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Upcoming workshops

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Scottish Soft Matter Workshop

Soft condensed matter encompasses a wide variety of industrial, biological and fundamental research questions regarding materials that are able to deform under mechanical stress. The complexity of these material systems arises from their duality as partially solid-like and partially fluid-like, as well as the significant role played by thermal fluctuations ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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First Quantisation for Physics in Strong Fields

Overview First quantised, or worldline, approaches to QFT are growing in popularity, not least due to recent successes in the areas of QFT in strong fields, and in the amplitudes-based approach to the classical 2-body problem in gravitation. Moreover, the worldline formalism has a long history of providing non-perturbative information ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: from chemical reactions to machine learning

This "Non-equilibrium thermodynamics” workshop is sponsored by the RSC Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics group and by the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. It is tailored to bring together early career researchers (post-docs and junior group leaders) working on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. To celebrate the recent Nobel prize in physics ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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UKLFT Annual Meeting

The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers in lattice field theory in the UK. The program will contain a number of talks, showing the broad range of topics studied. Participants interested in bringing a poster are encouraged to indicate this in the registration form. Registration is now ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Entanglement, Information and Complexity in Quantum Systems

Quantum information is a multidisciplinary research area attracting a lot of interest and achieving substantial progress across physics, mathematics and computer science. The goal of this three day workshop is to bring together leading scientists in these areas to discuss recent developments in scrambling dynamics and its relation to chaos ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Physics of Biological Systems

Information for Delegates Registration : Registration is now open. There is no registration fee to attend. Conference Dinner: The dinner will take place on the evening of the 28th of May at the Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh.  If  you would like to attend there will be a cost of £55.00 ...
  • Elm Lecture Theatre

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Bio-inspired Soft Matter 2025

Soft materials and complex fluids are a fundamental component of modern industry and everyday life. Bioinspired materials research is at an exciting and rapidly advancing stage, where the intersection of biology, chemistry, physics and engineering is leading to groundbreaking innovations. The research focuses on harnessing complex structures and functions found ...
  • James Clerk Maxwell Building

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FPUK Edinburgh Festival 2025

This coming June the Higgs Centre will co-host the next meeting of the Fundamental Physics UK series. This is an event allowing the physics theory community in the UK within the STFC remit to interact, share knowledge and foster new collaborations. The meeting will discuss recent developments in String/M-theory ...

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Higgs School on Advances in Computational Active Matter

Active matter has emerged as a field with strong ties to non-equilibrium soft condensed matter and biological physics. Successes of the field include describing the dynamics of motile microbes and flocks of birds, defect self-propulsion in liquid crystals, wound healing and tissue fluidization, modeling of colony growth, and much more ...

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