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.
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General event
Physics and Astronomy at the Edinburgh Science Festival
- Event time: Starts on 2nd April 2026. Runs until 19th April 2026
- Event dates: 2nd April 2026 to 19th April 2026
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: Hadronic resonances from Lattice QCD
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 8th April 2026
- Speaker: Fernando Romero-Lopez (Uni Bern)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Higgs Centre colloquium
Transport and Equilibration in Hot Quantum Chromodynamics Abstract
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 10th April 2026
- Speaker: Guy Moore (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
- Location: Higgs Centre (Room 4305), James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Particles with Purpose – How Fundamental Physics Benefits Society
- Event time: 5:00pm until 6:30pm
- Event date: 10th April 2026
- Location: Main Hall, Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 15th April 2026
- Speaker: Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)
- Location: Room 4325B, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
LHCb seminar
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 17th April 2026
- Speaker: Mary Richardson-Slipper (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 22nd April 2026
- Speaker: Enrico Pajer (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Room 4325B, 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: 24th April 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
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 27th April 2026
- Speaker: Claudio Bonanno (Uni Bern)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, 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: 28th April 2026
- Speaker: Tal Agranov (University of Cambridge)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 29th April 2026
- Speaker: Melissa van Beekveld (Nikhef)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
General event
Alumni Career Talk with Bokyoung Kim
- Event time: 11:00am until 12:00pm
- Event date: 30th April 2026
- Speaker: Bokyoung Kim
- 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
Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 1st May 2026
- Speaker: Justin Evans (University of Manchester)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, 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: 5th May 2026
- Speaker: Valentina Ros (CNRS - Université Paris Saclay, Orsay)
- Location: Online - see email.
Particle Physics Theory seminar
1pm - 2pm: TBA
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 6th May 2026
- Speaker: Paul Hoyer (University of Helsinki)
- 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
Overview of LHCb's Mighty Tracker
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 8th May 2026
- Speaker: Klaas Padeken (University of Bonn)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, 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: 12th May 2026
- Speaker: Giulia Pisegna (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen)
- Location: Online - see email.
Higgs Centre colloquium
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
Experimental Particle Physics seminar
Machine learning in Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 15th May 2026
- Speaker: Taritree Wongjirad (Tufts University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, 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: 19th May 2026
- Speaker: Steffen Rulands (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
- Location: Online - see email.
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
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
TBD
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th May 2026
- Speaker: Luca Angelani (CNR - Institute for Complex Systems, Rome)
- Location: Online - see email.
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
Entrepreneurship event
Masterclass with Sonia Trigueros (Founder/ Director of NIVD World)
- Event time: 9:30am until 10:30am
- Event date: 8th June 2026
- Speaker: Sonia Trigueros (NIVD)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room (level 3, behind Magnet Cafe)
