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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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Nonequilibrium Quantum and Statistical Thermodynamics Workshop

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 ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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A whistle-stop tour of quantum thermodynamics—Steve CAMPBELL

The steady interest in understanding the thermodynamics of quantum systems has led to several approaches to defining work and heat in a quantum mechanically consistent way. Quantum thermodynamics as a subfield has grown steadily in the last 15 years, revealing the impact that coherence can have on the energetics of ...
Elm Lecture Theatre

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Alumni Career Talk with Eoin Ó Raghallaigh—Eoin Ó RAGHALLAIGH

Eoin moved to Edinburgh from Ireland in 2016 for a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics with Richard Blythe and Martin Evans, studying the differential equations behind bird flocking and how flocks turn. He also co-lead outreach activities for his Centre for Doctoral Training, developing skills that have helped him ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Aperiodic tilings in self-assembled soft-matter quasicrystals—Alastair RUCKLIDGE

Aperiodic (quasicrystalline) tilings, such as Penrose's tiling, can be built up from (for example) kites and darts, squares and triangles, rhombi or shield-shaped tiles and can have a variety of different symmetries. However, almost all quasicrystals occurring in soft matter are of the dodecagonal (12-fold rotation symmetry) type, and ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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