Lincoln School of Maths & Physics and the University of Lincoln Maths and Physics Society are happy to invite you to the Physics Movie Night, the second one after the pandemic.

Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Film: Contact (1997)
Stars: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
IMDB: 7.5/10; Awards: 15 wins & 27 nominations
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Details: 2h 30min, PG
Where: The Swan, Lincoln 
Time:  Doors open 19:30

A fascinating film about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

The night will start with a discussion and pizzas.

You are welcome to read  a short introduction to the Lincoln Astronomical Society given by Dave Castledine almost 6 years ago at the previous screening of this film.

Spaces are limited and the access is by the reservation through University of Lincoln Maths and Physics Society .

On 30 March 2022 Lincoln School of Maths & Physics and the University of Lincoln Maths and Physics Society hosted the  Physics Movie Night, the first such event after the pandemic. It took place for most of its time in the Stephen Langton Building Lecture Theatre and finished for the last 10 minutes in our own INB3305 room in the Isaac Newton Building. The movie screened was Interstellar, which was the subject of discussion in our 3rd year Physics module “Physics of the Universe”. The night started at 6:30pm with a discussion and pizzas.

As part of British Science Week the School of Mathematics and Physics ran a series of public lectures relating to the research done within the school. Phil Sutton gave a talk that introduces how we discover planets orbiting other stars, known as exoplanets. The finished by taking a brief look at some of the more unusual planets and systems found to date.

The recorded lecture can be found below.

Colloquium

by

Professor Donald Kurtz

Jeremiah Horrocks Institute

University of Central Lancashire, UK

Thursday, 30 January, 2020

4pm-5pm, INB3305

In 1926 in the opening paragraph of his now-classic book, The Internal Constitution of the Stars, Sir Arthur Eddington lamented, “What appliance can pierce through the outer layers of a star and test the conditions within?” While he considered theory to be the proper answer to that question, there is now an observational answer: asteroseismology. We are in a time of a significant advance in our understanding of stellar astrophysics with data from the Kepler and TESS Space Missions. These have improved our ability to see pulsations and variability in stars by 100 to 1000 times compared with ground-based telescopes, allowing us to probe stars using asteroseismology. We are seeing as never before: heartbeat stars, the new tidally enhanced pulsators, novel eclipsing stars, spots, flares and magnetic cycles as in…

On 10 June 2019 The University of Lincoln opened an exhibition of research images by staff and research students. As a part of the opening ceremony the winners were announced of Images of Research Competition 2019. Amongst the staff research images the panel awarded the prize to “Chaotic beats” by Dr Fabien Paillusson and our undergraduate physics student Michael Milburn, which research was conducted with the help of Dr Matt Booth. Read an extensive blog post on chaos by Fabien here.