Elementary Particle Physics Seminars
Organisers/Contact: Karolos Potamianos and Mika Vesterinen
Autumn term 2026
(Seminars are on Thursdays at 12:00 in H1.02 unless otherwise mentioned)
| 10 December | Iwan Morton-Blake (SJTU) | TRIDENT |
| 3 December | ||
| 26 November | ||
| 19 November | ||
| 12 November | Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial) | Searching for CP violation in the Higgs sector using the H鈫捪勏� decay channel |
| 5 November | Lucy Baily (UCL) | Search for muon electric dipole moment at Fermilab Muon g-2 |
| 29 October | ||
| 22 October | Sam Eriksen (Bristol) | LZ |
| 15 October | ||
| 8 October | Alexander Deisting (Mainz) | XLZD |
Summer term 2026
(Seminars are on Thursdays at 12:00 in MAS2.05/06 unless otherwise mentioned)
| 2 July | Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN) | From jet flavour tagging to H鈫抍c: probing Higgs couplings at CMS |
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| 18 June | Bowen Zhang (海角社区) | |
| 11 June | Matthew Monk (Cambridge) | Investigating the polarisation puzzle with B0(s) -> K*K* decays at LHCb |
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| 28 May | Xianguo Lu (海角社区) | The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO): Status and First Physics ResultsLink opens in a new window |
| 21 May | Angela Romano (海角社区) | Recent results from the NA62 experiment at CERN |
| 14 May | Juri Smirnov (Liverpool) | Dark Matter Wind and Clouds: New ideas for sub-GeV Dark Matter searches |
| 7 May | Martin Gorbahn (Liverpool) | Rare Decays, CP Violation, and CKM Constraints |
| 30 Apr | Jack Araz (City, University of London) | Leveraging Quantum Hardware for Fundamental PhysicsLink opens in a new window |
Spring term 2026
(Seminars are on Thursdays at 12:00 in MAS2.05/06 unless otherwise mentioned)
| 19 Mar | -- | -- |
| 12 Mar | Luke Grazette (海角社区) | W and Z production with the upgraded LHCb detector |
| 5 Mar | Marco Bomben (APC, IN2P3) | Radiation damage modelling of silicon defects |
| 26 Feb | Lucian Harland-Lang (UCL) | Pinning down proton structure at the LHC and beyond |
| 19 Feb | Dimitra Spathara (Birmingham) | Designing the Next Generation of Materials for Rare-Event Searches: High-Strength, Ultra-Pure Copper Alloys |
| 12 Feb | Aidin Masouminia (Durham) | What's New in Herwig 7: EW, BSM & Onium Showers; HQET and Spin-Hadronisation |
| 5 Feb | Christoph Englert (Manchester) | New physics at the Electroweak Scale?Link opens in a new window |
| 29 Jan | ||
| 22 Jan | ||
| 15 Jan | Tobias Fitschen (Machester) | Trigger-Level-Analysis with ATLAS |
Autumn term 2025
(Seminars are on Thursdays at 12:00 in MAS2.05/06 unless otherwise mentioned)
| 11 December [P5.23] |
Jian Liu (Liverpool) | Silicon detector upgrades in ALICE |
| 4 December | Lorenzo Paolucci (Manchester) | |
| 27 November | Fabrice Piquemal (LP2IB) | R2D2 (neutrinoless double beta decay) |
| 20 November | ||
| 13 November | Ahmed Abdelmotteleb (海角社区) | Measuring the W boson mass at LHCbLink opens in a new window |
| 6 November | Tianqi Gao (Cambridge) | Next-Generation HV-MAPS and LGAD Pixel Detectors for Particle Tracking and LiDAR ApplicationsLink opens in a new window |
| 30 October | Eleonora Rossi (Oxford) | ATLAS H -> 渭渭Link opens in a new window |
| 23 October | Teppei Katori (King's College London) | Water-based quantum dots liquid scintillator for particle physicsLink opens in a new window |
| 16 October | Jackson Barr (UCL) | Flavour Tagging at ATLASLink opens in a new window |
| 9 October | Chris Palmer (Maryland) | Precision at Peak Performance: CMS Delivers the Most Precise<br />Luminosity Measurement at any bunched-beam hadron colliderLink opens in a new window |
Summer term 2025
(Seminars are on Thursdays at 16:00)
| 26 June | ||
| 19 June | ||
| 12 June | Adrian Hillier | An introduction to the ISIS Muon facility, applications and potential synergies |
| 5 June | ||
| 29 May | Mark Owen (Glasgow) | Precision measurement of the top quark mass with the ATLAS detector at the LHC |
| 22 May | Vladimir Vava Gligorov (LPNHE/CNRS) | Mirages, Oases, Mountains: a journey through the Standard ModelLink opens in a new window |
| 15 May (PS0.17) | Paul Swallow (Cambridge) | ANUBIS: Searching for Exotic Long-Lived ParticlesLink opens in a new window |
| 8 May | ||
| 1 May | ||
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Spring term 2025
