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IOP Open Evening
| Date: | Thu, 20 November 2008 |
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| Venue: | Institute of Physics, Rutherford Theatre - 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT |
| Organised by: | Steve Bird |
Introduction
The Institute of Physics is pleased to welcome members to an open evening to be held at 76 Portland Place on Thursday 20 November 2008. The evening aims to introduce new and potential members to the Institute, and to showcase some of the work we do to promote physics and support physicists. We are delighted to welcome as our guest speaker Dr Paul Stevenson from the University of Surrey who will be talking about the fascinating world of isotopes and their various uses.
The evening will commence at 6.00pm. Full details on our guest can be found at the bottom of this page, together with the timetable for the schedule of events.
| Time | Activity |
| 6.00 - 6.45 | Arrival & registration, tea & coffee |
| 6.45 - 7.10 | Welcome to the Institute of Physics Dr R Kirby Harris, CEO, Institute of Physics |
| 7.10 - 8.10 | "Field Guide to Nuclear Physics" Dr Paul Stevenson, University of Surrey |
| 8.10 - 9.00 | Networking, refreshments and canapés |
| 9.00 | Departure |
Biography of our guest speaker, Dr Paul Stevenson
Paul was born in Glasgow on the day Nixon announced his resignation and grew up in Bristol, London and Bishop's Stortford. After graduating from the University of Oxford in 1999 with a D.Phil in theoretical nuclear structure physics he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. From there he was appointed as a Research Fellow at Surrey, a job he held for two years, which was followed by being appointed a Lecturer in 2002, and a Senior Lecturer in 2008.
Research Interests
Paul's research centres around the solution of the quantum-mechanical many-body problem. Mostly this is applied in the case of atomic nuclei, but he has also looked at metal clusters, Bose-Einstein condensates and neutron stars, where similar techniques to those used in nuclear problems may be applied. In the nuclear case he has developed a new approach for going beyond the mean-field approximation based on perturbation theory. Currently he is looking at time-dependent solutions of the Hartree-Fock equations and the connection with the Random-Phase Approximation. In addition, he supports experimentalists at Surrey and elsewhere by applying a variety of models to look at experimental results to help in their interpretation and also in evaluation of the models.
Field Guide to Nuclear Physics
At the centre of every atom is a nucleus, made up of protons and neutrons. The number of protons determines the kind of element (hydrogen, helium, lithium etc.) the atom is, and hence all its chemical properties. Each element, though, can come in different isotopes with different numbers of neutrons, and the different isotopes have different uses based on the nuclear rather than the chemical properties. This talk explores some of the isotopes and the uses they are put to in a range of diverse areas such as medical imaging and treatment, nuclear weapons and power, environmental monitoring, geological dating, and astronomy.
For further information, or to book a place for you and a guest, please email business@iop.org, or call Steve Bird on 0207 470 4883.
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