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
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
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - DNA Topology: Modeling Superhelically Coupled Events
- Event time: 11:00am until 12:00pm
- Event date: 11th June 2026
- Speaker: Craig J. Benham (University of California)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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
Entrepreneurship event
Masterclass with Sonia Trigueros (Founder/ Director of NIVD World)
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 7th September 2026
- Speaker: Sonia Trigueros (NIVD)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)