The RV Jones Lecture with Professor Timothy Leighton

Small air-filled bubbles, submerged in water, are perhaps the most powerful objects in the natural world when it comes to interacting with sound fields. Their ability to generate sound, when trapped under waterfalls or breaking ocean waves, has allowed us to quantify key parameters required for forecasting climate change, and for predicting how other worlds will sound. Their ability to scatter sound has been used by whales and dolphins to hunt.

Today, we can use sound to make such bubbles dance on the surface of incurable or difficult-to-heal wounds, in order to offer a cure that requires no antibiotics, and so does not fuel the oncoming antibiotic apocalypse. 

Join Professor Timothy Leighton as he delves further into this fascinating topic!

Biography 

Professor Timothy Leighton FREng FRS is Executive General Director and Inventor-in-Chief of Sloan Water Technology (a company founded on his inventions). He is also Honorary Professor of University College London, Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, and Emeritus Professor of the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of 3 National Academies, and has been awarded 8 international medals and 7 international prizes. In 2006, on awarding him their Paterson medal, the UK Institute of Physics described him as a ‘world leader in four fields’. 

This lecture is part of the RV Jones Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the School of Engineering. 

Free and Open to All, Booking required via the link below.