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)
Cambridge lab to be open to all
The upgraded Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge will reserve up to 25 per cent of its equipment time for researchers from other institutions, the physics lab’s head has told Research Fortnight.
Work on the £300-million facility at the university’s West Cambridge site could start by the summer. This third home for the Cavendish, the largest physics and astronomy department in the UK, should be finished by December 2021.
Opening the facility to researchers from outside Cambridge was crucial for the project to win government backing, said Andy Parker, head of the Cavendish Laboratory. “What we’ve said to the government is that in return for its investment, we’ll make 25 per cent of the time on our facilities available to outside users on the same basis as our internal users,” he said.
Universities with no previous collaborations with Cambridge will have priority, Parker said.
The lab’s construction will be funded with £75m each from the government, the university and the estate of audio-company founder Ray Dolby. A further £75m is yet to be found but is being underwritten by the university.
According to a spokeswoman from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the national status of the lab was “a key rationale” for the government’s decision to invest. Funding the Cavendish with the condition of opening up its facilities allows the government to improve the sharing of capital equipment between researchers and institutions, she said.
Previous sharing schemes have been attempted through initiatives such as national infrastructure roadmaps, but have sometimes foundered in practice, says Parker. “You have to have a system in place that makes sharing possible, and that’s what’s really failed in previous initiatives.”
To deal with this, the lab’s equipment—including an electron microscope suite, cleanroom, low temperature lab and materials characterisation suites—will be bookable online. Any time not claimed by academics will be available for industry use.
A six-member committee will steer the facility’s operation, Parker said. Four of them will be university academics, including the pro vice-chancellor for research of the University of Cambridge, Chris Abell. The names of the other committee members will be announced in the next two months.
Rob Lewsey
Energy Lancaster Seminar Monday 5th February
Make more with less – HKP nanomaterials / nanostructures in non-religious clean- green- & hightech for transportation, energy & economy
Energy Seminar, Monday 5th February 11.30-13.00, Management School Lecture Theatre 10
Prof. Dr. Henning Zoz (President & CEO of the Zoz Group (zoz-group.de), Germany)
High Kinetic Processing (HKP) has been proven as a major route for reducing materials grainsize in large volume at economic manufacturing and cost capability where the “nanostructure-making-equipment”, the Simoloyer® is well-known including technology and key advantages.
Any modern society considers sustainability, saving resources and increasing performance every day and our all future will be ruled by materials as never before. Based on general materials limitation, goal (a) is “making more with less” and since materials consumption contradicts with such limited resources, goal (b) is recycling. Both are leading to advanced materials processing with the utilization of larger surface and finer structures leading to nanostructures.
The more modern and developed the society is, the higher are the innovation barriers represented by regulations and standards but also by availablity “close to satisfaction”. E. g. cleantech for transportation suffers on the very cost effective / high quality (even including very clean) availability of fossil based transportation/automotive technology and infrastructure. About 135 years ago, the first commercial combustion engine did operate a few hours in lifespan, today a fuelcell is required to operate thousands of hours under extreme safety regulations particularly with respect to hydrogen.
Even the political driven and not very scientific nor realistic horror scenario around CO2/Carbon Footprint/IPCC could and cannot help. There is nothing wrong with carbon but fossiles since hundred years are too good and too short just for burning them away. There is something very wrong with our politics as we do not need a mega-expensive green religion since we do have green technology.
This presentation will address HKP-technology & technical materials examples in brief:
a) hydrogen economy, hydrogen storage
B4S-SM/MM: worldwide first semi-commercial Boronhydride based solidstate Hydrogen-tank based on a complex reactive hydride composite (RHC, LiBH4 + MgH2) for a storage material capability > 8 wt.% and > 80 kg H2/m3 (HZG, Zoz etal).
b) energy and transportation, anti-corrosion and clean chemistry
Hydrolium®/H2Tank2Go®: Zoz ZEV-fleet & H2-OnAir (Zoz/HZG/Airbus etal.); ZoLiBat®: 3 gen. Li-Ion-battery cathodes (phosphate systems LFP, LMP); ODS/NFA: Nanostructured Ferritic Alloys, nuclear fission, high temp. turbine, aeroengines (Zoz/GE); Zentallium®: super-light-weight Al-CNT composite by HKP & hot extrusion (Zoz, Bayer); Zn-rich coatings: advanced anti-cossosive material (Zoz, RFS); MechanoChemistry: environmentally friendly, complete & waste-free inorganic and organic syntheses;
c) civil engineering, clean building
FuturBeton: nanostructured high performance cement/concrete (e.g. bridge Rosenthal, Olpe, Germany), 3x stronger (140 MPa), high early strength, 20% CO2-emission saving at virtually endless durability. Additional cost compared to conventional OPCC in about 10 USD per ton/concrete !
d) TaraxagumTM, auto-tires from dandelion
Not nanostructure but similar processing technology application, a novel processing route of generating high quality rubber from the roots of dandelion plant will be explaind under legal limitations. In December 2015, the Fraunhofer/Continental Dandelion rubber extraction facility started processing at the Zoz Technology Center (ZTC, Olpe, Germany) representing all, clean- green- and hightech.
