The Cosmology of the Early and Late Universe
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Physics & Astronomy
Abstract
Cosmology spans a wide range of physics, from the very small scales and high energies of the early Universe to galaxies and galaxy clusters in the late Universe. Specific features in our Universe such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) (relic radiation from the big bang) and individual supernovae explosions allow us to probe the expansion history and constituents of the Universe. These observations suggest that most of the matter in the Universe is composed of exotic dark matter. Furthermore the expansion of the Universe recently started accelerating (by recent we mean a few billion years ago actually, but recent compared to the Universe's age of 13.7 billion years), rather than continuing to slow down as expected. This late time acceleration could be due to an exotic dark energy component, or a modification of Einstein's laws of gravity. Moreover, we also have in the late Universe rich structures of galaxies and galaxy clusters which are believed to have grown from small initial fluctuations in the matter distribution, which in turn were generated in the very early Universe. However the mechanism responsible for producing these fluctuations is not yet fully understood. Connecting observations of the late time Universe, with the early Universe and fundamental particle physics is a major outstanding issue for cosmology and one of the main goals of our work.
Particle physics and general relativity both break down at extreme energies, where a unified theory of quantum gravity is expected to operate. We will test the observational consequences of such theories. In particular string theory allows superstrings to stretch across the Universe, altering the fluctuations in the CMB. We will study the evolution of networks of cosmic strings and superstrings and make accurate predictions for their observational signatures. We will then test these predictions directly against data from the Planck satellite and thereby constrain the allowed form these strings could take in our Universe. This work could potentially provide the first evidence for string theory through cosmology.
String theory, and other new particle physics models, also provide us with a dark matter candidate in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). WIMPs can be detected directly in the lab (via their rare interactions with atoms) or indirectly via the antiparticles and high energy gamma-rays that are produced when they come together and annihilate. They can also be produced in particle colliders such as the LHC. We will develop the tools required to unambiguously detect dark matter and measure its properties.
We will take a two pronged approach to understanding the physics underlying the observed late time acceleration of the Universe. We will develop techniques which will allow us to test the laws of gravity, and models of dark energy, in both the early and late Universe. We will also continue to explore fundamental physics models which may provide a mechanism for the acceleration. One exciting proposal we will investigate involves a Harry Potter like invisibility cloak. In a class of modified gravity models we have developed, the cosmological constant can be arbitrarily large as it is hidden from the background geometry of the Universe by the presence of a scalar field which acts like the cloak. There are many interesting facets to this proposal which we will investigate in depth, not least among them, is it observationally consistent?
Our research encompasses a wide range of scales and energies. This diversity is met with a corresponding array of techniques to study various phenomena, ranging from quantum gravity to classical dynamics and analytic calculations to numerical simulations using supercomputers.
Particle physics and general relativity both break down at extreme energies, where a unified theory of quantum gravity is expected to operate. We will test the observational consequences of such theories. In particular string theory allows superstrings to stretch across the Universe, altering the fluctuations in the CMB. We will study the evolution of networks of cosmic strings and superstrings and make accurate predictions for their observational signatures. We will then test these predictions directly against data from the Planck satellite and thereby constrain the allowed form these strings could take in our Universe. This work could potentially provide the first evidence for string theory through cosmology.
String theory, and other new particle physics models, also provide us with a dark matter candidate in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). WIMPs can be detected directly in the lab (via their rare interactions with atoms) or indirectly via the antiparticles and high energy gamma-rays that are produced when they come together and annihilate. They can also be produced in particle colliders such as the LHC. We will develop the tools required to unambiguously detect dark matter and measure its properties.
We will take a two pronged approach to understanding the physics underlying the observed late time acceleration of the Universe. We will develop techniques which will allow us to test the laws of gravity, and models of dark energy, in both the early and late Universe. We will also continue to explore fundamental physics models which may provide a mechanism for the acceleration. One exciting proposal we will investigate involves a Harry Potter like invisibility cloak. In a class of modified gravity models we have developed, the cosmological constant can be arbitrarily large as it is hidden from the background geometry of the Universe by the presence of a scalar field which acts like the cloak. There are many interesting facets to this proposal which we will investigate in depth, not least among them, is it observationally consistent?
Our research encompasses a wide range of scales and energies. This diversity is met with a corresponding array of techniques to study various phenomena, ranging from quantum gravity to classical dynamics and analytic calculations to numerical simulations using supercomputers.
