Tag: physics
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Can you believe your eyes?
The December talk will be given by Dr Lauren Barr who will be talking about the peculiarities of light: The nature of light and its interaction with matter dictates how we see the world, but is all as it seems?
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Slow Water
The May talk will be given by Dr Chris Bore of Kingston University who will be exploring the very peculiar and poorly understood properties of water, and how these properties are key to our world and life upon it. Water is the most common, and most mysterious, substance on Earth. Shaped by deep subtleties of…
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Einstein’s Secret Universe
The November talk will be given by Dr. Ian Jones of the Gravity Group at the University of Southampton. Dr Jones will be talking about recent groundbreaking discoveries in the field of black holes and astrophysics. On February 11th 2016, something truly remarkable was announced to the world – the detection of gravitational waves from…
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The science of pedestrian crowds: smart swarms or mindless mobs?
The February talk will be given by Dr Nikolai Bode of the University of Bristol who will be talking about his research into crowds. Large crowds of pedestrians moving through built environments are an everyday occurrence. Examples include passengers moving through transport hubs and people leaving a building during a fire drill. We will explore…
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From Lodestone to Hard-drives: an insight into magnetism
The November talk will be given by Dr Chris Bell of the School of Physics, University of Bristol. Magnets have been known to humans for thousands of years, but still evoke confusion and fascination in equal measure. Do we understand magnets? Can they influence biological processes? How much control over them do we have for…
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Institute of Physics lectures in Salisbury; Making small machines, from millimetres to molecules – Dr Jack Cohen
The South West Branch of the Institute of Physics regularly have events in Salisbury. The next one will be in November (18th) with Dr Jack Cohen of the University of Warwick talking about his research on very, very small machines. In this talk I will give a broad consideration of methods and examples of making…
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Liquid Crystals: the fourth state of matter and today’s flat-screen displays
The September talk will be given by Prof. David Dunmur, visiting professor at the University of Manchester in the Liquid Crystal Group and co-author of Soap, Science and Flatscreen TVs (with Tim Sluckin). Although liquid crystals were discovered 125 years ago, they might have been forgotten as a scientific backwater had not a little known…
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Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays
The December talk will be given by Dr Ryan Nichol, a Royal Society Research Fellow in the High Energy Physics Group at University College London. He describes his work as “utilising neutrinos and cosmic rays to investigate the Universe at the smallest and largest scales imaginable.” Ryan works on a range of projects including the…
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Bubbles everywhere, including on YouTube!
Dr Gianluca Memoli, who presented the March talk, has also given his presentation at a TEDx event which is available on YouTube and now presented here:
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Bubbles Everywhere
Dr Gianluca Memoli will be presenting March’s talk. Gianluca is a bubble scientist, working at the National Physical Laboratory. He studies the close relationship between bubbles and sound and how to exploit it to produce greener fuels, tastier food, and less invasive ways to deliver drugs. Through demonstrations and curiosities, we will explore together the…