Interview Days

Just a reminder we have our next interview day, Wednesday 24th January, the day starts at 10:00 and finishes around 15:45. We will be touring the building between 11-12:30 and will be using C36 for most of the day apart 11-13:00. The kitchen will not be available for use between 13:00 & 16:00 please use one of the other kitchens in the building.

Please make sure the kitchen area of Physics is clean and tidy by removing your pots from the draining board and clearing your rubbish, If not it will be boxed up.

Other dates to note are:
Interview dates (Wednesdays)

January 24th 31st
February 7th 14th 21st 28th
March 7th 14th

Many thanks for your support and apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Helen O’keeffe

 

Physics Away Day – Thursday 12th April 2018

The next Physics Away Day will take place on Thursday 12th April at Green Lane Conference Centre, (Lancaster House Hotel). An agenda is not yet available but online PDRs, the Curriculum Review and Inclusive Learning Issues will be discussed amongst other items.
Attendance is mandatory for academic staff and all other staff are welcome to attend if they wish. Please confirm your attendance and let me have any dietary requirements by COP Tuesday 20th March at the latest.

Grainne Wilkinson

 

Safety when moving transport dewers

Thanks to the work of our Electronics’ workshop we now have fixed Oxygen depletion alarm systems in most of the labs where cryogenics are used. To ensure we stay safe whilst moving dewers from the filling areas to labs users should use a portable O2 monitor.
Remember never to travel with a dewer in the lift or other confined space.

Shonah Ion

 

Electronic versions of Print only journals

The library has several journal in print only versions for certain years, usually before 1999. This is a list of print only back copies of journals from which articles have been requested.  (This is because they sit in the basement and have to be requested.)

• Annals of Physics
• Applied Physics Letters
• Applied Spectroscopy
• Chemical Physics Letters
• Electrochemical society journal
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
• Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
• Journal of applied physics (IDS)
• Journal of mathematical physics
• Nuclear Physics B
• Physica B & C
• Physica D
• Physics Letters
• Physics Letters B

The library would like to know if which, if any, of these they should consider buying the back copies in electronic form.

If you would greatly appreciate having the back copies of any of these in electric from please email me.

Jonathan Gratus

 

Email for all staff and postgraduate research students is changing to Office 365

Your upgrade to Office 365 email will happen in the next few weeks, and we will next contact you one week beforehand to confirm when it will take place.

To prepare for your upgrade – please complete a personal checklist. It will tell you what you need to do before and after your upgrade takes place: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/iss/office365-migration/. There’s more information available via this link too.

When the upgrade takes place, you will not lose any emails and you’ll still be able to access your existing email account while it happens.

If you’re using an ISS supported Windows 7 PC/laptop, you’ll only be able to use the Outlook web app after your email upgrade unless you get your PC/laptop upgraded to Windows 10. To move to Windows 10 before your email is upgraded, please contact office365feedback@lancaster.ac.uk as soon as you can.

Not sure if you’re using an ISS supported Windows 7 computer? If you’ve got a PCInfo icon on your desktop it’s a supported one, and clicking on the icon will tell you whether it’s Windows 7 or Windows 10.
Why are we changing to Office 365 email?
Office 365 is a cloud based service that offers Lancaster the next generation of email:

• It has a larger email quota per mailbox so you’re less likely to run out of space;
• It has a better web interface than Exchange email;
• Being cloud-based, it’s a more flexible and scalable system to meet the ongoing requirements of the University (it has been assessed for email security); and
• It will provide a consistent user experience, with all staff and students using the same system.

Ruth Harries (Paterson)

 

VC’s Visit

The VC’s yearly visit will take place on Tuesday 30th January, the session will begin at 1pm in B10 with the PEC committee members followed by all staff in C36 at 1.45pm.

Part One of the Visit (approximately 40-45 minutes) 1pm in B10
Required attendees: Head of department and their leadership/management team

Topic for Discussion

1.       Please reflect on retention of UG students both the year 1-2  transitions and completion.  How have your figures changed in recent years and what current activities are you currently undertaking in this area.
2.       With the rules for REF, clarifying how are preparations going and how many eligible staff do you think will not have at least one 3* output by the closing date.

Part Two (approximately 1hr 15 minutes in total) 1.45pm C36
Required attendees: Whole Department

The Vice-Chancellor will talk to slides for approximately 35 minutes followed by general questions from the department.

Lynne Haley

 

Contractors in the building

We have been informed that there will be contractors in the building this weekend making repairs and replacing the damaged floorcoverings in the corridors. They will be liaising with security for access and shouldn’t be entering any labs. If you have issues with the new flooring in your labs please let me know.
The company is called Siteform, if there are any issues over the weekend please contact Security on ext. 94541.

Shonah Ion