In the Wonderland of Physics

Multi-layer flows tend to be very unstable in general. To increase the fun we add surfactants: molecular tadpoles that help us breathe and allow the fluids to slide on one-another and explore the emerging instabilities.

Atomic-level point defects are the simplest yet most influential imperfections in solids, significantly affecting the physical properties of materials, thus making their precise detection and identification essential for advancing the design and durability of next-generation energy devices.  Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) offers unique sensitivity to vacancy-related defects at the atomic scale, allowing the characterization of open-volume defects and the estimation of their concentration.

Our telescopes on Earth constantly map the sky providing us with huge data sets from stellar-cluster observations. What we can learn from this information and with what tools will be discussed in this talk.

Our Solar System is packed with moons --- over 450 of them. Yet among the 6000+ planets discovered around other stars, not a single moon has been confirmed.  So where are they?  In this talk, we will explore why exomoons may be harder to find and keep than we expect. Soko Matsumura is a lecturer in Physics at the University of Dundee.