Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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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) 'Oxford Physics Alumni': "Informal interviews with physics alumni at events, lectures and other alumni related activities." (2) 'Physics and Philosophy: Arguments, Experiments and a Few Things in Between': "A series which explores some of the links between physics and philosophy, two of the most fundamental ways with which we try to answer our questions about the world around us. A number of the most pertinent topics which bridge the disciplines are discussed - the nature of space and time, the unpredictable results of quantum mechanics and their surprising consequences and perhaps most fundamentally, the nature of the mind and how far science can go towards explaining and understanding it. Featuring interviews with Dr. Christopher Palmer, Prof. Frank Arntzenius, Prof. Vlatko Vedral, Dr. David Wallace and Prof. Roger Penrose."

Episode Date
Was there a strategic alternative to the atomic bombing of 1945?
Dec 21, 2023
Oxford Physics and the ‘remote and speculative project’
Dec 21, 2023
Nuclear Physics and the development of the bomb
Dec 21, 2023
IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole
Dec 20, 2019
The First Image of a Black Hole
Nov 19, 2019
The Many Universes of Quantum Materials
Oct 07, 2019
Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy
Jul 30, 2019
Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe
Jul 30, 2019
Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection
Jul 08, 2019
Is Dark Matter Made of Black Holes
Jun 04, 2019
The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution
Jun 03, 2019
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - Past, Present and Future
Mar 18, 2019
The Quantum and the Cosmos
Nov 14, 2018
The Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time
Oct 29, 2018
How do we find planets around other stars?
Jul 02, 2018
The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds
May 22, 2018
ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies
Mar 28, 2018
The State of the Universe
Nov 20, 2017
Superconductors: Miracle Materials
Oct 25, 2017
Quantum physics and the nature of computing
Oct 25, 2017
Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive
Oct 25, 2017
Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan
Oct 18, 2017
Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy
Jun 27, 2017
Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light
Jun 27, 2017
Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary
Jun 27, 2017
Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats
Jun 27, 2017
Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars
Apr 27, 2017
Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices
Apr 27, 2017
Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows
Apr 27, 2017
The applied side of Bell nonlocality
Apr 27, 2017
The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Apr 05, 2017
From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope
Apr 05, 2017
The Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion
Mar 07, 2017
The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture
Mar 07, 2017
Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays
Nov 30, 2016
Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years
Nov 17, 2016
Our Simple but Strange Universe
Nov 17, 2016
Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves
Nov 01, 2016
Visualizing Quantum Matter
Nov 01, 2016
Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change
Nov 01, 2016
The explosion mechanism of massive stars
Oct 27, 2016
Quantum Sensors sans Frontier
Jun 16, 2016
The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
Jun 15, 2016
Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience
May 24, 2016
Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies
May 18, 2016
ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping
May 11, 2016
The Unity of the Universe
Mar 09, 2016
Engineering Defects in Diamond
Mar 04, 2016
Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Single Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles
Mar 04, 2016
Stellarators, Fusion Energy and the Wendelstein 7-X Experiment
Feb 19, 2016
Epidemics, Erdös Numbers and the Internet: the Physics of Networks
Feb 19, 2016
DalitzFest
Feb 18, 2016
Quantum Computer Simulation of Chemistry and Materials: Advances and Perspectives
Feb 11, 2016
Seeing the High Energy Universe with IceCube
Jan 06, 2016
Growing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years
Dec 04, 2015
The Einstein Lens and a Tale of Two Eclipses
Nov 24, 2015
At a Physics Info/Sci Intersection
Nov 03, 2015
How hot will it get in a world run by economists? A physicist’s take on climate change policy
Oct 26, 2015
Understanding the Monsoon
Jul 30, 2015
Parlez-vous Beams? The Frontier of Beam Physics and Accelerator Science: from High Energy Particle Colliders to Quantum Degenerate Beams
Jun 17, 2015
The Quantum Universe
Jun 16, 2015
Chasing Fast Dynamos in the Plasma Lab
Jun 08, 2015
Climate Observations from Space
Jun 08, 2015
Cosmology from the Microwave Background
May 29, 2015
Everything from nothing, or how our universe was made
May 29, 2015
Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics
May 20, 2015
The Higgs Boson and Particle Physics at the LHC: a Progress Report and Plans for the Future
Mar 16, 2015
Science with a crowd: The Zooniverse from Galaxy Zoo to LSST
Mar 16, 2015
Colours from Earth: preparing for exo-earth characterisation
Mar 16, 2015
LHC searches for dark matter
Feb 12, 2015
Precision Studies of the Higgs
Feb 12, 2015
The Standard Model and the LHC! in the Higgs Boson Era
Feb 12, 2015
Matter Emerges from the Vacuum
Feb 04, 2015
Plasma Tamed, Fusion Power and the Theoretical Challenge
Jan 29, 2015
String Theory on the Sky
Jan 29, 2015
Black Holes, Axions and the Gravitational Atom in the Sky
Dec 17, 2014
The Vacuum Comes Alive
Dec 15, 2014
Living Matter: a theoretical physics perspective
Dec 15, 2014
Motility in Living Matter
Dec 15, 2014
Inner Space Meets Outer Space
Dec 15, 2014
Darkness Visible: The Hunt For Dark Matter
Dec 15, 2014
Plasma: What It Is, How To Make It and How To Hold It
Dec 15, 2014
Turbulence: Plasma Unleashed
Dec 15, 2014
Ice Cores, Climate and Sea Ice
Dec 02, 2014
Inside the Centre: The Life and Work of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dec 02, 2014
Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead
Dec 02, 2014
A Physicist’s View of the Emergence of Terrestrial Vertebrates
Dec 01, 2014
Science and the Art of Inventiveness
Dec 01, 2014
Black holes in the nearby Universe
Nov 05, 2014
The impact of black holes on the Universe
Nov 05, 2014
Black holes in Einstein's gravity and beyond
Nov 05, 2014
How the Universe Evolved From Smooth to Lumpy -- the Physics of Galaxy Formation
Jun 13, 2014
Churchill, Oxford physicists and the Bomb
Jun 11, 2014
PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics
Jun 02, 2014
Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium
May 22, 2014
Turning in the Widening Gyre: Accretion Processes in the Universe
Apr 07, 2014
Lorenz Gödel and Penrose: new perspectives on determinism and unpredictability, from fundamental physics to the science of climate change
Apr 07, 2014
Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars
Apr 07, 2014
The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet
Apr 07, 2014
Radiation and Reason
Nov 14, 2012