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In 1913, British policymakers brought into being an infrastructure of ‘care’ and confinement aimed at those they termed ‘mentally deficient’. The language changed across the later twentieth century, but historians have still associated what might now be termed cognitive or learning disability with stigma and segregation. Their focus has been the institutions of ‘care’ – asylums, colonies, special schools – which medicalised and disenfranchised the ‘cared for’.

This class is intended to review some basic definitions and results in Probability, which can be useful to understand some applications of Probability in social sciences, engineering and physics, such as statistics or random process (e.g. Brownian motions) among others. The aim of the course is to give a fast account of the elementary mathematical theory of probability for a general audience, on the basis of the book "Probability, An Introduction", by G Gimmett and D Welsh. If time allows we could discuss some relevant examples and exercises. The class is divided into two parts:

The different cell types that compose our bodies are remarkably stable. Hardly ever do we find skin cells in the brain or liver cells in the heart. In those very special cases where some regeneration can take place in vertebrates, there is little if any evidence for a switch in cell-type. Nevertheless, nuclear transfer, cell fusion, and induced pluripotency can result in pluripotent embryo cells being derived from specialized adult cells.

Works include PurcellOde on St Cecilia’s Day, 1692

Britten Hymn to St Cecilia 

Wolfson College Choir & Soloists

Conductor Lyn Alcántara

Admission Free with a retiring collection. No need to book.

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