Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Annual meetings of the Faculties

Mathematics

The Chair of the Faculty Board of Mathematics gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 1.45 p.m. on Thursday, 20 November 2025 in meeting room 5 of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

The main business will be the election, in accordance with Regulation 1 of the General Regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 601) of

•two members of the Faculty Board in class (a)(ii) to serve from 1 January 2026 for four years.

•one member of the Faculty Board in class (c) to serve from 1 January 2026 for four years.

Nominations for election, signed by the proposer and seconder, and accompanied by the consent of the person nominated, together with notice of any other business for this meeting, should reach the Secretary of the Faculty Board (secretary.board@maths.cam.ac.uk) not later than Monday, 10 November 2025.

Veterinary Medicine

The Chair of the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine gives notice of the date of the Annual Meeting of the Faculty, which will be held in person from 1 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 November 2025 in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road.

This year there are two vacancies for members of the Faculty Board in class (c) and elections will be held accordingly (see Regulation 1 of the General Regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards, Statutes and Ordinances, p. 601).

Historical Tripos, 2025–26: Optional papers

The Faculty Board of History gives notice that the options for each part of the Historical Tripos in 2025–26 will be as indicated below.

Part Ia

The options for Part Ia of the Historical Tripos in 2025–26 will be as follows:

Outline papers
O1	Ancient and medieval societies and states over the first millennium
O2	The British Isles in the Middle Ages, c. 800 to c. 1500
O3	Medieval Europe, c. 1100–1450
O4	Early Modern Britain
O5	Europe in the world, c. 1450–1780
O6	The global eighteenth century
O7	Modern Britain and Ireland, 1750 to the present
O8	Modern Europe, 1789–1914
O9	North America, Central America and the Caribbean since 1775
O10	Africa and South Asia, 1750–present
O11	The twentieth-century world

Sources papers
S1	Vindicating revolution, 1562–1797
S2	Making and spending money in medieval England
S4	Music and sound in the Middle Ages
S5	A tale of one city: Space and place in eighteenth-century London
S6	The British Raj in India, 1757–1947
S11	People and work in England, 1601–1911
S12	Becoming Black Britain
S13	Labours lost
S14	Film and propaganda in Nazi Germany
S16	Travel and trade in the medieval world
S17	Letters in antiquity
S18	Children and childhood in early modern England
S20	Reading early modern Asian empires

Part Ib

The options for Part Ib of the Historical Tripos in 2025–26 will be as follows:

Topics
T1	History of political thought to c. 1700
T2	History of political thought, c. 1700–1890
T3	Ancient empires: Culture and power in the ancient Mediterranean
T4	Inequalities and social change in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds
T5	Warfare, kingship and society in Anglo-Saxon England
T6	Conflict, identity and social change: State-formation in medieval Britain and Europe
T7	Crown and parliaments under the Tudors and Stuarts
T9	Nature and knowledge, c. 1500–c. 1800
T10	The creation of the modern world: A global economic history
T11	Becoming British? Union and disunion in eighteenth-century Britain
T12	British worlds, 1750–1914
T14	Europe’s modern age of violence, 1914–1949
T15	The United States since World War I
T16	The Mediterranean world, 1450–1800
T17	Modern Latin America, 1780 to the present
T18	Modern South Asia, c. 1750–the present day
T19	Africa and the Cold War

Research projects
RP1	Fantastic medieval sources and where to find them
RP2	Doing early modern microhistory
RP3	Gender in early modern Britain
RP4	Labouring lives
RP5	American history
RP6	Contemporary history, politics and public life
RP8	Themes in modern British and Irish history
RP9	Women in Cambridge, c. 1900–1950
RP10	Nations and nationalism in history and historiography
RP11	Rethinking colonialism
RP12	Visions of the State in Britain, 1914–1981
RP13	Collecting and collections

Part II

The Special subjects for Section B in Part II will be as follows:

Special subjects
The age of civil war: Political crisis and its consequences at the end of the Roman Republic	A
Powerful words: How and why men and women used writing in medieval Western Europe (c. 1050– c. 1250)	B
Beyond the Silk Road: Culture, thought and society in Asia, 1000–1900	E
The little lion: Edward III’s England, 1327–1347	F
The history of the British countryside, c. 1600 to the present	G
Masculinities and political culture in Britain, 1832–1901	H
The European Union: A people’s history	I
A women’s history of war, 1750–1815	J
(Un)godly capitalism in colonial Spanish America	K
Segregation and apartheid	L
Native dispossession in the United States, c. 1783–2020	M
The world radio made, c. 1920–c. 1980	N
Religion and nationalism in the making of Zimbabwe, 1948 to the present	O
Growing old in Britain, c. 1948–2011	P
Western capitalism in crisis, c. 1968–1982	R

The subjects for the papers in Sections C and D in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 2025–26 will be as follows:

Section C
PT4	History of political thought from c. 1700–c. 1890
PT5	Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c. 1890
PT6	States between states: The history of international political thought from the Roman empire to the early nineteenth century

Section D
AT7	Transformation of the Roman world, ad 284–376 [Paper C4 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]
AT8	Popular culture in the Greco-Roman world [Paper C3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]
AT9	Order and disorder: Law and society in the Greek world [Paper C1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]
AT10	Empire’s legacy: The transformations of Roman Italy, 350 bc– ad 300 [Paper D4 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]
AT11	Early medicine [Paper BBS113 of Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos (Biological and Biomedical Sciences)]
AT13	Man, nature and the supernatural, c. 1000–c. 1600
AT14	Material culture in the early modern world
AT15	The medieval globe [Paper A24 of Part II of the Archaeology Tripos]
AT16	The ‘rule of law’ in early modern Britain: State power, criminal justice, and civil liberties, c. 1500–c. 1800
AT17	The politics of knowledge from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment
AT18	Overseas expansion and British identities, 1585–1714
AT20	The long Civil Rights Movement
AT21	The Arab twentieth century, c. 1908–2011
AT22	Connected histories of the USA, USSR and Russia since 1945
AT23	The long road to modernisation: Spain since 1808
AT25	Black British histories
AT26	Ireland and the Irish since the Famine
AT27	Transnational history of modern Japan
AT28	Chinese migrant worlds across space and time
AT29	Sites of knowledge, 1750–1850
AT30	Youth in African history

