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Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics was established in 2012 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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The trouble with free energy landscapes—Tanja SCHILLING

In Kramers’ theory of chemical reaction rates, classical nucleation theory, phase field modeling, and the modeling of biomolecular kinetics, the dynamics of coarse-grained variables is treated as a stochastic process driven by the gradient of a thermodynamic potential. We will discuss how these models can be motivated based on the ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

This event is a Colloquium.

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Battle of the Big Bang: New Tales of our Cosmic Origins—Niayesh AFSHORDI

For more than half a century, the Big Bang has stood as the standard story of cosmic origins: a universe born from an almost unimaginable explosion of space and time. Yet, as our observational reach has expanded and theoretical puzzles have deepened, cracks have begun to appear in this seemingly ...
Elm Lecture Theatre

This event is a Outreach Event.

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Higgs Halloween Lecture - A Dangerous Shade of Green

Please come along to our delightfully poisonous Halloween Lecutre that is full of spooky fun for the entire family, on Thursday the 30th of October at 5:30pm. Join guest speaker Drew Rosen, as he speaks about how we see colour, how we measure colour and why one particular shade ...
Medical School

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