MPS Weekly Update
31 March 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
Institute of Physics annual conference on High-Energy and
Astro Particle Physics 21-23 March 2016
Before the Easter break, the EPP group was busy with the IoP’s annual
conference on High-Energy and Astro Particle Physics. They were hosting
210 physicists, including many early-career researchers and PhD students,
as well as prominent physicists and astronomers from the UK and
overseas. The conference consisted of eleven plenary and 86 parallel
sessions and twenty posters were presented.
This is a particularly exciting year to be working in the HEPP and APP areas:
we were able to celebrate the neutrino Nobel and breakthrough prizes, the
discovery of gravitational waves and the continued success of the LHC. We
were proud to be hosting the conference at this important time and, as a
University, to be making crucial contributions to fundamental experiments that
could help change the landscape of known physics.
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday 18 May
10am-4pm
Conference Centre, Bramber
House
MPS away day
Featuring a morning session on
‘Unconscious bias’, a short
School meeting (NB This
replaces the school meeting
originally booked for the
afternoon of 18 May) and an
afternoon workshop on bullying
and harassment
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/
internal/staff/awayday
The deadline for registration is
09.00hrs 12 May
A warm MPS
welcome to a new
member of the
School Office staff,
Andy Robinson.
Prof Kai Zuber from Dresden University (previously at
Sussex) presenting the successes in neutrino physics
Andy is the new MSc coordinator.
He joins us from the University of
Brighton where he has been
working in a similar role.
[email protected]
Well-deserved
congratulations to
Sinead Rance,
Research
Support Team
clerical assistant.
Sinead has been appointed
Project Manager to the EU
ModCompShock project under the
auspices of Prof Charalambos
(Babis) Makridakis .
Lunchtime at the conference
She will remain working in the
School Office part-time in the
interim.
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/
seminar
Thursday 7 April 3pm Pevensey 3 5C11
Prof Choi-Hong Lai (Greenwich)
On a generalised defect correction method and its
applications in computational finance
Thursday 7 April 4pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Mathew Joseph (Sheffield)
Longest increasing path within the critical strip
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
Monday 4 April 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Jonathan Ben-Artzi (Imperial)
Spectral methods in ergodic theory: obtaining uniform
ergodic theorems
Mathematics news
The Nerd Nite: Maths Special
on March 17 was a great
success. It was hosted by our
own Dr Mick Taylor at
Otherplace, Basement,
Brighton.
The talks by Prof Enrico
Scalas (above),
Dr Konstantinos Blyuss (left)
and Dr Yuliya Kyrychko (below)
captivated the audience with
metronomes, oscillating
bridges, deadly viruses and the
chances of winning in tv shows
and in the lottery.
If you missed it, don't
worry. Plenty more
maths talks are now
being planned for the
near future.
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 1 April 2.45pm Arts C133
Carlton Baugh (Durham)
TBA
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 7 April 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Michael Baird (UoS)
NoVA tbc
Physics & Astronomy news
To coincide with the recent
IoP conference referred to on
page 1, Prof Antonella De
Santo reveals why she
cares about the Higgs boson
and what drives her and her
team
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34965
And Prof Mark Hindmarsh
reveals why he cares about
gravitational waves and looks
ahead to looking back in time
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/?id=34964
The most recent VC's open staff
forum took place on 12 February
and, for the first time, provided staff
with the opportunity to pose
questions to senior managers
anonymously via text message.
A re-cap of the meeting can be accessed at
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=34971
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
Tuesdays 5, 12, 19 & 26 April
3pm-5pm Fulton 201
FREE English classes with
experienced teachers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34841&r=56204
Wednesday 6 April 12pm-1.30pm
Quiet Room, Meeting House
Teaching & Learning experience at
Sussex
Tuesday 12 April 12pm-1pm
Meeting room 1, R & E, Falmer House
Funding intelligence
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34184
Wednesday 13 April 10am-12pm
Jubilee G30
Researcher development careers
stories event
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34867
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34450
Wednesday 6 April 1pm-2pm Arundel 1B
Postgraduate research student supervision: the PGR
experience and new regulations
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34911
Wednesday 13 April 12.30pm-1.30pm
JMS 1B1
Introduction to clickers and response
ware
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34247
Wednesday 6 April 1pm-3pm Arts C133
Postgraduate teaching, supervision and assessment
PG CertHE workshop but open to ALL faculty
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33360
Wednesday 6 April 2pm-5pm
Jubilee 116
First steps in public engagement
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=33502
Friday 8 April 10am-12.30pm
location tbc
Managing your research data
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33503
Monday 11 April online
Take 5: Apps
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=34250
Wednesday 13 April 1pm-4pm
Fulton 213
Bayesian analysis workshop: using Bayes to get the
most out of data
Prof Zoltan Dienes
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34597
Wednesday 13 April 2pm-4.30pm
Jubilee G30
Research staff management and
development: cross-institutional practice sharing
event for principal investigators
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34540
Wednesday 13 April 2.30pm
Meeting House
Memorial service for John Murrell
NB RSVP by 6 April
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=34813
LOCAL EVENTS
Thursday 14 April 5.30pm-6.30pm The Keep
The BBC: a century in British life (£3 on the door)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=33184
From 2 April Preston Manor
Doreen Valiente collection brightonmuseums.org.uk/prestonmanor/what-to-see/folklore
-magic-and-mysteries-modern-witchcraft-and-folk-culture-in-britain/
Until 2 April The Emporium, London Road
Gertrude – cry (£10) 88londonroad.com/gertrude/
Saturday 2 April 2.45pm Brighton Dome studio theatre
Playmakes – into the west (£5) brightondome.org/event/8943/playmakes_-_into_the_west/
Saturday 2 April 8pm-11pm One Church, Gloucester Place
The colours and sounds of Zanzibar (£10)
Until 6 April at Gallery 40, Gloucester Road, Brighton
The Jupiter Incident www.markcharltonart.com/
April 2016
Bowel cancer awareness month
www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/
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