Beth Biller https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/beth-biller bb@roe.ac.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-biller-916b0664/ https://stemettes.org/zine/profiles/meet-dr-beth-biller/?fbclid=IwAR3kU6-jP4llFUsAy6GIu_lhAZP4DNyk4gp3Ii9YTTt8TruC2zAc1G1CYAc Professor Biller is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, part of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests centre around direct imaging detection and characterization of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. She is particularly interested in statistical analysis of large-scale […]

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to become an astronaut? Mathematical thinking and reasoning will help you stand out from the crowd when tackling ‘out of this world’ problems, but how do we truly develop and implement this style of thinking throughout our everyday lives? Dr Bell took us on a journey through the […]

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Professor Katherine Blundell OBE When light is dispersed into its constituent colours, it can become possible to discern rich dynamical information about an evolving system in space, for example cosmic explosions, collisions or accelerations. This lecture explored how such dispersion can be designed to reveal the dynamics of distant worlds Professor Katherine Blundell OBE https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/blundell […]

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In December 2020 the Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back samples from the asteroid Ryugu for scientists to study on Earth. What exactly is an asteroid? How did Hayabusa2 get there? What can we learn from Ryugu? Science communicator at the Natural History Museum in London, Khalil Thirlaway, was in conversation with curator Helena Bates of the […]

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Professor Roberto Trotta Roberto Trotta is Visiting Gresham Professor of Cosmology and Professor of Astrostatistics at Imperial College, London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrostatistics Astrostatistics is a discipline which spans astrophysics, statistical analysis and data mining. It is used to process the vast amount of data produced by automated scanning of the cosmos, to characterize complex datasets, and to […]

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Dr Mark Lewney http://www.doctorlewney.com/ https://twitter.com/doctorlewney?lang=en Dr Lewney is known as the guitar physicist. One of his previous talks was called “Where physics and guitars collide” and the video link is below https://www.youtube.com/watch/fjKugarLN-s He won the first ever Fame Lab Competition and he does a lot of science and maths talks across the UK. Why aren’t […]

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Dr. Xin Ran Liu https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/xinran-liu Email: x.liu@ed.ac.uk https://twitter.com/xinranliu_1?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WmmFG_kbA https://stfc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/features/the-story-of-dark-matter/ Dr Liu started his talk with a video (link below) https://youtu.be/xcZjpAaZREo The video was produced by the dark matter UK collaboration and the screenshot, above, shows all the research groups involved. A summary of the video Everything is made up of tiny particles of matter. […]

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Dr Clara Barker Dr Clara Barker discussed her research and the challenges that physics and physicists face, and shared some of her work to push for change. https://edu.admin.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-clara-barker clara.barker@materials.ox.ac.uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barker https://twitter.com/ClaraMBarker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor http://users.ox.ac.uk/~engs1643/member_clara_barker.html Clara Michelle Barker is a British engineer and material scientist. In 2017 she received the Points of Light award from the UK Prime […]

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Dr Preeti Kaur preeti.kaur@stfc.ac.uk https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Resources-for-Schools.aspx?utm_source=ISIS&utm_medium=Homepage&utm_campaign=Resources%20for%20Schools Dr Kaur works at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and part of her talk involved a short tour of the facility ISIS ISIS 360 Tour (stfc.ac.uk) https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/OtherFiles/Interactive%20Tour%20of%20ISIS.zip https://vimeo.com/7813721 https://youtu.be/1mpOm6LIzH4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS_Neutron_and_Muon_Source The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source, established 1984 at the Rutherford Appleton […]

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Dr Kristian Harder https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristian-harder-09894563?originalSubdomain=uk https://www.ppd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Kristian-Harder.aspx kristian.harder@stfc.ac.uk https://twitter.com/harderkristian?lang=en https://particlen13.imascientist.org.uk/profile/kristianharder/ Kristian Harder is an expert in electronics infrastructure, developing firmware and software for system integration and testing. He is the work package co-manager of the CMS-UK Phase 2 upgrade common technology platform, and a member of the CMS-UK upgrade project office. He is a particle physicist at […]

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