(Seminars are on Thursdays at 16:00)
| 13 March | Lars Henkelmann (Cambridge) | Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS |
| 6 March | ||
| 27 Feb | Niall McHugh (Glasgow) | Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb |
| 20 Feb | Paul Harrison (海角社区) | Unitarity triangle angles explained: a predictive new quark mass matrix texture Link opens in a new window(abstract) |
| 13 Feb (12:00) | Adriana Milic (CERN) | Expanding the ATLAS discovery potentialLink opens in a new window |
| 6 Feb | Fernando Abudin茅n (海角社区) | |
| 30 Jan | Stephen Maple (Birmingham) | Tracking with the ePIC detector at the EICLink opens in a new window |
| 23 Jan | Andrew Pilkington (Manchester) | FCC-hh: Understanding the universe |
| 16 Jan | Jack Shergold (IFIC, Valencia) | Hunting for the cosmic neutrino backgroundLink opens in a new window |
| 9 Jan | Elliot Reynolds (Kansas) | Probing the associated production of the Higgs boson and charm quarks at ATLASLink opens in a new window |
Autumn term 2024
| 5 December | No seminar | |
| 28 November | Josh Bendavid (MIT) | Measurement of the W boson mass at CMSLink opens in a new window |
| 21 November | Joel Swallow (INFN - Frascati) | New measurement of the K+ -> pi+nunu decay by the NA62 ExperimentLink opens in a new window |
| 14 November | Alexander Booth (QMUL) | NOvA neutrino oscillation resultsLink opens in a new window |
| 7 November | Alex Keshavarzi (Manchester) | The Proton EDM ExperimentLink opens in a new window |
| 31 October | Chris Pollard (海角社区) | Likelihood-free inference: what does it mean, why should you care, and where are the dragons? |
| 24 October | Andrew Blue (Glasgow) | ATLAS ITk StripsLink opens in a new window |
| 17 October | Paul Newman (Birmingham) | The Electron-Ion ColliderLink opens in a new window |
| 10 October | Mo Ghani (海角社区) | Student presentation |
| 3 October | Brij Kishor Jashal (RAL PPD) | Triggering new discoveries: Advancements in Real-Time Analysis for Expanding Physics Reach at LHCbLink opens in a new window |
Summer term 2024
| 27 June | Lorenzo Paolucci (海角社区) | Student presentation |
| 20 June | Farida Fassi (Mohammed V) | African Strategy For Fundamental and Applied PhysicsLink opens in a new window |
| 13 June | Patrick Knights (Birmingham) | Searching for light-dark matter with NEWS-GLink opens in a new window |
| 6 June | Ethan Lewis Simpson (Manchester) | Entangled in Tops: How we turned the LHC into the world鈥檚 largest quantum information experiment |
| 30 May | No seminar | |
| 23 May | Gareth Bird (Cambridge) | Heavy Neutral Leptons and Slow-Moving Particles at ATLASLink opens in a new window |
| 16 May | Emir Muhammad (海角社区) | Student presentation |
| 9 May | Stefano Vergani (UCL) | ANITA and PUEO |
| 2 May | Alex Gilman (Oxford) | BES-III |
| 25th April | Bruce Mellado (Witwatersrand, iThemba LABS) | New scalars at the EW scale? |
Spring term 2024
| 14 March | No seminar | |
| 7 March | Angela Romano (Birmimgham) | HIKE |
| 29 Feb | No seminar | |
| 22 Feb | Raul Rabadan (海角社区) | LHCb results |
| 15 Feb | Stefan Schacht (Manchester) | Theory of Charm CP Violation |
| 8 Feb | Sarah Williams (Cambridge) | The Future Circular Collider as a Higgs/top/EW Factory: status and plans for FCC-ee |
| 1 Feb | Roxanne Guenette (Manchester) | Searching for Majorana neutrinos with NEXTLink opens in a new window |
| 25 Jan | Javira Altmann (Monash) | Hadronisation in Pythia |
| 18 Jan | Jan Kretzschmar (Liverpool) | News from the W boson |
| 11 Jan | Afroditi Papadopoulou (Argonne) | Exclusive proton final-states and kinematic imbalance in differential neutrino cross sections with the MicroBooNE detector |
Autumn term 2023
| 7 December | No seminar | No seminar |
| 30 November | Thomas Teubner (Liverpool) | g-2 theory |
| 23 November | Danny Van-dyk (IPPP Durham) |
The Phenomenology of Rare b 鈫� sl+l鈭� Decays |
| 16 November | Matt LeBlanc (Manchester) | Precision jet measurements with ATLAS |
| 9 November | Maria Ubiali (Cambridge) | Parton Distribution Functions |
| 2 November | Brian Foster (Oxford) | HALHF |
| 26 October | Anja Beck (海角社区) | Rare b-baryon decays: how to study penguins in the jungle |
| 19 October | Josh Mcfayden (Sussex) | |
| 12 October | Daria Santone (Oxford) | Darkside 20k |
| 5 October | Ce Zhang (Liverpool) | g-2 |
Summer term 2023
All seminars are in MAS2.05/2.06 this term, unless otherwise indicated.
