The ATOM Society | Previous Events

Modelling of Climate Change

Professor Tim Palmer

Tuesday 20th October 2026

Quantum Computing: From Testing the Multiverse to a Tech Revolution

Maria Violaris

Tuesday 15th September 2026

Remote Applications in Challenging Environments: Robotics for Fusion and Beyond

Charles Birdsall

Tuesday 18th August 2026

Interventional Cardiology for Congenital Heart Disease: Bomb Disposal for Cowards

Dr Neil Wilson

Wednesday 22nd July 2026

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Professor Christl Donnelly

Tuesday 16th June 2026

Harnessing the Stars - the Pursuit of Fusion Power

James Edmiston

Tuesday 19th May 2026

Learning from Accidents

Dr Robin Wilson

Tuesday 21st April 2026

Predators: How Nature's Killers Have Shaped Life on Earth

Professor Tim Coulson

Tuesday 17th March 2026

Space Sweepers: Get Set to Clean the Orbital Highway

Zoé Tenacci

Tuesday 17th February 2026

Prions: A Pathogen Unlike Any Other

Caitlin Wright

Tuesday 20th January 2026

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Dr M'hamed Lakrimi

Tuesday 18th November 2025

Use of Nanobodies in Disease Prevention

Dr Lauren Eyssen

Tuesday 21st October 2025

Uncovering Oxfordshire's Dinosaur Highway

Dr Duncan Murdock

Tuesday 16th September 2025

Granny's had a Stroke; shall we call the Doctor?

Dr Andrew Molyneux

Tuesday 19th August 2025

Destroyer of Worlds

Professor Frank Close

Tuesday 22nd July 2025

Space Sweepers: Get Set to Clean the Orbital Highway

Zoé Tenacci

Tuesday 17th June 2025

LASERS - The Incredible Power of Light

Professor John Collier

Tuesday 20th May 2025

The Scientific Study of Butterflies and Moths

Professor Peter Holland

Tuesday 15th April 2025

Macular Degeneration: Through the Ages

Professor Susan Downes

Tuesday 18th March 2025

Monitoring the Environment from Space

Dr Robin Wilson

Tuesday 18th February 2025

Influenza: from the Spanish Lady to the Winter Sniffle

Dr David Miles

Tuesday 21st January 2025

Formation of the First Stars in the Early Universe: New Insights from the James Webb Space Telescope

Dr Alex Cameron

Tuesday 19th November 2024

Superconductors, Superjoints and Supermagnets

Petr Zagura

Tuesday 15th October 2024

CHARGE! Why does gravity rule?

Professor Frank Close

Tuesday 17th September 2024

Science By Many - The Power of Citizen Science for Research

Dr Jenny Shelton

Tuesday 20th August 2024

Making Sense of Big Data for Human Health

Professor David Ray

Tuesday 16th July 2024

Mobilizing An Electric World

Robert Young

Tuesday 18th June 2024

Re-inventing a Telescope: Mapping the Universe with WEAVE

Professor Gavin Dalton

Tuesday 21st May 2024

From Nano Magnets to Mega Magnets

Dr Ben Bryant

Tuesday 16th April 2024

The Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and Beyond

Professor Cath Green

Tuesday 19th March 2024

What You Leave Behind: A Look At the Physical Evidence Encountered in Forensic Science

Rachel Hewetson

Tuesday 20th February 2024

Building Particle Detectors for the LHC and Beyond

Dr Sam Henry

Tuesday 16th January 2024

Artificial Intelligence: Revolutionising Design and Journalism?

Maggie Mustaklem & Felix M. Simon

Tuesday 21st November 2023

Motor Neuron Disease – Is There a Cure?

Professor Kevin Talbot

Tuesday 17th October 2023

Wildlife Conservation

Professor David Macdonald

Tuesday 19th September 2023

Quantum Technologies

Dr Rhys Lewis

Tuesday 15th August 2023

Domestic Robots

Associate Professor Dr Ekaterina Hertog

Tuesday 18th July 2023

Fusion – Powering the Future

Chris Warwick

Tuesday 20th June 2023

Legitimate Idleness – Victorian Travel for Health

Professor Sally Shuttleworth

Tuesday 16th May 2023

Science and Archaeology – How Chemistry Can Tell Us About the Human Past

Dr Amy Styring

Thursday 20th April 2023

Elusive – Peter Higgs and the 50-year quest for the God particle

Professor Frank Close

Saturday 11th March 2023

From Darwin to DNA – Studying Evolution in the 21st Century

Professor Peter Holland

Tuesday 21st February 2023

The Ever-Changing Brain

Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg

Tuesday 17th January 2023

ATOM Christmas Social

Thursday 8th December 2022

How the Circadian Clock Knows What Time It Is

Dr Aarti Jagannath

Thursday 17th November 2022

The First Data From JWST: Providing Answers or Raising Questions?

