The department traditionally holds a public lecture every Christmas and invites local schools to come along and learn from some of our leading academics about the science we do and the issues it affects.
Professor Suzanne Fielding
December 14 + 15 2pm Online only
This lecture will explore the fascinating physics of soft materials that defy our everyday ideas of solid and liquid: from familiar household liquidsthat jam up when stirred too vigorously, to solids that yield and flow under large enough loads, and materials that bounce on short timescales ye flow on longer timescales.
Along the way we will encounter avalanches and mudslides; traffic jams and log jams; complicated turbulent flows; and biological tissues, swarming bacteria, shoals of fish and flocks of birds.
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2015
Prof Tom McLiesh
The Subtle Science of Soft Slimy Stuff!
2014
Dr Pete Edwards
Universe Missing! - The 2014 Durham Physics Xmas Lecture