Pint of Science event

This year, many members of the CQD (and TSM) from several cohorts came together to put on an outreach event as part of Pint of Science.

This year, many members of the CQD (and TSM) from several cohorts came together to put on an outreach event as part of Pint of Science. Pint of science is an international festival in its fifth year that takes place simultaneously in over 175 cities in the world with researchers talking about their field and their research with the general public in the relaxed atmosphere of a pub. 

The CQD event took place in Chiswick over three nights with the overarching theme of Atoms to Galaxies. On Monday night the talks centred around Small is Beautiful and the wonderful weirdness of the quantum world that rules physics on the tiny scale. Tuesday night went to the other extreme with Infinity and Beyond, looking at cosmology and its interaction with particle physics.  Wednesday night, More than the Sum of its Parts, bridged the gap between these extremes by looking at how the properties of materials depends on how they are put together.

Much fun was had by the organisers, the speakers, and the audience who left the evening with a belly full of pints of science.