MPS Weekly Update
17 March 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
Wednesday 23 March 7pm-8pm
Chichester lecture theatre
Dr Harry Cliff (Cambridge)
Into the unknown – what might
we find at the LHC in 2016?
All welcome – free –
no need to book
Talk followed by refreshments
Progress, fun and learning at 2nd Research Hack Day
Last Friday 11 March saw hackers from MPS spend a whole day focussed
on cutting code and figuring out algorithms to solve challenges posed by
Dr Stephen Wilkins of Astronomy and Prof Tony Carr of the Genome
Damage and Stability Centre.
Jacob Maresca (2nd year MPhys), Luke Arpino (PhD TPP) and Tim Yang
(RF Maths) produced methods to analyse and visualise on the web, cosmic
variance data from large-scale universe simulations.
Meanwhile Daniel Cutting (4th year MPhys), Eduard Campillo-Funollet (PhD
Maths) and Phil Rooney (RF Astronomy) worked on methods and
produced code to analyse DNA replication data.
The current scores on the NSS doors are:
Mathematics 58.54% Physics & Astronomy 55.68%
The next issue of the MPS update will be
published after Easter as the University will
be closed for the Easter break 24-29 March
inclusive.
Until 20 March
One World Week
A week-long festival of events
which celebrates the diversity of
cultures and nationalities at
Sussex and raises awareness
of global issues
www.sussexstudent.com/
ents/event/1930/
Nominations for the Student-led
Teaching Awards will close at
5pm Friday 18 March
Details of closure days for 2016-2017
and term dates up to 2018 can be found
at www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/
keydates
www.sussex.ac.uk/library/
news?id=34562
Departmental seminars coming up
Astronomy
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 17 March 3pm
NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE
Medical School MS3.07A
Prof Andrew Wathen (Oxford)
Preconditioning for models of coupled magma/mantle
dynamics
Mathematics PG Seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars
Friday 18 February 4.30pm Pev 3 5C11
Stuart Day
Sobolev, capacity-measure and isoperimetric
inequalities
Mathematics news
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 18 March 2.45pm Arts A02
Matteo Viel (INAF, Trieste)
Intergalactic matter as a probe of our universe
AMO
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 17 March 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Simon Jolly (UCL)
Accelerators and proton therapy
Thursday 17 March 7.3pm for 8pm start
The Other Place, The Basement,
Kensington Street, Brighton
£4 regular nerds, £3 NUS/65+ nerds
Hosted by the incomparable Dr Mick Taylor, the
evening features talks by Prof Enrico Scalas,
Dr Yuliya Kyrychko and Dr Konstantin Blyuss
Head of Department Prof Enrico Scalas’
letter of reply to Simon Jenkins’ article
was published in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/science/2016/
mar/11/maths-teaches-logic-we-need-it
-more-than-ever
What is the impact of digital technology on
work-life balance?
Produced as part of the Digital Brain Switch
project, a collaboration between experts in computer
and social sciences from several UK universities, the
two videos propose that workers regularly disconnect
from technology in order to maintain a healthy
work-life balance and that both employers and
employees set and respect realistic boundaries
around the need to go offline.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=34797
This is the original column by Simon Jenkins:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/
mar/10/fixation-maths-doesnt-add-up-targets
Enrico has also had a paper published recently
projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1456840981
Athena SWAN should facilitate real change, Sussex
scientists agree
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=34818
Lady Penelope
Creighton-Ward, a
female role model in a
man’s world
Lady Penelope was voiced by, and modelled on, Sylvia
Anderson (co-creator of Thunderbirds), who died on 15
March 2016. Wearing her exclusive perfume ‘Soupçon
de Péril’, Lady Penelope takes tea religiously and can
communicate with International Rescue via her
Regency teapot. Parker, her chauffeur, drives her
round in her pink Rolls Royce FAB (not to be confused
with Fabrizio!) 1.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Thursday 17 March 1pm-2pm
Online webinar: using technology to
manage your research
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33857
Thursday 17 March 1.15pm-2.30pm
Meeting House
International concert pianist Clare Hammond, solo
piano, premieres new work by Robert Saxton - free
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34584
Friday 18 March 12pm-1pm
Careers Employability Centre
Introduction to Sussex Plus
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=34317
Monday 21 March 10am-4pm Pev I 1B5
Introduction to quantitative research II
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34666
Wednesday 30 March 12pm-12.45pm
Meeting House
Organ recital by D’Arcy Trinkwon
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=32701
Wednesday 30 March 2pm-4pm
Jubilee 116
Building a researcher web
presence using social media
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=33497
IT courses
Friday 18 March 10am-11.30am
IT Services, Shawcross
Word 2013 – managing headers and footers
and page numbers for your thesis
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=26984
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 19 March 12pm-6pm
About Balance, East Street,
Brighton
Spring Open Day (free admission)
£1 classes, £10 treatments
Saturday 19 March
8pm-11pm
St Paul’s Centre, Worthing
Worthing Rant – Ceilidh (tickets £10 in advance,
£15 on the door)
Sunday 20 March
Madeira Drive, Brighton
Pioneer motorcycle run
www.brightonrun.co.uk/pioneer-run
Sunday 20 March 2pm-5pm
Concorde 2
Big spring beach clean
www.sussexstudent.com/ents/
event/2140/
Everyone who takes part will be
rewarded with tea/coffee/cake
Sunday 20 March 6pm
St Luke’s Church, Brighton
The saviour by
William Lloyd Webber
Sung by St Luke’s choir (free)
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publication.
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