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There will be disruption to the compressed air supply to the Physics building for a brief period on Tuesday 14th June to enable essential service.<\/p>\n
Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear friends and colleagues<\/p>\n I am compelled to write a few words for the great Greek music composer Vagelis Papathanasiou, or simply Vangelis,<\/strong> who died from Covid-19 in Paris on the 17th of May and had his funeral last Friday.<\/p>\n Vangelis, was mostly known to the world for his Oscar winning music in \u201cChariots of Fire\u201d and also from the music of \u201cBlade Runner\u201d. However, I am not going to summarise his rich biography. Whoever is interested, can take a look at his Wikipedia entry: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vangelis<\/a> This series played no small part in motivating me (and I am sure many others) to undertake my career in Physics and Cosmology. In 2018, Vangelis composed an original score for Stephen Hawking’s memorial. While Hawking’s ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey, the music which backed Hawking’s words was beamed by the ESA to the nearest black hole to Earth. In 1995, Vangelis had a minor planet (asteroid) named after him (6354 Vangelis<\/strong>) by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. \u201cMy dear friend Vangelis passed away. Ever since TV-series Cosmos, albums like Albedo 0.39, Spiral, China, Antarctica and movies like Blade Runner, he enriched many space related moments, travels through majestic landscapes and the time in space for me with his magical music. Head filled with colourful memories after Vangelis passing. Like our contact from ISS (International Space Station), playing live while showing him our planet, to the warm, joyful dinners in his Paris residence, composing between his paintings, talking about the beauty and wonders of life, music and the universe.\u201d Kostas Dimopoulos<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please find below links to sign up for a date for the Coaching Skills for Managers for use in upcoming PDR meetings with staff members in our teams.<\/p>\n 21th June: https:\/\/lancaster-uk.libcal.com\/event\/3893179<\/a><\/p>\n 30th\u00a0June:\u00a0https:\/\/lancaster-uk.libcal.com\/event\/3892827<\/a><\/p>\n 6th\u00a0July:\u00a0https:\/\/lancaster-uk.libcal.com\/event\/3892828<\/a><\/p>\n 11th July:\u00a0https:\/\/lancaster-uk.libcal.com\/event\/3892829<\/a><\/p>\n 12th July:\u00a0https:\/\/lancaster-uk.libcal.com\/event\/3892830<\/a><\/p>\n Philip Simpson – From Bitten Brigham<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Online Astrophysics seminar<\/p>\n Speaker: Prof. Kirsten Knudsen (Chalmers University of Technology)<\/p>\n Izzy Garland<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bowland North Seminar Room 10 Joined by Dr Michael Thompson, Beth Murdock and Jade Li, the MSI will be hosting a blended seminar 1pm-2pm on Wed 15th Jun.<\/p>\n Rachel Lyon<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lancaster has launched the CEDARS 2022.\u00a0It is important that all researchers and those who manage researchers,\u00a0take this opportunity to help create a rewarding and supportive research culture at Lancaster.<\/p>\n Feedback received in 2020 had direct input into the activities within the\u00a0HR EiR action plan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for 2021\/2023, ensuring that focus is maintained on a strong researcher voice, improving policies and procedures with an emphasis on equity and consistency.<\/p>\n At a practical level, new development programmes\u00a0have been introduced specifically aimed at researchers and academics, including Project Management for researchers and Mentoring\u00a0for academic development, a career development package and a range of other initiatives.<\/p>\n To have your say please complete the\u00a0CEDARS 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Closing date for the survey has been extended to 12th June<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Philip Simpson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There will be works on going in the corridor outside the low temperature labs in the early part of June. These are associated with works being undertaken in the spine ducting that runs under the building. Operatives will be transiting from the spine duct and exiting the building along this corridor which may have to be closed at times. Further details will be publicised as they become available.<\/p>\n Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The re certification of the large helium storage vessels on the liquefier roof will require the erection of protection scaffolding. No date as yet set for the start of these works but some disruption and inconvenience should be expected.<\/p>\n Shonah Ion<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brampton 2 Zero is a local grassroots project with the ambitious aim to take the community of Brampton to net carbon zero, and to inspire similar projects nationwide. An initiative led by Phil Furneaux (Honorary Teaching Fellow in Physics), in only six months, B2Z has gained Community Interest Company status, taken on a Lancaster University intern, won a \u00a322,000 grant for a feasibility study for a community energy scheme and has started fundraising for a shared heating scheme.<\/p>\n Brampton 2 Zero would like to invite Lancaster academics to contribute their expertise to collaborate in their net carbon zero community and increase their resilience to climate change.\u2028 With what they learn, they intend to write a \u201cBlueprint for a market town to transition to a zero carbon community \u201c in order to help other communities to reduce their carbon footprint.<\/p>\n Phil and colleagues will host a seminar on the 13th June at 4pm in LUMS to highlight their project and explain how academics at Lancaster could contribute. Anyone interested is invited to join the event.<\/p>\n https:\/\/brampton-2-zero-call-on-academics.eventbrite.co.uk Manus Hayne & Philip Simpson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 43rd\u00a0 Physics Relay will take place this year on Thursday 23rd June.<\/p>\n The rules are unchanged since the year dot.\u00a0 For more information and to enter a team go to\u00a0 http:\/\/www.hep.lancs.ac.uk\/relay\/2022\/<\/a>. Same route as previously starting from the new sports centre and using the woodland walk.