This walk joins the River Lark near Worlington, right on the eastern edge of the Fens. We follow the river through the Fens for about 10 miles to Prickwillow, where there is a Fenland drainage engine museum, which we can visit if we wish. We then follow the Hereward Way westwards to meet the River Great Ouse, which leads us into the cathedral city of Ely.

Meet: 09:25 at the railway station for the 09:43 train to Newmarket,
then 10:10 bus to Worlington

Return: 17:38 train from Ely, arriving back in Cambridge at 17:58

Cost: £8.40, or £5.55 with a railcard, for the train [Single from Cambridge to Newmarket, plus Single from Ely to Cambridge], plus about £3 for the bus, plus £3 admission if we visit the museum

In the likely event of leaving Linton without being eaten by a tiger from Linton zoo we will make our way to Hadstock and St Botolph's church to examine the oldest door still in use in Britain. Next we will make our way across the gently rolling Essex countryside to meet the Harcamlow Way which takes us to Bartlow Hills Tumuli, originally the largest group of Roman burial mounds in Europe (before the Victorians built a now disused railway line through the middle of them) and still featuring the largest barrow in Britain. Finally we return to Linton on the Icknield Way for the bus home.

Meet: 12:15 at the bus station for the 12.30 bus to Linton

Return: 17.09 bus from Linton, arriving back in Cambridge at 17.40

Cost: £5.20 for the bus fare (DayRiderPlus ticket)

With this quite short walk, we’ll stop a lot to pick some little black treasures. So don’t expect to walk fast!
We’ll begin by the village of Oakington, where a military RAF aerodrome was based during WWII (notably during the battle of England). We’ll walk up to Longstanton (a village whose first known reference goes back to 1070). Then we’ll cross the line of the future guided bus line (between Cambridge and St Ives) and cut across fields to reach the surroundings of Rampton, before going to Histon and finishing the loop to Oakington, not forgetting to greet some of Dylan’s cousins if they are in their usual field.

Meet: 9.15 at the corner of Drummer Street and Emmanuel Street.
Departure (Stagecoach n°6) to Oakington at 9.25

Return at 13.28 or 13.48 (with arrival at Cambridge bus station at about 13.52 or 14.12)

Cost: £3.40 for the bus fare (Day rider with Stagecoach)

Please bring food or snack for break, for there is no pub en route.
If you feel like it, bring a bag, basket or bucket to fill with blackberries!
Recipes to bake the blackberries will be sent to you by email after the ramble (if you wish) so you can benefit of what nature provides us with! (Thanks Nature!)

A fair to introduce freshers to the activities of the Cambridge University Nigerian Society

The Get Up @ Clare Jazz with support from The EllaFunks

That's right - Live funk in clare cellars!

The Get Up are a london based funk band with smooth hammond sounds and funky brass licks.
http://www.myspace.com/thegetupband

The EllaFunks are pure cambridge sing-along pop-funk. You may have seen them last year funking it up at the Union Ball.

The Tomorrow's Warriors Quartet is a fresh new ensemble featuring some of the brightest rising jazz stars of the future. Led by Sir Gary Crosby (thats right, an OBE in rockin' out) this quartet aims to revolutionise classic jazz as we know it.

‘The most promising recent jazz arrivals.' Guardian

http://www.myspace.com/tomorrowswarriors

Paragon are a four-piece experimental jazz ensemble led by Jon Scott on percussion. They play a beautiful mix of free jazz melodies played out on sax, bass and keys.

http://www.myspace.com/paragonlikesyou

And what better place to hear smooth jazz than in the ambience of Clare Cellars.

Groove Cartel are a 7 piece Funk band from Cambridgeshire, playing a mixture of original Funk and hand-picked gems from the oldskool archives. With a positive, danceable vibe throughout, their sets travel from laid back, groove-based riffs to frenetic rock-outs dripping with organ/guitar duelling and vocal-led crowd participation.

http://www.myspace.com/groovecartel

You really don't want to miss this one!

