Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

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 ...

Please come along to the Wikipedia Women in Red Initiative on Monday the 9th of March 2026 in the Molly Ferguson Room. The event will follow on from the Molly Ferguson Room launch in KB House which is from 12:00-1:30pm. The schedule for the Wikipedia Women in Red ...

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Stellar bars are ubiquitous in disk galaxies, yet despite decades of theoretical and numerical work, a predictive understanding of when disks become bar unstable remains elusive. Classical approaches based on local stability criteria or idealized global arguments often fail to capture the behavior of realistic disks embedded in external potentials ...

CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics based in Geneva, is the world’s leading research centre for high-energy particle physics. Over its 70-year history, the organisation has achieved groundbreaking discoveries — notably the Higgs boson in 2012 — which have significantly advanced humankind’s understanding of the fundamental constituents and laws ...