Tuesdays from 3.05 pm – 4.00 pm

This runs on Thursdays 3.05 – 4.00 pm in Pupil Services

TWBS Physics Society Open Lectures by visiting Professors.

All welcome: students, parents and other interested parties.

Forthcoming Events:

Friday 3rd March 2017 – 15.40 - 17.00 in the Performance Area

Speaker:  Dr Ralph Schoenrich - Oxford University
Topic:  The History Of Our Milky Way

 

Past events:

Friday 27th January 2017

Speaker:  Dr Michael Sutherland, Cambridge University
Topic:      Superconductivity and the Quantum World

Friday 25th November 2016

Speaker:  Mr Ian Glover, Bloodhound Ambassador
Topic:       Bloodhound SSC

Friday 15th April 2016 - Cybernetics and the Robotics Revolution

Speaker: Dr John Baruch

• Director of the Bradford Robotics Telescopes
• Former head of department of Cybernetics and Innovative Systems at the University of Bradford
• He currently holds posts at the University of Bradford, the Open University and the South China Technology University Guangzhou

Tuesday 1st March 2016 - The Lonely Universe: The Search for Aliens

Speaker: Professor Chris Lintott

• Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at Oxford University
• Primary Presenter of the BBC Series:  ‘The Sky at Night’

Friday, 5th February 2016 – Rosetta Mission

Speaker:  Dr Andrew Morse:

• A Researcher in the department of Physical Sciences at the Open University
• Dr Morse was one of the scientists behind the Rosetta mission

Friday, 29th January 2016 – Nanotechnology

Speaker:  Professor Russell Cowburn

• Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge

 

The Physics Society is run by the students and the lectures have been arranged entirely by the students themselves.