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
Alcoholic drinks: the physics of fizz
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 27th March 2025
- Speaker: David Fairhurst (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Iain Stewart
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 28th March 2025
- Speaker: Iain Stewart (MIT)
- 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Recents results on sterile neutrino searches in MicroBooNE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 28th March 2025
- Speaker: Miquel Nebot-Guinot (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
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS Seminar - John Chakanal Sunil (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 31st March 2025
- Speaker: John Chakanal Sunil (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: 1st April 2025
- Speaker: Hyunggyu Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study )
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2-3 pm: TBA
- Event time: 1:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 2nd April 2025
- Speaker: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Professor Ross Galloway Inaugural Lecture: Physics Education Research: how it relates to my life, and yours
- Event time: 5:15pm until 7:00pm
- Event date: 3rd April 2025
- Speaker: Ross Galloway (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Larch Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Building the case for a Muon Collider
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 4th April 2025
- Speaker: Karol Krizka (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
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General event
Edinburgh Science Festival
- Event time: Starts on 5th April 2025. Runs until 20th April 2025
- Event dates: 5th April 2025 to 20th April 2025
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 9th April 2025
- Speaker: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez (IFIC, Universitat de València)
- 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 - François De Tournemire (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 14th April 2025
- Speaker: Francois De Tournemire (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
1-2 pm: Sneaking up on lattice chiral fermions
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 16th April 2025
- Speaker: Simon Catterall (Syracuse University)
- 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 23rd April 2025
- Speaker: Mohamed Anber (Durham University)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Neutrino mass measurement at Katrin
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 25th April 2025
- Speaker: Susanne Mertens (Max Planck Institute, Munich)
- 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
Dame Sue Ion
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 28th April 2025
- Speaker: Sue Ion
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
ICMCS Seminar - PeiYu Cai (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 28th April 2025
- Speaker: PeiYu Cai (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: 29th April 2025
- Speaker: Mehdi Bouzid (CNRS & Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
2-3 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 1st May 2025
- Speaker: Mattia Bruno (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
- 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Dark matter searches at NEWS-G/DarkSPHERE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 2nd May 2025
- Speaker: Patrick Knights (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: 6th May 2025
- Speaker: Tridib Sadhu (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 7th May 2025
- Speaker: Malin Sjödahl (Lund University)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2pm: θ-vacua and particle spectrum beyond perturbative electroweak theory and General Relativity
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 12th May 2025
- Speaker: Archil Kobakhidze (University of Sydney)
- 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 - Mariam Arif (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 12th May 2025
- Speaker: Mariam Arif (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) 2511 James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Recent results from the LEGEND experiment
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 16th May 2025
- Speaker: William 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
Professor Filippo Menolascina
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 19th May 2025
- Speaker: Filippo Menolascina (School of Engineering)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 21st May 2025
- Speaker: Vladimir Kazakov (Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure)
- 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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
R2D2 project for the future of double beta decay
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:30pm
- Event date: 23rd May 2025
- Speaker: Fabrice Piquemal (Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Bordeaux )
- 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 - Abby Hellman (title tbc)
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 26th May 2025
- Speaker: Abby Hellman (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
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 28th May 2025
- Speaker: Astrid Eichhorn (Universität Heidelberg)
Entrepreneurship event
Zac Austin (Pacifico Biolabs)
- Event time: 9:30am until 11:00am
- Event date: 2nd June 2025
- Speaker: Zac Austin (Pacifico Biolabs)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 3rd June 2025
- Speaker: Paola Ruggiero (King's College, London)
Higgs Centre colloquium
Colloquium with Omar Saleh
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 6th June 2025
- Speaker: Omar Saleh (University of California Santa Barbara)
- 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1-2 pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 25th June 2025
- Speaker: Thomas Hambye (Brussels University)
- 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