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Nonequilibrium Quantum and Statistical Thermodynamics Workshop

As a physical theory, thermodynamics is somewhat unique in that its development was driven largely by practicality, and in particular, the need to optimise the efficiency of the first thermal machines which appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The subsequent refinement and developments in classical thermodynamics and ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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A whistle-stop tour of quantum thermodynamics—Steve CAMPBELL

The steady interest in understanding the thermodynamics of quantum systems has led to several approaches to defining work and heat in a quantum mechanically consistent way. Quantum thermodynamics as a subfield has grown steadily in the last 15 years, revealing the impact that coherence can have on the energetics of ...
Elm Lecture Theatre

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Alumni Career Talk with Eoin Ó Raghallaigh—Eoin Ó RAGHALLAIGH

Eoin moved to Edinburgh from Ireland in 2016 for a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics with Richard Blythe and Martin Evans, studying the differential equations behind bird flocking and how flocks turn. He also co-lead outreach activities for his Centre for Doctoral Training, developing skills that have helped him ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Aperiodic tilings in self-assembled soft-matter quasicrystals—Alastair RUCKLIDGE

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 ...
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 center for high-energy particle physics. Over its 70-year history, the Organization 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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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 ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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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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Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics 2026

The 11th edition of the Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics will take place from the 25th-29th of May 2026. The scientific programme starts at 9:00 on Monday the 25th, and ends at 17:00 on Friday the 29th. The School comprises two in-depth lecture series, each involving five ...
  • Lecture Theatre A, James Clerk Maxwell Building

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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, and will include a colloquium on Friday. There will also be ...