Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searching for light-dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters

Prof./Dr. Patrick Knights, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room -- RDC D2.002 .

Tuesday 01 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field-induced Multi-Q⃗ States in a Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet

Cecilie Glittum (Helmholtz-Zentum Berlin).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractional Charge and Fractional Statistics & how they are connected

Prof. Thors Hans Hansson (Stockholm).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear transport and photocurrent in 2D electronic liquids

Habib Rostami (Bath).

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 24 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Challenges and developments in the determination of Parton Distribution Functions

Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Multi-layer Crystal Field Effect in locally non-centrosymmetric compounds

Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A linear PDF model for robust Bayesian inference

Mark Costantini (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

From two to three dimensions: Impact of stacking order on electronic properties of graphene and graphite

Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski (Bath).

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

On the beamline: Studying surfaces at a 3rd generation synchrotron facility

Fulden Eratam, Diamond Light Source, Harwell.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Generative models, rare events and tensor networks

Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum circuits models for free independence

Pieter Claeys, MPIPKS Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Coupling Light with Matter to Compute (CANCELLED)

Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 00:00-00:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS

Lars Henkelmann.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A new look for the pion form factor

Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)!

Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:30

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials

Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Cygnus X-3 in 2024: many giant radio flares!

Prof. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold

Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The two-pole nature of the Lambda(1405) from lattice QCD

John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rotational orientation effects in gas-surface collisions

Helen Chadwick, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene

Steve Simon, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Porous nitride semiconductors for novel light sources

Rachel Oliver (DMSM).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1.

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Exoplanet Detection with SPIRIT: Infrared CMOS Photometry and the Discovery of the Hot Neptune TOI-2407b

Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Influence of gravity on atomic interferometers

Jeremiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Robust estimates of theoretical uncertainties at fixed-order in perturbation theory

Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for new physics with ultracold molecules

Michael Tarbutt (Imperial College).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The S Algebra in Self-Dual Yang-Mills: Twistorial and Spacetime Perspectives

Adam Kmec (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Accounting for Noise and Singularities in Bayesian Calibration Methods for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Past, present and future involvement in the ATLAS experiment

Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Stefan Schacht (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

 Anomalous fluctuations in stochastic cellular automata

Takato Yoshimura, Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum phases of matter under non-unitary dynamics

Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spacetime extensions in low regularity

Peter Cameron (Imperial).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The capacity of Constant Torsion Emergent Gravity to resolve cosmological tensions

Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

ML beyond Neutrino Physics: Cancer Research

Lorena Escudero.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the SMEFT Likelihood

Peter Stangl (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Oscillons

Andrzej Wereszynski (Jagiellonian U., Krakow).

CMS, MR11.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Sample geometry for shear testing with a UTM

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Benjamin Revie, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:30-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Study of RAM Vessel Diameter on Mixing Effectiveness and Faraday Instabilities

Gereon Leckebusch, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Exploring Quantum Phases of Matter on Quantum Processors

Frank Pollmann (TU Munich).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:15-17:15

Hills Coffee Talks

Results of beamline testing at the MROI

Dr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Proton EDM experiment

Alex Keshavarzi, University of Manchester.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Cosmological tensions? A guide for high energy theorists

William Handley (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Real Space Approaches to Topological Band Systems

Ryan L Barnett (Imperial College London).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

GScan’s industrial tracker system for the muon tomography applications

Andi Hektor, GScan.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The hierarchy problem, UV/IR mixing, nonrenormalisation theorems and new approaches to naturalness

Steven Abel (Durham U., IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The second law of thermodynamics and its mesoscopic interpretation

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Tuning dimensionality, magnetism and conduction in van-der-Waals Mott insulators FeP(S,Se)3

Dr. Matthew Coak (School of physics and astronomy, University of Birmingham).

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:15-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Unifying foreground emission characterisation across the radio and microwave regimes: implications for cosmology

Dr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

2HDM+a and mono-Higgs at ATLAS

Dr. Nikolai Fomin, University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Fermion pairs and loners under the microscope

Martin Zwierlein (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Monday 13 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Efficient on-shell matching

Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Feeling the strain: quadrupoles, octupoles and beyond

Ian Fisher (Stanford).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Chiral spin model: geometry, chaos & quantum teleportation

Jiannis Pachos, Leeds University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopole-Fermion Scattering is Weird.

David Tong (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Strongly correlated topological flat bands in the novel class of moiré materials

Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 15:30-16:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Aspects of Leptogenesis: from the low to the high scale

Jessica Turner, University of Durham.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

How to disentangle Parton Distribution Functions and new physics signals?

Elie Hammou (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Categorical Landau Paradigm: Phases, Transitions and Lattice Models

Apoorv Tiwari, Niels Bohr Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound

Brad Ramshaw (Cornell).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Latest results from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at the LHC

Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, University of Manchester (GB).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour deconstruction: from the electroweak scale to the GUT scale

Mario Fernández Navarro (Glasgow U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Materials for the future

Konstantin Novoselov (Manchester).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 22 November 2024, 10:30-11:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Neutral Atom Microscopy: Science and Applications

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Paul Dastoor, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Twist to the M-ax(is): A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting

Dumitru Calugaru, Princeton and Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamically localized but deconfined excitations in strained classical spin ice

Jonathan Nilsson Hallen (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Non-equilibrium effects in superconducting thin films probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy.

Chiara Ciccarelli.

