The annual Schrödinger lecture

Distinguished CNRS scientist Professor Alain Aspect delivers the 2010 Schrödinger Lecture on quibits. Lecture summary: In 1935, with co-authors Podolsky and Rosen, Einstein discovered an amazing quantum situation, where particles in a pair are so strongly correlated that Schrödinger called them "entangled". By analysing that situation, Einstein concluded that the quantum formalism was incomplete. Niels Bohr immediately opposed that conclusion, and the debate lasted until the death of these two giants of physics, in the 1950's.

The Schrödinger lecture 2012 Invisibility cloaks are just one of the potential radical uses of these new materials, as Professor Sir John Pendry explains. Recorded at Imperial College London on 06 November 2012 For more information please visit

Nobel laureate Dr Elizabeth Blackburn explains how the ends of our chromosomes are linked to ageing in the 2013 Schrödinger lecture. For more information please visit

Quantum theory has allowed scientists to understand better the subatomic world, and led to revolutionary technologies including computers, lasers and atomic clocks. In spite of its successes, quantum physics can seem strange and counterintuitive. It describes a world in which the concepts of waves and particles are deeply intertwined; and has led to the bizarre notions of superposition, which allows particles to exist in many concurrent states until observed, and entanglement, whereby particles control the state of distant and seemingly unconnected partners within a system. 2012 Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Serge Haroche delivers the annual Schrödinger Lecture For more information please visit

Professor Sir Gordon Conway, Centre for Environmental Policy, presents the 28th annual Schrödinger lecture. The talk is introduced by Professor James Stirling, Provost of Imperial College London. Every individual across the globe should have the right and ability to access adequate, safe, and nutritional food at all times. But achieving worldwide food security is not going to be easy. We face growing populations, changing diets, lack of good water and land, and the impact, already being felt, of climate change. We can do it using the modern tools of agroecology, crop and livestock breeding, and smallholder-centred institutions, but it needs political leadership. Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, describes the challenges we face and the tools we need to overcome them. Interact on social media with the hashtag #securefood. Here's more about the comments people posted to social media for this event: Biography Professor Sir Gordon Conway trained i

What links gas molecules, charged particles, bacteria and fish? Hear how partial differential equations help us understand their collective behaviour. Professor José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata's inaugural lecture For more information please visit

Professor Jim Virdee gives the 2007 Schrodinger Lecture entitled "Discovering the Quantum Universe: the Large Hadron Collider Project at CERN". 21 November 2007