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The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics was established by the University of Edinburgh to seek answers to fundamental questions about the universe. We do this by creating opportunities for researchers and students from around the world to come together to formulate new theoretical concepts, taking us beyond the limitations of current paradigms.


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Upcoming events

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Gravitational Self-Force and Scattering Amplitudes Workshop

Recent developments in scattering amplitudes have given new insights into the classical two-body dynamics in the post-Minkowskian expansion (i.e., expansion in Newton's constant), leveraging extremely efficient computational techniques traditionally used for collider physics. At the same time, the gravitational self-force expansion has allowed the gravitational-wave community to develop ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Probing subatomic physics with gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspiralsTanja HINDERER

The gravitational-wave signals from merging binary systems carry unique information about the internal structure of compact objects. This is of key interest for neutron stars, whose material is compressed by strong gravity to supra-nuclear densities where novel phases of matter emerge. I will discuss examples of recent progress in the ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Alumni Career Talk with Alison Goligher

Alison graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Mathematical Physics, and a Master of Engineering degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University. She then held various operational positions with Schlumberger in the Far East, USA, Norway and France, and later several global, senior technology and managerial positions in ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Alumni Career Talk with Michal TomaszewskiMichal TOMASZEWSKI

Michal Tomaszewski graduated with an MPhys in Mathematical Physics from Edinburgh in 2014, followed by a PhD from Cambridge University in 2018. At Cambridge Michal worked on developing a novel photoacoustic imaging technique for measurement of blood vasculature in cancer tumors. His postdoctoral training took him to Moffitt Cancer Center ...

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