`What pulsars (pulsating radio sources) have done to (and for) physics'

The Eleventh BARKLA Lecture will be given on Thursday, 9th February 2017, 5 p.m. in the Rotblat Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics (Bld. 207, E6 on the campus map), by Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS, Visiting Professor Astrophysics, University of Oxford. Refreshments will be served from 4:30 p.m. and the lecture will be followed by a wine reception in the foyer outside the lecture hall. The Barkla Colloquium is aimed at a broad audience and undergraduates are cordially invited to attend the event.

Links

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell on Wikipedia
  
• BBC programme on Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  
• Encyclopaedia Britannica page on Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  
  
• Announcement-poster
  
  
• Tenth Barkla Lecture by Katherine Freese
  
• Ninth Barkla Lecture by Jacob Bekenstein
  
• Eighth Barkla Lecture by Viatcheslav Mukhanov
  
• Seventh Barkla Lecture by John Ellis
  
• The sixth Barkla lecture was given on 25th Jan. 2011 as part of the `Science and Society' lecture series by Professor Sine Larsen, president of the International Union of Crystallography.
  She talked about `The impact of x-rays on society'.
  
• Fifth Barkla Lecture by Michael Green
  
• Fourth Barkla Lecture by Gerard 't Hooft
  
• Third Barkla Lecture by Francois Englert
  
• Second Barkla Lecture by Martinus Veltman
  
• First Barkla Lecture by Frank Wilczek
  
  

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