Lectures

Coming up next:

The Pye Story

Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation

The history of one of Cambridge’s iconic technology companies.

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

Dr. Sam Stranks, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology / Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

A material family called halide perovskites is enabling higher performance photovoltaics for cheaper power generation and new mobility and space applications.

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

The gravitational-wave astronomy revolution and the first explorations of some of the most violent phenomena in the Universe.

The adolescent brain

Professor Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, FRSB FBA, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK

Adolescence as a sensitive period of social brain development

Previous lectures

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