Seminars
Seminars Spring 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 27 Jan |
Thomas Spieksma (Oxford U.) |
The environment talks back: Black hole binaries beyond vacuum |
| 1pm Tue 3 Feb |
Qi-Xin Xie (Nottingham U.) |
Quantum fields in boson star spacetime |
| 1pm Tue 10 Feb |
Valeriya Korol (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany) |
Galactic Astrophysics with LISA (online) |
| 1pm Tue 17 Feb |
David Seery (Sussex U.) |
The probability of rare fluctuations during inflation with stochastic instantons |
| 1pm Tue 24 Feb |
George Efstathiou (Cambridge U.) |
The Evidence for Dynamical Dark Energy |
| 1pm Tue 3 Mar |
Jonathan M. Butterworth (University College London) |
Future-proofing measurements to probe the energy frontier |
| 1pm Tue 10 Mar |
Basudeb Dasgupta (Tata Institue of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) |
Probing Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves from Mergers (online) |
| 1pm Tue 17 Mar |
Miguel Montero (IFT, Madrid, Spain) |
Quantum gravity on Riemann-flat Manifolds |
| 1pm Tue 24 Mar |
Sofie Ried (Sheffield U.) |
Unimodular time in quantum gravity |
| 1pm Tue 14 Apr |
Christoper Berry (Glasgow U.) |
糖心原创ing compact-object astrophysics with gravitational-wave observations |
| 1pm Tue 28 Apr |
David J. Mulryne (Queen Mary, U. of London) |
Axion-dilaton interactions in the dark sector |
| 1pm Tue 5 May |
Christopher McCabe (King's College London) |
Listening for Dark Matter |
| 1pm Tue 12 May |
Katy Clough (Queen Mary, U. of London) |
Probing beyond GR and the Standard Model using gravitational waves |
| 2pm Wed 13 May |
Maria Mylova (IPMU, Japan) |
Gauge fixing in open quantum systems |
| 1pm Tue 19 May |
Graham A. White (Southampton U.) |
CP violating sources for electroweak baryogenesis |
| 1pm Tue 26 May |
Job Feldbrugge (U. Edinburgh) |
Real-Time Path Integrals, Caustics and Interference in Cosmology |
| 1pm Tue 2 Jun |
Mariana Carrillo González (Imperial College London/Southampton U.) |
(A)dS Double Copy in Twistor Space |
| 1pm Tue 9 June |
Sayyed Farbod Rassouli (U. Nottingham) |
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| 1pm Tue 16 Jun |
Carlos Garcia-Garcia (U. Waterloo, Canada) |
The status of single scalar field dark energy |
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.