We will be taking new membership at this years Freshers Fair. Sign up is free so come and give us your email to informed about all the events we organise.

Join CUCCSA for free to watch Cambridge City vs. Swindon Supermarine for just £1!

David Aaronovitch is an award-winning journalist, who has worked in radio, television and the media in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. He has previously written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent as well as having appeared on Have I Got News For You.

Informal meeting for anyone interested in volunteering for the RSPCA in Cambridge, or who just wants to find out more about us.

Meetings are held at our charity shop in Burleigh street and this is also a fundraising event, with the opportunity to buy items from the shop.

This is a gentle afternoon stroll along the River Cam, ideal both for new members who want to learn more about the club and meet some fellow walking enthusiasts as well as for existing members who want to swap stories of their summer travels. After the walk we'll stop briefly at the pub in Waterbeach before catching the train back to Cambridge.

Meet: 2pm on the Quayside next to Magdalene Bridge

Return: 17:35 train from Waterbeach, arriving back in Cambridge at 17:44

Cost: £2.60, or £1.70 with a railcard [Single from Waterbeach]

The University sporting men and women of Cambridge are combining forces this Michaelmas to create the biggest and best welcome (back) event to reign in the new academic year! What's even better--it's for a good cause.

On 16 October 2010, we invite all those interested, whether associated with sports or not, to come join the Hawks and Ospreys in raising money for Right to Play and celebrating the start of another great year.

Right to Play is the official charity of both the Olympics and BUCS. It does amazing work worldwide, using sports and games to provide children in areas plagued with war, poverty and disease the opportunity to grow into productive members of society. By steering kids away from weapons, drugs, and crime and towards the teamwork, discipline and drive of sport, Right to Play has effected positive change in the most malleable portions of society across the globe. It is the pleasure of the Hawks' and Ospreys' to team with Right to Play to help further its work.

We will also have an auction of sporting memorabilia and other exciting packages.

Tickets will go on sale online later this summer, but the details are as follows:

What: The Hawks' & Ospreys' Charity Ball 2010
Where: The Cambridge Union Society Building (9a Bridge Street)
Who: Everyone interested in celebrating and giving to charity
Date: Saturday, 16 October, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Ents: Variety of live music, silent disco, comedy and more
Food: Extensive array of savoury and sweet food
Drink: Some drinks included, then inexpensive cash bar
Attire: Black tie & Blazers
Cost: £35 for Hawks, Ospreys and Union Members
£40 for Non-Members
Blocks of 10 tickets for £350 irrespective of membership

Should you have any questions, wish to sponsor, wish to perform or wish to work at the ball, please contact Ian Ralby, President of the Hawks' Club (ir243@cam.ac.uk) or Charlotte Roach, President of the Ospreys' Club (cr380@cam.ac.uk).

When?
Tuesday, September 28 at 7:00PM

Where?
The Maypole
20a Portugal Place
CB5 8AF

Who?
Andy Parker

What's the talk about?

Andy Parker is a Professor of High Energy Physics at Cambridge University,
with over 160 publications on aspects of particle physics. His current
research interests involve experiments to reveal new physics in the
Tera-electron-volt energy regime. He is a founder of the ATLAS experiment
for the Large Hadron Collider, and for 6 years he was the project leader for
the ATLAS Inner Detector, the most complex detector system so far created at
CERN. He is also involved in large-scale distributed computing grids, used
for various scientific projects. He was awarded the Pilkington Prize for
excellence in teaching in 1997.

The talk will discuss the latest status and results from the ATLAS
experiment at the LHC. Data-taking started in November 2009, and is planned
to continue for at least 15 years. Early results will focus on measurements
of known processes at the TeV energy scale, such as quark-antiquark
production, and studies of the weak interaction. A major goal will be to
discover, or rule out, the Higgs boson, a key component of the "Standard
Model" of particle interactions. The talk will also discuss the more exotic
physics being investigated, such as extra space dimensions, quantum-sized
black holes, and supersymmetry.

