Forthcoming events

Monday 7 September 2009: Copernicus: Revolutionary or Plagiarist, a talk at the British Science Association Festival, University of Surrey

Thursday 17 September 2009: Science and Rationalism in 9th Century Baghdad, The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, 6pm.

Monday 26 October 2009: THe House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science, Department of Physics Colloquium, Queen Mary College, London

Tuesday 27 October 2009: Quantum mechanics, how wierd is it?, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 5.30 pm. See Poster

Monday 16 November 2009: Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines , Portsmouth Guildhall

Monday 23 November 2009: Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines , Leicester de Montford Hall

Saturday 9 January 2010: Science and Islam, The Nuffield Lecture at the Association for Science Education (ASE), University of Nottingham, 11.30am

Monday 15 February 2010: Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, IOP Physics in Perspective Conference, Royal Institution

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Over the past ten years, I have given hundreds of public lectures and talks to schools (I was the Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges lecturer for 1998), scientific societies, science festivals, book festivals and branches of learned societies. Venues include the Royal Institution (6 times), Royal Society and the British Museum.

Public lectures overseas: The Staatliche Museum of Berlin in 2004 and lecture tours in theatres, cafes and bars in Greece, Czech Republic, Oman and Thailand in 2005, all organised by British Council.

• The House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science
• Light at the End of the Tunnel: A history of particle physics
• Communicating Science in the 21st Century
• The God Particle: Is Science the New Religion?
• The Halo at the centre of the atom
• Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines
• Quantum Computing
• The Quantum Universe
• Nuclear Transmutation: an alchemist's dream
• Quantum: A guide for the perplexed
• The Interpretation of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen: Friendship, quantum mechanics and the bomb
• The Nature of Time in 21st Century Physics
• Time Travel: fact or fiction
• The Riddle of Einstein's Brain
• The Great Quantum Debate
• The Photoelectric Effect