MPS Weekly Update
22 October 2015
A new app that allows students
to check which teaching rooms
are free is available from
www.sussex.ac.uk/ssro/
roombooking under the right
hand menu Resources:
www.sussex.ac.uk/its/status/
rooms_free_next
Daniel Hajas and David Turner with the TGD model
Third-year Theoretical Physics student, Daniel Hajas, will be meeting MPs at
the Houses of Parliament to highlight the challenges he and other visually
impaired people face in learning science and maths.
The continually inspiring Daniel, who also organises the Sussex Universe
lecture series, will be taking part in the British Council for Undergraduate
Research’s (BCUR) annual ‘Posters in Parliament’ exhibition next February,
which gives UK undergraduates the opportunity to showcase their research
to politicians and policymakers
Since starting at Sussex, Daniel has been working on ways to help visually
impaired learners engage with the charts, graphs and equations that are a
staple of science courses.
During his first year he invented a device that translates visual information,
such as graphs, into a tactile format.
He is now working on developing the concept of his ‘Tactile Graphics
Display’ (TGD) with help from a scheme that encourages undergraduate
research at the University and with the assistance of second-year physics
student David Turner.
Thursday 22 October 11am-2pm
Attenborough Centre
Staff Freshers’ Fair
Includes table tennis, yoga,
pilates, hand massage, tours of
the Attenborough Centre AND
popcorn and candy floss!
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=32619
For the full story, see www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=32662
Tuesday 27 October 12pm-1pm
Seminar room,
Sussex Innovation Centre
Software licensing
Please register promptly to avoid
disappointment http://bit.ly/1L8BRfN
The International Student Barometer, a survey of
international students (undergraduate and
postgraduate), has been set up. The survey will
close on 27 November. News about it is here:
www.sussex.ac.uk/internationalsupport/
newsandevents?id=32576
The campus Print Unit is about to
move from its current base in the
Hastings Building to a new
permanent location in the York
House undercroft.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=32690
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
Astronomy
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
NB Next MASS is on Thursday 29 October
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 23 October 3.30pm Arts A05
Stephane Colombi (Paris)
TBA
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 26 October 3pm in Pev 3 5C11
Vitaly Moroz (Swansea)
Ground states and radial solutions of a SchrodingerPoisson-Slater type equation
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
NB The seminar scheduled for today has now been
postponed until next semester
Maths PG Seminars
Friday 23 October 4pm in Pev I 2A3
George Morrison (Sussex)
Optimal constants for functional inequalities and the
first Eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars/
forthcomingevents
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 26 October 4pm-5pm Pev 3 4C10
Ivonne Savala (Swansea)
Warped natural inflation and the weak gravity
conjecture
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
All students and staff who
register a SussexFood munch
money card will be entered into
a draw to win £100 food credit.
The competition for £100 of food credit will run until
midnight on Friday 6 November 2015.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=32681
Wednesday 28 October 11am-4pm
Cultural awareness and global communication
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32407
Wednesday 28 October 12pm-1.30pm
Fulton 104
Research Staff Forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=23342
Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October 10am-4pm
University Challenge online trial
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32622&r=52932
Monday 26-Friday 30 October
11am+ (two-hour sessions)
Book via Sussex Direct
Frequent grammar errors 1: articles and prepositions
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32579
Wednesday 28 October 2pm-4pm
Jubilee 116
Using technology to manage your research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=31893
Wednesday 28 October 2pm-4pm (also 4 November)
Bramber House 233
Counselling Service workshop
Settling in to Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32649&r=52983
LOCAL EVENTS
Thursday 22 October 6pm-7pm
The Keep
What can Kipling do for you? Lecture by Harry Ricketts
Event free but booking essential
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=32279
Brighton Early Music Festival
23 October-8 November
www.bremf.org.uk/
Saturday 24 October 10.30am
One Church, Gloucester Place, Brighton
Pinocchio (£4 ticket admits one adult and one child, plus free popcorn)
Saturday 24 October 11am-5pm
Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road
Bazaar
Design, collectors, art & curiosity fair (suggested donation 50p)
Saturday 24 October 11am-12.30pm
St Luke’s Church, Queen’s Park
Faith, flint and footsteps – history of St Luke’s walking tour
Free, but places are limited so you need to book
Saturday 24 October 12pm-6.30pm
Oxfam Bookshop, Brighton
OXJAM music festival
Sunday 25 October 10.30am-4pm
Open Market, London Road, Brighton
Fairy Tale Fair
Monday 26 October
5pm-6pm
Climb Kilimanjaro for clean water
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32533
As well as his day job as research
technician in the mechanical workshop,
Alan Butler is also a long-term
member of the University Rescue Team,
usually dealing with incidents involving
humans but, earlier in the week, five
kittens were discovered near Pevensey 2 loading bay.
Thankfully, together with their
Mum, they have all found a new
home. If anyone would like to
make a donation to the upkeep of
this feline family, go to
www.citycatshelter.com
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