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Links for the webinars will be sent by email to all registered participants on the Monday before each webinar, and again one hour before the webinar starts.
All webinars are hosted on Zoom. Your camera and microphone will remain switched off, but you can ask questions live using the Q&A button on your screen.
The webinars will also be recorded and posted here following each event. However, please allow up to one week for the webinar to be made available.
The webinars are hosted by science communicator, Chris Stewart
Webinar 1: The Building Blocks of the Universe
Webinar 1: The Building Blocks of the Universe
Join Kate Womack and Dr. Christian Diget to discover the origins of the elements. Kate is a PhD student in nuclear astrophysics at the University of Hull. In the webinar, she discusses the stellar origins of the chemical elements and explains which astrophysical events created each element in the periodic table. Christian is a physics lecturer and an experimental nuclear physicist at the University of York. He studies the nuclear reactions that take place in exploding stars, which he describes in more detail in the webinar, as well as exploring some of the elements only ever created on labs here on Earth.
Please remember that you can ask questions about this webinar in the question forum.
Further information about the origins of the elements, as discussed by Kate Womack, is available in The origin of the elements: a century of progress.
Webinar 2: Fusion Energy
Webinar 2: Fusion Energy
Join Dr. Kate Lancaster and Dr. Ed Pickering as they bring nuclear fusion, the process that powers the stars, down to Earth. Kate is an experimental plasma physicist at the University of York. In the webinar, she explains the process of fusion and describes how fusion technologies could shape the clean energy landscape of the future. Ed is a senior lecturer in material science at the University of Manchester. In the webinar, he explores the materials challenges of building fusion reactors that can withstand the extreme conditions needed to make fusion happen here on Earth.
Please remember that you can ask questions about this webinar in the question forum.
Webinar 3: Medical Physics
Webinar 3: Medical Physics
Join Dr. Silvia Pani and Dr. Cornelia Hoehr to explore Nuclear Medicine - from imaging techniques to treatment of diseases such as cancer. Silvia is a senior lecturer in applied radiation physics at the University of Surrey, specialising in medical X-ray imaging. Dr Cornelia Hoehr is the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Life Sciences at TRIUMF, Canada's national particle accelerator centre. Her research interests are focused on medical isotope production and proton therapy.
Webinar 4: Looking Inside the Nucleus
Webinar 4: Looking Inside the Nucleus
Join Dr. Daria Sokhan and Dr. Liam Gaffney to delve inside the nucleus. Daria is an experimental hadron physicist at the University of Glasgow. She is joined by Liam from the University of Liverpool, who is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow in Nuclear Physics. Both speakers discuss exciting, international facilities and experiments for investigating nuclear physics. Liam explores the shape of exotic nuclei, which he researches at radioactive ion beam laboratories, such as the ISOLDE facility at CERN. Daria zooms in even further, talking about what the nucleons inside the nucleus are made of, and how we can investigate this at facilities such as the Jefferson Lab in the States.
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