ANDREW MORRIS

Autumn 2013

This term I moved back to Cambridge and got involved making a YouTube video for gamespot, highlighting quantum locking and how it might make the futuristic racing cars hover in the classic computer game WipEout

Background

I've been involved with a number of outreach projects and am always looking for opportunities to engage the general public in my work, and with science in general. In 2007 and 2008 I was involved with Physics at Work a scheme run by the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to encourage 16 to 18 year olds to take science courses at university. I gave a number of talks to small groups. In 2010 I was involved with the A Molecule's Eye View of Water exhibit at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition at the Southbank Centre. I chatted to people about the properties of ice and water and presented some demonstrations of supercooled water and deuterium ice.

In March 2011 I was again involved with the Molecule's Eye View of Water exhibition, this time at the Big Bang Fair at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands. That summer I helped organise the London Centre for Nanotechnology's Pilot "What we do at Work..." outreach event. We had 6 different exhibits and I demonstrated the A Molecule's Eye View of Water exhibit.

Teaching

I taught Mathematical Methods I problem solving tutorials again in the autumn of 2011.

During Spring 2011 I taught Mathematical Methods II problem solving tutorials in the physics department at UCL, continuing from teaching Mathematical Methods I in autumn 2010.

In 2009 I helped teach GCSE Physics in a secondary school in Cambridge.

In 2007 and 2008, I taught first-year physics to small groups of students studying at the University of Cambridge.

Outreach

In 2010 I visited the Haberdasher's Aske's School for Girl's and gave a talk about my work entitled "Solving the Crystal Maze: The Secrets of Structure Talk"

I'm happy to speak to School Science clubs on a range of accessible topics such as :-

• 21st Century Materials: Why are materials important? What properties do they need? How do we go about making them.
• The Weird World of Quantum Mechanics: What was all that Schrödinger's Cat about? How can something be a wave and a particle at the same time?
• What's inside Jupiter?: And how do we know?
• Moving clocks tick slower: Special relativity -- how and why?
• The Reverse-Brazil nut effect: What happens when you shake a box of mixed nuts, a packet of cereal or pan for gold.