<\/p>\n This annual fun run is open to teams of four. The course consists of four unequal length legs making up\u00a0 a circuit of campus. It is open to all. There are four prizes on offer, Mens, Womens, Mixed and “Age Corrected”. Enter a team now!<\/p>\n Alex Finch, and Rob Henderson (aka The Physics Relay Committee)<\/p>\n Alex Finch<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12th – 14th July 2022<\/p>\n The Storey, Lancaster<\/p>\n Invitation to register for the first plastic waste and microplastic research conference at Lancaster University. Plastic waste and microplastics are potentially the biggest global environmental challenge after climate change. (And the This workshop will bring together all the multi-facetted threads of plastic waste and micro-plastic research conducted at Finally, the event provides a forum for our PhDs and early career researchers to present their research, providing for some Tuesday 12th July<\/strong> Wednesday 13th July<\/strong> Thursday 14th July<\/strong> Grainne Wilkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the success of these courses in the Michaelmas term, we are\u00a0delighted to announce another programme of workshops aimed\u00a0at skills development for Computationally Intensive research, courtesy of our new N8CIR Research Software Engineer Robin Long. \u00a0All the workshops are\u00a0designed to help researchers (PhD students and staff) with the skills, they need\u00a0for using and developing software as part of their research.\u00a0 \u00a0If you have any questions about these workshops, or if you are unsure whether they are the correct ones for your needs, please email Robin Long at rse@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n Week 29 (23\/06\/22): Git 2: Sharing your development with others using Github<\/strong><\/p>\n This course will show you how to take your usage of Git and Github to the Robin Long<\/p>\n Manus Hayne<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Compressed air off There will be disruption to the compressed air supply to the Physics building for a brief period on Tuesday 14th June to enable essential service. 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\nI discovered him from the seminal documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage<\/strong> by Carl Sagan in 1980, which used Vangelis\u2019 music for its main theme: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VxmimFscpjQ<\/a><\/p>\n
\nVangelis collaborated with NASA and ESA on music projects Mythodea<\/em> (\u039c\u03c5\u03b8\u03c9\u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1, song of mythos) (NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey), Rosetta<\/em> (dedicated to the Rosetta space probe mission, launched in 2004) and Juno to Jupiter<\/em> (Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter), which was his 23rd and last solo studio album in 2021. NASA conferred their Public Service Medal to Vangelis in 2003. The award is the highest honour the space agency presents to an individual not involved with the American government. However, his fascination with space predated all these, stemming from his classic album \u201cAlbedo 0.39\u201d (1976).<\/p>\n
\nESA Astronaut Andr\u00e9 Kuipers wrote:<\/p>\n
\nFarewell<\/p>\nCoaching Skills for Managers – dates to sign up<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Title TBC<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nMonday 13 June 2022
\n3:00pm to 4:00pm<\/p>\nMSI Lunchtime Seminar<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nWednesday 15 June 2022
\n1:00pm to 2:00pm<\/p>\nCEDARS\u00a0(Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Works in ULT corridor<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Scaffolding on roof of liquefier area<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Brampton 2 Zero Seminar<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nMonday 13th June at 16.00 in Mngt School LT19 WPB002<\/p>\nCalling all campus runners<\/strong><\/h2>\n
PLASTICS WASTE AND MICROPLASTIC RESEARCH EVENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nTo register please email Rachel Lyon (msi@lancaster.ac.uk). If your registration is successful, you will be required
\nto attend the event on all 3 days.<\/p>\n
\ntwo are not unlinked, with plastics in soil displacing carbon.) Beyond plastic waste, microplastics have infiltrated all parts of
\nthe food chain and are now being found in (nearly) all human organs. Their potential to act as vectors for disease
\ntransmission and the development of antimicrobial resistance is only now being recognised.<\/p>\n
\nLancaster University in one workshop. International speakers will highlight global challenges and internal speakers will
\nhighlight the quality and quantity of research conducted at Lancaster. The workshop provides a platform for Lancaster
\nresearchers to connect with each other and to build further plastics activities.<\/p>\n
\ntheir first experience of the intellectual life, following two years of lockdown.<\/p>\n
\nA presentation from keynote speaker Professor Meththika Vithanage followed by a \u2018Question Time\u2019 style Q&A about the future of plastics with a
\npanel of experts. This session will be facilitated by materials scientist and story teller, Dr. Anna Ploszajski.<\/p>\n
\nA presentation from keynote speaker Professor Gay Hawkins. After this, the students will be invited to give group presentations about their
\nresearch. The presentations will be separated by questions and discussion. This session will be facilitated by Dr. Neil McLatchie. In the evening,
\nthe attendees will participate in a litter pick on Morecambe Bay followed by a dinner at the Midland Hotel.<\/p>\n
\nA session focussed on creating a plastics community at LU and a discussion leading to a list of actions for the community. This session will also be
\nfacilitated by Dr. Neil McLatchie.<\/p>\nResearch Software Skills Workshops<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nnext level by harnessing the power of GitHub for collaboration.
\nHave you ever been confused about how to start a Pull Request or how to fork
\na repository and merge your changes back? Perhaps you know and want to gain
\nconfidence in doing so? This course will teach you how to collaborate using
\ngit, and give you an environment in which to practise.
\nhttps:\/\/lancaster-uk.libcal.com\/calendar\/dsi\/rse-git-intermediate<\/a><\/p>\n