Dr Alex Cameron

Thursday 20th October 2022

The Battle Against Malaria: Is a New Superweapon in Sight?

Dr Chris Williams

Thursday 15th September 2022

The Psychology of Phishing: Building an effective people-led defence

Mark Brown

Thursday 18th August 2022

The Measure of All Things

Dr Martyn R Sené

Thursday 21st July 2022

ATOM Festival

Wednesday 1st June 2022

Space Junk - Developing the Technology to Avoid and Remove Debris from Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Zoé Tenacci

Thursday 19th May 2022

News from the energy frontier as the Large Hadron Collider restarts

Professor Jon Butterworth

Thursday 21st April 2022

Perception, Behaviour and Intelligence: a dialogue

Professor Alex Kacelnik and Professor Brian Rogers

Thursday 17th March 2022

LIFE TIME: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Health

Professor Russell Foster

Thursday 17th February 2022

Sleep softly: Schubert, Ethics and the Value of Dying Well

Professor Dominic Wilkinson

Thursday 20th January 2022

ATOM Society Christmas Party

Wednesday 1st December 2021

Spying on Seabirds - using tracking technology to study declining seabirds

Dr Annette Fayet

Thursday 18th November 2021

Quantum Weirdness

Marius Weber

Thursday 21st October 2021

The eternal struggle? The Battle Between our Immune System and the Malaria Parasite

Chris Williams

Thursday 16th September 2021

Scarves, Symmetry, and Solving Equations

Vicky Neale

Thursday 19th August 2021

Trinity: A real life story of ATOM spies - How GCHQ exposed Klaus Fuchs, but the FBI stole the credit.

Professor Frank Close

Thursday 22nd July 2021

DNA repair in focus: Utilising fluorescence microscopy to study early DNA damage processes

Rebecca Smith

Thursday 17th June 2021

An Uncertain Mission: Decision Making for Robots

Professor Nick Hawes

Thursday 20th May 2021

Plant Roots: A Ground-Breaking Perspective

Andrew Galloway

Thursday 15th April 2021

Computational Biology in Drug Target Discovery

Zahra McVey

Thursday 18th March 2021

Mars - Why we can't get enough

Rain Irshad

Thursday 18th February 2021

Life in the balance: How protein quality control governs health and disease

Dimitrios Doultsinos

Thursday 21st January 2021

Virtual Tour of the DIAMOND Light Source

Wednesday 9th December 2020

Art & Astronomy

Barry Kellett

Thursday 19th November 2020

Challenges in Viral Vector Manufacturing - working to fast track vaccine vector production

Nick Page

Thursday 15th October 2020

Natural Light and Fresh Air: The Ultimate Human Drugs?

Alex Pratt

Thursday 17th September 2020

Passive Covert Radar and Similar ESM Systems: What They Are and What They Can Do

Andy Cooke

Thursday 20th August 2020

The Immune System: From Basic Knowledge to Novel Anti-tumour Treatments

Audrey Gerard

Thursday 16th July 2020

Personal Dosimetry: History and Latest Developments

Hugh Schönemann

Thursday 18th June 2020

Virtual DIAMOND Light Source Visit

Monday 1st June 2020

Supercomputers and Seagulls - The Story of Weather Prediction

Josh Dorrington

Thursday 21st May 2020

From Pig Insulin to Gene Therapy: 100 Years of Biopharma

Danielle Fairbrass

Thursday 16th April 2020

ATOM Festival

Sunday 1st March 2020

Ultra-low temperatures – pushing the boundaries of engineering

Harriet van der Vliet

Thursday 20th February 2020

CERN and the Profoundly Unknown

Todd Huffman

Thursday 16th January 2020

Christmas Social

Thursday 5th December 2019

Sustainable Farming

Neil Rowe

Thursday 21st November 2019

Understanding the Components of Memory

Elitsa Slavkova & Rob Udale

Thursday 17th October 2019

Lunar Swirls - How to Protect Astronauts at the Moon

Ruth Bamford

Thursday 19th September 2019

Microbes in our body: health or disease?

