What's on in Physics?

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Nonlinear Ghost Imaging For waveform control, Imaging and Communications

Luke Peters (Loughborough University).

Physics West 115.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Metasurfaces: building blocks for tomorrow’s Technologies

Mohsen Rahmani (Notthingham Trent University) and Lei Xu (Nottingham Trent University).

Nuffield G19.

Wednesday 30 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Packing and Tightening Rope

Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Theory Library.

Tuesday 29 August 2023, 13:15-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Discovering and harnessing optical nonlinearities of lanthanide nanocrystals

Artiom Skripka (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

Physics West 117.

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Graphene metasurfaces & THz near-field spectroscopy

Teun-Teun Kim (University of Ulsan).

Nuffield G19.

Tuesday 01 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Observing measurement-induced transitions using a novel mixed-state entanglement measure

Christian Carisch, ETH Zurich.

Theory Library.

Thursday 06 July 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Robustly Characterizing Exoplanets in a New Era of High-Precision Transit Measurements

Julien de Wit, MIT.

PHYW-LT (117).

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

The percolating cluster is invisible to image recognition with deep learning

Note: **unusual day of the week**

Djénabou Bayo, University of Warwick and CY Cergy Paris Universite.

Theory Library.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Friday Seminar]: Rocky planet or water world? Observability of low-density lava world atmospheres

Anjali Piette, Carnegie Institution for Science.

Nuffield G18.

Friday 23 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Exploring many-body fragmented Hilbert spaces with Rydberg atoms arrays: from kinetic constraints to glassy dynamics

Jamir Marino (JGU Mainz).

Theory Library.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Seminar: Exoplanet atmospheres from the ground and from space

Aaron Arufe Bello, JPL.

PHYW-LT (117).

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Chiral anomaly in wave propagation through Weyl and Dirac semimetals

Note: **unusual day of the week**

Pavlo Sukhachov, Yale University.

on Zoom (please email Hannah for the Zoom link).

Monday 19 June 2023, 14:00-15:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Friday seminar]: Irradiated brown dwarfs in the desert

Sarah Casewell.

NUFF-G13.

Friday 16 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Signatures of structural criticality and universality in the cellular anatomy of the brain

Helen Ansell, Kovacs Lab: Complex Systems, Northwestern Uni, USA.

Theory Library.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar]: Two easy three-body problems

Alessandro Trani, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

PHYW-LT (117).

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Status and Prospects of LEGEND

Giuseppe Salamanna (University of Rome).

SLT.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar]: Gravitationally lensed supernovae: Finding the needle in the haystack

Mark Magee, University of Portsmouth.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Darkside-20k: a global direct direct dark matter search experiment

Daria Santone (RHUL).

SLT.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Statistical Physics Perturbation Theory Applied to the Ising Model on the Square, Cubic and Hypercubic Lattices

Note: **unusual day of the week**

Joseph Jones, Theory Group.

Theory Library.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Many-body localization from Hilbert- and real-space points of view

Ivan Khaymovich, Nordita.

on Zoom (please email Hannah for the Zoom link).

Thursday 01 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Topological magnons and quantum magnetism

Note: **unusual day of the week**

Paul McClarty, MPI Dresden.

Theory Library.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Many body localisation: Dead or alive?

Philip Crowley, Harvard/MIT.

Theory Library.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar]:Spinning stars in Kepler and TESS: from sound to starspots

Oliver Hall, ESA.

PHYW-LT (117).

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Building the case for a Muon Collider

Karol Krizka (Birmingham University).

SLT.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Dynamics of thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems: A simple solvable example

Katja Klobas, University of Notthingham.

Theory Library.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Classical non-relativistic fractons

Abhishodh Prakash, University of Oxford.

Theory Library.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar]: First light from tidal disruption events

Clement Bonnerot, University of Birmingham.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Force Aweakens: Searching for New sources of CP Violation in the EW Sector

Andrew Pilkington (Manchester University).

SLT.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography

Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Physics West, W117.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Topological bound states in the continuum of plasmonic lattices

Grazia Salerno, Aalto University.

Theory Library.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar]: ETpathfinder: A cryogenic testbed for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors

Sebastian Steinlechner, Maastricht University.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Searches for rare and BSM top quark processes at ATLAS

Will George (University of Birmingham).

SLT.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium description of negative temperature states in a one-dimensional lattice using a wave kinetic approach

Davide Proment, University of East Anglia.

Theory Library.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Quantum simulation – Engineering & understanding quantum systems atom- by-atom

Monica Aidelsburger, LMU Munich .

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Colloquium]: Aperture Fever: The Extremely Large Telescope

Aprajita Verma, University of Oxford.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Tailoring Light through Temporal Structure

Emanuele Galiffi, Advanced Science Research Centre, CUNY.

Theory Library.

Thursday 20 April 2023, 13:15-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Exclusive Decays of Higgs and Z Bosons to a meson and photon at ATLAS

Robert Ward (Birmingham University).

SLT.

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Ultrafast, all-optical, and highly efficient imaging of molecular chirality

David Ayuso Molinero (Imperial College London).

Physics West 115.

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Metamaterials for light-matter interaction studies

Venu Gopal Achanta, NPL India.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The development of an optically pumped magnetometer based MEG system

Matt Brookes, University of Nottingham .

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

TBA

POSTPONED

Tobias Fitschen (University of Manchester).

SLT.

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Made of stars: The origin of heavy elements from neutron star mergers or massive stars

Andrew Levan, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Made of stars: The origin of heavy elements from neutron star mergers or massive stars

Andrew Levan, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Physics West 117.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Making Optical Lattice Clocks Compact and Useful for Real-World Applications

Hidetoshi Katori, University of Tokyo, Japan .

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[CANCELED/RESCHEDULED:] Astronomy and climate crisis: are we part of the problem or part of the solution?

Victoria Grinberg, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) .

Aston Webb G33 .

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Atom Interferometry for Fundamental Physics

Samuel Lellouch (Birmingham University).

SLT.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Simultaneous radial velocity and magnetic field measurements from intensity spectra

Florian Lienhard, University of Cambridge.

Aston Webb G33 .

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Internal Gravity Waves in Massive Stars

Tamara Rogers, University of New Castle .

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] High-redshift galaxy evolution: early results from JWST

Fergus Cullen, The University of Edinburgh.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

WIMPs and beyond: from LUX-ZEPLIN to a Future Liquid Xenon Observatory

Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (Imperial College, London).

SLT.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Spectrally selective metasurfaces based on bound states in the continuum: a versatile platform for enhanced light-matter coupling

Andreas Tittl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre (S06).

Thursday 23 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Distinguishing black hole binaries' precessional morphologies with gravitational wave observations

Khun Sang Phukon, University of Birmingham.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

TBC

Thomas Montenegro-Johnson (University of Birmingham).

Physics West 115.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Weak ergodicity breaking, many-body scars and superdiffusive energy transport in constrained quantum systems

Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds.

Theory Library.

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[CANCELED:] Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution: the case of WASP-18b

Matteo Brogi, University of Warwick.

Aston Webb G33 .

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Core collapse in massive ST theory: phenomenology and observational potential

Roxana Rosca-Mead, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Aston Webb G33 .

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Generation, Detection and Application of Twisted Waves of Light and Neutrons

Charles W. Clark, Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland.

Physics East 217.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The science of the large scale heliosphere and the missions that made it possible

Konstantinos Dialynas, Office of Space Research & Technology, Academy of Athens, Greece.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Finding other Earths by observing the Sun: physical insights from ground- and space-based solar observations

Michael Palumbo, Penn State University.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Measurements of Multi-Boson Production at 13TeV using ATLAS

Daniel Lewis (Annecy LAPP).

