Library & Information Skills: Summer term These sessions are open to staff and students at the University. Feedback from the last two terms has been really good, with participants enjoying the hands on activities and the opportunity to ask questions and get one-to-one advice. Please find full details of each session from the links…
Easter Holiday Shut Down Quick reminder to staff that the University will close at 5.30 pm on Wednesday 12 April 2017 and reopen at 9.00 am on Thursday 20 April 2017. Lynne Haley Emergency Lighting Testing in Science & Technology Building Will take place week commencing 17th April 2017 from 9am daily. Shonah…
Accessible Toilets Alarms, associated alarms and fire refuge point alarms testing In the Physics Building will take place week commencing The 3rd of April 2017 from 9am daily. Every 2nd week there is a quick test to ensure all Emergency Alarms are operational. Shonah Ion Window Cleaning (External) in Science & Technology Building …
Journal club on experimental condensed matter physics (Monday at 10 a.m.) in B10 Note the change of venue for the next Journal club. It will be B10 this time, not C36! The next speaker is Michael Thompson and he will be presenting a paper titled Nonlinear Dynamics and Strong Cavity Cooling of Levitated Nanoparticles The next…
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar “On-chip nanophotonics: controlling light at the single photon level” Date: 17 March 2017, 3pm-4pm Venue: C36 Physics Speaker: Dr Luca Sapienza, University of Southampton Solid-state quantum emitters are required for quantum information protocols relying on the storage, manipulation, and transmission of the information encoded in single photons through optical cavities…
Physics Refurbishment – Weekly Update Please see below details of scheduled works on the Physics refurbishment project for week commencing Monday 20th February. Sliding door 1st fix – completed Re-Roofing works – low noise, no vibration Scaffolding stripping – minimal noise, minimal vibration New toilet block façade works – medium noise, minimum vibration M&E…
Astrophysics Seminar – Star Formation – 7th March Title: The star-forming ISM: bottom-up versus top-down approaches Speaker: Paul Clark (Cardiff University) Time: 1:30pm on Tuesday 7th March 2017 Venue: Physics C36 Abstract: Observations of the star formation activity in galaxies has revealed a relationship between the star formation rate and the surface density of…
Particle Physics Seminar: Recasting LHC data for new BSM model constraints LHC measurements and searches are usually conducted with a particular theory model in mind, but can also have unexpected implications for alternative scenarios. Especially in the absence so far of smoking gun signals of new physics at the LHC, reinterpreting combinations of many…
Particle Physics Seminar Effective field theory: New physics through precision measurements Date: 17 February 2017, 13:45 – 14:45 Venue: Physics C36 Speaker: Dr Chris Hays, Oxford With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model (SM) is complete. Yet the SM is itself an incomplete description of nature. One strategy to go beyond…
Twenty minutes of Engineering Date: 15th February 2017. 13.00 Venue: C-floow Break-out Space, Engineering Building Speaker: Dr Denes Csala Title: Visualising the challenges of energy transitions “Twenty minutes of Engineering” is a novel series of short informal talks, offered by academics and researchers at Lancaster’s Engineering Department, on cutting edge engineering research themes. The friendly…