West Hub, South Room.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Characterising Nitrogen-Rich Galaxies at z>6

Dr. Yuki Isobe (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

New measurement of the K+ → π+ν¯ ν decay by the NA62 Experiment

Joel Christopher Swallow, INFN-LNF.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Two attempts to study a SU(2) pure gauge lattice theory on two quantum hardware.

Emanuele Mendicelli (Liverpool U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Title to be confirmed

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Olivia Morley. Formerly of PCS.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A gapless 1D spin liquid as a critical point between fragile Kondo insulators

Nick Bultnick, University of Ghent.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Information scrambling and quantum advantage in quantum simulation

Andrew Daley (Oxford).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

L^2 geometry of hyperbolic monopoles

Derek Harland (Leeds).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Sensing of Quantum Matter

Amir Yacoby (Harvard).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Measuring tau g-2 at the LHC

Lydia Beresford, DESY.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The ρ and K* resonances using lattice QCD with physical quark masses

Nelson Lachini (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits

Katja Klobas, University of Birmingham.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Radio AGN with the LOFAR all-sky survey

Prof. Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

3 Flavour Oscillation Results from NOvA with 10 Years of Data

Alex Booth (Queen Mary University of London).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons

Michele Pizzochero (University of Bath).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Flat bands: an obstruction or a resource?

Sebastian Huber (ETH Zurich).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum geometry on physical properties in quadratic band touching

Changgeun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Hills Coffee Talks

To be or not to be: Are JWST-discovered AGN real black holes?

Dr. Xihan Ji, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Summer Student Talks Part 2

Joseph Garvey, Cecilia Bombari, Ritwik Mangrulkar.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quarkonium fragmentation from HF-NRevo: A low-to-high-energy approach

Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH, Madrid).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Rate, temperature and their coupled effects on the deformation process of polycarbonate and its composite

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Peihao Song, Department of Engineering Science, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Interfacial Engineering of the magnetism and spin transport in two-dimensional materials

Prof. Haichang Lu (Beihang University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Topology: a new twist to electrons in quantum materials

Andrew Boothroyd.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Summer Student Talks Part 1

Jonas Dej, Jesse Zhang, Shikang Ni.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Higher Order Corrections and the Higgs Production Cross Section

Tom Schellenberger (RWTH Aachen U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Searching for Anyon in Quantum Materials

Philip Kim (Harvard).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Friday 18 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Superfluidity and superconductivity: their defeat, fluctuation, and respect to U(1) symmetry

Prof. Wei Ku (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:30-14:50

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

How is Small different from Big?

Livestream using Teams. Meeting ID: 315 430 872 95. Passcode: JCk2AZ

Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, The University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Electron-phonon, electron-electron and phonon-phonon interactions: applications to equilibrium and non-equilibrium spectroscopy

Giovanni Marini (University Of Trento).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Visualizing strongly interacting quantum phases of matter

Ali Yazdani (Princeton).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

JADES census of broad line AGN and their hosts

Ignas Juodžbalis (KICC).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Heavy Neutral Leptons and Slow-Moving Particles at ATLAS

Dr. Gareth Bird University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

From Flavor Bounds to Charming Higgs Discoveries

Mauro Valli (Universita` La Sapienza Roma).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet

Revaz Ramazashvili (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier).

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Recent progress on emergent quantum electrodynamics in dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice

Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Structures, superconductivity, and soft chemistry in anti-cuprate square lattice materials

Nicola Kelly.

West Hub, South Room.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Isotope ratios in transiting and directly-imaged exoplanetary atmospheres

Siddharth Gandhi (Warwick).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Exploring the Performance of the CODEX-b Detector

Paul Swallow (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

EW physics at very high energies: A multi-TeV muon collider as a case study

Tao Han (Pittsburgh U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 04 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Low-Energy Excess Results from MicroBooNE

Steve Dennis (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 01 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

TCM talks

Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature

Brian Skinner, Ohio State University .

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 27 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

AMOP list

High-performance Semiconductor Quantum Light Sources

Dr Jin Liu.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 13 September 2024, 15:00-16:00

AMOP list

Nonlinear and Quantum Technologies in Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

Dr Kartik Srinivasan .

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 13 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solid state defects for quantum information processing

Song LI (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:30

AMOP list

Quantum Computing with Silicon and Germanium Hole Spins

Professor Dominik Zumbühl.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 20 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

EELS and Optical Properties of Layered and 2D Materials

Shangpeng Gao.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 31 July 2024, 14:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical Many-body Freezing in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems

Sayan Choudhury, Harish-Chandra Research Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Monday 01 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

How do you dream whilst living with uncertainty - Artist Robert Ssempijja in conversation with Professor Helen Mason

Robert Ssempijja, Cavendish Arts Science Fellow.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Determining the proton structure with 1% accuracy

Roy Stegeman (U. Edinburgh).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Analogue Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms

Dr Alexei Bylinskii, QuEra Computing Inc, Boston.

Cambridge Graphene Center Conference Room (entrance via Electrical Engineering reception, West Cambridge) .

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature

Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Applied artificial intelligence to cosmological data analysis

Dr. Boris Bolliet (Assistant Teaching Professor, Cavendish Laboratory and KICC).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 15:30-16:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The MUonE Experiment: Understanding Muon g−2 Puzzle via Muon- electron Scattering

Ce Zhang (University of Liverpool).

