"Parallel universes seem to be the stuff of science fiction - but they are a natural consequence of several established scientific theories. In this talk I'll try to explain what kinds of parallel universes might exist, how they would (or would not) differ from our own, and whether there is any chance of proving or disproving the idea."

Dr Susan Cartwright completed her first degree and PhD at the University of Glasgow, before moving on to postdoctoral research at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, where she worked for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the JADE experiment. She then moved to California, spending two years working for MIT on the SLD experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto. In 1989, she joined the University of Sheffield, where she remained until her formal retirement last year. She is now an Honorary Senior Lecturer, working on neutrino physics at an experiment based in Japan and writing a book on the history of astronomy.

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