SLT.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Electron Phonon Decoupling in Disordered Graphene

Gregory Auton, University College London.

Theory Library.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Scattering from Soft Matter: Understanding Structure from the Molecular to the Macroscopic.

Annela Seddon, University of Bristol.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Exploring the Unknown via di-Higgs Production

Bill Balunas (Cambridge University).

SLT.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Seminar: TBA

Clement Bonnerot, University of Birmingham.

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Building the case for a Muon Collider

Karol Krizka (Birmingham University).

SLT.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Luminescent metal complexes: from molecular to nanoparticle probes for detection and imaging

Zoe Pikramenou (University of Birmingham).

Physics West 115.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Energy release and transport in solar eruptive events

Saran Matthews, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Remote Reactor Monitoring via Antineutrinos

Matthew Malek (Sheffield University).

SLT.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Space telescopes and the NewSpace revolution

Ian Parry, Cambridge University.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Plasmonic Electronic Paper

Andreas Dahlin (Chalmers University of Technology).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86899984439?pwd=VWFrakUzcFpxV0xYVm43TVhJS1FBdz09.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

NuTAG

Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (CERN).

SLT.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Postponed for later, in 2023 !

Sarah Matthews, MSSL/UCL.

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Advancing biomedical photoacoustic imaging using structured light and optical microresonators

James Guggenheim (University of Birmingham).

Nuffield G19.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Pushing the low and high-frequency detector sensitivity (below 10 and above 1kHz)

Miao Haixing, Tsinghua University.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

BESIII: Leptonic and Semileptonic Decays of Charmed Hadrons

Alex Gilman (Oxford University).

SLT.

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

The art of seeing electrons and playing with their band structure

Dr. Federico Mazzola, Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, I-34149 Trieste, Italy.

Physics East 217 (library).

Friday 02 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

(Special colloquium): Quantum enhanced superresolution confocal microscopy

Dan Oron, Weizmann Institute (Israel).

Alan Walters G03.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Higgs Boson under a Microscope

Matthew McCullough (CERN).

SLT.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

New frontiers in topology in multi-level systems

F Nur Ünal, University of Cambridge.

Theory Library.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Quantum Matter under the Microscope - Engineering and Probing Quantum Matter using Quantum Simulations

Immanuel Bloch (Max Planck Institute Garching, Munich).

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

FASER

Monica D'Onofrio (Liverpool University).

SLT.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Non-reciprocal superconductivity and the field free Josephson Diode

Mazhar N. Ali.

Physics East 217 (library).

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

First results from the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

Angelides Nicolas (Imperial College).

Physics West, W117.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] A novel ringdown amplitude-phase consistency test

Francisco Jimenez, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI).

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Diboson Precision Measurements with the Higgs at LHC and FCC-hh

Alejo Rossia (Manchester University).

SLT.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The science of climate change

Joanna Haigh, Imperial College .

W117 (Physics West).

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

A Unified Approach to the Flavour Puzzle

Joe Davighi (Zurich University).

SLT.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment

Jost Migenda (King's College London).

SLT.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Cancelled, more info later !

Annela Seddon, U Bristol.

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre (SLT).

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Understanding the stars in our search for another Earth

Annelies Mortier, University of Birmingham.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Dark matter going nuclear: light force mediators and bound states

Kalliopi Petraki (Sorbonne University).

SLT.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Controlling Quantum Interference for Molecular Electronics

Hatef Sadeghi (University of Warwick).

Nuffield G18.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

QSNET

Giovanni Barontini (Birmingham University).

SLT.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] Precise asteroseismic ages from young pulsating stars

Simon Murphy, University of Southern Queensland.

Physics West 115.

Friday 14 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Quantum sensing for brain imaging

Lauri Parkkonen -U. Aalto, Finland.

Large Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

[Seminar:] GRB 211211A and the Emerging Diversity of Merger-driven Gamma-ray Bursts

Benjamin Gompertz, University of Birmingham.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The TORCH Detector at LHCb

Luis Miguel Garcia-Martin (Warwick University).

Watson LTA.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Status of Searches for E-W scale Supersymmetry after LHC Run 2

Iacopo Vivarelli (Sussex University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

High Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF

Chris Hays (Oxford University).

SLT.

Wednesday 21 September 2022, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Quantitative imaging with random light: Challenges and Opportunities

Rakesh Kumar Singh (Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)).

Physics West SR1 (103).

Monday 08 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

A physicist's approach to prime numbers

Professor Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham.

Physics East 217 (library).

Friday 29 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Quantum dots for THz technology

Juliette Mangeney (Laboratoire Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure).

Physics West SR1 (103).

Thursday 07 July 2022, 15:00-16:00

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Modifying the Electronic Properties of the Strontinum Ruthenates via Vacuum Relaxation

University of St. Andrews .

Physics East 217 (library).

Monday 04 July 2022, 15:00-16:00

Particle Physics Seminars

F(l)avoured searches: leptoquarks - present status and future prospects

Tamara Vazquez Schroeder.

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Interacting one-dimensional electrons

Sanjeev Kumar, UCL.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The formation and evolution of Herbig Ae/Be stars

Rene Oudmaijer, University of Leeds.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Z gamma and Z gamma gamma production at ATLAS

Postponed

Daniel Lewis (Birmingham University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

MicroBooNE and the Case of the Missing Extra Neutrinos

Kirsty Duffy (Oxford University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Optical fiber sensing based on nanostructured coatings

Aitor Urrutia (Universidad Pública de Navarra).

Aston Webb G33 .

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Collective phenomena in excitonic quantum matter

Benjamin Remez, University of Cambridge.

Theory Library and on Zoom https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:15-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Exotic Hadrons observed by LHCb

Ivan Polyakov (Syracuse University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Studying the faint galaxies in the epoch of reionisation combining JWST with the power of gravitational lensing

Rachana Bhatawdekar, European Space Research and Technology Centre.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Mu2e

Andrew Edmonds (Boston University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Anomalous Weak Localisation Phase in Ultra-Clean van der Waals Heterostructures

David Perkins, University of York.

Theory Library.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:15-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Breakdown of hydrodynamics and emergence of universality in far-from-equilibrium regimes

Note: **later time than usual**

Joaquin Rodriguez Nieva (Stanford University).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Multi-messenger astrophysics with the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)

Joseph Lyman, University of Warwick.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Belle II

Zuzana Gruberova (Charles University Prague).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The Top Quark is still going Strong (and ElectroWeak)

Andrea Knue (University of Freiburg).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Breakthrough in the study of frustrated ferro-antiferromagnets Rb2Cu2Mo3O12 and Cs2Cu2Mo3O12

Shohei Hayashida, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

On the back-reaction problem and new perspectives with analogue models of gravity

Salvatore Butera (University of Glasgow).

Theory Library.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Title to be confirmed

Jan Harms, Gran Sasso Science Institute.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Phase II ATLAS Upgrade

Anthony Affolder (UCSC).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Orbital-dependent scattering in Sr2RuO4 and FeSe

Hybrid talk - Physics East 217

Dr. Clifford W. Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, U.K..

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 29 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Quasinormal Modes and Black Hole Ringdown

Chris Moore (University of Birmingham, Gravitational Wave Astronomy).

Theory Library.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

CANCELLED - The Search for Dark Matter

Chamkaur Ghag - UCL.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Rare Event Searches with Gaseous Detectors

Tom Neep (Birmingham University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Time-delay cosmography: the present and the future

Simon Birrer, Stanford University.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Charm Content of the Proton

Phil Ilten (University of Cincinnati).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Chemical reactions at cold and ultracold temperatures – the transition to the quantum regime

Tim Softley (University of Birmingham, Chemistry).

