HEFCE and the Higher Education Institutions it funds. This course will explore what risk management is and why it is necessary, and the particular benefits that can be derived from effective risk management. A key focus of the course will be to review the University’s system for risk management and to explore how this system can be implemented at the local level of Faculties and Departments.

Monday 16 July 2018

09:30	Variant Discovery with GATK4 (1 of 4) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building This workshop will focus on the core steps involved in calling variants with the Broad’s Genome Analysis Toolkit, using the “Best Practices” developed by the GATK team. You will learn why each step is essential to the variant discovery process, what are the operations performed on the data at each step, and how to use the GATK tools to get the most accurate and reliable results out of your dataset. In the course of this workshop, we highlight key functionalities such as the germline GVCF workflow for joint variant discovery in cohorts, somatic variant discovery using MuTect2, and copy number variation discovery using GATK-CNV. All analyses are demonstrated using GATK version 4. Finally, we demonstrate the use of pipelining tools to assemble and execute GATK workflows. The workshop covers basic genomics, all currently supported Best Practices pipelines as well as pipelining with WDL/Cromwell/FireCloud. This includes the logic of the major pipelines, file formats and data transformations involved, and hands-on operation of the tools using goal-oriented exercises. Day 1: Introduction to Genomics, GATK Best Practices and Pipelining Day 2: Germline short variant discovery (SNPs + Indels) Day 3: Somatic variant discovery (SNVs + Indels + CNVs) Day 4: Writing pipelines with WDL and running them in FireCloud Please note that this workshop is focused on human data analysis. The majority of the materials presented does apply equally to non-human data, and we will address some questions regarding adaptations that are needed for analysis of non-human data, but we will not go into much detail on those points. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to Book or register Interest by linking here.
13:00	Spanish: Beginner Intensive (7 of 9) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Department of Engineering, CLIC 1 Fun introductory course to Spanish. This course is for those with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
14:00	Amicus Yellow Box Searching Workshop CANCELLED 14:00 - 15:00 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 This session is a working session to help you use yellow box searching for your own data requests. We will cover: Creating a search Checking the results Saving the search

Tuesday 17 July 2018

09:00	Advanced OpenMP (1 of 6) Finished 09:00 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site Please note that although this course is being hosted at Cambridge, it is being organised and run by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. OpenMP is the industry standard for shared-memory programming, which enables serial programs to be parallelised using compiler directives. This 3-day course will cover topics including nested parallelism, OpenMP tasks, the OpenMP memory model, performance tuning, hybrid OpenMP + MPI, OpenMP implementations, and new features in OpenMP 4.0/4.5. Hands-on practical programming exercises make up a significant, and integral, part of this course. Access will be given to appropriate hardware for all the exercises, although many of them can also be performed on a standard Linux laptop. To book a place on this course please complete their online registration form which can be found here along with a full description of the course.
09:30	Leading Your Team Through Change (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room Change is a constant feature in today’s workplace and yet many of us find it hard to navigate successfully through change. Studies show that the line manager has a critical role to play in ensuring staff are ready for change and in successfully implementing it. These sessions will equip you with the skills and attitudes you need to guide, support and motivate your team through the process of change. Case studies, discussion and activities will provide the opportunity to share ideas and embed skills.
	GL Part 2: Reporting in the General Ledger (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course provides users the opportunity to run General Ledger reports and how to interpret them when managing departmental funds. You are invited to bring with you any reference documents that you may have detailing your own departmental codes.
	Variant Discovery with GATK4 (2 of 4) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building This workshop will focus on the core steps involved in calling variants with the Broad’s Genome Analysis Toolkit, using the “Best Practices” developed by the GATK team. You will learn why each step is essential to the variant discovery process, what are the operations performed on the data at each step, and how to use the GATK tools to get the most accurate and reliable results out of your dataset. In the course of this workshop, we highlight key functionalities such as the germline GVCF workflow for joint variant discovery in cohorts, somatic variant discovery using MuTect2, and copy number variation discovery using GATK-CNV. All analyses are demonstrated using GATK version 4. Finally, we demonstrate the use of pipelining tools to assemble and execute GATK workflows. The workshop covers basic genomics, all currently supported Best Practices pipelines as well as pipelining with WDL/Cromwell/FireCloud. This includes the logic of the major pipelines, file formats and data transformations involved, and hands-on operation of the tools using goal-oriented exercises. Day 1: Introduction to Genomics, GATK Best Practices and Pipelining Day 2: Germline short variant discovery (SNPs + Indels) Day 3: Somatic variant discovery (SNVs + Indels + CNVs) Day 4: Writing pipelines with WDL and running them in FireCloud Please note that this workshop is focused on human data analysis. The majority of the materials presented does apply equally to non-human data, and we will address some questions regarding adaptations that are needed for analysis of non-human data, but we will not go into much detail on those points. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to Book or register Interest by linking here.
	UTBS: New Provider Training Administrator Training Finished 09:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 2 This course is designed for Training Administrators of a new provider on the University Training Booking System (UTBS) and it will take them through theory and practicals on how to administer their training programme on the UTBS.
	Cambridge University Libraries Staff : Customer Service Excellence am (Pilot workshop) Finished 09:30 - 12:30 N/A An interactive workshop, focusing on providing service for both internal (colleagues) and external (readers) customers.
	Web Recruitment Training - managing vacancies & sending correspondence Finished 09:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 This course covers viewing, processing and recording data for applications, adding notes and attachments, generating rejection emails, generating electronic reference requests, processing applicants through the selection process and transferring successful applicants to CHRIS.
10:00	Medicine: The "Big Four" Databases For Your Literature Search Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session - four medicine and life science databases - widest coverage for your literature search. PubMed is great, but it doesn't cover all the journals relevant to life sciences and medicine. Embase, Web of Science and Scopus can also be relevant and each covers unique material. Come to this hands-on session to learn how to get the best from each of these "4 tops".
10:30	Cambridge University Libraries Staff : Finance Team: Vision and Challenge Statements Finished 10:30 - 12:30 External Venue Bespoke session for Finance team to assist in setting their vision and challenge statements
13:00	Spanish: Beginner Intensive (8 of 9) Finished 13:00 - 15:00 Department of Engineering, CLIC 1 Fun introductory course to Spanish. This course is for those with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
13:30	Cambridge University Libraries Staff : Customer Service Excellence pm (Pilot workshop) Finished 13:30 - 16:30 N/A An interactive workshop, focusing on providing service for both internal (colleagues) and external (readers) customers.
14:00	GL Part 2: Reporting in the General Ledger (2 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course provides users the opportunity to run General Ledger reports and how to interpret them when managing departmental funds. You are invited to bring with you any reference documents that you may have detailing your own departmental codes.
	Finance Division Taster Sessions - Financial Reporting CANCELLED 14:00 - 16:00 To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Finance Division to spend half a day in the Financial Reporting Team to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.
	Advanced OpenMP (2 of 6) Finished 14:00 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site Please note that although this course is being hosted at Cambridge, it is being organised and run by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. OpenMP is the industry standard for shared-memory programming, which enables serial programs to be parallelised using compiler directives. This 3-day course will cover topics including nested parallelism, OpenMP tasks, the OpenMP memory model, performance tuning, hybrid OpenMP + MPI, OpenMP implementations, and new features in OpenMP 4.0/4.5. Hands-on practical programming exercises make up a significant, and integral, part of this course. Access will be given to appropriate hardware for all the exercises, although many of them can also be performed on a standard Linux laptop. To book a place on this course please complete their online registration form which can be found here along with a full description of the course.