Archive of previous colloquia
2025-26
22 Oct: Monika Markowska (Northumbria): Recurrent “Green Arabia” phases over the past 8 million years and implications for future climate
12 Nov: Paul Donaldson (CLF): Querying the nature of the absorption of light by molecules; Looking under the bonnet of the light-matter interaction using ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy
26 Nov: Paul Davies (Arizona State): Quantum 2.0: The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics
10 Dec: Sarah Glauert (British Antarctic Survey): Forecasting space weather in the Earth’s radiation belts
14 Jan: Andy Lawrence (EPSRC - UKRI): Grounded in Physics, Driving Engineering: Insights from a career journey
28 Jan: Daniel O'Flynn (British Museum): Uncovering the Past: X-ray Imaging at the British Museum
11 Feb: Stephen Bennington (Q5D): From physics nerd to tech bro - and how my degree turned out to be useful!
25 Feb: Jelena Ilic (BT Group): Life After Physics
18 Mar: Claire Thorne (Deep Science Ventures): Deeptech, Innovation and driving opportunity for all
22 Apr: Sowjanya Gollapinni (Los Alamos National Laboratory): A New Paradigm in Neutrino Physics with the DUNE experiment
29 Apr: Arif Babul (University of Victoria): (Super)computing the Universe
2024-25
Oct 16 (THE DATE and TIME HAS CHANGED!): 17:00Nick Hine and Albert Bartok-Partay "Nobel Prize in Physics 2024"
Oct 23:Olja Panic (Leeds): Deciphering giant planet formation
Nov 6:Francisco Suzuki-Vidal ( First Light Fusion Ltd.): “From space to the laboratory: The race for fusion energy”
Nov 20:Sharmila Balamurugan (Warwick): Signatures of a 'foamy' spacetime
Dec 4:Clare Watt (Northumbria): Temporal variability of Earth’s outer radiation belt: the connection between observations and models
Jan 15:David Jess (QUB): The Sun: a giant astrophysical laboratory in the sky
Jan 29:Charles Smith (Cambridge): "Scaling up for quantum measurement and quantum computing"
Feb 12:Sam Carr (Kent)TIME HAS CHANGED!: 14:30"The Well Tempered Physicist"
Feb 26:Monika Lendl (Geneva, Switzerland)TIME HAS CHANGED!: 14:30: "Towards Earth 2.0: exoplanet characterisation in the age of CHEOPS, PLATO, and JWST"
Mar 12: TIME HAS CHANGED!: 14:30Daria Mervis (Moody’s RMS, London) "Modeling the Unthinkable: Careers at the Intersection of Physics and Insurance"
2023-24
Mar 13:Yvonne Elsworth (Birmingham)
Feb 28:Hugues Chate
Feb 14:Guy Trambly de Laissardière (Cergy Paris Université): "Electronic and magnetic properties magic angle twisted bilayer graphene and MoS2"
Jan 31:Marc Holderied (Bristol)
Jan 17:Dame Clare Grey, FRS (Cambridge) : "Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how batteries function and fail" (Location: L3, Science Concourse)
Nov 22:Lucas Goehring:(rescheduled)
Nov 8:Jonathan Eastwood (IC) "Severe space weather and the ESA Vigil mission"
Oct 25:Bruce Drinkwater (Bristol) "Acoustic beams – from tractors to artificial muscle via metasurfaces"
Oct 18:Sriram Ramaswamy (IIS, India) "Directions in active matter"
Oct 11:Rebecca Milot and Gavin Bell (University of Warwick): The 2023 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
Past colloquia
2022-2023
Mar 15:Klaus Mainzer (Technische Universität München): "Symmetry in Physics"
Mar 1:Paul Williams (Reading): "Forecasting atmospheric turbulence from hours to decades ahead"
Feb 15Stephen Blundell (Oxford): "Is the muon a qubit?"
Feb 1:Sam Stranks (Cambridge): "Understanding and controlling recombination in halide perovskite optoelectronic devices"
Jan 18:Graham Machin (NPL): "The kelvin redefined and its implications"
Nov 23:Sir Peter Knight FRS (IC): “From Quantum Technology to Quantum Computing”
Nov 9:Inigo Arregui (Institute for Astronomy, Spain): Bayesian inference in solar physics
Oct 26:Amaury Triaud (Birmingham): Beyond the Solar System: Exoplanets
Oct 12:Gavin Morley and Animesh Datta (University of Warwick): The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
2021-2022
Mar 2:Gregory Fleishman (NJIT, USA): Dynamics of solar flares with microwave imaging spectroscopy
Feb 16:Francis Halzen (Wisconsin–Madison, USA) IceCube: Cosmic Neutrinos and Multimessenger Astronomy
Feb 2:Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA Heidelberg): Connecting theory to astronomical observations, via cosmological simulations of galaxies
Jan 19:Gavin Ramsey (Armagh Observatory): Superflares on the Sun and Solar-type stars
Dec. 8:Rachel Thomas (San Francisco University, USA):
Nov 10:John Hammersley (Overleaf): Founding Overleaf: My experience of going from academia to industry to start-up founder, now with over eight million users worldwide
Nov 24:Frederico Martins (Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) Using atom-like spins in semiconductors toward scalable quantum computing
Oct 27:Kevin Heng (University of Bern, Switzerland): The Atmospheres of Exoplanets: Albedos and Phase Curves of Celestial Bodies
Oct 13:Sandra Chapman and Robin Ball (Warwick): Nobel Prize in Physics - 2021
2020-2021