Theory Library.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

LUNA: 30 Years of Nuclear Astrophysics Underground

Marialuisa Aliotta - U. Edinburgh.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Duality Approach to the Spectral Statistics

Bruno Bertini (University of Nottingham).

Theory Library.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Tracker and Vertex R+D for CLIC

Katharina Dort (CERN).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Cancelled

Mariana Mazzucato - UCL.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Determination of the W mass at LHCb

Miguel Ramos-Pernas (Warwick University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

The strong and intermediate coupling physics of magic-angle graphene

Nick Bultinck, University of Oxford.

Theory Library.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

LAPPD

Matthew Malek (Sheffield University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Quantum Magnetism in Different Dimensions

School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

A cascade of delocalization transitions and many-body localization in the interpolating Aubry-André-Fibonacci model

Antonio Strkalj, University of Cambridge.

Theory Library.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The application of astrophysical methods to health, Earth sciences and weather.

Seb Oliver - U. Sussex.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Beauty to doubly open charm decays at LHCb

Fionn Bishop (Cambridge University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data

Ashley Villar, Pennsylvania State University.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Direct Search for the Higgs to Charm Quark Coupling at ATLAS

Antonio Costa (Birmingham University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Symmetry Protected Topological Order in Open Quantum Systems

Alex Turzillo, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Superfluid Dark Matter

Sabine Hossenfelder - U. Frankfurt.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Testing the Standard Model Effectively at the LHC

Robert Schoefbeck (HEPY Wien).

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The increasing complexity of Dark Matter searches in ATLAS

Alison Elliot (Queen Mary, University of London).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Stabilisation of a periodically driven classical spin-chain

Thomas Veness, University of Nottingham.

Theory Library.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Women in astrophysics - a data base and an individual's experience

Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Graviton-Photon Mixing and Future Laboratory Axion Searches

Aldo Ejlli (Cardiff University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Connecting stellar binary evolution with binary black-hole spin precession

Nathan Steinle.

Physics West Lecture Theatre 117.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Non-Parametric Data-Driven Background Modelling using Conditional Probabilities

Kostas Nikolopoulos (Birmingham University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Evidence for Four Top Quark Production from ATLAS

Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah (Harvard University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Latest NA62 results on the search for K->pi nu nu and prospects for a neutral pion Dalitz decay measurement

Tom Bache (Birmingham University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Standard Model Measurements

Paolo Azzurri (CERN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Recent Highlights from the ALICE Experiment

Klaus Reygers (Heidelberg).

Zoom.

Wednesday 08 December 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Extraordinary light matter interactions: Polychromatic light, strong coupling, and a broken symmetry

Benjamin Yuen (Birmingham Metamaterials).

Theory Library.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:15-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Contact geometry in cholesterics and chiral materials

Thomas Machon (University of Bristol).

Theory Library.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Sex, Science and the Brain; Where have all the Young Girls Gone?

Gina Rippon - Aston U..

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Novel Silicon Tracker Technologies for the HL-LHC and beyond

Laura Gonella (Birmingham University).

Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Quantum interferometry for fundamental physics problems

Denis Martynov (Birmingham Physics).

Theory Library.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:15-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Light Hyperon Physics

Viktor Thoren (Uppsala University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

A contemporary view on topological band theory and new Euler class phenomena

Robert-Jan Slager (University of Cambridge).

Theory Library.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:15-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The Cosmological Hubble Constant tension

Antony Lewis - U. Sussex.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Global Fits for CKM Parameter Extraction using UTfit

Marcella Bona (Queen Mary, University of London).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Measurement-induced transition in U(1) monitored quantum circuits

Utkarsh Agrawal (UMass Amherst).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 13:15-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Understanding Neutrino Properties, and their Mass Measurement

Christian Weinheimer (University of Muenster).

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Emergent hydrodynamics in quantum magnets

Vir Bulchandani (Princeton University).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:15-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Dark Matter and Axion Searches

Babette Dobrich (CERN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

A PhD on rare fluctuations in one dimension and what I do now I’ve finished it

Michael Clark (Birmingham Theoretical Physics).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:15-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Terahertz lights up the nanoscale: from far-field spectroscopy to near-field microscopy

Jessica Louise Boland (The University of Manchester).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83522066472?pwd=UDR5bkRtczE5T21iNXBURHdvL2J0QT09.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Resonance Production from p-p to Heavy Ion Collisions

Paraskevi Ganoti (University of Athens).

Zoom.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Tests of fundamental physics at very low energy with quantum technology

Xavier Calmet - U. Sussex.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Accelerated Machine Learning for Triggering

Miaoyuan Liu (FNAL).

Zoom.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Magnetic moment of the muon, the search for new fundamental physics and a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of hadronic vacuum polarization

Early Start at 1100

Laurent Lellouch (University of Marseille).

Zoom.

Wednesday 06 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Particle Physics Seminars

What's New in Particle Theory

Lorenzo Tancredi (TUM).

Zoom.

Wednesday 29 September 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

LUXE: A new experiment to study non-perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics in e-LASER and gamma-LASER collisions

Louis Helary (DESY).

Zoom.

Wednesday 22 September 2021, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Thermal Hall Transport in Spiral Magnet and Spin Liquid

Jung Hoon Han, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 25 June 2021, 10:00-11:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Quasinormal modes, Purcell factors and corrected Fermi’s golden rule for spontaneous emission decay in coupled loss-gain resonators

Zoom Meeting ID: 846 9438 5772

Stephen Hughes (Queen's University).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84694385772?pwd=VXZCNVVJdVNQNCtTL2JoOUg3MExidz09.

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Results from the PVLAS attempt to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence and future outlook

Guido Zavattini (Ferrara INFN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Exciton-driven quantum phases in correlated insulators

Edoardo Baldini, Department of Physics, MIT (USA).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 18 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Evolutionary population synthesis models

PhD meet & greet at 15.30

Claudia Maraston University of Portsmouth.

online .

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

DEAP-3600 Results

Simon Viel (Carleton University, Ottawa).

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Measuring Higgs couplings and properties in the Higgs to tautau decay channel

Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

T-linear resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate

Gaël Grissonnanche, LASSP, Cornell University, Ithaca (USA).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87537747290?pwd=QkFrMStXS2UycTg0NGtxUnpBOHRWUT09.

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Speaker to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

online .

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Probing 10 orders of magnitude of dark matter mass using CCDs : New results from DAMIC@SNOLAB and prospects for DAMIC-M"

Ben Kilminster (Zurich University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Lepton Flavour Universality and g-2

Themis Bowcock (Liverpool University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Extreme Plasmonics: Confining light to individual atoms, molecules and bond vibrations

Zoom Meeting ID: 822 0658 4177

Rohit Chikkaraddy (University of Cambridge).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82206584177?pwd=cmpaMEp3VndQd3RrdTVPVHlQYVU3UT09.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Molecular gas in galaxies at cosmic noon

Annagrazia Puglisi Durham University.

online .

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Neutrino-Dark Matter Connections with High-Energy Neutrinos

Sergio Palomares-Ruiz.

