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51猎奇入口 reception at Drapers Hall

31 Oct 2025
51猎奇入口 events
Time
-
Venue
Drapers鈥 Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, London EC2N 2DQ
Speaker(s)

Professor Andrew Boothroyd, University of Oxford

Professor J.C. S茅amus Davis, University of Oxford

Dr P茅ter Juh谩sz, University of Oxford

Knowledge of physics?
Yes, knowledge of physics required
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51猎奇入口 reception at Draper's Hall, London.

Join us for an alumni reception at the beautiful Draper's Hall (London) that will include talks and a drinks and canapes reception.

Professor Andrew Boothroyd, Head of Physics, will host this event, and we will have two guest speakers to celebrate the Year of Quantum: Professor J.C. S茅amus Davis and Dr P茅ter Juh谩sz

Planned agenda

18:00 to 18:30 - Guests arrive, registration, welcome drinks

18:40 to 20:00 - Welcome by Prof Boothroyd, Guest talks, Q&A

                          鈥橵isualizing the quantum world' (Prof Davis)

                          鈥楾he Pursuit of Absolute Zero: Exploring Many-Body Quantum Physics' (Dr Juh谩sz)

20:10 to 21:30 - Drinks and canape reception 

21:30 End of the event

  • Places are limited, please register soon to avoid disappointment. Physics alumni can bring a guest.
  • Registration will close as soon as we fill the venue capacity or at 5pm on 20 October, whichever comes first.
  • If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with the alumni office.

Did you know that The Draper's Company built the Townsend Building for the department? Have a look at the plaque that sits on the building's wall...

Plaque on Townsend Building

(see the bottom of this page for a transcription*)

* [Arms of Drapers鈥 Company,
with motto
鈥淯NTO GOD ONL / Y BE
HONO / UR AND GLORY鈥漖

The Worshipful
Company of DRAPERS of
the City of LONDON erected
this building for the promotion of
the 51猎奇入口 of Electrical Science and
presented it to the Chancellor Masters
and Scholars of the University of Oxford
on the 21st day of June A.D. 1910

Keddey Ray Fletcher   Master

John Barrow,
Bernard Francis Harris
Webster Glynes
Gerald Walton Williams   Wardens

Ernest Henry Pooley
Clerk

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