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APPEAL-9:

How to Build the Biggest and Most Complex Discovery Machines Technical support to build accelerators and detectors What engineering needs to be done??? The ring is a vacuum chamber. Centripetal force keeps the charged particle travelling around the ring. A magnetic field B is the source of centripetal force and makes the particles go around […]

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APPEAL-9:

How to Build the Biggest and Most Complex Discovery Machines Lecture 1: Introduction to Particle Accelerators Professor Emmanuel Tsesmelis CERN & University of Oxford Introduction Accelerators and beams are tools of discovery. They include light sources, neutron sources, medical accelerators, ion implanters, industrial accelerators and colliders. They are involved in the biological sciences, medicine, education, […]

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APPEAL-9: How to Build the Biggest and Most Complex Discovery Machines

APPEAL 9 – Year of Engineering 2018 How to Build the Biggest and Most Complex Discovery Machines With the designation of 2018 as the Year of Engineering, it is a great time to discuss with A-level pupils the connections between engineering, particle physics and particle accelerators. Particle accelerators present engineers with a variety of challenges […]

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From Space to Spacetime

Saturday 9th June 2018 10.30 am – 5.00 pm St Cross College, University of Oxford – Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics Since antiquity there has been a fascination with the notions of space and time with Aristotle’s philosophy remaining dominant until the advent of the heliocentric Copernican system of the Solar System marked […]

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Rugby 2018

Every year Rugby School hosts a day for physics teachers, which includes lectures and workshops. http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/support/rugby-meeting/page_70979.html 3D Printing in Education Marcin Poblocki, Research Technician at University of Liverpool 3D printing was developed by Charles Hull in 1984 https://uk.3dsystems.com/our-story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hull Chuck Hull (Charles W. Hull; born May 12, 1939) is the co-founder, executive vice president and […]

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Rugby 2018

Every year Rugby School hosts a day for physics teachers, which includes lectures and workshops. http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/support/rugby-meeting/page_70979.html Robotic Exploration of the Solar System Prof. Emma Bunce, University of Leicester https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/emmabunce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Bunce On Thursday 7th of June I was lucky enough to attend this lecture. The following are my notes (and any mistakes are mine). I have […]

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Neutrons and Lollipops: What do they have in common? Dr Silvia Capelli ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science Campus, Didcot, UK Abstract: Crystals can be found anywhere around us: from sugar and salt on our dining tables, to snowflakes and gemstones in nature, up in roofs in solar panels or in […]

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The physics of Ballet

During February (2017) I was lucky enough to attend a lecture/demonstration jointly hosted by the Institute of Physics and the Royal Ballet held at the Royal Opera House about the link between physics and ballet. The presenters were: Dr James Shippen, who is a mechanical engineer at Coventry University, specialises in applying engineering theory to […]

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