Zoom.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Electronic topological transitions (Lifshitz transitions of the 2½ order)

Andrey Varlamov (CNR-SPIN, Rome, Italy).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Pulsed terahertz vortex beams: generation and properties

Zoom Meeting ID: 878 4120 0425

Maksim Kulya (ITMO university).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87841200425?pwd=ZzJrVE1pNHFGbm0wblM0alRYSllLUT09.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Gamma-gamma fusion

Mateusz Dyndal (CERN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Mathematical modeling of drug resistance and the transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Anjalika Nande, Harvard University.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Exoplanetary Atmospheres in 3D: implications from radiation-chemistry(cloud)-hydrodynamics simulations

Mayne, Nathan University of Exeter.

online .

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Pandora Reconstruction for the DUNE Experiment

Maria Brunetti (Warwick University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

A minimal model for many body localization transitions

Alexander Altland, University of Cologne.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Tetraquarks at LHCb

Daniel Johnson (CERN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Domain wall dynamics in a near-Ising ferromagnetic chain CoCl2*2D2O

Ursula Bengaard Hansen, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France..

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83190378684?pwd=ZzRIK1VFMGZCc0FCT3dkQnN4QStCZz09.

Friday 23 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Panorama of the Universe with multi-messenger observations

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Suvodip Mukherjee University of Amsterdam.

online .

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

B->s l+l-

Mick Mulder (CERN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Experimental Investigation of Quantum Magnets

Prof. Bella Lake (HZB & Technical University Berlin, Germany).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83190378684?pwd=ZzRIK1VFMGZCc0FCT3dkQnN4QStCZz09.

Friday 09 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Long-range entanglement and multiple steady states in a lossy qubit array

Shovan Dutta, University of Cambridge.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Unresolved stellar companions with Gaia

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Vasily Belokurov University of Cambridge.

online .

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Exploring a New Family of S = ½ Kagomé Antiferromagnets

Dr Lucy Clark, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Is new physics lurking in the magnetic interaction of a muon ?

Mark Lancaster - U. Manchester.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Photon Collisions at the LHC: Probing the Electroweak Sector.

Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Possible chiral superconductivity in Sr2RuO4: combined evidence from the µSR study under uniaxial and hydrostatic pressure, and with disorder

Dr. Vadim Grinenko, Technical University of Dresden.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88096472694?pwd=UXIyMVdCUkJFUjVTNlFCZVBWWWlWQT09 .

Friday 12 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Efficient simulation of moire materials using the density matrix renormalization group

Note: **later time than usual**

Daniel Parker, Harvard University.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Study of Higgs Properties and BSM Search in the 4 lepton channel at ATLAS.

Panagiotis Bellos (Birmingham University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Formation and Evolution of Compact Objects in Active Galactic Nuclei

Tagawa Hiromichi, Tohoku University.

online .

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Prediction of Toric Code Topological Order from Rydberg Blockade

Ruben Verresen, Harvard University.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Nikku Madhusudhan - U. Cambridge.

Zoom - check your email.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Relic Neutrinos from A to Z

Stefano Gariazzo (INFN-Torino).

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Principal Component Analysis of Quantum Materials Data: a Study in Augmented Intelligence

Jorge Quintanilla, University of Kent.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Development of Terahertz devices, algorithms and biomedical applications

Zoom Meeting ID: 879 3387 9601. Passcode: 9a976i

Qiushuo Sun (University of Birmingham).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87933879601?pwd=V0ttWlJWQVIwVldrNVdJU2gwR1BBZz09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The Astrophysical Context of Gravitational Wave Events

PhD meet & greet at 15.30

Mohammad Safarzadeh, Harvard CfA.

online .

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

91 GeV Revisited: the Compelling Case for 5x10^12 Z^0's

Guy Wilkinson (Oxford University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Non-stationary quantum many-body dynamics

Berislav Buca, University of Oxford.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Space - so what?

Anu Ojha - National Space Centre.

Zoom - check your email..

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Solar axion searches, and the next generation helioscopes

Javier Galan (University of Zaragosa).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Twisted bilayer graphene and Coulomb interaction: baking insulator states in six steps

Nicolas Regnault (ENS-CNRS-Princeton University) .

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8268225040.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Modelling nanoplasmonic hot carrier generation

Zoom Meeting ID: 879 3387 9601. Passcode: 9a976i

Johannes Lischner (Imperial College London).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87933879601?pwd=V0ttWlJWQVIwVldrNVdJU2gwR1BBZz09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Multi-messenger studies of binary stellar systems with the SKA

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Tana Joseph, University of Amsterdam.

online .

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Physics Potential of CLIC

Ulrike Schnoor (CERN and Glasgow University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

New perspectives on quantum geometry, superconductivity and Bose-Einstein condensation

Päivi Törmä - U. Aalto.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Paleodetectors for Galactic Supernovae and (Atmospheric) Neutrinos

Patrick Stengel (SISSA) .

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Uniqueness of the phase transition in many-dipole cavity QED systems

Zoom Meeting ID: 879 3387 9601. Passcode: 9a976i

Ahsan Nazir (The University of Manchester).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87933879601?pwd=V0ttWlJWQVIwVldrNVdJU2gwR1BBZz09.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Has LIGO-Virgo detected primordial black holes?

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Christian Byrnes, University of Sussex.

online .

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Mirror cracked... Constraining the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with T2K

Lukas Koch (Oxford University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Carbon Nanostructures for Dark Matter Detectors

Francesco Pandolfi (INFN-Roma).

Zoom.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Companions and debris around white dwarfs

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Na'ama Hallakoun, Weizmann Institute of Science.

online .

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Search for a light Higgs-Portal scalar boson and other New Physics models with MicroBooNE

Pawel Guzowski (Manchester University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

KM3NeT-ORCA

Piotr Kalaczynski (Polish Centre for Nuclear Research).

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Creating order through periodic driving: From novel topology in (artificial) graphene to superconductivity

Gregor Jotzu (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 10 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

An Approach to Identifying Molecular Aliens & Making Life in the Laboratory

Lee Cronin - U. Glasgow.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Detecting circumbinary exoplanets with gravitational waves from the center-of-mass motion of LISA Galactic binaries

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Nicola Tamanini, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein institute) .

online .

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

ANUBIS

Oleg Brandt (Cambridge University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Route to Hyperspectral Terahertz Microscopy via Nonlinear Ghost-Imaging

Zoom Meeting ID: 836 7216 2558. Passcode: 2y878y

Marco Peccianti (University of Sussex).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83672162558?pwd=THNQQ3ZqYXNGdm1UZDU4ZVNTY2R0dz09.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Exploring non-equilibrium dynamics in novel Fermi gas systems

Waseem Bakr (Princeton University).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Using Neutron Star Mergers to Probe Properties of Dense Nuclear Matter

PhD meet & greet at 15.00

Ben Margalit, UC berkeley.

online .

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Searches for New Interactions at Belle II

Gianluca Inguglia (Institute for High Energy Physics, Wien).

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Measurement induced phase transition in a monitored fermion chain

Sebastian Diehl (University of Cologne).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Physics under the Gravitational Rainbow

Claudia de Rham - Imperial.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

B -> K*mumu

Eluned Smith (Aachen).

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

A new era of Precision: Testing the Standard Model with Electroweak Measurements at LHCb

William Barter (Imperial College).

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Topological photonics

Mohammad Hafezi - U. Maryland.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Dynamical Assembly of GW sources: Theoretical Models and New Observations

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Johan Samsing, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

online .

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

NA62: the (Physics) Story so far

Joel Swallow (Birmingham University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Rotons and Supersolids in ultracold quantum gases of highly magnetic atoms

Lauriane Chomaz (IQOQI, Innsbruck).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Particle Physics Seminars

BSM Lessons from Flavour

Dario Buttazzo (INFN-Pisa).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Non-local emergent hydrodynamics in a long-range quantum spin system

Izabella Lovas (TU Munich).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The New World of the Anthropocene

Jan Zalasiewicz - U. Leicester.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Formation of gravitational wave sources in star clusters: From stellar to intermediate-mass black holes

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Abbas Askar, Lund University .

online .

