Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Attoscience, Nobel 2023, and Quantum Simulators

Prof Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Protonic Electrochemical Synapses for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Computing

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Merons, bimerons and skyrmions in α-Fe2O3: from cosmology to spintronics

Prof Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Mixing, stopping, coupling, lifting, and other keys to the second Monte Carlo revolution

Prof Werner Krauth, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting the Quantum Future

Prof Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting up superconductivity

Prof Eugene Demler, ETH Zürich.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Forces from fluctuations in and out of equilibrium (in QED and Active Matter)

Prof Mehran Kardar, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

New Avenues for Quantum Simulations In- and Out-of-equilibrium

Prof Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, LMU.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Mechanics and Many Body Games

Prof Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Spin dynamics and hydrodynamical regimes of quantum matter

Prof Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

The Electron-Phonon Problem Revisited

Prof Steve Kivelson, Stanford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Scanned Josephson Tunneling Microscopy: Visualizing Electron-Pair Fluids and Density Waves

Prof J.C. Séamus Davis, University of Oxford, University College Cork, Cornell University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

In Search for the Next Magic Stone

Prof Z X Shen, Stanford.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The physics of how humans build models of the world

Prof Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

To see a world in a grain of sand

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological pumping in new territory

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Tuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Monday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"

This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv

Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

Pippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv .

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Pippard lecture theatre and Zoom.

Monday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria

This lecture is a Livestream Event

Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory.

tinyurl.com/y7ajn97h.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature

Prof Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

’Seeing early cancer in a new light’

Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory.

https://tinyurl.com/y4og7frr.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos

Dr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied

Join the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra

Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'

Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

Prof Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Special purpose quantum computers in integrated photonics

Dr. Anthony Laing, University of Bristol.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Majorana edge modes in topological superconductors

Carlo Beenakker.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 31 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Vibronic coherence in light harvesting systems

Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:30-15:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

AMOP list

Exciton Superfluid and Ferromagnetic Superconductivity in Graphene

Prof Philip Kim, Harvard University .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 31 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Quantum Materials

Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Crystal and Magnetic Structures of a Family of Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnets

Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 26 April 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Simulating higher spatial dimensions with atoms and photons

Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum logic with trapped ions: precise, fast, networked

Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford.

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich.

Small lecture theatre* please note change of time and location.

Friday 01 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Playing with perovskites - tuning physics through chemical control

Dr. Helen Walker. Merlin Instrument Scientist, STFC · Rutherford Appleton Laboratory .

Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building.

Friday 18 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Topology, symmetry, and anomalies: investigating domain wall physics in quantum Hall nematic states

Associate Professor, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford .

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 30 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Helium Spin-Echo: A Flexible Tool for Studying Nanoscale Processes at Surfaces

Dr Andrew Jardine, University of Cambridge .

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 16 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Probing Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Energy Materials with Extreme Spatio-Temporal Resolution

Dr Akshay Rao, EPSRC Early Career Fellow, Winton Advanced Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 02 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Electrical contacts between three-dimensional metals and two-dimensional semiconductors

Prof. Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 19 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope

Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Thursday 04 October 2018, 15:30-16:30

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicist's spin on data science

Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Tunable Functional Magnetic Skyrmions at Room Temperature

Prof. Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 16 March 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Measuring interacting electrons in low dimensional systems: spin-charge separation and 'replicas & tbd

Prof. Chris Ford & Prof. Charles Smith SP Group, Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 09 March 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Giant response of weakly driven systems

Prof. Achim Rosch, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 16 February 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Gas Microscopes - From Textbook Experiments to New Frontiers

Dr. Christian Gross, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 02 February 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulation

Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel .

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Concepts and techniques in Quantum Matter research at the Cavendish

Dr. F. Malte Grosche, QM group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 24 November 2017, 14:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Introduction to topological phases

Dr. Benjamin Beri, Cavendish & DAMTP, Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 10 November 2017, 14:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Concepts and techniques in Magnetism

Dr. Adrian Ionescu, TFM group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department).

