Physics Refurbishment – Weekly Update Please see below details of scheduled works on the Physics refurbishment project for week commencing Monday 20th February. Sliding door 1st fix – completed Re-Roofing works – low noise, no vibration Scaffolding stripping – minimal noise, minimal vibration New toilet block façade works – medium noise, minimum vibration M&E…

  Astrophysics Seminar – Star Formation – 7th March Title: The star-forming ISM: bottom-up versus top-down approaches Speaker: Paul Clark (Cardiff University) Time: 1:30pm on Tuesday 7th March 2017 Venue: Physics C36 Abstract: Observations of the star formation activity in galaxies has revealed a relationship between the star formation rate and the surface density of…

  Particle Physics Seminar: Recasting LHC data for new BSM model constraints LHC measurements and searches are usually conducted with a particular theory model in mind, but can also have unexpected implications for alternative scenarios. Especially in the absence so far of smoking gun signals of new physics at the LHC, reinterpreting combinations of many…

  Particle Physics Seminar Effective field theory: New physics through precision measurements Date: 17 February 2017, 13:45 – 14:45 Venue: Physics C36 Speaker: Dr Chris Hays, Oxford With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model (SM) is complete. Yet the SM is itself an incomplete description of nature. One strategy to go beyond…

  Twenty minutes of Engineering Date: 15th February 2017. 13.00 Venue: C-floow Break-out Space, Engineering Building Speaker: Dr Denes Csala Title: Visualising the challenges of energy transitions “Twenty minutes of Engineering” is a novel series of short informal talks, offered by academics and researchers at Lancaster’s Engineering Department, on cutting edge engineering research themes. The friendly…

  Theoretical Particle Cosmology Group Seminar – Monday Date: Monday, 6 February 2017 @ 14:00 hrs Venue: C36 Speaker: Antonio Racioppi Title: Classical scale invariance and inflation Abstract: Classical scale invariance was applied to inflationary model building already from the very first papers. Recently the use of dynamically induced inflaton potentials à la Coleman-Weinberg became…

  Journal club on experimental condensed matter physics (Monday at 10a.m.) The next speaker is Tom McGrath and the paper he will be presenting is Mid-Infrared Pyroresistive Graphene Detector on LiNbO3 The next session of the Journal club on experimental condensed matter physics is on Monday 30/01/2017 at 10:00 in C36. Dima Zmeev   Liquid…

February Safety Induction February’s safety induction will take place on February 2nd in C29 starting at 2pm. If you are a new member of staff or just want a refresher on what you need to know regarding safety please come along. Shonah Ion Confidential Waste If you have any confidential waste please leave it in…

  Astrophysics Seminar Subject:: Gravitational Wave Sources – 24th Jan Title: Jets from Compact Binary Mergers: Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources Speaker: Gavin Lamb (Liverpool John Moores University) Time: 3pm on 24th January 2016 Venue: Physics C36 Abstract: Short gamma-ray bursts are believed to be produced by ultra-relativistic jets launched from the merger of…

Ogden Physics Residential Ogden Physics Residential ” Preparing for Physics at University” is taking place in the department from 18th – 21st December. 24 Y13 students who have applied to do Physics at university (many here at Lancaster) will receive talks and complete a problem solving project. Phil Furneaux