MPS Weekly Update
3 December 2015
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
Join us for a glass of mulled
wine and nibbles at this
first-ever school-wide MPS
Christmas event for staff and
students.
Tuesday 8 December 7pm-8pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Simon Peeters
Nobel neutrinos
FREE - NO NEED TO BOOK
Drinks & nibbles after the talk
Poster kindly produced by Naomi
in the School Office
Nominations for the student-led teaching
awards are now open until 18 March
2016, with students nominating online via
the Students’ Union. All students are able
to nominate a member of staff –
academic, admin or technical – who has
made a difference to their teaching and
learning experience at Sussex.
There are three key changes to this year’s awards:

Students do not have to decide the category for the award when
nominating

The nominee will not be eligible unless more than one student submits
a nomination (group nominations are acceptable but each student
should include their name on the nomination form)

The awards will be decided by a panel of reps from across the cluster
(including a student rep from each school)
To nominate, visit www.sussexstudent.com/SLTA
A significant number of international
students remain on campus over the
Christmas vacation so, for the past
few years, International Student
Support have produced a ‘Christmas
Programme’ which pulls together
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
The University of Sussex’s
permanent city shopfront on
Lewes Road has now opened.
The information centre provides
a showcase for the University’s
range of courses, its research
expertise and displays of student
work.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=33174
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
https://
sussex.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/
library-its-survey-2015
Departmental seminars coming up
Astronomy
MASS
Thursday 3 December 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Igor Velcic (Zagreb)
Homogenization of thin structures in nonlinear elasticity
Thursday 3 December 4pm Pev 3 5C11
joint with ADPE
Dr Duvan Henao (Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Local invertibility in Sobolev spaces with applications to
nematic elastomers and magnetoelasticity
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 7 December 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Yves Capdeboscq (Oxford)
On proper data sets for elliptic hybrid inverse problems
Mathematics PG Seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars/
forthcomingevents
Thursday 3 December 5pm Pev 1 2A3
Francesco De Anna (Institut de Mathématiques de
Bordeaux)
Introduction to paradifferential calculus
Mathematics news
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 4 December 4pm Arts A05
Amelie Saintonge (UCL)
Gas accretion and star formation as drivers of galaxy
evolution
AMO
Thursday 3 December 12noon
Jubilee 118
Dr Michael Hartmann (Heriot-Watt University)
Photons in networks of superconducting circuits
Monday 7 December 2pm Freeman FRE-G31
Prof Axel Kuhn (Oxford)
Hybrid quantum processing with cavity photons and
single atoms
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 3 December 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Matthew Musgrave (UoS)
Neutron physics at ORNL and the NPDGamma
experiment
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 7 December 4pm Pev 3 4C10
Matthew Tamsett (UoS)
TBA
Physics & Astronomy news
CONGRATULATIONS
Dr Jillian Scudder recently received the Newcomer
Award, given by SEPnet, for her public engagement
work.
Jillian receiving her certificate
from Professor Sir Bill Wakeham,
Chairman of SEPnet
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
Since 2013 Jillian has operated an outreach blog
called Astroquizzical astroquizzical.com which tackles
questions from the general public, such as ‘will the sun
burn out?’ ‘what happens to cat’s hair in space?’. She
has also participated in local science outreach event
Nerd Nite, a talk at the Eastbourne Astronomical
Society and a Sussex event hosted as part of the
BBC’s Stargazing Live.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=33240
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
IT courses
Friday 4 December 10am-12pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Excel 2013 – functions
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32646
Monday 7 December 10am-11.30am
IT Services, Shawcross
Word 2013 – Creating an automatic
table of contents
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32647
Friday 11 December 10am-1pm
ITS Services, Shawcross
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32648
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 3 December 2pm-5pm
Sport Centre
Women-only gym session
(as part of This BUCS Girl Can Week)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33222&r=53107
Friday 4 December 11am-12pm
JMS 1B1
Study Direct: Digital collaboration
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32341
Sunday 6 December 4.30pm-7pm
Carols by candlelight
Meeting House Chapel
Mince pies and mulled wine from
4.30pm, service at 6pm
Monday 7 December 2pm-3.30pm
Library Training and Viewing Room
Adding your publications to Sussex
Research Online
Booking required
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31927
Monday 7 December 1pm-2pm
Online
Online webinar: building a research presence
using social media
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31908
Tuesday 8 December 6.15pm-8.15pm
Meeting House
Laetitia Sonami
Follow my ears in dreams of wires
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=33018
Wednesday 9 December 9.30am-4.30pm
Location to be confirmed on booking
Staff Development course
Acting with flexibility (for managers of grade 7 and
above)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32413
Thursday 10 December 12.15pm-2pm
Freeman G31
Collaborating with industry for impact
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33176
Friday 4 December 4pm-5pm
Library Square
Switching on the Christmas tree
lights
Also a festive Christmas Market will
be open from 12 noon until late,
offering a range of Christmas-themed food, drink and
craft items.
Researcher Development programme events
www.sussex.ac.uk/doctoralschool/internal/
researcherdev/events/date
LOCAL EVENTS
Christmas Artists’ Open Houses Weekends 5-6/12 & 12-13/12
www.aoh.org.uk/xmas-2015-festival-home
Saturday 5 December 10am-5pm Stoneham Park, Hove
The Hive Christmas Market (free entry)
Saturday 5 December 11am-4pm Shoreham Centre
Johnny loves June Vintage and Handmade Christmas Fair (£1 entry)
Saturday 5 December 7.30pm St Michael and All Angels Church, Brighton
Music for Bhopal concert (£8/£5 concessions)
Sunday 6 December 3.30pm-5.30pm Regency Town House, Brunswick Square, Hove
The Regency Town House Christmas Entertainment (£12 + booking fee)
Sunday 6 December 6pm-8.30pm JW Lennons, Edward Street, Brighton
Tripping Upstairs - traditional Irish music
Saturday 12 December 6pm Brighton Dome
Brighton Festival Chorus Christmas concert
Tickets £12.50-£25
If you have any items for inclusion in the next MPS
weekly update, please contact Dorothy Lamb
E [email protected] by 12 noon at the
latest on Wednesday before Thursday
publication.
To those who were aware of him, Colin
the budgie arrived in Chichester I
courtyard in early summer and settled in
quite happily with the resident sparrows,
blue tits, blackbirds et al. With the
current ‘improvements’ taking place to
the space and oncoming colder weather,
concerns grew for his long-term wellbeing.
I can now report that Colin has been safely re-housed
in an aviary in Chichester (the city). Perhaps we should
have employed him as an MPS tweeter . . .
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.
E [email protected]