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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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Upcoming events

This event is a Colloquium.

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Transport and Equilibration in Hot Quantum Chromodynamics Abstract—Guy MOORE

Heavy ion collisions are a laboratory to explore the strong interactions - QCD - under extremes of temperature and density. I will give a theorist's-eye view of heavy ion collisions and the role of nonequilibrium physics. I will discuss the role of viscous hydrodynamics, and the attempts and obstacles to first-principles ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

This event is a Workshop.

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Hadrons User Workshop

The aim of this workshop is to familiarise participants with Hadrons, a well-established GPU-ready tool for designing lattice QCD observable measurement workflows built on the Grid software library, and to give participants the opportunity to write Hadrons workflows to address their own physics of interest. Additionally, this workshop seeks to ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

This event is a Workshop.

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Massive Black Hole Spin Workshop

Astrophysical black holes can be entirely described by just two properties: their mass and their spin. While masses of black holes have been extensively studied, black hole spin remains poorly understood. This is because spin is both much more difficult to observe and more complex to model. Nevertheless, spin is ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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