Optics for Fusion

by Institute of Physics: Oxford Centre Welcome to the crazy world of fusion optics… About this Event IOP Oxford Public Lecture: Optics for Fusion by Dr Alexandru Boboc from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Recorded on 22nd July 2020 This event was hosted as a Public Lecture by the Department of Physics at the […]

On gravity

A brief tour on a weighty subject Anthony Zee University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA https://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/anthony-zee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Zee About the speaker Anthony Zee (b. 1945) is a physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. After graduating from Princeton, […]

What we still don’t know about black holes

Last year the first image of a black hole made headline news around the world. In this online lecture, leading astronomer Chris Impey explained why black holes occupy a special place in modern science and in the public mind. He revealed why the idea of an object with gravity so strong that even light can’t […]

Scattering atoms, electrons and perceptions

Talk by Dr Clara Barker Monday 20 July 2020 https://twitter.com/ClaraMBarker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barker http://users.ox.ac.uk/~engs1643/member_clara_barker.html https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lgbt-science_uk_5a8ef065e4b0746ba2acf7e5?guccounter=1 In this talk, Dr Barker provided an introduction to superconductors, their properties and main uses. She also discussed how her group produce thin film superconductors in the Centre for Applied Superconductivity as Oxford University, using pulsed laser deposition and magnetron sputtering. She […]

Why hasn’t the LHC found anything new

Tara Shears is professor of physics at the University of Liverpool and a researcher at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European centre for particle physics. Having started her career in Switzerland, Tara was subsequently awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship with the University of Liverpool in 2000. She joined the LHC-B experiment at […]

What happened at the big bang?

9th June 2020 About the host Dr. Valerie Jamieson is creative director of New Scientist Events and hosts a programme of evening lectures, masterclasses and New Scientist Live. Previously she ran the New Scientist features desk and specialised in writing and editing features about the latest ideas in physics, astronomy and mathematics. She has a […]

Covid-19 and me

If I am honest the infamous virus has had very little effect on me. I don’t have any relatives who are likely to be affected (my beloved mum passed away last year). I don’t have any underlying health conditions and my life has been basically what it has always been. The only minor inconveniences have […]

REMS ‘AT HOME’: METEOROLOGY

‘And now, the weather’ Mr Peter Gibbs, Freelance Broadcaster, UK Peter Gibbs is a former BBC Weather Presenter and enthusiastic amateur gardener with more than 30 years’ experience as a professional Met Office forecaster. He chairs BBC Radio 4’s ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’ and is a regular reporter on the Radio 4 environment series ‘Costing the […]

REMS ‘AT HOME’: METEOROLOGY

Meteorological observations Mr David Richardson, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK David Richardson is Head of the Evaluation Section at ECMWF. He has over 30 years’ experience in weather forecasting research and operations, including use and monitoring of the global observing system, development of numerical weather prediction models, ensemble forecasting, products and tools for […]

REMS ‘AT HOME’: METEOROLOGY

Atmospheric dynamics Professor Joanna Haigh, Imperial College London, UK Before her retirement in 2019 she was Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. She is a former head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. She is also a Fellow […]