Upcoming and current events
A list of current and forthcoming events can be found below.
- Specific types of events or seminar series may also be viewed by clicking on the event categories or via the menu.
- iCalendar feeds are also available on the pages for each event category.
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Statistical Physics of Ecosystems
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 19th March 2024
- Speaker: Amos Maritan (University of Padua)
- Location: Online - see email.
EDI open lunchtime meeting
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th March 2024
- Speaker: Jean Stafford (UCL)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
20 Years of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 21st March 2024
- Speaker: John Loveday (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Higgs Centre colloquium
Probing subatomic physics with gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 22nd March 2024
- Speaker: Tanja Hinderer (Utrecht University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Machine learning approach to determine the minimum number of variables to describe observed space-time chaos
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th March 2024
- Speaker: Kazumasa Takeuchi (University of Tokyo)
- Location: Online - see email.
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Everyday practices of the physics culture: an intersectional approach to belonging in physics
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 27th March 2024
- Speaker: Maria Gedoz Tieppo (Lund University )
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 5328 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
The state that has no right to exist
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 28th March 2024
- Speaker: Ciprian Pruteanu (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
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General event
Discover Our Science
- Event time: Starts on 2nd April 2024. Runs until 12th April 2024
- Event dates: 2nd April 2024 to 12th April 2024
- Location: Event Space (Level 2), National Museum of Scotland
General event
Custodians of the Cosmos
- Event time: 6:30pm until 7:30pm
- Event date: 3rd April 2024
- Speaker: Andy Lawrence (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Speaker: Max Alexander
- Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Entrepreneurship event
Triptych: Reflections on a technical and entrepreneurial career across Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Food
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 8th April 2024
- Speaker: Craig Johnston (ENOUGH Food)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBA
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 10th April 2024
- Speaker: Joan Ruiz-Vidal (Lund University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBD
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 11th April 2024
- Speaker: Eric Laenen (NIKHEF and Amsterdam University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 16th April 2024
- Speaker: Patrick Pietzonka (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
Gauge Invariance and Observables in Particle Physics
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 17th April 2024
- Speaker: Axel Maas (University of Graz)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBA
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 22nd April 2024
- Speaker: Bakul Agarwal (KIT)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 23rd April 2024
- Speaker: Olivier Dauchot (ESPCI, Paris)
- Location: Online - see email.
EDI open lunchtime meeting
ADHD workshop from the Edinburgh Practice
- Event time: 1:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 24th April 2024
- Speaker: Amy Kilbane (The Edinburgh Practice)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBA
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 24th April 2024
- Speaker: Simon Ross (Durham University)
- Location: Room 5326, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 30th April 2024
- Speaker: Mustansir Barma ( Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad)
- Location: Online - see email
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 7th May 2024
- Speaker: Kirsten Martens (Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBA
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 8th May 2024
- Speaker: Marina Marinkovic (ETH Zürich)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Entrepreneurship event
Dr Graeme Malcolm (M2 Lasers)
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 13th May 2024
- Speaker: Graeme Malcolm (M2 Lasers)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 14th May 2024
- Speaker: Mike Moore (University of Manchester)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBA
- Event time: 1:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 15th May 2024
- Speaker: Pablo Bosch (University of Amsterdam)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 21st May 2024
- Speaker: Suropriya Saha (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
Testing Entanglement and Bell Inequalities at the LHC
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 22nd May 2024
- Speaker: Alan Barr (University of Oxford)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
TBA
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 27th May 2024
- Speaker: Michael Klasen (University of Münster)
- Location: Room 5326, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 28th May 2024
- Speaker: Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Online - see email.
Higgs Centre colloquium
Why there are dark matter, dark energy and quantum gravity problems, and what we can do about them
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 31st May 2024
- Location: Lecture theatre A, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB), KB James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
Not one but two renormalizable theories of gravity
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 4th June 2024
- Speaker: Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Entrepreneurship event
Dr Xinran Liu (UNDO)
- Event time: 9:30am
- Event date: 10th June 2024
- Speaker: XinRan Liu (School of Physics & Astronomy)