MPS Weekly Update
5 February 2015
New Head of Physics & Astronomy
Professor Philip Harris
finished his term of office as
Head of Department on
31 December. Prof Claudia
Eberlein has been appointed
new Head of Physics &
Astronomy from 1 January 2015.
A celebratory cake event, with something of a chocolate theme, was
held on Friday 30 January to thank Philip for his commitment during
his time in post, both to the department and to the School. He was
also presented with a bottle of his favourite whisky and an engraved
Dartington Crystal glass to enjoy sampling the ‘medication’!
He remains deputy head of school until further notice.
CONGRATULATIONS
… to Peter Giesl, Reader in
Mathematics (and Director of
Teaching & Learning) and
his wife Nicole on the arrival
of their third son, Oliver, on
Sunday 1 February.
Institute of Physics talk
Tuesday 10 February
7pm-8pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Karen Masters
Mapping the Universe
This talk is free to all –
no need to book
Brighton Science Festival
The annual NSS is now open until the end of April. By giving a few
minutes of their time, Sussex finalists help to inform students who
plan to enter university about the quality of their course (and Sussex)
and help them to decide what and where to study.
Saturday 7 February 11am &
2.30pm Hove Seafront
Cycle the Solar System
A fun 3-mile ride along the
seafront led by Dr Darren
Baskill
Events in the Big Science
Weekend 28 February1 March featuring our faculty
include
Please encourage your finalist students to complete the survey.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/nss/

Mathematical Madness

Beyond the Higgs
Boson – what’s next for
ATLAS at the LHC?
Departmental seminars coming up this week 5-11 February
Mathematics
http://www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/World/
seminar/index.cgi
Thursday 5 February 3pm in Pev 3 5C11
Prof Wen-Ming Zou (Tsinghua University)
Some progress on coupled Schrodinger
systems
Physics & Astronomy
Astronomy
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 6 February 3.15pm in Arts C C133
Ryan Houghton (Oxford)
Morphology, angular momentum and environment
ADPE
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/gk207/
APDE_Sussex.html
Monday 9 February in Pev 3 5C11
DOUBLE SEMINAR
2.45pm
Dr Shabnam Beheshti (Rutgers University &
QMUL)
Anaylsis of singularities for harmonic maps in
general relativity
AMO
Tuesday 10 February 1pm in Pev I 2A1
Piet O Schmidt (QUEST Institute)
Quantum logic spectroscopy of trapped ions
4pm
Prof Wenming Zou
Tsinghua University
On nonlinear elliptic PDEs with Sobolev-Hardy
critical exponents
Research events
TPP
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 9 February 4pm-5pm in Pev 3 4C10
Ben Allanach (Cambridge)
TBA
Thursday 12 February
12.30pm-2pm in BSMS Medical School
(Teaching Building) Room 2.10
Research Staff forum
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=23342
General
Wednesday 11 February
10am-12.30pm – location tbc on booking
Gaining the most benefit from your appraisal –
for Professional Services staff appraises
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=28631
Thursday 12 February 2pm-3.30pm
(also Friday 13 February at 10am in the same
venue) Terrace Room, Bramber House
VC’s open staff forum
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=28253
Wednesday 11 February
2pm-3.30pm in Pev I 1B5
Designing engaging and visual presentations
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=28236
The new Faculty ‘Request for Leave of
Absence’ form can be found on the MPS Staff
Resources page at
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff
Wednesday 11 February
2pm-3.30pm in IT Services, Shawcross
Level 2: Introduction to Managing your
Citations
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=26657
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