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 lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Aperiodicity and Particle Confinement
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 17th November 2025
- Speaker: Felix Flicker (University of Bristol)
- 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
Glassy physics - from liquids to living cells
- 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: Hadronic vacuum polarization to three loops in chiral perturbation theory
- 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
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Dmitri Tymoczko
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 21st November 2025
- Speaker: Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University)
- 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
Solar Neutrino Studies with a Q-Pix readout
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 21st November 2025
- Speaker: Miguel Ángel García-Peris (University of Manchester)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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
Large Deviations in Self-Interacting Processes
- 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
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Alexandra Olaya-Castro
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 28th November 2025
- Speaker: Alexandra Olaya-Castro (University College London)
- 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
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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBC
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 5th December 2025
- Speaker: Lais Soares Lavra (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Higgs Centre (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 - Latham Boyle
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 8th December 2025
- Speaker: Latham Boyle (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: 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: 10th December 2025
- Speaker: Sebastian Jaskiewicz (University of 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 3:30pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 15th December 2025
- Speaker: Oleg Antipin (Rudjer Boskovic 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
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Edwin Rodriguez Dzul (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 15th December 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
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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
