Public Outreach
Stargazing Oxford 2015
Stargazing Oxford returns on the 21st March 2015 from 2pm to 10pm (last entry 9.30pm). Entry is free and there is no need to book, just drop in!
BBC Stargazing LIVE is returning to BBC Two on the 18-20th March 2015 and Stargazing Oxford is also back! It will be an opportunity to find out more about our night sky, from new planets to far-off galaxies and the vastness of the Universe.
The Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
The 11th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Philip Candelas, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Title: Simple Calabi-Yau Manifolds and the Landscape of String Vacua
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
The Wetton Lecture
The Wetton Lecture will de delivered by Professor Carlo Frenk, Director, Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham.
Title: "Everything from nothing, or how our universe was made"
Public Talk: Darkness and dragons - the importance of eclipses by Charles Barclay
This month's public talk will get us ready for the Total Solar Eclipse on 20th March 2015!
Public Talk: Moving Atoms for Science and Fun - Andreas Heinrich
Abstract:
The scanning tunnelling microscope has been an extremely successful experimental tool for nanoscience because of its ability to image surfaces of material with atomic-scale spatial resolution. In recent years this has been combined with the use of low temperatures, culminating in the ability to reposition individual atoms at will and build nanostructures one atom at a time.
Stargazing Oxford 2015
Stargazing Oxford returns on the 17th January 2015 from 2pm to 10pm (last entry 9.30pm)
26 November 2014
Now you can look for Higgs boson siblings by eye!
Oxford physicists are asking online volunteers to spot tiny explosions that could be evidence for as-yet-unobserved relatives of the Higgs boson.
The Higgs Hunters project launched today enables members of the public to view 25,000 images recorded at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. By tagging the origins of tracks on these images, volunteers could spot tiny sub-atomic explosions caused when a Higgs boson ‘dies’, which would be evidence for a kind of particle new to physics.
Stargazing Oxford
The Oxford University Physics Department is set to host another one of its eagerly-anticipated Stargazing Nights! This fun-filled evening of space activities will bring you closer to the stars and galaxies, and let you see some of the ways astronomers are able to learn about how the Universe works. Some of the things you can look forward to are:
Oxford Physics Public Talk: Exploring Solar Systems - Ryan MacDonald
Abstract: Our understanding of the solar system has changed considerably since the dawn of the space age. It was only 50 years ago that many scientists believed in algal blooms on Mars and rainforests on Venus (we were pretty sure the Moon wasn't made of Cheese though). Now we stand at the dawn of a new era, where we are receiving the first tantalising glimpses of the conditions on planets around other stars. Join us for a tour of the solar system, from the sun-scorched surface of Mercury, to the icy bodies of the Kuiper belt and beyond.
The 9th Hintze Lecture - Professor Scott Ransom - Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead
Professor Scott Ransom US National Radio Astronomy Observatory will give the 9th Hintze Lecture.
"Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead"
Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@astro.ox.ac.uk
