Science and Technology Careers Fair

LICA
Wednesday 28 November 2018
3:00pm to 6:00pm

Prepare for your future career, find out about graduate jobs and internships, and network with over 60 potential employers.

Rachel Beauchamp

 

Condensed Matter Seminar

Physics C36
Friday 30 November 2018
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Electron transport in InSb/Al_xIn_{1-x}Sb} quantum wells

Speaker: Dr. Phil Buckle

Sergey Kafanov

 

CancerCare Fundraising Ball

Friday 14th December – Lancaster Town Hall

“Two local dance organisations, Lancaster Lindy Circle and Bay Balboa, are co-hosting a Winter Swing Dance Ball with live music and a Strictly Come Dancing-style competition. The ball is 7pm-midnight on Friday 14th December and will be held in the Ashton Hall at Lancaster Town Hall. All proceeds will go to CancerCare North Lancashire and South Cumbria! Put on your Gatsby-style glad-rags, dig out your best dancing shoes and come to relive the glamour of the 1930s and 1940s, all for a great cause. You don’t need to be a dancer to come and enjoy this event – everyone is welcome and who knows, you might even pick up a dance step or two from our friendly Lancaster Swing Dancers!! Drinks are being provided by Lytham Fizz and cakes from Filbert’s. So, join us in aid of a great cause, and celebrate the 80th anniversary of swing music going mainstream. This will be a great festive night out, so why not bring along your family or workmates for a Christmas knees up?

Tickets should be bought in advance and are currently available at £25 (early bird price). They can be bought online from TicketSource (plus a booking fee) or, if you prefer, you can buy tickets directly from Chris Arridge (c.arridge@lancaster.ac.uk) or Gabbi Burley (g.burley@lancaster.ac.uk) – just get in touch!

Chris Arridge

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

IOP Institute of Physics – Lancashire and Cumbria Branch

Lancashire Lecture Programme 2018 – 2019

• 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