| 29 June | Postponed to next term | |
| 22 June | Karol Krizka (Birmingham) | Muon collider |
| 15 June | Giuseppe Salamanna (Rome) | Status and Prospects of LEGEND |
| 8 June | Isobel Mawby (海角社区) | DUNE |
| 1 June | postponed to next term | |
| 25 May (B2.02) | Kang Yang (Oxford) | Differential cross-section measurements from ProtoDUNE |
| 18 May | No seminar | |
| 11 May | No seminar | |
| 4 May | Jonathan Burr (Cambridge) | Anubis |
| 27 April | Robert Ward (Birmingham) | Exclusive decays of the Higgs and Z bosons to a meson and a photon at ATLAS |
Spring term 2023
All seminars are in MAS2.05/2.06 this term. Seminar on 19th Jan is coordinated with Birmingham.
| 16 March | Nicole Skidmore (Manchester) | LHCb |
| 9 March | Karolos Potamianos (海角社区) | Vector Boson Scattering to Unravel EWSB and Probe BSM PhysicsLink opens in a new window |
| 2 March | No seminar | |
| 23 Feb | Keri Vos (Maastricht) | Solving Beautiful Puzzles |
| 16 Feb | No seminar | -- |
| 9 Feb | Martin Tat (Oxford) | New model independent measurement of the CKM angle gamma with LHCb |
| 2 Feb | Chris Brady (海角社区) | File IO and Network IO challenges and solutions |
| 26 Jan | Laura Gonella (Birmingham) | Novel Silicon Tracker Technologies for the HL-LHC and beyond |
| 19 Jan | Mathieu Perrin-Terrin (Marseille) | NuTag |
| 12 Jan | Iwan Morton-Blake (Oxford) | TRIDENT: A Next-Generation Neutrino Telescope in the South China Sea |
Autumn term 2022
| 8 December |
Andy Chappell (海角社区) | Neutrino interaction vertex reconstruction at DUNE |
| 1 December (MAS 2.05/6) | Matthew McCullough (CERN) | The Higgs boson under a microscope |
| 24 November (MAS 2.05/6) | No seminar | |
| 17 November (MAS 2.05/6) | Linda Cremonesi (QMUL) | Neutrino oscillation analyses (and much more) at the NOvA experiment |
| 10 November (MAS 2.05/6) | Joe Davighi (Zurich) | Theory talk on anomalies and model building |
| 3 November (MAS 2.05/6) | Seminar postponed to January | -- |
| 27 October (MAS 2.05/6) | No seminar | -- |
| 20 October (MAS 2.05/6) | Stefano de Capua (Manchester) | LHCb's upgraded VELO |
| 13 October (MAS 2.05/6) | Luismi Garcia (海角社区) | |
| 6 October (MAS 2.05/6) |
Asher Kaboth | LZ |
Summer term 2022
| 30 June (MAS 2.05/06) |
Pete Millington (Manchester) | Destigmatising modified gravity |
| 23 June |
Harry Cliff (Cambridge) | Rare B decay results from LHCb, and public engagement |
| 16 June (MAS 2.05/06) |
No seminar | |
| 9 June (MAS 2.05/06) |
Jesse Liu (Cambridge) | ATLAS PbPb -> tautau |
| 2 June (no seminar) |
-- Spring Bank Holiday in UK -- | --- |
| 26 May (VIRTUAL) |
Zuzana Gruberov谩 (Charles Uni., Prague) | Belle II |
| 19 May (PS0.17) |
Tom Neep (Birmingham) | Rare Event Searches with Gaseous detectors |
| 12 May (MAS 2.05/06) |
Chris Hays (Oxford) | CDF W mass measurement |
| 5 May (PS0.17) |
Matt Kenzie (海角社区) | Custom Orthogonal Weight functions (COWs) |
| 28 April (MAS 2.05/06) |
Paschal Coyle (CPPM Marseille) | Fishing for neutrinos: Astroparticle and Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the AbyssLink opens in a new window |
Spring term 2022 (L3 in the science concourse and/or virtual)
| 17 March | Menglin Xu (海角社区) | Neutral current Drell-Yan angular coefficients at LHCb |
| 10 March (virtual) | Dan Craik (MIT) | Intrinsic charm and Z+charm at LHCb |
| 3 March (in person) | Alex Gilman (Oxford) | BES-III: Leptonic and semileptonic decays of charmed hadrons |
| 24 Feb (in person) | Andrew Chisholm (Birmingham) | Exploring the Higgs boson's coupling to the charm quark with the ATLAS experiment |
| 17 Feb (in person) | Steve Dennis (Cambridge) | Microboone |
| 10 Feb (virtual) | Arnau Brossa Gonzalo (海角社区) | Charmless B hadron decays |
| 3rd Feb (in person) | Jack Shergold (IPPP Durham) | Relic neutrinos at accelerator experiments |
| 27th Jan (in person in L3) | Ken Mimasu (Kings) | EFT |
| 20th Jan (in person in L3) | Giovanni Barontini (Birmingham) | QSNET |
| 13th Jan (virtual) | Ipsita Ray (IIT Guwahati) | New physics in neutral current b to s decays |
Autumn term 2021
