How do you turn a quantum computer into a product?

Dr Leonie Mueck (Riverlane).

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 19:00-20:30

Quantum Computing

Prof Mike Payne (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge).

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 19:00-20:30

The Higgs boson as a portal to new physics

Dr Maria Ubiali (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 19:00-20:30

Inversion: Reverse Engineering the Earth

Dr James Cooper (CGG).

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 19:00-20:30

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

Professor Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland).

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 19:00-20:30

The curious case of the pulsating star - the discovery of pulsars

Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford University).

Online: CUPS Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 19:00-20:30

Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium

Prof Vedika Khemani (Stanford University).

Online: CUPS Zoom.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 19:00-20:30

Quantum Gravity, String Theory and the Structure of Space and Time

Prof. Elias Kiritsis, Université de Paris, Crete Center for Theoretical Physics.

Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 19:00-20:30

Quantum matter: emergent phenomena when electrons team up

Professor Stephen Blundell, Correlated Electrons Group, University of Oxford.

Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

How to measure the spin of a black hole

Prof. Christopher Reynolds, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn & https://youtu.be/MpfIqW0foJQ.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Making NanoMachines move

in collaboration with CU NanoSoc

Professor Jeremy Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge.

Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 19:30-20:30

Unconventional computing with liquid light

Note unusual time

Prof Natalia Berloff, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Quantum computation with superconducting qubits

Dr. Abhinav Kandala, IBM Corporation.

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and the Second Quantum Revolution

Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

Prof. Duncan Haldane, Princeton University.

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Finding Hidden Order with your Cell Phone

Prof. Paul Chaikin, New York University.

Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Quantum Field Theory (in a Nutshell)

Annual Maxwell Talk (in collaboration with the Archimedeans)

Prof. Anthony Zee, University of California, Santa Barbara.

https://www.youtube.com/camphysocUK.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Soft matter quasicrystals: when can they exist and when will we observe them?

Dr Priya Subramanian, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Online: https://timeout.srcf.net/oes22-ors-efn.

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle.

Dr Tina Potter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Future Missions to the Mysterious Ice Giant Planets: Uranus and Neptune

Dr. Adam Masters, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-20:30

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Cryptography

Professor Adrian Kent, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

(Nobel Laureate Lecture - CUAS & CUPS Joint Talk): The Exoplanet Revolution

Prof. Didier Queloz.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 20:00-21:00

New Particles in Old Materials - Hunting Majorana Fermions in Quantum Spin Liquids

Dr. Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Understanding and exploiting self-assembly in liquid crystals on multiple length scales

Dr Mamatha Nagaraj, University of Leeds Department of Physics.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 19:30-20:30

Identifying Order in space and time : Glassy materials and hidden structure

Dr Robert Jack, DAMTP and Dept of Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

A fusion power plant — why not

Dr. Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Swiss Plasma Center.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 19:30-20:30

Decoding the mysteries of quantum physics

Professor Jiannis K. Pachos, University of Leeds.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 19:30-20:30

Building with DNA: From understanding to redesign of molecular machines

Professor Ulrich F Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

Is equilibrium overrated? Processing of optical materials at finite time scales

Prof. Ursula J. Gibson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

You Can Achieve Anything - with a Laser

There will be hands-on activities involving Laser Beam equipment.

Dr Ray Davies, Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

The Force Awakens

Professor Ben Allanach, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 19:30-20:30

The Modern Bootstrap

Annual Maxwell Talk (Collaboration with Archimedeans) - Free Entry

Professor J Cardy FRS, University of California, Berkeley.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Understanding the Iceland mantle plume: Imaging deep Earth processes with seismic waves

Since this is our first talk, the talk is free admission!

Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, Bullard Laboratories University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 19:30-20:30

Relativistic fluid flows

Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

Glucose monitoring for diabetes

Dr Hannah Hare, TTP plc.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 20:00-21:00

The Classification Game: Topological Insulators and Other Beasts

Professor Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Ultracold Atomic Gases: The Coldest Stuff in the Universe

Professor Zoran Hadzibabic, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

The Butterfly Effect: what does it really signify?