Planned Impact
The particle physics and astronomy communities as well as the Quantum Gravity (QG) community working in cosmology are the obvious group of researchers who will benefit directly from the research proposed in this application. Our intention is to predict observational signatures for a number of Early Universe and Late Universe features. For example we will be using the latest data from Planck to constrain models of cosmic superstrings as a function of the string tension and coupling and deriving Likelihood curves to determine the evidence for their existence. This would be of direct interest to the string theory community as well as the CMB community who are searching for polarisation signals in the CMB. Similarly in the late universe we intend to develop and apply the most complete parameterisation to date of modified gravity models, the PPF formalism. Through it cosmologists working on CMB and LSS surveys will have a means to constrain and possibly rule out classes of models by calculating the PPF parameters and comparing them with observations. We are members of DES and EUCLID and the PPF formalism we are developing with be invaluable to those searching for evidence of evolution in the dark energy equation of state.
Our work extending the Fab Four model will allow astronomers to directly test for self tuning scenarios of the cosmological constant. Through our work on dark matter, we will be providing results of interest both to the experimental particle physics community and the astrophysics community working on dark matter detection. Our work on developing a framework for modeling the dark matter distribution to facilitate the unambiguous detection of dark matter and measure its properties, will be of significance for example for other WIMP indirect detection experiments. Our proposed work on detecting dark energy in the laboratory will be of real interest to the experimental particle and cold atoms communities. Moreover it will provide a wonderful forum for a new PhD student to learn a series of skills linked to both theory and experiment. On the more mathematical end of the subject our work on singularity avoidance mechanisms in LQC, the low energy regime of spin foam models of QG and new chiral descriptions of gravity will be of interest to the cosmological community interested in testing General Relativity on small scales and developing tests of QG.
As well as those directly benefitting from our research, we believe many will benefit indirectly. The graduate students and PDRAs that are trained through these projects often go on to work in industry and finance, taking with them the skill set developed in this research and applying it to new projects. Four of the students who have graduated in the past three years are now working in climate modelling, finance, plasma fusion and modelling wind turbines. There are also clear benefits for the wider public. For example undergraduate and M.Sc students will benefit through the opportunity to do projects with members of the group which will often involve learning about the physics involved in the grant. School and college students will benefit through masterclasses run by members of the group and talks given at schools. Similarly members of the public will benefit from public lectures given by group members in which their work will be introduced, through media activities such as radio and television appearances, as well as the continuing participation of group members in the highly successful Sixty Symbols project, and more recently in the even more successful Numberphiles project. As mentioned above, the Knowledge Transfer will allow graduate students and PDRAs who have been trained by members of the group to enter the workplace and use their skills to benefit society.
Our work extending the Fab Four model will allow astronomers to directly test for self tuning scenarios of the cosmological constant. Through our work on dark matter, we will be providing results of interest both to the experimental particle physics community and the astrophysics community working on dark matter detection. Our work on developing a framework for modeling the dark matter distribution to facilitate the unambiguous detection of dark matter and measure its properties, will be of significance for example for other WIMP indirect detection experiments. Our proposed work on detecting dark energy in the laboratory will be of real interest to the experimental particle and cold atoms communities. Moreover it will provide a wonderful forum for a new PhD student to learn a series of skills linked to both theory and experiment. On the more mathematical end of the subject our work on singularity avoidance mechanisms in LQC, the low energy regime of spin foam models of QG and new chiral descriptions of gravity will be of interest to the cosmological community interested in testing General Relativity on small scales and developing tests of QG.
As well as those directly benefitting from our research, we believe many will benefit indirectly. The graduate students and PDRAs that are trained through these projects often go on to work in industry and finance, taking with them the skill set developed in this research and applying it to new projects. Four of the students who have graduated in the past three years are now working in climate modelling, finance, plasma fusion and modelling wind turbines. There are also clear benefits for the wider public. For example undergraduate and M.Sc students will benefit through the opportunity to do projects with members of the group which will often involve learning about the physics involved in the grant. School and college students will benefit through masterclasses run by members of the group and talks given at schools. Similarly members of the public will benefit from public lectures given by group members in which their work will be introduced, through media activities such as radio and television appearances, as well as the continuing participation of group members in the highly successful Sixty Symbols project, and more recently in the even more successful Numberphiles project. As mentioned above, the Knowledge Transfer will allow graduate students and PDRAs who have been trained by members of the group to enter the workplace and use their skills to benefit society.
