Outreach
Outreach is really important. Every taxpayer funds our research and, besides, it's too interesting to keep to ourselves. I give talks, host short films, and have contributed to radio and television. Want to know more? Here are links to some previous activities (mostly 2011), and a list of what's coming up next in 2012.More information
- Talks (2011)
- "Uncovering the Universe:Latest News from the LHC" at the Royal Institution in November 2011.
- "The Standard Model", Royal Society discussion meeting on the LHC, May 2011.
- Discussion following "Piccard in space", Queen Elizabeth Hall, March 2011.
- "An update on the Large Hadron Collider", LIFT11 conference, in Feb. 2011.
- Film
- Labreporter:
Links to 5 films, made with Alom Shaha:
- Big Bang V2.0; the LHC, and why it's so important.
- Sizing things up; just how small are the small particles we study?
- The mystery of the missing mass; dark matter .. what is it?
- Hunting for the Higgs; the mysterious Higgs.
- The matter with antimatter; where did all the antimatter go?
- B is for Beauty, about LHCb, why it's interesting that matter and antimatter are different and how we measure it.
- Host of CERN short films about LHC and LHCb.
- Interview for Google science fair, March 2011.
- Labreporter:
Links to 5 films, made with Alom Shaha:
- Radio/television (2011)
- News interviews for News 24, BBC news, World Service, Radio 4, BBC local radio, etc.
- Contributions to Nightwaves, Radio 3, Schrodinger's quantum kittens, Radio 4.
- Contributions to Faster than the speed of light, BBC.
- Coming up:
- QUB STFC public lecture, 12/1/2012.
- Wellcome Trust Leap of Faith discussion, Higgs, 2/2/2012.
- TEDxManchester, Higgs, 13/2/2012
- Numerous talks at Dauntsey's school, 27/2/2012.
- Guardian Open Weekend, 25/3/2012.
- Edinburgh science festival, April 2012.