The Rochester Lecture Series
Lectures 2010 - 2023
2023: Dr Richard Bowman
Smart microscopy for everyone with open source hardware
2022: Prof. Heather Lewandowski
Watching chemical reactions happen one molecule at a time
2019: Prof Jun Ye
Quantum Matter and Atomic Clocks
2018: Prof. Pascale Senellart
Quantum optics with artificial atoms
2017: Prof. Sir Peter Knight FRS
Quantum Technology for a Networked World
2016: Dr John C. Taylor OBE
Using Physics to Change the World - A Personal Story
2015: Prof. Miles Padgett FRS
Ghost Imaging: new approaches to imaging inspired by Quantum Physics
2014: Prof. Ian Walmsley
Building Quantum Machines out of Light
2012: Prof. Alain Aspect
From Einstein to Wheeler: wave particle duality for a single photon
2011: Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg
Squeezing light into nanometre cages: putting the nano into photonics
Lectures 2005 - 2010
Browse the lecture archive
2008 - 2010
2010: Prof. Michael Charlton
Antimatter: From Imagination to Application - and back
2009: Prof. Wilson Poon
It's a bug's life: a survey of the physics of bacteria
2008: Prof. John Ellis
Gauguin’s questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going?
2005 - 2007
2007: Prof. Sir John Pendry
A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry Potter Does Electromagnetism
2006: Prof. Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS
Time: From Harrison's clocks to the possibility of New Physics
2005: Prof. Sir Michael Berry FRS
Making Light of Mathematics
Year | Name of lecturer | Institution at time of lecture | Title of lecture |
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2004 | Dr Monica Grady | Natural History Museum | Cosmic collisions and catastrophes |
2003 | Professor Ed Hinds | Imperial College, London | Taming the wild atom |
2002 | Dr Michael Perryman | ESTEC, Netherlands | Our galaxy in three dimensions |
2001 | Professor Laurence Krauss | Case Western University, USA | Einstein's biggest blunder |
2000 | Professor Tony Hey | University of Southampton | Feynman, Einstein and quantum computers |
1999 | Professor Richard Friend, FRS | Cambridge University | Plastic electronics |
1998 | Professor Peter McClintock | Lancaster University | Liquid helium, superfluidity and the dawn of time |
1997 | Professor Roger Cashmore | University of Oxford | From electrons and strange particles to the depths of the proton |
1996 | Professor Norman Ramsey | Harvard University, Cambridge | Atomic clocks and their applications |
1995 | Professor Frank Close | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | The search for the seeds of the universe |
1994 | Professor Mario Parrinello | IBM Zurich | Molecular dynamics simulations in physics and chemistry |
1993 | Professor P Day, FRS | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Molecular chemistry as a route to new physics |
1992 | Professor Jack Steinberger | PPE Division, CERN | A personal view of the evolution of particle physics |
1991 | Professor Sir Nevill Mott, FRS | University of Cambridge | Sixty years of physics |
1990 | Professor A W Wolfendale, FRS | Durham University | Cosmic rays and cosmology |
1989 | Professor J D Jackson | University of Oxford, and Berkeley, California | Muon catalysis for fusion |
1988 | Professor Sir Denys Wilkinson, FRS | University of Sussex | The changing atomic nucleus |
1987 | Professor S K Runcorn, FRS | University of Newcastle upon Tyne | The moon - an enigma |
1986 | Professor M Hart, FRS | University of Manchester | Opportunities in the future with synchrotron radiation |
1985 | Professor M J Rees, FRS | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | Will the universe expand forever? |
1984 | Dr Garry Hunt | Centre for Remote Sensing, Imperial College | Remote sensing: current activities and technological demands for the future |
1983 | Professor Sir Bernard Lovell, FRS | Jodrell Bank | Radio astronomy - the way ahead |
1982 | Professor D H Perkins, FRS | University of Oxford | Baryon and lepton conservation - the death of a myth? |
1981 | Professor R V Jones, FRS | University of Aberdeen | Science and war |
1980 | Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, FRS | Department of Energy, London | Energy |
1979 | Professor P H Fowler, FRS | University of Bristol | Ultra heavy cosmic rays |
1978 | Dr J W White | Institute of Max Von Laue, Paul Langevin, Grenoble | Neutrons - a growth point for European physics, chemistry and biology |
1977 | Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, FRS | Victoria University of Manchester | Interstellar clouds as the site of the origin of life |
1976 | Professor J C Polkinghorne, FRS | University of Cambridge | Elementary particles? |
1975 | Professor J M Ziman, FRS | HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol | Is physics finished? |