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Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

BLR - Biology Lecture Room
BLT - Biology Lecture Theatre
CLT - Chichester Lecture Theatre
LMR - Library Meeting Room
PEV - Pevensey building
CHI - Chichester building

Monday 13 March

2.00pm Falmer Language Group: Joan Swann (Open University), title TBA. A155.

4.30pm Neuroscience Seminar: Chris Faulkes (Queen Mary and Westfield), Social control of reproduction in mole rats. BLR.

5.00pm Student Action for Refugees (STAR) Lecture and Slideshow: Communities in resistance: Internally displaced in Colombia. Presented by staff of Christian Aid. A103

Tuesday 14 March

12.30pm Centre for Life History Research Seminar: Rob Perks (National Life Story Collection, British Library), Oral history and radio: The mill-ennium oral history project. LMR.

12.30pm Inorganic Discussion Group: Phil Dyer (Leicester), Phosphine-Imines: From curiosity to ligands. CHI 3R143.

2.15pm SEI Research-in-Progress Seminar: Les Metcalfe (European Institute of Public Administration), Reforming the Commission: Innovation in European public management? A71.

4.00pm COGS Seminar: Margaret Boden, Crafts, perception and the possibilities of the body. COGS 5C11.

4.00pm American Studies Research Seminar: Les Benedict (Ohio), Political re-presentation: Salmon P. Chase and the presidential politics of reconstruction. A71.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics & Development Seminar: Joe Lewis (Edinburgh), The nuclear Cap Binding Complex: A multifunctional activity in RNA polymerase II transcript metabolism. BLT.

5.00pm Media Studies Graduate Seminar: Bill Osgerby (Southampton IHE), You don't have to be a millionaire, just think like one: Consumption, lifestyle and men's magazines in post-war America. EDB 125.

5.15pm Luke Holland and Rudy Kennedy will discuss their new film I Was a Slave Labourer. EDB 121.

Wednesday 15 March

12.30pm Environmental Science Seminar: James Readman (Plymouth Marine Lab), Monitoring strategies for organic micropollutants in coastal waters. CHI 3R241.

4.00pm Accelerating Adaptation Lecture: Günter P. Wagner (Yale), Evolution of evolvability: Fact or mirrage. BLT.

Thursday 16 March

1.10pm Lunchtime Recital: Composers' Concert. Recital Room, Falmer House.

4.00pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Alan Allport (Oxford), Task switching and the long-term negative priming of tasks. BLR.

5.00pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Abdeslam Serroukh (Imperial), Wavelet variance estimator for the scale analysis of time series. PEV2A2.

Friday 17 March

2.15pm SPRU Seminar Series: Andy Davies and Tim Brady, From systems to services: Building capabilities in Complex Product Systems. C133.

4.00pm Astronomy Centre Seminar: Alexandre Refregie (IoA), Weak lensing by large scale structure. Arundel 401.

4.00pm SCOAP and Chemical Physics Joint Seminar: Mike Ashfold (Bristol), High resolution studies of molecular photodissociation. CHI3-3R241.

Volunteers needed

USIE are looking for student volunteers to help with children's activities on 19 and 20 June. The days are part of a week-long programme of activities for 150 school children from Brighton's EAZ. Email l.i.z.williams@sussex.ac.uk

Language courses

A Levels looming? Worried about your speaking and listening skills? Why not try a 2-day A level revision course in French, German or Spanish, to be held on 17 and 18 April from 9.30am-4.30pm, cost £60. Contact the Open Course Assistant on 877258 for details.

Sussex Higher Education Fair

This will take place on 21 and 22 March in Bramber House. Up to 7,000 sixth formers will be attending over the two days. Part of the science car park will be used for coach parking and Levels two and three of Bramber House will be closed (including the Laines restaurant).

Book sale for Mozambique

A book sale to raise funds for the flood victims of Mozambique will be held at IDS on Thursday 16 March, in the Upper Common Room from 12.30-2.30pm. Donations of books gratefully received in the Directorate, IDS. Contact Diane Frazer-Smith (ext. 8264, email: j.d.frazer-smith@ids.ac.uk).

Health Centre

www.studenthealth.co.uk

Visit the new Health Centre web pages with regular weekly news updates on different health areas, special features and specific travel information. There is also an A-Z health guide for all sorts of health problems.

Vacation opening times

Minimum service days

Minimum services only will operate from Wednesday 19 April until Monday 24 April. All services will re-open on Tuesday 25 April and the summer term will start on Wednesday 26 April.

Library

The Library will be open on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9.00am-5.30pm and on Tuesdays from 9.00am-7.30pm. It will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The Library will be closed from 19 to 24 April inclusive.

Sports facilities

The Sportcentre will be closed from 19 April to 24 April inclusive. The Falmer Sports Complex will be closed from 21 April to 23 April inclusive.

Health Centre

The Health Centre will be closed from 21 April to Monday 24 April inclusive. There will be an emergency-only clinic 11.00am-12.00 noon on Saturday 22 April. More details about the Health Centre's opening times can be found on the web at www.studenthealth.co.uk.