From Mars to the Multiverse

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

Prof. Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, University of Cambridge .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

To Higgs or not to Higgs?

Prof John Ellis, King's College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 04 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Physics and Medical Imaging

Dr Richard Ansorge, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 25 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella

Prof. Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 11 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

The Genius of Michael Faraday

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

Prof. Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Physics in the Oil and Gas Industry

Free for all!

Dr Mark Foster, BP.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 28 January 2013, 20:00-21:00

Black Holes, Holograms and Hard Problems

Free for all!

Prof. David Tong, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 21 January 2013, 20:00-21:00

An Introduction to Econophysics

Last talk of term. Please note this talk is on Monday.

Dr Alex Baldon, University of Manchester.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 26 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

The Pointless Universe

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Michael Green, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 19 November 2012, 20:00-21:00

Physics in the Science of Social Systems

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Colour Vision

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 29 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Pulsars and Extreme Physics

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 22 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Metallic Glasses: Order in Disorder

Please note this talk is on Monday

Prof. Lindsay Greer, University of Cambridge .

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Monday 15 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

A century of the proton: from Rutherford to Higgs

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

Prof. James Stirling, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

Chaos in Action

Prof. Mohamed Sobhy, University of Kent.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Size Matters

Dr Mark Miodownik, King's College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

High Efficiency Photovoltaics: How can we approach the 87% thermodynamic limit?

Dr N.J. (Ned) Ekins-Daukes, Imperial College London.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 20:00-21:00

Physics in Context: Challenges in Providing the World's Energy

Dr Ellen D Williams, BP Chief Scientist.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 20:00-21:00

Photonic quantum information science and technologies

Prof. Jeremy O'Brien, Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Neutrinos - ghost particles of the cosmos

Prof. Frank Close, University of Oxford.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Alzheimer's disease and yoghurt - a physicist's exploration of proteins

Prof. Dame Athene Donald, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 20:00-21:00

Electrons in a spin: the physics of gadgets

Dr Gareth Conduit, University of Cambridge.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 20:00-21:00

100 years of superconductivity

Prof. Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford.

Plant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 20:00-21:00

Explaining Irrationality – a Biological Perspective

Prof Ray Dolan, UCL.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 20:00-21:00

Does a Physics Degree have any Relevance to a Career in the Technology Industries?

Colin Tregenza Dancer, Metaswitch Networks.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 15:00-16:00

Quantum contextuality: inequalities and tests

Prof Andreas Winter, University of Bristol.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 20:00-21:00

On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: the forgotten contribution of the medieval physicists

Prof Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 20:00-21:00

Making and Using Ultra-High Power and Ultra-Short Pulse Lasers

Prof Roland Smith, Imperial College.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of Wind Turbine Placement

Tim French, Technical Manager, RES Group.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors

Professor Hans Kraus, University of Oxford.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Einstein's Universe

Professor Brian Foster and Jack Liebeck.

West Road Concert Hall, West Road.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 20:00-21:30

On High Power Laser Physics

Professor Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Evolution of Biological Complexity

Raymond E. Goldstein (University of Cambridge).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Self-assembling colloids under the guidance of DNA

Erika Eiser (University of Cambridge).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

How to be a Quantum Realist

Dr. Andreas Doering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Probing the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Dr. Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of Natural Gas reservoirs: How physical principles allow us to find, access and produce natural gas

Dr. Glyn Edwards, BP Exploration.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 20:00-21:00

New Concepts in Nanoplasmonics

Professor Stefan Maier, Imperial College.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Third Generation Machine Intelligence

Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Laboratory, Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

The Physics Challenges of Fusion Power

Professor Steve Cowley, Director of the JET Fusion lab.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

The return of pilot waves, or, why Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Born, Schrödinger, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Wheeler and Einstein were all wrong about quantum mechanics

Dr. Mike Towler ( TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Experimental Particle Physics, CERN, and the Large Hadron Collider

Dr Chris Lester, Cambridge University.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

"Why study insulators?"

Prof J F Scott, Earth Sciences Department.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

Rock guitar in 11 dimensions

Dr Mark Lewney.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

All things bright and beautiful: The science of biological colour

Prof Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 20:00-21:00

Particles and the Universe

Prof. Peter Kalmus, Queen Mary University of London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Carbon-based semiconductors - new science, new engineering and new applications

Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

What scientists and engineers need to know about patents and related things

Dr. Rhian Granleese, Marks & Clerk Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

Black holes at the Large Hadron Collider?

Prof. Bryan Webber.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 20:00-21:00

A Critical Point for Science?

Professor Brian Josephson, University of Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

The Physics of Volcanic Eruptions

Professor Herbert Huppert.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 20:00-21:00

The Trouble With Physics

Lee Smolin.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 18:00-19:00

The Young Universe

Dr Mike Hobson.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 20:00-21:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Gilmore.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Party-cle Physics: The CERN Summer School

Tom Whyntie, Cambridge.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

Quantum Chaos: Kicking Atoms About

Mischa Stocklin, UCL.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 20:00-21:00