Physics of Sustainability

Physics of Sustainability: a website for teachers and students

Funded by the Ogden Trust and delivered by Lancaster University

Launch June 15th 10.00 – 12.30

The aim of the website is to show just how important physics is to a sustainable future, and how using physics can be key to the careers in a low-carbon economy.
Climate change offers many challenges to the world, and using STEM, very often physics, is key to low-carbon solutions. The people for whom this is most important are those in schools and colleges now; our aspiration is to help them become better equipped for this.
Interviews with researchers, technicians and practitioners in the Green Economy are used to introduce students to ideas and then followed up with interactive questions to consolidate the science.

The authors, Phil Furneaux, (retired outreach officer but now a Teaching Fellow at the Physics Department) and Melissa Lord (a Regional Rep with the Ogden Trust) have worked with Green Lancaster and The Centre of Eco-Innovation throughout the project, introducing people to be interviewed.
The launch will include short talks from several of the contributors including a keynote talk from Prof Sarah Bridle, cosmologist at Jodrell Bank and author of Food and Climate Change without the Hot Air. The theme is for a positive approach to how we can achieve net zero carbon : “together we can make it happen”!

Link to registration: https://launch_for_sustainability_physics_for_schools.eventbrite.co.uk 
Promotional video: https://youtu.be/EV49Qc-2ksg 
Website URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sustainability-physics/ 

Phil Furneaux

 

 

Development of site-controlled quantum dot arrays for integration into photonic devices

Online event
Friday 4 June 2021
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics webinar

Speaker: Charlotte Ovenden (University of Sheffield)

Michael Thompson

 

 

Online Summer School 2021

Online via Microsoft Teams
Monday 7 June 2021
5:00pm to Thursday 17 June 2021, 7:00pm

Our Online Summer School offers Year 12 students from widening participation backgrounds the opportunity to take part in a variety of live sessions and independent study to experience and academic subject at University level alongside a range of exciting social experiences.

Outreach & Student Success team

 

 

DSI Weds Lunchtime Talks – Sophie Nightingale, Lecturer in Psychology

Microsoft Teams
Wednesday 9 June 2021
12:30pm to 1:30pm

Dr Sophie Nightingale, Lecturer in Psychology 9th June at 12.30

Julia Carradus

 

 

Third Future Places: Pop-up Common Rooms on Morecambe Bay Research

Online (Microsoft Teams)
Thursday 10 June 2021
11:00am to 11:45am

Future Places: Pop-up Common Rooms on Morecambe Bay Research Third event: 10th June between 11-11.45

Louise Bush

 

 

Physics Taster – New Space Science Discovery from the South Pole

Live Stream Online
Thursday 10 June 2021
4:15pm to 5:35pm

Experience a real Physics lecture about an exciting new discovery. Find out what studying Physics is really like. Take the opportunity to ask current students and staff your questions.

Speaker: Michael Kosch

Joshua Cooper

 

 

Quantum time-crystals

Online event via MS Teams
Friday 11 June 2021
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Speaker: Rosario Fazio (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)

Alessandro Romito