Oxford Physics Public Lectures
By Oxford University
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Description
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."
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| 1 | VideoWas 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. | 21 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoOxford Physics and the ‘remote and speculative project’ | A lecture by Prof Stephen Blundell, Professor of Physics – Condensed Matter - (Department of Physics and Mansfield College). | 21 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoNuclear 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. | 21 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoIceCube: 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 speaker, Professor Francis Halzen. | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe 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, its scientific implications and future expansions of the array | 19 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Many Universes of Quantum Materials | Professor Stephen Blundell explores the many universes of quantum materials for the 2019 Quantum Materials Public Lecture. | 7 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoGravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy | Professor Barry C Barish gives a talk on the quest for the detection of gravitational waves. | 30 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoFinding 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. | 30 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoCherwell-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 experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on Earth and in space. | 8 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoIs Dark Matter Made of Black Holes | The 2019 Halley lecture | 4 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution | Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom delivers the 18th Hintze Lecture. | 3 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoElectron 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). | 18 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe Quantum and the Cosmos | The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago. | 14 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe 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 the age of our sun. | 29 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoHow 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 | 2 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoThe 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, University of Montreal, Canada | 22 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies | The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoThe 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 tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future. | 20 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoSuperconductors: Miracle Materials | An introduction to the fascinating world of superconductors and the many surprising phenomena they exhibit, from zero resistance to quantum levitation. | 25 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoQuantum 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 physics. | 25 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoSuperconductors: 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 superconductors for levitating trains. | 25 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoCassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan | Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics. | 18 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoObservation 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 | 27 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoGhost Imaging with Quantum Light | Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow | 27 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoPulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary | Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 27 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoStarquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats | The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven | 27 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoCuriosity’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, Curiosity, touched down on the surface of Mars on August 5, 2012. Curiosity was built to search and explore | 27 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoSpatio-temporal Optical Vortices | Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA | 27 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoLearning 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, Durham University, UK | 27 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoThe applied side of Bell nonlocality | Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani | 27 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoThe 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 | 5 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoFrom Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope | Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich | 5 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoThe 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 (Particle Physics), Prof Daniella Bortoletto (Physics) and Prof Subir Sarkar (Particle Theory Group) | 7 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoThe Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture | Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture. | 7 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoAstronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays | Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder | 30 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoExotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years | Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner | 17 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoOur Simple but Strange Universe | The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel | 17 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoSearching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves | Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoVisualizing Quantum Matter | Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoAtmospheric Circulation and Climate Change | Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe explosion mechanism of massive stars | Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo | 27 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoQuantum Sensors sans Frontier | Physics Colloquium 10th June 2016 delivered by Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoThe Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans | 3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor Raymond T Pierrehumbert. | 15 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoBionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience | Physics Colloquium 20th May 2016 delivered by Ian Shipsey | 24 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoUnveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies | The 2016 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt | 18 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping | Physics Colloquium 6th May 2016 delivered by Professor William Dorland | 10 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoThe Unity of the Universe | The Final Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor David Deutsch | 8 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoEngineering Defects in Diamond | Physics Colloquium 26th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newton | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoOptical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Single Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles | Physics Colloquium 19th February 2016 delivered by Professor Michel Orrit | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoStellarators, Fusion Energy and the Wendelstein 7-X Experiment | Physics Colloquium 29th January 2016 delivered by Professor Per Helender | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoEpidemics, Erdös Numbers and the Internet: the Physics of Networks | Physics Colloquium 12th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newman | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoDalitzFest | The Scientific Legacy of Dick Dalitz | 17 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoQuantum Computer Simulation of Chemistry and Materials: Advances and Perspectives | Physics Colloquium 5th February 2016 delivered by Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik | 11 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoSeeing the High Energy Universe with IceCube | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 3rd morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Inner Space Meets Outer Space: Covering the Connections Between Cosmology and Particle Physics | 6 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoGrowing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years | The 2015 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Meg Urry | 3 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoThe Einstein Lens and a Tale of Two Eclipses | Physics Colloquium 20th November 2015 delivered by Professor Tom Ray | 23 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoAt a Physics Info/Sci Intersection | Physics Colloquium 30th October 2015 delivered by Professer Paul Ginsparg | 3 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoHow hot will it get in a world run by economists? A physicist’s take on climate