School of Physics & Astronomy

School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Series

This Colloquium series hosts prominent scientists who will discuss some of the newest developments in physics and astronomy. It is aimed at a general physics audience at a level accessible to physics PhD students.

All Colloquia will be held in Physics building at 3pm followed by refreshments in room C10.


Academic Year 2025/2026

26/11/2025 Dr Anton Souslov Active Solids    
29/10/2025 Professor Oliver Buchmueller Exploring the Universe with Quantum Technology: A New Frontier in Fundamental Physics    
24/09/2025 Dr Emma Chapman Should we just give up? Continuing the search for the First Stars    
         

 

Past Colloquiums
           
    28/05/2025 Dr Hannah Stern A quantum coherent spin defect in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum technologies  
    30/04/2025 Dr Melanie Muller Tracing ultrafast dynamics of electronic and structural excitations at atomic scales  
    26/03/2025 Professor Jo Dunkley New maps and cosmologican results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope  
    26/02/2025 Dr Mark Richards Laying the foundations for sustainable equity within STEM  
    29/01/2025 Professor Janet Anders quantum thermodynamic insights and their use for atomistic spin dynamics simulations and cold atom thermometry  
    27/11/2024 Dr Emma Chapman Should we just give up?Continuing the search for the First Stars  
    30/10/2024  Dr Harry Cliff rare beauty - the hunt for new physics at the LCHb experiment  
    25/09/2024  Dr Patrick Robertson  How to watch chemistry happen in real life  
    29/05/2024 Prof Markus Arndt Universal matter-wave interferometry across the mass and complexity scales.  
    14/05/2024 Dr John E Kitching Chip-scale atomic devices:from clocks to brain imaging and beyond  
    24/04/2024 Dr June McCombie Shifting the Dial (Diverse Representation in STEM)  
    27/03/2024 Dr Stuart Meldrew Fusion's  STEP to Nottinghamshire  
    28/02/2024 Dr Niall Holmes Magnetic field control for wearable neuroimaging  
    31/01/2024 Dr Helen Russell Black hole feedback  
    29/11/2023 Dr Adam Smith Simulating quantum many-body physics on quantum computers  
    27/09/2023 Dr Neil Kemp A route to hierarchical control in artificial intelligent systems:memristors with optically tuneable STDP synaptic plasticity  
     28/06/2023 Dr Jonathan Vincent, University of Lancaster EDI Colloquium: Uncovering employing outcomes for austistic University graduates:barriers and (possible) solutions  
    26/02/2020 Dr Pierre Verlot, University of Nottingham Ultra-sensitive nanomachanices at room temperature:Novel techniques, Challenges & Perspectives  
    13/11/2019 Professor Athene Donald, University of Cambridge  Not all those who wander are lost  
    30/10/2019 Professor Tom McLeish, University of York New Physics from old: Medieval Science and the Ordered Universe Project  
    08/05/2019 Professor Becky Parker, Queen Mary,London Engaging Schools in cutting edge research  
    24/04/2019 Professor Francoise Combes, College de France and Observatoire de Paris When supermassive black holes are too gluttonous  
    27/03/2019 Professor Roger Davies, University of Oxford New views of galaxies from integral field spectroscopy  

Organisers:

Juan P. Garrahan/Kay Brandner (Condensed-matter theory)

Philip Moriarty (Experimental CM/Nanoscience)

Matthew Brookes (Magnetic Resonance)

Lucia Hackermüller (Cold Atoms)

Ulrike Kuchner (Astronomy)

Tony Padilla (Particle Cosmology)

School of Physics and Astronomy

The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD

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