MPS Weekly Update
10 December 2015
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
Sussex staff are being asked for their
help in providing a new tranche of
honorary degree nominations for the
summer 2016 and winter 2017
graduation ceremonies.
Nominations need to be submitted by Wednesday 23 December, at the
latest, for consideration by the next meeting of the Honorary Degrees
Committee www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=33375
Thursday 10 December 12noon-2pm Library café
Sussex Fund phonathon recruitment (on campus work)
This role offers an opportunity to raise money for the Sussex Fund, which
provides vital hardship grants and scholarships to current students of the
University
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=33392
Thursday 10 &
Tuesday 15 December
Dine Central
Christmas Lunch
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33289
https://
sussex.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/
library-its-survey-2015
International Student Support have
produced a Christmas Programme of
information about events happening on
campus and in the local area over the
holiday period.
This year’s programme is now available
www.sussex.ac.uk/internationalsupport/tripsandevents/christmas
Thursday 10 December
7.30pm-9.30pm
St Martin’s Church, Lewes Road
UoS Symphony Orchestra
Christmas Concert
Tickets £3/£1 concessions
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33337
SEASON’S GREETINGS
with this rather splendid festive redwork
embroidery quilt created by Sally Church,
Physics & Astronomy Course Coordinator
Win a night’s stay for two at the
Grand Hotel in the latest
University hotel competition
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=33246
Departmental seminars coming up
Astronomy
MASS
Thursday 10 December 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Angkana Ruland (Oxford)
Rigidity, non-rigidity and scaling for the
cubic-to-orthorhombic phase transformation
Mathematics news
Dr Ali Taheri has been elected as an
honorary member of the Iranian
Mathematical Society (IMS) and an
associate editor of its bulletin (BIMS).
Ali joins a board of world-leading mathematicians whose
members include Maryam Mirzakhani (Stanford), who
made history in 2014 as the first woman to be awarded
the Fields Medal, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), a winner of
the Breakthrough Prize (Physics Frontiers Prize 2014)
and Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue) for groundbreaking work
with R.P. Laglands (IAS) and P. Sarnak (IAS).
bims.iranjournals.ir/journal/editorial.board
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 11 December 3.30pm Shawcross AS02
Shaun Hotchkiss (UoS)
From non-Gaussian galaxy clusters to a ‘too Gaussian’
CMB
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 10 December 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Gavin Davies (Iowa)
First neutrino oscillation results from NOvA
Mathematics news
The enterprising young bakers of SUMS (Sussex
University Maths Society) held a bake sale last
Thursday 3 December to raise funds towards next
year’s Maths Ball.
A steady footfall (not all of it from the School Office,
I hasten to add!) resulted in over £120 worth of cakes
being sold.
Mathematics inter-session week 25-29 January
An exciting opportunity for 2nd year Mathematics
students to participate in fun seminars, lectures and
activities that will be relevant for skill and academic
development. Join us for expository lectures by our
faculty to introduce fun twists in current mathematical
challenges and for public engagement lectures.
Register and have some fun whilst learning at the same
time. Something different!
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/mathsweek
A date for your 2016 diary: they will be holding a
Valentine’s Day cake sale.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
IT courses
Friday 11 December 10am-1pm
ITS Services, Shawcross
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32648
Friday 18 December
2pm-3.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
MindView6 – get started
with Mind Mapping
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33267
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 10 December 12.15pm-2pm
Freeman G31
Collaborating with industry for impact
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=33176
Thursday 10 December 2pm-4pm
Library Training Room, second floor
Understanding publication metrics
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31910
Thursday 10 December 2pm-4pm
Pev I 1B8
Using technology to manage your research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32718
Thursday 10 December 6pm-7pm
Falmer House Meeting Room 1
The Polymath Society
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32268&r=52062
Friday 11 December 1pm-2pm
Pev I 2D8
Study Direct: evaluation and
feedback
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=32342
Friday 11 December 2pm-4pm
Technology for doctoral research – one-to-one
support
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32177
Tuesday 15 December 12pm-2pm
Research & Enterprise Services, Meeting Room 1,
Falmer House
Where to get help with your research grant
application
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33151
Tuesday 15 December
1.30pm-4.30pm
On becoming a manager
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32418
Tuesday 15 December
3pm-5pm
The Keep, Woollards Way,
Brighton
Christmas with Nella Last
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=30877
Wednesday 16 December 1pm-3pm
Fulton 113
Teaching international students
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=31243
LOCAL EVENTS
Christmas Artists’ Open Houses FINAL weekend 12-13/12
www.aoh.org.uk/xmas-2015-festival-home
Saturday 12 December 10.30am Hove Promenade
Santa Dash
Until Saturday 12 December University of Brighton gallery (free)
Arena: night and day - a 24-hour visual journey that follows the pattern of day and
night in sync with British winter time
arts.brighton.ac.uk/whats-on/gallery/gallery-exhibitions-2015/nov-2015/arenanight-and-day
Saturday 12 December 11am-5pm Friends’ Meeting House, Brighton
December craft fair (free entry)
Friday 11-Sunday 13 December 11am-6pm, Gallery 40,
40 Gloucester Road, Brighton
(in)commensurable – this exhibition is the product of five encounters between art and the strange
world of mathematics mathematics incommensurable.org/
Saturday 12 December 6pm Brighton Dome
Brighton Festival Chorus Christmas concert
Tickets £12.50-£25
Sunday 13 December 10am-1pm Clayton BN6 9PG
Christmas at Jill Windmill (free admission & free parking)
www.jillwindmill.org.uk/jjchristmas.htm
Sunday 13 December 10am-4pm Open Market, London Road, Brighton
Christmas Handmade Fair (free entry)
If you have any items for inclusion in the next MPS
weekly update, please contact Dorothy Lamb
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latest on Wednesday before Thursday
publication.
Before and after (or maybe after and before) shots of
the effects of Christmas, or maybe it’s just the
sprouts!
But, then again, the editor might be
biased!
If you have any news for our web pages and
social media feeds, our Information
Co-ordinator, Justine Charles, would be delighted
to hear from you.
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