Physics Department Colloquium
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 15 Stephen 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