Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate change. Features episodes previously published as: (1...
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Was there a strategic alternative to the atomic bombing of 1945?
Delve into history with Dr Rob Johnson, Director of The Changing Character of War Centre at Oxford, as he explores a pivotal question.
Oxford Physics and the ‘remote and speculative project’
A lecture by Prof Stephen Blundell, Professor of Physics – Condensed Matter - (Department of Physics and Mansfield College).
Nuclear Physics and the development of the bomb
Explore the history of atomic bomb development with Dr. Georg Viehhauser, Particle Physics Research Lecturer at St John's College, Oxford.
IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole
Particle Physics Christmas Lecture, hosted by Prof. Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics and senior members of the department with guest speak...
The First Image of a Black Hole
Professor Heino Falcke of Radboud University, Nijmegen delivers the 19th Hintze Lecture - reviewing the latest results of the Event Horizon Telescope,...
The Many Universes of Quantum Materials
Professor Stephen Blundell explores the many universes of quantum materials for the 2019 Quantum Materials Public Lecture. Physicists try to find the...
Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy
Professor Barry C Barish gives a talk on the quest for the detection of gravitational waves. The quest for gravitational waves, following their predic...
Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe
Bill Diamond, President & CEO The SETI Institute gives an an update on the search for life in the Universe. Hosted by Ian Shipsey, Head of Physics.
Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection
What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experi...
Is Dark Matter Made of Black Holes
The 2019 Halley lecture n February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the discovery of the merger of two...
The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution
Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom delivers the 18th Hintze Lecture. How do galaxies get their gas and how do they lose it? Theories of galaxy formation...
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - Past, Present and Future
Professor Mark Newton describes some of the key events in the discovery and development of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). Electron paramagneti...
The Quantum and the Cosmos
The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Univer...
The Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time
Dr James Green, current Chief Scientist of NASA gives a talk on the how life may be distributed on Earth and in the Solar System with consideration of...
How do we find planets around other stars?
The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University In the las...
The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds
The 16th Hintze lecture, 25th April 2018 delivered by Professor René Doyon, Director, Mont-Mégantic Observatory & Institute for Research on Exoplanets...
ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies
The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University. The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter...
The State of the Universe
Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tr...
Superconductors: Miracle Materials
An introduction to the fascinating world of superconductors and the many surprising phenomena they exhibit, from zero resistance to quantum levitation...
Quantum physics and the nature of computing
How can we test a quantum computer? An exploration of some of the theoretical puzzles of this field and how we can investigate them with experimental...
Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive
A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superco...
Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics.
Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration The recent observations...
Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow Ghost imaging and ghost diffraction were first demonstrat...
Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell Pulsars, or pulsating radio stars, were discovered accidentally 50 ye...
Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven Thanks to the recent spa...
Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curi...
Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA When an optical pulse propagating through a no...
Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,...
The applied side of Bell nonlocality
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani Since its formulation in 1964, Bell's theorem has been classified under "f...
The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has just completed another very succes...
From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope
Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich The behaviour of the early universe just after the Big Bang is on...
The Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion
Panel discussion with Prof John Womersley (STFC), Prof John Wheater (Department of Physics), Prof Ian Shipsey (Particle Physics), Prof Dave Wark (Part...
The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture
Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture. In the past five years particle physicists have made major advances in u...
Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder The gamma-ray band of the electromagnetic spectrum probes some of the most extreme en...
Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years
Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner The early 1960s witnessed a wealth of elementary particles described in terms o...
Our Simple but Strange Universe
The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel Observations of the microwave background, the left-over heat from the big bang,...
Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves
Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez On September 14 2015, the two LIGO gravitational wave detectors in Hanfo...
Visualizing Quantum Matter
Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis Everything around us, everything each of us has ever experienced, and virtually...
Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change
Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd Pretty much all that is known with any confidence about climate ch...