Academic Year 2024-2025
24th September 2024
Jorge Quintanilla (University of Kent)
Artificial Intelligence: are Scientists’ Jobs safe?
12th November 2024
Matthias van Ginneken (University of Kent)
Cosmic Messengers: A History of Meteoritics
3rd December 2024 – Christmas Lecture
Sarah Harris (University of Sheffield)
Why Supercomputing is like Christmas
21st January 2025
Christopher Wiley (University of Surrey)
Music and Space
Blog post
18th February 2025
Nabil Iqbal (University of Durham)
The holographic principle: from black holes to the edge of spacetime
Blog post
18th March 2025
Richard Blythe (University of Edinburgh)
The physics behind our irreversible reality
Blog post
6th May 2025
Danielle Harper (University of Cambridge)
How sunglasses can help guide surgery
Blog post
3rd June 2025
Mark Burchell (Emeritus, University of Kent)
Exploring the Solar System via Hypervelocity Impacts
Blog post
Academic Year 2023-2024
3rd October 2023
Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz (University of Kent)
Cosmic Dust
7th November 2023
Dr Rachel Edwards (University of Warwick)
Seeing sound, and other ways to keep safe
5th December 2023
Dr Nick Johnson (Riverlane)
What is quantum computing?
12th December 2023 – Bonus Christmas Lecture!
Prof. Michael Smith (University of Kent)
The Great Christmas Star Mystery
23rd January 2024
Dr Jessica Wade (Imperial College London)
Chiral molecular materials and changing the world
20th February 2024
Prof. Justin Read (University of Surrey)
How to heat up Dark Matter
19th March 2024
Prof. Emeritus Paul Strange (University of Kent)
Sunlight and Quantum Mechanics
Before the restart in 2023, the series was previously run by Dr Cyril Isenberg until 2018. Here is a record of some of the talks in this earlier period. More content will be added here as the new organisers find time to find and add it.
Academic Year 2017-2018
Tuesday 3 April Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, 7.30 pm
WILD WEATHER? – IDENTIFYING WEATHER AND TO WHAT EXTENT CLIMATE CHANGE IS TAKING ITS TOLL
Dr Friederike Otto, University of Oxford
Tuesday 6 March, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, 7.30 pm
PRESSING ‘FIRE’ ON THE MOST POWERFUL LASER IN THE WORLD
Dr Ceri Brenner, STFC Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Tuesday 27 February, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, 7.30 pm
META- ATOMS FOR 3D PRINTING META MATERIALS
Professor Yiannis Vardaxoglou, Head of Wireless Communications Research Group
University of Loughborough
Tuesday 20th February, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, 7.30 pm
THE VISUAL BRAIN – THE HOUSE OF DECEITS OF THE SIGHT
Professor Christopher Kennard, Neuroscientist, University of Oxford
Tuesday 6 February, Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, 7.30 pm
MICROENGINEERING IN THE INTELLIGENT WORLD
Professor Eric Yeatman, Electrical Engineering, Imperial College London
Tuesday 30 January , Rutherford Lecture Theatre 1, 7.30 pm
SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE HUMAN BRAIN
Dr Gemma Bale, University College London