Condensed concepts

This friday I am giving a colloquium for the UQ Physics department. 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry: from biological physics to a...

In 2016, when I saw the first results from the LIGO gravitational wave interferometer my natural caution and skepticism kicked in. They had ...

 Here are the slides from today's talk.

On friday I am giving the UQ Physics Department colloquium on mental health issues for scientists. The talk may be similar to one I gave a f...

Last week at UQ we had a very nice mathematics colloquium , "Crowdsourcing mathematics problems" by Timothy Gowers. He first talk...

I don't like people who are very black and white about things. Life, science, teaching, and politics are complicated. There are shades o...

At UQ we just had an interesting colloquium from Signe Riemer-Sorensen about Dark matter emission - seeing the invisible . Central to the t...

The first observation is that each mathematician is a special case, and in general mathematicians tend to behave like “fermions” i.e. avoid...

Here are the slides for the talk I am giving today at the UQ Physics colloquium. I will show the video Quantum levitation , and discuss wh...

Next week I am giving the Physics Department Colloquium at UQ. I am working hard at trying to follow David Mermin's advice , and make it...

I still remember the main idea of David Mermin's What is wrong with those talks? It was published as a Reference Frame in Physics Today...

Last friday I attended a very nice physics colloquium by  Mandyam Srinivasan on "Honeybees as a Model for the Study of Visually Guided...

A week ago we had an interesting physics colloquium The Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider  by Elizabetta Barberio, who works in the A...

Here are my slides for the  UQ Physics Colloquium . I have tried to build it around 5 key ideas: 1. Truly quantum dynamics requires phase...

This week the UQ Physics Colloquium was given by John Cook on  Communicating Climate Science and Countering Disinformation.  He is a UQ phys...

This is not easy. It is worth the effort. You want to convince people to attend your talk: it will be interesting, important and understanda...

Previously I have posted that one key to giving a good talk is to never offer undefendable ground . i.e., don't make dubious claims that...