Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
Learn about quantum mechanics, black holes, dark matter, plasma, particle accelerators, the Large Hadron Collider and other key Theoretical Physics topics. The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics holds morning sessions consisting of three talks, pitched to explain an area of our research t...
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Nonlinear dynamics of active particles
Dr Rahil Valani provides an introduction to active matter (a field focusing on active particles' nonlinear dynamical behaviors) exploring the active s...
The physics of “flat” electrons
Dr Dumitru Călugăru explores the main strategies for engineering flat band materials, discusses band topology concepts and their relevance to flat ban...
How to program a quantum computer
Dr Dominik Hahn explains how a quantum computer is built, discusses how quantum operations are programmed in a way similar to classical computing, and...
A New Twist on Topology: The Rise of “Moiré Materials”
Prof Sid Parameswaran discusses how quantum condensed matter physics has been revolutionized by “moiré materials”, made by stacking individual atomica...
Anyons: New Types of Particles in Quantum Physics
While it was originally believed that only bosons and fermions were allowed by quantum mechanics, in fact, when objects are restricted to move on a tw...
Topology in the Physics of Condensed Matter
Prof Shivaji Sondhi explains how topology is applied to understanding properties of condensed matter systems, providing an introduction to topics incl...
The Hubble Tension
Professor Prateek Agrawal discusses the ongoing crisis in cosmology regarding the measurement of the Hubble parameter by two separate probes in this...
Cosmic strings and gravitational waves from the early Universe
Professor Edward Hardy discusses how the network of cosmic strings that occurs in some theories of the early Universe evolves and emits gravitational...
Chirality in living systems
Prof Alexander Mietke discusses recent findings in this field that have linked chirality in living systems to the formation of a left-right body axis...
Imaging living systems
Dr Adrien Hallou presents a new methodology called 'spatial mechano-transcriptomics', which allows the simultaneous measurement of the mechanical and...
Statistical physics of living systems
Professor Julia Yeomans describes how mechanical models are being extended to incorporate the unique properties of living systems Epithelial tissues c...
The Miracle of Quantum Error Correction
In this talk, Benedikt Placke introduces QEC and explains how the unique interplay between the classical and the quantum world enables us to efficient...
Simulating physics beyond computer power
In this talk Alessio Lerose discusses the seminal idea of simulating Nature via a controllable quantum system rather than a classical computer. He dis...
A liquid of quarks and gluons
Jasmine Brewer covers recent progress on studying the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, and describe how we can capitalize on lessons learned from...
Possible sources for the gravitational wave background
Dr Yonadav Barry Ginat - Possible sources for the gravitational wave background The detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of black hol...
Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves
Prof Bence Kocsis - Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves The direct detection of gravitational wave...
Gravitational radiation: an overview
Prof Steven Balbus - Gravitational radiation: an overview General Relativity, Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravity, predicts that the effects of...
How the weird and wonderful properties of magnetised laser plasmas could ignite fusion-energy research
Archie Bott explains how a promising scheme for fusion relies on a novel feature of hot laser-plasmas: introducing a magnetic field of the correct str...
Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion
Georgia Acton introduces stellarators, discusses the features that distinguish them from tokamaks, highlight the challenges we currently face, and dis...
Magnetic confinement fusion: Science that’s hotter than a Kardashian Instagram post
Michael Barnes introduces the basic concepts behind magnetic confinement fusion, he describes why it is so challenging and discusses possibilities for...
The spaghettification of stars by supermassive black holes: understanding one of nature’s most extreme events
The spaghettification of stars by supermassive black holes: understanding one of nature’s most extreme events - Andrew Mummery On a rare occasion an u...
Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events
Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events - Francesco Mori Rare extreme events tend to play a major role in a wide range of contexts, fro...
Inflation and the Very Early Universe
Inflation and the Very Early Universe - Georges Obied The universe we observe seems to have come from surprisingly fine-tuned initial conditions. This...
Axion Searches from Black Holes to the Basement
Professor John March-Russell talks about the search possibilities for axions including many current and near future ultra-precise quantum `table top'...
Axion Electrodynamics in Solid-State Materials
Professor Siddharth Parameswaran gives the second talk on Axions. Over the past decade, topological ideas have played an increasingly important role i...
The Axion: How Angles Become Particles
Professor Joseph Conlon introduces the general idea of axions: particles associated to fields which are valued on a circle rather than a real line. He...
Fluid-gravity duality and hydrodynamics of black holes
Holography explains why black hole horizons have thermodynamic and hydrodynamic properties and inspires researchers to re-visit foundations and explor...
Hydrodynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems Out of Equilibrium
Can we apply hydrodynamics to systems with extensively many conservation laws Can we apply hydrodynamics to systems with extensively many conservation...
Why Hydrodynamics?
What is hydrodynamics and why does it apply over 20 orders of magnitude in energy and length. Welcome, Prof Julia Yeomans FRS, Head of Rudolf Peierls...
Strings and Fields
Will strings be the theory of everything?, presented by Prof Luis Fernando Alday.
Classical and Quantum Black Holes
Prof March-Russell explains our latest understanding of black holes, some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe.
Why is Quantum Gravity so hard?
A pressing question in our quest to understand the Universe is how to unify quantum mechanics and gravity, the very small and the very large.
Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments
In this talk, Dr Elliott Bentine shall discuss how recent experiments have exploited machine-learning techniques, both to optimize the operation of th...
Machine Learning and String Theory
Professor Andre Lukas will discuss how string theorists have started to use methods from data science - particularly machine learning - to analyse the...
An Introduction to deep learning
Professor Ard Louis gives a basic introduction to deep learning for physicists and addresses a few questions such as: Is the hype around deep learning...
Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics
Ian Shipsey give an update on the department and introduces the next three talk on 'AI in Physics'.
Cosmic acceleration revealed by Type la supernovae?
In this talk Subir Sarkar will explain how deflagration supernovae have been used to infer that the Hubble expansion rate is accelerating, and critica...
Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe
In this talk, Philipp Podsiadlowski will explain how this energy (sometimes) creates a visible fireball, before going on to explain the role of supern...
What makes stars go bang?
In this talk, James Binney will outline the physics that leads to prodigeous release of energy in core-collapse and deflagration supernovae.
... from collisions to the Higgs boson
To study the Higgs boson at the LHC we also need to understand how highly energetic quarks and gluons interact, among themselves and with the Higgs. T...