MPS Weekly Update
18 February 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
MPS Equality & Diversity champions
Two new Equality & Diversity champions have been
announced for MPS – Dr Steve Churchwell (Technical
Supervisor) and Dr Alessia Pasquazi (Senior Lecturer
and Marie Curie Research Fellow).
Their role is to be the first point of contact for any MPS
staff who have a grievance, for an informal chat and/or
advice, to ensure that staff are clear on institutional
policies and to intervene as early as possible in any
cases.
A new system of postgraduate
loans for Masters degrees in the
UK will be introduced this year
for those applying to study in
2016-17
They will be taking up their roles officially from 1 August
2016.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34280
Logging jobs for
maintenance/repairs
Please email
[email protected] if you
have any items to be logged on
the helpdesk.
Debbie Tyler, in the School
Office, will log these jobs with the
SEF Service Centre and track
their fulfilment.
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/departments/mathematics/careers
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/departments/physicsandastronomy/careers
CAKE SALE TODAY 11am-4pm
Pevensey foyer
Sarah Spencer
SEPnet Employment
Engagement Officer
Dr Istvan Kiss
Careers Tutor
Mathematics
Dr Kathy Romer
Careers Tutor
Physics &
Astronomy
The Maths Society will be
holding a cake sale today to raise
funds for the Maths Ball.
Please come along and support
them.
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Astronomy
Thursday 25 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester)
TBA
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 19 February 2.45pm-4pm
Arts C133
TBA
Thursday 25 February 4pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Alexei Lozinski (Université de Franche-Compté
Besançon)
Multiscale finite element on perforated domains
EPP
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 22 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Kewei Zhang (Nottingham)
Compensated convex transforms and their applications
Mathematics PG Seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars/
Friday 19 February 4.30pm Pev 3 5C11
Joe Eyles
A short introduction to continuous and discrete
maximum principles in the phase field
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 18 February 1pm
Pev 3 5C11
Dr Zara Grout (UoS)
ATLAS electroweak supersymmetry searches
Physics & Astronomy news
Mathematics news
Not content with resting on his laurels
after recently clocking up 50 years at
Sussex, Prof James Hirschfeld’s latest
academic tome – General Galois
Geometries – was published by
Springer on 17 February (now in the
Pevensey foyer display cabinet – the
book, not James!).
www.springer.com/gb/book/9781447167884
Dr Arghir Zarnescu is speaking at
the ERC Workshop in Berlin (22-26
February) on Modelling Materials and
Fluids using Variational Methods
www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/
MoMatFlu/
Arghir will also be speaking at the
Perspectives in Applied PDEs
mini-workshop in Pavia
arturo.imati.cnr.it/spinolo/
PerspectivesPV.html
Dr Darren Baskill (Outreach Officer) and Prof Mark
Hindmarsh (Professor of Theoretical Physics),
together with colleagues from the Chemistry
department, were the scientific peer review team for a
musical comedy which recently showed at the Brighton
Science Festival.
‘The Element in the Room: a radioactive musical
comedy about the death and life of Marie Curie’,
written by John Hinton, is about to tour Adelaide.
Darren and Mark have previously been involved in
Hinton’s show about Einstein.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 18 February 10am-1pm Jubilee G30
Getting research funded: sciences, engineering and
medicine
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33346
Thursday 28 February 12pm-2pm
Library second floor meeting room
Responsible self promotion: reaching new and expanded
readerships for your research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34034
Thursday 18 February 6pm-8pm
Quiet Room, Meeting House
LGBTQ+ history month panel
discussion: LGBTQ+ and faith
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34099
Tuesday 23 February 12pm-1.30pm
Research & Enterprise Services, meeting room 1
Falmer House
How to complete the JeS form
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33153
Wednesday 24 February
12pm-12.45pm
Meeting House
Organ recital with
D’Arcy Trinkwon
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33877
Wednesday 24 February 12pm-2pm
Quiet Room, Meeting House
Welcome lunch for new doctoral researchers starting
Jan/Feb 2016 (NB Booking required)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33602
Wednesday 24 February 2pm-4pm Jubilee 116
Using technology to manage your research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33488
Headline results for the interim
staff survey show some progress
Friday 19 February 11am-12pm
Library Training Room, 2nd floor
Finding dissertations for your thesis
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33487
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34286
IT courses
Saturday 20 February 7pm-10pm (doors open at 6pm)
Brighton Dome
Chinese Students and Scholars Association present:
Chinese New Year Gala
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34228
Friday 19 February 10am-12.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
EndNote X7 desktop – full functionality
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=26657
Tuesday 23 February 10am-11.30am
IT Services, Shawcross
Publisher 2013 – posters and flyers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=32130
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 20 February 5.30pm-6.15pm St Laurence’s Church, Falmer
(free, with retiring collection)
Yvonne Patrick, Robert Chavner and John Bruzon – a musical journey featuring the music
of Purcell, Handel, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Balfe, Offenbach, Boulblil & Schoenberg and
A. Lloyd-Webber
Until Friday 11 March Junkyard Dogs, Edward Street (free)
Stuart Freeland
Until Sunday 20 March Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (free)
The New Immortals – exhibition exploring ideas about immortality in an age of
scientific miracles
Sunday 21 February 12pm-4pm FAIR, Queen’s Road, Brighton (admission £5)
Rags revival clothes swap shop boutique
Brighton Science Festival until 28 February
www.brightonscience.com/
Book now for Easter vacation campus children's sports activities
www.sussex.ac.uk/sport/children/childrenscamps/easter
Until 22 February
National Chip Week 2016
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.
restaurantsbrighton.co.uk/best-fish-and-chipsbrighton/
New six-week staff-only
yoga classes starting
23 February
www.sussex.ac.uk/
staff/newsandevents/?
id=34363
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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