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nuclear PDFs

Ingo Schienbein (LPSC, Grenoble).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Observation of Pines' Demon in Sr2RuO4 with Momentum-Resolved EELS

Peter Abbamonte (UIUC).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Unveiling the ionising properties of galaxies at the Epoch of Reionisation with NIRCam

Dr. Charlotte Simmonds (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Supernova Neutrinos

Susan Cartwright (University of Sheffield).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Exploring the ordered states of the multi-phase superconductor CeRh2As2

Dr. Konstantin Semeniuk, MPI-CPfS Dresden/Germany.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 03 June 2024, 11:15-12:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

QFT constraints as Bayesian priors for Standard-Model tests

Andreas Juttner (Southampton U./CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 31 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Entanglement Rényi entropies from Ballistic Fluctuations Theory: the free fermionic case

Paola Ruggiero, Kings College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Unravelling emergent quantum phenomena from first-principles

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.saeed.bahramy

Mohammad saeed Bahramy (University of Manchester).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superconductivity in Thin-film Infinite-layer Nickelates

Professor Danfeng Li, Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:15-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Inside-out growth in the Early Universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc

William Baker (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Global EFT fits for the LHC and future colliders

Eleni Vryonidou (Manchester U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials

Dr. Jack Binysh, University of Amsterdam.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice QCD studies of doubly heavy tetraquarks

William Parrott (York U., Toronto).

MR11 (B1.39), Pavilion B, CMS.

Friday 24 May 2024, 11:30-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Benchmarking and developing models for molecule-surface potential energy surfaces. The difficulties and opportunities arising from experimental data which is too detailed and too sensitive

Gil Alexandrowicz, Department of Chemistry, The University of Swansea.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Orbital and spin Hall effect in altermagnetic RuO2

Dr Lishu Zhang (Forschungszentrum Jülich).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Entanglement

Prof Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological defects in spiral spin liquids

Han Yan, University of Tokyo.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Interacting quantum gases in optical lattices with periodic driving.

Prof. Elmar Haller, University of Strathclyde.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The ALPHA axion dark matter experiment

Dr Jón Guðmundsson (Stockholm).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Diffusion meets Nested Sampling

David Yallup (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

How can we learn mathematical structures of physical systems? String compactifications as a tool

Sven Krippendorf (LMU).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Gram-scale explosions to inform numerical modelling and FREM development

Adam Dennis, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Exact many-body dynamics in quantum circuits via space-time duality

Bruno Bertini, University of Nottingham.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases

Prof Jean Dalibard, Collège de France, Kaster Brossel Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

From Twistors to celestial symmetries and their AdS deformations

Lionel Mason (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Blue Phase Liquid Crystals & Their Potential for Astronomy

Oana Niculescu (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Experimental status of exotic spectroscopy (and thoughts on the future)

Mark Whitehead (Glasgow).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

TBA

Daniel Yeo (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Image-based high strain rate testing of materials

Fabrice Pierron, MatchID, Ghent, Belgium.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Split signature supergravity - Hypersymplectic geometry via new geometric structures

Jan Gutowski (Surrey).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA

Yuchen Liu and Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection

Dr Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Froggatt-Nielsen Models Meet the SMEFT

Eetu Loisa (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Energetics now and future trends

Bill Proud, Institute of Security Science and Technology, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The entanglement membrane in exactly solvable lattice models

Michael Rampp, MPIPKS.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Chirality and Topology

Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope

Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

New physics searches at colliders using HEFT

Anisha (Glasgow U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits

Benjamin Remez (Yale).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems

Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University.

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavor Hierarchies from Minimal U(2) Symmetries

Anders Eller Thomsen (Bern U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 19 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies

Dr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Multi-scale cross-attention transformer encoder for event classification

Mihoko Nojiri (KEK).

***note unusual venue*** MR 9 (Pavilion B), CMS .

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Terahertz-chip-scale Systems for Intelligent Sensing and 6G Communication: Can AI help?

Prof. Kaushik Sengupta.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:30

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Attoscience, Nobel 2023, and Quantum Simulators

Prof Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searching for Instantons at Hadron Colliders

Valentin V. Khoze (Durham IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research

Prof. Greg Boebinger.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 11:15-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

New Space & the CubeSat Revolution

Dr. Dolev Bashi.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Prototyping the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Jingyuan Shi - University of Cambridge.

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

NNLO + Strings

Peter Skands.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The challenge of developing materials for fusion

Jim Pickles, Tokamak Energy, Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Protonic Electrochemical Synapses for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Computing

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Modelling of LHC Collisions in PYTHIA - Physics and Uncertainties

Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Real-time pipelines for SKA — Progress and challenges

Dr. Ying-He Celeste Lü (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On amplitudes and field redefinitions

David Sutherland (University of Glasgow).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Shock and Impact Deformation: A Geological Perspective

Auriol Rae, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality

Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

PUEO and Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Stefano Vergani (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Baryon-baryon interactions and the H dibaryon from lattice QCD

Jeremy Green (DESY, Zeuthen.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Conditions

Vatsa Gandhi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Merons, bimerons and skyrmions in α-Fe2O3: from cosmology to spintronics

Prof Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Overview and Status of the 2x2 NDLAr Demonstrator: A Pixel-Based LArTPC Prototype for the DUNE Near Detector

Karolina Wresilo (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Closing in on New Physics with the Flavor, Collider, and Electroweak Triad

