Public Outreach
Hintze Lecture - 'Dissecting galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope'
delivered by
Professor Julianne Dalcanton (University of Washington)
Vanessa Ferraro-Wood
vfw@astro.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 273302
Halley Lecture 2013: Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars
delivered by
Professor Dr E F van Dishoeck
(Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands and Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany)
Vanessa Ferraro-Wood;
vfw@astro.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 273302
Cherwell-Simon Lecture 2013
EMERGENT LAW
Professor Robert B Laughlin
Department of Physics, Stanford University, USA
1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
Corinna Dahnke at corinna.dahnke@physics.ox.ac or on 01865-272225
The 9th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture
Lorenz, Gödel and Penrose: New perspective on determinism and unpredictability - from climate prediction to fundamental physics
21 February 2013
Stargazing podcast series available now
Have you had a look at 'What's Hot' on the front page of iTunesU? You would have seen that the Stargazing podcast series is listed there.
For a complete list of free podcasts, check here.
18 February 2013
Oxford Climate Network Day
On Tuesday 26 February at 2pm in the Sheldonian there will be an open afternoon to showcase the diversity of climate research in Oxford, and give a flavour of the opportunities for research and collaboration across departments. Open to all, including undergraduates thinking about climate research; graduates, post-docs and faculty, to learn about what is going on in other departments; and interested members of the public. This event is organised by the Oxford Climate Research Network.
Astronomy For All Lectures 2013: Martian Origins
The last of three lectures organised as part of the Public Engagement with Science and Technology initiative.
Speaker: Charles Barclay, GTC Associate Fellow, Director, Blackett Observatory, Marlborough College, and Oxford Astrophysics.
Booking is recommended for this lecture: Register here.
Astronomy For All Lectures 2013: Cosmic Telescopes
The second of three lectures organised as part of the Public Engagement with Science and Technology initiative.
Speaker: Dr Phil Marshall, Oxford Astrophysics.
Massive objects, like galaxies and clusters, warp the space around themselves, and cause the light from distant background sources to follow curved paths as it passes. This gravitational lensing effect allows us to see deep into the Universe to the very earliest galaxies, and in doing so to infer the presence of mass where we perhaps weren't expecting it.
Booking is recommended for this lecture: Register here.
Astronomy For All Lectures 2013: The Moon: What Is, What Was, What Might Have Been
The first of three lectures organised as part of the Public Engagement with Science and Technology initiative.
Speaker: Professor Steven Balbus, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Astrophysics.
Booking is recommended for this lecture: Register here
13 February 2013
Colourful ‘solar glass’ means entire buildings can generate clean power
Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state dye sensitized solar cells for the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) sector.
