The Department of Physics at Royal Holloway holds a series of interesting seminars on Particle Physics and Astronomy and Quantum Materials and Technologies. The audience typically consists of faculty members and students.
Spring Term 2025
Particle Physics and Astronomy Seminars :
The seminars will be held in-person and will also be available on Zoom. The connection details are distributed before event. Please email for further details.
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Thursday 09/01/2025, 15:00 to 16:00 Note: different day |
Dr Justin Janquart (Université Catholique de Louvain) | Lensed gravitational waves and how to find them | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
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Wed, 15/01/2025, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Sama Al-Shammari (University of Cardiff) | tbc | |
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Wed, 05/03/2025, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Lorenzo Barca (DESY) | tbc |
Autumn Term 2024
Particle Physics and Astronomy Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Wed, 23/10/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Karim Carrion (National Autonomous University of Mexico) | Accelerating inference on interacting dark energy | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
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Wed, 30/10/2024, 14:30 to 15:30 Note: earlier start |
Professor Glen Cowan, Enzo Canonero (Physicists, RHUL) and Professor Richard Lockhart (Statistician, SFU) | PHYSTAT- Informal Review on Errors on Errors | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) and Online |
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Wed, 13/11/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Amit Kumar (Royal Holloway, University of London) | From Collapse to Cataclysm: The Shared Origins of Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts | Horton Lecture Theatre (HLT1) |
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Wed, 20/11/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Vincent Croft (Nikhef, University of Leiden) | Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics: State of the Art and Challenges | Horton Lecture Theatre (HLT1) |
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Wed, 27/11/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Sebastian Gomez-Lopez (Sapienza, University of Rome) | The inner workings of a coherent modeled multimessenger search pipeline | Horton Lecture Theatre (HLT1) |
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Tue, 03/12/2024, 14:00 to 15:00 Note: different date, time and venue |
Florian Stummer (Royal Holloway, University of London and CERN) |
Development of the beam lines for CERN’s future fixed-target experiments in the North Area |
Tolansky T125 |
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Wed, 11/12/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Konstantin Leyde (University of Portsmouth) | New methods for gravitational-wave cosmology: from galaxy catalog completion techniques to simulation-based inference | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
Quantum Materials and Technologies Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Professor Jon Goff | Structures from soil to superconducting qubits | Shilling-LT |
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Wed, 04/12/2024, |
Professor Hendrik Ulbricht | Large - Mass Quantum Systems for Testing the Overlap Between Quantum Mechanics and Gravity | Shilling-LT |
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Wed, 11/12/2024, 3:00-4:00 |
Professor Krishna Coimbatore Balram | Towards efficient microwave interfaces to nanoscale systems: light, sound and spins | Shilling-LT |
Academic Year 2023-24
Spring and Summer Term 2024
Particle Physics and Astronomy Seminars :
The seminars will be held in-person and will also be available on Zoom. The connection details are distributed before event. Please email for further details.
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Wed, 10/01/2024, 15:30 to 16:30 |
Dr Troels Christian Petersen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) |
Using Hybrid Training and Graph Neural Networks for improving particle physics analysis |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
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Wed, 07/02/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Arianna Renzini (University of Milano-Bicocca) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
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Wed, 21/02/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Hannah Wakeling (University of Oxford) |
Performing a Life Cycle Assessment for the ISIS-II Neutron And Muon Source |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
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Wed, 06/03/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Katy Clough (Queen Mary University of London) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT 1) | |
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Wed, 20/03/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Michael Fucilla (Laboratoire De Physique Des 2 Infinite Irène Joliot-Curie) |
The high-energy dynamics of QCD: from BFKL to saturation physics |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT 1) |
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Wed, 27/03/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Justyn Maund (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT 1) | |
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Wed, 08/05/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Professor David Milstead (Stockholm University) |
The search for baryon number violation with the HIBEAM/NNBAR experiment |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT 1) |
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Wed, 15/05/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Daria Santone (University of Oxford) |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT 1) | |
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Wed, 22/05/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Jacob Kempster (University of Sussex) |
Horton Lecture Theatre (HLT1) | |
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Wed, 29/05/2024, 15:00 to 16:00 |
Dr Gregory Ashton (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
Horton Lecture Theatre (HLT1) |
Quantum Materials and Technologies Seminars :
The seminars will be held in-person and will also be available on MS Teams. The connection details are distributed before event via email.
