Tuesday 17 February 2015

• 14:15 - Title TBC
  Richard Greatbatch (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 28 April 2015

• 14:15 - Large scale spatial statistics
  Finn Lindgren (University of Bath)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 12 May 2015

• 14:15 - Large-scale vortices in rotating convection
  Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 9 June 2015

• 14:15 - Statistical mechanics applied to decaying two-dimensional turbulence
  Gavin Esler (University College London)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 14:15 - Dynamically consistent parameterization of mesoscale eddies
  Pavel Berloff (Imperial College London)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 14:15 - The impact of coupled barotropic-baroclinic variability for annular mode persistence in the two-layer model
  Pablo Zurita Gotor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 14:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 14:15 - Representing model uncertainty and subgrid-scale variability: Stochastic parametrizations in global ocean and sea ice models
  TBA
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 14:15 - Plankton-climate Interactions
  Roger Cropp (Griffith University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 14:15 - The Local and Remote Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the Carbon Cycle
  Ben Bronselaer (University of Oxford)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 14:15 - Storm track shifts with climate change: a journey toward a mechanistic understanding
  Cheikh Mbengue (University of Oxford)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 4 March 2016

• 10:00 - Radiative-Convective Instability: Implications for Tropical Weather and Climate
  Note unusual time/day
  Professor Kerry Emanuel (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars
• 15:30 - Hurricanes and Climate Change
  For further information and to reserve a place go to: http://oxfordclimatenetwork2016.eventbrite.co.uk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Kerry Emanuel (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 14:15 - Resonant Amplification of Planetary Waves
  TBA
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 14:15 - The sea ice floe size distribution: modeling, interaction with ocean eddies, and influence on sea ice melting
  Chris Horvat (Harvard University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 14:15 - Stochastic parameterisation models for GFD
  Darryl Holm (Imperial College London)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Monday 16 May 2016

• 14:15 - Do deep-convective aerosol effects resolve climate enigmas?
  Steve Sherwood (University of New South Wales)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 14:15 - Tools for identifying resolved-scale turbulence in convection simulations
  Bob Kerr (University of Warwick)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 20 September 2016

• 14:15 - The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Hydrothermohaline Circulation
  Kristofer Doos (Stockholm University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 30 September 2016

• 15:30 - Modelling ice shelf/ocean interaction with ROMS
  Dr David Gwyther (University of Tasmania)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 14:15 - How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks
  Walt Robinson (North Carolina State University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 14:15 - Intermittency in precipitation: duration, frequency, intensity and amounts of precipitation using hourly data.
  Kevin Trenberth (NCAR)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Monday 20 February 2017

• 11:30 - Instabilities of Internal Gravity Wave Beams: insights from experimental and analytical approaches
  Thierry Dauxois (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 14:15 - The onset of turbulence in shear flows
  Matthew Chantry (University of Oxford)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 20 October 2017

• 10:00 - Two New Technologies for Optical Microscopy and Biochemical Research
  Robert Ishmukhametov (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Friday 3 November 2017

• 10:00 - Gianni Klesse - "Functional Annotation of Ion Channel Structures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation", AND, Viwan Jarerattanachat - "Asymmetric Mechanosensitivity in a Eukaryotic Ion Channel"
  Gianni Klesse (University of Oxford), Viwan Jarerattanachat (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 11:30 - Understanding model diversity in CMIP5 projections of westerly winds over the Southern Ocean
  TBA

Friday 17 November 2017

• 10:00 - Barak Gilboa - "Widefield tracking and FRET measurements of diffusing particles", AND, Maabur Sow - "Characterisation of Nanodiamonds for Single-Molecule Imaging"
  Various Speakers
  Biological Physics Seminars

Friday 1 December 2017

• 10:00 - CryoEM snapshots of the spliceosome at work: towards understanding its catalytic mechanism
  Kiyoshi Nagai (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 18:00 - What are Quantum Materials? - Physics Department Public Lecture
  Professor Andrew Boothroyd (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 May 2018

