MPS Weekly Update
28 April 2016
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/internal/staff/mps_weekly_update
Wednesday 18 May 10am-4pm
Conference Centre,
Bramber House
MPS away day
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/
internal/staff/awayday
The deadline for registration is
09.00hrs Tuesday 10 May
A Happy Retirement to Sally Church, Physics & Astronomy coordinator and
the admin nucleus of the department for over 27 years, who retires today
after almost 29 years at Sussex. It may be purely coincidental that the Great
Storm of 1987 happened just after Sally started at the University ...
There will be a retirement event for Sally TODAY from 2.30pm in the
Meeting House Quiet Room. ALL WELCOME.
NSS RESPONSES RATES (AT 28/4/16)
MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
91.46%
80.68%
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. The deadline is midnight on Bank Holiday Monday 2 May.
Full details are at http://ht.ly/10jmVF
Thursday 28 April 1pm-2pm
Essex House ground floor
meeting room (behind reception)
Widening participation: policy,
practice and theory?
Open to all postgraduate and
doctoral researchers
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34968
The theme for the 2016
World Day for Safety
and Health at Work is
‘Workplace stress: a
collective challenge’
Friday 29 April 2.30pm
Meeting House
Memorial service for Prof Mike
Pendlebury, followed by
refreshments in Mandela Hall
Departmental seminars coming up
MASS
www.maths.sussex.ac.uk/seminar
Thursday 28 April 3pm Pev 3 4C10
Prof Paul Cowpertwait (Auckland University of
Technology)
Applications of a spatiotemporal point process model of
rainfall
Astronomy
www.sussex.ac.uk/astronomy/
newsandevents/calendar
Friday 29 April 2.45pm-4pm Arts A05
Erminia Calabrese (Oxford)
The Atacama cosmology telescope: from CMB
temperature to polarization
ADPE
www.sussex.ac.uk/apde/research/seminars
NB NO SEMINAR AS IT IS BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY
ON 2 MAY
EPP
Mathematics PG Seminars
www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/pgseminars
Friday 29 April 4pm Pev 3 5C11
George Morrison (UoS)
Quantum ergodicity and Strichartz estimates on certain
classes of Riemannian manifolds
https://epp.phys.sussex.ac.uk/epp/
Seminars_2015_16
Thursday 28 April 1pm Pev 3 5C11
Dr Malcolm John (Oxford)
The unitarity angle gamma from LHCb and the
possible tension between CKM loop and tree
processes
At Lewes Town Hall on Saturday 23 April members of
the P & A department participated in the first-ever
Lewes STEM Festival with an event - a STEM fair aimed at children aged 5-13. The event attracted around
600 visitors and ran effectively at capacity for over three
hours.
Particular thanks go to Darren Baskill and ug students:
Jessica Hislop, Reuben Mitchell and Sam Watson.
Dr Stephen Wilkins, Director of Lewes STEM Festival
New and experienced Principal Investigators (PIs) and
Research Staff Managers from across the University
were brought together earlier in the month to discuss
ideas and best practice relating to key issues
surrounding the management and career development
of researchers.
www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bulletin/staff/20152016/220416/pi-best-practice-event?ref=email
Tuesday 3 May 9.30am-4.30pm
Creativity Zone Pev 3 3C7
MPS Postgraduate Research Day
We warmly invite everyone in MPS to attend the fourth
annual MPS PG Research Day This is a great
opportunity to discover the variety of questions tackled
by pg researchers here in MPS. Full details, including
abstracts for the talks and titles of posters, are online at
www.sussex.ac.uk/mps/early-career-research/index
The poster competition is from 12noon, when all
participants will be given five minutes to introduce their
poster and the winners will be chosen by senior staff
and also from a public vote!
Lunch will be provided from 1pm.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS & INFORMATION
The Health & Safety Office is looking
to recruit 2-3 committed individuals to
become part of the University's
Emergency Response Team (ERT).
If you are interested, please contact Alan Butler
E [email protected] T 8944
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=35278
To coincide with Sussexsport’s
Commit to Get Fit month, the Staff
Development Unit is scheduling a
series of well-being sessions
every Wednesday during May.
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=35274
Friday 29 April 10am-1pm Pev I 1B3
Preparing for your science viva
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34669
Tuesday 3 May 12pm-1pm
Research & Enterprise Services,
Meeting Room 1, Falmer House
EPSRC First Grant Scheme – information session
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33155
Wednesday 4 May 12pm-1pm
Sports Centre
Boundary walk
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=35091
Wednesday 4 May 12pm-1.30pm
Jubilee 143
Teaching and learning experience at
Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?
id=34451
Wednesday 4 May 12pm-5pm
Fulton 104
Effective research (½ day workshop)
For doctoral researchers in the early stages from all
disciplines
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33527
Wednesday 4 May
12.30pm-1.30pm
JMS IB1
Introduction to blogging
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=34249
Wednesday 4 May 1pm-3pm
Arts C133
Teaching international
students
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=33363
Thursday 5 May 2pm-3pm
Essex House 133
Technology for doctoral research –
one-to-one support
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=34340
IT courses
Friday 29 April 10am-11.30am
MindView 6 – get started with mind
mapping
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/
newsandevents/eventscalendar?id=34350
Tuesday 10 May 9.30am-12.30pm
Photoshop CS6 – up and running
www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/
eventscalendar?id=32201
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE IT COURSES
LISTED ABOVE TAKE PLACE IN
IT SERVICES SHAWCROSS
LOCAL EVENTS
30 April-30 May
Artists’ Open Houses aoh.org.uk/
Saturday 30 April 10am-4.30pm Friends’ Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton
Brighton Craft Fair (free entry)
30 April-2 May 10am-5pm West Dean College, nr Chichester
Line and form (free) - Artworks from students, staff and alumni will be for sale, with the
proceeds going towards funding the students' Summer Show
Every Saturday until October Meet 6.50pm outside Brighton Pavilion shop
Only in Brighton! A 90-minute fact-filled and tongue-in-cheek walking tour (£7)
www.onlyinbrighton.co.uk/
Sunday 1 May 12pm-4pm Fair Shop, Queen’s Road, Brighton
Rags revival clothes swapping boutique (£5)
Sunday 1 May 5.15pm Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham
Opera screening: Otello (£12)
As an occasional calligrapher who revels in a perfect
piece of parchment, rejoice in the fact that it is
National Stationery Week until 1 May.
Until the ballpoint was invented in 1938, Birmingham
(in the Midlands, Prof Coles! Ed) led the world in pen
nib production.
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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