Benjamin Stefanek (King's Coll. London).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Discovering the 2D world with XPS

Shaoliang Guan, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry

Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quantum entanglement of top quarks

Claudio Severi (U. Manchester).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:45-16:45

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot

Nick von Jeinsen, Surface and 2D Nanoscience, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Mixing, stopping, coupling, lifting, and other keys to the second Monte Carlo revolution

Prof Werner Krauth, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

An Experimental and Phenomenological dissection of heavy quark decays into light leptons

Davide Lancierini (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On the uses of Geometry for Higgs Physics

Rodrigo Alonso (IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4

Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 11:15-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Probing the M Dwarf Cosmic Shoreline with JWST

Dr. James Kirk, Imperial College London.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD

Dr Kimberly Palladino (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting the Quantum Future

Prof Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The History of MRAO

Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models

Andrew Cheek.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 15 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

Dr Emily Sandford (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Tagging rare top, Z and Higgs decays at colliders

Jernej Kamenik.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Hardening effects in metals

Claire Lincoln, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

What are the Clouds of Venus made of?

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Physics for Sustainable Development

Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Saxena Group List

Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure

Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 20 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Build the future: Design concrete with machine learning

Bogdan Zviazhynski, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Lighting up superconductivity

Prof Eugene Demler, ETH Zürich.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Revisiting the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources with LOFAR

Vijay Mahatma.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Jet Propulsion: Advancing the performance and understanding of hadronic objects in ATLAS for Run 3

Dr Matt LeBlanc (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

High Energy Resummation for Jet Processes at the LHC

Jennifer Smillie.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 10 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Challenges in capturing transient thermal evolutions in materials using IR imaging

Janice Barton & Karthik Ramakrishnan, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Forces from fluctuations in and out of equilibrium (in QED and Active Matter)

Prof Mehran Kardar, MIT.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

High Resolution Stabilised Spectrographs and HARVY

Clark Baker, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

How To Upgrade A Hardware Trigger

Gareth Bird (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Tetraquarks, Pentaquarks, and the Legacy of the Three-Body Problem

Mikhail Mikhasenko.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The stochastic wave function method for diffusion of alkali atoms on metallic surface

Elena Torres, Institute of Fundamental Physics, Madrid, Spain.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

Frank Schindler, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Saxena Group List

Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals

Isao H. Inoue from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Infrared singularities and subtraction schemes: the Torino method at NNLO

Chiara Signorile-Signorile.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 27 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

New Avenues for Quantum Simulations In- and Out-of-equilibrium

Prof Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, LMU.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical minimum

David Khmelnitskii.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Mixing and CP violation in open-charmed beauty decays

Dr Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Waves topology in geophysical flows

Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Improved statistical estimation of impact sensitivity

Dennis Christensen, Oslo, Norway.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Where’s SUSY? The electroweak SUSY landscape after ATLAS Run 2 searches

Ben Hodkinson (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Precise predictions for jet vetoed cross sections at the LHC

Matthew Lim, University of Sussex.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Quantum Mechanics and Many Body Games

Prof Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Heavy quark fragmentation and its application to top-pair events with B-hadrons

Terry Generet.

Potter Room, B1.34, DAMTP.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Pressure, Rate, and Temperature Effects on Mechanical Properties in Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)

Jennifer Jordan, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 September 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories

*** Note unusual topic of talk ***

Tom Melia (IPMU).

Potter Room, B1.34, DAMTP.

Thursday 03 August 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The quantum Mpemba effect

Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)

Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Taking Physics Forward with FASER

Prof Anna Sfyrla (University of Geneva).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

Saxena Group List

Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium

Prof Christian Rüegg, Director, Paul Scherrer Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2023, 10:30-12:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Spin dynamics and hydrodynamical regimes of quantum matter

Prof Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Robert Szafron - Uncertainty of perturbative QCD predictions

Robert Szafron.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 09 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Not all hopes for new physics die immediately

David Rousso (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Manuel Morales Alvarado - Towards DGLAP evolution equations in the SMEFT

Manuel Morales Alvarado.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides

Changming Yue (University of Fribourg).

Zoom.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

The Electron-Phonon Problem Revisited

Prof Steve Kivelson, Stanford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Counting periodic orbits. LMS Hardy Lecture

Eva Miranda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya).

CMS, MR9.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Measurement of the Pion Charge-Exchange Differential Cross Section on Argon with the ProtoDUNE Detector

Kang Yang (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Oliver Fischer - Sterile neutrinos at colliders and beyond

Oliver Fischer .

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet

Tommaso Gorni (CINECA).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable?

Prof Veronique Boisvert (RHUL).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

James Moore - The top quark legacy of the LHC Run II for PDF and SMEFT analyses

James Moore.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Topological charge pumping with ultracold atomic gases

Prof Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (University of Göttingen).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Friday 19 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

DYMAT in historical context

Stephen Walley, PCS Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

Alexander Altland (University of Cologne).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Quantum Colloquium

Scanned Josephson Tunneling Microscopy: Visualizing Electron-Pair Fluids and Density Waves

Prof J.C. Séamus Davis, University of Oxford, University College Cork, Cornell University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Classification of static extreme black holes

James Lucietti (Edinburgh).