Friday 27 October 2017, 14:00-16:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Cold atoms vs solids: Differences and opportunities

Dr. Ulrich Schneider, AMOP group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

TCM Seminar room, Mott building.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-16:00

Cavendish Physical Society

No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition

Professor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)"

caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

Prof Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

Prof Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Visualizing Quantum Matter

J.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University; Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves

Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Epochs

Professor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.

Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here?

Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversion

Professor James Durrant .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system

Professor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics

Prof David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"

Professor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"

Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities

Professor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices

Dr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

New directions in liquid crystals

Professor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities

Professor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High magnetic fields as a tool for discovery

Dr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory

Malcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Higgs Vortices and Black Hole Hair

Professor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation

Professor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces

Prof Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Improving cancer survival through molecular imaging

Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Soft Matter in Motion

Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Special Cavendish Physical Society Lecture : Making Experimental Physics Bite: James Clerk Maxwell and the founding of the Cavendish Laboratory

Dr. Isobel Falconer , Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY

Dr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmic Reionization

Dr Chris Carilli, NRAO.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Prof Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms"

Prof Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested

Prof Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka Plasmonics

Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt Switch

Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells

Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Exoplanet Science, the way forward

Professor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six

On twitter @closefrank

Professor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson

Professor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility

Professor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Hewish Lectures

“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physics

Professor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”

Professor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"

Professor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”

Professor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENT

Jasper Kirkby, CERN.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?

Professor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions

Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Graphene: Materials in the Flatland

Sir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities

Professor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Do biological cells care about physics?

Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Polymer Solar Cells

Prof Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.

Prof Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid Applications

Professor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

Professor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imagined

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array

Prof Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics)

Prof Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between science and technology

Prof Sir Richard Friend, The Cavendish Labortory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

How English Libel Law Threatens Science

Simon Singh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Charge transport in molecular semiconductors – Bloch electron or hopping transport ?

Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Supersolidity

Prof. Tilman Esslinger, ETH, Zurich.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

The Hewish Lectures

Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity

Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM

Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Harnessing the Interactions of Ultrasound Waves and Acoustic Cavitation With Biological Tissue for Non-Invasive Therapy and Drug Delivery

Dr Constantin Coussios, Biomedical Ultrasonics & Biotherapy Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 May 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease

Prof Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope

This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics

Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes

Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes

Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole

Professor James Pinfold, University of Alberta.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power Grid

Professor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'

Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Synthetic structures and machines from DNA

Prof Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!

Professor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleships

Professor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Examples

Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Methodologies

Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : An Overview

Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Sir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview, Motivation and Status of the Project

Professor Peter Jenni, CERN.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams

Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter

Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.

Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Inaugural Lecture: "Blink, and you miss it"

Professor Jeremy Baumberg.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Lord Rayleigh's Legacy

Professor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

The Hewish Lectures

Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

Professor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3He

Professor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Professor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Quarks and their quirks

Professor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray Crystallography

Dr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously

Professor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons

Professor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics

Professor William Phillips.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 09 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Optics with laser-like atom waves

Professor William Phillips.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping

Refreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer

Professor William Phillips.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Planar Photonics meta-materials: spectral selectivity, "invisible metals", magnetic mirrors, chirality, asymmetric transmission and nano-focusing

Prof. Nikolay Zheludev, Southampton University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

SOME MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF FILMS AND BUBBLES DEMONSTRATED

Dr Cyril Isenberg, University of Kent.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid Surfaces

Prof Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?

Prof Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmology

Dr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detection

Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 May 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter

Professor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

"Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"

Professor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 01 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron Spectroscopy

Prof F Wilczek, MIT.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 10 February 2006, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and Axions

Prof F Wilczek, MIT.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 February 2006, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem

Prof F Wilczek, MIT.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 06 February 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

"The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"

Professor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 January 2006, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control

Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 November 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Scanning the cosmological horizon

Professor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 November 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons

Professor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 12 October 2005, 16:15-17:15

Scott Lectures

Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem

Prof F Wilczek, MIT.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 06 October 2005, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish Physical Society

Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Professor George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 May 2005, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996)

Professor Vladimir Kurt, P N Lebedev Physical Institute .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 May 2005, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum Information

Professor Ed Hinds, Imperial College.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2005, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with Light

Professor Josef Kas, University of Leipzig.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 May 2005, 14:00-15:00