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Popular Science Talks

I’ve given a number of talks to general audiences, and am always happy to do more. If you organise an event at which you would like me to speak please do not hesitate to get in touch.

“Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice” (slides here)

(for further information and linked content see my Research page)

• PLANCKS Preliminary Competition (Edinburgh), 22/2/20
• The Royal Institution, 17/2/20 (video here)
• The Institute of Physics Seminar Series (University of Oxford), 4/2/20
• The Institute of Physics Seminar Series (University of Hertfordshire), 29/1/20
• The King's School (Ottery St. Mary), 5/11/19
• Flying Start Physics (University of Oxford), 14/10/19

“The Puzzling Paradoxes of Modern Physics” (slides here)

• Adstock Science Club, 16/1/19
• The Royal Institution, 19/1/18, 30/6/18, 1/7/18, 6/7/19
• St. Michael's Lectures (Exeter), 28/9/17
• A nice mention of this talk appears on the Gomboc information page!

“Knots in Maths, Physics, Magic, and Superstition” (with Dr. Al Cummins)

• Locations in London; see Funzing. 16/1/18, 17/1/18

“From Smoke Rings to Cosmic Strings: the Physics of Knots”

(Devoted page with extra information available here)

• The Royal Institution, 26/6/15, 27/6/15, 3/7/15
• Institute of Physics Headquarters (London), 18/2/15
• The Open University, 10/2/15
• Institute of Physics Seminar Series (University of Hertfordshire), 1/10/14
• Bristol Sunday Circus, 21/09/14
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“Light”

• Stilljam (Bristol), May 2014

“Maxwell’s Demon”

• Independence Day Festival (Devon), May 2012

“Quantum Kung Fu”

(Devoted page with extra information available here)

• Video for the Physics World website (video here)

Research Seminars

“The Classical Dimer Model on Penrose Tilings”

• Durham University (online seminar), 29/4/20
• Dublin Institute for Advanced Study (online seminar), 17/4/20
• University of Bristol, 10/1/20
• University of Oxford, 23/10/19
• University of Nottingham, 25/3/19
• University of Bath, 19/2/19

“Time Quasicrystals in Dissipative Dynamical Systems”

• University College London, 1/9/19
• University of Kent, 8/11/18
• University of St. Andrew’s, 21/9/18
• University of Bristol, 29/9/17
• Jagiellonian University, 15/9/17
• MPI Potsdam (Albert Einstein Institute), 13/9/17

“Detecting Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice with NV-magnetometry”

• Harvard University, 14/11/16

“Two Studies in Incommensurate Charge Order”

• University of Oxford, 9/11/16
• The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 25/10/16
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13/9/16
• Recording available here

“The Gyrotropic Magnetic Effect”

• University of Amsterdam, 3/5/16
• University of Leeds, 19/4/16

“Charge Order in NbSe₂”

• University of St. Andrew’s, 22/9/18
• University of Bath, 23/7/18
• Columbia University, 2/6/17
• University of British Columbia, 10/2/16
• Argonne National Lab, 29/1/16
• University of Waterloo, 15/6/15
• Free University of Berlin, 3/3/15
• University of Aberdeen, 30/5/13
• Slides available here

“Quasicrystals, Charge Ordering, and the Quantum Hall Effect”

• Princeton University, 7/1/16
• U. C. Berkeley, 16/9/15
• LMU Munich, 17/7/15
• University of Leeds, 1/4/15
• University of Porto, 13/3/15
• University of Cambridge, 13/2/15
• University of Amsterdam, 7/1/15
• University of Durham, 3/12/14
• University of St. Andrew’s, 27/11/14
• University of Kent, 20/11/14
• University of Bristol, 19/11/14
• Slides available here

“Faddeev Popov ghosts and their role in gauge fixing quantum field theories”

• Physical Asymptotics Group Meeting, University of Bristol
• Talk notes available here

“The Gott time machine and a possible realization in condensed matter systems”

• Theory Group Open Day, University of Bristol
• Talk notes available here

Conference Talks and Posters

“The Classical Dimer Model on Penrose Tilings”

• Open Statistical Physics Meeting, Open University, 27/3/19

“Braiding Non-Abelian Anyons with Localized Heating”

• Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics, Bristol University, 10/1/19

“Enhanced Gyrotropic Magnetic Effect from Multifold Fermions”

• Quantum Matter Beyond the Tenfold Way, Nordita 15/7/18
• Condensed Matter in the City, University of London, 21/6/18
• (invited) Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials 2018, Oxford 27/4/18

“The Gyrotropic Magnetic Effect”

• Hot Topics in Cold Matter Workshop (invited), Berkeley, 27/5/16

“Charge Order in NbSe₂”

• 2DSPM-2018, San Sebastian, 27/7/18
• (invited) ECRYS-2017, Corsica, 26/8/17
• (invited) User Meeting, Argonne National Lab, 9/5/17
• Condensed Matter in the City, University of London, 1/7/15
• University of Bristol Postgraduate Conference, 23/07/13
• Slides available here

“Detecting Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice with Nanoscale Magnetometry”

• Workshop on Synergy and Innovation in Quantum Materials (poster), Berkeley, 12/6/17
• DAMOP (poster), Sacramento CA, 8/6/17

“Charge Order along Mirror Twin Boundaries in Monolayer MoSe₂”

• APS March Meeting, New Orleans LA, 15/3/17

“Electron-Phonon Driven Charge Order in NbSe₂”

• APS March Meeting, Denver CO, 6/3/14
• Talk slides available upon request (8.3MB file)

“The Geometry of CDWs in Dichalcogenides”

• Workshop and Conference on Geometrical Aspects of Quantum States in Condensed Matter, ICTP, 3/6/13
• Poster available here

“Charge Density Waves, Quasicrystals, and the Quantum Hall Effect”

• 6th Annual Natural Systems and Processes (poster), Bristol, 16/3/15
• Quantum Matter workshop (poster), Benasque, June 2014
• Conference in Memory of Balázs Györffy (poster), Bristol, 19/7/14
• Poster available here

“Modelling Neutron Scattering With the Large-N Method”

• Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2014 (poster), Queens’ College (Cambridge), 9/7/14
• Poster available upon request (23MB file)