Claire Pearson

Thursday 15th August 2019

Parkinson's disease and dopamine: affecting motivation, movement and memory

John Grogan, Lisa Nobis & Tim Sandhu

Thursday 18th July 2019

Slippery Secrets - The hidden science within the life-blood of your car

Dr Ian A W Bell

Thursday 20th June 2019

Imaging atoms in an electron microscope – the ultimate tool for materials science

Dr Christopher Allen

Thursday 16th May 2019

The Big Bang and a Multiverse

Darsh Kodwani

Thursday 18th April 2019

ATOM Festival

Friday 22nd March 2019

Active Ageing: Exercise and Brain Health

Sana Suri

Thursday 21st February 2019

Galaxies & Black Holes

Roger Davies

Thursday 17th January 2019

Christmas Social

Thursday 6th December 2018

The Quest for the Best Beef Replacement

Marco Springmann

Thursday 15th November 2018

Deciphering the Past with Accelerators

Jens Dopke

Thursday 18th October 2018

Demystifying Traditional Chinese Medicine

Koon Hwee Ang

Thursday 20th September 2018

Geophysical Survey Challenges in Adverse Weather Conditions

Benedict Robbins

Thursday 16th August 2018

Plumbing problems – A heart story

Gillian Douglas

Thursday 19th July 2018

Wobbles, warbles and fish - the 'magnocellular' theory of developmental dyslexia

John Stein

Thursday 21st June 2018

Biomedical Imaging

Katherine Fisher

Thursday 17th May 2018

Challenges and Controversies in Sustainable Diets

Marco Springmann

Thursday 19th April 2018

ATOM Festival of Science and Technology

Thursday 15th March 2018

Using Science to Reveal the Environments of the Past

Julia Meen

Thursday 15th February 2018

Space - The Ultimate Engineering Challenge

Mike Salter

Thursday 18th January 2018

Christmas Social

Thursday 14th December 2017

Flipping the Switch: Understanding Angiogenesis in Order to Treat Diseases

Koon Hwee Ang

Thursday 16th November 2017

Volcanoes and Global Change

Tamsin Mather

Thursday 19th October 2017

Are you afraid of the dark? The Interplay of Galaxies and Dark Matter

Peter Hatfield

Thursday 21st September 2017

How to Train Your Computer to Have a Cup of Tea and a Chat

Daniela Massiceti

Thursday 17th August 2017

Imaging Fast Phenomena: The World of High Speed Photography

Clive Siviour

Thursday 20th July 2017

Deep Underground Science

Sam Henry

Thursday 15th June 2017

Micrographia Revisited: Looking at Hooke's Work Through Today's Eyes!

Dr Martin Grossel

Thursday 18th May 2017

Immune Systems & Colloidal Polymers

Kathrin Jansen & Michael Mordan

Thursday 20th April 2017

ATOM Festival

Wednesday 22nd March 2017

How the Body Clock is Set to Time

Aarti Jagannath

Thursday 16th March 2017

The Power of Karst Palaeoclimate

Stacy Carolin

Thursday 16th February 2017

Rocking the Foundations of Mathematics: Logic, Paradox, and the Quest for Consistency

Professor Volker Halbach

Thursday 19th January 2017

Christmas Party

Thursday 15th December 2016

Dark Matter

Kathryn Boast

Thursday 24th November 2016

Murder, Maggots and Mitochondrial DNA

Catherine Hale

Thursday 27th October 2016

The Weather in Space – The Sun's Impact on Earth

Professor Richard Harrison

Thursday 22nd September 2016

Will We Ever Understand Animal Cognition?

Alex Kacelnik

Thursday 25th August 2016

Atomic Fingerprints

Sian Tedaldi

Thursday 28th July 2016

The Ethics of Human Therapeutic Cloning

Aisha Malik

Thursday 23rd June 2016

Yang Science Centre Visit

Thursday 26th May 2016

Smashing Physics

Professor Jon Butterworth

Thursday 28th April 2016

Fusion – Within Our Grasp?

Sarah Fell

Thursday 24th March 2016