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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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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

This event is a Outreach Event.

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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

This event is a Colloquium.

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Machine learning the Hohenberg–Kohn functional: breathing life into a 60-year-old dream—Fred HAMPRECHT

In 1964, Hohenberg and Kohn proved that the ground state of an interacting electron system is completely determined by its electron density. In principle, this result promises a dramatic simplification of electronic structure theory: instead of solving for a many-electron wave function in a 3N-dimensional space, one could obtain the ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

This event is a Colloquium.

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Engineering Gravity via Conformal Field Theory—Alejandra CASTRO

Holography posits a radical way to quantify gravitational physics. It claims that all information of a gravitational theory in a region of space can be encoded by a quantum field theory at the boundary of this region. Here I will discuss quantum gravity from this perspective. We will see how ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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