Recording Training

A recommendation from the safety audit was for managers to record all training undertaken by their staff once completed.  For University run training this can be an automatic process with training appearing on the core HR portal once completed, but any additional or outside training should also be recorded. As line managers are currently unable to directly enter training received by their staff onto the core HR profile, please can you ask HR to log any additional training your staff receive, there for you.
I have the contact details of someone in HR who can enter this information for us, please contact me if this is required.

Shonah Ion

 

Safety Induction

Extra induction will take place this month on Thursday 8th of November at 2:30pm in B24 physics. If you are a new member of staff or just have a question please come along.

Shonah Ion

 

Departmental safety handbook

The new Departmental safety handbook is now available on the Departments web page About us – Information – Staff ~ safety. This exciting and highly sought after publication is compulsory reading for all research, academic and support staff of the Physics Department.
On the front page you will see a form that needs to be signed, after you have read the handbook, and placed in Grainne Wilkinson’s pigeon hole.
Any uncertainties, questions and typos please get in contact.

Shonah Ion

 

Facilities works

Fire Door Interface Inspections: Fire door interface inspections will take place in Physics Building on  7th November 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

 

Physics Christmas lunch – Thursday 20 Dec 2018 @ 1300hrs

The Physics Christmas lunch will take place at 1300hrs on Thursday 20th December at the Toll House Inn, Lancaster. To secure your place please pay me £21 (for two courses) or £25 (for three courses).

I’ll take your menu choices once you have paid, (the menu has already been circulated by email). Please note that the venue has given me a deadline for a pre-order and you will need to book your place by COP Thursday 29th November.

As usual we will have drinks and mince pies in the Physics Atrium before the lunch, at 1100.

Grainne Wilkinson

 

Astrophysics Seminar

C36 Physics
Tuesday 6 November 2018
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Star formation scales and efficiency in Galactic spiral arms

Speaker: Dave Eden

Steven Williams

 

SPP Seminar

C36 Physics
Thursday 8 November 2018
2:00pm to 3:00pm

High Power Radio Frequency Devices (and how they relate to planetary science)

Speaker: Dave Constable

Dave Constable

 

Condensed Matter Seminar

Physics C36
Thursday 8 November 2018
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields: Dynamics and Control of Edge States

Speaker: Dr. Ryan Barnett

Sergey Kafanov

 

Condensed Matter Seminar

Physics C36
Friday 9 November 2018
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Dynamics of networks with time-varying connections: on the interplay of node dynamics, coupling delays and network fluctuations

Speaker: Dr. Otti D’Huys

Sergey Kafanov

 

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