MPS Weekly Update
26 February 2015
Physicists from the University of Sussex working on the ATLAS
experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will take part in the 'Big
Science Weekend' at the Brighton Science Festival 28 February1 March at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton
www.brightonscience.com/events/big-science-Saturday.
The Sussex ATLAS group will be ready to answer all your questions!
The discovery of the Higgs Boson marks a major breakthrough in physics and paves the way to a new era
of investigations. With the start of the second run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in just a few
weeks, what's next for the LHC experiments to explore? The theme of this year's exhibition is ‘The Higgs
Boson and Beyond’, addressing questions such as: why is the mass of the Higgs Boson the one that has
been measured, and can its value be explained by the new theory of Supersymmetry? Supersymmetry, or
SUSY, predicts the existence of new ‘partners’ of known particles,which have so far eluded detection.
Some of these particles, called neutralinos, could explain the nature of Dark Matter, which constitutes
about a quarter of our Universe.
Come and talk to the Sussex ATLAS team from the
Experimental Particle Physics group to discover how they
are investigating matter on the smallest scale while trying
to unveil the secrets of Dark Matter.
New Perspectives in Analysis
and Probability
2-6 March 2015
Friday 27 FebruarySunday 1 March
LE GEEKEND in the
Brighton Science Festival
The purpose of this workshop is to
discuss recent developments in
analysis and probability and to explore
future directions for common
interaction.
This event also celebrates the recent
appointment to the Mathematics
department of several lecturers and
professors in analysis and probability.
The workshop consists of five one-day mini-conferences, each devoted
to a special topic.
See www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/intensive2015 for details of
the topics and speakers.
Sunday 1 March 7.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
Grand Parade, BN2 0JY
Award-winning show
Albert Einstein: relativitively
speaking
£10/£8. Ages 11+
Departmental seminars coming up this week 26 February-4 March
Mathematics
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/World/
seminar/index.cgi
DOUBLE SEMINAR (both in Pev 3 5C11)
Thursday 26 February 2pm
Dr Peter Neal (Lancaster)
Insensitivity results for SIS epidemics
Thursday 26 February 3pm
Prof Demetrios Papageorgiou (Imperial College)
Nonlinear waves in viscous multilayer flows
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/gk207/
APDE_Sussex.html
Monday 2 March 4pm in Pev 3 5C11
Dr Michela Ottobre (Heriot-Watt)
Short- and long-time behaviour of
hypercoercive-type Markov semigroups
Physics & Astronomy
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/newsandevents/
calendar
Friday 27 February 3.15pm Arts C C133
Anastasia Fialkov (École Normale Supérieure)
21-cm signal as a probe of the young Universe
AMO
Friday 27 February 11.30am Pev 3 5C11
Animesh Datta (Warwick)
TBA
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2014_15
Thursday 26 February 1pm Pev 3 4C10
Dr Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway)
Nothing but the truth: top quark physics at the
LHC using the ATLAS detector
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 2 March 4pm Pev 3 4C10
TBA
Read journals on your tablet: trial of BrowZine
www.sussex.ac.uk/library/news?id=27768
Friday 27 February
10am-11.30am Barlow Gallery,
the Library
Visualising classroom concepts
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28704
Wednesday 4 March
11am-1pm Fulton 202
Approaches to teaching: large
and small group teaching
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28218
Tuesday 3 March
2.30pm-3.30pm Barlow Gallery,
the Library
Managing your digital footprint
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28705
Researcher Development
Programme
Thursday 5 March
9.30am-12.30pm Creativity Zone
Defeating self-sabotage
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27919
Staff Development Unit
Monday 2 March 9.30am-4.30pm
Location tbc on booking
Taking control of your time
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=28633
Thursday 26 February
Sussex Centre for Language
Studies
Free English classes!
New teachers will be training at
the Sussex Centre for
Language Studies in the Spring
term.
Applicant visit days
Saturday 28 February, Saturday 14 March,
Saturday 28 March and Wednesday 29 April
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29185&r=46785
Fairtrade Fortnight
Thursday 26 February
1pm-2.30pm
Big square in front of Jubilee
building
Azonto dance-off
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=29202
Tuesday 3 March 6pm-8pm in the Creativity Zone
Careers in Science
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=29086
LOCAL EVENTS
Sussexsport are putting on a range of children’s
activity camps during the Easter holidays
www.sussex.ac.uk/sport/children/childrenscamps
Staff and students are
teaming up once again to
organise a week of
events and activities to
celebrate the University’s
international outlook and
the cultural diversity on
campus.
Saturday 28 February &
Sunday 1 March
Cycling Science: the ride
Explore the surprising science of cycling. Bring
your bike and your brain to pedal along as we
put theories to the test. Where does your
energy go? Why is cycling so efficient? What’s
so great about gravity?
www.brightonscience.com/events/cyclingscience-2015-02-28/
www.sussex.ac.uk/internationalsupport/
oneworldsussex
One of the highlights
of the week is a BBC
Stargazing Live event.
Sunday 1 March 11am-4pm
Open Market, London Road, Brighton
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