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All rights reserved. webmaster@stfc.ac.uk Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:21 GMT Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:21 GMT Sleipnir v2 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://www.stfc.ac.uk/images/logo144.jpg http://www.stfc.ac.uk 144 36 Some of the UK's leaders in space technology gathered this week to demonstrate how cutting edge technologies originally developed for space activities are successfully transferred to terrestrial applications, having a wide range of benefits for both society and industry http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/SpaceTech2010.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/SpaceTech2010.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:18:00 GMT Prof Brian Cox - 'Exploring the Universe - from Voyager to the Large Hadron Collider' - the next in the STFC Talking Science series at the County Ground, Swindon on Thursday 18 March 2010, 6.00pm http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PandS/Events/Swindon/Contents.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PandS/Events/Swindon/Contents.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:00 GMT In December 2009, the Science and Technology Facilities Council announced that as part of its science prioritisation, the United Kingdom Infra Red Telescope, UKIRT, in Hawaii would be subject to a managed withdrawal http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Stats/Rev/UKIRTUpdate0310.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Stats/Rev/UKIRTUpdate0310.aspx Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:00 GMT A-level students visiting the STFC's Cheshire and Oxfordshire laboratories next week (15-19 March 2010) will join nearly 6000 other students from 23 countries across the world taking part in annual Particle Physics Masterclasses this month http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/PPM2010.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/PPM2010.aspx Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:31 GMT Due to the normal rotation of membership, a number of vacancies have arisen for outstanding individuals to become members of STFC's Committees and Panels. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/CallforNoms2010.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/CallforNoms2010.aspx Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:17:00 GMT Scientists from across the STFC are heading to Manchester to take part in the largest science fair in the UK for students, the Big Bang Fair at Manchester Central, 11th - 13th March 2010 http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/BigBangFair.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/BigBangFair.aspx Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:07:00 GMT Science Minister Lord Drayson has today (4 March 2010) spelled out new arrangements for the STFC designed to ensure that it can plan with greater predictability and provide its community with more stability. These will include better management of pressures arising from international subscriptions (such as CERN), and longer-term planning and budgeting for large domestic facilities (such as Diamond). These two measures will address the two main sources of uncertainty STFC faces. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/STFCMinisterialReview.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/STFCMinisterialReview.aspx Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:30:00 GMT The European Southern Observatory has outlined the next steps in finalising a site for the European Extremely Large Telescope. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ESOEELT.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ESOEELT.aspx Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:25:00 GMT UK manufacturer and IT solutions provider Viglen has been selected to provide part of the required processing power for analysing the conditions that existed a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ViglenCerncontract.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ViglenCerncontract.aspx Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:01:07 GMT Time taken to detect brain tumours could soon be significantly reduced thanks to an ongoing pioneering project led by the University of Liverpool with the Nuclear Physics Group and Technology departments at STFC Daresbury Laboratory. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ProSPECTusNP.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ProSPECTusNP.aspx Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:15:00 GMT Construction of a major new facility for high-tech businesses, Vanguard House, began officially this week on the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/Vanguardturf.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/Vanguardturf.aspx Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:43:00 GMT A new organisation that will support the sustainable future development of leading-edge, collaborative scientific computing has been established following the signing of legal documents in Amsterdam. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/GridNewOrg.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/GridNewOrg.aspx Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:45:00 GMT STFC's Science Board held its most recent meeting on 11th February 2010 at Polaris House in Swindon. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/SciBrd/SBNewsFeb10.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/SciBrd/SBNewsFeb10.aspx Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:37:00 GMT The computational science expertise at STFC's Daresbury Laboratory is playing a key role in enabling researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), to develop a tool that will make it possible to estimate the likely impact of large magnitude earthquakes at specific locations, before they happen http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/CSEEarthquakes.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/CSEEarthquakes.aspx Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:54:23 GMT The next meeting of the Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) will take place at University of Glasgow on 14th and 15th April 2010. http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/oth/PPRP/PPRP140410.aspx http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About/Strat/Council/AdCom/oth/PPRP/PPRP140410.aspx Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:51:00 GMT