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Destroyer of Worlds [email protected] Thu, 06/11/2026 - 13:14 Speaker: Professor Frank Close OBE FRS CPhys FInstP, University of Oxford. 

Was Marie Curie really the greatest female physicist of the early 20th century? Could the atomic energy contained in a kilogramme of radium really drive a ship across the Atlantic? Did a traffic light near th...


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The Rise of AI – a short introduction [email protected] Thu, 06/11/2026 - 12:55 Speaker: Mark Wilson-Thomas

Have you ever wondered what Artificial Intelligence (AI) really is and how it is applied? Come along to this short talk, where Mark Wilson-Thomas will give a beginner’s level introduction to AI and Machine Learning, and help you understand wha...


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Towards the quantum vacuum [email protected] Thu, 06/11/2026 - 11:17 Speaker: Dr Robin Timmis MInstP, University of Oxford

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics has been studied remarkably successfully at high-energy particle accelerators such as those at CERN for many decades. Reproducing similar phenomena using light alone, however, is more challen...


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Beyond Science Fiction: Is a Lunar base and mining of Helium-3 on the Moon feasible? allison.vicker… Wed, 06/10/2026 - 14:17 Speaker: Professor Andrew Newsam, MInstP

The event will start by watching "


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The Invisible Scanners allison.vicker… Fri, 06/05/2026 - 10:04

Image credit - "Scanners" from Close, Marten and Sutton: The Particle Explosion (OUP 1994)

Speaker: Dr Jim Grozier, MInstP

This talk covers a period in the recent history of particle physics (approximately the 1960s and 1970s) when the output of particle colliders was in...


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