London and South East

Events - London Centre

Meetings will be held on Wednesday evenings at 6.30 p.m. at the Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, LondonW1B 1NT.  Free coffee from 6.00 p.m., free wine and light refreshments after the lecture, but if you wish to come to a lecture please notify Londonsoutheast@physics.org, as some of our recent lectures have been over-full.

Wednesday 7 May
Extreme astroparticle physics: From South Pole to salt pit
Prof Nigel Smith, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The speaker will discuss two different projects with which he has been involved, with the common theme of doing experimental astrophysics in extreme environments, namely the South Pole and 1100 m underground down a salt mine. Astroparticle physics sits between cosmology, astronomy and particle physics. It studies the implications for the very large scales of our galaxy - studying sub-atomic particles and processes. The two projects which the speaker will discuss investigated the origin of high-energy gamma rays and searched for the elusive dark matter particle. The talk will focus primarily on doing experimental physics in extreme environments, with an overview of the science being undertaken.

Preceded by AGM.

Wednesday 21 May
Looking inside the body:What is a physicist doing in the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Dr Bill Vennart, Pfizer Ltd

People’s natural inquisitiveness drives them to want to look inside objects without destroying them. This is particularly true in medicine where clinicians want to assess, non-invasively, the reasons for a particular patient’s illness. This lecture will describe the fundamental physics underpinning the most common medical imaging techniques, for example magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) and X-ray computed tomography (CT), and how they are used in drug development.

Wednesday 4 June
(Reserve date)

Thursday 17 July
Meeting in celebration of Lord Rayleigh

Provisional details, yet to be confirmed, are:

Date: Thursday, July 17 2pm at IOP headquarters, 76 Portland Place, London
Contact Peter Ford to register, preferably by email P.J.Ford@bath.ac.uk

Click here for further details.

Wednesday 1 October
Fusion (exact title to be fixed)
Prof Steve Cowley

Wednesday 15 October
(Title to be fixed)
Dr Mark Johnson, University of Kent

Wednesday 29 October
Neutrinos
Prof David Wark

Wednesday 12 November
(Details to be announced)

Wednesday 26 November
(Details to be announced)

Wednesday 10 December
(Details to be announced)

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