Events

June 2026
Tue 2 Jun 2026   14:00 - 15:00	Special Gravity Seminar: Jan Kożuszek Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation tbc
Wed 3 Jun 2026   14:00 - 15:30	Centre colloquium - Claudia de Rham (Imperial College) Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy
Mon 29 Jun  - Fri 3 Jul 2026	Conference: Amplitudes 2026 Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy The Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences is delighted to announce that Queen Mary University of London will host Amplitudes 2026, the international conference on scattering amplitudes, from 29 June to 3 July 2026. Amplitudes is an annual international conference series focused on scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, string theory, and related areas of high-energy theoretical physics. The series has become since its inception in...
September 2026
Tue 22 Sep 2026   14:00 - 15:30	GAnG Seminar: Orlando Luongo - Negative refraction and gravitational metamaterials: From optical geometry to dark matter Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation NOTE: Pre talk intro for non experts starts at 2pm, with seminar starting at 2.30pm Title: Negative refraction and gravitational metamaterials: From optical geometry to dark matter Abstract: In this talk I propose a novel reinterpretation of spacetime as an effective optical medium capable of exhibiting negative refraction. I show that this phenomenon is not a coordinate artifact, but rather a covariant property of energy-momentum flow, arising when phase propagation and energy transport...