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 - Is there sex on other planets?
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 18th May 2026
- Speaker: Philip Gerrish (University of New Mexico)
- 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
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.
Higgs Centre colloquium
Gravitational waves and phase transitions in the early Universe
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th May 2026
- Speaker: Kari Rummukainen (University of Helsinki)
- Location: Lecture Theatre B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) and online James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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
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
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)