Seminars 2024/25
The seminars are open to anyone from the university, students are encouraged to attend.
A reception will be held directly after each seminar, where tea and coffee will be provided.
Semester 2
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 21 February 2025 | Professor Sonja Franke-Arnold | University of Glasgow | Polarisation textures of light and atoms |
| Friday 7 March 2025 | Professor Francesca Santoro | RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Juelich | Neuromorphic Materials and Biointerfaces for Neuroelectronics |
| Friday 25 April 2025 | Professor Yulin Chen | University of Oxford | Visualization of Electronic Structures of Quantum Materials |
| Friday 9 May 2025 | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| Friday 23 May 2025 | Professor Debora Sijacki | University of Cambridge | TBC |
| Friday 6 June 2025 | Dr Mohammad Saeed Bahramy | University of Manchester | TBC |
Semester 1
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 18 October 2024 | Professor Vahid Sandoghdar | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light | Exploring and Exploiting Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanometer Scale: From Quantum Optics to Biophysics |
| Friday 1 November 2024 | Professor Amanda Wright | University of Nottingham | Optical Imaging Deep Into Biological Samples |
| Friday 15 November 2024 | Professor David Alexander | Durham University | I'm a quasar get me out of here |
| Friday 29 November 2024 | Dr Shuqiu Wang | University of Bristol | Visualizing Intrinsic Topological Superconductivity |
| Friday 13 December 2024 | Professor Sir Michael Berry | University of Bristol | Four geometrical-optics illusions |