Kings of Cool live science webcast event

Northern Ireland Science Park in collaboration with IOPI, ASE & Switch New Media would like to invite you & your school to join them for an exciting opportunity to take part in an interactive webcast to see live presentations, with demonstrations, from one of the pioneers of superconductivity and superconducting devices: Professor George Walmsley.

Professor Walmsley will guide the audience from the discovery of Superconductivity a century ago through its applications today and to where it might take us in the future. Superconductivity, or the complete loss of electrical resistance,
experienced by some metals at low temperature, was discovered a century ago by the Dutchman, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Surprising and little known, is the role that Belfast played in the discovery of one of the most mysterious large-scale phenomena known to physics. George will describe this history and explain with demonstrations the science of super-conductivity and its (magnetic) effects. Norman will discuss current and future applications of those effects with the help of material from Oxford Instruments, a UK Fortune 250 company that has grown from university spin-out, on the strength of the phenomenon.

Date and time:

Wednesday 7 December, 10.30am - 12.30pm

To register for the event and more information please visit: http://nisp.eventbrite.com.

Registration closes Monday 7 November, 12pm

Should you have any further queries please contact Shauna Collins on shauna.collins@nisp.co.uk or 02890737807.

Further details of the event & technical requirements can be downloaded below.