CUPS - Cambridge University Physics Society
CUPS - Cambridge University Physics Society
We are a student-run university society organising scientific talks and other events for our members and public. We are all about the physics you don't do in your degree.
Founded in 1942, the society has provided speakers, dinners, garden parties and other social events as a forum for physicists and those interested in physics to get the most out of their time in Cambridge. CUPS presents an unrivalled opportunity to enjoy talks by internationally renowned speakers, which have included Stephen Hawking, Jim Al-Khalili, Roger Penrose, and many others on subjects ranging from the cutting edge to the purely historical, philosophical, astronomical, or biological.
"Exploring the Quantum World of Superconductors" - Amalia Coldea
Professor Steve Simon - The Story of Anyons
CULT 1 Optical Metamaterials: More than the sum of their parts!
CULT 4 Modelling Cosmic Inflation
CULT 3 Negative Mass: Matter that's lighter than light
CULT 2 Mucus: A biophysical barrier essential for health
Prof. Chris Ford: Playing ping-pong with single electrons
Prof. Harvey Brown: The evolution of Bell's thinking about the Bell theorem
Prof. Steve Simon: The Classification Game: Topological Insulators and Other Beasts
Prof. Nils Andersson: Relativistic Fluid Flows
Prof. Simon Benjamin: Harnessing the quantum world
Dr John Ellis: ‘Watching’ atoms move on atomic length and time scales with helium spin echo
Prof. Ofer Lahav: From Deep Learning to the Dark Universe
Prof. Sir Tejinder Virdee: The Long Road to the Higgs Boson
Prof. Robert Turner: From Brain Descriptions to Brain Explanations
Prof. Thomas Spencer: Randomness in Classical and Quantum Dynamics
Prof. John Baez: Unsolved mysteries of fundamental physics
Prof. Gabriel Aeppli: The next life of silicon
Prof. Steve Cowley - Fusion Energy: Outstanding Problems in Physics
Prof. Frank Close - Half-Life: A Mysterious Tale of Neutrinos and Spies
Prof. Sir John Pendry - Capturing light on the nanoscale
Prof. Artur Ekert: Quantum Cryptography - the ultimate physical limits of privacy
Prof. Ortwin Hess - The Stopped-Light Laser: An optical black hole on the nanoscale
Prof. Michael Berry: How quantum physics democratised music