Events
June 2026 | |
| Today 14:00 - 15:00 |  Seminar: Ida Zadeh (Southampton U.)Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy Title: Asymmetric Orbifolds, Rank Reduction and Heterotic Islands Abstract: Exploring unknown regions of the moduli space of 2-dimensional conformal field theories plays an important role in understanding properties of theories of quantum gravity. In this talk I will discuss a family of world-sheet conformal field theories, asymmetric orbifolds, that describe some of these unexplored loci in the moduli space. I will focus on the application of asymmetric orbifolds to toroidal... |
 Mon 8 Jun 202609:30 - 17:30 |  Conference: 2026 RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group Postgraduate SymposiumCentre for Molecular Cell Biology The RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group invite you to their annual postgraduate meeting which will take place in-person at Queen Mary University. This meeting is designed to give early career researchers, from across a broad range of chemical biology backgrounds, a platform to share their latest research. In addition to our excellent plenary speaker, Prof. Mark Bradley, there will also be opportunities for postgraduate students to present their work through short talks and posters.... |
| Mon 8 Jun 2026 14:00 - 15:30 |  Seminar: Chemistry Seminar: Prof Olexandr Ivanov and Prof Pavlo Prysyazhnyuk (Ivano-Frankivsk University, Ukraine)  Centre for Chemical Research Talk title: "Towards Tungsten-Free Superhard Borides: an MLIP-Driven Crystal-Structure-Prediction Workflow with a DFT Calibration Gate, and Case Studies in Mn–Ti–B and Mn–V–B Systems" Abstract: Tungsten-based cemented carbides (WC–Co) have been the workhorse of cutting tools and wear-resistant coatings for nearly a century, but rising tungsten prices, EU and US critical-raw-material classifications, and tightening export controls now make the systematic search for tungsten-free... |
| Fri 12 Jun 2026 16:00 - 17:00 | Designing Rules for Safe AI markets Centre for Fundamentals of AI and Computational Theory Konstantinos (Kostas) E. Zachariadis, Professor and Director of Research, School of Economics and Finance will discuss the issues around designing safe markets when AIs are involved, including ideas of how formal verification could play a part. |
| Thu 18 Jun 2026 | Research Exchange Day Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 25 - Fri 26 Jun 2026 |  Logic and Graph Neural Networks Meeting.
Centre for Fundamentals of AI and Computational Theory This workshop brings together researchers working on the connections between logic and graph neural networks. It focuses on expressive power, verification, logical explainability and interpretability, rule learning and knowledge discovery, and computational complexity, with the aim of discussing recent results, ongoing work, and future directions. Please see the event website (https://pwalega.github.io/logic-gnn-2026/) for programmes, times and other information. About the speaker/s: ... |
| Mon 29 Jun - Fri 3 Jul 2026 |  Conference: Amplitudes 2026Centre 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... |
August 2026 | |
| Mon 31 Aug - Fri 4 Sep 2026 | Conference: Quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium: Relaxation, thermalization, and ergodicity breaking Centre for Complex Systems This international forum brings together leading researchers and early-career scientists to explore equilibration, thermalization, atypical dynamics, Floquet physics and control of quantum many-body systems, fostering interdisciplinary exchange and... |
September 2026 | |
| Tue 22 Sep 2026 14:00 - 15:30 |  GAnG Seminar: Orlando Luongo - Negative refraction and gravitational metamaterials: From optical geometry to dark matterCentre 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... |
| Thu 24 Sep 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (UCL) Centre for Complex Systems Emergent phenomena in protein complexes out of equilibrium: from topologically-protected states to computation Protein complexes, often made up of a few identical subunits, are very common in biology. These subunits can additionally undergo post... |
October 2026 | |
| Mon 5 - Tue 6 Oct 2026 | Conference: Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) Concluding Conference Centre for Fundamentals of AI and Computational Theory QMULs Shalom Lappin is organising the final CLASP Conference. Registration is now open. In 2025 the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) completed ten years of groundbreaking research in computational linguistics,... |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Shiling Liang (Dresden) Centre for Complex Systems |