University of Bristol: Speakers for Schools - Physics

Many of these speakers are happy to speak to other audiences and we can also find speakers on Careers in Physics and Studying Physics at University.

For more information or to request a speaker please contact the Schools Liaison Officer, Dr H Heath, on schools@phy.bris.ac.uk.

Charges for talks: For Venues within 20 miles of BS8 1TL

For the "Ice-cream" and "Taste and flavour" talks £100 for up to two sessions for up to a total of 100 pupils - Additional pupils £1/head

For other talks £50 for a one hour talk.

For venues more than 20 miles from BS8 1TL

£2/additional mile. We are able to invoice the school for these payments.

Ice Cream Lecture: Dr H Heath

Dr Helen Heath: Ice Cream Lecture

Speaker	Topic: Talk Title	Age Range
Dr Massimo Antognozzi	Investigating the Nanoworld	14+
Professor Peter Barham	The science of taste and flavour.	15+
	Get Science Licked - The Physics of Ice Cream.	Secondary
	Microwave Magic.	Any
	Chocology - the Science and History of Chocolate.	15+
	A Physicist Amongst Penguins.	Any
Dr Adrian Barnes	Probes of matter; studying materials with X-rays and neutrons.	Secondary
Professor Nick Brook	The Large Hadron Collider - A Journey to The Dawn of Creation	Secondary
Dr Henkjan Gersen	Exploring the nano-world	Secondary
	Putting the brakes on light	Secondary
	Towards reading your DNA in minutes	Secondary
	Breaking the diffraction limit	Secondary
Dr Joel Goldstein	Particle Physics, or What is everything made of?	6^th formers/adaptable
Dr Helen Heath	Into the Heart of Matter - probing matter on the smallest scale.	Secondary
	Looking into the History of the Cosmos - The Large Hadron Collider.	Secondary
	The Physics of Ice-cream.	Primary
	Cosmic Rays or how a Bristol physicist won the Nobel prize for Physics.	Secondary
Dr Dave Newbold	Particle Physics and LHC - slides available in Quicktime or Flash	GCSE/6^th from
Dr Vincent Smith	Quarks and Leptons: the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics.	15+
	The Higgs Boson and other things we don't know yet.	6^th Form
	Wave-Particle Duality: is the electron there when you are not looking?	15+
	Matter and Antimatter.	15+
	Relativity and the Twin Paradox.	15+
	What Time is it on Mars? (the history of timekeeping on Earth, and how to do it when we travel to the planets).	13+ and/or Parents' evenings
	Fun with liquid nitrogen (can include ice cream).	Primary, Secondary and Parents' evenings
	Fun with magnets.	Primary
	Einstein's revolutionary ideas of 1905 (Joint lecture with Dr Peter Ford, University of Bath)	15+
	How Does the Sun Work? An introduction to the reactions that keep the Sun shining, and how we can measure them on Earth.	15+

University of Bristol: Speakers for Schools - Physics

Dr Helen Heath: Ice Cream Lecture

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Age Range