Seminars, outreach, the fourth estate...
2014-04-03: School website
‘Radioactive waste used to explore exploding stars’
2014-04-03: New Scientist
‘Radioactive waste used to peek inside a star explosion’
2014-03-17: National Radio New Zealand ‘Nights’ programme
Featured Guest: 30 Mins live radio interview ngts.wav
2014-02-14: Invited talk, RAS Specialist Discussion, London
‘Facilities for Nuclear Astrophysics’
2014-02-07: Invited Seminar, Lancaster University
‘First Results of the LUX Dark Matter search’
2014-01-21: Staff Meeting, Edinburgh
‘Nuclear Astrophysics Group work’
2013-11-26: Invited Talk, Isolde Workshop, CERN
‘Towards a nuclear explanation for ... 44Ti in CCSN Collapse Supernovae
2013-10-31: University website
‘Dark matter detector on track’
2013-10-31: School website
‘Dark matter detector on track’
2013-10-31: Deutsche Welle interview:
‘Dark matter detector LUX fails to spot particles, still a success’
2013-10-22: SUERC, Glasgow
‘Rare event searches for Dark Matter’
2013-05-18: 2013-05-10: R-Matrix Minischool, The University of Surrey
‘The Application of R-Matrix Analysis to Experimental Data’ R-Matrix.pdf
2013-05-07: Invited Seminar, The University of Surrey
‘Direct Dark Matter Detection’
2013-04-01: Isolde April 2013 Newsletter
‘IS543 - Radioactive waste to probe exploding stars’
2013-03-13: Debrecen Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis
‘Radioactive Waste to Probe Core Collapse Supernovae’ Debrecen.pdf
* 2013-02-15: Edinburgh-Delhi Particle Physics Symposium
‘Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model’ MurphyGhag.pdf
2012-10-02: UK News from CERN, issue 10.
2012-09-02: The Sunday Times, page 11, 1/2 page
‘Did it all begin with a Big Wang?’ (ST120902.jpg)
2012-03-16: Nuclear Physics News
‘The Boulby Mine Underground Science Facility...’ NPN.pdf
2012-01-18: Royal Observatory Edinburgh, invited seminar
‘Final Results from the ZEPLIN-III Direct Dark Matter Search’ ROEtalk.pdf
2012-01-17: Centre for Fundamental Physics, RAL, invited talk
‘44Ti and Core Collapse Supernovae’ 44ti talk.pdf
2011-12-01: Comment in Cosmos Magazine
‘Strongest limits set on Dark Matter’s mass’ cosmos1.pdf cosmos.pdf
2011-10-26; CERN ISOLDE group invited talk
‘44Ti and Core Collapse Supernovae’ isolde_talk.pdf
2011-09-29: Colloque du Ganil, Corsica, invited talk
‘Resonances in 19Ne...’ Colloque.key.pdf
2011-09-15: Comment in Cosmos Magazine
‘Dark Matter Signals Detected?’
2011-08-25: Comment in Physics World Magazine
‘CRESST uncovered hint of dark matter’
2011-08-25: Bodrum, Turkey - Invited Summer School lectures
‘Nuclear Astrophysics Applications of Accelerators’ (lectu-Murphy.pdf)
2011-07-04: National Radio New Zealand, interview
2011-07-01: UCL, 5th Bloomsbury Conference on e-Communications & e-Publications - invited talk
‘Dark matter, and the use of Social Media in an Unsocial Environment’
2011-04-19: National Astronomy Meeting, Llandudno
‘The ZEPLIN-III Direct Dark Matter Search’
2011-04-01: India Today Aspire Magazine
‘Press Coverage - India Today Aspire- April, 2011.pdf’
* 2011-02-09: University of Bath - The Millennium Lecture, invited Public Lecture
‘Exploring the Dark Universe’
2010-10-10: IoP Meeting on Radioactivity in Astrophysics, invited talk, University of York
Radioactive beam experiments relevant to gamma-ray emitters in novae
2010-09-15: The British Science festival, Birmingham, invited talk
Dark matter and the rather embarrassing status of Modern Cosmology
2010-07026: Nuclear Data Needs Meeting, Darmstadt
‘Particle Induced Reactions: Indirect measurements’ (Indirect.pdf)
2010-03-23: Sellafield - Public lecture to local science society
‘Dark Matter’
2010-03-11: GANIL Programme Advisory Committee, Caen, France
‘44Ti and the mechanism of core collapse in massive stars’
2010-03-05: Queen Mary College, University of London - Seminar to Particle Physics Group
‘Is this the start of a new Dark Age?’
