Quantum Fields
A Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution.
Talks, Podcasts and Essays
Here are some public lectures, podcasts, interviews, and essays about physics for students and wider audiences.
Some are aimed at general audiences, while others are more technical. The lecture on quatum fields given at the Royal Institution is a good place to start.
Public talks
Quantum Fields
The question and answer session.
The Standard Model
An animated introduction to the greatest theory of all time, for Quanta Magazine.
Quarks and Turbulence
Connections between particle physics and fluids at ICTS, Bangalore.
The Unity of Physics
At the Aspen Opera House.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics
The London Mathematical Society Popular Lecture
Our Chiral Universe
The Larmor Lecture at the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
The Allure of the Magnetic Monopole
The David Olive Distinguished Lecture at Swansea University.
Our Quest To Understand the Universe
A public lecture for the Strings Conference at NYU Abu Dhabi.
What Boiling Water Can Teach Us About the Universe
The renormalisation group at TIFR, Mumbai, India.
Baths and Quarks
A video for the Institute of Physics.
Explaining General Relativity
Ten minutes on the Einstein equations for Plus Magazine.
Podcasts
Essays
Physics and the Integers
This was awarded an FQXI essay prize. A shortened version later appeared in Scientific American.
Dons Diary
A short article for the Cambridge alumni magazine explaining how much fun examining is.
Topological Insulators
A description of the Nobel Prize winning work of Haldane, Kosterlitz, and Thouless, for Mathematical Today.
Advice
How To Give A Good Talk
This was given at a summer school for PhD students. It contains simple, basic advice on how to avoid some common pitfalls when giving a talk.