| 9 December (mode TBD) | Matt Kenzie (海角社区) | The CKM angle gamma |
| 2 December | ||
| 25 November (in person) | Gavin Morley (海角社区) | Quantum gravity test |
| 18 November (in person) | Eleanor Jones (海角社区) | b-tagging and its applications in H->bb decays at ATLAS |
| 11 November (virtual) | Felix Kling (DESY) | Forward Physics Facility |
| 4 November (in person) | Fernando Abudinen (海角社区) | Recent B-physics results and prospects at Belle II. |
| 28 October (virtual) | Philip Sommer (Sheffield) | Probing the electroweak sector with single- and multiboson measurements at the LHC |
| 21 October (in person) | Ashlea Kemp (Queen's and RHUL) | DEAP3600 |
| 14 October (virtual) | Miaoyuan Liu (FNAL) | Accelerated machine learning for triggering |
| 7 October (virtual) | Vanya Belyaev (NRC "Kurchatov Institute" (ITEP) (RU)) | Double charmed tetraquark |
Spring term 2021 [virtual seminars]
| 18 March | Paolo Agnes (Houston) | Darkside |
| 11 March | Anthony Morley (CERN) | |
| 4 March | Josh Mcfayden (Sussex) | FASER (incl. FASERnu) |
| 25 Feb | Jost Migenda (KCL) (invitation extended to astro) | Neutrino Astronomy with Hyper-Kamiokande |
| 18 Feb | Laurence Nevay (Royal Holloway) | Bridging the Machine Detector Interface |
| 11 Feb | Ben Kilminster (Zurich) | DAMIC |
| 4 Feb | Adlene Hicheur (Constantine, UFRJ Rio) | Semileptonic b decays at LHCb |
| 28 Jan | Sarah Malik (UCL) | Quantum computing for HEP |
| 21 Jan | Richard Bates (Glasgow) | Recent developments in semiconductor sensors |
| 14 Jan | Luis Miguel Garcia Martin (海角社区) | Radiative decays at LHCb |
Autumn term 2020 [virtual seminars]
| 8 October | Daniel Johnson (CERN) | Discovery of open charm tetraquark |
| 15 October | Evgueni Goudzovski (Birmingham) | Latest NA62 results on K->pnunubar and future prospects for kaon program |
| 22 October | Eluned Smith (Aachen) | LHCb B->K*mumu angular analysis |
| 29 October | Guennadi Borisov (Lancaster) | ATLAS LFU test with W->taunu |
| 5 November | Will Sutcliffe (Bonn) | Belle-II first physics and full event reconstruction |
| 12 November | Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield) | ATLAS gamma gamma to WW |
| 19 November | Miguel Ramos Pernas (海角社区) | Search for Ks -> mumu and rare kaon decay prospects with LHCb |
| 26 November | Maria Brunetti (海角社区) | Event reconstruction for DUNE |
| 3 December | High profile result postponed to next term | |
| 10 December | Oleg Brandt (Cambridge) | ANUBIS experiment proposal |
Summer term 2020
| 25 June |
Kathrin Becker (海角社区) (VIRTUAL) | ATLAS Higgs -> tautau CP |
| 18 June |
Elliot Reynolds (Birmingham) (VIRTUAL) | Higgs to ZA search at ATLAS |
| 11 June |
Laura Harkness-Brennan (VIRTUAL) | Gamma ray detectors |
| 4 June |
No seminar | |
| 28 May |
Sarah Williams (Cambridge) (VIRTUAL) | SUSY searches |
| 20 May (Wednesday!) |
Kathrin Valerius (IKP Karlsruhe) (VIRTUAL) | Katrin |
| 14 May |
Owen Goodwin (Manchester) (VIRTUAL) | Microboone heavy neutral lepton search |
| 7 May |
No seminar | Original seminar postponed |
| 30 April |
No seminar | Original seminar postponed to Autumn term |
| 23 April |
No seminar | Original seminar postponed to 28 May |
Spring term 2020
| 12 March | Ioannis Manthos (Thessaloniki) | PICOSEC micromegas (shared with Birmingham) |
| 5 March | ||
| 27 Feb | Matteo Duranti (INFN-Perugia) | Latest results from AMS, and future cosmic ray space experiments (shared with Birmingham) |
| 20 Feb (17:00) | Asher Kaboth (RHUL) | T2K. (note the later start time so that we can also attend the colloquium) |
| 13 Feb | Samuel Webb (Imperial) | The CMS HGCal |
| 6 Feb | Xiaohu Sun (Manchester) | Probing the Higgs self-coupling with the ATLAS detector |
| 30 January | Mathew Malek (Sheffied) | Watchman |
| 23 January | Sneha Malde (Oxford) | BES-III results |
| 16 January | Patricia Magalhaes (Bristol) | Multibody hadron decay theory |
| 9 January | Lucian Harland-Lang (Oxford) | Parton distribution functions |
Autumn term 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title (link to slides) |
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| 5 December | Chris Rogers (RAL) | MICE |
