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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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Controlling active matter: Insights from the response—Luke DAVIS

Active constituents burn fuel to sustain individual motion, giving rise to collective effects that are not seen in systems at thermal equilibrium, such as phase separation with purely repulsive interactions. There is a great potential in harnessing the striking phenomenology of active matter to build novel controllable and responsive materials ...
Room 6206, James Clerk Maxwell Building

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Solar Scalars – Novel Channels—Anne DAVIS

Light scalar particles are thought to play a role in cosmology, either as dark matter or dark energy candidates. If they couple to photons they could be emitted by stars, including our sun. I will first Introduce particular theoretical models of such light scalar fields and then discuss whether or ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: from chemical reactions to machine learning

This "Non-equilibrium thermodynamics” workshop is sponsored by the RSC Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics group and by the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. It is tailored to bring together early career researchers (post-docs and junior group leaders) working on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. To celebrate the recent Nobel prize in physics ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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UKLFT Annual Meeting

The aim of this meeting is to bring together UK researchers in lattice field theory. The program will contain a number of invited talks, showing the broad range of topics studied. Participants interested in bringing a poster are encouraged to indicate this in the registration form. Confirmed speakers: Sadaf Alam ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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Entanglement, Information and Complexity in Quantum Systems

Quantum information is a multidisciplinary research area attracting a lot of interest and achieving substantial progress across physics, mathematics and computer science. The goal of this three day workshop is to bring together leading scientists in these areas to discuss recent developments in scrambling dynamics and its relation to chaos ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Scottish Complex Network Society (SCoNeS) Inaugural Meeting

The aim of this inaugural meeting is to bring together researchers interested in complex network science and in particular the interplay between mathematical and simulation-based analysis of complex network structures and available data. The remit of SCONES is expected to be broad enough to incorporate many current topics in network ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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