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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear CAPT PhD students,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You should all have received the message below from Ella/Rik Hill. It would be good if CAPT students participated in reasonable numbers – it is a good think to keep in touch with students from other research areas in Physics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alfonso<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#009BBD;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#131B57;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor of Astronomy</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#131B57;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Physics and Astronomy<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#131B57;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+44 (0) 115 95 16230<b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#131B57;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">| </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:alfonso.aragon@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">alfonso.aragon@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:physics-teaching@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">physics-teaching@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Ella
Batchelor (staff) <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 January 2026 08:31<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard Hill (staff) <<a href="mailto:richard.hill@nottingham.ac.uk">richard.hill@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: tea in postgraduate common room Monday 26th 10:45<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear postgraduate researchers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">tl;dr : Please come for a cup of tea (coffee/whatever) on Monday 26th January at 10:45, in the postgraduate common room, C10, main building. The more the better, from all research groups (<i>including</i> those in SPMIC and CAPT!).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You may or may not know about the tradition of postgrads meeting for a cup of tea (or coffee or juice!) in the postgraduate common room every morning (10:45-11:15) and afternoon (3:45-4:15).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the past (cue Dvorak's New World Symphony in the Hovis advert...) a large number of postgraduates used to get together for a drink at these times. It was a great way to meet up and chat with fellow postgrads from all over the School,
from the various different research groups, and a natural place to organise social or sporting events. As well as adding to the sense of community, it also spawned some neat research ideas spanning different groups (and was a place to get the low down on the
bits of kit you needed but never thought existed.) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The tradition never recovered after covid unfortunately (although I know many of you continue to use the space for lunch).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris Morley is still there most days though, valiantly continuing to serve tea and coffee, morning and afternoon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know that many of you have expressed a desire for more opportunities to meet and talk with other postgraduates on a social level, both within and outside your research group.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a proposition for you: in an attempt to get a critical mass of people together to restart the 'tea club' (for want of a better phrase), I would like to invite you to come along to the postgraduate common room (C10, main building)
on Monday 26th January at 10:45. The more people who come the better. 40p for a cup of tea, bring your own mug! (If you don’t have cash, Chris operates an informal tab.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously, my hope is that many of you will continue to drop into the PG common room to 'go to tea' regularly after that. (I'll put out another call in a few weeks for the benefit of those not able to make it on Monday 26th.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Richard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(PG director/tutor)<o:p></o:p></p>
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