{"id":171,"date":"2017-10-20T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/?p=171"},"modified":"2017-10-20T16:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:39:47","slug":"physics-friday-bulletin-2017-10-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/physics-bulletin\/2017\/10\/20\/physics-friday-bulletin-2017-10-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Friday Bulletin 2017-10-20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Safety handbook on Dept. Web pages<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As part of our safety legal obligations please can you read the safety handbook, which is on the Physics Dept. web pages. Then print off the front page, sign to say you have understood it and return signed form to Grainne Wilkinson\u2019s pigeon hole. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Safety Induction<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The next induction will take place on the 2nd November at 2:30 pm in A27 Physics. Any new members of staff,\u00a0 post-doctoral researchers or anyone who wants a refresher please come along with a pen.<\/p>\n

Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Facilities has informed us of the following works for the Physics building<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Water Hygiene and Shower head cleaning in Physics will take place week commencing 30.10.2017 from 9am daily.
\nTwo Lancaster University engineers will require access to kitchens and shared bathrooms to test hot water temperatures.\u00a0 The engineers will not test every kitchen\/bathroom just a sample from different locations within the building.\u00a0 This brief survey will take approximately five minutes, and is to ensure that the hot water is maintained at the correct temperature to prevent any instances of legionella. There will be no shutdown of service.<\/p>\n

Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

IOP – Early Career Members Town Meeting<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Early Career Members Town Meeting
\nDe Vere West One, 9-10 Portland Place,
\nLondon, UK
\n27 October 2017<\/p>\n

Early-career members are invited to attend this exciting town meeting to shape an IOP special-interest group to support members working across the whole community, in academia, business and education. The proposed group will enable early-career members to build a network of peers, develop an effective mentoring scheme and to ensure that members understand the different career options available to them as well providing access to the development of vital skills.<\/p>\n

Attending the town meeting will enable you to: <\/strong>
\n\u2022 Be inspired by a panel of leaders who have experienced different career paths across academia, business and education.
\n\u2022 Identify barriers for early-career members and help shape the group to meet your needs
\n\u2022 Connect with likeminded early-career members
\n\u2022 Get the opportunity to be actively involved Invited panel members include:
\n\u2022 Becky Parker MBE CPhys Hon.FInstP, Director, Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS)
\n\u2022 Professor Stephen Watts, Heads of School, The University of Manchester
\n\u2022 Sally Williams, Head of People, CSR Group<\/p>\n

If you are interested in attending but cannot because of your geographical location the afternoon session will be livestreamed on YouTube. Please indicate on the registration form if you would like to take part through this format.<\/p>\n

View the programme and register to attend <\/a><\/p>\n

Grainne Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ageing of large Li-ion battery cells<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Energy Seminar:<\/strong> Friday 27th October 11.30-13.00, FST Training and Development Centre, A76 Science and Technology Building<\/p>\n

Dr. Rakel Wreland Lindstr\u00f6m (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) <\/strong>
\nThe reduction of carbon dioxide and air pollutants emissions from the transport sector require significantly enhanced energy efficiency in the vehicle powertrain, something that can be reached by increased electrification. Li-ion batteries are currently the choice of automotive industry. However, the use of Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles is demanding, requiring high energy and power density, safety and longevity. At the same time the system must be able to compete in cost with other powertrain solutions.<\/p>\n

To reduce the overall cost of electrical vehicles it is of the major industrial and societal interest to increase the lifetime of the battery. One way to go is to optimize the usage for maximal utilisation with minimal ageing, but this requires a better knowledge on how, when, where and why the cell degrades and how measurable indicators, such as impedance rise or loss of capacity, are coupled to the various degradation mechanisms observed. This talk will focus on ageing issues of large cells for vehicle applications. The influence of high charging rates and state of charge will be addressed as well as inhomogeneous ageing. Finally, the effect of pressure and pressure distribution on performance and ageing will be discussed.
\nFor further details please contact Harry Hoster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please confirm attendance for catering purposes. There will be tea, coffee and cakes served from 11.30. You can register here<\/a>
\n(https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/ageing-of-large-li-ion-battery-cells-tickets-39039045837<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The presenter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Wreland Lindstr\u00f6m has worked at the Div. Applied Electrochemistry, Dept. Chemical Engineering, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology since 2007 and is Associate Professor since 2014. She has a PhD-degree in Inorganic Chemistry (Atmospheric Corrosion) from G\u00f6teborg University from 2003 and has had postdoc positions at the surface chemistry groups at Paris-Tech and at University of Ulm. Today her major interest is in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells and Li-ion batteries. Her research especially addresses performance and durability issues of these cells for automotive applications.<\/p>\n

