Public Outreach

Dark Matter Day

Date: 
31 Oct 2017 - 6:00pm to 7:45pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Audience: 
General public (Age 12+)

Booking: Recommended, please see below

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For more information contact: 

Booking: Recommended, please complete the following form: http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/my-forms/booking-for-dark-matter-day
Email: public.events@physics.ox.ac.uk
Twitter: @oxfordphysics #darkmatterday

Dangerous Worlds

Date: 
13 Sep 2017 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 12+)

Refreshments: Served from 6:30pm

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An Evening of Quantum Discovery

Date: 
17 Oct 2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Lindemann Lecture Theatre (entrance via Martin Wood)
Audience: 
5pm - 6.30pm: Family friendly / 6.30pm onwards: General Public (Age 12+)

Welcome to an Evening of Quantum Discovery!

Come and find out about Quantum Physics. Hear about the exciting new research and innovative technology development being done at Oxford University. Discover how Quantum Physics impacts on your everyday life, now and in the near future.

For more information contact: 

Quantum Computers - The World's Most Incredible Machines

Date: 
5 Jul 2017 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Rhodes House, South Parks Road
Audience: 
General public (Age 12+)

Professor Winfried Hensinger, University of Sussex, will give a public talk about his exciting research to build a quantum computer.

Come along and find out about these incredible machines!

For more information contact: 

Hannah Rowlands contact@NQIT.org

How to Make a Supernova

Date: 
21 Jun 2017 - 6:45pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

IOP Oxford Physics Lectures

On 21st June the Institute of Physics and Oxford University Physics Department will be hosting Dr. Jena Meinecke, Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University. Jena will report on the first experimental measurements of seed magnetic fields in laser-produced shock waves via the "Biermann battery" process.

Tea and coffee will be served from 18:30 with the talk beginning at 19:00.

About the talk

For more information contact: 

The event is free and open to anyone with an interest, but registration is required in advance.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-make-a-supernova-tickets-339726761...

For informaiton contact: public.events@physics.ox.ac.uk

Smashing Physics: latest news from the energy frontier

Date: 
26 Apr 2017 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

Description

The Institute of Physics Oxford Centre will be hosting Jon Butterworth, Head of Physics & Astronomy at University College London. Jon will be giving a talk entitled Smashing Physics: latest news from the energy frontier based on his first hand experiences working at the Large Hadron Collider.

57th Cherwell Simon Lecture 2017

Date: 
12 May 2017 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

Professor Dr Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching & Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich will deliver the 57th Cherwell-Simon Lecture.

This is a free event and the general public are welcome. Registration not required. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Title: Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter Using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

For more information contact: 

Ms Olivia Hawkes
Condensed Matter Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU
T: (01865) 272225
olivia.hawkes@physics.ox.ac.uk

Inflationary Cosmology - Workshop

Date: 
14 Mar 2017 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
dwb
Room: 
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

5th Workshop on the Physics of Fine-Tuning: Inflationary Cosmology

Speakers :
Robert Brandenberger (McGill) - Does Inflationary Cosmology Solve Fine-TuningPuzzles?
Anne-Christine Davis (DAMTP, Cambridge)- Non-Minimally Coupled Fields in the Early Universe
Jerome Martin (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) - Inflation After Planck

ORGANISERS
Rafael Alves Batista
Khalil Chamcham
Roger Davies
Michael Hicks
Leanne O'Donnell
Joe Silk
David Sloan

For more information contact: 

Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613973
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk

The 14th Hintze Lecture

Date: 
4 May 2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

The 14th Hintze Lecture will be delivered by Professor Conny Aerts, Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven.

This is a free event, general public welcome.

For more information contact: 

Leanne O'Donnell

01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk

Postdoc Careers Event

Date: 
27 Jan 2017 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Venue: 
dwb
Room: 
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
Post Doctoral Researchers

Postdoc Careers Event

Are you a postdoc interested on how to optimize your career options in academia? Or curious on career opportunities beyond the Ivory Tower? Then come to the Physics Postdoc Careers Event this Friday - registration form & submission of questions to panellists through this form

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