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Dear All,<br>
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A couple of things:<br>
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1. As you may have seen work has started on level 8. Access to the
kitchen will be maintained as long as possible. In addition, the
Head of Civil Engineering has agreed that our staff can use their
staff common room on JA level 7 (7.31) while our common room is out
of action. Please take her up on this kind offer and, of course,
treat their room well!<br>
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2. The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, is
scheduled to pay a brief visit to the Department on Friday morning.
He will visit labs. on level 1 to open labs. working on Intelligent
Lighting - a collaborative venture involving Martin Dawson
(Institute of Photonics), Pete Skabara (Chemistry) and our
Semiconductor Spectroscopy Group - and to announce a major research
programme led by Martin Dawson. Please keep the level 1 entrance
area and corridors free from any disruption between about 10.30 and
12.30 on Friday. The Minister is also here to find out more about
TIC, Fraunhofer and other Strathclyde initiatives he heard about at
the THE University of the Year Awards and, it seems, to announce
another major success involving Strathclyde. Very good times for our
university.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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Professor Robert Martin,<br>
Head of Department,<br>
Department of Physics,<br>
University of Strathclyde, <br>
John Anderson Building, <br>
Glasgow, UK, <br>
G4 0NG<br>
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tel: 0141-5483132<br>
fax: 0141-5522891<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:r.w.martin@strath.ac.uk">r.w.martin@strath.ac.uk</a><br>
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The Department is a partner in SUPA, the Scottish Universities
Physics Alliance <br>
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered
in Scotland, number SC015263<br>
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