Academic Year 2026-2027
All talks are on Tuesdays at 6:30pm in Chipperfield Lecture Theatre on the University of Kent campus in Canterbury unless otherwise noted.
The following programme is a first draft – it is possible there will be a small amount of rearranging of dates over the next few weeks. It should be confirmed by the middle of September – watch this space!
2026 – Autumn term
13th October 2026
Ian Ford (University College London)
Maxwell’s Demon and the second law of thermodynamics: breaker or faker?
10th November 2026
Chao Wang (University of Kent)
Title – TBA
8th December 2026
Daniel Doherty – University of Surrey
Nuclear Physics – From Rutherford to Exploding Stars
2027 – Winter term
12th January 2027
Maria Alfredsson (University of Kent)
Batteries! (working title)
9th February 2027
Nicola Marzari (University of Cambridge)
Materials discovery in the age of AI
9th March 2027
Pauline Gagnon (retired from CERN)
From Collaboration to Oblivion: The Tragedy of Mileva Marić Einstein
2027 – Spring term
13th April 2027
Nigel Mason (University of Kent)
Astrobiology (working title)
11th May 2027
Innes Clatworthy (Natural History Museum)
Electron Microscopy applied to Natural History (Working title)
8th June 2027
Speaker – TBA
Title – TBA