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 - The extraction of work from hidden degrees of freedom
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 14th September 2026
- Speaker: Lokesh Chinnakann (University of Konstanz)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 16th September 2026
- Speaker: Anton Olsson (Durham (IPPP))
- 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: Charm hadrons and SU(3) flavour symmetry breaking from Lattice QCD
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 17th September 2026
- Speaker: Lula Abdirashid Ali (Adelaide 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
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Improving Student Learning: The Dual Roles of Conceptual Understanding and Reasoning Ability
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 21st September 2026
- Speaker: Paula R. L. Heron (University of Washington)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 23rd September 2026
- Speaker: Andreas Juttner (CERN & Southampton University)
- 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 - Emma Tomlinson
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 28th September 2026
- Speaker: Emma Tomlinson (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 30th September 2026
- Speaker: Coenraad Marinissen (Nikhef )
- 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
Heatomics
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 6th October 2026
- Speaker: Felix Ritort (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 7th October 2026
- Speaker: Alberto Ramos (Valencia University, IFIC)
- 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 - Kasturi Barkataki
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 12th October 2026
- Speaker: Kasturi Barkataki (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 October 2026
- Speaker: Martin Weigel (Technische Universität Chemnitz)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 14th October 2026
- Speaker: Carolina Bolognani (Technische Universität Dortmund)
- 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
Entrepreneurial Masterclass with John Bows (Pepsico)
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 19th October 2026
- Speaker: John Bows (Pepsico)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Paddy Royall
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 19th October 2026
- Speaker: Paddy Royall (ESPCI Paris)
- 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
Nucleation beyond Equilibrium: Fronts Control Invasion in Bistable Ecosystems
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 20th October 2026
- Speaker: Camille Scalliet (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 21st October 2026
- Speaker: Gustav Mogull (Queen Mary University of London)
- 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 - Shreyas Ramachandran
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 26th October 2026
- Speaker: Shreyas Ramachandran (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: 27th October 2026
- Speaker: Dmitry Krotov (Independent Researcher)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 28th October 2026
- Speaker: André Baião-Raposo (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
- 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 - Ruairí Phelan
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 2nd November 2026
- Speaker: Ruairí Phelan (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 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: 4th November 2026
- Speaker: Sophie Renner (University of Glasgow)
- 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 - Rohan Singh
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 9th November 2026
- Speaker: Rohan Singh (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: 10th November 2026
- Speaker: Lovas Izabella (ETH Zurich)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 11th November 2026
- Speaker: Cedric Lorcé (Ecole polytechnique)
- 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 - Vicky Xu
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 16th November 2026
- Speaker: Huadan Xu (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: 17th November 2026
- Speaker: Deepak Gupta (Technische Universität Berlin)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 18th November 2026
- Speaker: Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, Saclay)
- 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 - Omid Ashtari
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 23rd November 2026
- Speaker: Omid Ashtari
- 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: 24th November 2026
- Speaker: Florent Krzakala (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 25th November 2026
- Speaker: Denis Karateev (University of Geneva)
- 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: 1st December 2026
- Speaker: Jan Meibohm (Technische Universität, Berlin)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 2nd December 2026
- Speaker: David Albandea (Helmholtz-Institut Mainz)
- 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: 8th December 2026
- Speaker: Kristian Stølevik Olsen (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 9th December 2026
- Speaker: Benjamin Muntz (University of Nottingham)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
