Physics Colloquia

The Department organises a number of Physics colloquia with guest speakers from UK and International Physics Departments.  For a list of recent speakers please see our colloquia archive page.  If you have suggestions for future speakers please contact the local organiser, Dr Eitan Abraham.

 

Colloquia 2012  

Wednesday 1 February – DB114 – 2:30pm
Professor Gerard De Groot, School of History, St Andrews University, Physics & Society: Atoms for War and Peace

Wednesday 15 February – DB114 – 2:30pm
Dr Brendon Lovett, EPS, Heriot-Watt University, New Perspectives on the Feasibility of Spin-Based Quantum Computing

Wednesday 29 February – DB114 – 2:30pm  
Professor Steve Barnett, Strathclyde University, The Enigma of Optical Momentum

Wednesday 7 March –  Postgraduate Centre Auditorium – 3:30pm
Professor Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, Geneva, The Search of a Deeper Understanding of our Universe at the Large Hadron Collider: the World’s Largest Particle Accelerator

Wednesday 14 March– DB114 – 2:30pm  
Dr James Thompson, Department of Psychology, University College London, Intelligence and Science 

Wednesday 28 March– DB114 – 2:30pm
Professor Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews, Geometry, Light and a Wee Bit of Magic 

Tuesday 3 April – Postgraduate Centre Auditorium – 2:30pm   Life Sciences Interface
Professor Thomas Steitz, Nobel Laureate, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Yale, USA, From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics

Friday 20 April – DB114 – 2:30pm Celebration of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Professor Danny Schechtman, Nobel Laureate, Department of Material Sciences, Technion, Israel, Quasi-periodic Materials—Crystal Re-defined

Wednesday 25 April – DB114 – 2:30pm
Dr Richard Szabo, MACS, Heriot-Watt University, Signatures of Noncommutative Spacetime