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 research to an audience familiar with physics at about the second-year undergraduate level and open to all Oxford Alumni. Topics include Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Plasma.
Assessment
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| The Vacuum Comes Alive | 00:34:00 | ||
| Matter Emerges from the Vacuum | 00:23:00 | ||
| Making the Vacuum Concrete | 00:48:00 | ||
| Living Matter: a theoretical physics perspective | 00:48:00 | ||
| Motility in Living Matter: from molecular motors to bacterial swarms | 00:48:00 | ||
| Inner space meets outer space: Introduction | 00:34:00 | ||
| Darkness Visible: The Hunt For Dark Matter | 00:31:00 | ||
| String Theory on the Sky | 00:32:00 | ||
| Plasma: what it is, how to make it and how to hold it | 00:39:00 | ||
| Turbulence: Plasma Unleashed | 00:56:00 | ||
| Plasma tamed, fusion power and the theoretical challenge | 00:52:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| Black holes in Einstein’s gravity and beyond | 00:44:00 | ||
| Black holes in the nearby Universe | 00:45:00 | ||
| The impact of black holes on the Universe | 00:47:00 | ||
| The Standard Model and the LHC | 00:39:00 | ||
| Precision Studies of the Higgs | 00:33:00 | ||
| Searches for Dark Matter | 00:40:00 | ||
| Quantum Computing | 00:48:00 | ||
| Knots, World-lines, and Topological Quantum Computation | 00:34:00 | ||
| Basics of Anyons and Nonabelian Aharanov-Bohm Effect | 00:39:00 | ||
| General Relativity: what is it & why Einstein conceived it thus | 00:45:00 | ||
| Gravitational lensing: one of the sharpest tools in an astronomer’s toolbox | 00:46:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| Cosmology from General Relativity | 00:41:00 | ||
| How computers have changed the way we do physics – Chaos and climate change | 00:52:00 | ||
| How computers have changed the way we do physics – Structure in complex systems | 00:37:00 | ||
| How computers have changed the way we do physics – Breaking through the quantum barrier | 00:39:00 | ||
| String Theory, Holography and Quark-Gluon Plasma | 00:47:00 | ||
| String Theory and Particle Physics | 00:44:00 | ||
| String Theory: Then and Now | 00:44:00 | ||
| Identical particles: from one to many | 00:44:00 | ||
| Magnets, superfluids and superconductors | 00:47:00 | ||
| Topology and the Classification of Matter: New Physics Hidden in Plain Sight | 00:36:00 | ||
| Centimetres: Fluids all around us – Morning of Theroetical Physics | 00:47:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| Microns: The bacterial viewpoint – Morning of Theroetical Physics | 00:39:00 | ||
| Kilometres: Turbulence – Morning of Theroetical Physics | 00:46:00 | ||
| From action at a distance to gravitational waves | 00:47:00 | ||
| The birth of gravitational wave astronomy | 00:43:00 | ||
| Exploring the very early universe with gravitational waves | 00:47:00 | ||
| From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow | 00:46:00 | ||
| Quantum mechanics on the human scale | 00:36:00 | ||
| Superfluids in Flatland: Topology, Defects, and the 2016 Nobel Prize | 00:43:00 | ||
| Galaxy Dynamics: Stellar systems: a new state of matter | 00:51:00 | ||
| Galaxy Dynamics: The dynamics of galaxy discs | 00:44:00 | ||
| Galaxy Dynamics: The chemical evolution side | 00:39:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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