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Colloquia Series Trinity Term 2016: Professor Ian Shipsey - “Bionic Hearing - the science and the experience”
Cochlear implants are the first device to successfully restore neural function. They have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in the treatment of deafness, and they serve as a model for research in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. After a visual tour of the physiology of natural hearing the function of cochlear implants will be described in the context of electrical engineering, psychophysics, clinical evaluation, and my own personal experience.
Niamh Coll - Niamh.Coll@physics.ox.ac.uk
Physis Colloquia Series: Professor Bill Dorland - "ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping"
The Liouville equation describing a collection of charged particles is time-reversible. In the weakly coupled limit, one can reduce this equation to a Fokker-Planck equation, which is irreversible. The problem of the fate of electromagnetic field fluctuations in a plasma in the limit of very weak irreversibility was addressed by Landau, who demonstrated that as long as there are some collisions (even if very rare), and in the absence of sources, gradients, etc, typical field fluctuations are damped with an easily calculated "collisionless" damping rate -- this is Landau damping.
Niamh Coll - Niamh.Coll@physics.ox.ac.uk
Colloquia Series Trinity Term 2016: Professor Bruce Remington - “Frontier Science on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)”
The combination of high energy density (HED) facilities around the world spanning microjoules to megajoules, with time scales ranging from femtoseconds to microseconds, enables new regimes of plasma science to be experimentally probed. The ability to shock and ramp compress samples at Mbar pressures and simultaneously probe them allows dense, strongly coupled, Fermi degenerate plasmas relevant to planetary interiors, as well as solid-state lattice dynamics and plastic flows, to be studied.
Niámh Coll - Niamh.Coll@physics.ox.ac.uk
The Physics of Fine Tuning - 3rd Workshop - Stars, Galaxies and the Multiverse
The 3rd Workshop in the Physics of Fine Tuning - Stars, Galaxies, and the Multiverse will be held in Trinity College on Thursday 12th May 2016 from 14:00 - 16:00.
Speakers:
John Peacock (Edinburgh)
Observer Selection and Fine-Tuning Puzzles in Cosmology
Joe Silk (Oxford, IAP; John Hopkins)
The Limits of Cosmology
Adrianne Slyz (Oxford)
How do Galaxies know when, where and how quickly to form stars?
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk
Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials 2016
An annual interdisciplinary forum to bring together physicists, chemists, materials scientists and theoreticians in and around Oxford to advance the science and promote direct collaboration between groups interested in novel quantum materials and phenomena. The focus theme this year is Quantum Matter at Nanoscale and we have three invited guests speakers:
To register please follow the registration page below. For further details please contact Dr Amalia Coldea and Professor Paolo Radaelli.
17 August 2015
How to fold a DNA origami
DNA origami is a technique that is used to create nanometre–scale shapes by folding strands of DNA. Writing in the journal Nature, a group of researchers from Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical Physics and Computer Science at Oxford investigate how DNA origami folds.
21 July 2015
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell awarded Royal Society 2015 Royal Medal
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS has been awarded the Royal Society 2015 Royal Medal 'for her pivotal contribution in observing, analysing & understanding pulsars, one of the most important astronomical discoveries of the 20th century.'
Further details can be found here.
15 June 2015
Prof Fabian Essler wins MPLS Excellence in Teaching Award
Congratulations to Prof Fabian Essler, who has been awarded a 2015 MPLS Individual Divisional Teaching Award.
The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises and rewards excellence in teaching. Awards are available to all those who teach, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and learning support staff. The Teaching Award Scheme is administered by the MPLS Divisional Office and awards are made, on merit, across the departments by a cross-departmental panel chaired by the Associate Head of Division (Academic).
15 June 2015
Christopher Palmer wins MPLS Divisional ‘Project Award’ for innovative teaching
The Divisional Teaching Awards were announced at the MPLS Summer Party by the Head of Division Prof. Alex Halliday. Dr Christopher Palmer, Departmental Lecturer in Physics, was awarded the ‘Project Award’ for innovative teaching, worth £3k. Dr Palmer has been running the annual Oxford Undergraduate Physics Conference since 2007, when it was initially funded with an earlier Teaching award. Dr Palmer's new project will extend this concept to an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference, tackling themes of broad interest across the University.
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55th Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture 2015
Professor Charles Kane, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Chair & Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania will deliver the 55th Cherwell-Simon Lecture.
Title
Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics
Olivia Hawkes, Condensed Matter Physics
T: 01865 272225
E: olivia.hawkes@physics.ox.ac.uk