Events

This is the story of Ray Davis who was the first man to look into the heart of  a star. He did so by capturing neutrino, ghostly particles that are produced in the centre of the Sun and stream out across space. As you read this, billions of them are hurtling through your eyeballs at almost the speed of light, unseen.

Pathfinders: The Golden age of Arabic Science

This lecture is part of our popular series of sixth form lectures on science and engineering but is open to everyone.  See our flyer for the full lecture programme.

The impact of science on a climate of fear.

SEPnet Summer Bursaries for Level 1 and Level 2 Students

Symplectic database and Surrey Scholarship Online

An evening in conversation with Professor Brian Cox OBE, chaired by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Surrey and BBC television presenter.

Inaugural lecture delivered by Professor Sir Roger Penrose, world-leading mathematical physicist and long-term collaborator with Stephen Hawking.

Alf Adams "Grandfather of Modern Lasers" will present a lecture entitled 'Semiconductor Lasers Take The Strain' - at the Royal Society in London

Over the last few decades astronomers have made enormous leaps in charting the Universe around us. Now, with accurate positions for millions of galaxies, we are finally able to trace the Cosmic Web in which we live. But these cosmic maps do far more than simply catalogue the contents of our Universe ­ they can help us to understand its origin and evolution as well as its ultimate fate. Cosmologist Dr Rita Tojeiro takes us on a voyage to the furthest reaches of space and explains how astronomers are unlocking some of the fundamental secrets of the Universe.

The worlds of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are full of superlatives. Apart from the Sun they are the largest and most massive objects in our solar system and their influence is felt over enormous distances. The stunning rings around Saturn, and the large number of moons around most of the giant planets lead some people to think of them as miniature solar systems in their own right. Although often grouped together as “Gas Giants”, many planetary scientists make a further distinction and describe Jupiter and Saturn as Gas Giants, and Uranus and Neptune as Ice Giants, reflecting the importance of volatiles (such as water, methane, and ammonia) in the interiors and atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune. The interiors of the giant planets are also important natural laboratories for studying materials under high pressure and for studying the generation of global magnetic fields. The magnetic field of Jupiter is reasonably well understood, but the almost axisymmetrical field of Saturn, and the highly asymmetrical fields of Neptune and Uranus are much less well understood. Global planetary magnetic fields provide the cores for giant planetary magnetospheres with very different mass and energy sources compared to the Earth’s magnetosphere. 

This talk will describe recent results from missions to the giant planets of our solar system and ground/space-based observatories at 1 AU, looking at their interiors, magnetic fields, magnetospheres, and natural satellites. It will conclude with a discussion about current and future missions, focusing on missions to the poorly studied and understood Ice Giant, Uranus.

“Is life quantum mechanical?”

Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider

Is the end of the world really nigh?