Dr. Jessica Barnes, University of Arizona 8th December 2020 Lunar samples are a touchstone to understanding how our nearest neighbour formed and evolved. Advancements in laboratory instrumentation and techniques are providing new and more precise data on lunar materials that are challenging the Apollo-era paradigm of a ‘bone-dry Moon’. In preparation for future lunar missions […]

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Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Department of Physics, University of Oxford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (/bɜːrˈnɛl/; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating compact star (usually […]

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Professor Bill Murray https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/academic/billmurray/ bill.murray@stfc.ac.uk Professor Murray is a joint academic with Warwick University. He was the ATLAS Higgs Convener in the run-up to Higgs discovery 2012 and then Physics Coordinator. More recently he has coordinated the ATLAS Tracking in Dense Environments group and is currently Higgs and Diboson Searches Convener. He also engages with […]

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Professor Katherine Blundell OBE https://youtu.be/6dC2Oei8374 Accounts of occasional celestial spectacular events in past centuries have provided crucial information for modern-day astrophysicists. One such example is the so-called Great Eruption of Eta Carinae which was for a time in the mid-19th century the third brightest object in the night sky. Interpretation of the spectacular structure of […]

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Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Department of Physics, University of Oxford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP (born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating compact star (usually neutron […]

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https://www.boulby.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx https://twitter.com/boulbylab?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/BoulbyUndergroundLaboratory/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FfOTKcOTP2CWGsDLHc6Lw Boulby Underground Laboratory is the UK’s deep underground science facility located 1.1km below ground in Boulby mine, a working potash, polyhalite and salt mine in the North East of England. Boulby is a special place for science, enabling a wide range of studies requiring access to the geologically interesti​ng and ultra-low […]

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Professor Aaron Celestian Adjunct Asosciate Professor (Teaching) of Earth Sciences Contact Information E-mail: acelesti@usc.edu https://aaron-celestian.medium.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaroncelestian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8qd5wVQvbs https://sites.google.com/nhm.org/aaron-celestian/home NHMLA Minerals Sciences (@nhmla_gems) • Instagram photos and videos (19) Aaron Celestian (@aaroncelestian) / Twitter (13) NHMLA_GEMS – YouTube Professor Celestian researches how minerals interact with their environments and with living things, and how those minerals can […]

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Australian author, radio and TV presenter Dr Karl Kruszelnicki came back to discuss some very strange science facts. In this talk, we discovered how Big Fossil Fuel successfully did a cover-up on Global Warming, how we’ve been making coffee the wrong way for fourteen centuries and the animal that grows a new anus every time […]

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Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Email: ss683@cam.ac.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/sakthys?originalSubdomain=uk https://twitter.com/sakthys?lang=en Biography Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran studied Engineering at the University of Cambridge (MA, MEng). She then lived and worked internationally in design, construction and R&D roles within industry and international development, becoming a Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng, MICE). Her roles in industry ranged […]

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Dr. Andrew Jardine Department of Physics, University of Cambridge https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/jardinea apj24@cam.ac.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-jardine-b849a110/?originalSubdomain=uk Biography: Dr Andrew Jardine is a University Lecturer in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He gained his MSci degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham in 1998 and […]

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