Workshops Archive 2026

There is a diverse community of researchers across Scotland working on the broad field of theoretical many-body quantum dynamics. There is expertise in a wide range of topics within this area with applications from open quantum systems to quantum technologies to quantum optics.  However, there is a current lack of ...

The Higgs Centre will be running a four-day workshop on Probing fundamental physics with radio and optical galaxy surveys on 31 Aug-3 Sept, 2026. This is an in-person workshop, starting on Monday August the 31st at 13:00 and ending on Thursday September the 3rd at 14:00. The workshop ...

Recent observations with the James-Webb-Space Telescope have revealed many surprising observations of the high-redshift galaxy and black hole population. Some of these show that massive galaxies and black holes have already been in place earlier than predicted by models and simulations. While within the community progress has been achieved towards ...

The discovery of the Penrose tiling (and other self-similar quasiperiodic tilings) in the 1970s sparked research into the remarkable mathematical properties of quasiperiodic structures, revealing connections to Fourier theory, number theory, and even pure logic. Soon after, these tilings found a classic application in physics as models for “quasicrystals”, new ...

To be announced.

This workshop will celebrate the career and research accomplishments of Lance Dixon, whose decisive impact has been felt across many areas of theoretical physics. The event will involve three days of talks from some of Lance's long-time collaborators, including: Babis Anastasiou Nima Arkani-Hamed Benjamin Basso Zvi Bern Ruth Britto ...

If you would like to attend this workshop, please register by clicking on the "register" button to the left.  Registration is open until May 1, 2026. This meeting is generously hosted by the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. There will be no registration fee, and coffee breaks and lunches will ...

The 11th edition of the Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics will take place from the 25th-29th of May 2026. The scientific programme starts at 9:00 on Monday the 25th, and ends at 17:00 on Friday the 29th. The School comprises two in-depth lecture series, each involving five ...

To be announced.

The Nordic Lattice meeting is an annual event designed to foster collaboration between and beyond the Nordic countries. Previously, it was held in Denmark (Odense 01/2022), Finland (Helsinki 08/2022), Norway (Stavanger 06/2023), Sweden (Lund 06/2024) and Switzerland (CERN 05/2025). The Nordic lattice community is actively ...

Gradient flow is a diffusion-like smearing transformation that smoothly suppresses short-distance ultraviolet fluctuations, thus introducing a simple non-perturbative method to renormalise strongly-coupled theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). It has become an invaluable tool in lattice simulations of both QCD and theories beyond the Standard Model, providing a method for ...

The Higgs Centre will be running a three-day workshop on Factorization in QCD and Beyond on 6-8 May, 2026. This is an in-person event, starting on Wednesday the 6th at 9am and ending on Friday the 8th at 5pm. The workshop addresses recent progress and open problems related to factorization ...

Astrophysical black holes can be entirely described by just two properties: their mass and their spin. While masses of black holes have been extensively studied, black hole spin remains poorly understood. This is because spin is both much more difficult to observe and more complex to model. Nevertheless, spin is ...

The aim of this workshop is to familiarise participants with Hadrons, a well-established GPU-ready tool for designing lattice QCD observable measurement workflows built on the Grid software library, and to give participants the opportunity to write Hadrons workflows to address their own physics of interest. Additionally, this workshop seeks to ...

The Scottish Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Workshop is a biannual event designed for undergraduate and master’s students exploring a future in academic research. The aim of the event is to bring emerging scientists together with leading researchers across a broad spectrum of theoretical physics — from string theory and cosmology ...

As a physical theory, thermodynamics is somewhat unique in that its development was driven largely by practicality, and in particular, the need to optimise the efficiency of the first thermal machines which appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The subsequent refinement and developments in classical thermodynamics and ...

The Universe at All Scales: New Observations and Models from Nearby Galaxies to High Redshift The frontiers of modern astronomy are being pushed by transformative observations and increasingly predictive simulations and theory. JWST’s high‑redshift breakthroughs, together with imminent wide‑field imaging from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (LSST ...

New Directions in Theoretical Physics is a series of international conferences organised by the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, aiming to highlight the outstanding issues and stimulate an exchange of ideas across all areas of contemporary theoretical physics. All talks are plenary reviews aimed at a broad audience of theoretical ...