Seminars
Seminars Autumn 2026
Seminars are organised by Qi-Xin Xie and Edmund Copeland. Unless stated otherwise, seminars take place at 13.00 on Tuesday and are held (or for remote speakers, are streamed) in CAPT in room A113 on the ground floor.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1pm Tue 22 Sep |
Shyam Balaji (Kings College London) |
Astrophysical searches for dark matter: from the Milky Way to our Sun |
| 1pm Tue 29 Sep |
David Miguelez Caballero (Valladolid U.) |
Dynamics of Abelian-Higgs Vortices: Internal Modes and Radiation Emission |
| 1pm Tue 6 Oct |
Giuseppe Meluccio (INFN/SSM, Naples) |
On the emergence of gravity from a pre-geometric spacetime |
| 1pm Tue 13 Oct |
Adam Shaw (U. Nottingham) |
Chiral Structure of the Linearised Einstein's Equations on Maximally Symmetric Spacetimes |
| 1pm Tue 20 Oct |
Fay Dowker (Imperial College) |
Causal set quantum gravity and the hard problem of consciousness |
| 1pm Tue 27 Oct |
Mark Lancaster (Manchester U.) |
Measuring the Anomalous Magnetic Moment (g-2) of the Muon |
| 1pm Tue 3 Nov |
Costas Skordis (CEICO, Prague) |
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| 1pm Tue 10 Nov |
Michele Benaco (Jyväskylä U.) |
Two approaches to probe the Higgs sector in the early universe |
| 1pm Tue 17 Nov |
Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College) |
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| 1pm Tue 24 Nov |
Philippa S. Cole (Queen Mary, U. of London) |
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| 1pm Tue 1 Dec |
Silke Weinfurtner (Manchester U.) |
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| 1pm Tue 8 Dec |
Catherine Heymans (Edinburgh U.) |
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Student Journal Club
The student journal club is an informal discussion specifically for students, but postdocs are also welcome to come. It is currently held every other Thursday at 15:00 in CAPT room A113, alternating with the all member's Journal Club.
Student journal club is currently run by Usama Aqeel and Angus MacDonald.
Journal Club
Our journal club is an informal discussion for all members of the group, who are encouraged to bring along any interesting papers they have found. We use as our online platform for suggesting and voting on papers, on which see 'Particle Cosmology - general journal club'. The journal club is currently held every other Thursday at 15:00 in CAPT room A113.
Journal club is currently run by Joonas Hirvonen.
Upcoming Post-Doc Lectures
There are no upcoming Post-Doc lectures currently arranged.
Previous archives of seminars, journal clubs, etc. can be found here.