MPS Weekly Update
5 March 2015
3rd Annual MPS Postgraduate
Research Day
Tuesday 28 April
9.30am-5.30pm
Creativity Zone
The PGR Committee is proud to announce the third annual MPS
PGR Research day taking place on Tuesday 28 April. The first two
events were a great success and showcased some of the amazing
work being undertaken by our postgraduate community in
Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy.
This year we hope to build on previous success by putting on
another great show and, further, by inviting guests from both Thales
and the Sussex Innovation Centre to get involved with our PGRs and
award coveted prizes to their favourite participants.
Institute of Physics talk
Tuesday 10 March
7pm-8pm Chi I lecture theatre
Dr Caitríona Jackman
Jewel of the solar system:
celebrating 10 years of
Cassini at Saturn
This is the final talk of this
year’s sessions.
ALL WELCOME –
THIS TALK IS FREE,
NO NEED TO BOOK
As the event organiser since its creation, I hope for my final Research
Day event to be a memorable one, creating a tradition to be built on
by the postgraduates of the years to come.
The website for the event has all the details
that everyone needs and is
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/conf2014 (do not
be put off by ‘2014’ - this is being remedied).
Gary Poole
PGR Student
Mathematics PGR Student Rep
Chair MPS PGR Committee Department of
Mathematics
Congratulations to two of our 3rd year MMath students, Frankie
Jeffryes and Hayley Wragg, who have been admitted to the London
Mathematical Society’s prestigious Summer School.
The aim of the School is to introduce modern mathematics to the best
UK undergraduates who are not currently in their final year of study.
The School will be a combination of short lecture courses with problemsolving sessions and colloquium-style talks from leading
mathematicians.
The London Mathematical Society www.lms.ac.uk is the major UK
learned society for Mathematics. The Society’s activities include
publishing journals and books, providing grants to support mathematics
and organising scientific meetings and lectures.
Thursday 5 March 6pm-8pm
Creativity Zone
Careers in Business &
Finance
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29073
Monday 9 March 12pm-2pm
Meeting House, Quiet Room
Careers in academia
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28345
Departmental seminars coming up this week 5 March-11 March
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
NO MASS TODAY
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/gk207/
APDE_Sussex.html
Monday 9 March 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Ali Taheri (Sussex)
Functional and geometric inequalities in
Sobolev spaces: from isocapacitary estimates to
Littlewood-Paley theory
Wednesday 11 March
2pm-3pm
Library Open Learning Space
Finding and using Open
Educational Resources
(OERs)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29273
Research Development Programme
Monday 9 March 10am-1pm Arts A04
Dr Ron Grau
Writing your thesis in the sciences
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29192
Tuesday 10 March 10.30am-12pm Jubilee G23
Creating screen– and pod-casts for more
interactive resources
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28706
Wednesday 11 March 1pm-2.30pm
Barlow Room, Library ground floor
CV workshop for researchers moving towards a
career outside academia
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27295
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/newsandevents/
calendar
Friday 6 March 3.15pm Arts C C133
Juan Valiente Kroon (QMUL)
Conformal methods and the global analysis of
spacetimes
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2014_15
Thursday 5 March 1pm Pev 3 4C10
Jonathan Davies (Sussex)
Searching for ultra high-energy neutrinos with the
Askaryan radio array
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 9 March 4pm Pev 3 4C10
Camille Bonvin (CERN)
TBA
Tuesday 10 March 4pm in Pev 3 4C10
Ernest Ma (UC Riverside, USA)
Radiative type II seesaw mechanism for neutrino
mass with dark matter
CURRENTLY APPLICABLE FOR
P & A ONLY
STFC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
New funding is available for projects which
kick-start and accelerate STFC research
outcomes towards commercialisation:
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/research/impact/stfciaa
Any enquiries on the STFC IAA, please contact
Colin Hayhurst, Innovation Partnerships fellow
E [email protected]
PYJAMA PARTY CHARITY EVENT
Thursday 12 March
The MPS school office staff will be
bringing in their teddy bears for a
Pyjama Party on Thursday 12 March.
There will be cookies, cakes and hot
chocolate on sale in the foyer to raise
money for local charity Crossover
www.crossoverbrighton.org/about/
Crossover works with homeless people on the streets of Brighton
to ensure that they get a hot meal, while also providing clothing,
support and words of encouragement. Please come and enjoy
some home-baked goodies and donate to this worthwhile cause.
We will also be taking donations of clean clothing, sleeping bags
and bric-à-brac. If you are unsure about what we can accept,
please check with the School Office.
Wednesday 11 March 2pm-4pm
location tbc
Until Saturday 7 March
SMuTS (Sussex Musical Theatre
Society) presents
Sweeney Todd: the demon barber
of Fleet Street
Tickets £10/£8
NB The show will use a strobe light,
so audience members with photosensitive epilepsy are advised to
take caution while watching
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=29363&r=46916
LOCAL EVENTS
Student Rep conference
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29182
Held annually on the first Thursday
of March, World Book Day
worldbookday.com/ is a
celebration of authors, illustrators,
books and, of course, reading. It is
designated by UNESCO as a
worldwide celebration of books and marked in over
100 countries.
And here are a few of the editor’s favourites ….
Sunday 7 March 2pm-6pm
Grand Hotel, Brighton (tickets £12-£15)
International Women’s Day Vintage Clothes Swap
The event is in aid of Kiya Survivors, an
organisation that aims to provide a new beginning
for children and young people in the global
community who have special needs or have been
abused or abandoned.
kiyasurvivors.org/index.html
Sunday 7 March 7.30pm
All Saints Church, Hove
Sussex Symphony concert (tickets £5-£12)
ssomusic.co.uk/
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