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General Philosophy (2018)
A series of 8 lectures on General Philosophy, delivered to first year Oxford University undergraduates in Michaelmas term 2018. The lectures cover six main topics: Knowledge and Scepticism, Induction, Mind and Body, Personal Identity, Free Will, God and...
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. The series began in 1950 and are given once a year.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
A lecture series examining Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key phil...
MSt English Language
Oxford’s English Faculty will offer students the opportunity to undertake a Master’s in English Language for the first time from October 2012. Learn more about this brand new course and gain an insight into the area from some of Oxford’s experts, includ...
Oxford Physics Academic Lectures
Academic Lectures from University of Oxford's Department of Physics.
The video series for this podcast includes content previously published in 2016 as 'Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Physics and Role of Fermionic Exchange Symmetry...
Oxford Physics Public Lectures
The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate change....
Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
Short talks from University of Oxford Physics Department.
Contains episodes previously published as:
(1) 'Astrophysics: An Introduction'
(2) 'Lab, Camera, Action!': "Lab, Camera, Action! is a series of short...
Philosophy for Beginners
Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of five intro...
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Exploring various aspects of modern and ancient metaphysics as they relate to the hypothesis that powers (or dispositions) are the sole elementary building block in ontology.
Quantum Mechanics
In this series of physics lectures, Professor J.J. Binney explains how probabilities are obtained from quantum amplitudes, why they give rise to quantum interference, the concept of a complete set of amplitudes and how this defines a "quantum state...
Stargazing
Find out more about our night sky, from new planets to far-off galaxies and the vastness of the Universe. A series of short talks and presentations for the general public from leading astronomy researchers at the Oxford University Physics department -...
The Emergent Multiverse
The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics holds that quantum theory - our best current theory of physics - is correctly understood as claiming that there are many worlds that exist in parallel to our own and which branch constantly off o...
The Ockham Lecture - The Merton College Physics Lecture
The Merton College Physics Lecture (the Ockham, or Occam, Lecture, so named in honour of one of the greatest alumni of the College and of his philosophical principle of intellectual discipline) started in 2009 and is held once a term. It is organised by...
The Oxford Solid State Basics
This lecture series constitutes a first undergraduate course in solid state physics delivered in an engaging and entertaining manner by Professor Steven H. Simon of Oxford University. Standard topics such as crystal structure, reciprocal space, free ele...
Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics host a morning of Theoretical Physics roughly three times a year on a Saturday morning. The mornings consist of three talks pitched to explain an area of our research to an audience familiar w...
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Roger Davies is the Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University and a Student of Christ Church. He is Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Institute of Physics and was recently elected the Fellowship of University College London. Professor Davies has pioneered the use of a new class of astronomical spectrograph to measure the masses and ages of galaxies, as well...
Dr Simon C Benjamin is a Senior Fellow in Quantum Materials at the University of Oxford. His areas of interest are: Physics of computation; Design and realization of architectures for new forms of information processing, especially quantum computing; Theoretical work relating to the design, growth and characterization of solid state nanostructures for computation, with particular current emphas...
Dr Alan Barr and his collaborators work with an enormous and hugely powerful particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He searches for and properties of new particles predicted by symmetries such as extra gauge symmetry, supersymmetry or extra spatial dimensions, using the LHC at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) near Geneva. He looks at the development of parti...
In 2005 Dr Peter Millican was appointed as Gilbert Ryle Fellow in Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford (though for two years he was shared with Oriel College). In 2007 he was promoted to Reader in Early Modern Philosophy. From 2005 until 2010, he was Co-Editor of the journal Hume Studies. Hume's philosophy has indeed been the main focus of his research, though he continue to work also in...
Professor James Binney works on the formation and structure of galaxies. Over the years Professor Binney has taught a wide range of topics in physics and mathematics. He has coauthored a 2-volume graduate text on galaxies and an introduction to the theory of critical phenomena (two of the other three authors of this book were former Merton undergraduates). He and another former Merton undergrad...
Jo is a lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford. Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the universe. Her work involves determining properties of the universe such as its rate of expansion, its age, and the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. In particular she studies the Cosmic Microwave Background, light that has been traveling since shortly after...
During her PhD, Professor Burnell was involved in the discovery of pulsars, opening up a new branch of astrophysics - work that was recognised by the award of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. While working part-time to raise a family she managed the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii as a facility for astronomers in British, Canadian and Dutch universities. She has used telescopes flown on...
Dan Robinson came to philosophy by way of the brain sciences, earning a doctorate in Neuropsychology in 1965. His early publications were based on research addressed to information-processing in the visual system and, more generally, in the central nervous system. This background from the outset raised persistent questions ordinarily addressed in philosophy of mind, action theory, philosophy...
Ruth Angus studied Physics and Astronomy at Southampton University and completed her Masters at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Boston, specializing in exoplanet research. Ruth is now a PhD student researching exoplanets at Oxford University's Physics department.
Steven H. Simon is an American theoretical physics professor at Oxford University and tutorial fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Between 2000 and 2009 he was the director of theoretical physics research at Bell Laboratories. He is known for his work on Topological Phases of Matter, Topological Quantum Computing, and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.
Juliet Davenport OBE (Merton, 1986)
CEO and founder of Good Energy Group
Juliet studied Physics at Oxford before embarking on an internship in European energy policy and a Master’s in Economics, which collectively inspired her to set up a green electricity company in the UK. Good Energy Group strives to set the standard for the energy market as an ethically and socially responsible...