MPS Weekly Update
7 April 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
CONGRATULATIONS to
Dr Bertram Dűring who has
been promoted to Reader in
Mathematics
(with effect from 1/4/16)
The primary purpose of these events is to give you new insights into the
world-leading research being undertaken by your colleagues across the
School. These are intended to be both intellectually stimulating and
accessible to an academic audience from across this School and occasionally
other specifically relevant School(s). It is hoped that some colloquia may
foster new intra- or inter-disciplinary collaboration within the School, helping
us to build on our shared strengths to achieve even greater things. They will
also be a celebration of the research achievements within the School.
Suggestions for future Research Colloquia should be made to
Prof Seb Oliver, School Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange
E [email protected]
NSS response rates as of 6 April 2016
Mathematics
Physics & Astronomy
68.29%
63.64%
Mick is a mathematics lecturer
here at Sussex and is also one of
the co-founders of Goodmoney, a
Brighton-based social enterprise
working to provide alternatives to
the current financial system.
We will explore the nature of
modern money, how it is created
and destroyed, who creates it and
for what purpose and how money
impacts on things such as housing
bubbles. We will also look at
alternatives and how we could
re-design money better to serve
today’s needs.
The talk will be followed by
refreshments.
The event is open to all.
For further information regarding
the talk, please contact Megan
Peacock at [email protected].
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 11 April 3pm Pev 3 5C11
Tobias Parker (Oxford)
A necessary condition of possible blow up for the
Navier-Stokes system in half space
Mathematics news
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 8 April 2.45pm Arts A05
Patt Scott (Imperial)
TBA
EPP
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 7 April 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Michael Baird (UoS)
A summary of reconstruction techniques in the NOva
experiment
Physics & Astronomy news
This is a great opportunity to raise your profile and
receive attention and support for your research and
impact projects.
Impact awards will be made in several categories,
including public engagement and economic impact.
Emerging researcher awards are eligible if you are
within seven years of your doctoral award and have
outstanding achievements for your career stage.
Dr John Haigh’s book ‘Mathematics in Everyday
Life’ is now published by Springer. It is based on the
module of the same title taken by most first year
maths majors.
Congratulations to Erin Pichanick (Associate Tutor)
who recently successfully passed his viva.
The deadline for applications is Monday May 2nd and
full details are given at http://ht.ly/10jmVF
We had only one application from the whole school last
year (well done to Omar Lakkis). Let's do a lot better
than that this year. Good luck and don't hesitate to ask
a colleague for help or encourage them to apply.
Dr Luc Berthouze is a member of faculty in the school of Engineering and Informatics. In just
under two weeks, he will be running the Brighton marathon (his first marathon!) in order to raise
money for a cause which is quite important to him, and also to MPS: the under-representation of
postgraduate female students in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and
mathematics). There is some material in the following article, produced by DARO, which explains why
this matters www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/newsandfeatures/news?id=34122.
To donate, please visit his JustGiving page: www.justgiving.com/1stGenFemaleSTEMScholarship.
Contributions go directly to the Sussex Fund.
With the support of the University, Luc aims to raise money to create a scholarship for a promising (to be identified by
the University) first-generation female scholar to undertake an MSc in a STEM subject. The University will match any
donation that Luc receives.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
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
Tuesday 12 April 12pm-1pm
Meeting room 1, R & E, Falmer House
Funding intelligence
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34184
Friday 15 April 2pm-3.30pm Pev I 2A2
The Brilliant Club information event
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33504
Saturday 16 April 9.30am-2.30pm
Fulton 212
The part-time researcher (for part-time
early stage doctoral researchers from all disciplines)
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34670
The deadline for applications to the 6th round of the
Research Development Fund is 5pm on Friday 15
April 2016 www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=35031
Wednesday 13 April 10am-12pm
Jubilee G30
Researcher development careers
stories event
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34867
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 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
The Higher Education Funding Council for England
has introduced a new policy (as of 1 April) to
promote the publication of research in Open Access
formats.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?
id=35038
ALL STAFF WHO PUBLISH RESEARCH NEED TO
BE AWARE OF THIS NEW REQUIREMENT
IT courses
Monday 11 April 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
Tuesday 12 April 10am-1pm
IT Services Shawcross
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=19653
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday 9 April 11am-4pm Unit E11 Knoll Business Centre
Fabric Godmother Open Day (free entry)
www.fabricgodmother.co.uk/
Saturday 9 April 2pm-3.30pm Meet at the Clock Tower
The art of Brighton – through the painter’s eye WALK (£5)
Saturday 9 April 3.15pm-4.45pm Cornerstone Community Centre
Complaining about people (free) www.brahmakumaris.org/uk/whatson/arounduk?org=161
Saturday 9 April 7.30pm Dukebox Theatre, Waterloo Street, Brighton
The indoor murder tour – Brighton after dark (£7)
www.irondukebrighton.co.uk/events/
Until 16 April 88 London Road (formerly The Emporium)
Dealer’s Choice (£15) 88londonroad.com/
Sunday 10 April 6pm Unitarian Church, New Road
Brighton Beautiful: concert (£5-£7.50) Original and traditional Russian, Jewish, classical,
popular and other songs from two international performers, Polina Skovoroda-Shepherd
(Russia/UK) and Judith Silver (UK)
Sunday 10 April 9.30am-12noon Hangleton Community Centre
Hanover baby and kids equipment sale (50p entry)
Today is World Health Day
If you have any items for inclusion in the next MPS
weekly update, please contact Dorothy Lamb
E [email protected] by 12 noon at the
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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