Podcast Categories: Science & Medicine

An examination of the fundamental principles common among living things. Emphasis is placed upon studies of the cell, energy, metabolism, reproduction, heredity, ecology, phylogeny and the diversity of life.

From January to March 2014, CSaP’s Inaugural Visiting Research Fellow Professor Charlie F Kennel delivered a series of seminars on adaptation to climate change, hosted by Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Professor Kennel is Vice-Chancellor and Director emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Christ’s College. Starting in January 2014, he spent three months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy.

To access lecture slides and other teaching material, please go to: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/programmes/visiting-research-fellowships/prof-charles-kennel/

Paul Crowther, Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy provides a contemporary overview of astronomy at the Sounds of the Cosmos event during the 2014 Festival of the Mind. Talks span our own solar system, the life and death of stars, galaxies, extra solar planets and introduces future large telescope projects, and are enhanced by a wide range of beautiful images, photographs and videos, plus extracts of Holst’s Planets Suite which was performed by the Sheffield Rep Orchestra. With thanks to Stewart Campbell (Dept of Music), George Morton (conductor) and Human Studio (original visuals). The event was commissioned jointly by the University’s Festival Of The Mind and University of Sheffield Concerts.

http://concerts.sheffield.ac.uk/

This is the second of a two-semester subject sequence beginning with
Atomic and Optical Physics I (8.421) that provides the foundations for
contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics.
Topics covered include non-classical states of light–squeezed states;
multi-photon processes, Raman scattering; coherence–level crossings,
quantum beats, double resonance, superradiance; trapping and
cooling-light forces, laser cooling, atom optics, spectroscopy of
trapped atoms and ions; atomic interactions–classical collisions,
quantum scattering theory, ultracold collisions; and experimental
methods.

The collection includes twenty one full lectures recorded in 27 videos.

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