MPS Weekly Update
10 March 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
Monday 14 March
Pi day (& Einstein’s birthday)
www.piday.org/
A reminder of
TODAY’S MPS NSS
finalists’ pizza event
Thursday 10 March
12.15pm-1.30pm
Creativity Zone
Pev 3 3C7
Nominations are open until
Friday 11 March for the
Student Awards
www.sussexstudent.com/ents/
event/2082/
SAVE THE DATES!!
Nominations will close on Friday
18 March for the Student-led
Teaching Awards
Friday 6 May
Physics Ball
Holiday Inn, Brighton
Friday 29 April
Maths Ball Old Ship Hotel, Brighton
www.sussex.ac.uk/library/
news?id=34562
Departmental seminars coming up
Astronomy
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/
seminar
Thursday 10 March 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Prof Daniel Matthes (TU Munich)
Convex Lyapunov functionals for non-convex gradient
flows: two examples
Thursday10 March 4pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Mohammud Foondun (Loughborough University)
An approximation result for a class of stochastic
equation
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 14 March 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Yves Capdesboscq (Oxford)
TBA
Mathematics news
Thursday 17 March 7.3pm for 8pm start
The Other Place, The Basement,
Kensington Street, Brighton
£4 regular nerds, £3 NUS/65+ nerds
Not wishing to underestimate the contribution that
female mathematicians have made to science and
MPS (see opposite), here are our own local heroines
Dr Mariapia
Palombaro
Thursday 17 March 12noon Pev 3 4C10
Dr Viv Kendon (University of Durham)
Minimal ancilla-mediated quantum gates
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
TPP
An article on Data Mining and Simulation for which
Prof Enrico Scalas, Head of Department, was
interviewed can be viewed at
www.computerweekly.com/feature/Combine-datamining-and-simulation-to-maximise-processimprovement
Dr Masoumeh
Dashti
AMO
violation
Hosted by the incomparable Dr Mick Taylor, the
evening features talks by Prof Enrico Scalas,
Dr Yuliya Kyrychko and Dr Konstantin Blyuss
Dr Carol
Becker
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 11 March 2.45pm Arts A02
Francis Bernardeau (IAP)
Perturbation theory and large deviation functions in
large-scale structure cosmology
Dr Yuliya
Kyrychko
Dr Vanessa
Styles
www.sussex.ac.uk/tpp/research/seminars
Monday 14 March 4pm Pev 3 4C10
Andre Lukas (Oxford)
TBA
Physics & Astronomy news
To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March,
as well as Dr Kathy Romer (featured in last week’s
MPS update), the University also profiled two more folk
from Physics: Prof Claudia Eberlein (below left)
‘Tenacity is the most important trait for female
scientists in the UK’
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=34727
and Dr Jillian Scudder (below right)
‘As a scientist, it is the ‘not knowing’ that bothers
me’
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=34617
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 10 March 10am-5pm
Jubilee Library, Brighton
Campus development information
sessions
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34601
and
Thursday 10 March 12pm-2pm at
University Information Centre, Lewes Road
Thursday 10 March 12pm-1pm
Research & Enterprise Services,
Meeting Room 1, Falmer House
Funding for early career researchers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33154
Friday 11 March 8am-9.30am Bramber House
The BIG Fairtrade breakfast
Sit down for breakfast and stand up for
farmers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34656&r=56117
Friday 11 March
10.30am-12pm
Barlow Room, Library
Introduction to Open Access Publishing
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
Friday 11 March 2pm-4pm
Medical School 3.07A
Postgraduate funding: considering the alternatives
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33494
Monday 14 March 10am-12pm
Introduction to NVivo for Qualitative
Research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34424
Monday 14 March 10am-12pm
Room 76
Falmer House
Student fitness, sport and wellbeing
forum
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34324
Monday 14 March 11am-6pm
Academic development workshop for
international students
Developing academic style and
vocabulary
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34209
Monday 14 March 12pm-2pm
Library, second floor meeting room
Maintaining your research identity and
streamlining systems
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34038
Tuesday 15 March 10am-4.30pm
Barlow Room, Library
Researcher Development Programme
Presentation delivery
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33495
IT courses
Friday 11 March 10am-12pm
IT Services, Shawcross
Excel 2013 – functions
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27515
Friday 11 March 10am-12.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
EndNote X7 – full functionality
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=27511
Tuesday 15 March 10am-11.30am
IT Services, Shawcross
Word 2013 – tables and pictures
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32203
Wednesday 16 March 11am-12.30pm
IT Services, Shawcross
MindView 6 – get started with Mind
Mapping
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=26650
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 12 March Cornerstone Community Centre, Hove
1.30pm-3pm Spirituality and men (free)
3.15pm-4.45pm Follow your purpose (free)
www.brahmakumaris.org/uk/whatson/arounduk?org=161
Saturday 12 March 2pm-4pm Blind Veterans UK (formerly St Dunstan’s), Greenways, Brighton
Bric-à-brac sale www.blindveterans.org.uk/how-you-can-help/events/community-events/
Until Sunday 12 March The Barn, Southwick
See how they run! (£11) ‘Noel Coward meets Dad’s Army in this breakneck farce’
www.southwickplayers.org.uk/
Sunday 13 March 3pm Clock Tower, Brighton
Guided walk – palaces and piers (£5) www.meetup.com/guided-walks-in-brightonandsussex/
Wednesday 16 March 1pm-1.30pm
Tour of the Keep archives NB Booking required
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=33178
Until 26 March The Emporium, London Road, Brighton
The Tempest (£15) 88londonroad.com/
Please note that no exclamation marks were
harmed in the production of this update!
In Like A Lion,
Out Like A Lamb
by Lorie Hill
March roars in like a lion
So fierce,
The wind so cold,
It seems to pierce.
The month rolls on
And Spring draws near,
And March goes out
Like a lamb so dear.
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