Events
November 2025 | |
 Tue 11 Nov 202514:00 - 15:30 |  GAnG Seminar: Alan Rios Fukelman  Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation Title: de Sitter Universes Abstract: In this talk I will discuss features of Quantum Field Theories in a fixed de Sitter background. I will present an exactly solvable model and show how to obtain all loops correlation functions of local operators. I will then discuss the existence of charged vacuum states in the theory and its relation to spontaneous symmetry breaking in de Sitter spacetimes. |
| Wed 12 Nov 2025 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar: Joe Stacey: How to improve the robustness and interpretability of Natural Language Inference models  Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract Joe's talk will have two parts: 1) discussing how to improve the robustness of fine-tuned Natural Language Inference (NLI) models, and 2) introducing a method for creating inherently interpretable NLI models. In the first part, Joe... |
| Wed 12 Nov 2025 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Alexander Watson (UCL): The Wiener-Hopf factorisation of Lévy processes Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science |
| Wed 12 Nov 2025 13:30 - 15:00 |  Seminar: LEGEND eperiment - Dr Will Quinn (UCL) Centre for Fundamental Physics 13:30-14:00 - In person refreshments 14:00-15:00 - seminar |
| Wed 12 Nov 2025 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Benjamin Kellenberger (Yale University): Deep learning for species distribution Modelling: A tale of simplicity, errands, and breakdowns Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science Ever-increasing data sizes and advancements in modelling have greatly transformed environmental sciences in recent years. Ecology is no exception to this trend, as large machine, mostly deep learning models, have become ubiquitous in ecologically... |
| Thu 13 Nov 2025 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Lorenzo Giambagli (FU Berlin): Emergent global dynamics of topological signals Centre for Complex Systems This talk explores the emerging field of topological signals, dynamical variables defined on higher-order networks such as simplicial or cell complexes. These are functions defined on simplicial complexes that generalize the idea of node-based... |
| Thu 13 Nov 2025 14:00 - 15:00 |  Seminar: Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk (London, City U.) Centre for Fundamental Physics Yangian symmetry, GKZ equations and integrable Feynman graphs We extend the powerful property of Yangian invariance to a new large class of conformally invariant multi-loop Feynman integrals. This leads to new highly constraining differential equations for them, making integrability visible at the level of individual Feynman graphs. Our results apply to planar Feynman diagrams in any spacetime dimension dual to an arbitrary network of intersecting straight lines on a plane (Baxter lattice),... |
| Thu 13 Nov 2025 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Daniele Bianchi (QMUL): Scalable Bayesian inference for dynamic variable selection in high-dimensional regressions Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science We develop a variational Bayes approach for dynamic variable selection in high-dimensional regression models with time-varying parameters and predictors that exhibit a predefined group structure. Through comprehensive simulation studies, we... |
| Fri 14 Nov 2025 13:00 - 14:00 |  Seminar: Systems and synthetic biology: constructing smart and programmable microbes and microbiota to address global problems.Centre for Molecular Cell Biology The Centre for Molecular Cell Biology will be hosting Prof Tae Seok Moon from J. Craig Venter Institute (https://www.jcvi.org/about/tae-seok-moon), who will give a talk on "Systems and synthetic biology: constructing smart and programmable microbes and microbiota to address global problems". Abstract The past decade has witnessed the tremendous power of systems and synthetic biology in the creation of genetic parts, devices, and systems, which helps understand complex biological systems. ... |
| Wed 19 Nov 2025 13:30 - 15:00 | Seminar: AI Seminar - Dr Tom Whitehead (Intelligens) Centre for Fundamental Physics Details TBC 13:30-14:00 - In person refreshments 14:00-15:00 - seminar |
| Thu 20 Nov 2025 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Matthew Walters (Heriot-Watt U.) Centre for Fundamental Physics |
| Fri 21 Nov 2025 14:30 - 15:30 |  Seminar: Astronomy Unit Seminar - John IleeCentre for Fundamental Physics |
| Fri 21 Nov 2025 15:00 - 17:00 |  London Structural Biology Club