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Exotics Searches at Colliders, Why and How?

Sinead Farrington (Edinburgh University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Detecting fractional Chern insulators in few-boson systems

Cécile Repellin (LPMMC, Grenoble).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The XENON1t excess Electron-recoil Events

Guido Zavattini (Ferrara INFN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Many-body adiabatic theorems

Note: rescheduled for usual time

Wojciech De Roeck (KU Leuven).

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Tabletop Tests of the Standard Model and Beyond: A Tale of Two Electron Dipole Moments

Gerald Gabrielse - Northwestern/Harvard.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Insights on stellar rotation and magnetism from main-sequence solar like stars to red giants

PhD meet & greet at 12.30

Savita Mathur, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.

online .

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

New results from the Pulsar Timing Array hunt for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves

PhD meet & greet at 16.30

Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University.

online .

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Four Tops Results from ATLAS

Clara Nellist (CERN).

Zoom.

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Generalised hydrodynamics and universalities of transport in integrable (and non-integrable) spin chains

Jacopo De Nardis, Ghent University.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 01 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

COVID-19 for the scientifically minded

Andrew Beggs - U. Birmingham.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96072052168?pwd=V2pIZlZvd3BHZW9GRGF0TCt6OTc1dz09.

Wednesday 30 September 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Integrability of eccentric, spinning black-hole binaries up to second post-Newtonian order

PhD meet & greet at 15.30

Leo Stein, University of Mississippi.

online .

Wednesday 30 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

SuperFGD

Cesar Jesus (IFAE Barcelona).

Zoom.

Wednesday 30 September 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Quantum simulation of strongly correlated fermions: A theory perspective

Fabian Grusdt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München .

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257?pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 24 September 2020, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Role of Mechanics and Geometry in Cellular Information Processing

Fabian Spill, UoB.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257? pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 17 September 2020, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

LISA data processing L0-L1

Sweta Shah, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI).

online .

Wednesday 16 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Linking insights into the Galactic disc, bulge and halo for a holistic approach to constraining the assembly of the Milky Way

Ted Mackereth, University of Toronto.

online .

Wednesday 02 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

ALPS II: The next generation light shining through a wall experiment

Guido Mueller, University of Florida.

online .

Wednesday 19 August 2020, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The imprint of their explosions: Using supernova remnants to understand stellar death

Katie Auchettl, University of Melbourne/DARK/UCSC.

online .

Wednesday 05 August 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Theory of classical metastability in open quantum systems

Katarzyna Macieszczak, University of Cambridge.

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9115054257?pwd=UWJqaGZpZitLUVZHQkJGby9xU2dXQT09.

Thursday 30 July 2020, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Experiments with Interacting one-dimensional electrons

Sanjeev Kumar, UCL.

via zoom.

Thursday 23 July 2020, 13:00-14:15

Astrophysics Talks Series

The hunt for Galactic black holes: from the most massive stars to low-mass stripped stars

Tomer Shenar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

online .

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The mass gap, the spin gap, and the origin of merging binary black holes

Vishal Baibhav, John Hopkins.

online .

Wednesday 08 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Probabilities & Signalling in Quantum Field Theory

Jeff Forshaw (Manchester University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 01 July 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Theory of Diffusive Fluctuations

Xinyi Chen-Lin, Stanford/Nordita.

via zoom.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Fun with Binary Stars

Jim Fuller (CalTech) .

online .

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 16:30-17:30

Particle Physics Seminars

DUNE (for Collider physicists)

Dave Newbold (RAL).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Challenges in the Analysis of three-body Heavy Meson Decays

Patricia Magalhaes (Bristol University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

From 2nd to 3rd generation GW detectors

Canceled

Bas Swinkels (Nikhef, Amsterdam).

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

A CP violation measurement of Bs mesons at ATLAS and the LHC

Adam Barton (Lancaster University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Cancelled

Dario Buttazzo (INFN-Pisa).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Title to be confirmed

Canceled

Ian Harry.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Katrin

Kathrin Valerius (IKP Karlsruhe).

Zoom.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Title to be confirmed

Stephen Hogan (UCL).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

To Be Confirmed

Mark Lancaster - UCL.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Deep Science at Boulby Underground Laboratory: Subterranean studies at the UK’s deep underground science facility.

Sean Paling (UKRI STFC Boulby Mine).

Zoom.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Learning Structured Models of Physics

Peter Battaglia (DeepMind).

Zoom.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Title to be confirmed

Rafal Gartman (NPL).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

To Be Confirmed.

Marialuisa Aliotta - U. Edinburgh.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Search for Sterile Neutrinos

Leigh Whitehead (Cambridge University).

online via zoom.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Gravitational wave progenitors near and far

Canceled

Astrid Lamberts, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Searching for Higgs Boson Decays to Light Scalars from Extended Higgs Sectors with the ATLAS Detector

Elliot Reynolds (Birmingham University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Title to be confirmed

Miguel Navarro-Cia (UoB).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Exoplanet Atmospheres in 3D: multidimensional processes and opportunities.

Canceled

Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Role of Mechanics and Geometry in Cellular Information Processing

Fabian Spill (Maths, Birmingham).

Theory Library.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 13:15-14:45

Astrophysics Talks Series

Stellar population models

Canceled

Claudia Maraston, University of Portsmouth.

PW-SR2 (106) .

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Cancelled

Sinead Farrington (Edinburgh University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Multi-Modes Systems in Quantum Optics

Ben Yuen (Metamaterials Group, University of Birmingham).

Theory Library.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 13:15-14:45

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

IceCube - the frozen telescope

Olga Botner - U. Uppsala.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Hydrodynamics and Chaos in Quantum Matter

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Mike Blake (Bristol).

Theory Library.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:15-14:45

Astrophysics Talks Series

Galaxy clusters: a tool for cosmology

Matteo Maturi (Heidelberg University).

Watson R17.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

PICOSEC Micromegas Detector

Ioannis Manthos (CERN).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Magnetic decoupling in the low dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnet SeCuO3

Luc Testa, EPFL.

Physics East 217.

Friday 06 March 2020, 10:00-11:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Extending and applying DFT: large scale calculations and applications to charge density waves in TiSe2

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

David Bowler (UCL).

Theory Library.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:15-14:45

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

From Galaxy Zoo to LSST : Citizen Science in the age of big data.

Chris Lintott - U. Oxford.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The statistical era of strong gravitational lensing cosmology

Tom Collett (University of Portsmouth).

PW 117.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

SHiP

Mario Campanelli (University College, London).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Skyrmions in Birmingham: from topological models to knotted polarization textures of light

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Danica Sugic (Theory Group, Birmingham).

Theory Library.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:15-14:45

Particle Physics Seminars

The AMS latest results and the impact on the design of future Cosmic Ray Space Experiments.

Matteo Duranti (INFN-Perugia).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Effective Hamiltonians and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet conformal field theories

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Bo Han (Cambridge).

Theory Library.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:15-14:45

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

New Physics from Old: Medieval Science and the Ordered Universe project

Tom McLeish - U. York.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Exploring QED in the strong-field regime with the LUXE Experiment

Beate Heinemann (DESY).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Non-equilibrium dynamics in exactly solvable cellular automata

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Juan Garrahan (Nottingham).

Theory Library.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:15-14:45

Astrophysics Talks Series

The galaxy-halo connection in the cosmic web

Rita Tojeiro (University of St. Andrews).

