MPS Weekly Update
19 February 2015
15-16 April
Mathematics interdisciplinary meeting
Breaking boundaries
between analysis, geometry and
topology, organised by the
esteemed triumvirate of Prof
James Hirschfeld, Dr Roger Fenn
and Dr Ali Taheri.
Mathematics is a unified whole,
even though most mathematicians
work in only a small part of it.
The six speakers, all of whom
have distinguished careers, will
demonstrate this unity by
covering a wide range of
topics.
Tuesday 24 February 12.30pm-2.30pm in Pev 2 foyer
Meet the employer event
A number of employers, including Baker Tilly (Accountancy); CGG
(Geophysics); Enterprise Rent-a-Car (Management); FDM Group plc
(IT Consultancy) PGCE Sussex Education (Teaching); Sussex
Innovation Centre (Entrepreneurship); Teach First (Teaching ) and
Thales (Security, Aerospace & Defence), will be discussing their
graduate and summer internship vacancies.
TONIGHT!!!
LMS Celebration
Thursday 19 February
5pm+ in the Pev 2 foyer
To mark the sesquicentenary
of the London Mathematical
Society, the Maths department
will be celebrating this
milestone with wine and
nibbles (with funds kindly
donated by the LMS).
ALL WELCOME
Sussex Universe talk
Thursday 19 February
7pm-8pm
Chi I lecture theatre
Dr Matthias Keller
Quantum networks with ioncavity systems
This talk is free to all
– no need to book
Nerd Nite
Thursday 19 February
8pm (doors open at 7.30pm)
Komedia Studio £4/£3
Featuring our own Prof Mark
Hindmarsh with ‘Little Bangs
in the Big Bang’.
New for 2015!
Mathematics Department Careers Website
A useful resource for careers-related information, such as adverts
from employers, job opportunities, internships, career fairs.
https://sites.google.com/site/mathscareerssussex/
Mark will explain what
connects your kettle with the
Higgs boson and a laser
interferometer in space.
www.BrightonScience.com
Departmental seminars coming up this week 19-25 February
Mathematics
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/World/
seminar/index.cgi
TRIPLE SEMINAR (all in Pev 3 5C11)
Thursday 19 February
2pm
Dr Adrian Muntean (Eindhoven)
Capturing secondary nucleation effects in Becker
-Doering interactions: the homogenization route
3pm
Dr Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis (Crete)
On the positivity preservation of finite element
based discrete schemes for the heat equation
4pm
Dr Alex Bespalov (Birmingham)
Error estimation and adaptivity for stochastic
Galerkin FEM
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/gk207/
APDE_Sussex.html
Monday 23 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Kenneth Falconer (St Andrews)
Self-similar sets: projections, sections and
percolation
Tuesday 24 February
12pm-2pm Pev I 1B4
Designing engaging visual
presentations
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28703
Tuesday 24 February
3.30pm-4.30pm Fulton 101
Audio-visual equipment in
lecture theatres or seminar
rooms
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28883
Physics & Astronomy
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/newsandevents/
calendar
Friday 20 February 3.15pm-4.15pm Arts C C133
Andrew Pontzen (UCL)
The dark-light connection
AMO
Thursday 19 February 12noon Pev 3 5C11
Andrew Henning (NPL)
TBA
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2014_15
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 23 February 4pm-5pm Pev 3 4C10
Edward Wilson-Ewing (Max Planck Institute)
A ɅCDM bounce scenario
Marie Jahoda lecture
Thursday 26 February 6pm-7.30pm
Jubilee lecture theatre
Professor Helga Nowotny
A social scientist in the land of scientific promise
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28316
Wednesday 25 February
2pm-3pm Pev I 1B5
Podcasting for researchers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28237
Wednesday 25 February
2pm-5pm
Barlow Room, the Library
The engaging researcher:
getting started in public
engagement
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27291
Thursday 26 February
12pm-2pm Library Meeting Room
Research Hive seminar
Developing a sustainable
approach to managing digital
research outputs
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=28532
Revelations: experiments in photography
Henri Becquerel, 'Rays emitted from a radioactive
substance through a slitted screen', 1901.
Early science photos will be displayed alongside the
modern and contemporary art photography they
inspired at a new exhibition in the Science Museum,
co-curated by a Sussex academic, Art History
lecturer Dr Benedict Burbridge.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=29043
The exhibition opens on 20 March 2015.
The dates for this year’s departmental balls
have been confirmed:
Maths
Thursday 16 April - Hilton Brighton Metropole
Physics & Astronomy
Friday 17 April – Holiday Inn Brighton
Tickets will be on sale SOON – details to follow
LOCAL EVENTS
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/makeithappen 23/2-6/3
Sunday 22 February
from 9am
Brighton Seafront
Vitality Brighton Half Marathon in aid of Cystic
Fibrosis
cysticfibrosis.org.uk/brighton
The Higher Education
Academy have
produced a Physicsdedicated resource
pack on supporting
students with
Aspergers.
www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/4533
Kung Hei Fat Choy! 新年快乐
Today is Chinese New
Year and, as it is the Year
of the Sheep, a good
enough reason – if one
were needed – to include
one of my favourite family
members, who is now a
film star!.
Sunday 22 February 2pm
Meet outside Lewes railway
station
90-minute guided tour of
Lewes (pay what you can)
www.meetup.com/guidedwalks-inBrightonandSussex/?
scroll=true
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