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME

Professor Tim Palmer, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 19:30-20:30

Playing ping-pong with single electrons

Professor Chris Ford, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 20:00-21:00

Energy, entropy and the physics of deep learning

Dr Alpha Lee, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 20:00-21:00

The evolution of Bell's thinking about the Bell theorem in quantum mechanics

Professor Harvey Brown, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 20:00-21:00

Harnessing the quantum world — can lab experiments become practical technologies?

Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

The scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking

Professor David Tong, DAMTP.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

From deep learning to the dark universe

Professor Ofer Lahav, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

From brain descriptions to brain explanations

Professor Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Randomness in classical and quantum dynamics

Professor Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

‘Watching’ atoms move on atomic length and time scales with helium spin echo

Dr John Ellis, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

The long road to the Higgs boson

Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

Unsolved mysteries of fundamental physics

Professor John Baez, University of California, Riverside.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 20:00-21:00

The Intimate Relation between Mechanics and Geometry

Professor Mark Warner (Theory of Condensed Matter Group).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

What quantum computers tell us about physics (even if no one ever builds one!)

Dr Toby Cubitt (Intelligent Systems Group, UCL).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Volcanoes and Explosions

Professor Andy Woods (BP Institute, Department of Earth Sciences).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Emergence in Physics: Life, the Universe and the Nature of Reality

Professor Stephen Blundell (Correlated Electrons Group, University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Interconversion of Light and Electricity in Molecular Semiconductors

Professor Sir Richard Friend (Cavendish Professor of Physics).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Tying Knots in Wavefunctions

Professor Mark Dennis (Theoretical Physics Group, University of Bristol).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

A Turbulent World (...and what happens if you spin it)

Professor Alexander Schekochihin (Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics, University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Polariton Graph Optimisers

Professor Natalia Berloff (DAMTP, Quantum Fluids Group).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Geocentric or Heliocentric models of the Cosmos? It’s the Physics, stupid.

Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

A Mechanical Basis of Morphogenesis

Dr John Biggins, University of Cambridge (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Petrophysics

Mr. Michael Taplin, BP.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

Nature's Optics and our Understanding of Light

Professor Sir Michael Berry, Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus), University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

What is an Elementary Particle?

Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Cavendish Laboratory (Theory of Condensed Matter).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of the Everyday

Professor Dame Athene Donald, Churchill College (Biological and Soft Systems).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 20:00-21:00

The Future of Particle Physics

Note unusual time

Professor Ian Shipsey, Univeristy of Oxford (ATLAS Oxford Group, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 19:30-20:30

The Quest of Modelling Complex Systems

Professor Kim Christensen, Imperial College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

The Novel Worldview Suggested by Quantum Gravity

Maxwell Lecture - Free entry

Professor Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Theory and simulation of materials: from atoms to applications

Dr Arash Mostofi (Imperial College London).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 20:00-21:00

Einstein’s Brane

Prof Paul Townsend (DAMTP Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 20:00-21:00

Upside down and inside out: the biomechanics of cell sheet folding

Prof Ray Goldstein (DAMTP Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 20:00-21:00

Experiments and evidence: can non-profits learn from science?

Simon Singh & Caroline Fiennes.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 08 February 2016, 19:30-20:30

The Higgs boson and beyond

Prof John Ellis (King's College London).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 20:00-21:00

Half-Life: A mysterious tale of neutrinos and spies

Prof Frank Close (University of Oxford).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 20:00-21:00

Fusion Energy: the outstanding physics problems

Prof Steven Cowley (Imperial College London).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Computing and Teleportation

Prof Richard Jozsa (DAMTP University of Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 20:00-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Prof Roland Smith (Imperial College).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

Positively disruptive. Nanotechnology and the future of biology and medicine (from a physicist perspective)

Dr Sonia Antoranz Contera (OMS Institute of Nanoscience for Medicine).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Topological Matter and Why You Should be Interested

Prof Steve Simon (Oxford University).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

News from the Large Hadron Collider

Professor Andy Parker (University of Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 20:00-21:00

Ghost Imaging

Prof Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Physics of Low Dimensional Systems

Sir Michael Pepper (UCL).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

Beyond the Big Bang

Joao Magueijo (Imperial College).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

The History of Quantum Chromodynamics

Harald Fritzsch (LMU Munich).