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

A Search for New Physics with Kaons at NA62 and beyond

Karim Massri (CERN).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Ultracold atoms in optical quasicrystals: Localization, Fractal Structures and Synthetic Dimensions

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Ulrich Schneider (Cambridge).

Theory Library.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:15-14:45

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Metamaterials that travel faster than light

Sir John Pendry - Imperial College London.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Di-Higgs at the LHC: A Window on our Universe and BSM New Matter

Michael Nelson (Stockholm University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Physics at van der Waals interfaces: Twists, incommensurability and emergent phenomena

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski (Bath).

Theory Library.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:15-14:45

Astrophysics Talks Series

Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond

Or Graur.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Tau Leptons from Heavy Ion Collisions as a Probe of New Physics

Lydia Beresford (Oxford University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

A new generation of multi-dimensional stellar structure models

Isabelle Baraffe - U. Exeter.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Characterization and propagation modeling in context aware environments

Leyre Azpilicueta (Tecnologico de Monterrey).

GKAP-N123.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

ARIADNE: bringing a game changing optical readout to dual-phase LAr TPCs

Kostas Mavrokoridis (Liverpool University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Milky Way Analogues in MaNGA

Nick Boardman.

PW 106.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Physics of quantum computation

Note the new time for Theory seminars this term

Boris Altshuler (Columbia University).

Theory Library.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:15-14:45

Astrophysics Talks Series

Irradiated brown dwarfs: Providing insights into exoplanet atmospheres

Sarah Casewell.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

LhARA

Tim Greenshaw (Liverpool University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Cryogenic silicon interferometry for improved optical timekeeping

Eric Oelker, JILA, University of Colorado.

PW 106.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Double Neutron Stars with LISA: What low-frequency gravitational waves tell us about binary star evolution

Mike Lau.

PW 106.

Tuesday 07 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes: the search for observational evidence of AGN feedback

Rebecca Smethurst.

PW-SR2 (106) .

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors

Eva Vilella-Figueras (Liverpool University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics of small quantum systems

Unusual weekday

Gabriele De Chiara (Belfast).

Physics East 217.

Tuesday 10 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Three-body dynamics in extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Huan Yang, Perimeter Institute.

PW-106.

Monday 09 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Applications and integration of semiconductor-based Metasurfaces

Patrice Genevet (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS - Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-épitaxie et ses Applications).

Physics West 117.

Monday 09 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Trinity - The treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history: The Birmingham Connection

Frank Close - U. Oxford.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Ou-of-the-Box Baryogenesis during Relaxation

Jakub Scholtz (Durham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Search for Dark Matter with Laser Interferometers and other (ab)uses of Precision Instruments

Hartmut Grote.

PW 117.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Future Circular Accelerators

Bill Murray (CERN).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Coherent light with maximal-symmetry statistics: a high-sensitivity random interferometer

Francois Amblard, Ulsan National Institute for Science and Technology, South Korea.

Theory Library.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 11:00-12:15

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Imaging (and imagining) Black Holes

Sera Markoff - U. Amsterdam.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Review of Strangeness in Quark Matter Conference

Orlando Villalobos-Baillie (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Long-term dynamical simulations of planetary systems

Hanno Rein, University of Toronto.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Dark Matter in the Solar System

Chris McCabe (King's College).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Bringing "quantumness" into thermodynamics and thermometry

Luis Correa (Exeter).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Towards realistic simulations of dense stellar systems and the formation of gravitational wave sources

Tjarda Boekholt.

PW-SR2 (106) .

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

The Quantum Way of Doing Computations

Reiner Blatt - U. Innsbruck.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with NEWS-G

Patrick Knights (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

The observational era of planet formation

Giovanni Rosotti (Leiden University) .

PW-SR2 (106) .

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Fabrication of Ta2O5, Zr:Ta2O5 and aSi by ECR ion beam deposition for use as high-index coating layers in ultra-stable optical cavities with low Brownian thermal noise.

Stuart Reid.

PW-SR2 (106) .

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Adhesion lithography as a versatile nonapatterning tool for advanced optoelectronic devices

Dimitra G. Georgiadou (Imperial College London).

PHYW-SR1 (103).

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Understanding the origin of mass

Kostas Nikolopoulos - U. Birmingham.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

High Pressure Gas TPCs

Patrick Dunne (Imperial College).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Merging of rotating Bose condensates

Prof. Wei Guo, National High Magneic Field Laboratory & Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States.

Physics East 217.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Artificial Neural Networks and Data Analysis

Brunello Tirozzi.

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Review of CMS status

Samuel Webb (Imperial College, London).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Swings and roundabouts: operators and rays for structured light beams

Mark Dennis (Birmingham).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Nonlinear Optical Metasurfaces: From Enhanced Light-Matter-Interaction to Full Phase Tailoring

Note unusual time - Room booked from 13:00 to 15:00

Prof Thomas Zentgraf (Paderborn University).

Aston Webb WG12.

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:30-14:30

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring quantum interference in strong-field laser-matter interaction and ultrafast imaging.

Carla Figueira De Morisson Faria - UCL.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Binary black hole simulations: from supercomputers to your laptop

Vijay Varma (Caltech).

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

ttbar + bbar at ATLAS

Tom Neep (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Spin and energy trasport in XXZ chain and role of large quasiparticle bound states (NOTE UNUSUAL DAY/TIME)

Sarang Gopalakrishnan (CUNY).

Theory Library.

Friday 04 October 2019, 14:15-15:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

LISA: from onboard measurements to Gravitational Wave Data Analysis

Antoine Petiteau.

PW-SR2 (106) .

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Robotic microscopy for everyone: high-end instruments you can 3D print

Note unusual start time

Richard Bowman, University of Bath.

PHYW-SR1 (103).

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 13:50-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Calorimetry for Proton Beam Therapy

Raffaella Radogna (University College).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Tensor Networks for Machine Learning (Note venue)

Miles Stoudenmire (Flatiron Institute).

NOTE venue Watson Building, Lecture Theatre C (G24).

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals detected by LIGO and Virgo

Nathan Johnson-McDaniel (University of Cambridge).

PW-SR1 (103) .

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 15:30-16:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Astrometric effects of low-frequency GW backgrounds

Deyan Mihaylov (Cambridge).

Physics West 103.

Wednesday 31 July 2019, 14:30-15:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Quantum optomechanics at room-temperature

Nancy Aggarwal.

PW103.

Monday 22 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Out-of-equilibrium effects induced by impurities in 1d closed quantum systems

Alvise Bastianello (Amsterdam).

Theory Library.

Friday 12 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Topological classes of quasi-periodically driven quantum dynamics, and the transitions between them

Philip Crowley (Boston University).

Theory Library.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cold atoms

Testing dark energy models with atom interferometry

Clare Burrage (Nottingham).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cold atoms

Revealing undiscovered forces using ultracold molecules

Jongseok Lim (imperial).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Spin models and criticality from atoms in a tilted optical superlattice

Chris Hooley (St Andrews).

Theory Library.

Friday 21 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Coupled-channel dynamics for LHCb pentaquarks

Tim Burns (Swansea University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

No seminar - Warwick IoP TCM meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

Theory Library.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:45-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Active Quantum Nanophotonics

Ortwin Hess, Imperial College London.

Watson Building LT A (G23).

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Hunting ultra high energy neutrinos in Antarctica

Linda Cremonesi (University College, London).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Novel strategies to tackle bacterial infections: targeting adhesion and persistence

Sara Jabbari (Birmingham, Maths).