MR11.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Simulating Collision Events on a Quantum Computer

Simon Williams (Imperial College).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nico Gubernari - Probing the Standard Model with rare B-Meson Decays

Nico Gubernari.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Fusion is coming: Recent achievements and activities in the nuclear fusion

Simon Kirk, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles

Jenny Coulter (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Daniel Reichelt - Jet angularities in quark and gluon jets at the LHC

Daniel Reichelt.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

An overview of the CASS group at Imperial

John Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-16:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

An investigation into the effectiveness of patch repairs to restore impact properties of CFRPs for aerostructure application

Zoe Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Planckian dissipation in metals

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The Force Aweakens: searching for new sources of CP violation in the electroweak sector

Prof Andrew Pilkington (University of Manchester).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nicholas Rodd - Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes

Nicholas Rodd.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cavity Magnonics

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

New Directions in the Fractalization, Quantization, and Revival of Dispersive Systems

Peter Olver (University of Minnesota).

MR11.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 17:00-18:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals

Dr. Veronika Sunko, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:15-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Beauty meson to double charm decays at LHCb

Fionn Bishop (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Quantum computing with neutral ytterbium atoms

Jeff Thompson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

Tuesday 18 April 2023, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Chris Monahan - Determining the partonic structure of hadrons via lattice quantum chromodynamics

Chris Monahan (William-Mary Coll.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 17 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems

Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrme crystals

Martin Speight (Leeds).

MR11.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Felix Kahlhoefer - From picoseconds to teraseconds: The lifetime frontier of particle physics

Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen U.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Ultrafast diffusion at the onset of 2D growth: O/Ru(0001) and S/Ni(111)

Jack Kelsall, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

HHarmony in Bb — the present and future of ATLAS DiHiggs(4b) searches

Teng Jian Khoo (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Eetu Loisa - TBA

Eetu Loisa (DAMTP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in the multi-fluid plasma regime with transport effects

Kyriakos Tapinou, University of Queensland.

Zoom.

Friday 03 March 2023, 10:00-11:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Keeping up the pressure

Patricia Alireza, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Carroll, Cotton and Ehlers

Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechique).

MR11.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

Prof Chris Hays (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Gluons and Euclidean Gravity on the Lattice

Chris Bouchard (Glasgow).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

The formation of contrast in scanning helium microscopy

Sam Lambrick, Surface Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Effective Field Theories for heavy and light new physics.

Anke Biekötter (Mainz U.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 17 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids

Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Mao Zeng - Gravitational waves and multi-loop scattering amplitudes

Mao Zeng (Edinburgh U.).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Experimental and numerical study of detonation reaction zones

James Edgeley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Understanding Metallic Bonding

Volker Heine.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Extending the leading direct dark matter searches to lighter particles

Prof Henrique Araujo (Imperial).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Miguel Crispim Romao - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Collider and Beyond the Standard Model Physics

Miguel Crispim Romao (Southampton U. and LIP, Minho).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Heavy quark fragmentation: why, how, and where to?

Chris Pollard (Warwick).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Quantum tunnelling effects in the guanine-thymine wobble misincorporation via tautomerism

Louie Slocombe, Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Rhombohedral Stacked Graphene

Prof. Long Ju, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Custom Orthogonal Weight functions (COWs) - an improved event weighting procedure for removing background from signal.

Matt Kenzie (University of Warwick).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Rare neutral current decays of b quarks at LHCb

Lakshan Mohan (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Special Departmental Seminars

Radio Cosmology — a new window on the Universe"

Dr Richard Shaw, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Monday 09 January 2023, 11:45-12:25

Special Departmental Seminars

Mapping the Universe at 21 cm

Dr Seth Siegel, McGill University, Montreal.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Monday 09 January 2023, 11:00-11:40

Special Departmental Seminars

Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Re-ionization: unveiling the mysteries of the infant universe with experimental radio cosmology

Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Monday 09 January 2023, 10:00-10:40

Special Departmental Seminars

“Multi-survey cosmology: opportunities in the systematics-limited regime”

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Elisabeth Krause.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:30-17:10

Special Departmental Seminars

Interpretable Machine Learning for Science

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Miles Cranmer, Princeton University.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 15:50-16:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Cosmology with photometry galaxy surveys: from precision to accuracy

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Boris Leistedt.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:50-15:30

Special Departmental Seminars

"Black Hole Physics Meets Gravitational Wave Data"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Christopher Moore.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:10-14:50

Special Departmental Seminars

"Data-driven exploration beyond the Standard Model of particle physics"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Ken Mimasu.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 13:30-14:10

Special Departmental Seminars

“Getting a flavour for New Physics at LHCb”

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Matthew Kenzie.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 11:50-12:30

Special Departmental Seminars

"Nested sampling: powering the next-generation of Bayesian inference tools for cosmology, particle physics and beyond"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Dr Will Handley.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 11:10-11:50

Special Departmental Seminars

"On Modelling Complex Systems in Astronomy"

All members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture in the Pippard

Prof Yuan-Sen Ting.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 10:20-11:00

Special Departmental Seminars

“Machine Learning and Gravitational Waves”.

This will be a hybrid lecture, all members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture.

Dr Stephen Green.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 09:40-10:20

Special Departmental Seminars

"Image analysis: from particle physics to cancer research"

The lecture will be hybrid in format, all members of the Cavendish are welcome to attend the lecture.

Dr Lorena Escudero Sanchez .