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 13/03/2024, 14:00 - 15:00 | Dr Yikai Yang (University of Oxford) |
Investigation of Electro-Nuclear Spin States in LiHoF4 Using Cavity-Magnon-Polariton (CMP) Technique | Shilling Lecture Theater |
| Wed, 24/04/2024, 14:00 - 15:00 | Dr Subhayan Roy Moulik (University of Cambridge) |
On the computational complexity of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlations functions | Bedford 0-06 |
| Wed, 15/05/2024, 14:00 - 15:00 | Dr Safa Shoaee (University of Potsdam) |
Optoelectronic and Spintronic of Organic Semiconductors | Tolansky T125 |
Autumn Term 2023
Particle Physics and Astronomy Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 25/10/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Federico Schianchin (University of Potsdam) |
Neutrino transport in binary neutron star merger simulations |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 08/11/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Verónica Villa Ortega (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) |
Neutron star or black hole? Rapid estimation of source properties for gravitational wave binaries |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 15/11/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Yoran Yeh (UCL) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
| Wed, 22/11/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Hannah Chamberlain (University of Manchester) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
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Thu, 30/11/2023, 14:30 to 15:30 |
Dr Violetta Sagun (University of Coimbra) |
Tolansky 125
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Quantum Materials and Technologies Seminars :
The seminars will be held in-person and will also be available on MS Teams. The connection details are distributed before event via email.
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Fri, 01/10/2023, 14:00-15:00 | Dr Malcom Connolly | Superconductor-Semiconductor Quantum Circuits | Shilling Lecture Theater |
Academic Year 2022-23
Spring and Summer Term 2023
Coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic some of the seminars will be held in-person and/or remotely. The connection details are distributed before event. Please email for further details.
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 08/02/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Neda Darvishi (Royal Holloway, University of London) | nHDMs and their Accidental Symmetries | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 15/02/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Anna Neuweiler, University of Potsdam | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
| Wed, 15/03/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Francis Cullinan (MAX IV Laboratory, Lund, Sweden) |
Studying Collective Beam Instabilities in a Fourth-Generation Light-Source Storage Ring |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 03/05/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Nicolas Bonne, University of Portsmouth |
The Tactile Universe: Accessible astrophysics public engagement with the vision impaired community |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 10/05/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr David Marsh, King's College London | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
| Wed, 17/05/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Ioannis Manthos, University of Birmingham |
Spherical Proportional Counter: Detector concept and applications |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 24/05/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Samuel Ryan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) |
The Gaia Revolution: Unveiling the Milky Way through Galactic Archaeology |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 31/05/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (Imperial College London) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
Quantum Materials and Technologies Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 15/02/2023, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Ravi Kunjwal, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Contextuality in composite systems: the role of entanglement in the Kochen-Specker theorem |
Horton Lecture Theatre 2 (HLT2) |
| Fri, 24/02/2023, 14:00 to 15:00 | Prof. Martin Weides, University of Glasgow | Superconducting quantum circuits with coupling from single resonators to a bosonic mode ensemble. | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Fri, 03/03/2023, 14:00 to 15:00 | Dr Sebastian de Graaf, National Physical Laboratory | Chemical and structural identification of material defects in superconducting quantum circuits. | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Fri, 10/03/2023, 14:00 to 15:00 | Prof. Marzena Szymanska, University College London | Tolansky Building (T125) | |
| Wed, 15/03/2023, 14:00 to 15:00 | Prof. Andrew Armour, University of Nottingham | Multi-photon generation and charge transport in cavity-Josephson junction circuits | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wed, 29/03/2023, 14:00 to 15:00 | Dr Peter Leek, University of Oxford | Tileable low-crosstalk 3D-integrated superconducting circuits | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wed, 21/04/2023, 14:00 to 15:00 | Dr Alessandro Rossi, University of Strathclyde | The race for the quantum hardware: semiconductors alive and kicking | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Fri, 12/05/2023 | Dr David Hagenmuller (CNRS, Université de Strasbourg) |
Strong light-matter coupling in disordered systems: multifractality and protected transport |
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| Wed, 17/05/2023 | Dr Malcom R. Connolly (Imperial College London) | TBC | TBC |
| Fri, 26/05/2023 | Dr Yikai Yang (University of Oxford) | Tolansky Building (T125) | |
