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.
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS seminar - Asymmetry in the Dynamics of Topological Defects in Active Nematics
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 26th January 2026
- Speaker: Oleksandr Baziei (The University of Edinburgh)
- 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
How synaptic heavy tails and modularity shape chaotic activity in randomly connected neural networks
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 27th January 2026
- Speaker: Łukasz Kuśmierz (Allen Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweakcorrections to Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 28th January 2026
- Speaker: Arunima Bhattacharya (University of Durham)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Surviving and Thriving as a First-Year Physicist
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 29th January 2026
- Speaker: William Stafford (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Room 6201, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Gregory Korchemsky
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 30th January 2026
- Speaker: Gregory Korchemsky ((Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA SaclayNational Centre for Scientific Research))
- Location: Higgs Centre (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: 3rd February 2026
- Speaker: Marc Mézard (Bocconi University)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 4th February 2026
- Speaker: Jessica Turner (University of Durham)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
System prototyping for the ITk pixel detector
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 6th February 2026
- Speaker: Juliette Martin (University College London (UCL))
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Entrepreneurship event
Masterclass with Prantar Tamuli (Founding Director of Tattva)
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 9th February 2026
- Speaker: Prantar Tamuli (Tattva)
- 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: 10th February 2026
- Speaker: Manas Kulkarni (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Bangalore)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 11th February 2026
- Speaker: Long-Qi Shao (University of Pisa)
- 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
Di-Higgs and Tri-Higgs at ATLAS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 13th February 2026
- Speaker: William Balunas (University of Oxford)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Joseph Knight
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 16th February 2026
- Speaker: Joseph M. Knight (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: 18th February 2026
- Speaker: Stefan Weinzierl (Uni Mainz)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
A whistle-stop tour of quantum thermodynamics
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th February 2026
- Speaker: Steve Campbell (University College Dublin)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 24th February 2026
- Speaker: Remi Monasson (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: Entanglement and pair production in intense electromagnetic fields
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 25th February 2026
- Speaker: Ben King (Plymouth 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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 3rd March 2026
- Speaker: Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 4th March 2026
- Speaker: Dean Valois (University of Granada)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
An outsider’s tale in academia: the power of being different
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 5th March 2026
- Speaker: Jason Gill (University of Glasgow)
- Location: Lecture Theatre A, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
LZ solar neutrino searches
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 6th March 2026
- Speaker: Alberto Usón (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar 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: 10th March 2026
- Speaker: Vittoria Sposini (University of Padova)
- Location: Online - see email.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Rare Radiative B Decays
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 13th March 2026
- Speaker: Lais Soares Lavra (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar 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: 17th March 2026
- Speaker: P K Mohanty (IISER Kolkata)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 18th March 2026
- Speaker: Alessandrio Mariani (University of Turin)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Rethinking Bar Formation in Disk Galaxies
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th March 2026
- Speaker: Elena D'Onghia ( University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- 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
Medical Physics - MRI
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 20th March 2026
- Speaker: Lucy Kershaw (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar 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: 24th March 2026
- Speaker: Feliks Nüske (Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg)
- Location: Online - see email.
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 31st March 2026
- Speaker: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (École Normale Supérieure and Capital Fund Management)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
LHCb seminar
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 17th April 2026
- Speaker: Mary Richardson-Slipper (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Overview of LHCb's Mighty Tracker
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 24th April 2026
- Speaker: Klaas Padeken (University of Bonn)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar 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: 28th April 2026
- Speaker: Tal Agranov (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Online - see email.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 1st May 2026
- Speaker: Justin Evans (University of Manchester)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar 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: 5th May 2026
- Speaker: Valentina Ros (CNRS - Université Paris Saclay, Orsay)
- Location: Online - see email.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBD
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 8th May 2026
- Speaker: Alex Sopio (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- 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: 12th May 2026
- Speaker: Giulia Pisegna (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen)
- Location: Online - see email.
Higgs Centre colloquium
Demystifying lattice QCD computations of alpha_s
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 13th May 2026
- Speaker: Martin Lüscher (CERN Theory Department)
- Location: Higgs Centre (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: 19th May 2026
- Speaker: Steffen Rulands (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
- Location: Online - see email.
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th May 2026
- Speaker: Luca Angelani (CNR - Institute for Complex Systems, Rome)
- Location: Online - see email.
Entrepreneurship event
Masterclass with Sonia Trigueros (Founder/ Director of NIVD World)
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 8th June 2026
- Speaker: Sonia Trigueros (NIVD)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