Organisations
- University of Nottingham (Lead Research Organisation)
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) (Collaboration)
- European Space Agency (Collaboration)
- Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
Publications
Achúcarro A
(2014)
Evolution of semilocal string networks: Large-scale properties
in Physical Review D
Ade PA
(2015)
Joint analysis of BICEP2/keck array and Planck Data.
in Physical review letters
Ai W
(2018)
Radiative effects on false vacuum decay in Higgs-Yukawa theory
in Physical Review D
Alexandre J
(2017)
Symmetries and conservation laws in non-Hermitian field theories
in Physical Review D
Alexandre J
(2018)
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Goldstone theorem in non-Hermitian field theories
in Physical Review D
Alexandre J
(2017)
Symmetries and conservation laws in non-Hermitian field theories
Alexandre J
(2017)
Light neutrino masses from a non-Hermitian Yukawa theory
Alexandre J
(2017)
Light neutrino masses from a non-Hermitian Yukawa theory
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Description | The grant covered work in the cosmology of the early and late universe. in particular we were able to provide new tests of dark energy through atom interferometry experiments, as well as constrain models of topological defects through their contributions to the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropies. We developed models to explain the small value of the cosmological constant, and ways of testing and constraining models of dark matter. |
Exploitation Route | They are used by researchers in deciding how to push forward with their own work on early and late universe cosmology. For example the atom interferometry work led to a Science paper published by a team in Berkeley. |
Sectors | Education |
Description | Led to Sixty Symbols videos watched by over 150,000 people. |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
Impact Types | Societal |
Description | ERC Consolidator Grant |
Amount | € 1,150,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | ERC-2013-CoG-617656 TheMoDS |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 07/2014 |
End | 07/2019 |
Description | ERC Starter Grant |
Amount | € 1,375,226 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 3064425 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 01/2012 |
End | 07/2017 |
Description | IPPP Associateship |
Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Durham University |
Department | Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2016 |
End | 09/2017 |
Description | Leverhulme Trust as a Research leadership Award |
Amount | £802,923 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2017 |
End | 08/2022 |
Description | Marie Curie |
Amount | £166,663 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 274326 --Anastasios Avgoustidis |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 09/2011 |
End | 09/2013 |
Description | Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship |
Amount | £209,792 (GBP) |
Funding ID | Univ of Nottingham agresso code: A2RHR1 |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2013 |
End | 09/2016 |
Description | PhD studentship |
Amount | £60,745 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2013 |
End | 03/2016 |
Description | Research fellowship |
Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RF- 2011-633 |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2011 |
End | 10/2013 |
Description | Royal Society URF |
Amount | £426,771 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 516002.K501/S C/PM/ROG |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2008 |
End | 10/2013 |
Description | Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
Amount | £410,731 (GBP) |
Funding ID | UF130549 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2014 |
End | 09/2019 |
Description | Sir Norman Lockyer Fellowship |
Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Astronomical Society |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2011 |
End | 09/2014 |
Description | Starter Grant |
Amount | £1,042,037 (GBP) |
Funding ID | FP7- 277570 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 01/2012 |
End | 12/2016 |
Description | URF |
Amount | £339,861 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 516002.K501/S C/PM/ROG |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2013 |
End | 09/2016 |
Description | URF |
Amount | £451,598 (GBP) |
Funding ID | UF090598 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2010 |
End | 09/2015 |
Description | URF |
Amount | £519,188 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2013 |
End | 12/2017 |
Description | Visiting Professor |
Amount | £21,787 (GBP) |
Funding ID | VP2-2010-059 |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2011 |
End | 09/2011 |
Description | CERNs Physics Beyond Colliders program |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Physics Department |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Clare Burrage - Convenor of the BSM theory working group part of CERNs Physics Beyond Colliders program |
Collaborator Contribution | Members of the working group. |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | COSMOS |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have access to COSMOS supercomputer |
Collaborator Contribution | All partners have access to COSMOS to undertake basic research into cosmology |
Impact | Many publications too numerous to mention |
Description | COST Network |
Organisation | European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) |
Department | COST Action |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | John Barrett - COST network MP1405. He is on the management committee as UK rep |
Collaborator Contribution | They are members of the management committee. |
Impact | Monte Carlo simulations of random non-commutative geometries John W Barrett and Lisa Glaser Published 11 May 2016 • © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Volume 49, Number 24 |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Dark Energy Survey |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Copeland is on the Theory Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | They run the telescope |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | Euclid |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Department | Science and Operations Department |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Skordis and Burrage are on Theory working group |
Collaborator Contribution | Support all elements of the satellite. |
Impact | None yet |
Description | Planck |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Department | Science and Operations Department |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Adam Moss is on the Planck team, working primarily on polarisation. |
Collaborator Contribution | All aspects of the project |