| 28 November | Chris Parkinson (Birmingham) | NA62 |
| 21 November | Alex Murphy (Edinburgh) | Dark matter searches |
| 14 November | Adam Barton (Lancaster) | |
| 7 November | Eva Vilella (Liverpool) | |
| 31 October | Lydia Beresford (Oxford) | |
| 24 October | Ulla Blumenschein (QMUL) | |
| 17 October | Tom Neep (Birmingham) | |
| 10 October | Alfons Weber (Oxford) | |
| 3 October | Matt Kenzie (海角社区) |
2019 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 27 June | Paula Alvarez Cartelle (Imperial) | Search for lepton universality violation in B -> Kll decays. |
| 13 June | Aleksei Rusov (IPPP) | On the discovery of CP violation in charm decays |
| 6 June | Iacopo Vivarelli (Sussex) | The dream calorimeter for CepC.pdf |
| 30 May | Behzad Hossini (Imperial) | Solid: short distance neutrino oscillations |
| 23 May | Miriam Watson (Birmingham) | Spinning Topspdf |
| 9 May | Monika Weilers (RAL) | HL-LHC and HE-LHC physics prospects Slides |
| 2 May | Phil Ilten (Birmingham) | The darkside of true muonium |
| 25 April | Paul Frampton | Microlensing |
| 7 March | Andy Chappell / Chris McNicol (海角社区) | Measuring the neutrino CP phase & mass ordering / Search for heavy dimuon resonances + b-jetschappell seminar McNichol seminar |
| 28 February | Jon Coleman | Atom interferometry |
| 21 February | Sebastian Trojanowski (Sheffield) | FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHCpdf |
| 7 February | Ben Allanach (Cambridge) | B-anomalies: The physics case for future colliders pdf |
| 17 January | Christoph Englert (Durham) | Collider Phenomenology pdf |
| 10 January | Thomas Koffas | Strong-Field QED pptx |
2018 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 29 November | Agni Bethani (Manchester) | Di-Higgs and related physics at ATLASagni |
| 22 November | Chris Sachrajda (Southampton) | Precision Flavour Physics and Lattice QCD - A path to discovering new physics |
| 15 November | Tim Gershon (海角社区) | Tetraquarks and pentaquarks |
| 1 November | Teppei Katori (QMUL) | Observation of a Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment pdf |
| 25 October | Bill Murray (海角社区) | CepC and other options in collider physics |
| 11 October | Jim Libby (IIT Madras) | Belle II: flavour physics at the intensity frontier pdf |
| 28 June | Ioannis Katsioulas (Saclay) | NEWS-G dark matter search pdf |
| 14 June | Uta Klein (Liverpool) | Electrons for the LHC |
| 31 May | Todd Huffman (Oxford) | The "Multiplicity Jump"! - Finding B鈥檚 in Multi-TeV jets without tracks pptx |
| 24 May | Linda Cremonesi (UCL) | Hunting ultra high energy neutrinos with the ANITA experiment |
| 29 March | Xianguo LU (Oxford) | Neutrino Shadow Play: Neutrino interactions for oscillation measurements |
| 15 March | Rebecca Chislett (UCL) | The g-2 experiment at Fermilab pptx |
| 8 March | Kathrin Becker (Freiburg) | Higgs couplings from LHC pdf |
| 1 March | Susan Cartwright (Sheffield) | T2K status and results pptx |
| 8 February | Stewart Martin-Haugh (RAL) | Light-by-light scattering |
| 18 January | Nicola McConkey (Sheffield) | SBND and DUNE - state of the art liquid argon TPCs for neutrino physics |
2017 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 23 November | Simone Bifani (Birmingham) | R(K*) at LHCb |
| 16 November | Andreas Goudelis (LPTHE) | TBA |
| 2 November | Moritz Backes (Oxford) | SUSY searches at ATLAS |
| 26 October | Greg Ciezarek (CERN) | R(D*) at LHCb |
| 29 June | Nansi Andari (Birmingham) | ATLAS W mass measurement |
| 22 June | Andr茅 Mischke (Utrecht) | Parton energy loss of heavy-quarks in hot QCD matter |
| 1 June | Jon Davis (Kings) | Neutrino Astronomy and Direct Detection |
| 25 May | Luigi Delle Rosse (Southampton) | Explanation of the 17 MeV Atomki Anomaly |
| 4 May | Matt Kenzie (Cambridge) | Measuring the CKM angle 纬 |
| 9 March | Neville Harnew (Oxford) | TORCH |
| 2 March | Maria Ubiali (Cambridge) | NNPDF |
| 23 February | Alan Watson (Leeds) | Pierre Auger |
| 9 February | Randolf Pohl (Mainz) | Proton radius puzzle |
