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Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

Monday 8 February
12.30pm Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum: Mike Boice, Who are the students? D310.

1.00pm Experimental Psychology Seminar: Roland Baddeley, Optimal forgetting in man and machine. BLR.

4.00pm Centre for Optical and Atomic Physics Seminar: Derrick Crothers (Queen' s University Belfast), Wannier above and below threshold ionisation. PEV2A1.

4.00pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: Jennifer Platt, Women in the British sociological labour market 1945-95. D310.

4.00pm Mathematical Analysis Seminar: L Parnovski, Trace identities and applications. Room 2A2, PEVI.

4.30 pm Neuroscience Seminar: Karen Nilsen and Ian Russell, Swings, ballet and party poopers: amplification and compression in the Cochlea. BLR.

5.00pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Niamh Moore, The place of home in ecofeminist politics. D610.

5.30pm European Institute Lecture: William Buiter (Cambridge), TBA. C133.

7.00pm Music Lecture: Jonathan Harvey, Composing life after death. Debating Chamber, Falmer House (£3, conc £2).

Tuesday 9 February
12.30pm Sussex Life History Research Network Seminar: Lunhong Ge (University of Tianjin, China), Life during the cultural revolution in China. Mass Observation Archive.

1.30pm Psychology Research Colloquium: Graham Davey, Why are phylogenetic fear relevant words detected faster than any other types of words? PEV2A1.

2.15pm European Institute Research-in-Progress Seminar: Adrian Treacher, Whither the EU? reconciling the three 'Es' - EMU, Enlargement and ESDI (European Security and Defence Identity). A71, SEI.

4.00pm COGS Seminar: Owen Holland (University of West Of England), Abstract ants, applications and artificial life. COGS 5C11.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics and Development Seminar: Deborah Barnes (Imperial Cancer Research Fund), DNA ligases and mouse models of DNA repair deficiencies. BLT.

4.30pm Social and Political Thought Seminar: William Outhwaite, Theorising Post-Communism. D630.

5.00pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Nadje Al Ali, Standing on shifting ground: women' s activism and occidentalism in contemporary Egypt. C219.

5.15pm German Research Colloquium: Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg (London), A Hebrew poem written in medieval Germany. A155.

Wednesday 10 February
1.00pm IDS Seminar: Laurence Pujo (Queen Elizabeth House), Gender and the rice market in Guinea: methodology in investigating the embeddedness of market exchange in gendered institutions. Room 221.

2.00pm Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Keith Horne (St Andrews), Hunting extra-solar planets by gravitational lensing. PEV1A7.

5.00pm English Graduate Colloquium: Rod Mengham (Cambridge), Dickensian identity: David Copperfield. D640.

Thursday 11 February
11.30am Economics Seminar: Leonardo Letelier, D Phil outline. D310.

1.45pm CLS Seminar: Carl Stychin (Reading), Reimagined identities? Constitutionalism, sovereignty and nationhood in transition. D310.

4.00pm Geography Research Seminar: Mike Pryke (Open University), Emerging markets as an emergent geography of neo-liberalism? D340.

4.00pm Laboratory of Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Vincent Walsh (Oxford), Magnetic stimulation studies of visual cognition. BLR.

4.00pm CPES Colloquium: Karol Sikora (Imperial), Why can't we cure cancer? Chichester Lecture Theatre.

5.00pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: K Sivaramakrishnan, Geographies of empire: from 'wild' to managed landscapes in nineteenth century Bengal. A155.

5.00pm Sussex Development Lecture: Fiona Leach, Women in the south - what has education done for them? A1.

5.00pm French Seminar: Simon Critchley (Essex), A sense of humour. A71.

5.00pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Mark Broom, Modelling dominance hierarchies using multi-player game theory. PEV2A2.

Friday 12 February
11.30 am Algebra Seminar: R P Lewis, Some inequalities in the theory of partitions. PEVI, 2A1.

2.00pm SPRU Seminar: Jane Gregory (UCL), Holding it all together: popularisation in the Big Bang/ Steady State debate. EDB Lecture Room.

4.30pm Philosophy Society Seminar: Craig Callender (LSE), The direction of time. A155.

Miscellaneous

Careers Events

Places should be booked in advance at CDU.

Community Service Volunteers - 9 Feb 5.30pm, CDU. Voluntary work locally.

European Commission - 11 Feb 5.30pm, CDU. Explore opportunities for UK and EU nationals to work within the European Commission - routes in, how and when to apply and the work you could be doing.

Computing Services

Introduction to Word processing and Windows on Monday 15 February 6.00-9.00. This course is designed for beginners and trains participants to manipulate Windows and start to use WORD 6 for word processing. All courses can be booked in person at Computer Service Reception between 9.00am - 5.00pm. Each course costs £3.00 for members of the University and £20.00 for Non-members.

London to Brighton Bike Ride

Interested in entering the London to Brighton Bike Ride as part of the University of Sussex Team? Please contact Karen Dunster or Sam Fuller at the Sportcentre on 3947 or 8228