• 16:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse: Working with the Crowd
  Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford), Dr John Tweddle (Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity, Natural History Museum London)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 14:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse Workshop 1: Working with the Crowd - Project design and deployment
  Dr Grant Miller (University of Oxford)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 14:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse Workshop 2: Working with the Crowd - Sustainable communities
  Dr Grant Miller (University of Oxford)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 14:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse Workshop 3: Working with the Crowd - Data analysis
  Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 12:00 - In Conversation with Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum - Intimate Free Lunch Event
  Thomas Rosenbaum (California Institute of Technology)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 15:00 - Play-testing an innovative game of the Red Cross to communicate climate risk
  Margot Curl (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre )

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 14:00 - SETI Institute - An introduction to the research & education programs of SETI
  TBA

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 18:00 - Finding Aliens - an update on the search for life in the Universe
  TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:00 - Rocking the Cradle: Radio Galaxies and Black Holes
  Dr James Allison (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 17:00 - Dr Rebecca Bowler on First Galaxies
  Dr Rebecca Bowler (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 March 2020

• 17:30 - Probing the Invisible: Weighing Supermassive Black Holes
  TBA

Thursday 4 June 2020

• 15:00 - The intersections between COVID-19 and `climate change
  Dr Andrew Gettelman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 June 2020

• 15:00 - Economic inequality from a statistical point of view
  TBA

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 14:00 - Visualizing Electron-Pair Crystals in a Conducting Quantum Spin Liquid
  J.C. Séamus Davis (University of Oxford Department of Physics)

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 17:00 - Trinity: the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history
  Professor Frank Close (Exeter College)

Saturday 14 November 2020

• 17:30 - Watching the (rapidly) evolving Universe
  Professor Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 16:00 - Pitcture-perfect planet: observing the Earth from hundreds of satellites
  Dr Will Marshall (Planet)

Friday 11 December 2020

• 17:00 - From climate to energy: physics is key to the world's most pressing issues
  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-climate-to-energy-physics-is-key-to-the-worlds-most-pressing-issues-tickets-128998093771
  Prof Henry Snaith (Co-Director of the Programme on Solar Energy), Professor Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University Of Oxford), Prof Ian Shipsey (Head, Dept Physics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 18:00 - The 2021 Quantum Materials Public Lecture - "From Rust to Riches"
  The zoom link for the meeting will be sent out on the day of the lecture to everyone who has registered
  Prof Paolo Radaelli (Dept of Physics)

Wednesday 24 March 2021

• 15:00 - Racism and its effects on academia
  Dr Jason Arday (Durham University)
  Challenges & Changes in Physics

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 17:00 - Cosmic Knowledge and the Long-term Strategy of the Human Race
  Professor Sandra Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 17:00 - 61st Cherwell Simon Memorial Lecture - Scientific Research (and much more ...) at CERN
  Professor Fabiola Giannotti (CERN)

Friday 21 May 2021

• 10:00 - The interplay between thymine dimers and supercoiled DNA
  Wilber Lim (Ard Louis Group, Oxford Physics)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 18:00 - Minerva's Laboratory: Laura Bassi and the Pursuit of Science in Eighteenth-Century Italy
  Hosted in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in London and the Association of Italian Scientists in the UK
  Professor Paula Findlen (Stanford University)

Friday 4 June 2021

• 10:00 - Active nematics, as a model for describing biological systems
  Mehrana Raesian Nejad (Julia Yeomans Group, Oxford Physics)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Friday 11 June 2021

• 18:30 - 90 degrees south
  Professor Daniela Bortoletto (Oxford Dept of Physics), Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford), Josh Veitch-Michaelis (Icecube South Pole Neutrino Observatory), Martin Wolf (Icecube South Pole Neutrino Observatory), Dr Jim Madsen (Exec Director Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center), Gwenhael de Wasseige (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

Friday 18 June 2021

• 10:00 - High throughput super resolution microscopy, modelling and simulations of filamentous viruses
  Andrew McMahon (Achillefs Kapanidis Group, Oxford Physics)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Friday 25 June 2021

