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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma — 81 episodes
Nonlinear dynamics of active particles
The physics of “flat” electrons
How to program a quantum computer
A New Twist on Topology: The Rise of “Moiré Materials”
Anyons: New Types of Particles in Quantum Physics
Topology in the Physics of Condensed Matter
The Hubble Tension
Cosmic strings and gravitational waves from the early Universe
Chirality in living systems
Imaging living systems
Statistical physics of living systems
The Miracle of Quantum Error Correction
Simulating physics beyond computer power
A liquid of quarks and gluons
Possible sources for the gravitational wave background
Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves
Gravitational radiation: an overview
How the weird and wonderful properties of magnetised laser plasmas could ignite fusion-energy research
Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion
Magnetic confinement fusion: Science that’s hotter than a Kardashian Instagram post
The spaghettification of stars by supermassive black holes: understanding one of nature’s most extreme events
Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events
Inflation and the Very Early Universe
Axion Searches from Black Holes to the Basement
Axion Electrodynamics in Solid-State Materials
The Axion: How Angles Become Particles
Fluid-gravity duality and hydrodynamics of black holes
Hydrodynamics of Quantum Many-Body Systems Out of Equilibrium
Why Hydrodynamics?
Strings and Fields
Classical and Quantum Black Holes
Why is Quantum Gravity so hard?
Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments
Machine Learning and String Theory
An Introduction to deep learning
Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics
Cosmic acceleration revealed by Type la supernovae?
Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe
What makes stars go bang?
... from collisions to the Higgs boson
From protons to collisions…
What the Large Hadron Collider is telling us about the Higgs sector and its new interactions
Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis
Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS
Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department
Entropy from Entanglement
Entropy: two short stories
Entropy: Gaining Knowledge by Admitting Ignorance
Networked Quantum Information Technologies
Quantum logic with trapped-ion qubits
The ultimate limits of privacy and randomness...for the paranoid ones
“Open” Quantum Systems
Quantum Systems from Group up
Galaxy Dynamics: The chemical evolution side
Galaxy Dynamics: The dynamics of galaxy discs
Galaxy Dynamics: Stellar systems: a new state of matter
Superfluids in Flatland: Topology, Defects, and the 2016 Nobel Prize
Quantum mechanics on the human scale
From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow
Exploring the very early universe with gravitational waves
The birth of gravitational wave astronomy
From action at a distance to gravitational waves
Kilometres: Turbulence - Morning of Theroetical Physics
Microns: The bacterial viewpoint - Morning of Theroetical Physics
Centimetres: Fluids all around us - Morning of Theroetical Physics
Topology and the Classification of Matter: New Physics Hidden in Plain Sight
Magnets, superfluids and superconductors
Identical particles: from one to many
String Theory, Holography and Quark-Gluon Plasma
String Theory and Particle Physics
String Theory: Then and Now
How computers have changed the way we do physics - Breaking through the quantum barrier
How computers have changed the way we do physics - Structure in complex systems
How computers have changed the way we do physics - Chaos and climate change
Gravitational lensing: one of the sharpest tools in an astronomer's toolbox
General Relativity: what is it & why Einstein conceived it thus
Cosmology from General Relativity
Making the Vacuum Concrete
Basics of Anyons and Nonabelian Aharanov-Bohm Effect
Knots, World-lines, and Topological Quantum Computation
Quantum Computing