MPS Weekly Update
19 November 2015
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
The deadline nears to apply for the
Research Development Fund
The RDF is designed to develop activities that
will lead to substantive external research
proposals.
Projects would normally be expected to run for
a maximum of 12 months and faculty from all
departments are eligible to apply.
For details, see www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=33007
Sussex Universe Lecture Series
Thursday 26 November 7pm-8pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Filippo Cagnetti
Mathematics and physics
Drinks and nibbles after the talk
FREE EVENT –
NO NEED TO BOOK
Win a week at the Yuri
Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Centre in Star
City, Moscow to train
with NASA astronauts
(flights included)
SEPnet and the University of Kent’s Department of Physical Sciences are
offering the opportunity for two physics u/g or p/g research students to attend
the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre to develop their team-building
and communication skills by training like the real cosmonauts and astronauts
on the same equipment and facilities.
One World Week
(14-20 March 2016)
- call for proposals
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=32971
What you have to do:

Create a video of yourself describing an investigation that you would
like to send into space

The video should be no more than two minutes long

You should consider physics knowledge, presentation skills and
feasibility

Send the videos (zipped) to [email protected]
Deadline 12:00 Wednesday 9 December
Criteria You must: be a physics student at one of SEPnet’s partner
universities at the time of travel; have a valid passport; be available to travel
from 19-25 March 2016; be eligible to enter Russia.
For more information, please click on the link below:
www.isset.org/Cosmonaut_Leadership/Downloads/(Medium)%
20Cosmonaut%20Space%20&%20Leadership%20Experience%
20Leaflet.pdf
This year’s Fundraising Friday
challenge is to walk over 1 million
steps in support of The
Rockinghorse Appeal.
For details, please visit
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=33027
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
Astronomy
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 19 November 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Francesco De Anna (Université de Bordeaux)
Inhomogeneous N-dimensional Ericksen Leslie system
with discontinuous initial density
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 20 November 3.30pm-4.30pm Arts A05
Ivan Baldry (Liverpool)
Low-z galaxies and groups: probing down the mass
functions
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 23 November 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Athanasios Tzvaras (University of Crete and KAUST)
Relative entropies for the Euler-Korteweg system and
some of its applications
Maths PG seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars/
forthcomingevents
Friday 20 November 4pm Shawcross AS02
George Simpson (UoS)
Summability of Multiple Fourier Series, Convex
Polytopes and the Ball Multiplier Theorem of
Fefferman
Mathematics news
Thursday 19 November 4.30pm
Lancing College
Prof James Hirschfeld
Sending secret messages and
sending correct messages
Most people use cryptography and coding theory every
day when telephoning, emailing and using the Web.
Prime numbers are crucial for cryptography, the
mathematics of secret messages. Much of coding
theory – the mathematics of correct messages – relies
on arithmetic modulo 2. The fundamentals of both
topics will be discussed.
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 19 November 2.30pm-3.30pm Pev 3 5C11
Matthew Musgrave (UoS)
Neutron Physics at ORNL and the NPDGamma
experiment
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 23 November 4pm-5pm Pev 3 4C10
Martin Gorbahn (Liverpool)
TBA
Physics & Astronomy news
Former TPP postdoc,
Jorge Martin Camalich, has
won a CERN fellowship in the
CERN theory group.
This is a very prestigious and competitive fellowship
and reflects positively on our department.
CERN fellows almost always go on to become
permanent faculty somewhere.
IT Services are trialling a
new method for securing
microphones in lecture
theatres.
See www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=33102
An esteemed mathematician’s (very tidy) desk
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Mobile Technologies Week events
www.sussex.ac.uk/library/news?
id=32909
Thursday 19 November 2.30pm-4pm
Keeping up to date in your subject
Library Training Room
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32821
Thursday 19 November 2.30pm-5pm
Freeman Centre F23
How to get published in the media – drop-in clinic
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32829&r=53079
Thursday 19 November 6pm-7pm
Falmer House Meeting Room 1
The Polymath Society
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32268&r=52059
Friday 20 November 11am-6pm
Academic development workshops for international
students
Seminars and presentations
Book through Sussex Direct
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32605&r=52963
Technology Enhanced Learning
workshops and events
www.sussex.ac.uk/tel/workshops
Tuesday 24 November 10am-11.30am
Library Open Learning Space
Innovating teaching with TEL
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33047
Tuesday 24 November 10am-3.30pm
Jubilee 115
Designing research posters
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32560
Wednesday 24 November 9.30am-4.30pm
Location to be confirmed on booking
An introduction to project management
(for grades 4-6)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32411
Researcher Development Programme
www.sussex.ac.uk/doctoralschool/internal/
researcherdev/workshopsandevents
IT courses
Friday 20 November 12.30pm-1.30pm
Researcher Development Programme
Online webinar: literature searching using online
resources
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32692
Monday 23 November 12pm-1.30pm
JMS 1B1
SRS SOS: Using Student Response Systems in the
classroom
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32336
Friday 20 November 12pm-1pm
Pev I 2A11
Getting started with your iPad
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32344
Tuesday 24 November 10am-1pm
Shawcross IT Suite 1
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32600
LOCAL EVENTS
Thursday 19 November 5pm East Street
Brilliant Brighton Christmas lights switch on
Thursday 19-Sunday 22 November Corn Exchange, Brighton
MADE 2015 – design and craft fair (£6.50 entry)
www.brighton-made.co.uk/
Saturday 21 November 3pm Clock Tower
Guided walking tour of Brighton – palaces and piers (90mins) (£5)
Saturday 21 November 7.30pm Mile Oak Community Centre
Portslade Community Ceilidh (£7)
Saturday 21 November 10.30am-3.30pm Patcham Memorial Hall
The Fairy Tale Fair – festive special (free)
Sunday 22 November 3pm Floral Clock, Hove
Hove (actually) guided tour – Brunswick and bullrings (£5)
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/#!bigscreen-love
Further to the page 1
cosmonaut article, an
excuse (should one be
needed) to include a
dog photo.
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.
Laika was a Soviet space dog and, in 1957, the first
animal to orbit the Earth.
At the time, news media alternated between mockery
and pity for the dog. According to a 1957 TIME
report on how the press was covering the event
‘headlines yelped such barbaric new words as pupnik
and pooch-nik, sputpup and woofnik, before ultimately
settling on “Muttnik”’.
The Chicago American noted: ‘The Russian sputpup
isn’t the first dog in the sky. That honour belongs to the
dog star. But we’re getting too Sirius.’ the piece adds.
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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