| 19 January | Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield) | Dark matter searches and plans for LUX-ZEPLIN |
2016 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 21 January | Dan Johnson (CERN) | CEP at LHCb: results and prospects |
| 4 February | Pier-Olivier Deviveiros (CERN) | Tau Reconstruction and analyses at ATLAS |
| 11 February | Antonin Vacheret (Oxford) | SoLid: search for a new kind of matter with a compact composite scintillator detector |
| 25 February | Antony Carver (Clatteerbridge) | Cancer therapy |
| 17 March | Sarah Malik (Imperial College) | Review of the status and future prospects of dark matter searches at colliders |
| 28 April | Stephen West (RHUL) | Big Bang Synthesis of Nuclear Dark Matter |
| 5 May | Jason Cole (Imperial College) | Plasma wakefield acceleration |
| 19 May | Tim Burns (Swansea) | Tetra and pentaquark states |
| 26 May | Ajit Kurup (Imperial College) | COMET |
| 2 June | Sneha Malde (Oxford) | CKM angle gamma |
| 9 June | Simon Wehle (DESY) | Rare B decays at Belle |
| 20 October | Hamish Gordon (Leeds) | Overview of the CLOUD experiment and recent highlights |
| 27 October | Andrzej Szelc (Manchester) | ArgoNeuT and LArIAT: Towards Big Physics through Small LArTPCs |
| 17 November | David Jackson | How to Build a Unified Field Theory from One Dimension |
| 8 December | Mark Owen (Glasgow) | Top physics at ATLAS |
2015 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 15. January | Max Baak (CERN) | The Overall Fit to the Standard Model |
| 22. January | Iris Gebauer (KIT Karlsruhe) | AMS |
| 29. January | Richard Mudd (Birmingham) | Higgs coupling measurements with ATLAS |
| 15. October | Alex Martyniuk (UCL) | |
| 29. October | Chris Parkinson (Birmingham) | Status and prospects of the NA62 experiment |
| 12. November | Louis Lyons (Imperial) | |
| 19. November | Tim Martin (海角社区) | Global properties of inelastic pp interactions in early 13 TeV data |
| 26. November | Bruno Zamorano (Sussex) | Neutrino oscillation results from NOVA |
| 3. December | Christoph Langenbruch (海角社区) | |
| 10. December | Leigh Whitehead (UCL) | The CHIPS experiment |
2014 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 30. January | John Marshall (Cambridge) | Linear Collider |
| 20. February | Simon Jolly (UCL) | Proton Therapy |
| 6. March | Sinead Farrington (海角社区) | Higgs physics at ATLAS |
| 13. March | Roxanne Guenette (Oxford) | Searching for sterile neutrinos with LAr detectors |
| 24. April | Matt Barrett (University of Hawaii) | Particle identification at Belle II |
| 8. May | Stephen Farry (Liverpool) | EWK physics at LHCb |
| 22. May | Mitesh Patel (ICL) | Heavy Neutral Leptons |
| 29. May | Phil Burrows (Oxford) | The International Linear Collider Higgs Factory |
| 12. June | Nikolaos Rampotis (Washigton University) | Collider Searches for BSM Higgs Bosons |
| 3. July | Peter Skands | Modeling Hadronic Interactions in PYTHIA |
| 14. July | Csaba Balazs (Monash) | Thermal dark matter implies new physics below PeV |
| 16. October | Michal Kreps (海角社区) | Exotic spectroscopy at LHCb: Z(4430)+ |
| 20. November | Thomas Latham (海角社区) | Ds meson spectroscopy at LHCb |
| 27. November | Aur茅lien Benoit-L茅vy (UCL) | Inflation, B-modes and dust: Planck's view on BICEP2 results |
2013 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 17. January | Mark Lancaster (UCL) | Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon |
| 21. February | Ryan Terri (Queen Mary) | "Understanding" Neutrino Interactions In Oscillation Experiments |
| 28. February | Tim Martin (海角社区) | Diffractive interaction at the LHC |
| 14. March | V茅ronique Boisvert | Top physics |
| 20. June | Elisa Pueschel (University of Massachusetts) | Exotics Searches at ATLAS |
| 27. June | David Bugg (Queen Mary) | Galaxies and Quantum Mechanics |
| 24. October | Alexander Lenz (Durham) | The status of flavour physics in 2013 |
| 30. October | Bill Murray (海角社区) | TLEP and the HL-HLC: what do they bring |
| 5. December | Rachel Dowdall (Cambridge) | Heavy quarks on the lattice |