For further details please contact Harry Hoster.
Please confirm attendance for catering purposes. There will be tea, coffee and cakes served from 11.30. You can register here
(https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-more-with-less-hkp-nanomaterials-nanostructures-in-non-religious-clean-green-hightech-for-tickets-42637407634 ).
The presenter
Inventions/Expertise:
CMB-materials, cycle operation, NdFeB-magnetic filter system, Zentallium®, Hydrolium®, H2Tank2Go®, High Performance Cement/Concrete and other. Numerous patents and trademarks, more than 50 papers, teaching at numerous universities and institutes all over the world. Due to his expertise in energy storage materials and energy storage, including integration and drives, Zoz became a prominent address, when it comes to cost-effective utilization of renewable energy sources for mobile and stationary applications (H2 Mobility, base-load capable CO2-free power plant).
Academia:
Doctoral Degree in Advanced Technology at summa cum laude [2008];
Invited professor at CIITEC-IPN [s2004];
Chair Professor [2009-2014] and Assistant Professor [2015] at Ritsumeikan University;
Other Functions:
Deputy Chairman of M-E-NES [2010/12-2016];
Member of the Mobility Experts Group [2011];
Implementation & Assessment Committee, Overseas Education Program at RITS [2008-2015];
Board member of “Nano in Germany” and NMWP (Nano-Micro-Materials-Photonic) [s2013];
Member of the Innovation Arena of the German Federal Office for Street-affairs (BAST) [s2013];
Third German board member (Siemens, Airbus, Zoz) of EUROGIA2020 (EUREKA) [2014-2016];
Awards:
Appointed Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts [2018], Salzburg, Austria;
Nomination for the German Environmental Award [2013] “Power to Gas to Fuel” P2G2F®;
PMAI Fellow Award [2013], India;
Innovation Award Sauerland [2012], Germany;
Ibero-American Silver Award [2012], Mexico;
Manager of The Year [2011], South Westphalia, Germany;
Materialica-Award [2010], Germany;
About Zoz Group
Zoz Group manufactures and supplies Mechanical Process Engineering Equipment and manufactures and supplies with insofar own equipment Nanostructured Materials from powders, layers and bulk parts to magnetic filters, batteries, hydrogen-drives with H2-solid-state-absorber tanks incl. vehicles.
Affiliated companies serve E- and E-H2-mobility, entertain a ZEV-Auto-Fleet, maintain buildings and operate a public technology center and student’s dormitories, solar energy- fuelcell- and electrolyzing plants, a tour operator as well as sailing and aircraft operations.
Grainne Wilkinson
Physics Building Opening
Lancaster University’s refurbishment of the Physics Building has created a world class department for teaching and research.
The refurbishment has improved the learning and working environment for students and staff, and is designed to support future growth. The teaching labs have been modernised to become show pieces for the department, and the building now features improved sustainability and accessibility. The refurbishment has targeted a BREEAM Excellent standard which measures a building’s environmental performance and the effect it will have on the wider environment.
We would like to invite you to join us for the official opening of the refurbished building on Thursday 1 March 2017. You are welcome to join us at 2.30pm in the Physics building foyer where we will hear a few short speeches which will mark the completion of the refurbishment. Please do stay and join us afterwards for a celebratory drink.
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS will officially open the building. Jocelyn is President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh and is Visiting Professor, Astrophysics, University of Oxford. She was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003 and was awarded an Honorary Degree from Lancaster University in 2009.
Lynne Haley
Fire Door Interface Inspections
Fire door interface inspections will take place in Physics on 7th February 2018 from 9am.
Every month the University is required to test the interface between the fire alarm system and door control systems in all buildings with access control and/or automatic doors.
This work is undertaken by Honeywell Control Systems Ltd and requires the physical inspection of all doors controlled by the access control system while the fire alarm is active and the doors are locked. This check is to ensure that all doors on escape routes will allow evacuation in the event that the fire alarm is activated. In most cases the alarm will be silenced during the inspection, but for some older systems, where it is not possible to silence the alarm, the checks have to be conducted while the alarm is sounding. Owing for the requirement for the doors to be locked during this test some buildings, where access is required during the week, will be tested at the weekend.
Shonah Ion
Interview Days
Just a reminder we have our next interview day, February 7th, 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)
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