MPS Weekly Update
25 February 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
National Student Survey (NSS)
The NSS is a survey of all final-year
students in the UK about the quality of
their academic experience.
The survey provides students with an opportunity to make their opinions on
their higher education student experience count at a national level. The
results help prospective students make informed choices of where and what
to study and enable the participating institutions to identify and improve in
areas where they may have not fared so well for their students.
www.sussex.ac.uk/nss/
MPS will be holding a pizza event for our NSS
final year students on Thursday 10 March
12.15pm-1.30pm in the Creativity Zone.
On Friday 11 March, the School will hold its
second research hack day. This follows the
successful first hack day where
undergraduates and PhD students worked
on challenges in bioinformatics and
visualizing astronomical datasets.
You can read more about that at www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/about/
newsandevents/?id=33239
Maths Society Pop lecture
Thursday 25 February 7pm
Arts A A01
Dr Yuliya Kyrychko
Complex systems, time delays
and synchronisation: a
mathematical modelling
perspective
All welcome – no need to book –
refreshments to follow the talk
This time we will have challenges in modelling DNA replication
and in analyzing galaxy datasets.
If you are interested in applying for a place, please contact
Colin Hayhurst at [email protected]
FINAL weekend of the Brighton Science Festival
www.brightonscience.com/
Including Quantum to Cosmological Exhibition and Beyond the
Higgs Boson – What’s next for Atlas at the LHC? (Saturday
and Sunday)
Sunday 28 February 2pm Sallis Benney Theatre
Speakers’ Corner – featuring Peter Coles and John Haigh
We are promised quick debate, sharp comment, rapier-swift
riposte and needle wit from these denizens of MPS
Sussex Universe talk
Thursday 3 March 7pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Diego Porras
A trip to quantum physics:
Schroedinger’s cats, Einstein’s
nightmares and quantum
technology
Talk followed by refreshments –
all welcome – free, no need to
book
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 25 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester)
Biological invasion: modelling patchy invasion of alien
species
Thursday 25 February 4pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Alexei Lozinski (Université de Franche-Compté
Besançon)
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 29 February 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Matteo Bonforte (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Nonlinear and local degenerate diffusions on bounded
domains
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 26 February 2.45pm Arts A03
Shaun Cole (Durham)
TBA
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 25 February 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Mark Hindmarsh (UoS)
Gravitational waves from the early universe
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Friday 29 February 4pm Pev 3 4C10
David Weir (Stavanger, Norway)
TBA
Mathematics news
Saturday 12 March
10.15am-3.30pm
Little Theatre, Seaford
Mathematics in Action study day
U3A members £10/others £12
Dr Roger Luther will be hosting a study day course
looking at several areas of life in which mathematics
plays an interesting role. These will include home décor
– for example, a simple mathematical analysis shows
that there are just 11 different regular tiling patterns -–
traffic behaviour and elections. This course is run in
conjunction with the U3A and S.U.N. registered charity.
If you would like more information, please contact
Roger E [email protected]
Travelling abroad?
A reminder that if you are travelling abroad on
business, you will need to complete a travel
insurance document and an overseas risk
assessment form to be submitted at least TEN
working days before your trip . Both can be found at
our staff resources pages under ‘Useful Forms’
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff
Please note in the ‘overseas risk assessment’ form
that, under ‘contact information’ where it states main
address and telephone number; this refers to your
destination address, NOT your home address.
Please submit these forms to the School Office – there
is a folder in the bottom tray immediately to your right
on entering the office – one for signatures for Claudia
Eberlein and one for Enrico Scalas.
A BIG thank you to all who indulged
themselves at last week’s Maths
Society cake bake. They raised over
£100 towards the Maths Ball.
As the editor sees it, it’s a win-win situation.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 25 February 1pm-2pm Fulton 212
Postdoctoral Network Event
Meet your reps
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34366
Thursday 25 February 8pm-10pm
Otherplace at the Basement,
Kensington Street, Brighton
Nerd Nite Brighton (£4/£3)
with Dr Jillian Scudder and academics from two other
schools
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34142
Monday 29 February
11am-6pm during the week
Academic development workshop for international
students
Developing academic listening and speaking skills
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34193
Tuesday 1 March 12pm-2pm
Library Meeting Room, 2nd floor
Sussex Hive Research seminar
Funding your research: scholarships, grants and
contracts that enable your research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34259
Tuesday 1 March
5.30pm-6.30pm The Keep
Dr Sue Berry
Brighton and the Regency
period – a phase of rapid
change and grand ideas
(£3)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33183
Tuesday 1 March 6pm-8pm Pev 3 3C7 Creativity Zone
Make it Happen: Careers in Science
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34041
Wednesday 2 March 1pm-3pm
Careers seminar room 2, Library
Supporting students’ learning: library, study skills and
career development
This workshop forms part of the PGCertHe but is open
to all faculty
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33357
Wednesday 2 March 2pm-4pm Arts C C169
Introduction to Prezi and finding images for your
presentations
For doctoral researchers at all stages from all
disciplines
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33490
Thursday 3 March 9.15am-5pm Pev I 2D2
Communicating your research to the media
For doctoral researchers in late stages who have
experience of presenting their research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33706
IT courses
Tuesday 1 March
11am-12.30pm
Suite 1, IT Services,
Shawcross
Endnote online limited functionality
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=24102
Friday 4 March 2pm-3.30pm
IT Services Shawcross
Excel 2013 – Charts
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=26964
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 27 February 10am-12.30pm Hanover Community Centre
Hanover Community Association Table Top Sale (50p entry)
Saturday 27-Sunday 28 February Brighton Centre
VegFestUK 2016 – over 200 stalls (£7 per day/£10 weekend) www.brighton.vegfest.co.uk/
Saturday 27 February 7.30pm Central United Reform Church, Hove
A classical evening with soprano Rebekah Smith (tickets £5/£3)
rebekahsmithsoprano.wix.com/rebekahsmithsoprano#!concerts/cnnz
Saturday 27 February 8pm Meet at the Clock Tower, Brighton
BAD – Brighton After Dark murder tour (£5/students half price, children go free)
Sunday 28 February 11am-5pm Brighton Toy & Model Museum, Trafalgar Street, Brighton
Toys in the community (£5/£4) toysinthecommunity.org/
Brighton Festival brightonfestival.org/
Now in its 50th year, bookings to the general public open from Friday 26 February at 9am
This menagerie of endangered species (some of them,
Bonzo the dog and Tommy the guardsman troll (who
also feature on the front cover) and Mousey, have
almost completed their half century) will not be on view
at the above ‘Toys in the community’ event as they are
currently in captivity somewhere near the Seven Dials
(they forgot to tick the ‘no publicity’ box …)
If you have any items for inclusion in the next MPS
weekly update, please contact Dorothy Lamb
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latest on Wednesday before Thursday
publication.
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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