2009/10 session's colloquia are listed below


Date / PlaceTitle / Speaker
2009  

2nd September
LT 222

Neutrinoless double beta decay

Iris Abt, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München

9th September
LT 222

Riding on Magnetic Fields - the Miraculous World of Superconductivity

Ludwig Schultz, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden

16th September
LT 222

The Faraday effect in a slow-light medium

Ifan Hughes, Durham University

21st September
LT222

Bayes and Frequentism: the return of an old controversy

Louis Lyons, University of Oxford

30th September
LT 222

What are Gravitons?

Derek Eastham, University of Salford

7th October
LT222

Searching for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Systems

Stephen Fairhurst, Cardiff University

4th November
LT 222

CMB Polarisation

Walter Gear, Cardiff University

18th November
LT 222

Physics and technology of silicon detectors

Chris Damerell, Rutherford Appleton Lab

2nd December
LT 222

Universe or Multiverse?

Bernard Carr, Queen Mary, University of London

2010  

20th January
LT 222

(Cancelled)

Mike MacDonald, University of Dundee

3rd February
LT 222

Open source car design - the vision and the challenges

Patrick Andrews

17th February
LT 222

Protein Aggregation - When Things go Wrong

Athene Donald, University of Cambridge

17th March
LT 222

The detection and characterisation of extrasolar planets

Don Pollacco, Queen's University Belfast

23rd March
LT 222

Latest techniques for manipulating single DNA molecules

Akira Mizuno, Toyohashi University of Techonology

25th March
LT 222

Polarisation

David Clarke, University of Glasgow

7th April
LT 222

Applications of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy: from atomic resolution imaging to confocal electron microscopy

Peter Nellist, University of Oxford

21st April
LT 222

Good Vibrations, or, how seismic activity in the Sun and stars allows us to probe stellar interiors.

Yvonne Elsworth, University of Birmingham

27th April

LT 222

Lunar Hydrogen Distribution after KAGUYA(SELENE)

Luis Teodoro, NASA Ames Research Center

 


Third year PhD talks 09/10

 

Date

SpeakersTitle
2010    
28th April

M Basith (SSP)

M Edgar (IGR)

S Fegan (IGR)

TEM investigations of the lithographically patterned magnetic nanostructures

Investigations Into Advanced Techniques And Technology For Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

Strangeness Photoproduction with the Frozen Spin Target at Jefferson Lab

5th May

K Haughian (IGR)

D Forrest (PPE)

S Sakai (Astro)

TBA

TBA

TBA

12th May

B Jack (Optics)

R Bassiri (IGR/SSP)

H Reid (Astro)

TBA

TBA

TBA

19th May

H Quang (SSP)

S Jebali (NPE)

E Thomson (Astro)

TBA

TBA

TBA

26th May

H Ghodsi (Astro)

D Howdle (NPE)

E Bellini (SSP)

M Twaddle (PPE)

TBA

TBA

TBA

TBA