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This lecture series is attended by all researchers in the Department of Physics. Lectures usually take place alternate Wednesdays at 4.00 pm in the Pippard Lecture Theatre. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Leona Hope-Coles. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 156 talks in the archive. In Search for the Next Magic StoneProf Z X Shen, Stanford. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00 The physics of how humans build models of the worldProf Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30 To see a world in a grain of sandA wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Thursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 Topological pumping in new territoryA wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Tuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00 Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbcProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University. Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbcProf Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University. Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 New Physics in Driven Quantum MaterialsMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream. Monday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. Pippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv . Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 : "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"A wine reception will follow the lecture Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Pippard lecture theatre and Zoom. Monday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00 Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteriaThis lecture is a Livestream Event Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperatureProf Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory. Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 ’Seeing early cancer in a new light’Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory. Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedDr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaosDr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP. Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to appliedJoin the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge. Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre. Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory. Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,. Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the moveAll Welcome Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30 Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the moveAll welcome Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30 Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of EquilibriumProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum GasesProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical LatticesProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 A physicist's spin on data scienceDeborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis. Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,. Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulationJacob Klein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel . Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,. Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV TransitionProfessor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder. Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 "Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)"caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future ElectronicsProf Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED StoryProf Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Photo-induced superconductivity and other storiesProf Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 “Topology in materials science”Prof Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciencesProfessor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 Visualizing Quantum MatterJ.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University; Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 Searching for – and finding! gravitational wavesGabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic EpochsProfessor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here?Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 16 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversionProfessor James Durrant . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00 Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar systemProfessor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 16:00-17:00 Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamicsProf David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 "Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory"Professor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems"Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physicshttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyondhttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessmenthttp://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/ Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavitiesProfessor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical LatticesDr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 New directions in liquid crystalsProfessor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunitiesProfessor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materialsSpeaker to be confirmed. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 High magnetic fields as a tool for discoveryDr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 The Early History of the Cavendish LaboratoryMalcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio AstronomyFifth Hewish Lecture Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Higgs Vortices and Black Hole HairProfessor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiationProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 Molecular Motors and Switches at SurfacesProf Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 Improving cancer survival through molecular imagingDr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Soft Matter in MotionDr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORYDr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 Cosmic ReionizationDr Chris Carilli, NRAO. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedProf Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 "Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms"Prof Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 Topological Matter and Why You Should Be InterestedProf Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka PlasmonicsProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt SwitchProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar CellsProfessor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 Exoplanet Science, the way forwardProfessor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of SixOn twitter @closefrank Professor Frank Close, Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs BosonProfessor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 Metamaterials and the Science of InvisibilityProfessor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 “The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physicsProfessor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 “Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?”Professor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 "Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics"Professor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays”Professor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge). Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENTJasper Kirkby, CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle?Professor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 MetadynamicsProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Ab-initio simulation of water and its ionsProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Colouring the NoiseProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 Graphene: Materials in the FlatlandSir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor MicrocavitiesProfessor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 Do biological cells care about physics?Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 30 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Polymer Solar CellsProf Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies.Prof Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid ApplicationsProfessor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 Building planets and the ingredients for life between the starsProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15 Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imaginedSabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron ColliderProf. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture III - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture II - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Scott Lecture I - Quantum InterferenceA Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre ArrayProf Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 Molecular Soup* with a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics)Prof Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between science and technologyProf Sir Richard Friend, The Cavendish Labortory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 How English Libel Law Threatens ScienceSimon Singh. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 Charge transport in molecular semiconductors – Bloch electron or hopping transport ?Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and SupersolidityProf. Tilman Esslinger, ETH, Zurich. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and SerendipityProfessor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Tuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15 LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEMTom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 02 June 2010, 16:00-17:00 Harnessing the Interactions of Ultrasound Waves and Acoustic Cavitation With Biological Tissue for Non-Invasive Therapy and Drug DeliveryDr Constantin Coussios, Biomedical Ultrasonics & Biotherapy Laboratory, University of Oxford. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 28 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's DiseaseProf Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang ObserverThis lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein TelescopeThis lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the UniverseThis lecture is for a general audience. Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost SoundscapesMalcolm Longair and Braxton Boren. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost SoundscapesMalcolm Longair and Braxton Boren. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic MonopoleProfessor James Pinfold, University of Alberta. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 High-Temperature Superconductors: From Broken Symmetries to the Power GridProfessor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00 Title to be confirmedProfessor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines'Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00 Synthetic structures and machines from DNAProf Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:00-17:00 The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters!Professor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:15-17:15 Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleshipsProfessor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Physics and Complexity : ExamplesProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 Physics and Complexity : MethodologiesProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 Physics and Complexity : An OverviewProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 Title to be confirmedSir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview, Motivation and Status of the ProjectProfessor Peter Jenni, CERN. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon BeamsProfessor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK.. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 February 2009, 16:15-17:15 Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matterProfessor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:15-17:15 Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 December 2008, 16:15-17:15 Inaugural Lecture: "Blink, and you miss it"Professor Jeremy Baumberg. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Lord Rayleigh's LegacyProfessor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:15-17:15 Pulsars: A Marvellous SerendipityProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3HeProfessor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 15 October 2008, 16:15-17:15 Title to be confirmedProfessor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 06 February 2008, 16:15-17:15 Title to be confirmedProfessor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 January 2008, 16:15-17:15 Quarks and their quirksProfessor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 21 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray CrystallographyDr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 November 2007, 16:15-17:15 Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation SeriouslyProfessor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 October 2007, 16:15-17:15 Bose Einstein Condensation of PolaritonsProfessor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 10 October 2007, 16:15-17:15 A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physicsProfessor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 09 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Optics with laser-like atom wavesProfessor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 07 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trappingRefreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer Professor William Phillips. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15 Planar Photonics meta-materials: spectral selectivity, "invisible metals", magnetic mirrors, chirality, asymmetric transmission and nano-focusingProf. Nikolay Zheludev, Southampton University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 07 February 2007, 16:15-17:15 SOME MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF FILMS AND BUBBLES DEMONSTRATEDDr Cyril Isenberg, University of Kent. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 24 January 2007, 16:15-17:15 Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid SurfacesProf Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:15 WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?Prof Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:15 Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmologyDr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 October 2006, 16:15-17:15 Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures for plasmon engineering to molecular detectionProfessor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 03 May 2006, 16:15-17:15 Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum MatterProfessor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 08 March 2006, 16:15-17:15 "Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen"Professor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 01 March 2006, 16:15-17:15 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron SpectroscopyProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Friday 10 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and AxionsProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Wednesday 08 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family ProblemProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Monday 06 February 2006, 16:15-17:15 "The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"Professor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 January 2006, 16:15-17:15 Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor controlProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 23 November 2005, 16:15-17:15 Scanning the cosmological horizonProfessor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 09 November 2005, 16:15-17:15 The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental CratonsProfessor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 12 October 2005, 16:15-17:15 Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family ProblemProf F Wilczek, MIT. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics. Thursday 06 October 2005, 16:15-17:15 Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background RadiationProfessor George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 25 May 2005, 16:30-17:30 Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996)Professor Vladimir Kurt, P N Lebedev Physical Institute . Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 18 May 2005, 16:30-17:30 Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum InformationProfessor Ed Hinds, Imperial College. Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 May 2005, 16:30-17:30 Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with LightProfessor Josef Kas, University of Leipzig. Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 06 May 2005, 14:00-15:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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