School visits reminder

If anyone is visiting a school, please let Helen McAlley and Andy Blake know so that a list can be maintained and coordinated with central university school visits. If appropriate for the school age group, we can provide prospectuses and a few slides on admissions.

Isobel Hook

 

UG Admissions interview briefing

There will be a short (approximately half-hour) briefing on interviewing UG applicants for 2019 entry, to be held in C36 on Wednesday 31st October at 2pm. All staff involved in interviews this year (i.e. almost all academic staff) should attend. We will discuss updates to the process and important information on reporting and safeguarding.

Isobel Hook

 

Security incidents

There are reports that groups of youths are making a nuisance of themselves around campus.

3 bike riding teenagers were causing disruption around Faraday lecture theatres, the Chemistry building and North spine areas last night, being very abusive & recalcitrant. With half term next week, please be vigilant in leaving your lab, office and the building secure when you leave. Do not use fire exits as regular routes out of the building, the locking mechanism is not designed for everyday use and will fail, leaving the building insecure.

Shonah Ion

 

Space Utilisation Survey

Space utilisation surveys of centrally bookable seminar rooms and lecture theatres are planned to take place during Weeks 3 and 7, Michaelmas term.

Facilities employ a small team of students who visit each room once every hour and record whether the room is occupied and how many people are in the room. To obtain a headcount, the employees may need to enter the room for a few seconds; they will aim to be as sensitive and unobtrusive as possible. Each surveyor will be wearing a Facilities name badge and carrying a clipboard.

Shonah Ion

 

Space and Planetary Physics seminar

C36 Physics
Thursday 25 October 2018
2:00pm to 3:00pm

“Earth’s Radiation Belts: the kinetic plasma physics of killer electrons”

Speaker: Clare Watt

Maria-Theresia Walach

 

IOP Institute of Physics – Lancashire and Cumbria Branch

Lancashire Lecture Programme 2018 – 2019

• 14 Nov 2018 – Preston – Photons and Nanoscale Forces Prof David Andrews (UEA)
• 12 Dec 2018 – Lancaster – Pluto’s ‘desert’: Methane ice dunes on a glacier on an airless world – Dr Matt Telfer (Plymouth)
• 16 Jan 2019 – Preston – The Physics of Thunderstorms Prof Paul Hardaker (IOP)
• 15 Feb 2019 – Lancaster – Mercury – first rock from the Sun – Dr Suzie Imber (Leicester) – Note this is a Friday talk.
• 13 Mar 2019 – Preston – What we can learn from Gaia about the origin and structure of galaxies – Prof James Binney (Oxford)
• 10 April 2019 – Lancaster – Galaxy formation and evolution: nature vs nurture – Dr David Sobral (Lancaster)
• 15 May 2019 – Preston – Asteroseismology: A New Keplerian Revolution Prof Don Kurtz (UCLan)
• 12 June 2019 – Lancaster – Infinite Differences: Lessons on Diversity from Women in Physics – Dr Frankie Doddato (Lancaster)

Start Times: 18:00 (refreshments) for 18:30

Venues:

• Preston: Lecture Theatre 2 or 3, Foster Building, University of Central Lancashire
• Lancaster: Cavendish Colloquium Room, Faraday Lecture Theatre Complex, Lancaster University

Chris Bowdery