• 10:00 - Dynamics of the bacterial flagellar motor
  Ashley Nord (Center for Structural Biology (Montepllier, France) & French National Centre for Scientific Research)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Wednesday 14 July 2021

• 17:00 - Frontiers of astrophysics at Oxford
  Everyone is free to join us for this public talk. Registration in advance is required.
  Prof Rob Fender (Head of Astrophysics Oxford), Prof Pedro Ferreira (University of Oxford), Prof Suzanne Aigrain (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 18:00 - 22nd Hintze Lecture - The legacy from Planck: do we have a standard model of cosmology?
  Professor George Efstathiou (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 17 March 2022

• 15:30 - Loading the weather dice: quantifying human influence on climate extremes and their impacts
  In memoriam: Prof Geert Jan van Oldenborgh followed by a drinks reception
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute), Prof Robert Vautard (LSCE)

Wednesday 3 August 2022

• 10:30 - Startups​ as career opportunity for scientists and students - lessons learned from Senorics
  The talk will be hybrid, to join via zoom use: https://zoom.us/j/91056855653?pwd=eG5tTU1LOVB5dm5RRWpLQ1ExKy9Mdz09
  Dr Ronny Timmreck (Senorics)

Thursday 22 September 2022

• 18:30 - Quantum Materials Annual Public Lecture: Universal Quantum Matter
  Professor Séamus Davis (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2022

• 10:00 - Mechanical Systems from DNA: From Manufacturing to Machinery
  Prof. Jong Hyun Choi (Purdue University)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 28 October 2022

• 10:00 - How do parasites interact with their human hosts?
  Prof Matt Higgins (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 11 November 2022

• 10:00 - Targeting proton coupled transporters in health and disease
  Professor Simon Newstead (University of Oxford,), Mirjam Kümmerli (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 25 November 2022

• 10:00 - Replicating RNA with RNA
  This seminar will be rescheduled in early 2023.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof. Philipp Holliger (University of Cambridge), Dr. Seham Helmi (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 20 January 2023

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Does evolution have an inbuilt Occam's razor? Talk 2 Quantifying mechanoelectrical coupling in individual neurons: Insights into neuronal firing, anesthesia, and ultrasound neuromodulation
  Prof. Ard Louis (University of Oxford), Dr Casey Adam (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 3 February 2023

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Deep screening of biomolecular repertoires Talk 2 DNA-templated conjugation and assembly of molecular components
  Prof. Philipp Holliger (University of Cambridge), Dr. Seham Helmi (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 17 February 2023

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Learning how biological systems create their shapes - Measuring nanoscale viscoelasticity with an AFM. Talk 2 Bacterial ribosome phenotypes as a rapid antibiotic susceptibility test
  Prof Sonia Contera (University of Oxford), Alison Farrar (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Friday 3 March 2023

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Ultraresolution Picotensiometry of Kinesin Motors Talk 2 Optical detection of hemozoin: towards novel malaria diagnostics
  Dr Erik Schäffer (University of Tübingen), Dr Robert Ishmukametov (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 17:30 - Nuclear Risk - and how we can work to reduce it
  Peter Collecott, David A Ellwood

Saturday 10 June 2023

• 15:00 - The wisdom of the swarm: physics and behaviour
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Monday 12 June 2023

• 14:00 - Technical Talks: Morphogenesis: geometry, physics and biology
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 14:00 - Technical Talks: Morphogramming: geometry, physics and technology
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 18:00 - Grace in Simplicity - book launch
  To purchase a signed copy of the book to collect at the lecture: https://paypal.me/PegasusBooks
  Chris Quigg (Fermi Lab)

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 16:00 - A Century of Noether's Theorem
  Chris Quigg (Fermi Lab)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:30 - Weird Galaxies and Wonderful Animals: Why big data needs crowdsourcing to find the unusual in the Universe
  TBA
• 17:30 - Weird Galaxies and Wonderful Animals: Why big data needs crowdsourcing to find the unusual in the Universe
  Dr. Lucy Fortson (Keble Visiting Fellow and Leverhulme Visiting Professor)