MPS Weekly Update
11 February 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
A not unfamiliar face in the MPS weekly update, MPhys
Theoretical Physics student Daniel Hajas who, having
won second place in the JRA poster competition in
October 2015, last week showcased his work in
parliament at the Posters in Parliament exhibition.
Daniel aimed to highlight the challenges he and other
visually impaired people face in learning science and
maths, with work specifically looking at enhancing the
accessibility of STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Maths) education for visually impaired
students using focused information mapping and a
cross-modality platform.
www.sussex.ac.uk/physics/newsandevents?
id=34153
Daniel with Alexandra Earl, BSc Psychology with Cognitive
Science, who won first place in last year’s JRA poster
competition
Maths Society
TODAY Thursday 11 February
7pm Arts A A01
Prof Enrico Scalas
From coin tossing to financial
markets
ALL WELCOME
talk followed by refreshments
MPS Outreach
Every year, MPS runs about 130+ outreach events for 12,000+ people
(mainly school children), as well as receiving requests for activities on a daily
basis from schools, colleges and for general public events – for example
Brighton Science Festival, Nerd Nite, PubhD.
All our outreach events are listed online at
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/outreach/talks
www.sussex.ac.uk/physics/outreach/talks
Please contact Dr Darren Baskill if
a) you have done any recent outreach, so that he can add it to our database
b) you want to get involved (especially if you haven’t done any outreach
before)
c) you already have a prepared talk suitable for schools or the public
Thank you to all the MPS folk who
came along to support Chrystelle,
Dorothy, Kathy and Naomi at the
first-ever Staff Craft Fair, held on
Monday 8 February.
For a taste of what was on offer,
go to
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34198
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 11 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Peter Giesl (UoS)
Approximation of matrix-valued functions with
applications to contractions metrics
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 15 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Mikeala Iacobelli (Cambridge)
A gradient flow approach to quantisation of measures
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
NB NO SEMINAR THIS FRIDAY
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 11 February 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Nick Ayres (UoS)
The ongoing search for the neutron electric dipole
moment
TPP
Mathematics PG Seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars/
Friday 12 February 4.30pm Pev 3 5C11
Jean Lagacé (Montréal)
Density of states and the geometry of numbers
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Thursday 11 February 4pm 4C10
Claudio Corano (Southampton/Lecce)
Axions and Dilatons from Stuckelberg to Nonlinear
Realizations
Mathematics news
An invited paper by Dr Konstantin
Blyuss (Senior Lecturer in
Mathematics) on the subject of his
Impact Case Study for REF2014 has
just been published in a Springer Verlag
monograph called ‘UK Success Stories
in Industrial Mathematics’
K.B. Blyuss, ‘Mathematical modelling of the dynamics
of meningococcal meningitis’, pp. 221-226, in
P.J. Aston, A.J. Mulholland, K.M.M. Tant (Eds) ‘UK
Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics’, Springer
Verlag, 2016.
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319254524
A research paper by Mr Giannis
Neofytou, a 3rd year PhD student
(supervised by Dr Konstantin Blyuss
(above) and Dr Yuliya Kyrychko (left),
Senior Lecturers in Mathematics)
G. Neofytou, Y.K. Kyrychko, K.B. Blyuss, ‘Time-delayed
model of immune response in plants’, Journal of
Theoretical Biology vol. 389, pp. 28-39 (2016)
has made it to number 15 in the list of most
downloaded papers in the Journal of Theoretical
Biology over the last 90 days, after only just having
been published:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-theoreticalbiology/most-downloaded-articles/
The L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science UK &
Ireland Fellowships Programme 2016 is now open
for applications. They will be awarding five
outstanding female postdoctoral scientists a fellowship
of £15,000.
The fellowships are open to female postdoctoral
researchers working in the fields of life and physical
sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and
engineering.
This unique award is designed to provide practical
help to aid female postdoctoral researchers in
continuing their cutting-edge research. The fellowship
can be spent as the fellow wishes – it could buy a
piece of scientific equipment, help to cover childcare
costs or be used to fund conference travel.
The deadline is 11 March 2016.
Online applications welcome at
www.womeninscience.co.uk
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
All staff are encouraged to fill out the
Staff Active Survey before it closes on 1 March.
The sixth round of the Research
Development Fund was launched
on 8 February. It is designed to
develop activities that will lead to
substantive external research.
The deadline for applications is Friday 15 April 2016 at
5pm.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=34185
Research Hive seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/library/research/
seminarsandevents/seminars2016
Thursday 11 February 12pm-1.30pm
Jubilee G30
Research Staff Forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=23342
Thursday 11 February 12.45pm-1.45pm
Jubilee 117
To patent or not to patent?
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=33562
Friday 12 February 10am-11.30am
Terrace Room, Bramber House
VC’s open staff forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33554
Monday 15 February – various
times through the day and week
Academic development workshops
for international students
Punctuation
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=34176
Monday 15 February 1pm-2pm online
Online webinar: practical tips to improve your academic
writing
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33485
Wednesday 17 February 12pm-4.30pm
Postgraduate taught open day
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=5577
Wednesday 17 February 1pm-3pm
C233
Approaches to teaching – large group teaching and
flipping the classroom
PGCertHE workshop but open to all faculty
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?page=8
Thursday 18 February
9.30am-12.30pm
Location tbc on booking
Time management
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32944
IT courses
Tuesday 16 February 2pm-3.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Excel 2013 – Pivot tables
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=27508
Wednesday 17 February
11am-12.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Word 2013 – creating an automatic
table of contents for your thesis
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=26966
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 13 February 10am-4.30pm Friends’ Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton
Brighton Craft Fair (free entry)
Saturday 13 February 1.30pm-3pm Varndean School
Little Shop of Horrors (£6/£4 concessions)
From Saturday 13 until Sunday 21 February Spring Barn Farm
Wild about wildlife week (usual entrance prices apply)
Saturday 13 February free before 11pm, £5 before midnight, £7 on door
Shooshh, King’s Arches, Brighton Seafront
Fred Sirieix (from Channel 4’s ’First Dates’ programme) hosts a First Dates Special
Sunday 14 February 12.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
Playmakes – the Bear £5
brightondome.org/event/8929/playmakes_-_the_bear/
Sunday 14 February 7pm Meet at the Clock Tower, Brighton (£5)
BAD Brighton After Dark Valentine murder tour – Love gone wrong
Learn about some of the crimes passionels that have taken place on Brighton’s dark streets
NB NOT suitable for children
www.meetup.com/guided-walks-in-brightonandsussex/
If you have any items for inclusion in the next MPS
weekly update, please contact Dorothy Lamb
E [email protected] by 12 noon at the
latest on Wednesday before Thursday
publication.
Wednesday 17 February
Random Acts of Kindness Day
If you have any news for our web pages and
social media feeds, our Information
Co-ordinator, Justine Charles, would be delighted
to hear from you.
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