Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate change. Features episodes previously published as:(1) 'Oxford Physics Alumni': "Informal interviews with physics alumni at events, lectures and other alumni related activities."(2) 'Physics and Philosophy: Arguments, Experiments and a Few Things in Between': "A series which explores some of the links between physics and philosophy, two of the most fundamental ways with which we try to answer our questions about the world around us. A number of the most pertinent topics which bridge the disciplines are discussed - the nature of space and time, the unpredictable results of quantum mechanics and their surprising consequences and perhaps most fundamentally, the nature of the mind and how far science can go towards explaining and understanding it. Featuring interviews with Dr. Christopher Palmer, Prof. Frank Arntzenius, Prof. Vlatko Vedral, Dr. David Wallace and Prof. Roger Penrose."

Recent Episodes
  • Was there a strategic alternative to the atomic bombing of 1945?
    Dec 21, 2023 – 25:16
  • Oxford Physics and the ‘remote and speculative project’
    Dec 21, 2023 – 28:25
  • Nuclear Physics and the development of the bomb
    Dec 21, 2023 – 41:08
  • IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole
    Dec 20, 2019 – 01:24:59
  • The First Image of a Black Hole
    Nov 19, 2019 – 57:31
  • The Many Universes of Quantum Materials
    Oct 7, 2019 – 40:39
  • Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy
    Jul 30, 2019 – 01:19:56
  • Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe
    Jul 30, 2019 – 01:09:57
  • Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection
    Jul 8, 2019 – 01:18:24
  • Is Dark Matter Made of Black Holes
    Jun 4, 2019 – 53:19
  • The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution
    Jun 3, 2019 – 58:40
  • Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - Past, Present and Future
    Mar 18, 2019 – 01:04:58
  • The Quantum and the Cosmos
    Nov 14, 2018 – 01:09:08
  • The Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time
    Oct 29, 2018 – 01:21:26
  • How do we find planets around other stars?
    Jul 2, 2018 – 41:50
  • The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds
    May 22, 2018 – 35:00
  • ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies
    Mar 28, 2018 – 54:05
  • The State of the Universe
    Nov 20, 2017 – 01:14:58
  • Superconductors: Miracle Materials
    Oct 25, 2017 – 32:48
  • Quantum physics and the nature of computing
    Oct 25, 2017 – 17:48
  • Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive
    Oct 25, 2017 – 20:18
  • Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan
    Oct 18, 2017 – 01:01:17
  • Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy
    Jun 27, 2017 – 01:10:50
  • Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light
    Jun 27, 2017 – 51:41
  • Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary
    Jun 27, 2017 – 01:00:57
  • Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats
    Jun 27, 2017 – 01:05:26
  • Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars
    Apr 27, 2017 – 01:09:28
  • Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices
    Apr 27, 2017 – 57:08
  • Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows
    Apr 27, 2017 – 54:26
  • The applied side of Bell nonlocality
    Apr 27, 2017 – 50:10
  • The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
    Apr 5, 2017 – 52:33
  • From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope
    Apr 5, 2017 – 45:00
  • The Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion
    Mar 7, 2017 – 01:10:10
  • The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture
    Mar 7, 2017 – 01:05:56
  • Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays
    Nov 30, 2016 – 45:38
  • Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years
    Nov 17, 2016 – 01:05:24
  • Our Simple but Strange Universe
    Nov 17, 2016 – 54:51
  • Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves
    Nov 1, 2016 – 01:03:00
  • Visualizing Quantum Matter
    Nov 1, 2016 – 53:45
  • Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change
    Nov 1, 2016 – 47:45
  • The explosion mechanism of massive stars
    Oct 27, 2016 – 01:00:13
  • Quantum Sensors sans Frontier
    Jun 16, 2016 – 49:22
  • The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
    Jun 15, 2016 – 57:20
  • Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience
    May 24, 2016 – 01:03:10
  • Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies
    May 18, 2016 – 01:05:08
  • Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies (Slides)
    May 18, 2016 –
  • ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping
    May 11, 2016 – 53:11
  • The Unity of the Universe
    Mar 9, 2016 – 52:21
  • Engineering Defects in Diamond
    Mar 4, 2016 – 57:38
  • Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Single Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles
    Mar 4, 2016 – 55:03
Recent Reviews
  • ZacharyMH
    very poor video and sound quality
    I don't think Oxford knows about YouTube.
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