2012 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19th January | Sebastian Jaeger (Sussex) | |
| 1. February | Michael Feindt (KIT Karlsruhe) |
NeuroBayes - Predictive Analytics for High Energy Physics and "Real Life" (Colloquium) |
| 16th February | Serguei Ganjour (CEA/Saclay) |
Search for the Higgs Boson with the CMS experiment at the LHC |
| 17th February | David Waters (UCL) | No-Neutrino Physics : The Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay |
| 1st March | Mark Hadley (海角社区) | Explaining CP violation using General Relativity |
| 22nd March | Frank Kraus (Durham) | Event generation for the LHC |
| 25. July | Alfons Weber (RAL/Oxford) | News from the Neutrino Front (Colloquium) |
| 25. July |
Sinead Farrington (海角社区) | The Search for the Higgs Boson (Colloquium) |
| 7. August |
Bill Murray (RAL) | The Implications of the New Boson at the LHC (Colloquium) |
| 11. October | Bo Jayatilaka (Duke University) | Precision measurement of W mass at CDF experiment |
| 15. November | Mitesh Patel (ICL) | Rare decays at LHCb |
| 29. November | Dean Hidas | Diamond detectors in particle physics |
| 6. December | Sinead Farrington (海角社区) | TBA |
2011 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd February | Michal Kreps (海角社区) | |
| 17th February | Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway) | |
| 24th February | Mark Thomson (Cambridge) | Particle Flow Algorithms |
| 3rd March |
Mike Charlton (Swansea) | Trapped antihydrogen |
| 17th March |
Cristine Davies (Glasgow) | |
| 19th May | Paul Newman (Birmingham) | The Large Hadron Electron Project (LHeC) |
| 9th June | Michal Kreps (海角社区) | Neurobayes HOWTO |
| 17th November | Neil Spooner (Sheffield) | Galactic Signatures for WIMP Dark Matter |
| 15th December | Peter Krizan (Ljublana) |
2010 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4th Feb. | Steve King (Southampton) | Neutrinos and the flavour problem |
| 11th Feb. | Evgueni Goudsovski (Birmingham) | Precision Test of Lepton Universality at the CERN NA62 Experiment |
| 18th Feb. | Paula Chadwick (Durham) | Recent results from HESS |
| 11th March | Steve Chun-Hay Kom(Cambridge) | Probing mechanisms of neutrinoless double beta decay at the LHC |
| 29th April | Steve Biller(Oxford) | Status of the SNO+ Project |
| 11th August | Michal Kreps (Karlsruhe) | Neural networks in data analysis |
| 26th August | EPP Summer Students | LHCb VELO Material, Reconstruction in Liquid Argon TPCs, Ultra Sensitive Charge Spectroscopy (video) |
| 28th October | Geunnadi Borisov (Lancaster) | Possible Anomalous CP-Violation from Neutral B-Meson Mixing |
| 4th November | Ryan Nichol (UCL) | Latest Results from the MINOS Experiment |
| 25th November - postponed (due to illness) |
Paul Newman (Birmingham) | The Large Hadron Electron Project (LHeC) |
| 9th December |
Aidan Robson (Glasgow) | Higgs Physics at the Tevatron |
2009 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 29th Jan. | Themis Bowcock (Liverpool) | Searching for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider |
| 5th March | Cristina Lazzeroni (Birmingham) | News from NA62 |
| 12th March | Chris Orme() | The Phenomenology of Beta Beams |
| 2nd April | Marcel Stanitski (RAL) | Pixel Detector Development for the ILC |
| 23rd April | Bill Scott (RAL) | Flavour Physics |
| 21th May | Goran Skoro (Sheffield) | Status of High Power Target R&D |
| 16th July | Chris Parkes (Glasgow) | Status of the LHCb Vertex Locator |
| 24th Sept | Marni Sheppeard (Oxford) | Categorical Combinatorics for Scattering Amplitudes |
| 12th Nov | Henrique Araujo (Imperial) | Dark matter searched with Zeplin III |
| 19th Nov | Yoshi Uchida (Imperial) | Charged lepton flavour violation |
| 26th Nov | Andrew Pilkington (Manchester) | Diffractive physics at the LHC |
| 10th Dec | Joerg Jaeckel (Durham) | New physics at low energies |
2008 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 7th Feb. | Andrew Kirk () | Nuclear Fusion: On Earth as it is in Heaven? |
| 21st Feb | Chris Densham () | Developments in High Power Targetry for Neutrino Beams |
