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 lunchtime seminar
Fluctuation-driven emergence of a shared communication system
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 27th October 2025
- Speaker: Richard Blythe (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
The "lifted" TASEP and non-reversible Monte Carlo sampling
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 28th October 2025
- Speaker: Werner Krauth (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: The Signal to Noise problem and Stochastic Automatic Differentiation
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 29th October 2025
- Speaker: Guilherme Catumba (Milan Bicocca 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
EDI open lunchtime meeting
What can we all do to create a ‘Sense of Belonging’?
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 30th October 2025
- Speaker: Jenna Padgett (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Higgs Halloween Lecture - A Dangerous Shade of Green
- Event time: 5:30pm until 7:00pm
- Event date: 30th October 2025
- Speaker: Drew (University of Edinburgh )
- Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre (room 425), Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Towards the discovery of neutrinoless double beta decay : first results from LEGEND
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 31st October 2025
- Speaker: Will 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
Entrepreneurial masterclass with Oceanium
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 3rd November 2025
- Speaker: Charlie Bavington (Oceanium)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - James Spender
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 3rd November 2025
- Speaker: James Spender (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
Collective Response in Biological Groups
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 4th November 2025
- Speaker: Irene Giardina (Sapienza University)
- Location: Zoom - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 5th November 2025
- Speaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez (Imperial College)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
CUWiP+ 2025 (holding title)
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 6th November 2025
- Speaker: Elenaor McNab (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Dark Matter searches at the LHC
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 7th November 2025
- Speaker: Sukanya Sinha (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
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Matthew Thomas
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 10th November 2025
- Speaker: Matthew Thomas (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: 11th November 2025
- Speaker: Carlos Mejia-Monasterio (Technical University of Madrid)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 12th November 2025
- Speaker: Erik Panzer (Oxford 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
EDI open lunchtime meeting
The Poetry of Physics
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 13th November 2025
- Speaker: Sam Illingworth (Edinburgh Napier University )
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 6206 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Renzo Ricca
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 14th November 2025
- Speaker: Renzo Ricca (University of Milano-Bicocca (UniMiB))
- Location: Higgs Centre, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Mirages, Oases, Mountains: a journey through the Standard Model
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 14th November 2025
- Speaker: Vava Gligorov (CNRS)
- 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 - Felix Flicker
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 17th November 2025
- Speaker: Felix Flicker (University of Bristol)
- 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
Glassy physics - from liquids to living cells
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 18th November 2025
- Speaker: Liesbeth Janssen (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 19th November 2025
- Speaker: Pierre Vanhove (IPhT Saclay)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Postgraduate Open Day
- Event time: All day
- Event date: 20th November 2025
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Dmitri Tymoczko
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 21st November 2025
- Speaker: Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton University)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Hrishikesh Pingulkar (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 24th November 2025
- Speaker: Hrishikesh Pingulkar (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
Large Deviations in Self-Interacting Processes
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 25th November 2025
- Speaker: Francesco Coghi (University of Nottingham)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 26th November 2025
- Speaker: Oleg Antipin (Rudjer Boskovic Institute)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Elizabeth Gardner Lecture 2025
- Event time: 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th November 2025
- Speaker: Ada Altieri (Université Paris Cité)
- Location: Higgs Centre, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Behind the scenes of CUWiP Glasgow 2022: lessons for building inclusive conferences
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 27th November 2025
- Speaker: Caroline Müllenbroich (University of Glasgow)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 1501 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Alexandra Olaya-Castro
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 28th November 2025
- Speaker: Alexandra Olaya-Castro (University College London)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Investigating the Digital Preservation of Raw Bubble Chamber Data
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 28th November 2025
- Speaker: Andrew Stephen Chisholm (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: 2nd December 2025
- Speaker: Marylou Gabrié (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Location: Zoom - see email invite.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm-2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 3rd December 2025
- Speaker: Miguel Salg (Uni Bern)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
TBC
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 5th December 2025
- Speaker: Lais Soares Lavra (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Latham Boyle
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 8th December 2025
- Speaker: Latham Boyle (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: 9th December 2025
- Speaker: Ken A. Dill (Stony Brook University)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 10th December 2025
- Speaker: Sebastian Jaskiewicz (University of Bern)
- 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 lunchtime seminar
ICMCS seminar - Edwin Rodriguez Dzul (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 15th December 2025
- Speaker: Edwin Rodriguez Dzul (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: 17th December 2025
- Speaker: Christian Fischer (Giessen 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
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General event
New Directions in Theoretical Physics 5 Conference
- Event time: Starts on 6th January 2026. Runs until 9th January 2026
- Event dates: 6th January 2026 to 9th January 2026
- Location: Lecture 4, Appleton Tower
EDI open lunchtime meeting
An outsider’s tale in academia: the power of being different
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 15th January 2026
- Speaker: Jason Gill (University of Glasgow)
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 10th February 2026
- Speaker: Manas Kulkarni (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Bangalore)
- Location: Online - see email.
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 3rd March 2026
- Speaker: Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Location: Online - see email.