MPS Weekly Update
4 February 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
The first–ever Mathematics Intersession Week was very successful, with
more than 60 registered participants in various activities related to a range of
transferable and mathematical skills.
Some of the most well-attended events were a statistical group project on the
colour distribution of Smarties and Skittles and the Maths Society Lecture on
dynamical systems given by Dr Peter Giesl.
Special thanks to Oonagh, Sinead and the rest of the office staff who
navigated through the treacherous administrative part of the organisation.
If you missed it, don’t worry - the activities are not over!! Look out for
information on our `Nerd Nite: Maths edition' happening in March and, of
course, the rest of the pop-maths lectures organized by the Maths Society.
Please remember to fill out the feedback forms!
Dr Nicos Georgiou
Sussex Universe Lecture Series
TONIGHT
Thursday 4 February 7pm
Arts A02 lecture theatre
Dr Lily Asquith
Don’t blame the Higgs Boson
The talk should last for an hour
and will be followed by
refreshments
All welcome – free – no need to
book
Tuesday 9 February 7pm-8pm
Jubilee large lecture theatre
Dr Matt Taylor
The Rosetta mission: What?
Where? How? And where is it
now?
This week sees the launch of the Teaching and
Learning Experience at Sussex (TaLES) series
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=34083
Congratulations to
Dr Konstantios Blazakis
Dr Nicholas Devenish
Dr Zara Grout
Dr Prapanporn Rattana
Dr James Sinclair
who had their doctorates
conferred at the Winter Graduation
Ceremony last month
The talk will be followed by
refreshments
All welcome – free – no need to
book
REMINDER
MPS SCHOOL MEETING
WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY
2PM-4PM
PEVENSEY I 1A7
Monday 8 February 12pm-2pm
Quiet Room, Meeting House
Staff Craft Fair
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Astronomy
Thursday 4 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Michel Fournié (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse)
Stabilization of the Navier-Stokes equations
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 5 February 2.45pm-4pm Arts A02
Guilio Fabbian (SISSA)
TBA
ADPE
EPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Monday 8 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Anthony Carberry (Edinburgh)
Magnitude of complex sets in Euclidean spaces: and
applications of PDEs to the theory of enriched
categories
Maths PG seminar
Friday 5 February 4.30pm Pev 3 5C11
Richard Olu Awonusika (Sussex)
Introduction to Harmonic Analysis on symmetric
spaces
Wednesday 9 March 2pm-3pm
Arundel 401
Research + event
A meeting for supervisors of
PhD students
Camilla Briault, Head of Research Student
Administration, will explain how the Research Student
Administration Office works with the aim of improving
the PGR experience from admission to graduation.
Free coffee, tea and biscuits at the start
Thursday 4 February 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Mark Lancaster (UCL)
The Femilab Muong-2 experiment
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Thursday 11 February 4pm-5pm Pev 3 4C10
Claudio Coriano (Southampton)
TBA
Physics & Astronomy news
Professor Antonella De Santo and the
Experimental Particle Physics (EPP)
research group have been awarded a
Sussex Experimental Particle Physics
2015 Consolidated Grant from the STFC
council for the EPP research programme
at Sussex.
The EPP research group are delighted to receive funding
for this four-year programme.
With a grant value of £2.3M and running until September
2019, it will fund the group's major involvement in the
ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, in
the SNO+ experiment at SNOLAB and in the nEDM
experiment at the PSI.
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/newsandevents?
id=33458
Have you ever wondered whether you should patent
before publishing? Do you want to know what it takes to
get, and benefit from, a patent? Would you like to know
how the University might finance your patent?
If so, you will be interested in a lunchtime seminar on
Thursday 11 February. You can book and find out more
details at: www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/33562
Now in its 11th year, the Brighton
Science Festival is back
until 28 February
www.brightonscience.com/
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 4 February 12pm-2pm
Library second floor meeting room
Publication quality under pressure:
strategies for when, where and how
to publish
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34026
Thursday 4 February 1pm-2pm Fulton 101
Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award 2016
drop-in session
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34056
Friday 5 February 10.30am-12.30pm
Barlow Room, Library ground floor
Drowning in data? Using data management plans for
your research – qualitative data
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33345
Monday 8 February 1pm-3pm
Jubilee G31
Troubling widening participation in
higher education internationally
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33854
Tuesday 9 February 2pm-3.30pm
Library training room, 2nd floor
Keeping up to date in your subject
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33483
Wednesday 10 February Pev 1A3
Welcome presentation at 1.30pm (drop in any time
1.45pm-3pm)
CAFE PHYSICS – tea, cake & careers advice
Join the IoP and current physics teachers for an
informal insight into teaching physics
www.iop.org/cafephysics
Wednesday 10 February 2pm-4pm
Chichester Lecture Theatre 3R241
The basic principles every PhD student needs to
know
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
Thursday 11 February 12pm-1.30pm
Jubilee G30
Research Staff Forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=23342
Thursday 4 February
3.30pm-4.30pm
Free women-only fitness room
session
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34005&r=54962
Wednesday 10 February 1.30pm-6pm
Jubilee Lecture Theatre
Holocaust Memorial Day
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32372
Friday 11 February 10am-11.30am
Terrace Room, Bramber House
VC’s open staff forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33554
IT courses
Friday 5 February 10am-12.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
PowerPoint for Beginners
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=26963
Monday 8 February 11am-12.30pm
IT Services,Shawcross
Excel 2013 – Charts
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=27509
Monday 8 February 2pm-5pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32201
Wednesday 10 February 10am-12pm
ITS Services, Shaawcross
Word – formatting tips and
techniques
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=26656
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 6 February 12pm-4pm Clarendon Centre, New England Street, Brighton
Chinese New Year event (£3 entry) – food stalls, lion dance, singing, traditional instruments
Saturday 6 February 6pm Corn Exchange, Brighton
Otherworld multisensory cinema (£4 child, £3 adult)
brightondome.org/event/8768/otherworld_multisensory_cinema/
Until 15 March at the Round Georges pub, Sutherland Road, Brighton
New art exhibition – Heike Rosel (free admission)
Until 2 May at Hove Museum, Church Road, Hove
Animals in the frame – family-friendly exhibition of paintings (free admission)
Sunday 7 February 11am-12pm Alive Fitness & Natural Health Centre, Castle Street, Brighton
Brighton & Hove peacemakers £7 www.beingofsoundhealth.co.uk/
Sunday 7 February 12pm-4pm The Fair Shop, Queen’s Road, Brighton
Rags revival clothes swap shop boutique (admission £5)
February 8
Chinese New Year
Year of the Monkey
The Chinese New Year is
celebrated at the turn of the traditional
lunisolar Chinese calendar. It is also
known as the Spring Festival, the
literal translation of the modern Chinese
name. Celebrations traditionally run
from the evening preceding the first day
to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day
of the first calendar month. The first day
of the New Year falls on the new moon
between 21 January and 20 February.
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