Physics Department Colloquium
Jan 18: Graham Machin (NPL): "The kelvin redefined and its implications"
Feb 1: Sam Stranks (Cambridge): "Understanding and controlling recombination in halide perovskite optoelectronic devices"
Feb 15 Stephen Blundell (Oxford): "Is the muon a qubit?"
Mar 1: Paul Williams (Reading): "Forecasting atmospheric turbulence from hours to decades ahead"
Mar 15: Klaus Mainzer (Technische Universität München): "Symmetry in Physics"
Past colloquia
2022-2023
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