2010-02-17: University of Surrey, Guildford - Public lecture to regional IOP group
‘Is the start of the dark ages?’
2010-02-10: The Higgs-Maxwell Workshop, Royal Society of Edinburgh, invited talk
‘How close are we to detecting Dark Matter?’
* 2010-02-03: Research Fortnight, View from the Top
‘Cuts leave UK’s word-leading scientists in the dark’
2009-11-23: BBC Radio 4, Frontiers
‘Most of our Universe is missing’
* 2009-10-13: Physics World, interview
* 2009-09-10: University of Surrey - The Lord Kelvin Award Lecture, invited Public Lecture
‘Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe’ (video)
2009-05-20: ISAC Forum - Update on research to TRIUMF management
‘Recent Nuclear Astrophysics at TRIUMF’
2009-04-07: University of Birmingham - Public lecture to regional IOP group
‘A brief walk on the dark side’
2009-03-23: University of Manchester - Seminar to Nuclear Physics Group
‘A Walk on the Dark Side’
2009-03-20: University of Leeds - Seminar to Department of Physics
‘A Walk on the Dark Side’
2008-12-01 : Queenstown, New Zealand
‘The 18F(p,α)15O reaction and 18F abundance in novae’
2008-11-03: University of York - Public lecture to regional IOP group
‘Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe’
2008-09-01: University of Edinburgh - College professional development advice for new staff
‘Balancing your Workload’
2008-06-18: Oxford University - Astroparticle Physics Annual IOP meeting, invited talk
‘18F Production in Novae’
2008-06-03: ISAC Forum - Update on research to TRIUMF management
‘E996 - 18F(p,α) at low energy’
2008-02-14: The Times Higher Educational Supplement, article
‘Deep Search for Dark Matter’
2008-02-20: UCLA - DM2008, invited talk
‘ZEPLIN-III’
2008-02-06: The Norther Echo, newspaper article
‘Exploring the depths in search of WIMPs’
2008-02-06: The Scotsman, newspaper article
‘Scientists gather in Europe’s deepest mine to try to fathom the Universe and
2008-02-06: The Herald, newspaper article
‘Any Tom, Dick of Harry - or Jane: Does your name really define you?’
2008-02-05: BBC Radio Scotland ‘NewsDrive’, live interview
ZEPLIN-III to begin operations at 16:20pm
2008-02-05: BBC Radio Scotland ‘Good Morning Scotland’, live interview
ZEPLIN-III to begin operations at 07:50am
2008-02-05: ‘Vesti’, Russion online news magazine, article
Британские ученые создали детектор для поиска "темной материи”
2008-02-05: Scottish Daily Express, newspaper article
‘Experts Search for Dark Matter’
2008-02-05: Edinburgh Evening News, newspaper article
‘Team aim to shed light on Dark Matter’
2008-02-05: Metro Scotland, newspaper article
2007-10-24: TRIUMF, Vancouver - ACOT panel, invited talk
‘Recent Nuclear Astrophysics at TRIUMF’
2007-10-24: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh - ROE-JSPS meeting, invited talk
‘Direct Detection of Dark Matter’
2007-06-12: National Radio New Zealand, interiew
2007-06-10: The Discover Channel, Canada
‘ZEPLIN-III to probe dark matter... underground’
2007-06-07 : Barcelona - Gamma Ray Imager mission meeting, talk
‘GRI Outreach’
2007-05-22 : Cosener’s House - Nuclear Physics Community Town Meeting - invited talk
‘The Future of Nuclear Astrophysics in the UK’
2007-05-01: IOP Astroparticle Physics Group newsletter
‘Astroparticle Physics and the Institute’
2007-04-18: Lancaster University - National Astronomy Meeting, invited talk
‘First Results from the ZEPLIN-II Dark Matter Detector’