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Entry requirements, 2026–27

The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos, in consultation with the Faculty Boards of Physics and Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences and Geography, and the Board of History and Philosophy of Science, has defined the standards required for entry to each subject in Part III of the Natural Sciences Tripos (see Regulation 5(a) for the Tripos, Statutes and Ordinances, p. 407), with effect from the courses commencing in the academic year 2026–27, as follows:

All subjects

In addition to the standards mentioned above, candidates should have fulfilled any subject prerequisites as outlined in the appropriate programme specification.

The application process for each subject is defined on the subject webpage together with details of any constraints on numbers or additional information that may be required.

Progression committees

A student who has not met the required standard or who has not offered the required subjects as specified above, or who has not complied with the published deadline for receipt of applications, may apply to progress to Part III.

Applications are considered by progression committees, sub-committees as nominated by the relevant Faculty Board that include Part III subject contacts. A request for Part III progression should be forwarded by the student’s Director of Studies or Tutor to the subject contact using the form provided below,1 at the earliest opportunity and, at the latest, within two weeks of the results being released.

The Director of Studies or Tutor should state the reasons for the application, confirm that the College supports the request and is able to support the student, and believes that the student will be capable of undertaking the Part III course successfully. The application must be accompanied by copies of supervision reports, and a detailed breakdown of the student’s marks, year by year and subject by subject.

Progression committees will endeavour to provide a quick decision and response following the receipt of an application to progress.

Exam reviews and mitigating circumstances

If a student is undergoing an Examination Review for their Part II examination, any application for progression to Part III will not be decided until the result of the Examination Review is known.

Subject contacts are not expected to consider circumstances of a nature on which the Examinations Access and Mitigation Committee would normally make a judgement. Such circumstances should follow the usual EAMC procedures. The EAMC will provide the Faculty Board with an opinion on progression to inform their decisions. It would be useful for the EAMC and the subject contact to receive such applications in parallel, although medical or personal circumstances evidence should not be provided to subject contacts.

Communications on outcomes:

Once a decision has been made, the relevant committees will communicate with the Tutor or Director of Studies that submitted the application, who will discuss this with the student.

This communication will include:

•The progression committee (as nominated by the Faculty Board) that discussed the case, and agreed the outcome.

•If there was any conflict of interest (e.g. members of the committee being a Director of Studies of the student under consideration) and what alternative arrangements were made to mitigate this.

•Recognition of any ongoing EAMC or Exam Review procedures (the processes for which should be followed by the College separately).

•A clear outline of the students Part II results and how these have informed the final decision.

•A decision on either allowing the student to progress to Part III or for declining the case.

•A reminder for the Director of Studies or Tutor to discuss this outcome with the student and to inform other relevant College staff.

Appealing progression committee decisions:

If a student wishes to appeal against the decision of a progression committee they can through the Reviews of Decisions of University Bodies process.

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III (Physics) and Master of Advanced Studies in Physics, 2025–26

The Head of the Department of Physics gives notice that the following Major Topics, Minor Topics, and types of further work will be available for examination in Physics in Part III of the Natural Sciences Tripos and for the degree of Master of Advanced Study in the 2025–26 academic year.

Major Topics

These papers will be taken at the start of the Lent Term. Candidates are required to take a minimum of three papers. The titles of the papers are as follows:

Paper 1/AQC.	Advanced quantum condensed matter physics
Paper 1/BIO.	Biological physics
Paper 1/RAC.	Relativistic astrophysics and cosmology
Paper 1/PP.	Particle physics
Paper 1/PEP.	Physics of the Earth as a planet
Paper 1/TQM.	Theories of quantum matter
Paper 1/AOP.	Atomic and optical physics

Candidates may replace one Major Topic with the paper Quantum field theory (Paper 1/QFT) from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (examined in June).

Minor Topics

These papers will be taken at the start of the Easter Term. Candidates who are not replacing Minor Topics by other work, as specified below, are required to take a minimum of three papers. The titles of the papers are as follows:

Paper 2/GFT.	Gauge field theory
Paper 2/MP.	Medical physics
Paper 2/PT.	Phase transitions
Paper 2/PNS.	The physics of nanoelectronic systems
Paper 2/QI.	Quantum information
Paper 2/QS.	Quantum simulation
Paper 2/QMA.	Quantum metrology and algorithm
Paper 2/SQC.	Superconductivity and quantum coherence

Further work

Each paper or piece of further work listed below may replace one Minor Topic:

•Innovation and entrepreneurship for physicists (2/ITI), which is examined by coursework.

•The papers Advanced quantum field theory (2/AQFT), Topological quantum matter (2/TQM) and Quantum information theory (2/QIT) from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (examined in June).

•The examination paper Nuclear power engineering (2/4M16) from Part IIb of the Engineering Tripos (examined at the start of the Easter Term).

•The interdisciplinary papers in Materials, electronics, and renewable energy (2/IDP3); Atmospheric chemistry and global change (2/IDP1) and Frontiers of ice core science (2/IDP2) (all examined in the second half of the Easter Term).

Where candidates take more than three Major Topics, the examiners will use the best three results in determining the class; where candidates take more than three Minor Topics, the examiners will use the best three results in determining the class: all marks will appear on the transcript.