Lecture 1: Maxwell, Kelvin and the Inverse Square Law of Electrostatics Dr Isobel Falconer Dr Falconer is a historian of mathematics and physics at St Andrews University. She is especially interested in the relations between maths and physics in the nineteenth century, and the interaction of both with the cultural context. https://isobelf.wordpress.com/about/ https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/maths/people/?mode=profile&group=staff&user_id=ijf3 My notes […]

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Lecture 7: Hawking’s cosmology Professor Thomas Hertog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hertog Thomas Hertog is a Belgian cosmologist at KU Leuven University and a key collaborator of Professor Stephen Hawking. https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00010845 Abstract Professor Hertog discussed the development of Hawking’s cosmology, starting from his big bang singularity theorems in the 1950s and ending with his efforts to get theoretical control […]

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Lecture 6: Gravitational waves and cosmology Dr Andrew Williamson https://twitter.com/cosmoblogy?lang=en-gb http://www.uva.nl/en/contact/staff/staff.html?search=Andrew+Williamson Dr Williamson received his PhD from Cardiff University working on gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, including a 4 month visit to the LIGO Livingston Observatory in Louisiana. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Gravitation […]

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Lecture 5: Dark Energy – Is it Einstein’s cosmological after all? Professor Ofer Lahav http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapola/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer_Lahav Abstract The talk reviewed the history of Dark Energy (tracing it back to Newton!) and it presented results from new surveys, including the “Dark Energy Survey”. Professor Lahav discussed if Dark Energy is just Einstein’s Cosmological Constant, and the […]

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Lecture 4: From Particles to Cosmology Professor Claudia Rham https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.de-rham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_de_Rham Claudia de Rham (29 March 1978) is a Swiss theoretical physicist working at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics. She is based at Imperial College London. She won the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2018 for revitalizing the theory of massive […]

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Lecture 3: The missing Galaxy problem Dr Olivia Keenan https://twitter.com/oliviakeenan1?lang=en http://www.iopblog.org/author/olivia-keenan/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-keenan-587b5b5b/?originalSubdomain=uk olivia.keenan@iop.org Dr Keenan completed her Astrophysics PhD at Cardiff University on the topic of extragalactic astronomy. She focused on dwarf galaxies in the context of the low surface brightness universe and also worked on the AGES project – using Arecibo radio telescope to […]

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Lecture 2: Cosmic Microwave Background Dr Erminia Calabrese (Credit: Stefania Pandolfi) https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/913793-calabrese-erminia Dr Calabrese is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Lecturer at the School of Physics and Astronomy of Cardiff University. She obtained her PhD in Rome at Sapienza University and then moved to the UK in 2011. She spent 4 years in Oxford […]

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Lecture 1: Newton’s Cosmology Professor Robert Iliffe Professor Iliffe is Professor of History of Science at Oxford, Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and a General Editor of the Newton Project. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-robert-iliffe Abstract Professor Iliffe’s talk was about the background to Newton’s researches into cosmology, including influences on […]

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How to Build the Biggest and Most Complex Discovery Machines Applications of Accelerators – APPEAL 9- 30th June 2018 Dr. Suzie Sheehy John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science University of Oxford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzie_Sheehy https://twitter.com/suziesheehy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/sheehy What are accelerators used for? A beam of particles is a very useful tool…” -Accelerators for Americas Future Report, pp. 4, […]

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Dr. Suzie Sheehy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzie_Sheehy https://twitter.com/suziesheehy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/sheehy Focusing on Gender because that is what Dr Sheehy knows most about… But Diversity is far broader than gender! Athena Swan: Oxford physics department holds a silver award (Data from 2014/2015). The department also holds the Institute of Physics Juno Champion Status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_SWAN http://www.iop.org/policy/diversity/initiatives/juno/index.html  The above figure shows the […]

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