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.
Higgs Centre colloquium
The return of the WIMP: Onium in the Sky with Loops
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 8th May 2026
- Speaker: Martin Beneke (Technical University of Munich)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
The MARS DAQ system for characterization of HV-MAPS for the LHCb 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
Entrepreneurship event
From student project to founder: reflections on a decade of building a business
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 11th May 2026
- Speaker: Vicky Hamilton (University of Strathclyde)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Emergent polar order in nonpolar mixtures with nonreciprocal interactions
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 12th May 2026
- Speaker: Giulia Pisegna (Department of Living Matter Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
- Location: Online - see email.
Higgs Centre colloquium
Demystifying lattice QCD computations of alpha_s
- Event time: 2:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 13th May 2026
- Speaker: Martin Lüscher (CERN Theory Department)
- Location: Lecture Theatre B, 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
Non-equilibrium physics of the epigenome
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 19th May 2026
- Speaker: Steffen Rulands (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
- Location: Online - see email.
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Autism - Difference not Disorder
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 20th May 2026
- Speaker: Amy Kilbane (The Edinburgh Practice)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 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: 22nd May 2026
- Speaker: Alberto Usón (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: 26th May 2026
- Speaker: Luca Angelani (CNR - Institute for Complex Systems, Rome)
- Location: Online - see email.
General interest seminar
The arts and crafts, life, loves and dogs of James Clerk Maxwell
- Event time: 12:10pm until 1:00pm
- Event date: 1st June 2026
- Speaker: Kate Macdonald (Institute of Physics Scotland)
- Speaker: Howie Firth (Orkney Science Festival)
- Speaker: Alan Walker (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building
Higgs Centre colloquium
Lessons of the effective field theory of quantum gravity
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 5th June 2026
- Speaker: John Donoghue (University of Massachusetts)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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)
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBD
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 12th June 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