| Fri, 02/06/2023 | Dr Richard Howl (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Testing Quantum Gravity with Quantum Technology | TBC |
Autumn Term 2022
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 07/09/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Colm Talbot (MIT Kavli Institute) | Tolansky Building (T125) | |
| Wed, 28/09/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Moinul Hussain Rahat (University of Southampton) |
BBN Photodisintegration Constraints on Gravitationally Produced Vector Bosons |
Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wed, 05/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Ulla Blumenschein (Queen Mary University of London) | Tolansky Building (T125) | |
| Wed, 12/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Simon Williams (Imperial College London) | Simulating high energy collision events on a quantum computer | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wed, 19/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Paolo Franchini (Royal Holloway, University of London and Lancaster University) | QUEST-DMC: Simulation studies for the detection of sub-GeV dark matter with a superfluid Helium-3 calorimeter | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 26/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Chris Hays (University of Oxford) |
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 02/11/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Alice Hamer (Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Edinburgh) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
| Wed, 16/11/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Jean-Baptiste Sauvan (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Ecole Polytechnique, France) |
Reconstructing the HGCAL data in real-time at the CMS Level 1 trigger |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 23/11/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton) |
Vector Dark Matter via a Fermionic Portal from a New Gauge Sector |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 07/12/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | James Greer (University of Sheffield) |
Novel Mixed-Field Neutron-Gamma Detectors for Oil and Gas Well-Logging. |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
Quantum Materials and Technologies Seminars :
| Wed, 23/11/2022, 14:00 to 15:00 |
Dr Michael Vanner (Imperial College London) | Tolansky Building (T125) |
Academic Year 2021-22
Summer Term 2022
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 06/07/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Tommaso Dorigo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Padova) | Toward the end-to-end optimization of experiments with deep learning | Tolansky Building (T125) |
Spring Term 2022
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 26/01/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Andrey Oleinik (Royal Holloway) | Pyroelectric particle accelerators and sources: state-of-art and further development |
| Wed, 09/02/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Alexander Gerbershagen (Particle Therapy Research Center - PARTREC) | Use of complementary simulation codes in complex beam optics |
| Wed, 09/03/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London) | The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable? |
| Wed, 16/03/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Adriana Dias (Royal Holloway, University of London) | PlomBOX - development of a low-cost CMOS device for environmental monitoring |
| Wed, 27/04/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Alessandra Brazzale (University of Padova) | Case studies in astro and particle physics : challenges and opportunities for statistics |
Condensed Matter Seminars :
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic condensed matter physics seminars are currently held in-person or/and remotely via MS Teams. The connection details are distributed before event. Please contact Dr Andrew Ho for further details.
| Wed, 09/03/2022, 15:00 to 16:00 | Prof. Seamus Davis (Oxford, Cork, Cornell) |
On the Electron Pairing Mechanism of Copper-Oxide High Temperature Superconductivity |
Autumn Term 2021
Particle Physics Seminars:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 13/10/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Magnus Schlösser (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | |
| Wed, 20/10/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Elizabeth Leason (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Searches for new physics using low energy electron recoils in LUX and LZ |
| Wed, 3/11/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Sophie King (King's College London) | Electron neutrino cross section measurements with the T2K near detector, ND280 |
| Wed, 10/11/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Andreia Maia Oliveira (CERN & University of Bern) | A Large Area GEMPix detector for treatment plan verification in hadron therapy |
| Wed, 24/11/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Lukas Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Is The Mirror Cracking? Current and Future Neutrino Oscillation Measurements from T2K and DUNE |
Condensed Matter Seminars :
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic condensed matter physics seminars are currently held in-person or/and remotely via MS Teams. The connection details are distributed before event. Please contact Dr Andrew Ho for further details.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 20/10/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Vitor Pedroso (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Metastable solid 4He and the possible role of point defects. |
| Wed, 03/11/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Femke Bangma (High Field Magnet Laboratory, Nijmegen, Netherlands) | Ultra-low temperature measurements of PrOs4Sb12: The influence of nuclear interactions on an exotic phase diagram. |