2007-03-28: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh - Seminar to Institute for Astronomy
‘Direct Detection of Dark Matter - Current World Status’
2007-11-16: Paul Scherrer Institute - ERAWAST meeting, talk
‘44Ti and core collapse supernovae’
2006-12-06: Physics World Interaction
‘Letter from the Astroparticle Physics Group’
2006-10-20: Boulby - Boulby Underground Science meeting - talk
‘The DRIFT-II Directional Dark Matter Detector’
2006-05-18: University of Edinburgh - Nuclear Physics IOP Annual meeting, invited talk
‘Nuclear Astrophysics Past, Present and Future’
2006-04-07: University of York - Annual IOP Nuclear Physics meeting - poster
‘Level Structure of 21Mg: Nuclear and Astrophysical Implications’
2005-10-26: University of Edinburgh - 1/2 Day IOP meeting on Supernovae, talk
‘Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics Relevant to Supernovae’
* 2005-09-24: Moscow - Education UK Festival, Invited Public lecture
‘Opportunities for Postgraduate Scientific Research in the UK’
2005-09-25: Moscow - Cafe Scientifique, invited talk
‘Shedding Light on Dark matter’
2005-09-08: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh - Summer School, invited lectures (2)
‘Particle Astrophysics I’, ‘Particle Astrophysics II’
2005-06-07: XXX, Spain - CARINA symposium, talk
‘Technologies of the UK Dark Matter Collaboration’
2005-05-25 : Keele University - 1/2-Day IOP meeting, invited talk
‘Underground Physics at Edinburgh’
2005-05-22 : University of York - TUDA forward look meeting, talk
‘Future TUDA studies’
2004-11-12 : Royal Astronomical Society, London - Invited talk
‘In Search of Cold Dark Matter’
2004-11-10 : Glasgow University - Invited colloquium
‘Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns, In Search of Cold
Dark Matter’
2004-04-?? : University of Edinburgh - Nuclear Physics IOP Annual meeting, invited talk
‘Hot Bright Stars, and Cold Dark Matter’
2004-05-25 : Trento, Italy - ECT* School - talk
‘Direct Detection of Cold Dark Matter’
2004-07-02 : Royal Observatory, Edinburgh - Particle Physics and Cosmology meeting - invited talk
‘Direct Detection of Dark Matter’
2004-09-05 : University of Edinburgh - Identification of Dark Matter, invited talk
‘The Boulby Underground Laboratory’
2004-05-12 : University of Birmingham - Seminar to Nuclear Physics group
‘The Hottest Stars, The Coldest Matter’
2003-06-22 : Daresbury Laboratory - Seminar to Nuclear Physics group
‘Physics in the Boulby Mine’
2003-04-10 : Dublin, Ireland - National Astronomy meeting, invited talk
‘OMNIS-UK, The Observatory for Mutiflavour NeutrInos from Supernovae’
2003-07-14 : Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams (DREB) conference - talk
‘Recent measurements of reactions of Astrophysical Interest’
2003-02-25 : Legnaro, Italy - PROCON conference, invited talk
‘Proton unbound states in 21Mg and their astrophysical significance’
2002-10-24 : University of York - Seminar to Nuclear Physics group
‘Neutrinos, Dark Matter and the Boulby Mine’
2002-09-?? : University of York - Identification of Dark Matter conference, invited talk
‘New Uses for Scintillators in the Boulby Mine’
2002-01-16 : University of Sheffield - 1/2 Day IOP meeting, invited talk
‘Core Collapse Supernovae, Neutrinos, and the OMNIS Project’
Here I list most of the ‘public’ material I have presented. Internal collaboration and group meetings are therefore not included. * indicates major items.
