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Shapes of Free Fall

This talk will explore how simple changes to the circumstances can make dramatic differences to the shapes of the orbits, all of which belong to a special family of shapes known as the conic sections.

100 Years of Women in Law

In 2018 the Bar Council and Specialist Bar Associations acknowledged the issue and a “Retention of Women at the Bar’ survey was launched. It’s time to look at the results and test how the legal profession has responded to the challenge.

The End of Matter?

This talk will separate science fiction from science fact and elucidate what we know about these mysterious objects, and how they have shaped, and continue to shape, our Universe.

The Origins of the Elements

In this talk, Dr Wilkins will discuss the astrophysical origins of the chemical elements, almost all of which have an origin ranging from the big bang, to exploding white dwarfs, the collapse of massive stars, and the merger of ultra-compact objects, neutron stars.

Weighing the Universe

This lecture will explain the physics of the cosmic microwave background and the challenges in understanding where our universe came from.

Frozen in Time?

This talk will review the dramatic consequences on what we observe in the night sky that arise purely from the consequences of light-travel time effects.

Have Women Achieved Professional Equality? 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act

2019 marks 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 when a woman was recognised as a ‘person’ in law. This groundbreaking Act enabled women to be awarded university degrees and to enter professions such as law and medicine from which they had been barred.

Faster than Light?

This talk will explain how the speed of light was first measured, and how an obscure but brilliant patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland by the name of Albert Einstein deduced that the speed of light is the upper speed limit for everything in the Universe.

The Limits of Our Knowledge

There is much in the universe we will never know, and it is equally certain that we will never know all that we do not know.

Exploring Earth from Space

Today the earth is opening up its secrets as never before.

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