| Wed, 10/11/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Sumit Kumar (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Low temperature microwave optomechanics: Anomalous force noise and optomechanically induced transparency |
| Wed, 17/11/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Charlie Steiner (PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Measuring the electronic states of FeSe and SnSe2 thin films with STM |
| Wed, 08/12/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Prof. Vladimir Eltsov (Dept Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland) |
Academic Year 2020-21
Summer Term 2021
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 5/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Andrea Dubla (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) | Charm cross section and fragmentation fractions in pp collision with ALICE |
| Wed, 12/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Prof Gavin Hesketh (University College London) | First results from FNAL Muon g-2 |
| Wed, 19/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Assistant Prof Daniel Hayden (Michigan State University) | ATLAS Heavy Resonance Combination |
| Wed, 26/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Departmental Seminar: Dr Claudia Antolini (RHUL/SEPnet) | A toolkit to build engaged research |
| Wed, 9/6/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Razvan-Daniel Moise (Imperial College London) | Test of lepton flavour universality in beauty-quark decays |
| Wed, 30/6/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Paul Scovell (Boulby Underground Laboratory) | The Boulby Underground Laboratory : The UK's deep underground science facility |
Spring term 2021
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 13/1/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Shriram Jois (RHUL) | A Search for Relic Axions and Their Frequency Modulation |
| Wed, 20/1/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Jaime Octavio Guerra-Pulido (ICN-UNAM) | Applying astroparticle physics techniques to the detection of Pb contamination in water |
| Wed, 3/2/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN) | Beamlines for fixed target experiments, test beams and particle therapy |
| Wed, 24/3/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Antonija Utrobicic (CERN GDD Laboratory) | Precise timing detector based on Micormegas (PICOSEC): Towards the large area detector. |
| Wed, 31/3/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Eldwan Brianne (DESY FTX) | A high-performance calorimeter for the DUNE Near Detector |
Autumn term 2020
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 4/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Gregory Ashton (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Turning wiggles into science: How we classify and understand gravitational-wave signals |
| Wed 11/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Sarah Malik (Imperial College London) | Quantum computing for simulating high energy collisions |
| Wed 18/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Cheryl Patrick (University College London) | Neutrinoless double-beta decay and SuperNEMO |
| Wed 25/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Noelia E. D. Noël (University of Surrey) | Connecting Research Culture with Stellar Populations |
| Wed 09/12/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr John Nugent (University of Glasgow) | WAGASCI: A New Near Detector at T2K |
Academic Year 2019-20
Spring term 2020
Condensed Matter Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Wednesday 4 March 2020 16:00 - 17:00 |
Dr Matthew Bryan (Dept Electronic Engineering, RHUL) | Topological tunnelling in hybrid magnetic systems | Shilling 1-07 (Creative Thinking Room) |
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Wednesday 11 March 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Prof Ivette Fuentes (University of Nottingham, University of Vienna and Penrose Institute) | Collective excitations as quantum sensors for fundamental physics | Shilling LT |
| Wednesday 18 March 2020 | Prof Bryan Hickey (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds) | Electronic and Thermal Transport in Lateral Spin Valves | Shilling LT |
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Wednesday 15 January 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Cenk Türkoğlu (University of Sussex) | Geant4-based Electromagnetic Background Model for the CRESST Experiment | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 22 January 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Lydia Beresford (University of Oxford) | Dijet Evolution | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wednesday 29 January 2020 15:30 - 16:30 | Dr Eva Montbarbon (CERN) | CERN: New Physics beyond New Colliders | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 12 February 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Prof Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham) | NEWS-G: Search for Light Dark Matter with a Spherical Proportional Counter | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 19 February 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Rob Appleby (University of Manchester) | Communication in Science and Tactile Collider | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 26 February 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Florian Beutler (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth) | Expanding the BAO science case | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 4 March 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Joshuha Thomas-Wilsker | Top quark pair associated Higgs production @ the LHC: Run2 and beyond | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 22 April 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Andrei Puiu (University of Milano-Biocca) | Direct measurements for neutrino mass searches with HOLMES | Tolansky Building (T125) |
