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
Minds or Mirrors?: Understanding Generative AI without the Hype
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 16th January 2025
- Speaker: Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh Futures Institute)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Robust dynamics and function in stochastic topological systems
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 21st January 2025
- Speaker: Evelyn Tang (Rice University)
- Location: Online - see email.
General interest seminar
Ice – from snowflakes to energy storage
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 23rd January 2025
- Speaker: Christoph Salzmann (University College London.)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Raju Vanugopalan
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 24th January 2025
- Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory )
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Muon Collider
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 24th January 2025
- Speaker: Karol Krizka (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: 28th January 2025
- Speaker: Demian Levis (University of Barcelona)
- Location: Online - see email.
General event
Professor Andreas Hermann Inaugural Lecture: Quantum mechanics on a computer: making sense of our material world
- Event time: 5:15pm until 7:00pm
- Event date: 30th January 2025
- Speaker: Andreas Hermann (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Alder Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Joe Silk
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 31st January 2025
- Speaker: Joe Silk (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
- 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
W Mass Measurement at CMS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 31st January 2025
- Speaker: Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 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: 4th February 2025
- Speaker: Ewan McCulloch (Princeton University)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 5th February 2025
- Speaker: Simon Kuberski (CERN)
- 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
Summer Internships
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 6th February 2025
- Location: TBC
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Vijay Balasubramanian
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 7th February 2025
- Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania)
- 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
First Observation of Antiproton Annihilation At Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 7th February 2025
- Speaker: Vincent Basque (Fermilab)
- 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 12th February 2025
- Speaker: Anatoly Konechny (Heriot-Watt 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 interest seminar
How a laser works
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 13th February 2025
- Speaker: Miriam Pena Alvarez (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: TBC
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Flavour tagging with GNNs
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 14th February 2025
- Speaker: Sam van Stroud (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
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Laura Reina
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 21st February 2025
- Speaker: Laura Reina (Florida State 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Determining Absolute Neutrino Mass using Quantum Technologies
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 21st February 2025
- Speaker: Nicola McConkey (Queen Mary University of 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
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 25th February 2025
- Speaker: Katarzyna Macieszczak (University of Warwick)
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Anne Davis
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 28th February 2025
- Speaker: Anne Davis (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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Status of the SuperNemo Experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 28th February 2025
- Speaker: Xalbat Aguerre (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
Active Reservoirs: nonequilibrium forces and transport
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 4th March 2025
- Speaker: Ion Santra (University of Göttingen)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 5th March 2025
- Speaker: Giorgos Karananas (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
- 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
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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 11th March 2025
- Speaker: Rajesh Ravindran (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 12th March 2025
- Speaker: John Gracey (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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBD
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 14th March 2025
- Speaker: Xin Wu (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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 18th March 2025
- Speaker: Vivien Kendon (Strathclyde University )
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 19th March 2025
- Speaker: Zahra Zahraee (CERN)
- 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
H $\rightarrow \tau\tau$ at ATLAS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 21st March 2025
- Speaker: Kathrin Becker (University of Warwick)
- 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: 25th March 2025
- Speaker: Steve Campbell (University College Dublin)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 26th March 2025
- Speaker: Fabian Bautista (IPhT, Saclay)
- Location: Room 1501, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Recents results on sterile neutrino searches in MicroBooNE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 28th March 2025
- 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: 1st April 2025
- Speaker: Hyunggyu Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study )
- Location: Online - see email.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBD
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 4th April 2025
- Speaker: Ozlem Ozcelik (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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 9th April 2025
- Speaker: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez (IFIC, Universitat de València)
- 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: 16th April 2025
- Speaker: Simon Catterall (Syracuse 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 23rd April 2025
- Speaker: Mohamed Anber (Durham 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
Neutrino mass measurement at Katrin
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 25th April 2025
- Speaker: Susanne Mertens (Max Planck Institute, Munich)
- 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 April 2025
- Speaker: Mehdi Bouzid (CNRS & Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
- Location: Online - see email.
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Dark matter searches at NEWS-G/DarkSPHERE
- 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
TBD
- 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: Marco Cè (Milan Bicocca 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 14th May 2025
- Speaker: Malin Sjödahl (Lund 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
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
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
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)
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)
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