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 20:00-21:00

Topological insulators: an experimentalist's perspective

Postponed due to speaker illness - until start of Easter term

Professor Thorsten Hesjedal (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 20:00-21:00

Silicon in the 21st century

Professor Gabriel Aeppli (UCL).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 20:00-21:00

Making light from the dark universe

Dr Joseph Conlon (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Quantum cryptography: the ultimate physical limits of privacy

Professor Artur Ekert (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Philip Campbell (editor-in-chief, Nature).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Gaia satellite / 3D map of the galaxy

Professor Gerry Gilmore (IoA, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 20:00-21:00

Cosmology/inflation talk (title TBC)

Dr Daniel Baumann (DAMTP, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 20:00-21:00

From gas to stars in galaxies

Dr Adrianne Slyz (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 20:00-21:00

The quest for gravitational waves: a challenge lasting a century

Professor Federico Ferrini (University of Pisa).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 20:00-21:00

Everything from nothing

Change of speaker; Prof Bower will now be giving a talk.

Professor Richard Bower (University of Durham).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 20:00-21:00

Physics, nanotechnology and the future of medicine and biology

Dr Sonia Antoranz Contera (University of Oxford).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 20:00-21:00

The stopped-light laser: an optical black hole on the nanoscale

Professor Ortwin Hess (Imperial College).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 20:00-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 20:00-21:00

Capturing light on the nanoscale

Professor Sir John Pendry (Imperial College).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 20:00-21:00

Nanomagnetism: from green computing to cancer therapy

Professor Russell Cowburn (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

How quantum physics democratized music

Professor Sir Michael Berry (University of Bristol).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

Charmed chains, missing energy, mechanics, and the first telecommunications revolution

Professor Mark Warner (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

Dr Olaya-Castro - Quantum Physics and Biology

Dr Olaya-Castro, UCL.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 10 March 2014, 20:00-21:00

Prof. Tim Palmer - Climate Change in a Chaotic World. How certain can we be?

Prof. Tim Palmer, Oxford.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 18:00-19:00

Dr Meera Parrish - Simulating quantum systems with quantum systems

Dr Meera Parrish, UCL.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 24 February 2014, 20:00-21:00

Prof. Jeremy Chittenden - Inertial Confinement Fusion

Prof. Jeremy Chittenden, Imperial College, London.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 17 February 2014, 20:00-21:00

Dr Jonathan Gair - Gravitational wave astronomy - a new window on the Universe

Dr Jonathan Gair, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 10 February 2014, 20:00-21:00

Dr Alex Lewalle - Optical tweezers: a toolbox for biophysics

Dr Alex Lewalle, Kings College, London.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 27 January 2014, 20:00-21:00

Dr Nick Achilleos - The Cassini Mission

Dr Nick Achilleos, UCL.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Monday 20 January 2014, 20:00-21:00

Photonics in Nature

Dr Silvia Vignolini, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 02 December 2013, 20:00-21:00

Prof. George Efstathiou – The Birth of the Universe

Prof. George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 25 November 2013, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Bits and their relation to Nanotechnology

Prof. Charles Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 11 November 2013, 20:00-21:00

Beyond Nano: Manipulating Matter at the Single Bond Limit

Prof. Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham .

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 04 November 2013, 20:00-21:00

Murphy's Law and the Large Hadron Collider

Dr Chris Lester, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 28 October 2013, 20:00-21:00

Is the Electron Round and are the Constants Constant?

Prof. Ed Hinds, Imperial College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 21 October 2013, 20:00-21:00

The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets

This talk is FREE FOR EVERYONE

Dr Simon Singh.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 October 2013, 20:00-21:00

From Mars to the Multiverse

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

Prof. Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, University of Cambridge .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

To Higgs or not to Higgs?

Prof John Ellis, King's College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 04 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Physics and Medical Imaging

Dr Richard Ansorge, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 25 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella

Prof. Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 11 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

The Genius of Michael Faraday

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

Prof. Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Physics in the Oil and Gas Industry

Free for all!

Dr Mark Foster, BP.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 28 January 2013, 20:00-21:00

Black Holes, Holograms and Hard Problems

Free for all!

