Month: July 2018

Luciana Dalla Valle, Julian Stander, Karen Gresty, John Eales, Yinghui Wei
from Plymouth University have just published the paper below:

Stakeholder perspectives on graphical tools for visualising student assessment and feedback data

Marina Logares recently participated  in the summer school: Quantum Fields, Geometry and Representation Theory    in Bangalore.

This week we had a year 10 student visiting us from a local school for some work experience. The student learned a bit about the basics of quantum physics as well, a short introduction to some mathematical ideas, such as complex numbers.  The student also had short interviews with staff members about their research, for example:

• Problems with the Higgs boson.
• Laser Physics
• The importance of mathematics for physics
• Topology and the different types of infinities.

 

This week there are a number of members of CMS attending the
27th annual International Laser Physics Workshop. The workshop is being held in Nottingham. The titles of the talks presented by CMS members are below:

• B King (Plymouth, UK), A M Fedotov (Moscow, Russia), H Hu
  (Mianyang, China), B Shen (Shanghai, China)
  Leptons and Photons in Quasi-Constant Fields (invited talk)
• L Ansell (Plymouth, UK)
  Relativistic Charge Motion in Laser Fields (invited talk)
• A Ilderton (Plymouth, UK)
  Particle Dynamics in Electromagnetic Vortices and Gravitational
  Waves (invited talk)
• B M Dillon (Plymouth, UK)
  ALP Production Through Non-Linear Compton Scattering in Intense
  Fields

At the end of last week a research workshop was held at Plymouth University. A picture of the invited speakers and some of the audience is below.

 

Like many Universities, Plymouth University runs a sabbatical system, where a staff member can do research at another institution for a year. This allows a staff member to think about new ideas and focus on their research. Typically a staff member might go on a sabbatical once every 7 years, but this also requires obtaining external funding.

For the last year Dr Antonio Rago has been visiting the CERN theory group in Geneva. CERN hosts the large hadron collider (LHC) and is one the main places to experimentally search for new physics. Dr Rago is now back working at Plymouth University.

Last Friday (6^th July), Dr Matthew Craven presented some joint work with Dr Jenny Sharp on improving Foundation Year Mathematics student learning. The work was presented at the FYNAC2018 conference at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The work describes some preliminary conclusions from research conducted into partial classroom flipping with Foundation Year Mathematicians at the half-way stage of a two-year project. The conference has been described as the “Friendliest Conference in the UK”.

The video below shows Edward Evans describing his recent third year project.