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 09:00-09:40

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Vector Boson Scattering to Unravel EWSB and probe BSM physics

Karolos Potamianos (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Evidence is all you need: Nested Sampling for particle physics

David Yallup (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Applications of Timepix technology for Beam Instrumentation at CERN

James Storey (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Christoph Hanhart - TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM FOR HEAVY-LIGHT MESON SPECTROSCOPY

Christoph Hanhart (FZ Julich, IKP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Additive manufacturing of energetic materials

Mike O’Donnell, Fracture & Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:15-12:15

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetotransport of pyrochlore spin ice Sm2Ir2O7 across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary

Dr. Matthew Coak, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:15-12:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Statistical Mechanics of Abelian Higgs Vortices.

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Isaac Physics Seminars & Events

Isaac Physics & STEM SMART event - Impacting physics education and admissions

This talk is aimed at all members of the department and University and will be particularly useful for parents, those who are involved in admissions or anyone who is interested in hearing more about what we do.

Lisa Jardine-Wright, OBE - Director of Isaac Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Exploring the Unknown with Higgs Boson Pairs

Bill Balunas (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Rudi Rahn - The azimuthal decorrelation in V+jet production and the Winner-Takes-All axis

Rudi Rahn (Amsterdam U).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Fundamentals of thermodynamics (and a bit of quantum mechanics)

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Superconformal quantum mechanics and Black Holes

Nick Dorey (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Semileptonic B decays at LHCb

Mark Smith (Imperial).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Graham van Goffrier - The future of nuclear matrix elements for 0νββ decay

Graham van Goffrier (UCL).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

A day in the life of an adsorbate: Observing dynamics in an open quantum system

Bill Allison, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett (University of Liège).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Properties of the Higgs boson: A decade of Higgs measurements with the ATLAS detector

Ashley Mcdougall (Nikhef).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Subir Sarkar - A challenge to the standard cosmological model

Subir Sarkar (Oxford).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:30-16:30

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Cleaning up the nuclear legacy: Vitrified wasteform development and durability

Russell Hand, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?

Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Memory Effect and Infrared Divergences in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Bob Wald (University of Chicago).

MR11.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Machine Learning - the future of particle physics?

Nadya Chernyavskaya (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Ultracold RbCs Molecules: Robust Storage Qubits and Rotationally Magic Traps

Prof Simon L. Cornish, Department of Physics, Durham University.

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Mapping the SMEFT to UV models for four-fermion operators

Fabian Esser (Valencia).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Time-dependent and rare probes of the Standard Model: status at Belle II

Thibaud Humair (Max Planck Institute for Physics).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Andrea Banfi - Jet observables at all orders in QCD

Andrea Banfi (Sussex).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Resonant acoustic mixing processing studies of energetic materials

Andrew Claydon, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites

Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Elizabethan vortices

Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The hunt for non-resonant signals of new physics at the LHC

Ilaria Brivio (Zurich).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

An experimental approach for the validation and development of Group Interaction Modelling for polymer properties

Malvina Constantinou, Fracture and Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene

Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Orbital interactions between strongly confined fermions

Prof Joseph Thywissen, Toronto.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 13 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Almost all extremal black holes in AdS are singular

Maciej Kolanowski (Warsaw).

MR11.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

QED and hadronics in B->Kll et al

Roman Zwicky (University of Edinburgh).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Diboson precision measurements with the Higgs at LHC and FCC-hh

Alejo Rossia (Manchester).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum gas microscopy of magnetic phases with and without doping

Dr Timon Hilker, MPQ Munich .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 06 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The search for exotic long-lived particles: illuminating a blind spot of the LHC programme

Louie Corpe (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Special Departmental Seminars

"Exploring the frontiers of physics at the LHC and beyond”    

Dr Sarah Williams, Queens College Cambridge & HEP, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 14:30-15:10

Special Departmental Seminars

“Probing Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model Couplings in Higgs Boson Decays to Bottom Quarks”

Dr Elisabeth Schopf, Particle Physics, University of Oxford.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 13:50-14:30

Special Departmental Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Karsten Koeneke, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · Institute of Physics.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12:10-12:50

Special Departmental Seminars

“Getting a flavour for New Physics at LHCb”

Dr Matt Kenzie, Dept of Physics, University of Warwick.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:30-12:10

Special Departmental Seminars

“Quantum Tops: probing the fundamentals of nature with its heaviest particle”.

Dr James Howarth, University of Glasgow.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 10:40-11:20

Special Departmental Seminars

"Rare beauty: in search of new physics at the LHCb experiment”.

Dr Harry Cliff, HEP, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre & TEAMS.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 10:00-10:40

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Geometric deep learning on the sphere: scalable and equivariant spherical CNNs

Jason McEwen.

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 23 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Optical Stochatic Cooling of Electrons -- Maxwell's Demon goes optical!

Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (Fermilab/NIU/CERN/Stanford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Fabrizio Caola - Three-loop scattering amplitudes in QCD

Fabrizio Caola (Oxford).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor

Pedram Roushan (Google).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Robin Schuermann - NNLO Photon Fragmentation in Antenna Subtraction

Robin Schuermann.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

In Search for the Next Magic Stone

Prof Z X Shen, Stanford.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological skyrmion phases of matter

Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Christopher Lester - Data-data comparisons as searches for parity violation, symmetry violation and emus

Christopher Lester (Cambridge).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The upgrade of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC

Luigi Marchese (ETH, Zurich).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Anja Butter - Unfolding unbinned differential cross section measurements

Anja Butter (Heidelberg).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 03 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Precision Physics with Polarised W-bosons at the LHC

Andrei Popescu (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Alloy design against fatigue?

