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.
General interest seminar
The story of a career from physics to epidemiology and (at least in part) back to physics again.
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 24th October 2024
- Speaker: Rowland Raymond Kao (School of Physics & Astronomy)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
SBND observes first neutrinos - how we got here and where we're going
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 25th October 2024
- Speaker: Andrzej Szelc (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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 29th October 2024
- Speaker: Andrea Gambassi (SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 30th October 2024
- Speaker: Mattias Sjö (Aix Marseille Université)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
Are you afraid of the dark? The Subterranean Search for Dark Matter
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 31st October 2024
- Speaker: Sally Shaw (School of Physics & Astronomy)
General event
Higgs Halloween - 'A Bloody Good Crime'
- Event time: 5:30pm until 7:30pm
- Event date: 31st October 2024
- Speaker: David Fairhurst (Edinburgh University )
- Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre (room 425), Doorway 3, Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Physics at g-2
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 1st November 2024
- Speaker: Saskia Charity (University of Liverpool)
- 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
Highs, lows and technical challenges of pioneering Scottish salmon farms
- Event time: 9:30am
- Event date: 4th November 2024
- Speaker: Dave Cockerill (Bakkafrost)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
General event
Higgs Lecture 2024: Elusive - The story of Peter Higgs and his elusive boson
- Event time: 6:00pm until 8:00pm
- Event date: 5th November 2024
- Speaker: Frank Close (University of Oxford )
- Location: Alder Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00 pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 6th November 2024
- Speaker: Thomas Stone (Durham University)
- Location: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
General interest seminar
The power of physics: improving efficiencies and sustainability for a better future.
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 7th November 2024
- Speaker: Tiffany Wood (School of Physics & Astronomy)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Measurement of the $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+\nu\nu$ decay by the NA62 Experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 8th November 2024
- Speaker: Joel Christopher Swallow (INFN-LNF)
- 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: 12th November 2024
- Speaker: Gili Bisker (Tel Aviv University)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 13th November 2024
- Speaker: Antonio Smecca (University of Swansea)
- 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
General interest seminar
Applying for a PhD
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 14th November 2024
- Speaker: Tyler Shendruk (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Speaker: Moritz Pascal Reiter (School of Physics & Astronomy)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Recent Results on Sterile Neutrino Searches at MicroBooNE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 15th November 2024
- Speaker: Miquel Nebot-Guinot (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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 19th November 2024
- Speaker: Ariel Amir (Weizmann Institute)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Dismantling structural barriers to participation in physics
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th November 2024
- Speaker: Eric Burkholder (Auburn University)
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 20th November 2024
- Speaker: Andrew Tolley (Imperial Collega 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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
A large-deviation study of the microcanonical ensemble for the Discrete Non-Linear Schroedinger Equation
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th November 2024
- Speaker: Giacomo Gradenigo (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 27th November 2024
- Speaker: Ramon Winterhalder (Université catholique de Louvain)
- 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
General event
Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - 'Elizabeth's contributions to the theory of disordered systems and neural networks'
- Event time: 4:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 27th November 2024
- Speaker: Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France.)
- 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
Elizabeth Gardner Lecture - Elizabeth's contributions to the theory of disordered systems and neural networks
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 27th November 2024
- Speaker: Bernard Derrida (Collège de France, Paris, France.)
- Location: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
General event
Christos Leonidopoulos Inaugural Lecture: Searches for New Physics, the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and the future of Colliders
- Event time: 5:15pm until 7:00pm
- Event date: 28th November 2024
- Speaker: Christos Leonidopoulos (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Alder Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, Kings Buildings
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
The Proton EDM Experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 29th November 2024
- Speaker: Alex Keshavarzi (University of Manchester)
- 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
From dark matter to 'dark matter'
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 2nd December 2024
- Speaker: XinRan Liu (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- 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: 3rd December 2024
- Speaker: Sara Dal Cengio (Université Grenoble–Alpes)
- Location: Online - see email for details.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 4th December 2024
- Speaker: Bernardo Zan (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
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 10th December 2024
- Speaker: Aleksandra Walczak (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2.00pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 11th December 2024
- Speaker: Zahra Zahraee (CERN)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Determination of the CKM angle $\gamma$ at LHCb
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 13th December 2024
- Speaker: Alex Gilman (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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 11th February 2025
- Speaker: Aparna Baskaran (Brandeis University)
- Location: Online - see email
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 25th February 2025
- Speaker: Katarzyna Macieszczak (University of Warwick)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Search for Magnetic Monopoles at ATLAS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 7th March 2025
- Speaker: Mateusz Dyndal (AGH University of Krakow)
- 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