Welcome to the July Lectures in Physics video archive. Here you will find streamed copies of lectures dating back a few years. More are being added regularly, so please check back often.

You will also find special lectures recorded here under the appropriate year.

The movies have been broken into 15min chunks, each approx 25mb in size.

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• 2008
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• 1992
• 1991

  2009 - International Year of Astronomy

 Galileo's invention of the astronomical telescope and his remarkable discoveries - Prof. David Jamieson:

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The Hubble Space telescope and the Hubble Constant- Prof Jeremy Mould:

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 The Giant Magellan Telescope- 400+10 years after Galileo- Dr Michael Brown (Monash University)

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 The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Galaxy- Professor Reinhard Genzel, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany& Department of Physics, University of California, USA

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 The Square Kilometre Array- Professor Brian Boyle, Director, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility

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 Rutherford and the Atomic Nucleus: The 100th Anniversary of a remarkable Discovery- Dr Jeff McCallum

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 Einstein's Blunder Undone: Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Universe- Professor Robert P Kirshner Harvard University 

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2008 - Materials in the 21st Century

Solid Light - Trapping Light in photonic crystals - Dr Andrew Greentree:

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Quantum Dots: artificial atoms - Prof Paul Mulvaney:

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Metamaterials: Cloak of Invisibility fact or fiction? - Associate Professor Ann Roberts:

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2007 - Physics Breakthroughs

The Large Hadron Collider – our window on the Big Bang - Professor Geoffrey Taylor:

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A Quantum Leap for Computers – quantum information on the horizon - Professor Lloyd Hollenberg:

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Breakthroughs, hoaxes, frauds and delusions – recent breakthroughs that weren’t - Professor David Jamieson:

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Hidden Mass in Cosmic Collisions – the first pictures of dark matter - Dr Andrew Melatos:

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The 19th century worldwide web: the electric telegraph, relativity and the eccentric Oliver Heaviside - Professor David Jamieson:

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  2001 -

Out of Africa: a 2 billion year old reactor-Professor David Jamieson

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  2000 -

Civilisation Transformed: The Impact of Quantum Mechanics- Professor G.I.Opat

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Quantum Electrodynamics: The most accurate Theory in the World- Chris Chantler

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The Promise of the Quantum Computer: New Beads on the Abacus- Professor David Jamieson

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1999 -

 "All Four Engines Out: Volcanic Ash, St Elmo's Fire, Aircraft and Electrostatics"-Prof. David Jamieson

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Gravitation: The Great Attraction of Physics- Professor G.I.Opat

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Is the Solar System Doomed to Chaos?- Associate Professor Rachel Webster

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  1998 -

 Atoms at Very Very Low Temperatures. Wave Behavour and Quantum Super States- Prof G.I. Opat

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The Physics of the Didjeridu- Lloyd Hollenberg

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New Eyes on Mars:The Physics of the Pathfinder Mission- Dr David Jamieson

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Neutrinos: Cosmic Messengers from the Earth, the Sun, the Stars, the Universe- Assoc Prof R.Volkas

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1997 -

Einstein and The Jumbo Jet: The Global Positioning System- Dr David Jamieson

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The Discovery of Planets around other Stars- Dr Rachel Webster

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The Electron: The Centenary of its Discovery 1897-1997- Prof G.I. Opat

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The 50th Anniversary of the Invention of the Transistor- Dr Jeff McCallum

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Particles and the Cosmos- Dr John Ellis (CERN)

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1996 -

Lasers: From Atoms to the Operating Theater-Dr Ann Roberts

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 Things that fly: Boomerangs, Helicopters and Aircraft-Prof. Geoff Opat

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  1995 -

Just how much matter is there in the Universe- Dr Rachel Webster

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 Light without Heat:Luminescence in moonlight video screens and other scenarios. -Dr David Jamieson

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  1994 -

The Arrow of Time-Dr Norm Frankel

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 The new Superconductors -Dr David Jamieson

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1992 -

The PC as a wonder of the Cosmos - Dr David Jamieson

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1991 -

Light and Focus: 600 Million Years of Progress -Dr David Jamieson

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