Public Outreach
Watch this space: Telescope evenings (Two public sessions)
The programme for the evenings
This month we are running two sessions on the same evening. We encourage children to attend the first session with their families.
Session 1 (family friendly): 5.45 - 7.45pm
Session 2: 7.00 - 9.15 pm
Activities include:
- A short astronomy talk (see below)
- Refreshments and "ask an astronomer"
- Observatory tour and use of the telescope
- Astronomy workshop - indoor or outdoor depending on weather
Astrophysics talk
Super Massive Black Holes
Public lecure: Particle accelerators - making subatomic particles go REALLY fast! (Dr Suzie Sheehy)
Particle accelerators - making subatomic particles go REALLY fast!
Dr Suzie Sheehy
To reserve places at the event please fill in the our online form: http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/my-forms/sians-webform-2
Public lecure: Global visions (Prof. Joshua Silver)
Global visions
Prof. Joshua Silver
Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. He will demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveal his global plans to distribute them to a billion people.
About Prof. Joshua Silver
Booking is recommended. To reserve places please fill in this short on-line form: http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/my-forms/public-lecture-booking-2.
Public lecure: The importance of renewable energy (Prof. Nick Jelley)
The importance of renewable energy
Prof. Nick Jelly
Christmas lecture: Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence (Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell)
9 September 2011
Oxford physicist reaches final of Astronomy Photographer of the Year
An Oxford researcher has been highly commended in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011. Andrew Steele’s image of moonrise over the Oxford skyline was a finalist in the Earth and Space category of the annual competition, run by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Documentary, "Orphans of Apollo" special screening with Director Michael Potter
You are cordially invited to a special screening of the award winning documentary, Orphans of Apollo, with Director and Executive Producer, Michael Potter.
Public Lecture: Neutrinos (Prof. Frank Close)
Neutrinos
Prof. Frank Close
Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are almost invisible. Frank Close tells the story of the neutrino, explaining their growing significance, and looking at how neutrino astronomy is at the threshold of enabling us to look into distant galaxies and to finding echoes of the Big Bang.
Public lecture: X-ray, electron and proton beams in cancer treatment
Prof. Bleddyn Jones talks about X-ray, electron and proton beams in cancer treatment.
More information about Prof. Beddyn and his research
Prof. Bleddyn Jones
Proton Therapy research
Public lecture: From Microseconds to Aeons - How our Complex Cosmos Emerged
Public Lecture:
"From Microseconds to Aeons - How our Complex Cosmos Emerged"
Professor Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal
Monday 19th September at 7.30pm, Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Organised in association with New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy conference.
