Not many of you seem to know that the PsiStar website has a forums section where you can discuss all things physics and PsiStar related. It now has an improved interface (thank James) and new student’s discussion area where you can discuss your subjects as well as other student related issues. On top of all that you can find out more about upcoming trips and events as well as keep up to date with what Greg, our new Challenge Master, is up to.
I've just done a forum upgrade from phpbb2.0.20 to phpbb3.0.2
The old forum styles could not be converted during the upgrade so I'll have to make them again but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.
All posts and user accounts have also been moved over but things may not have worked 100%, if you run into any problems with your username or passwords not working please email me and I'll look into it.
If you find any other strange problems let me know
(and there was never a bug, people just couldn't see the register button at the top :P)
This year we will be getting some amazing Seminars and talks from the best brains in QMUL about all of their exciting work and research and what's happening on the cutting edge in the world of physics.
As it's the exam period, we're holding no weekly events BUT, don't run off after your last exam as we're celebrating the exam success, the beginning of the summer and in some cases, the end of an era as some graduate this summer.
So we're planning a meal at a Lebanese in Marble Arch - the cost of travel paid for by us and the meal subsidized. Then, it's back to Mile End for a Beach themed party with cocktails and snacks and punch and general merrymaking.
Let us know if you're interested, the more the merrier - lets get to know eachother and say good bye all in one day!
This week is a double event - first up a Seminar from Professor Steve Lloyd titled "The Large Hadron Collider". It starts at 2pm in LG1; here's the abstract:
The world's post powerful particle accelerator, the CERN Large Hadron Collider will start operation this summer. The talk will explain the background to the accelerator, the experiments and some of the physics that we hope to see once the machine is turned on. These will be put in the context of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and new theories beyond the Standard Model such as Supersymmetry, Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
After is the E* Egg Launch. This annual event involves creating a device to safely deliver a raw egg to the ground having been dropped out of a window in the Physics department.
The Rules: No parachutes, No bubble wrap, No gliders, No Balloons and No propellers. So be inventive and imaginative!
The Prizes:
1) Best overall egg lander design. 2) Egg that most resembles its owner (The Nic Prize), or perhaps owner that most resembles their egg, shaved heads anyone... 3) Happiest little mess. 4) Most tape (The James prize). 5) Eggs that survive all three drops.
Provide your own eggs, decorate them and build a device to help them survive a drop, provide receipt for costs incurred and we might reimburse you to the sum of £5, probably less, try to recycle materials...
