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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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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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Random matrix theory and Hawking radiation—Lucas HACKL

In 1973, Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes radiate at a temperature inversely proportional to their mass. This causes the black hole to lose mass and evaporate. While simple models of the evaporation process may break unitarity by evolving an initially pure state into a mixed state, there exist various ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Biomedical Physics at Edinburgh

This workshop launches the new virtual Edinburgh Centre for Biomedical Physics, http://biomedical-physics.ed.ac.uk.  The aim of the Centre and this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the domain of physics for medicine. Within the School of Physics and Astronomy and the College of Medicine and ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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Physics of Biological Systems

The international workshop “Physics of Biological Systems”, will take place on May 27-29 2025 on the King’s Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh. This is the second workshop of a series started last year, which aims to bring together a vibrant community of researchers working on the frontier ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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