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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

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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

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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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Alumni Career Talk with Bokyoung Kim—Bokyoung KIM

I was a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr Sergey Koposov at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) from 2021 to 2024. My project was to analyse the kinematics and chemical properties of a few million stars in the Solar neighbourhood using the DESI Milky Way Survey data compiled with Gaia ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Factorization in QCD and Beyond

The Higgs Centre will be running a three-day workshop on Factorization in QCD and Beyond on 6-8 May, 2026. This is an in-person event, starting on Wednesday the 6th at 9am and ending on Friday the 8th at 5pm. The workshop addresses recent progress and open problems related to factorization ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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Standard Model parameters and observables from gradient flow

Gradient flow is a diffusion-like smearing transformation that smoothly suppresses short-distance ultraviolet fluctuations, thus introducing a simple non-perturbative method to renormalise strongly-coupled theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). It has become an invaluable tool in lattice simulations of both QCD and theories beyond the Standard Model, providing a method for ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Demystifying lattice QCD computations of alpha_s—Martin LÜSCHER

Lattice QCD permits the strong coupling constant alpha_s to be determined from the masses and decay constants of the light hadrons. The precision achieved in these computations is competitive with the one of the world average of the experimental measurements of the coupling and is likely to improve in the ...
Lecture Theatre B, James Clerk Maxwell Building

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Nordic Lattice Meeting 2026

The Nordic Lattice meeting is an annual event designed to foster collaboration between and beyond the Nordic countries. Previously, it was held in Denmark (Odense 01/2022), Finland (Helsinki 08/2022), Norway (Stavanger 06/2023), Sweden (Lund 06/2024) and Switzerland (CERN 05/2025). The Nordic lattice community is actively ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Lessons of the effective field theory of quantum gravity—John DONOGHUE

General Relativity is naturally treated as a quantum field theory using the techniques of effective field theory. In this colloquium, I will review the simple ideas behind this treatment and provide examples. This will lead to a discussion of the lessons learned and the limits of the theory. Overall I ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Simba/Kiara Team Meeting 2026

If you would like to attend this workshop, please register by clicking on the "register" button to the left.  Registration is open until May 1, 2026. This meeting is generously hosted by the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. There will be no registration fee, and coffee breaks and lunches will ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Lancefest Workshop

This workshop will celebrate the career and research accomplishments of Lance Dixon, whose decisive impact has been felt across many areas of theoretical physics. The event will involve three days of talks from some of Lance's long-time collaborators, including: Babis Anastasiou Benjamin Basso Zvi Bern Ruth Britto Francis Brown ...