Physics

Nobel Laureate Professor Steven Weinberg presents a special lecture on particle physics to celebrate Imperial Professor Tom Kibble's 80th birthday.

Physicists and musicians discuss the science of how string instruments produce sound.

Professor Jo Haigh discusses whether the immense force of Hurricane Sandy could be a sign of more extreme weather to come.

Find out what contributions the College has made to research about fusion

Professor Sir John Pendry assesses recent developments in the field of transformation optics – the science behind invisibility cloaks. (Extract 4 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 22 August 2012)

Professor Pendry talks about the latest research in transformation optics and how this theory can be used to make better airport security scanners, state-of-the-art microscopes, non-invasive medical scanners and cancer killing devices

Professor Zulfikar Najmudin shows how lasers and plasmas may herald the future for particle accelerators in his inaugural lecture

Professor Jim Virdee looks at how the Large Hadron Collider is addressing some of the most fundamental questions about the origin, evolution and composition of our universe.

In her inaugural lecture Professor Fay Dowker asks how can we realise the full potential of relativity and quantum theory?

Professor Konstantin Novoselov talks about his Nobel Prize winning discovery graphene, and what the future holds for it in the 2012 Kohn Award Lecture