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 - Squeezing Hydrogen into Metallic Structures
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 23rd February 2026
- 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
How can neural networks compute with few resources? A lesson from mice.
- 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
General event
Alumni Career Talk with Eoin Ó Raghallaigh
- Event time: 11:00am until 12:00pm
- Event date: 26th February 2026
- Speaker: Eoin Ó Raghallaigh
- Location: Higgs Centre
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Calum Skene
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 2nd March 2026
- Speaker: Calum Skene (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
Life on a Noisy Seascape: Extinction, Growth, and Diversity
- 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
Higgs Centre colloquium
Aperiodic tilings in self-assembled soft-matter quasicrystals
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 6th March 2026
- Speaker: Alastair Rucklidge (University of Leeds )
- 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
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.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 11th March 2026
- Speaker: Tim Harris (ETH Zurich)
- 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
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
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Ignacio Valdivieso
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 23rd March 2026
- Speaker: Ignacio Salinas Valdivieso (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
The Higgs boson and our life - Higgs Lecture 2026
- Event time: 6:00pm until 8:00pm
- Event date: 23rd March 2026
- Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti (CERN )
- Location: Large Events Space, Room 0.01, Edinburgh Futures Institute
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.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 1st April 2026
- Speaker: Stefano de Angelis (IPhT Saclay)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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General event
Physics and Astronomy at the Edinburgh Science Festival
- Event time: Starts on 2nd April 2026. Runs until 19th April 2026
- Event dates: 2nd April 2026 to 19th April 2026
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 8th April 2026
- Speaker: Fernando Romero-Lopez (Uni Bern)
- 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
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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 22nd April 2026
- Speaker: Enrico Pajer (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBD
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 24th April 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 27th April 2026
- Speaker: Claudio Bonanno (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: 28th April 2026
- Speaker: Tal Agranov (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 29th April 2026
- Speaker: Melissa van Beekveld (Nikhef)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Alumni Career Talk with Bokyoung Kim
- Event time: 11:00am until 12:00pm
- Event date: 30th April 2026
- Speaker: Bokyoung Kim
- 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
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.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 6th May 2026
- Speaker: Paul Hoyer (University of Helsinki)
- 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
Overview of LHCb's Mighty Tracker
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 8th May 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: 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Machine learning in Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 15th May 2026
- Speaker: Taritree Wongjirad (Tufts University)
- 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: 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)