Lefteris Danos<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Physics Christmas lunch – Thursday 21st December<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Physics Christmas lunch will take place at 1300hrs on Thursday 21st December at Greaves Park, Lancaster. Please see details of the menu at http:\/\/greavespark.co.uk\/christmas-fayre-menu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

To secure your place please pay me and I\u2019ll take your menu choices at the same time. The cost is \u00a315.95 for two courses for \u00a320.50 for three courses. It would be great if you could try and bring something like the right amount of money although I could try and offload some of my old \u00a31 coins!<\/p>\n

I need your menu choices by Weds 6 December COP at the very latest.<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e1inne Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Astrophysics Seminar – Supernovae – 24th Oct<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Title:<\/strong> The physical properties of stripped-envelope supernovae and the connection to their progenitors and compact remnants<\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Simon Prentice (Liverpool John Moores University)<\/p>\n

Time:<\/strong> 3pm on 24th October 2017<\/p>\n

Venue:<\/strong> Physics C36<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong>
\nStripped-envelope supernovae (SE-SNe) are a subset of core-collapse supernovae where the progenitor star has experienced severe mass loss during its evolution. The resulting pre-explosion star contains little or no hydrogen or helium at the moment of core-collapse, and this is visible in its photometric and spectroscopic evolution. They are an important component in the evolution of their local galactic environment and are the primary source of neutron star\/black hole binaries in the Universe. However, despite being first identified as a distinct category in the 1980s it is only now that we are beginning to be build samples of sufficient size to investigate the populations properties.<\/p>\n

In this talk I will present the results of analysis on the largest sample of SE-SNe to dates, which indicates that these SNe have considerable diversity across mass, kinetic energy, specific kinetic energy, luminosity, temporal characteristics, and host environment. These results will then be linked back to some of the key questions in the field; what kind of progenitors give rise to these events and what kind of evolutionary pathways are available? How is mass lost and is there an indication as to the time-scales involved? How do SE-SNe link with other CC-SNe, superluminous-SNe, gamma-ray bursts, and strong sources of gravitational waves?<\/p>\n

Steven Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Departmental safety documentation storage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the recommendations from\u00a0 our University safety audit was to have a central store of all the risk and COSHH assessments etc. To this end early next week, all staff will receive an invitation to share a Box folder called Departmental safety files.
\nThere are 4 folders within, Travel, Teaching, Research and Workshop & Technical. I have listed some sub folders with the divisions in the research space but if you want to create your own group or project file please do so.
\nPlease upload your safety documentation into an appropriate file for reference and to ensure compliance with the University\u2019s polices.<\/p>\n

Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Compulsory health and Safety training<\/strong><\/h2>\n

All members of the University are required to complete a basic on line health and safety training. The link is for the front page of the University health and Safety web pages. http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/depts\/safety\/index.html<\/a> and the course is under the Moodle section.<\/p>\n

Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Postgraduate & Staff football<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Now that the new academic year is upon us, postgraduate and staff football session will be starting up again. The team plays with the undergraduates in the winter months, sessions are \u00a31 to play, on Wednesday evenings at 6:30pm on the far astroturf pitches (see online campus map for location).<\/p>\n

For weekly reminders you can either join the emailing list by emailing myself at s.malzard1@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a> or by sending a request to the “Lancaster Physics Postgrad Sport” group on Facebook. If you have any other queries please email the address above.<\/p>\n

Simon Malzard<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Location of current safety forms.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A recommendation from the recent safety audit of the Department was to ensure everybody knows where the current blank safety forms are located. They are found on the University safety web pages at http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/depts\/safety\/index.html<\/a> . These can be found by looking under safety in any of the University A-Z indexes. All safety form templates can be found here, usually at the end of the individual guidance i.e. \u00a0risk assessment, COSHH etc. The link on the Physics web site will be updated to reflect this.<\/p>\n

Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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