Previous Elizabeth Spreadbury Lectures
Previous Elizabeth Spreadbury Lectures
| Year | Speaker | University | Lecture Title | Lecture Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Martin Rees | Cambridge | Learning about the Early Universe | |
| 1992 | Neil Turok | Cambridge | Cosmological Defects and their Classical Analogues | |
| 1993 | John Ellis | CERN | New Light on Dark Matter' | |
| 1994 | John Barrow | Sussex | What is the Inflationary Universe? | |
| 1995 | Alan Martin | Durham | The Wonder of Neutrinos in Physics and Astronomy | |
| 1996 | Bernard Carr | QMUL | Dark Matter and Gravitational Lensing | |
| 1997 | Ken Peach | Edinburgh | Space, Time and the Number of Protons in the Universe | |
| 1998 | Malcolm Longair | Cambridge | The Enigma of the Cosmological Constant | |
| 1999 | Chris Llewellyn-Smith | UCL | The Cosmic Role of CERN | |
| 2000 | Alan Watson | Leeds | Quest for the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays | |
| 2001 | Jocelyn Bell-Burnell | Bath | Shakes, Quakes & Mountain Building; Physics of Pulsars | |
| 2002 | Cecilia Jarlskog | CERN | Why dont Protons decay? | |
| 2003 | David Wark | Sussex/RAL | Neutrinos from the Cosmos; near and far | |
| 2004 | Ofer Lahav | UCL | Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe | |
| 2005 | Ed Hinds | Imperial | Is the Electron Round? | |
| 2006 | Carlos Frenk | Durham | Our Implausible Universe | |
| 2007 | Jeff Forshaw | Manchester | Does there have to be a Higgs Boson? | |
| 2008 | Richard S. Ellis | Oxford | Gravitational Lensing; Einstein's Unfinished Symphony | |
| 2009 | Rolf Heuer | CERN | Shedding Light on the Dark Universe | |
| 2010 | James Hough | Glasgow | The Detection and Cosmological Significance of Gravitational Waves | |
| 2011 | Alan Shotter | Edinburgh | Nuclear Astrophysics - pathway to creation of the chemical elements | |
| 2012 | Jon Butterworth | UCL | Results from the Large Hadron Collider and what they mean | |
| 2013 | Simon White | MPI Garching | Dark Matters | |
| 2014 | George Efstathiou | Cambridge | The Birth Of The Universe | |
| 2015 | Jenny Thomas | UCL | Neutrino Oscillations At Work | |
| 2016 | Chris Done | Durham | Black Holes: science fiction, fact or fantasy? | |
| 2017 | Subir Sarkar | Oxford/Copenhagen | Cosmology beyond the standard model | Lecture Notes |
| 2018 | Laura Baudis | Zurich | Illuminating the dark: direct searches for cold dark matter in the Milky Way | Lecture Notes |
| 2019 | Sheila Rowan | Glasgow | Gravitational waves - songs in the key of the Universe | |
| 2021 | Sera Markoff | Amsterdam | And then there was light: what black hole imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope teaches us about particle acceleration | Lecture Notes, Video of Lecture |
| 2022 | David Waters | UCL | The mystery of neutrino mass | |
| 2023 | Roberto Maiolino | Cambridge | A First Glimpse of Webb's Revolution of our Understanding of Galaxy Formation | Video of Lecture |
| 2024 | Joseph Formaggio | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | When Going Underground, Don't Forget the Sunscreen (and other lessons from experimental neutrino physics) | Video of Lecture |
| 2025 | Serena Viti | Leiden Observatory, Leiden University and University of Bonn | The Molecular Universe | Video of Lecture |
