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The Physics Christmas lunch will take place at 1230hrs on Thursday 22nd December in the function room (upstairs) of The Borough, Dalton Square, Lancaster. Please see page 2 of this link for details of the menu:
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The venue can take up to 60 people. To secure your place please pay me by COP Friday 9th December and I\u2019ll take your menu choices at the same time. The cost is \u00a315 for two courses for \u00a318 for three courses.<\/p>\n
Grainne Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Title: Galactic and Exoplanet Archeology with White Dwarfs<\/p>\n Speaker: Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Warwick)<\/p>\n Time: 3pm on 22nd November 2016<\/p>\n Venue: Physics C36<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/p>\n The vast majority of stars will become white dwarfs at the end of the stellar life cycle. These remnants are precise cosmic clocks owing to their well constrained cooling rates. By employing spectroscopically derived atmospheric parameters combined with Gaia parallaxes, white dwarfs can constrain the stellar formation history in the early developing phases of the Milky Way, the initial mass function in the Grainne Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear all<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been asked for feedback from the last Away Day. If you have any comments on what they did well and what they could have done better pls let me know.<\/p>\n Many thanks<\/p>\n Grainne Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear All, Please note on Saturday 12th November and Saturday 19th November there will be no access to offices and labs in the Physics Building numbers A26 \u2013A35, B23-B32 & C28-C39 due to asbestos removal. The reason for this is there is no adequate fire escape for people at this time. Best wishes, Martin Ward<\/p>\n Martin Ward<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our next seminar is this Monday (14th Nov) at 13.00, Lecture Theatre 5 in the Management School. Our guest speaker is Dr Bethany Colling from the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.<\/p>\n Title<\/strong>: \u201cHow small can we make a viable magnetically confined fusion tokamak?\u201d<\/p>\n Bio<\/strong>: Bethany completed an undergraduate Master\u2019s degree in Nuclear Engineering at Lancaster University before embarking on a PhD at Lancaster also. Her PhD research focused on radioactive waste assessments and the blanket technology of demonstration magnetic confinement fusion reactors via neutronics analysis. The PhD was completed in 2016. For the past 3 years Bethany has worked at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, where her role includes radioactive transport and activation analysis and also gamma spectrometry and detector simulation. Bethany also undertakes the role of Technical Editor for the Nuclear Institute\u2019s journal, the Nuclear Future.<\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong>: Nuclear fusion energy for use in power plants is a continually developing area and many of the related parameters are not yet fixed. The investigation of fusion neutronics and development of computational approaches for assessment is imperative in the road to commercial realisation of fusion power. Recent developments in high temperature superconducting magnets have made the small aspect ratio spherical tokamak an attractive option due to the possible modular design and use of remountable magnets. Spherical tokamaks have the potential to provide a cost-effective approach to fusion power and as a neutron source for experimentation. Holding the deuterium-tritium fusion plasma in tighter magnetic fields they can form a more compact fusion reactor requiring lower capital construction and material costs.<\/p>\n Due to the smaller physical size of the spherical tokamak and the aspect ratio that characterises its geometry there is a limited amount of space in and around the centre column (referred to as the inboard side). Shielding is required to reduce the nuclear heating and damage levels experienced by the superconducting magnets within the centre column. Due to the characteristics of the tokamak geometry the amount of necessary shielding impacts on the overall size of the tokamak. The limited inboard space also restricts the tritium fuel breeder blankets to the outboard of the tokamak. Some of these key issues have been assessed through neutronics analysis using a particle transport code MCNP. An overview of magnetically confined fusion energy using the tokamak concept will be presented along with some key neutronics results regarding the limitations on size reduction for a spherical tokamak.<\/p>\n All welcome to the seminar and no registration is needed. Engineering postgraduate students have to attend at least two seminars a year and I will be circulating an attendance sheet.<\/p>\n The upcoming Engineering seminars (please note that the next seminar has changed to the 14th Dec) are:<\/p>\n Nuno Bimbo<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Physics Christmas lunch – Thursday 22nd December The Physics Christmas lunch will take place at 1230hrs on Thursday 22nd December in the function room (upstairs) of The Borough, Dalton Square, Lancaster. Please see page 2 of this link for details of the menu: http:\/\/www.theboroughlancaster.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/xmas-menu-2016-Borough-final.pdf The venue can take up to 60 people. 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\n1.5-8 solar mass range, and the mass loss during the post main-sequence evolution. Furthermore, at least 30% of white dwarfs are hosts to evolved planetary systems, and the metal abundances in their otherwise pure-H\/He atmospheres provide a window on the chemical composition of rocky exoplanets. Statistics on the properties of these evolved planetary systems as a function of age could provide insight into the evolution of rocky planet formation in our Galaxy.<\/p>\nfeedback from last Physics Away Day (Green Lane Conference Centre)<\/h2>\n
No access to parts of the Building on Sat 12th & 19th November<\/h2>\n
Engineering seminars – Dr Bethany Colling, Mon 14th Nov 13.00 Mngt Sch LT5<\/h2>\n
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