Department of Physics

Christmas

A lecture delivered three times each December to a total of more than six hundred local school pupils in years twelve and thirteen.

The 2009 Christmas Lecture took place on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th of December at 10:30am and 2.30pm in The James Duff Lecture Theatre (PH8), Rochester Building, Physics Department. It was given by Prof. J. Girkin and was entitled 'Making Light work for Doctors'.

Year Lecturer Title of Lecture Videos Available
2012 Prof P Richardson 2012: The year of the Higgs Boson
2011 Prof M Ward The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
2010 Prof B K Tanner Sounds Fantastic
2009 Prof J Girkin Making light work for Doctors
2008 Dr G Love Light: Skies, Eyes and Spies
2007 Prof G Weiglein 'The LHC - Exploring the mysteries of matter, space and time' 
2006  Dr M R C Hunt  Nanotechnology: the next big thing is small   
2005  Dr C Done  Extrasolar planets and extraterrestrial life   
2004  Dr I G Hughes  Cool things to do with lasers   
2003  Dr P J Edwards  A recipe for the universe   
2002  Prof E W N Glover  The hunt for the Higgs   
2001  Dr R P Cowburn  The incredible shrinking world of nanotechnology   
2000  Dr C Done  Black holes - fact, fiction or fantasy?   
1999  Prof R L Davies  New eyes on the universe: telescopes for the millennium   
1998  Dr P D Hatton  Superconductivity: money, science and applications   
1997  Prof D R Flower  Galactic nebulae   
1996  Prof A D Martin  Neutrinos   
1995  Dr R M Sharples New light from the cosmos - astronomical technology in the 1990's   
1994  Dr A P Monkman  A practical guide to lasers   
1993  Dr T Shanks  Einstein's universe   
1992  Prof W J Stirling  The fundamental particles - the building blocks of matter   
1991  Dr C S Frenk  The universe: What is the matter?   
1990  Prof B K Tanner  In record time   
1989  Prof A W Wolfendale  Where do cosmic rays come from?   
1988  Dr C J Maxwell  Hunting elementary particles   
1987  Dr B K Tanner & Dr N R Berhoeft  There is no resisting a semiconductor   
1986  Dr T Shanks & Dr J R Lucey  Stepping out into the universe   
1985  Dr D R Flower  Interstellar matter   
1984  Dr K E Turver  Very energetic gamma ray astronomy   
1983  Dr B K Tanner & Dr S R Hoon  Magnetic fluids   
1982  Dr F D Gault  Elementary particle physics: a GUT response   
1981  Prof A W Wolfendale  The new astronomies   
1980  Dr B K Tanner & Dr Dr S R Hoon  The physics of music   
1979  Dr R Fong  Einstein's universe   
1978  Dr J M Breare & Dr A D Martin  What are we made of?   
1977  Dr J V Major & Dr K J Orford  Resonance revealed   
1976  Dr B K Tanner & Dr W D Corner  A magnetic attraction   
1975  Dr K J Orford  Energy conversion