"The Physics of Santa"
Society Meeting
Thursday, 15th December 2016 (19:45 - 22:00)
Venue: swmcmeet
He's got a long white beard and a reindeer-driven sleigh, and somehow he manages to deliver gifts to a third of the world in the course of a single night. How does he do it? And why is it so important that you don't try to sneak a peek?
Speaker: Dr. Susan Cartwright
Dr Susan Cartwright graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc in Astronomy and Natural Philosophy (Physics, to most people - but if Natural Philosophy was good enough for Newton it was good enough for Glasgow!).
She then did a PhD in particle physics, also at Glasgow, and worked in Hamburg, Germany and San Francisco before arriving in Sheffield in 1989. She is currently working on neutrino oscillations with the T2K experiment in Japan(which, incidentally, doesn't have any evidence that neutrinos travel faster than light - though it does have evidence that accelerators don't much like earthquakes).