change policy | Physics Colloquium 23rd October 2015 delivered by Professor Myles Allen | 26 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoUnderstanding the Monsoon | The 2015 Halley Lecture delivered by Professor Peter J. Webster | 30 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | VideoParlez-vous Beams? The Frontier of Beam Physics and Accelerator Science: from High Energy Particle Colliders to Quantum Degenerate Beams | Physics Colloquium 12th June 2015 delivered by Professer Swapan Chattopadhyay | 17 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoThe Quantum Universe | The 2015 Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama | 16 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoChasing Fast Dynamos in the Plasma Lab | Physics Colloquium 29th May 2015 delivered by Professor Cary Forest | 8 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoClimate Observations from Space | Physics Colloquium 5th June 2015 delivered by Professor Stephen Briggs | 8 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoCosmology from the Microwave Background | Physics Colloquium 22nd May 2015 delivered by Professor Jo Dunkley | 28 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoEverything from nothing, or how our universe was made | The 2015 Wetton Lecture delivered by Professor Carlos Frenk | 28 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | VideoTopological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics | The 2015 Cherwell-Simon Lecture delivered by Professor Charles Kane | 20 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | VideoThe Higgs Boson and Particle Physics at the LHC: a Progress Report and Plans for the Future | Physics Colloquium 13th February 2015 Deliverd by Daniela Bortoletto | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | VideoScience with a crowd: The Zooniverse from Galaxy Zoo to LSST | Physics Colloquium 30th January 2015 delivered by Chris Lintott | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoColours from Earth: preparing for exo-earth characterisation | Physics Colloquium 6th March 2015 deliverd by Robert Fosbury | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoLHC searches for dark matter | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 6th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the ways in which ideas from theoretical particle physics guide the high energy accelerator program at CERN | 12 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoPrecision Studies of the Higgs | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 6th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the ways in which ideas from theoretical particle physics guide the high energy accelerator program at CERN | 12 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | VideoThe Standard Model and the LHC! in the Higgs Boson Era | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 6th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the ways in which ideas from theoretical particle physics guide the high energy accelerator programme at CERN. | 12 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | VideoMatter Emerges from the Vacuum | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the first Saturday Morning of Theoretical Physics on 22 June 2013. The event focussed on how we use field theory to understand material reality. | 4 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | VideoPlasma Tamed, Fusion Power and the Theoretical Challenge | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 4th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Plasmas: the normal form of matter and the key to unlimited energy. | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | VideoString Theory on the Sky | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 3rd morning of Theoretical Physics. The event focused on the interface between theoretical developments in particle physics and astrophysics/cosmology. | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | VideoBlack Holes, Axions and the Gravitational Atom in the Sky | Physics Colloquium 5th December 2014 delivered by Dr Asimina Arvanitak | 17 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoThe Vacuum Comes Alive | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 1st morning of Theoretical Physics covering how we use field theory to understand material reality | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoLiving Matter: a theoretical physics perspective | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 2nd morning of Theoretical Physics covering ideas from theoretical physics currently being applied to living systems | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | VideoMotility in Living Matter | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 2nd morning of Theoretical Physics covering ideas from theoretical physics currently being applied to living systems | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | VideoInner Space Meets Outer Space | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 4th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the connections between cosmology and particle physics. | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | VideoDarkness Visible: The Hunt For Dark Matter | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 4th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the connections between cosmology and particle physics. | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 82 | VideoPlasma: What It Is, How To Make It and How To Hold It | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 4th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Plasmas: the normal form of matter and the key to unlimited energy | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 83 | VideoTurbulence: Plasma Unleashed | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 4th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Plasmas: the normal form of matter and the key to unlimited energy | 15 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | VideoIce Cores, Climate and Sea Ice | Physics Colloquium 14th November 2014 delivered by Prof Eric Wolff | 2 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | VideoInside the Centre: The Life and Work of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Physics Colloquium 21st November 2014 delivered by Prof Ray Monk | 2 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | VideoMillisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead | The 9th Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Scott Ransom | 2 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | VideoA Physicist’s View of the Emergence of Terrestrial Vertebrates | Physics Colloquium 7th November 2014. Delivered by Professor Steve Balbus, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Head of Astrophysics, University of Oxford. | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | VideoScience and the Art of Inventiveness | Physics Colloquium 24th October 2014. Delivered by Professor Andrei Seryi, Director of the John Adams Institute. | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | VideoBlack holes in the nearby Universe | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit. | 5 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | VideoThe impact of black holes on the Universe | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit. | 5 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | VideoBlack holes in Einstein's gravity and beyond | Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 5th morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Black holes: where physics reaches its limit. | 5 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | VideoHow the Universe Evolved From Smooth to Lumpy -- the Physics of Galaxy Formation | The 2014 Halley Lecture delivered by Professor Eliot Quataert | 13 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | VideoChurchill, Oxford physicists and the Bomb | Physics Colloquium 30th May delivered by Graham Farmelo | 11 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | VideoPT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics | Physics Colloquium 23rd May Delivered by Professor Carl M. Bender | 2 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | VideoGalaxies and the Intergalactic Medium | 10th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture by Prof. James Binney. | 22 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | VideoTurning in the Widening Gyre: Accretion Processes in the Universe | Inaugural Lecture by Professor Steven Balbus looking at the history of the universe | 7 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | VideoLorenz Gödel and Penrose: new perspectives on determinism and unpredictability, from fundamental physics to the science of climate change | The 9th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture, looking at chaos theory and climate change | 7 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | VideoBuilding stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars | Halley Lecture 2013 by Professor Dr Ewine van Dishoeck on new developments in astronomy | 7 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | VideoThe Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet | The 8th Hintze Lecture by Professor David Charbonneau looking at investigating habitable exoplanets. | 7 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | VideoRadiation and Reason | Professor Wade Allison gives a talk about his book 'Radiation and Reason; The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear'. | 14 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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