Mick Brown, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon

Moshe Goldstein (Tel Aviv University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Burns holography

Atul Sharma (Oxford)..

MR9.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Colour meets Flavour: QCD contributions to the decay of heavy hadrons

Maria Laura Piscopo (University of Siegen).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Building blocks of the flavourful SMEFT RG

Sophie Renner (CERN).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Is wood a material?

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theories of Cross phenomena and Zentropy

Zi-Kui Liu (Penn State).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Putting SMEFT Fits to Work: Lessons from Matching Simple Models

Sam Homiller (Harvard).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group

Dynamic Behaviour of Concrete materials in Underground Engineering.

Huachuan Wang - Monash University.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

When in a hole, stop digging: searching for long-lived particles at LHCb

Vladimir Gligorov (CNRS).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with trapping potentials in higher dimensions

Filip Ficek (Krakow, visiting DPMMS).

MR9.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Bernat Capdevila - Inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays and CKM matrix determinations: challenges and theoretical framework(s).

Bernat Capdevila - (Turin) .

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Symmetry breaking and entanglement transitions in driven-dissipative systems

Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Conformal Geodesics

Peter Cameron (DAMTP).

MR9.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

The physics of how humans build models of the world

Prof Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

James Moore - The dark side of the proton

James Moore (DAMTP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light

Marzena Szymanska, UCL.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Exploring the lifetime frontier: the MATHUSLA detector proposal

Cristiano Alpigiani (University of Washington).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

To see a world in a grain of sand

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological pumping in new territory

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Tuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

From SCT luminosity to compressed SUSY

Claire Malone (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

*Talk Cancelled* Spins at Work in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

Talk Cancelled

*Talk Cancelled* Prof. Dr. Jan Behrends - Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Talk Cancelled.

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Ion Transport in Perovskites

Prof. Dr. Joachim Maier - Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86378888140?pwd=Tmt0SW54QmErOGIyZkh0ZlJDeFRqZz09.

Monday 21 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS: Inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays and CKM matrix determinations: challenges and theoretical framework(s)

Bernat Capdevila (Turin).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Orbital-dependent scattering in Sr2RuO4 and FeSe probed by uniaxial stress

Dr. Clifford Hicks, University of Birmingham, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:15-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Unbiased Elimination of Negative Weights in Monte Carlo Samples

Andreas Maier (DESY Zeuthen).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Monday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Marina Cermeno - Novel signatures of leptophilic dark matter from the centre of galaxies

Marina Cermeno.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures

Dr. Sven Friedemann.

Mott Seminar Room.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:15-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Recent tests of lepton flavour universality at LHCb

John Smeaton (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kagome metals

Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"

This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv

Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

Pippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv .

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Event-shape variables and alpha_s determinations using the ATLAS detector

Manuel Alvarez Estevez (UAM Madrid).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Pippard lecture theatre and Zoom.

Monday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jonathan Hermann - The impact of top-quark modelling on the exclusion limits in tt+DM searches at the LHC

Jonathan Hermann (RWTH Aachen).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Path integral molecular dynamics for indistinguishable particles

Barak Hirshberg, Tel Aviv University.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Testing Bell Inequalities at the LHC

Prof Alan Barr (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Bertrand Ducloue - High-energy resummation with vector bosons and next-to-leading logarithms

Bertrand Ducloue.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Cartan Connections and Integrable Vortex Equations

Calum Ross (UCL).

MR9.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Alessio Maiezza - Renormalons and Resurgence applied to the QCD

Alessio Maiezza.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Rare B-meson decays to muons at the LHCb experiment

Ifan Williams (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Rene Poncelet - HighTEA

Rene Poncelet (Cavendish).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Exploring the vortex melting transition in cuprate superconductor YBCO

Alexander Hickey.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:15-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

NLO QCD corrections to diphoton-plus-jet production through gluon fusion at the LHC

Ryan Moodie (Durham University).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Ekta Chaubey - Scattering amplitudes with masses

Ekta Chaubey.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 28 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: Exceptional points, symmetry and breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

SUSY wanted - dead or alive

Melissa van Beekveld (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Oleksii Matsedonskyi - Reassessing the window for electroweak baryogenesis

Oleksii Matsedonskyi (DAMTP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Order by disorder and phase transitions

Laura Messio, LPTMC Paris.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Particle Physics for All

Giordon Stark (UCSC).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

FeSb2: a riddle, inside an insulator, wrapped in a metal Electric and magnetic properties of the unconventional insulator iron diantimonide

Alex Eaton.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCrrzsvGtHekrkuOl2nTRs9zeAjSZT1.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

POSTPONED

Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Giant suppression of thermal Hall effect in SrTiO3 by isotopic substitution

Register in advance at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCrrzsvGtHekrkuOl2nTRs9zeAjSZT1

Sangwoo Sim, Seoul National University .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOCrrzsvGtHekrkuOl2nTRs9zeAjSZT1.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Colliders and Cosmic Origin Stories

Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Improved determination of |V_{cs}| from precision lattice QCD calculation of D to K semileptonic decay form factors

Bipasha Chakraborty (DAMTP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 26 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Interpreting LHC data using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

Maeve Madigan (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jim Talbert - New insights on strong coupling extractions from Soft Collinear Effective Theory

Jim Talbert (DAMPT).

Hybrid Seminar .