Autumn Meeting Centre for Molecular Cell Biology Join us at the LSBC Autum meeting. Programme • Shannon Mostyn, Imperial College London (Bubeck Lab): "Mechanisms of toxin mediated bacterial competition in the gut" • Tim Knot, King's College London: "Ion binding modulates DEAD-box IDR phase transitions" • Barry Liu, Francis Crick Institute (Rosenthal Lab): "New principles for biological lattice assembly revealed by cryo-ET of influenza virus" • Sasi Conte, King's College London: "Interplay of order and disorder in RNA... |
| Mon 24 Nov 2025 12:00 - 13:00 |  SEMS Seminars: Dr Daniela Marino, CEO of CUTISS AGCentre for Bioengineering Seminar Title: A Tissue Therapy Revolution: Engineering Personalised Skin for Regenerative Medicine Abstract: CUTISS AG is leading a transformation in skin surgery through the development of personalised, bioengineered human skin designed to replace traditional autologous grafts. Its flagship innovation, denovoSkin™, is a first-in-class, bi-layered (dermis and epidermis) human skin graft cultivated from a small patient biopsy and matured in a scalable, automated, and fully closed... |
| Wed 26 Nov 2025 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar: Guest lecture by Professor Inbal Arnon: "Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond." Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract All known languages are made up of statistically coherent sequences - words - whose frequency distribution follows a power law known as a Zipfian distribution. Despite the ubiquity of these features across languages their origins are... |
| Wed 26 Nov 2025 13:30 - 15:00 | Seminar: LZ Experiment - Amy Cottle (UCL) Centre for Fundamental Physics Details TBC 13:30-14:00 - In person refreshments 14:00-15:00 - seminar |
| Thu 27 Nov 2025 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Francesco Coghi (U Nottingham) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 27 Nov 2025 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Qinglin Yang (Garching, Max Planck Inst.) Centre for Fundamental Physics |
| Fri 28 Nov 2025 14:30 - 15:30 | Seminar: Astronomy Unit Seminar - Claudia Maraston Centre for Fundamental Physics |
December 2025 | |
| Wed 3 Dec 2025 13:30 - 15:00 | Seminar: SHiP Experiment - Matei Climecu (Ghent) Centre for Fundamental Physics Details TBC 13:30-14:00 - In person refreshments 14:00-15:00 - seminar |
| Thu 4 Dec 2025 11:00 - 18:00 |  Christmas Research Celebration - Queen Mary & WORD+ World Organoid and Organ-Chip CommunityCentre for Bioengineering Join us at QMUL Centre for predictive in vitro models, London, as we celebrate the latest advancements during 2025! Speaker line-up includes: Keynote. Professor Martin Knight, CPM, QMUL. AstraZeneca: Dr Carol de Santis, Clinical Pharmacology & Safety. Cardiff University: Dr Luned Badder, School of Medicine. Cosyne Therapeutics: Dr Julia Kleniuk & Dr Zoe Smith. GSK: Dr Lisa Mohamet, Target Discovery. Imperial College London: Dr Tamas Korcsmaros. ... |
| Thu 4 Dec 2025 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Edon Kelmendi (QMUL) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 4 Dec 2025 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Donal O'Connell (Edinburgh U.) Centre for Fundamental Physics |
| Fri 5 Dec 2025 14:30 - 15:30 | Seminar: Astronomy Unit Seminar - Syksy Räsänen Centre for Fundamental Physics |
| Wed 10 Dec 2025 13:30 - 15:00 | Seminar: Dominika Vasilkova (Liverpool) - muon g-2/EDM @FermiLab/PSI Centre for Fundamental Physics Details TBC 13:30-14:00 - In person refreshments 14:00-15:00 - seminar |
| Thu 11 Dec 2025 13:00 - 14:00 | Thomas Schreiber (U Stuttgart) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 11 Dec 2025 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Ekaterina Sysoeva (University of Turin) Centre for Fundamental Physics |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 10:00 - 16:00 |  Conference: DMRN+20 Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2025Centre for Multimodal AI DMRN+20: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2025 Tuesday 16 December 2025 Organised by King's College London and the Centre for Digital Music of Queen Mary University of London https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/ The Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) aims to promote research in the area of digital music, by bringing together researchers from UK and overseas universities, as well as industry. The workshop will include invited and contributed talks and posters, and will be... |
February 2026 | |
| 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... |
March 2026 | |
| Wed 4 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Sanjay Kumar (Banaras Hindu U) Centre for Complex Systems |