MPS Weekly Update
12 February 2015
Lelkesítö!
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
As well as being a full-time Physics &
Astronomy undergraduate, plus finding the time
to set up and organise a new set of departmental
‘Sussex Universe’ talks (see right-hand
column for next week’s event), Daniel Hajas is
also involved in developing an innovative
device to help blind students learn Mathematics
and other science-related subjects. He has
entered the Inclusive Technology Prize
competition with his idea for a tablet-sized
device that translates visual information, such as
graphs, into a tactile format.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=28920
One of Daniel’s aims is to end up with a device that is more widely
affordable for students and the general public – he believes that
“people with disabilities shouldn’t have to pay more for their education
than those without disabilities.”
Congratulations to Winfried (Winni) Hensinger on
his promotion to Professor of Quantum
Technologies.
LMS Celebration
Thursday 19 February
5pm+ in the Pev 2 foyer
In the spirit of altruism to mark
their sesquicentenary, the
London Mathematical
Society have donated monies
to the Maths department to
hold a social function to
celebrate this milestone.
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
Dr John Gribbin (P & A) has
published his first e-book only
‘Before the Big Bang’ . ‘The Big
Bang was not the beginning of time.
Before the Big Bang, there was a
tiny fraction of a second during
which a process called inflation
expanded a seed much smaller
than the nucleus of an atom into a fireball the size of a basketball -the Big Bang itself.’
Read more at www.amazon.co.uk/Before-Big-Bang-John-Gribbinebook/dp/B00T6L43NY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digitaltext&ie=UTF8&qid=1423154711&sr=1-1
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’.
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 12-18 February
Mathematics
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/World/
seminar/index.cgi
DOUBLE SEMINAR
Thursday 12 February 2pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford)
Scaling limits of Galton-Watson trees and linebreaking constructions
Thursday 12 February 3.15pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Chandrasekhar Venkataraman
Free boundary problems in the fast reaction limit
of a model for receptor-ligand dynamics
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/gk207/
APDE_Sussex.html
Monday 16 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Tadahiro Oh (Edinburgh)
Invariant Gibbs measures for the nonlinear
Schrödinger equations on the circle and the real
line
FAST (Finance And STochastics)
Tuesday 17 February 4pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Tiziana Di Matteo (King’s College)
Complex financial data: an econophysics
perspective
General information
Physics & Astronomy
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/newsandevents/
calendar
Friday 13 February 3.15pm-4.15pm Arts A A05
Ken Duncan (Nottingham)
The growth of the first galaxies
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2014_15
Thursday 12 February 1pm Pev 3 4C10
Dr Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)
Direct Dark Matter searches with the LUX and LZ
experiments
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 16 February 4pm-5pm Pev 3 4C10
Ben Gripaios (Cambridge)
The quantum theory of fluids
External events
Wednesday 29 April Westminster
2nd Annual STEMtech Conference & Showcase
£99 + VAT www.stemtechconference.com
Monday 16 February
9.30am-4.30pm Arts A04
Dr Sarah Robins-Hobden
Effective Researcher
Tuesday 17 February
2pm-3pm Jubilee G23
Amanda Britt
Introduction to Research
Professional (finding funding
for your research costs)
School and divisional results of
the staff survey are now available.
The results for our school and the
other Science schools can be
accessed at www.sussex.ac.uk/
staff/survey/results/science
To book on these and/or view
future courses, visit
www.sussex.ac.uk/
doctoralschool/internal/
researcherdev/events/date
Sussex Research have
launched the fourth round of
the Research Development
Fund.
The RDF is designed to
develop activities that will
lead to substantive external
research proposals
Deadline 5pm Friday 17 April
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
research/sussexresearch/rdf
Thursday 12 February 7pm-8.30pm
Fulton A lecture theatre
Sussex Archæological Society
The Screen Map of Brighton & Hove
£2 members/£3 non-members
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28455
Friday 13 February
12.30pm-2pm
The Barlow Gallery, Library
TEL workshop: Quizzing and
polling with mobile devices
TELeGRAM, the newsletter from Technology
Enhanced Learning, can be viewed at
www.sussex.ac.uk/tel
Workshops and training are listed at
www.sussex.ac.uk/tel/workshops
EVENTS IN THE
BRIGHTON SCIENCE FESTIVAL
www.BrightonScience.com
Thursday 12 February
7pm All Saints Church, Hove
Music for Curious Minds:
Dark Formations
£10/free for under 26s
Bright Sparks weekend
Saturday 14-Sunday 15 February
10am-5pm
Hove Park School
Including ‘Mathematical Madness’
Pre-booking recommended
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Please note that a 40-day Freddofree zone will be in operation in Pev
2 3A2 as Lent begins on
Wednesday 18 February.
Tuesday 17 February 1pm-1.30pm
Careers and Employability Centre, The Library
Applying for postgraduate study
For this and other CEC courses, please see
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers
Wednesday 18 February 2pm-4pm
Library Training Room
Supporting Students' Learning: Library, Study
Skills and Career Development
The session includes developing understanding
of the need for students to develop their
information literacy skills, including digital
literacy, and the role of this in positively
addressing plagiarism.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=28216
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 14 February 10am-2pm
The Larches café, Waldron Avenue
Coldean Valentine’s Day Fayre (free entry)
Community fayre – stalls, quiz with prizes,
a storyteller and more.
Healthy affordable food from the new café.
Sunday 15 February
Thistle Hotel, Brighton
10am-4pm
Deco Fair
(Admission £3)
www.decofairs.co.uk
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