MPS Weekly Update
3 March 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
The Pevensey foyer was buzzing last week
when over 80 students attended our Meet
The Employer mini careers fair in the foyer.
The event was held as part of the school’s
first–ever careers week.
Students came along to talk to employers about the graduate, placement and
internship vacancies that their companies have.
Other events during this very successful week
included mock interview sessions with a leading
graduate employer, Maths and Physics drop-in
sessions, summer opportunities and advice from
the Careers Employability Centre on careers
inside and outside of academia.
A reminder of next week’s MPS research
development talk
Wednesday 9 March 2pm-3pm
Arundel 401
Sussex Universe talk
TONIGHT Thursday 3 March 7pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Dr Diego Porras
A trip to quantum physics:
Schrödinger’s cats, Einstein’s
nightmares and quantum
technology
Talk followed by refreshments –
all welcome – free, no need to book
Tuesday 8 March 7pm-8pm
Chichester I lecture theatre
Prof David Berman
100 years of general relativity
Talk followed by refreshments
All welcome – free –
no need to book
The ever-popular Brighton Science Festival (in which MPS played a large
part again this year) has now ended. Along with many other events, a
bumper crowd enjoyed the delights of SUSY softies and the exhibition
Beyond the Higgs Boson – what’s next for Atlas at the LHC? during the Big
Science Weekend?
Sussex’s refreshed brand and
visual identity has now been
launched
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34579
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 3 March 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Qiuhua Liang (Newcastle)
Developing a whole-system tool for modelling natural
hazards risk
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 7 March 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Andrew Morris (Birmingham)
The method of layer potentials in L^p and endpoint
spaces for elliptic operators with bounded coefficients
Mathematics PG Seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars
Friday 4 March 4pm Pev 3 5C11
David McCormick (UoS)
Commutator estimates for fractional derivatives and
applications to fluid dynamics
Mathematics news
Dr Nicos Georgiou presented a
seminar in Cambridge on 1 March
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/64864
Physics & Astronomy news
Congratulations to Nick Ayres, PGR
and student rep, who has been
accepted for the prestigious Lindau
Nobel Laureate meeting this summer.
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 4 March 2.45pm
Tommaso Giannantonio (Camridge)
Tests of structure formation with Dark Energy Survey
and the CMB
AMO
Monday 7 March 12noon
Freeman Centre FRE-F22
Dr Ben Keitch (Oxford)
The NQIT q2020 Project: How to build a 400 Qubit
quantum computer – technologies and challenges
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 10 March 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Jennifer Thomas (UCL)
Neutrino oscillations and the path to neutrino CP
violation
TPP
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 7 March 4pm Pev 3 4C10
Ivo Varzielas (Southampton)
TBA
Physics & Astronomy news
MPS welcomes Prof Alan Dalton,
new professor of materials physics.
Alan will be based in Pev 2 3A6.
www.lindau-nobel.org/meeting
As well as heading up P & A’s
Athena SWAN initiative, among a
myriad of outreach activities,
including standing on a box in
Newcastle city centre delivering
A reminder that 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.
soundbites about physics, ahead of International
Women’s Day Dr Kathy Romer reveals the things that
make her tick www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34536
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 3 March 12noon-2pm Meeting House
Pizza afternoon with Teach First!
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33605
Thursday 3 March 4pm-7.30pm
The Keep
Opening the Doris Lessing letters
NB Booking essential
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=34299
Thursday 3 March 6pm-8pm
Chowen Lecture Theatre, BSMS
Make it Happen: Careers in
business, marketing and finance
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34025
Saturday 5 March 4pm-10pm Falmer Bar
Big Band 10th anniversary
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34479
7-11 March
Open Education week
www.openeducationweek.org/
Monday 7-Friday 11 March various times
Workshop for international students
Academic grammar workshop:
Lexical complexity
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=34206
Monday 7 March 11am-12pm
Essex House 133
Technology for doctoral research – one-to-one
support
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34339
Monday 7 March 11am-2pm
Library café
Victim Support –
community volunteering
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33804
Monday 7 March 1pm-2pm
Online webinar:
Welcome for new doctoral researchers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33613
Tuesday 8 March 10am-4.30pm
Jubilee G31
Researcher Development Programme
Presentation design
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33491
Tuesday 8 March 1.30pm-2.30pm
Jubilee 144
Do we need Athena SWAN?
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34523
Tuesday 8 March 2pm-3.30pm
Library Training Room, 2nd floor
Adding your publications to Sussex
Research Online
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=33350
Wednesday 9 March
11am-2pm Jubilee G31
Staff fitness, sport and wellbeing forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34325
Wednesday 9 March
12.30pm-1.30pm JMS 1B1
Designing engaging and visual
presentations
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34245
Thursday 10 March 12pm-1pm
Careers Employability Centre, Library
Getting into Science
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34166
IT courses
Wednesday 9 March 9.30am-12.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=19653
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 5 March 10am-4pm Brighton Dome café bar
International Women’s Day (free) internationalwomensday.wordpress.com/
Saturday 5 March 10am-4pm Market Tower, Fisher Street
Lewes Craft Market (free)
Saturday 5 March 10.30am-3.30pm Patcham Methodist Church
The Fairy Tale Fair – spring special (free)
Saturday 5 March 11am-4.30pm Cornerstone Community Centre
Body mind spirit fayre (free)
Saturday 5 March 3pm Junkyard Dogs, Edward Street, Brighton
Jenga world championship (free)
Until 17 May at Hove Museum & Art Gallery
New Star Wars toy display (free)
Today is World Book Day
www.worldbookday.com/
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