Friday 19 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors

Boris Spivak (University of Washington).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators

Tomáš Bzdušek (Paul Scherrer Institute).

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Neutrino Oscillation: The Long and the Short of It

Steve Dennis (University of Cambridge).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Muonic Force Behind Flavour Anomalies - Peter Stangl

Peter Stangl (University of Bern).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds

Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

FASER: Commissioning of a not-so-large LHC experiment in search for new physics in far corner

Dr Claire Antel (University of Geneva).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavorful Higgs bosons and the muon g-2 - Stefania Gori

Stefania Gori (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

BSM physics with b-quarks

John Anders (University of Bern).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Perturbative Cross Sections at N3LO - Bernhard Mistlberger

Bernhard Mistlberger (SLAC).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Discovering partonic rescattering in light nucleus collisions

Aleksas Mazeliauskas (CERN).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searches for new interactions within the SMEFT framework at the LHC

Luca Mantani (DAMTP).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories

Lyderic Bocquet, Ecole Normale Superieure.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Unconventional superconductivity and quadrupolar-density- wave phases in the locally noncentrosymmetric compound CeRh2As2

Dr. Manuel Brando, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden/Germany.

Zoom at https://trin-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96360088902?pwd=UmNWZ0JkNGE3elM2dXJCS2ZRVEc1dz09. Limited seating in Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:15-12:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Large data decay of Yang?Mills?Higgs fields for Lambda >= 0

Greg Taujanskas DPMMS.

MR9.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

AION: Probing fundamental physics with atom interferometry

Dr Tiffany Harte (University of Cambridge).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The Geometric SMEFT description of curved Higgs Field Space(s) - Michael Trott

Michael Trott (NBI, University of Copenhagen).

Potter Room (B1.19) DAMTP.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Electroweak measurements and measurement of the W boson mass with the LHCb detector

Dr William Barter (Imperial College London).

Rutherford Seminar Room (980) https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A puzzle in $B\to D^{+*}{\pi,K}$ decays: is it New Physics?

Marzia Bordone (Turin INFN).

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 24 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Measurements of angular distance and momentum ratio distributions in three-jet and Z + two-jet final states in pp collisions

Hyunyong Kim (Texas A&M University).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Detecting fractional chern insulators of few-bosons

Cécile Repellin (CNRS Grenoble).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Systematic study of magnetotransport responses with Berry-Boltzmann equations and Wannier functions

Stepan Tsirkin (University of Zurich).

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for New Physics with Top Quarks at ATLAS: A review from LHCP and beyond

Jacob Kempster (University of Birmingham).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Leading hadronic contribution to the muon magnetic moment from lattice quantum chromodynamics

Laurent Lellouch (CNRS & Aix-Marseille U.).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation on the square lattice

Adrian Po (MIT).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

First principles simulations of electrolyte materials with a view toward all solid state battery technology

Natalie Holzwarth (Wake Forest Uni.).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Precise measurement of the fs/fd ratio of fragmentation fractions and of B0s decay branching fractions

Mick Mulder (CERN).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A model of muon anomalies

Admir Greljo (Bern).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservative forces in nanoscale conductors

Tchavdar Todorov, Queen's University Belfast.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Non-Abelian braiding of phonons in layered silicates

Bo Peng.

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Lepton Flavour Universality - measuring BR(W->τν)/BR(W->μν) at the LHC

Christopher Young (Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Towards NNLO QCD+NLO EW PDF fits with NNPDF

Christopher Schwan.

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Machine learning as a solution to the electronic structure problem

Beatriz G. del Rio (Georgia Tech).

Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Overview of quark gluon tagging

Aaron O'Neill (University of Oxford).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Low-temperature quantum bounds in simple models

Jorge Kurchan, ENS Paris.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Probabilistic definition of the perturbative theoretical uncertainty from missing higher orders

Marco Bonvini (INFN Rome).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to W and Z production and their impact on W mass measurements at the LHC

Arnd Behring.

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thwarting long-lived dark states to speed up dynamic polarization

Anushya Chandran (Boston University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electrically tunable stacking domains and ferroelectricity in Moiré superlattices

Danny Bennett.

Zoom.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Recent advances in the modelling of ttW at the LHC

Manfred Kraus (Florida State University).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Instanton/Sphaleron processes in hadronic, heavy ion collisions and cosmology

Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook University).

Virtual Seminar .

Friday 07 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamics in the presence of coherences and strong coupling corrections

Janet Anders (University of Exeter).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria

This lecture is a Livestream Event

Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory.

tinyurl.com/y7ajn97h.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electronic properties and structural relaxation of twisted bilayer graphene: insights from large-scale first principles calculations

Giovanni Cantele.

Zoom.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Probing the neutrino mass: latest results from KATRIN

Prof. Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Optoelectronics Group

Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics in Organic Semiconductors

Omer Yaffe.

https://zoom.us/j/96904896974?pwd=aWY2K0ZkVmFldXBBWC9OUDlRZXFnUT09.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:30-14:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Towards an all-orders calculation of the electroweak bubble wall velocity

Jessica Turner (IPPP, Durham).

Virtual Seminar .

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology vs. interaction in fragile bands

Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Quantum computing for simulating high energy collisions

Sarah Malik (UCL).

https://cern.zoom.us/j/61144924828?pwd=WDB6QmFCMEZiSEN5Q0k2aklWSjk5Zz09.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 16:00-17:00