Impact | Huge impact on cosmology. |
Description | 100 years of General Relativity, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of the Einstein centenary Sotiriou organised a series of lectures for the public, held at Nottingham, `100 years of General Relativity', |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | BBC Horizon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Burrage will be appearing in 2016 in a BBC Horizon programme dedicated to Dark Energy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | BBC In Our Time |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Green appeared on an episode of In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg on Dark Matter (Mar 2015) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054t3s2). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Continued Sixty Symbols and Numberphile videos |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Videos made for the General public on maths and physics. reach audiences of well over 1 Million people (Numberphile) and 250,000 (Sixty Symbols) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols |
Description | Discover Physics - 80 Year 12 and 13 students staying at Nottingham for 2 days. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 80 pupils attended to learn about research in physics. They listened to research talks and visited research labs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Edinburgh International Science Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked plenty of discussion afterwards. None |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Guest on Brian Cox Live show in Nottingham Oct 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Brian Cox invited me onstage with him at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall for a question and answer session in front of an audience of 3000 in Oct 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Hay Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invitation to talk about Dark Energy at the Hay Literary festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Hong Kong |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | British Council Science Alive event, Hong Kong (Mar 2016) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | May 2016 Public talks at Pint of Science Festival, Nottingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Ed Copeland and Clare Burrage : May 2016 Public talk at Pint of Science Festival, Nottingham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Moon Rock |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | took moon rock to a number of local schools in Nov 2014, us- ing the opportunity to talk about gravity and science to over 1000 children and parents. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2012,2014,2022 |
Description | NORDITA, Stockholm |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Green gave a talk on dark matter at a workshop on astrophysics and cosmology for science writers at NORDITA, Stockholm in May 2013 - (http://agenda.albanova.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3742). Weinfurtner did a similar thing in Aug 2014, talking about analogue gravity at a workshop for science writers on Quantum Gravity also in Stockholm. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
Description | North West Science Centre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk to schools in NW England |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Nottingham Masterclasses |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 60 pupils or so attend the masterclasses As well as exciting students, it has had an impact on ugd recruitment at Nottingham. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |
URL | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzphy7/webpages/outreach/ |
Description | Nottingham Potential Summer School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Nottingham Potential Summer School |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Nottingham Science Public Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Burrage and Padilla both gave lectures are part of the Nottingham Science Public Lecture series (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/outreach/science-public-lectures.aspx). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
Description | Numberphile videos |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland have been involved in a a number of Numberphile videos. A recent one on the sum of the integers has attracted over 3 million hits on you tube. Hundreds of emails from students and interested people from around the world. Invitations to talk at numerous schools, articles in the NYT, de Spiegel and other major newspapers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
URL | http://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile |
Description | Public lecture (University of Nottingham) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Black holes and the quantum", given at the ``100 years of black holes'' outreach event at the University of Nottingham, 29 November 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | QUAD |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | QUAD gallery in Derby (http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/exhibition/gravity-not-force-be-reckoned) on the nature of gravity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Royal Society Insight Investment Book Prize Judge 2016. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Royal Society Insight Investment Book Prize Judge 2016. Judged over 50 books. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | School talks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Generally very positive feedback from staff and students who appreciate us bringing cutting edge research ideas into the classroom. See above. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2021,2022 |
Description | Sixty Symbols Videos |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We have a big impact with these videos receiving thousands of comments on the videos and emails sent thanking us for the work. See above. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
URL | http://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols |
Description | Spring into Science 2017 - talks, demonstrations and Q&A session with 500 Year 8 inner city students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 500 Year 8 students attended a day of talks, demonstrations and an open Q&A session with experts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Youtube channel of lectures given in Mathematical Physics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Kirill Krasnov - Youtube channel of lectures given in Mathematical Physics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVlk8Tu1qs6lXEz7Zw-pNnw/videos?view_as=subscriber |