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.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: Black holes and false vacuum decay
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 17th September 2025
- Speaker: Andrey Shkerin (Perimeter Institute)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
Learning physics in the age of Generative AI
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 18th September 2025
- Speaker: Ross Galloway (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Alder Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Thomas Parton (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 22nd September 2025
- Speaker: Thomas Parton (Max Plank Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Anne-Maelle Penot (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 29th September 2025
- Speaker: Anne-Maelle Penot (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 1st October 2025
- Speaker: Jordan McKee (Adelaide University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Tracing Women’s Paths at the Royal Observatory: Past, Present, and Future
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 2nd October 2025
- Speaker: Mishita Khurana (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6301 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Andrew Mitchell
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 3rd October 2025
- Speaker: Andrew Mitchell (University College Dublin)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305)
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 6th October 2025
- Speaker: Krishnamoorthy Sridhar (Azim Prenji University, Bengaluru)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Purely elastic turbulence: recent advances in channel flows
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 6th October 2025
- Speaker: Damiano Capocci (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 7th October 2025
- Speaker: Satya Majumdar (Université Paris-Saclay)
- Location: Online - see email for details.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 8th October 2025
- Speaker: Nico Gubernari (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Examining decolonisation in a globalised world
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 9th October 2025
- Speaker: Omolabake Fakunle (Institute for Education, Community and Society, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 6206, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Physics potential of XLZD
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 10th October 2025
- Speaker: Sam Woodford (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- 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
Entrepreneurial masterclass with ZeroAvia
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 13th October 2025
- Speaker: Georgy Egorov (ZeroAvia)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 15th October 2025
- Speaker: Luca Mantani (Valencia University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Searches for long-lived particles with the ANUBIS experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 17th October 2025
- Speaker: Michael Revering (University of Cambridge)
- 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
Optimal learning protocols via statistical physics and control theory
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 21st October 2025
- Speaker: Francesca Mignacco (Princeton University)
- Location: Online - see email.
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Niayesh Afshordi
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 24th October 2025
- Speaker: Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute )
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Toponium results by ATLAS/CMS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 24th October 2025
- Speaker: Jay Howarth (University of Glasgow)
- 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
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Edwin Rodriguez Dzul (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 27th October 2025
- Speaker: Edwin Rodriguez Dzul (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
The "lifted" TASEP and Monte Carlo sampling beyond the diffusive regime
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 28th October 2025
- Speaker: Werner Krauth (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 29th October 2025
- Speaker: Guilherme Catumba (Milan Bicocca University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with LEGEND-200
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 31st October 2025
- Speaker: Will Quinn (University College London)
- 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
Entrepreneurial masterclass with Oceanium
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 3rd November 2025
- Speaker: Charlie Bavington (Oceanium)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Hannah Shuttleworth (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 3rd November 2025
- Speaker: Hannah Shuttleworth (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 4th November 2025
- Speaker: Irene Giardina (Sapienza University)
- Location: Zoom - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 5th November 2025
- Speaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez (Imperial College)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
CUWiP+ 2025 (holding title)
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 6th November 2025
- Speaker: Elenaor McNab (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 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: 11th November 2025
- Speaker: Carlos Mejia-Monasterio (Technical University of Madrid)
- Location: Online - see email.
EDI open lunchtime meeting
The Poetry of Physics
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 13th November 2025
- Speaker: Sam Illingworth (Edinburgh Napier University )
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Renzo Ricca
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 14th November 2025
- Speaker: Renzo Ricca (University of Milano-Bicocca (UniMiB))
- Location: Higgs Centre, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Mirages, Oases, Mountains: a journey through the Standard Model
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 14th November 2025
- Speaker: Vava Gligorov (CNRS)
- 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: 18th November 2025
- Speaker: Liesbeth Janssen (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 19th November 2025
- Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (IPhT Saclay)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Postgraduate Open Day
- Event time: All day
- Event date: 20th November 2025
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Hrishikesh Pingulkar (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 24th November 2025
- Speaker: Hrishikesh Pingulkar (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 25th November 2025
- Speaker: Francesco Coghi (University of Nottingham)
- Location: Online - see email.
General event
Elizabeth Gardner Lecture 2025
- Event time: 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th November 2025
- Speaker: Ada Altieri (Université Paris Cité)
- Location: Higgs Centre, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Behind the scenes of CUWiP Glasgow 2022: lessons for building inclusive conferences
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 27th November 2025
- Speaker: Caroline Müllenbroich (University of Glasgow)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 1501 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Investigating the Digital Preservation of Raw Bubble Chamber Data
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 28th November 2025
- Speaker: Andrew Stephen Chisholm (University of Birmingham)
- 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: 2nd December 2025
- Speaker: Marylou Gabrié (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Location: Zoom - see email invite.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 3rd December 2025
- Speaker: Miguel Salg (Uni Bern)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, 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: 9th December 2025
- Speaker: Ken A. Dill (Stony Brook University)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 17th December 2025
- Speaker: Christian Fischer (Giessen University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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General event
New Directions in Theoretical Physics 5 Conference
- Event time: Starts on 6th January 2026. Runs until 9th January 2026
- Event dates: 6th January 2026 to 9th January 2026
- Location: Lecture 4, Appleton Tower
EDI open lunchtime meeting
An outsider’s tale in academia: the power of being different
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 15th January 2026
- Speaker: Jason Gill (University of Glasgow)