Higgs Centre colloquia
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues.
For more information about these colloquia, please contact Sadegh Khochfar.
Visit the Higgs Centre website for information about other events organised by the Higgs Centre.
Next Higgs Centre colloquium
Rethinking Bar Formation in Disk Galaxies
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th March 2026
- Speaker: Elena D'Onghia ( University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Subsequent Higgs Centre colloquia
Machine learning the Hohenberg–Kohn functional: breathing life into a 60-year-old dream
- Event time: 12:00pm until 1:00pm
- Event date: 24th March 2026
- Speaker: Fred Hamprecht (Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Heidelberg University)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Engineering Gravity via Conformal Field Theory
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 27th March 2026
- Speaker: Alejandra Castro (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Demystifying lattice QCD computations of alpha_s
- Event time: 2:30pm until 3:30pm
- Event date: 13th May 2026
- Speaker: Martin Lüscher (CERN Theory Department)
- Location: Lecture Theatre B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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
Past Higgs Centre colloquia
Details of previous Higgs Centre colloquia can be found in the following archive page:
