BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SoPA UoE//Event Calendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:School of Physics & Astronomy General Interest Seminars X-WR-CALDESC:School of Physics & Astronomy General Interest Seminars X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19810329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19961027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86134@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20250916T122258 LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T123405 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T180000 SUMMARY:Learning physics in the age of Generative AI DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nProf Ross Gallow ay\, School of Physics and Astronomy.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Professor Ross Gallow ay FInstP FRAS (School of Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinburgh) LOCATION:Alder Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building\, King's Buildings URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86134-learning-physics-in-the-age- of-generative-ai END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86157@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20250923T105148 LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T105148 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T180000 SUMMARY:Biological droplets: physics and disease DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nDr Willem Vander lindent\, based in the School's Physics of Living Matter group.\n\nRefresh ments\n\nMeet at 16.30 in the Nucleus Building foyer for tea and cakes pri or to the talk.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Willem Vanderlinden (School of Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinburgh) LOCATION:Elm Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building\, King's Buildings URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86157-biological-droplets-physics- and-disease END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86268@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20251021T095011 LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T095011 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T180000 SUMMARY:What has particle physics ever done for me? DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nProfessor Pippa Wells\, Deputy Director CERN\n\nRefreshments\n\nMeet at 16.30 in the Nucle us Building foyer for tea and cakes prior to the talk.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Prof essor Pippa Wells (CERN) LOCATION:Alder Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building\, King's Buildings URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86268-what-has-particle-physics-ev er-done-for-me END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86593@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20251104T083706 LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T141932 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T180000 SUMMARY:Interested in applying for a PhD? DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nDr Tyler Shendru k and Dr Pascal Reiter (School of Physics and Astronomy\, University of Ed inburgh)\n\nRefreshments\n\nMeet at 16.30 in the Nucleus Building foyer fo r tea and cakes prior to the talk.\n\nSpeakers:\n* Dr. Tyler Shendruk (Sch ool of Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinburgh)\n* Dr Moritz Pascal Reiter (School of Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinburgh) LOCATION:Alder Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building\, King's Buildings URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86593-interested-in-applying-for-a -phd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-87110@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20260304T091018 LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T133222 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260306T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260306T130000 SUMMARY:Facilitating student learning in the Physics Teaching Laboratory - Imperial College London DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nDr Michael Fox ( Department of Physics\, Imperial College London)\n\nAbstract\n\nIn this ta lk Dr Michael Fox will give an overview of the experimental physics progra mme for undergraduate physics students at Imperial College London before e xplaining how a handful of simple changes in the last few years have made a dramatic improvement to the student and staff experience of the second-y ear lab course.\n\nThese changes include updating how reports are graded t o align with what they want students to learn\; how they assess student la b notebooks and professional skills in the lab\; and how the staff and gra duate teaching assistants in the lab are trained.\n\nDr Michael Fox will p resent a case study rather than a research report\, as the effect of indiv idual changes on overall outcomes or student sentiment cannot be separated . He hopes to provide the audience with some examples that may be of pract ical use when considering how to design or alter their own courses.\n\nRef reshments\n\nMeet at 11.45 level 6 corridor for tea and cakes prior to the talk.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Michael Fox (Imperial College London ) LOCATION:Room 6206\, JCMB URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87110-facilitating-student-learnin g-in-the-physics-teaching-laboratory-imperial-college-london END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-87145@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20260310T131539 LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T131539 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T180000 SUMMARY:How pipe flow becomes unstable or why turbulence is physics? DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nProf Alexander M orozov (School of Physics and Astronomy)\n\nAbstract\n\nProf Morozov will give an overview of what is currently known about transition to turbulenc e in straight pipes and channels. He will review the existing experimenta l results for such flows\, discuss how they are interpreted in mathematica l terms\, and argue that this problem belongs to the realm of non-equilib rium statistical mechanics.\n\nRefreshments\n\nMeet at 16.30 outside the l ecture theatre for tea and cakes prior to the talk.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Profess or Alexander Morozov (School of Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinbu rgh) LOCATION:Elm Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building\, King's Buildings URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87145-how-pipe-flow-becomes-unstab le-or-why-turbulence-is-physics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-87217@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20260325T164454 LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T164454 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T180000 SUMMARY:What’s in the box\, and does it matter? DESCRIPTION:All students and staff welcome.\n\nSpeaker\n\nProf Ross Gallow ay (School of Physics and Astronomy)\n\nTalk\n\nWhat’s in the box\, and does it matter?: 'Black box' experiments to promote exploratory thinking.\ n\nRefreshments\n\nMeet at 16.30 outside the lecture theatre for tea and c akes prior to the talk.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Professor Ross Galloway FInstP FRAS (School of Physics & Astronomy\, University of Edinburgh) LOCATION:Elm Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building\, King's Buildings URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87217-whats-in-the-box-and-does-it -matter END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-87366@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260613T141829 CREATED:20260505T191348 LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T143819 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T121000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T130000 SUMMARY:The arts and crafts\, life\, loves and dogs of James Clerk Maxwell DESCRIPTION:As physicists know\, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one o f the greatest scientists who ever lived. To him we owe the most significa nt discovery of our age - the theory of electromagnetism\, laying the foun dations for Hertz’s discovery of radio waves. He is rightly acclaimed as the founder of modern physics. In Maxwell’s equations lay the origins o f our understanding of electromagnetism and field theory.\n\nEinstein is q uoted as saying\, reflecting the development of Maxwellian realities:\n\n ‘One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell ’\n\nThe legacy left to us continues\; as recently as 2007 Freeman Dyson said:\n\n‘We may hope that a deep understanding of Maxwell’s theory w ill result in the dispersal of the fog of misunderstanding that still surr ounds the interpretation of quantum mechanics [and] … will help to lead the way towards further triumphs of physics in the twenty-first century.'\ n\nThis is a rare chance to learn more from three knowledgeable speakers a bout this strange and wonderful human being who navigated the politics of science with wit\, grace and kindness\, supported by a family who loved hi m.\n\nDr Kate Macdonald on his early life\, art and craft\; Dr Alan Walker on his career and achievements\; Dr Howie Firth on the legacy of the conc ept of a field\; and why Maxwell is not well known\, reflecting on how the 21st-century scientific culture is shaped by what happened in the latter half of the 19th century – effectively writing James Clerk Maxwell out o f popular scientific history.\n\nWe thank our friends at IOP Scotland for seed funding for Clerk Maxwell @ 200 project\, and providing funding for t eas and coffees.  \n\nSpeakers:\n* Dr Kate Macdonald (Institute of Physi cs Scotland)\n* Dr Howie Firth (Orkney Science Festival)\n* Dr Alan Walker MBE\, D.hc\, FInstP\, BSc\, ARCS (School of Physics & Astronomy\, Univers ity of Edinburgh) LOCATION:Elm Lecture Theatre\, Nucleus Building URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/87366-the-arts-and-crafts-life-lov es-and-dogs-of-james-clerk-maxwell END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR