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.
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Dense Associative Memory: physical systems for novel AI architectures
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 27th October 2026
- Speaker: Dmitry Krotov (Dynamical Mind)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: Progress on left-hand cut methods in Lattice QCD
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 28th October 2026
- Speaker: André Baião-Raposo (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
Why we need to tell stories about physics if we're going to change the world (in a good way)
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 29th October 2026
- Speaker: Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Ruairí Phelan
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 2nd November 2026
- Speaker: Ruairí Phelan (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
Nonreciprocal phases of matter
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 3rd November 2026
- Speaker: Yael Avni (Weizmann Institute)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 4th November 2026
- Speaker: Sophie Renner (University of Glasgow)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
How to choose a PhD
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 5th November 2026
- Speaker: Tyler Shendruk (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Speaker: Moritz Pascal Reiter (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Rohan Singh
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 9th November 2026
- Speaker: Rohan Singh (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
Quantum glasses through the lens of mean field models
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 10th November 2026
- Speaker: Izabella Lovas (ETH Zurich)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 11th November 2026
- Speaker: Cedric Lorcé (Ecole polytechnique)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
TBC
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 12th November 2026
- Speaker: Ellen Oldershaw (University of Liverpool)
- Location: Room 6201, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Israel Osmond
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 16th November 2026
- Speaker: Israel Osmond (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
Cost of Non-instantaneous Stochastic Resetting
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 17th November 2026
- Speaker: Deepak Gupta (Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 18th November 2026
- Speaker: Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, Saclay)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
TBC
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 19th November 2026
- Speaker: Graeme Ackland (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
EDI open lunchtime meeting
TBC
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 20th November 2026
- Speaker: Janani Ramachandran (University of Edinburgh graduate)
- Location: Room 6206, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Condensed Matter seminar
ICMCS Seminar - Omid Ashtari
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 23rd November 2026
- Speaker: Omid Ashtari
- 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: 24th November 2026
- Speaker: Florent Krzakala (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 25th November 2026
- Speaker: Denis Karateev (University of Geneva)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
EDI open lunchtime meeting
Neurodivergence in the workplace and academia
- Event time: 1:10pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 26th November 2026
- Speaker: Gillian Turnbull (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Room 6201, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
TBC
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 26th November 2026
- Speaker: Giuseppe Negro (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Finite-time transitions in optimal control and non-equilibrium relaxation
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 1st December 2026
- Speaker: Jan Meibohm (Technische Universität, Berlin)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 2nd December 2026
- Speaker: David Albandea (Helmholtz-Institut Mainz)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General interest seminar
TBC
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
- Event date: 3rd December 2026
- Speaker: Anna Lisa Varri (School of Physics & Astronomy)
- Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings
Entrepreneurship event
Entrepreneurial Masterclass with Sam Kerr (Forge Minerals)
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 7th December 2026
- Speaker: Sam Kerr (Forge Minerals)
- 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: 8th December 2026
- Speaker: Kristian Stølevik Olsen (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)
- Location: Microsoft Teams - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 9th December 2026
- Speaker: Benjamin Muntz (University of Nottingham)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
