MPS Weekly Update
26 November 2015
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
School Hackers Tackle Research Data Challenges
Last Friday, undergraduates and PhD students from Maths and Physics
spent an intense day coding and working on two research challenges. One
team were tasked with identifying mRNA degradation targets in gene
expression. Cutting code to manipulate large datasets, figuring out an
algorithm and working together, Nick Ayres, Eduard Campillo-Funollet,
Amrita Ganpatlal and Heather McAslan identified an initial set of candidate
genes, much to the amazement of Chis Jones of the Medical School.
Sussex Universe Lecture Series
Thursday 26 November 7pm-8pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Filippo Cagnetti
Isoperimetric inequalities:
the mathematics of soap bubbles
Drinks and nibbles after the talk
FREE EVENT –
NO NEED TO BOOK
Meanwhile, Jacob Maresca, Lennart Balkenhol, Tim Lingard and Chris Lovell
grappled with messy astronomical datasets, web-scraping and visualisation
techniques to pull together a web application for flying through a 3D map of
the universe, based on astronomical research data.
It was a fun and successful day, so we are planning a second one.
To register your interest, please sign-up at http://eepurl.com/bG6zDj
The SET for Britain competition is
now open for entries. The
competition may be of interest to
PhD students and early career
researchers and is an excellent
way of both raising the profile of
the individual and their work and
also helping to make the case to
MPs of the importance of science.
www.setforbritain.org.uk/
index2016.asp
Get your publications onto
Sussex Research Online (SRO)
The Research Support team,
Richard Chambers, Becky
Foster and Sinead Rance, will
do this for you for papers
published from 2014.
The MPS research pages have been recently refreshed
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/research
Check here for information on putting in for a research grant; information on
applying for funding; research development courses; research groups in our
departments; information on Open Access and a myriad of other topics.
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/
internal/research/sro
Departmental seminars coming up
Astronomy
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 26 November 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Stefan Adams (Warwick)
Sample path large deviations and scaling limits for
weakly pinned integrated random walks
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 27 November 3.15pm Arts C133
Dr Simon Driver (Uni of Western Australia)
Mapping the mass, energy and structure in the
universe
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 30 November 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Duvan Henao (Universidad Catolica de Chile)
TBA
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
AMO
Thursday 3 December 12noon Pev 3 5C11
Dr Michael Hartmann (Heriot-Watt University)
Photons in networks of superconducting circuits
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 26 November 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Roxanne Guenette (Oxford)
Searching for sterile neutrinos with liquid argon
detectors
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 30 November
Mathias Garny (CERN) 4pm Pev 3 4C10
Cosmic perturbation theory for large-scale structure
and decoupling of UV modes
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 26 November 6pm-7pm
Falmer House Meeting Room 1
The Polymath Society
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32268&r=52059
Friday 27 November 10am-11am
Open Learning Space, Ground Floor, Library
Ebooks on the go
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33136
Sussexsport are running their popular children’s
activity camps during the forthcoming Christmas
vacation. Times and prices for the camps can be found
at www.sussex.ac.uk/sport/children/childrenscamps
Physics & Astronomy news
A new research group, Material
Physics, has been established in the
School. Professor Alan Dalton from
Surrey University will be joining the
group in February 2016 as the new
Professor of Material Physics.
Alan’s group’s research interests focus on
understanding the fundamental structure-property
relationships in materials containing one– and
two-dimensional structures, such as carbon
nanotubes, graphene and other layered nanomaterials.
Alan is particularly interested in developing viable
applications for nano-structured organic composites
(mechanical, electrical and thermal). He is also
interested in the directed-assembly and self-assembly
of nanostructures into functional macrostructures and,
more recently, interfacing biological materials with
synthetic inorganic and organic materials and
associated applications.
Further appointments will follow to establish a new
research activity in his area of interest.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
IT courses
Friday 27 November 2pm-3.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Publisher 2013 – posters and flyers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32643
Monday 30 November 10am-12pm
Word 2013 – formatting tips and
techniques
IT Services Shawcross
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32644
Tuesday 1 December 2pm-4.30pm
IT Services Shawcross
Endnote X7 desktop
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32645
Monday 30 November 9.30am-12.30pm
Practical assertiveness for researchers
Medical School MS 3.07A
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32536
Tuesday 1 December 10am-12.30pm
Managing your research data
Location to be confirmed
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31903
Centre for Life History and Life
Writing Research
Tuesday 1 December 7pm-8.30pm
Elephant & Castle pub, Lewes
Lewes through a glass darkly - an
evening stranger than fiction and truly
psychogeographical.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33000
Wednesday 2 December 2pm-4pm
Fulton 113
Inclusive teaching: supporting engagement of
diverse students in HE
Book via Sussex Direct
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31242
Wednesday 2 December 2pm-4pm
Arts C169
Digital note-making and bookmarking
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31904
Wednesday 2 December 2pm-4pm
Jubilee 116
Exploring ethical issues in your
research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=31906
Wednesday 2 December 2pm-4pm
Jubilee G30
Peer-reviewing manuscripts for journals
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31926
Thursday 3 December 10am-1pm
Arundel 205
Editing your thesis
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31907
LOCAL EVENTS
Christmas Artists’ Open Houses Weekends 28-29/11, 5-6/12 & 12-13/12
www.aoh.org.uk/xmas-2015-festival-home
Saturday 28 November 9.30am+ Spring Barn Farm, Kingston Road, Lewes
Santa arrives at Spring Barn
www.springbarnfarm.com/farm-park/upcoming-events/christmas-on-the-farm/
Creative Christmas Fair 11am+ Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton (free entry)
Saturday 28 November 1pm-4pm Downs View School, Woodingdean
Christmas Fayre (free entry)
Until Saturday 28 November 8pm Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road
The Ealing Inheritance (£8/£6 concessions) www.rialtotheatre.co.uk/
Until Sunday 29 November 10am-6pm Naked Eye Gallery, 5 Farm Mews, Farm Road, Hove
Animal – the exhibition www.nakedeyegallery.com/
Sunday 29 November 12noon Portslade Town Hall
Lumpy Lodge Rescue Centre presents the Miracle of Christmas Charity Bazaar (free entry)
Thursday 26-Sunday 29 November Brighton Pavilion (varying prices – see web link)
For four nights only, the Music Room is transformed into a picture palace to celebrate love on the big
screen. Films include: Vertigo, Letter from an unknown woman and Brief Encounter
brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/news-events/whats-on-royal-pavilion/#!big-screen-love
2015 marks the 80th
anniversary of the British
version of the board game
‘Monopoly’.
During World War II, the British Secret Service
contacted the printers Waddington (who could also
print on silk) to make Monopoly sets that included
escape maps, money, a compass and file, all hidden
in copies of the game sent in Red Cross packages to
prisoners of war.
As of 2013, there are eight tokens in the standard
edition – battleship, boot, cat (replaced the iron in
2013), racing car, Scottie dog, thimble, top hat and
wheelbarrow.
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.
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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