MPS Weekly Update
5 November 2015
CONGRATULATIONS!
Three members of MPS, Dr Nicos Georgiou and Dr Ali Taheri (Maths) and
Dr Kathy Romer (P & A) have received a 2015 University Teaching
Innovation prize.
The prize of £5000 each will be used for projects they have proposed to
enhance the student experience in MPS; this money will directly benefit our
students.
Institute of Physics talks
Tuesday 10 November
7pm-8pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Jen Gupta (Portsmouth)
Understanding nature’s death ray
guns
All welcome – free event –
no need to book
Follow by drinks and nibbles
For an abstract of this talk and
details of future events, please
see www.sussex.ac.uk/physics/
outreach/publicevents
For example, Nicos will use the money to organise events for Maths students
in the inter-session week in January 2016; Ali will support extracurricular
activities for students and enhance the postgraduate seminar series in
Mathematics; and Kathy will develop software to improve final year project
allocation in P & A and promote cross-campus collaborations of students.
An important step on the way to the University Teaching Innovation Prize is
the support and nomination by our students, so thank you to all students who
voted and please consider nominating outstanding lecturers, admin and
technical staff in the forthcoming round of student-led awards.
Details should be available towards the end of next term
www.sussex.ac.uk/adqe/enhancement/devawardsrecognition/
studentledawards
For details of forthcoming
Technology Enhanced Learning
(TEL) seminars and workshops,
please see www.sussex.ac.uk/
tel/workshops
The 2015 interim staff survey is now running
until 20 November 2015. Its purpose is to gain a
better understanding of areas of particular
concern and to monitor the impact of the actions
that have been taken since the 2014 staff
survey.
The survey is totally anonymous so your responses to the questionnaire will
never be linked to you as an individual.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/survey/
Winter graduation
Thursday 21 January 2016
MPS is included in the morning
ceremony
www.sussex.ac.uk/
graduation/winter
Departmental seminars coming up
Astronomy
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
NO MASS THIS WEEK
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 9 November 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Giacomo Canevari (Oxford)
Defects in nematic liquid crystals: non-orientability and
energy bounds
Maths PG seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars/
forthcomingevents
Friday 6 November 4pm Pev I 2A11
Farzad Fatehi Chenar (UoS)
Stochastic mathematical models of epidemies (SIS,
SIR) and their entropy
Mathematics news
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 6 November 3.30pm Arts C133
Francis Bernardeau (IAP)
TBC
AMO
Wednesday 11 November
12noon Arts A155
Prof Stefan Kufr (Strathclyde)
Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas
microscope
Thursday 12 November 12noon
Freeman Centre FRE-G31
Dr Ryan Barnett (Imperial)
TBC
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 5 November 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Michelle Cascella (UCL)
Liquid argon detectors
Physics & Astronomy news
Maths Conference
4-6 November at UoS
Multi-physics geometric PDEs
using deformable surfaces:
analysis modelling, numerics and application
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/mpgp
Professor Enrico Scalas, Head of
Department, is organising a workshop in
Bilbao at the Basque Centre for Applied
Mathematics.
Enrico, Nicos Georgiou and Mailan Trinh
will be speaking at the conference.
www.bcamath.org/en/workshops/3rd-fractionalcalculus-probability-and-non-local-operatorsapplications-and-recent-developments
MPhys Theoretical Physics student, Nathaniel
Weisendanger Shaw has been selected to
represent England at the Commonwealth Powerlifting
Championships in Canada in December 2015.
Read more at www.sussex.ac.uk/physics/
newsandevents?id=32835
A reminder that when you are completing a business
travel abroad insurance form, these are to be
submitted in good time (at least 10 days before you
travel) and then signed by your Head of Department
(signing folders on the bottom tray to your right in the
School Office).
A chart detailing which forms go where can be found at
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff under ‘Useful
forms’ - who signs what (signatory chart)
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Movember
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32824&r=53030
The latest in the University's series of hotel
competitions gives Sussex students, staff and alumni
the opportunity to win a night’s stay for two at
A Room with a View, Brighton (not to be confused
with the Hotel degli Orafi in Florence [above right] in
the Merchant-Ivory production of EM Forster’s novel
of the same name)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=32862
The Library and Technology Enhanced Learning
have organised a week of events (23-27 November)
on the use of technologies to support teaching,
learning and research www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=32909
Wednesday 11 November 12.45pm
Meeting House, Brighton
Lunchtime seminar on the future of
the academic book
A light lunch will be provided. Booking
essential www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=32864
Thursday 5 November 1pm-2pm
Online
Online webinar – welcome for new Doctoral
Researchers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32739
Thursday 5 November 6pm-7pm
Falmer House Meeting room 1
Polymath Society
This week – Artificial Intelligence
Friday 6 November 10am-11am
IT Services, Shawcross
Mindview 6 – get started with mind mapping
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32202
Monday 9 November 9.30am-4.30pm
Barlow Room, Library ground floor
Enhancing personal effectiveness
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31923
Monday 9 November 1pm-2.30pm
Careers & Employability Centre, Library
Careers event for visually-impaired students
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32705
Wednesday 11 November
1.30pm-4.30pm
Location tbc on booking
Dynamic diversity
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32657
Wednesday 11 November 2pm-5pm
Jubilee 116
Practical tips to improve your academic writing
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32657
IT courses
Friday 6 November 2pm-4.30pm
(& Monday 9 November 2pm-3.30pm)
IT Services, Shawcross
EndNote online
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32639
Tuesday 10 November 2pm-4pm
IT Services, Shawcross
PowerPoint 2013 – further skills
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32641
LOCAL EVENTS
Until 21 November at the Emporium, London Road, Brighton (Tues-Sat 7.45pm, Sat & Sun 2pm)
Dial ‘M’ for Murder (tickets £15)
Friday 6 November gates open 6pm, display from 7.30pm Brighton Racecourse
Brighton Lions Fireworks Display (entry fee – adults £10, under 16s £5, under 5s free)
Saturday 7 November 10am-5pm Brighton Racecourse
Brighton Christmas Gift Fair Spectacular (£3 admission)
Saturday 7 November 11am-4pm Unit E11 Knoll Business Centre, Old Shoreham Road
Fabric Godmother Open Day (free admission) www.fabricgodmother.co.uk/
Saturday 7 November 11am-6pm (until 26 Nov) Corridor Gallery, York Place, Brighton
Sculpture24 by Chris Macdonald (free admission)
Saturday 7 November 7pm St Laurence Church, Falmer
Kalamus and Manfred Leuchter (free admission, retiring collection)
Sunday 8 November 2pm-5pm Brighton Toy & Model Museum
Alice in Wonderland Children’s Play Day (£5 admission)
brightontoymuseum.co.uk/
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of
the eleventh month, we will remember them.
Lest we forget
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