Events
January 2026 | |
 Wed 21 Jan 202613:30 - 15:00 |  Seminar: Dr Camille BonvinCentre for Fundamental Physics Topic TBC - Astroparticle physics and cosmology 13:30-14:00 - In person refreshments 14:00-15:00 - seminar |
| Thu 22 Jan 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Eng-Jon Ong (QMUL) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 22 Jan 2026 14:00 - 15:00 |  Seminar: Mathias Driesse (Humboldt U., Berlin)  Centre for Fundamental Physics The Gravitational Compton Amplitude The gravitational Compton amplitude describes gravitational waves scattering off a single black hole and is therefore a one-body observable ideal for analyzing quadratic-in-curvature of generic (Kerr) black holes from an effective field theory point of view. Based on upcoming work together with Y. Fabian Bautista, Gustav Jakobsen, and Kays Haddad, in this talk, I will discuss what makes it worth studying and calculating explicitly. I briefly review... |
| Thu 29 Jan 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Markus Whiteland (Loughborough) Centre for Complex Systems |
February 2026 | |
| Thu 5 Feb 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Martina Contisciani (CEU Vienna) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 5 Feb 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Enrico Pajer (Cambridge U., DAMTP) Centre for Fundamental Physics TBA |
| Thu 12 Feb 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: David Mguni (QMUL) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Wed 18 Feb 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  SEMS Seminars: Prof Sonja Billerbeck, Unlocking the Yeast Toxicome, Imperial College LondonCentre for Bioengineering Title: The yeast toxicome: A potential source for new antifungals for biocontrol, food and human health. Abstract: Fungal pathogens are an emerging threat to human health and food security. Very few fungicides are available and resistance to these is rising. It is a long-standing challenge to develop new antifungals. As eukaryotic pathogens, fungi offer very few selective drug targets and we urgently need new strategies for antifungal development. Ascomycete yeasts – such as... |
| Thu 19 Feb 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Luke Davis (U Edinburgh): Stochastic geometry of active matter Centre for Complex Systems For equilibrium hard spheres the stochastic geometry of the insertion space, the room to accommodate another sphere, relates exactly to the equation of state. We begin to extend this idea to active matter, analyzing insertion space for repulsive... |
| Thu 19 Feb 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Jung-Wook Kim (CERN) Centre for Fundamental Physics TBA |
| Thu 26 Feb 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Rafael Aoude (U. Edinburgh, Higgs Ctr. Theor. Phys.) Centre for Fundamental Physics TBA |
March 2026 | |
| Wed 4 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Sanjay Kumar (Banaras Hindu U) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 5 Mar 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Chris Hull (Imperial Coll., London) Centre for Fundamental Physics TBA |
| Thu 12 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (UCL) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 19 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Karl J. Friston (UCL): The physics of sentience Centre for Complex Systems How can we understand ourselves as sentient creatures? And what are the principles that underwrite sentient behaviour? This presentation uses the free energy principle to furnish an account in terms of active inference. First, we will try to... |
| Thu 19 Mar 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Kostas Skenderis (Southampton U.) Centre for Fundamental Physics TBA |