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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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Hidden simplicity in black holes dynamics—Andreas HELSET

Heavy particle effective theory applied to spinning black holes provides a natural framework in which propagators linearize and numerators exponentiate. In this talk, I will exploit these two features to introduce Kerr generating functions, which describe the scattering of any probe on a Kerr black hole background to all loop ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Rethinking Bar Formation in Disk Galaxies—Elena D'ONGHIA

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 ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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The Higgs boson and our life - Higgs Lecture 2026

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 ...
Large Events Space, Room 0.01, Edinburgh Futures Institute

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