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.
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Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: Spectral densities from Lattice Euclidean correlators
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 1st May 2025
- Speaker: Mattia Bruno (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
- 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Searching for light-dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 2nd May 2025
- Speaker: Patrick Knights (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
A Few Exact Results on Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 6th May 2025
- Speaker: Tridib Sadhu (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 7th May 2025
- Speaker: Malin Sjödahl (Lund University)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Overview of the ALICE Silicon Detector Upgrades
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 9th May 2025
- Speaker: Jian Liu (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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2pm: θ-vacua and particle spectrum beyond perturbative electroweak theory and General Relativity
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 12th May 2025
- Speaker: Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney)
- 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 - Impact of particle-size polydispersity on colloidal crystallization and thin-film structures
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 12th May 2025
- Speaker: Mariam Arif (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: 13th May 2025
- Speaker: Mehrana Nejad (Harvard University)
- Location: Online - see email invite.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Recent results from the LEGEND experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 16th May 2025
- Speaker: William 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
Professor Filippo Menolascina
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 19th May 2025
- Speaker: Filippo Menolascina (School of Engineering)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Graeme Ackland (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 19th May 2025
- Speaker: Graeme Ackland (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
Burgers equation and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 20th May 2025
- Speaker: Stefano Ruffo (SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 21st May 2025
- Speaker: Vladimir Kazakov (Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure)
- 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
R2D2 project for the future of double beta decay
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 23rd May 2025
- Speaker: Fabrice Piquemal (Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Bordeaux )
- 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
Biomedical Physics at Edinburgh
- Event time: All day
- Event date: 26th May 2025
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building (ground floor), King's Buildings
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
[CANCELLED] ICMCS Seminar - Abby Hellman (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 26th May 2025
- Speaker: Abby Hellman (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
Analytical predictions of reactive and inert interaction events, from infection transmission to movement in disordered media
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 27th May 2025
- Speaker: Luca Giuggioli (Bristol University)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 28th May 2025
- Speaker: Astrid Eichhorn (Universität Heidelberg)
- 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
Zac Austin (Pacifico Biolabs)
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 2nd June 2025
- Speaker: Zac Austin (Pacifico Biolabs)
- 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 June 2025
- Speaker: Paola Ruggiero (King's College, London)
- Location: Online - see email for details.
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Omar Saleh
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 6th June 2025
- Speaker: Omar Saleh (University of California Santa Barbara)
- 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2-3 pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 17th June 2025
- Speaker: Kara Farnsworth (University of Geneva)
- 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 25th June 2025
- Speaker: Thomas Hambye (Brussels University)
- 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
Ice, Ice, Maybe? Life in the Cold Universe
- Event time: All day
- Event date: 31st July 2025