On 4 October, the 精品无码国产自产 will once again host the Festival of Physics. The main theme of the Festival will be Quantum. This is to celebrate the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) that recognizes 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics.
DRAFT SCHEDULE
09:30鈥10:00 | Registration
10:00鈥10:05 | Welcome
10:05鈥11:00 | Professor Eduardo Miranda (精品无码国产自产) 鈥 Join us and discover how the future of music is being composed 鈥 one quantum bit at a time!
11:00鈥11:30 | Mike Lugg (Babcock) 鈥 Internal dosimetry and whole-body monitoring at Devonport.
11:30鈥13:00 | Lunch and demonstrations on the ground floor of the Roland Levinsky Building. See also the session in the Planetarium below.
13:00鈥14:00 | Dr Maciej Dabrowski (University of Exeter) 鈥 Shrinking Magnets: Storing Data with Atoms and Light.
14:00鈥15:00 | 3 Minute Wonder Competition.
15:00鈥16:00 | Professor Janet Anders (University of Exeter) 鈥 Quantum mechanics and the violation of Bell鈥檚 inequality (an inequality that you would take for granted if you knew).
Sessions in the Planetarium (IVT)
The IVT has a capacity of 42 people so we suggest that people register to attend.
11:40鈥12:40 | Exploring the Universe from elementary particles to Galaxies.
14:00鈥15:00 | Exploring the Universe from elementary particles to Galaxies.
The show will include the film Phantom of the Universe, which showcases the exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to galaxies to the Large Hadron Collider. Following the film, there will be a tour of the solar system using the Planetarium.
TALK ABSTRACTS
Shrinking Magnets: Storing Data with Atoms and Light
Dr Maciej Dabrowski, University of Exeter
Dr Maciej Dabrowski, University of Exeter
Magnets have fascinated humanity for thousands of years and are part of our daily lives, from compasses to motors and speakers. One of their most important uses today is in data storage: hard drives rely on countless tiny magnets to keep our information safe. But as our need for storage grows, we must find ways to make these magnetic bits even smaller, while keeping them stable.
In this talk, I will show how scientists are pushing the limits by using magnets as small as single atoms, and controlling them with ultrafast laser pulses that last just a trillionth of a second. With advanced microscopes, we can watch and manipulate these magnets directly 鈥 and I will share what we鈥檝e learned, and the challenges that remain.
Join us and discover how the future of music is being composed 鈥 one quantum bit at a time!
Professor Eduardo Miranda
, 精品无码国产自产
Did you know that computers shape almost everything we hear 鈥 from how songs are recorded to how we stream music on our phones? Now, a whole new kind of computer is emerging. They are quantum computers! These new types of machines are opening up incredible possibilities in the world of music.
In this talk, we'll take you on a short journey into what quantum computers are, how they differ from the laptops we use every day, and most importantly, how musicians are already using them to create entirely new kinds of music. You'll get to hear real examples of music created with the help of quantum computers, and you might be surprised by how beautiful 鈥 and strange 鈥 it can be.
EXHIBITIONS
- Particle Physics card game
- Theoretical Physics poster
- Marvin and Milo, IOP South West branch
- Water waves in a wave tank
- Robot dogs
- Medical Physics demonstration from Babcock International Group
- Astronomy demonstration in the Planetarium.
As part of the Festival there will be the South West heat of the Three Minute Wonder competition. Three Minute Wonder is the IOP's UK and Ireland-wide science communication competition. It challenges researchers or project team members to explain their work to the public in just three minutes.
The festival is free to attend and open to everyone with an interest in physics. Please register via the above link.
The event is organised by the South West branch of the Institute of Physics. Contact
Dr Craig McNeile
for queries.
