Events
Cambridge University
Physics Society
Michaelmas 2026
Talks Thursdays, 7pm · Cavendish Laboratory
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Every talk is also a chance to win a speaker dinner. Check in with your name and email, tick the box, and you are in the ballot. Before each dinner, we draw one name at random from everyone who has opted in — so you are usually picked for dinner with a different physicist than the one you just saw, not the one you checked in for. CUPS covers the bill.
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Tue · Oct 2026
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Thu · Oct 2026
Julia Yeomans
Soft condensed matter & biological physics — University of Oxford
Cavendish Laboratory
About Julia Yeomans
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Thu · Oct 2026
Kenneth Long
Medical applications of particle physics
Cavendish Laboratory
About Kenneth Long
Medical applications of particle physics.
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Fri · Oct 2026
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Wed · Oct 2026
Carlo Rovelli
Maxwell Talk: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Cavendish Laboratory
Maxwell Talk - the term headline event.
About Carlo Rovelli
Author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
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Mon · Nov 2026
Geoffrey Hinton
Maxwell Talk: AI and the Physics of Learning
Cavendish Laboratory
Maxwell Talk - the term headline event. Nobel Laureate in Physics, for AI.
About Geoffrey Hinton
Nobel Laureate in Physics, for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.
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Thu · Nov 2026
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Thu · Nov 2026
Jeffrey Forshaw
Theoretical physics
Cavendish Laboratory
About Jeffrey Forshaw
Theoretical physics.
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Thu · Nov 2026
Mark Miodownik
Stuff Matters
Cavendish Laboratory
Joint event with MaterialSoc.
About Mark Miodownik
Author of Stuff Matters. Joint event with MaterialSoc.
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Tue · Nov 2026