Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - Past, Present and Future
Professor Mark Newton describes some of the key events in the discovery and development of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or electron spin resonance (ESR)...
View ArticleThe Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution
Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom delivers the 18th Hintze Lecture. How do galaxies get their gas and how do they lose it? Theories of galaxy formation predict that the growth of galaxies is regulated by...
View ArticleIs Dark Matter Made of Black Holes
The 2019 Halley lecture n February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the discovery of the merger of two black holes, each of which weighed around 30 times...
View ArticleCherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark...
What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on...
View ArticleFinding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe
Bill Diamond, President & CEO The SETI Institute gives an an update on the search for life in the Universe. Hosted by Ian Shipsey, Head of Physics.
View ArticleGravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy
Professor Barry C Barish gives a talk on the quest for the detection of gravitational waves. The quest for gravitational waves, following their prediction by Einstein in 1916 to their detection 100...
View ArticleThe Many Universes of Quantum Materials
Professor Stephen Blundell explores the many universes of quantum materials for the 2019 Quantum Materials Public Lecture. Physicists try to find the laws that govern the Universe, discover new...
View ArticleThe First Image of a Black Hole
Professor Heino Falcke of Radboud University, Nijmegen delivers the 19th Hintze Lecture - reviewing the latest results of the Event Horizon Telescope, its scientific implications and future expansions...
View ArticleIceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole
Particle Physics Christmas Lecture, hosted by Prof. Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics and senior members of the department with guest speaker, Professor Francis Halzen. Professor Francis...
View ArticleOptical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Single Plasmonic...
Physics Colloquium 19th February 2016 delivered by Professor Michel Orrit Optical signals provide unique insights into the dynamics of nano-objects and their surroundings. I shall present some of our...
View ArticleEngineering Defects in Diamond
Physics Colloquium 26th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newton Defects in diamond have great potential for use as quantum sensors and qubits1. Full exploitation of their optical and spin...
View ArticleThe Unity of the Universe
The Final Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor David Deutsch Dennis Sciama's 1959 book The Unity of the Universe was ostensibly about the Steady State theory, a...
View ArticleECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping
Physics Colloquium 6th May 2016 delivered by Professor William Dorland The Liouville equation describing a collection of charged particles is time-reversible. In the weakly coupled limit, one can...
View ArticleUnveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies (Slides)
The 2016 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt Understanding the birth of stars is one of grand challenges of 21st century astrophysics, with impacts extending from the...
View ArticleUnveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies
The 2016 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt Understanding the birth of stars is one of grand challenges of 21st century astrophysics, with impacts extending from the...
View ArticleBionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience
Physics Colloquium 20th May 2016 delivered by Ian Shipsey Cochlear implants are the first device to successfully restore neural function. They have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in...
View ArticleThe Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor Raymond T Pierrehumbert. Atmospheres are dynamic entities, formed from the volatile substances that accrete when a...
View ArticleQuantum Sensors sans Frontier
Physics Colloquium 10th June 2016 delivered by Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay Tremendous advances have been made in the last two decades in precision ‘Quantum’ technologies and techniques in multiple...
View ArticleThe explosion mechanism of massive stars
Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo The supernova explosion of massive stars is primarily powered by the gravitational contraction of their core into a neutron...
View ArticleAtmospheric Circulation and Climate Change
Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd Pretty much all that is known with any confidence about climate change concerns its energetic and thermodynamic...
View ArticleVisualizing Quantum Matter
Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis Everything around us, everything each of us has ever experienced, and virtually everything underpinning our technological society...
View ArticleSearching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves
Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez On September 14 2015, the two LIGO gravitational wave detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana registered...
View ArticleOur Simple but Strange Universe
The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel Observations of the microwave background, the left-over heat from the big bang, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and the...
View ArticleExotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years
Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner The early 1960s witnessed a wealth of elementary particles described in terms of simple combinations of a few more elementary...
View ArticleAstronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma...
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder The gamma-ray band of the electromagnetic spectrum probes some of the most extreme environments in the Universe. Photons of these...
View ArticleThe Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture
Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture. In the past five years particle physicists have made major advances in understanding the nature of our universe –...
View ArticleThe Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion
Panel discussion with Prof John Womersley (STFC), Prof John Wheater (Department of Physics), Prof Ian Shipsey (Particle Physics), Prof Dave Wark (Particle Physics), Prof Daniella Bortoletto (Physics)...
View ArticleFrom Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope
Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich The behaviour of the early universe just after the Big Bang is one of the most intriguing basic questions in all of...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large...
Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has just completed another very successful year of data-taking, exceeding many of its...
View ArticleThe applied side of Bell nonlocality
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani Since its formulation in 1964, Bell's theorem has been classified under "foundations of physics". Ekert's 1991 attempt to...
View ArticleLearning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK For the English polymath,...
View ArticleSpatio-temporal Optical Vortices
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA When an optical pulse propagating through a nonlinear medium exceeds a certain threshold power,...
View ArticleCuriosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, touched down on the surface of Mars on...
View ArticleStarquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven Thanks to the recent space missions CoRoT and Kepler, a new era of stellar...
View ArticlePulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell Pulsars, or pulsating radio stars, were discovered accidentally 50 years ago. Dame Professor Bell Burnell will give a...
View ArticleGhost Imaging with Quantum Light
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow Ghost imaging and ghost diffraction were first demonstrated by Shih and co-workers using photon pairs...
View ArticleObservation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of...
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration The recent observations of gravitational waves from the merger of binary...
View ArticleCassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics.
View ArticleSuperconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive
A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superconductors for levitating trains. When something...
View ArticleQuantum physics and the nature of computing
How can we test a quantum computer? An exploration of some of the theoretical puzzles of this field and how we can investigate them with experimental physics. What is the relationship between quantum...
View ArticleSuperconductors: Miracle Materials
An introduction to the fascinating world of superconductors and the many surprising phenomena they exhibit, from zero resistance to quantum levitation. Superconductors are metals with remarkable and...
View ArticleThe State of the Universe
Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present,...
View ArticleALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies
The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University. The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is the largest, most complex...
View ArticleThe Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds
The 16th Hintze lecture, 25th April 2018 delivered by Professor René Doyon, Director, Mont-Mégantic Observatory & Institute for Research on Exoplanets, University of Montreal, Canada It is now well...
View ArticleHow do we find planets around other stars?
The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University In the last 20 years, the astronomical community has found...
View ArticleThe Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time
Dr James Green, current Chief Scientist of NASA gives a talk on the how life may be distributed on Earth and in the Solar System with consideration of the age of our sun. This talk was a joint lecture...
View ArticleThe Quantum and the Cosmos
The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago. In daily life we do not experience...
View ArticleNuclear Physics and the development of the bomb
Explore the history of atomic bomb development with Dr. Georg Viehhauser, Particle Physics Research Lecturer at St John's College, Oxford.
View ArticleOxford Physics and the ‘remote and speculative project’
A lecture by Prof Stephen Blundell, Professor of Physics – Condensed Matter - (Department of Physics and Mansfield College).
View ArticleWas there a strategic alternative to the atomic bombing of 1945?
Delve into history with Dr Rob Johnson, Director of The Changing Character of War Centre at Oxford, as he explores a pivotal question.
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