When?
Tuesday, October 26 at 7:00PM

Where?
The Maypole
20a Portugal Place
CB5 8AF

Who?
Ian Ridpath

What's the talk about?

According to one estimate, around 100 UFOs are sighted worldwide every 24 hours – that’s one every 15 minutes. What’s causing all these reports? Are they, as believers claim, evidence that we are being visited by aliens from other planets? Or is there a more prosaic explanation? This hard-hitting talk by Ian Ridpath, astronomy writer and UFO sceptic, traces the growth of the flying saucer myth since the first sighting in 1947, and demonstrates some of the most common causes of UFO reports. The talk will discuss the implication of formerly top-secret government documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act, and will end with Ian’s first-hand account of his own researches into the Rendlesham Forest incident, a major event outside a US Air Force base at Woodbridge in Suffolk, still widely regarded as among the best UFO cases ever.

Ian is a science writer and found fame for his investigation into the 'Rendlesham Forest Incident', often called 'Britain's Roswell'. For further reading on the subject Ian's website http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/ufoindex.htm provides a good starting point to find more out about him and his talks.

When?
Tuesday, December 21 at 7:00PM

Where?
The Maypole
20a Portugal Place
CB5 8AF

Who?
Aubrey de Grey

What's the talk about?

It may seem premature to be discussing the elimination of human aging as a cause of death, when so little progress has yet been made in even postponing it. However, two facts undermine this assessment. The first is that aging happens throughout our lives but only causes ill-health after middle age: this shows that we can postpone that ill-health without knowing how to prevent aging completely, but instead by molecular and cellular repair. The second is that the typical rate of subsequent, incremental refinement of big technological breakthroughs is usually fast enough (so long as public enthusiasm for them is strong) to change those technologies almost beyond recognition within a natural human lifespan. In this talk I will explain, first, why therapies that can add 30 healthy years to the remaining lifespan of typical 60-year-olds may well arrive within the next few decades, and, second, why those who benefit from those therapies will very probably continue to benefit from progressively improved therapies indefinitely and will thus avoid debilitation or death from age-related causes at any age.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000 respectively. His original field was computer science, and he did research in the private sector for six years in the area of software verification before switching to biogerontology in the mid-1990s. His research interests encompass the characterisation of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular and cellular side-effects of metabolism (“damage”) that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks aging down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one. A key aspect of SENS is that it can potentially extend healthy lifespan without limit, even though these repair processes will probably never be perfect, as the repair only needs to approach perfection rapidly enough to keep the overall level of damage below pathogenic levels. Dr. de Grey has termed this required rate of improvement of repair therapies “longevity escape velocity”. Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organisations.

When?
Tuesday, January 25 at 7:00PM

Where?
The Maypole
20a Portugal Place
CB5 8AF

Who?
Simon Blackburn

What's the talk about?

The subject of Simon's talk will be announced closer to the time.

Simon Blackburn is the Professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Trinity College, and a Research Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 1969 to 1990 he was Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at many places in the USA and worldwide. His books include: Reason and Prediction, 1973, Spreading the Word 1984, Essays in Quasi-Realism 1993, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, 1994, Ruling Passions 1998, Think 1999, Being Good 2001, Lust 2004, Truth: A Guide 2005, Plato’s Republic 2006, How to Read Hume 2008, The Big Questions of Philosophy, 2009. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Have you ever watched Strictly Come Dancing and thought that you'd like to have a go? Well now's your opportunity. A free workshop giving a taste of the elegant waltz, the sexy cha-cha and the enegetic jive. No experience necessary.

Dancesport is a half-blue sport in Cambridge, and the Cambridge team has been national champions in four of the last five years. Each year around 40 people are selected to represent the university, including some people with no previous experience in Ballroom or Latin dancing.