MPS Weekly Update
9 April 2015
The most recent MPS cake event was used to
highlight the annual National Student Survey
(NSS) www.thestudentsurvey.com and as a
way of encouraging final year students to
complete the survey, whilst ensuring that academic, and other,
staff, would also be aware of the benefits of a high completion
response.
The cake was created by our accomplished catering
department and, as Senior Tutor in Mathematics, Prof
James Hirschfeld, esteemed oenophile, bon viveur
and Australian – those three qualities would appear
mutually inclusive! – rose to the cake-cutting task with
mathematical precision (one would have expected nothing less, Ed)
The NSS runs until 30 April and if we receive a
75% response rate from our MPS students, that
will guarantee £1000 for the School to spend on
student-related matters. Should we reach an 80%
response rate, then we would receive £2000 to
spend on our students.
A chart showing the percentage of responses
from Maths and Physics & Astronomy students,
Saturday 11 April 7.30pm
St Nicholas’ Church, Brighton
UoS chamber choir and
chamber ensemble concert
Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s violin
concertos in A and E and
Schubert’s Mass in G
respectively, is currently in the foyer and is adjusted on a weekly
basis when the latest figures are known. (NB As I type, both
departments are just bubbling under the 75% mark, Ed)
Before
Some 30 minutes later ...
As of 1 April 2015, Dr Ali Taheri is now the
Sub-Director of Doctoral Studies, covering
Mathematics PhD students.
Monday 13 April 11am-1pm
Fulton 201
Supporting equality and
diversity in HE teaching and
learning
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28221
Departmental seminars coming up this week 9-15 April
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/
seminar
Thursday 9 April 2pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Diogo Aguiar Gomes (KAUST)
Monotonicity methods for mean-field games
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/
research/seminars
Monday 13 April 4pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr David McCormick (Warwick)
Magnetic relaxation and the non-resistive MHD
equations
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 10 April 3.15pm Arts C C133
Hector Bravo (IAP)
Evolution of infalling spiral galaxies in clusters:
A test for "gravitational vs hydrodynamical"
mechanisms
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2014_15
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/
seminars
Monday 13 April 4pm Pev 3 4C10
Donal O’Connell (Edinburgh)
The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics
Thursday 9 April 10am-1pm
Silverstone SB 325
Dr Liz Sage
Editing your doctoral thesis
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27954
Wednesday 15 April 2pm-4.30pm
Fulton 202
Postgraduate funding: considering the alternatives
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27953
Friday 10 April 2pm-5pm
Fulton 107
Dr Liz Sage
Practical tips to improve your academic writing
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28267
Thursday 16 April 12noon-2pm
JMS 1B1
Introduction to Study Direct for teaching
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28712
Tuesday 14 April 9.30am-4.30pm
BSMS MS2.10
Exploring academic writing: for Science
researchers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29005
Thursday 16 April 2pm-4.30pm
Fulton 203
Exploring careers outside academia
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29516
There are a number of Staff Development courses coming up which you may be interested in attending:
Unconscious Bias 13 April 2pm-4pm
Working with distressed and angry students 14 April 1.30pm-4.45pm
Preparation for retirement 22 April 10.30am-12noon
Appraising academics – the Sussex scheme 23 April 1.30pm-4.30pm
Making legally fair disciplinary decisions 29 April 10am-4.30pm
Fixed-term contracts 30 April 10am-1pm
Effective writing and minute taking 2 June 9.30am-4pm
For details of these and other SD courses,
please see www.sussex.ac.uk/staffdevelopment/opportunities
When you want to book, you will be asked to enter a cost code – it is TC001-03. There is no charge for
staff development but a fee WILL be charged to the School for no-shows. If you book and have to cancel,
email [email protected].
Tuesday 14 April 12noon-2pm
IDS reception area
Charity jumble sale
LOCAL EVENTS
Stalls selling cakes, men's,
women's and children’s clothes,
books and bric-à-brac .
The event is in aid of the Trussell Trust (UK food
banks) and the Starlight Foundation (helping
terminally ill children).
Seaside Celluloid - a mini-film festival weekend
(all at the Emporium, London Road, Brighton) celebrating the best films shot and set in Brighton,
including:
Friday 10 April 8pm
Mona Lisa (£7.50)
Sunday 12 April – finish line in Madeira Drive
Brighton Marathon
www.brightonmarathon.co.uk/
Sunday 12 April
6pm (doors open at 5.30pm)
St Mary’s Church, Kemp Town
Bach and his legacy – organ
recital by James Lloyd Thomas
(free, with retiring collection)
www.stmaryschurchbrighton
.org.uk/summer-recitals2015.html
Saturday 11 April 8pm
Quadrophenia (£7.50)
Sunday 12 April 1pm
Jigsaw (£6)
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