Theory Library.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

g-2 at FNAL

Rebecca Chislett (University College, London).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

What density functional theory is, how it is changing our world, and how little we understand it

Kieron Burke (UC Irvine).

Theory Library.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Reading Charcoal

Jens Dopke (Rutherford Laboratory).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Novel wave physics

Tom Philbin (Exeter).

Theory Library.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Origins of the elemental composition of planetary systems

Mihkel Kama (Cambridge) .

Watson LTA.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

MilliQan - A Dedicated Search for Millicharged Particles

James Brooke (Bristol University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Optical Microresonators - Frequency Combs and Symmetry Breaking of Counterpropagating Light

Pascal Del'Haye (NPL).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Dilute quantum liquids and supersolidity in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

Russell Bisset (Hannover).

Theory Library.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:45-15:00

Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Bridging Quantum Science & Biology

Alexandra Olaya-Castro - UCL.

Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Looking forward to new physics with FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

Sebastian Trojanowski (Sheffied University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Percolation in Fock space and many-body localisation

Sthitadhi Roy (Oxford).

Theory Library.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The rotation of cool main sequence stars: measurements, descriptions, and connections

Sydney Barnes (Potsdam) .

Watson lecture theatre A.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Cancelled

Sarah Boutle (Glasgow University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Optical atomic clocks for more than just telling the time

Rachel Godun (NPL).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

The superconductivity of Sr2RuO4 under uniaxial stress

Dr Clifford Hicks, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

Physics East 217.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cold atoms

The Kibble balance and the redefinition of the kilogram: Past, present and future.

Unusual weekday and place

Dr. Ian Robinson (NPL).

1B15 Metallurgy and Material building .

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Computing and detecting gravitational-wave memory effects from binary-black-hole mergers

David Nichols.

PW 117.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Exploiting terahertz radiation sources for particle acceleration: A route to future table-top accelerators

Darren Graham, The University of Manchester.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Diffractive and Elastic Scattering at the LHC

Paul Newman (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Controlling ultracold polar molecules

Rauhl Sawant (Durham).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Novel progenitors of GW sources & type Ia supernovae

Hagai Perets.

PW103.

Monday 01 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Topological Quantum Computation - From Concepts to Experiments

Markus Muller (Swansea).

Theory Library.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 13:45-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Fluctuation-induced Light in Topological Systems

Mario Silveirinha, Universidade de Lisboa.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

A Physicist's Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Living Systems from Cells and Cities to Ecosystems and Companies

Goeffrey West (Santa Fe Institute).

Physics West 117 NOTE location and date.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes

Lars Brink (Chalmers, Gothenburg).

Physics West 117 NOTE location and time.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 15:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

David Gross (UC Santa Barbara).

NOTE DAY AND LOCATION Poynting Lecture Theatre S02.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Galaxy evolution within growing massive clusters

Chris Haines.

Physics West Library.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

On the Phases of Graviity

Eliezer Rabinovici (Racah Institute of Physics).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Bloch oscillations in a lossy lattice

Eva Maria Graefe (Imperial).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Can random packings of hard spheres be hyperuniform?

Mike Moore (Manchester).

Theory Library.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The structure of galactic thick disks

Marie Martig (LJMU).

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Neutrino Interactions in the GeV Regime

Xiangou Lu (OXford University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Magnetism and Magnetoelectricity in the Lithium Orthophosphates

Technical University of Denmark.

Physics East 217.

Friday 08 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Topological Chirality and the Catastrophe of Cholesterics

Gareth Alexander (Warwick).

Theory Library.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Lund jet plane: organising QCD radiation at colliders

Gavin Salam (Oxford University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Probing quantum turbulence using mechanical oscillators

Viktor Tsepelin (Lancaster).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Electronic and optical properties of monolayer and few-layer InSe

Sam Magorrian (Manchester).

Theory Library.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Investigating fundamental physics using numerical simulations of black hole environments

Katy Clough (Oxford).

Law LT2.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

DUNE - Precision Neutrino Physics of the Future

Alfons Weber (Oxford University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

Phased Grating Interferometry, A practical measurement application

Greg Duckworth.

Watson LTA.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Cosmology and Astrophysics with the Cosmic Web

Yan-Chuan Cai (Edinburgh).

Physics West 106.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Avant-garde LHC

James Beacham.

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

L_{Planck} = c^5 / G = 3.6 X 10^{52} W

Chris Moore (Birmingham).

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Electric Dipole Moment Searches

Clark Griffith (Sussex University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

The exciting life of old stellar clusters

William Chantereu (LJMU).

AWPG-111 (Alan Walters building).

Friday 08 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

The supernova that made us rethink stellar evolution and binary stars: Supernova SN 1987A

Athira Menon (Amsterdam).

Physics West Library.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Graphene and 2D Materials for Next Generation Photonics, Opto-Electronics and Electronics

Anna Baldycheva, University of Exeter.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Turning the screws on the Standard Model: theory predictions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Christine Davies (Glasgow University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Quantum Mechanics in Technicolor

Benjamin Yuen (Oxford).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Machine Learning Methods for Understanding Physics

David Saad (Aston).

Theory Library.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The Hydrangea simulation project: how common is satellite disruption in galaxy clusters?

Yannick Bahe (Leiden) .

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Mu3e, Mu2e and g-2

Gavin Hesketh (University College, London.

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

LHCb Review

Matthew Kenzie (Cambridge University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:15-14:15

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Electron Interactions in Quasi One-Dimensional Wires and Non-Magnetic Fractionally Quantised Conductance.

Mike Pepper (UCL).

Theory Library.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Galaxies growing up in the Epoch of Reionisation

Renske Smit (Cambridge).

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Controlling electromagnetic fields with plasmonic metasurfaces: the effect of singularities

Paloma Arroyo Huidobro, Imperial College London.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Three avenues for LHC Higgs Phenomenology

Christoph Englert (Glosgow University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Possible high-temperature superconductivity in brain

Pavlo Mikheenko (Oslo).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Geometric Problems in Mirror Symmetry

Tyler Kelly (Birmingham, Maths).

Theory Library.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Double Higgs production at ATLAS

Agni Bethani (Manchester University).

New Lecture Theatre (W117).

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Solitonic dispersive hydrodynamics and modulation theory

Gennady El (Northumbria).

Theory Library.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Highly magnetized neutron stars as the engines of Ultra-luminous X-ray sources.

Filippos Koliopanos (CNRS IRAP) .

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Exploring higher-dimensional topological physics with photons

Dr Hannah Price (School of Physics and Astronomy).

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Status and Prospects of the Belle-II Experiment

Sam Cunliffe (DESY).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

SELF-AVOIDING WALKS, POLYMER ADSORPTION AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY

Stu Whittington (Toronto).

Theory Library.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

N-body simulations of planet formation via pebble accretion

Soko Matsumura (Dundee) .

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The AdS/CFT Correspondence and the Origin of Mass

Nick Evans (Southampton University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Could surface plasma waves be made intrinsically lossless?

Hai-Yao Deng, University of Exeter.

Medical Physics Building G14.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Cosmology with the cosmic web

Yan-Chuan Cai (Edinburgh).

PW 106.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Yan Fyodorov (KCL).

Theory Library.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Gauge Theories from the 11th Dimension

Neil Lambert (King's College London).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Quantum sensing with a single spin

Liam McGuinness (Ulm).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Particle-field duality for 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory

Jamie Vicary (Birmingham Computer Science).

Theory Library.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Nuclear clusters and (supermassive) black holes

Fabio Antonini (Surrey) .