Prof. David Tong, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 21 January 2013, 20:00-21:00

An Introduction to Econophysics

Last talk of term. Please note this talk is on Monday.

Dr Alex Baldon, University of Manchester.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 26 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

The Pointless Universe

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Michael Green, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 19 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

Physics in the Science of Social Systems

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Colour Vision

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 29 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Pulsars and Extreme Physics

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 22 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Metallic Glasses: Order in Disorder

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Lindsay Greer, University of Cambridge .

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 15 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

A century of the proton: from Rutherford to Higgs

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

Prof. James Stirling, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Chaos in Action

Prof. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Size Matters

Dr Mark Miodownik, King's College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

High Efficiency Photovoltaics: How can we approach the 87% thermodynamic limit?

Dr N.J. (Ned) Ekins-Daukes, Imperial College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Physics in Context: Challenges in Providing the World's Energy

Dr Ellen D Williams, BP Chief Scientist.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 20:00-21:00

Photonic quantum information science and technologies

Prof. Jeremy O'Brien, Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Neutrinos - ghost particles of the cosmos

Prof. Frank Close, University of Oxford.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Alzheimer's disease and yoghurt - a physicist's exploration of proteins

Prof. Dame Athene Donald, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Electrons in a spin: the physics of gadgets

Dr Gareth Conduit, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 20:00-21:00

100 years of superconductivity

Prof. Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 20:00-21:00

Explaining Irrationality – a Biological Perspective

Prof Ray Dolan, UCL.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 20:00-21:00

Does a Physics Degree have any Relevance to a Career in the Technology Industries?

Colin Tregenza Dancer, Metaswitch Networks.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 15:00-16:00

Quantum contextuality: inequalities and tests

Prof Andreas Winter, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 20:00-21:00

On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: the forgotten contribution of the medieval physicists

Prof Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 20:00-21:00

Making and Using Ultra-High Power and Ultra-Short Pulse Lasers

Prof Roland Smith, Imperial College.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of Wind Turbine Placement

Tim French, Technical Manager, RES Group.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors

Professor Hans Kraus, University of Oxford.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Einstein's Universe

Professor Brian Foster and Jack Liebeck.

West Road Concert Hall, West Road.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 20:00-21:30

On High Power Laser Physics

Professor Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Evolution of Biological Complexity

Raymond E. Goldstein (University of Cambridge).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Self-assembling colloids under the guidance of DNA

Erika Eiser (University of Cambridge).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

How to be a Quantum Realist

Dr. Andreas Doering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Probing the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Dr. Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of Natural Gas reservoirs: How physical principles allow us to find, access and produce natural gas

Dr. Glyn Edwards, BP Exploration.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

New Concepts in Nanoplasmonics

Professor Stefan Maier, Imperial College.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Third Generation Machine Intelligence

Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Laboratory, Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

The Physics Challenges of Fusion Power

Professor Steve Cowley, Director of the JET Fusion lab.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

The return of pilot waves, or, why Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Born, Schrödinger, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Wheeler and Einstein were all wrong about quantum mechanics

Dr. Mike Towler ( TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Experimental Particle Physics, CERN, and the Large Hadron Collider

Dr Chris Lester, Cambridge University.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

"Why study insulators?"

Prof J F Scott, Earth Sciences Department.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Rock guitar in 11 dimensions

Dr Mark Lewney.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

All things bright and beautiful: The science of biological colour

Prof Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 20:00-21:00

Particles and the Universe

Prof. Peter Kalmus, Queen Mary University of London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Carbon-based semiconductors - new science, new engineering and new applications

Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

What scientists and engineers need to know about patents and related things

Dr. Rhian Granleese, Marks & Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

Black holes at the Large Hadron Collider?

Prof. Bryan Webber.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 20:00-21:00

A Critical Point for Science?

Professor Brian Josephson, University of Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of Volcanic Eruptions

Professor Herbert Huppert.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 20:00-21:00

The Trouble With Physics

Lee Smolin.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 18:00-19:00

The Young Universe

Dr Mike Hobson.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 20:00-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Gilmore.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Party-cle Physics: The CERN Summer School

Tom Whyntie, Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Chaos: Kicking Atoms About

Mischa Stocklin, UCL.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 20:00-21:00