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Using Optical Nanocavities To Improve Memristive Switches

Giuliana Di Martino, University of Cambridge.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Hidden Sector Searches at NA62

Viacheslav Duk.

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Time-reversal symmetry breaking in superconductors through loop Josephson-current order

Sudeep Ghosh (Kent).

Theory Library.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:45-15:00

Cold atoms

Quantum Interference effects in molecular systems

Tim Albrecht (Birmingham).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Entanglement entropy generation in isolated systems and in continually measured ones

Adam Nahum (Oxford).

Theory Library.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Optical Squeezing from Lithium Niobate Waveguide Resonators

Michael Stefszky (Paderborn).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Light-molecule interactions in plasmonic environments

Emiliano Cortes, Imperial College London.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

ICHEP2018 Review

Andy Chisholm (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The Local Distribution of Dark Matter from Simulations

Nassim Bozorgnia (Durham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

X-rays across the galaxy population: tracing star formation and AGN activity

James Aird (Leicester).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Strangeness Production in Large to Small Systems

Francesca Bellini (CERN).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

High-z galaxy groups and their galaxies.

Alexis Finoguenov (Helsinki) .

Physics West 103.

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

The wonders of symmetry in spintronics: manipulating spins with electric fields

Chiara Ciccarelli (Cambridge).

Theory Library.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Forward Top Physics at LHCb

Stephen Farry.

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Metamaterial/graphene amplitude and frequency modulators for the active control of terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Riccardo Degl'Innocenti, Lancaster University.

Watson Building LT C (G24).

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The ATLAS Inner Tracker detector for the High-Luminsity LHC upgrade

Laura Gonnella (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Quantum sensing with single spins

Cristian Bonato (Heriot-Watt).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Galactic astroarchaeology with cosmological chemodynamical simulations.

Fiorenzo Vincenzo (Hertfordshire).

PW 117.

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Communications & creating connections

Niamh Kavanagh (Tyndall National Institute).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Broadband and ultrafast near-field spectroscopy and imaging

Haim Suchowski - Tel Aviv University .

Medical Physics Building G14.

Tuesday 21 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cold atoms

From black holes to bio-imaging or the last 6 yeas of my research

Seminar on Monday

Mihail Petev (Erlangen).

Physics East 217.

Monday 09 July 2018, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Bound states in the continuum in nanophotonics: review

Kirill Koshelev (The Australian National University).

Medical Physics Building G14.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Dispersively coupled optomechanical system

Yutaka Shikano (Keio University).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Low-loss bulk and edge plasmons in graphene heterostructures – a theoretical study

Alessandro Principi (Manchester).

Theory Library.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Jet Vetoes in Trilepton Searches for Heavy Neutrinos at Current and Future Hadron Colliders

Richard Ruiz (Durham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

No talk - IoP at Warwick

Speaker to be confirmed.

Theory Library.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Hunting down those responsible for the observed spatial distribution of gas in galaxies at z = 0 - 0.5

Benedetta Vulcani (Padova).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Programming Colloidal Self-Assembly for Open Crystals via Closed Clusters

Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham).

Watson Building LT B .

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

PROSPECT

Jim Napolitano (Rensselaer Polytechnic).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Self-similar solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

Susana Gutierrez (Birmingham, maths).

Theory Library.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:45-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Unifying theory of branching morphogenesis

Ben Simons (Cambridge).

Theory Library.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Recent Results from the ALICE Experiment

Orlando Villalobos-Baillie (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:30-14:30

Astrophysics Talks Series

The Sphinx simulations : the first billion years and cosmic reionisation

Joakim Rosdahl (Lyon).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Colliding holes in Riemann surfaces

Marta Mazzocco (Birmingham Maths).

Theory Library.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The Future of the Higgs Boson

Victoria Martin (Edinburgh University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:30-14:30

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Quantum fluids of light: from superfluid light towards fractional quantum Hall liquids

Iacopo Carusotto (University of Trento).

Theory Library.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:45-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Quarkonia in Jets

Phil Ilten (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Tetraquarks and Pentaquarks

Tim Gershon (Warwick University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Quantum-simulation experiments with ultracold atoms at the University of Strathclyde

Elmar Haller (Strathclyde).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

The most striking challenges in the theory of massive star winds

Brankica Surlan Kubatova .

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The MMHT View of the Proton

Lucian Harland-Lang (Oxford University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Non-Hermitian Photonics: From Parity-Time Symmetry to Pseudo–Hermitian Structures

Trevor Benson, The University of Nottingham.

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cold atoms

Towards atom interferometry with bright solitary matter waves

Ana Rakonjac (Durham).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Gravitational-wave Astrophysics: BH-BH/NS-NS mergers with LIGO/Virgo

Chris Belczynski (Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland).

Physics West 117.

Monday 16 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Nonlinear meta-optics

Sergey Kruk (Australian National University).

Medical Physics Building G14.

Friday 06 April 2018, 10:00-11:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Magic Moments

Themis Bowcock (Liverpool University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Atomic magnetometer with indirect pumping

Witold Chalupczak (NPL).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Using muons to explore physics in reduced dimensions: spin ladders and skyrmions

Prof. Tom Lancaster, Durham University.

Physics East 217.

Friday 16 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Seminars

Driven-dissipative Hall effect in photonic and classical mechanical lattices

Tomoki Ozawa (Universite Libre Bruxelles).

Theory Library.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 13:45-15:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

Shedding light on the assembly of binary black hole mergers

Ariadna Murguia Berthier (UC Santa Cruz).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

SHiP: a new facility to search for new long-lived neutral particles and study the tau neutrino properties

Note Early Statrt at 1300

Elena Graverini (CERN).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cold atoms

Organic molecules as sources of single photons

Alex Clark (Imperial).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Metamaterials: from sci-fi to disruptive technologies

Irina Khromova (Metaboards Ltd.).

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

All the K's

Dave Wark (RAL).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Vortex and field structures in light beams - some exact solutions

Thomas Philbin, University of Exeter.

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Time Reversal and the Electron edm

Ben Sauer (Imperial College).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Quantum Plasmonics: Light-Matter interaction at the nanoscale

Angela Demetriadou (Bham).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Particle Physics Seminars

The ATLAS Trigger System

Rhys Owen (Birmingham University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

Studies of b-quark decays using experiment plus lattice QCD

Matthew Wingate.

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cold atoms

Towards quantum limited optomechanical force & displacement sensing at room temperatures

Tania Monteiro (UCL).

Physics East 217.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics Talks Series

White dwarf-neutron star and white dwarf-black hole binaries

Ross Church (Lund).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:30-15:30

Particle Physics Seminars

The Search for Axion Dark Matter

Ed Daw (Sheffield University).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:30-14:30

Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Science Policy Experiences

Erik Jellyman, Condensed Matter Birmingham.

Physics East 217.

Friday 26 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Recent progress in quantum dot based devices: physics and applications

Edik Rafailov, Aston University.

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

New NOvA neutrino oscillation results and future prospects with NOvA and DUNE

Jeff Hartnell.

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:30-14:30

Particle Physics Seminars

KLEVER: An experiment to measure the BR(K_L -> pi0 + nubar + nu) at the CERN SPS

Silvia Martellotti (INFN).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Semiconductor quantum dots in hybrid photonic systems

Aliaksandra Rakovich (King's College London).

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 10 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

A next-generation energy-frontier linear electron positron collider: status of the ILC and CLIC projects

Phil Burrows (Oxford University and RAL).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 10 January 2018, 13:30-14:30

Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group Seminars

Metasurfaces for wave manipulation at terahertz

Miguel Beruete (Universidad Pública de Navarra).

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 14:00-15:00