| 6th March | Stuart Green () | Developments in Radiotherapy Using Particle Beams |
| 13th March | Matthew Barrett () | Investigating B->tau nu at BaBar with New Statistical Techniques |
| 23th April | Phillip Litchfield (海角社区) | First results from analysis of MINOS Neutral Current events |
| 24th April | Tom Latham (海角社区) | Evidence for Direct CP-Violation From a Dalitz Analysis of B -> K pi pi |
| 1st May | Chris Hill () | Green HEP: Doing Particle Physics with Beam Switched OFF |
| 15th May | Geunnadi Borisov() | New CP-Violation Results from D0 |
| 22nd May | Alan Watson () | Is the Search for the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Over? |
| 4th Sept | Antony Carver, Martin Haigh | 2nd year graduate student seminar |
| 2nd October | Louis Lyons () | Do's and Dont's with Likelihood Functions |
| 16th October | Philip Harris (Sussex) | Testing Time Reversal -- the Search for the Neutron EDM |
| 30th October | Graham Ross (Oxford) | Theoretical models of neutrino parameters |
| 13th November | Hans Kraus (Oxford) | Experimental status of dark matter searches |
2007 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Feb | Paul D. Jackson() | Leptonic decays of the B: a rare window to New Physics |
| 1st March | John Back(海角社区) | Neutrino Factory R&D Status |
| 10th May | Morgan Wascko() | Latest Results from MiniBooNE |
| 7th June | Sophy Palmer() | Weak Boson Fusion in the MSSM |
| 14th June | Tim Gershon(海角社区) | Super Flavour Factory |
| 21st June | Anne Green() | Inflation: A Status Report |
| 11th Oct | Roger Barlow() | Results From Small Numbers |
| 18th Oct | Ryan Nichol() | Neutrino Astronomy |
| 25th Oct | Gagan Mohanty(海角社区) | Charmless Hadronic B decays at BaBar |
| 15th Nov | Jelena Ilic and Dan Roythorne | 2nd year graduate student status reports |
| 29th Nov | Jim Libby() | UT gamma measurements: LHCb prospects with the help of CLEOc' |
| 6th Dec | John Thornby(海角社区) | AMBER:A novel approach to direct neutrino mass measurement |
2006 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd March | Cristina Lazzeroni () | Recent results from NA48 on kaon and hyperon physics |
| 23rd March | Peter Norreys () | Laser Accelerators |
| 4th May | David Bugg() | Non-standard 0+ mesons |
| 11th May | Byran Webber () | Black Holes at Accelerators |
| 18h May | Mike Kordosky () | Preliminary Results Of An Accelerator Based Search For Muon-Neutrino Disappearance By The MINOS Experiment |
| 25th May | Ed Hinds () | Status of Electric Dipole Moment Experiments |
| 29th June | Danielle Stewart, John Thornby | Reserved for 2nd-year postgraduate research seminars |
| 12th Oct. | Tim Gershon() | Review of the Beauty 2006 Conference, Oxford |
| 16th Nov. | Claire Gwenlan() Cancelled due to ill health | Proton Structure |
| 30th Nov. | Sinead Farrington() | The Measurement of Bs Mixing with CDF (N.B. start at 15:00) |
| 7th Dec. | Sheila Rowan () | Status of Gravitational Wave Searches |
| TBA | Chris Densham () | Targets for High Power Proton Beams |
| TBA | Yoshi Uchida () | Measuring Neutrino Mixing Parameters |
2005 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 20th January | Lee Thompson () | Listening for Neutrinos: The ACORNE Project |
| 17th February | Guy Wilkinson () | LHCb Physics Prospects and Detector Status |
| 21st April | Bill Murray () | Neutrino Factories and Ionisation Cooling |
| 9th June | Sandip Pakvasa () | On LSND and Shortcuts in Extra Dimensions |
| 20th June | Tom Weiler () | The Use of Neutrino Flavor in Astrophysics |
| 7th July | Steve McMahon () | ATLAS Physics Prospects and Detector Status |
| 5th August | Tim Gershon () | Latest results on CP violation from Belle |
| 6th Oct. | Ben Morgan (海角社区) | WIMP detection with directional detectors |
| 27th Oct. | Paul Harrison (海角社区) | Leptonic Mixings from a Variational Principle |
| Nov. 3rd | Mike Pennington () | What heavy flavour decays can teach us about light meson physics and what you need to know about light quark dynamics to extract useful information from heavy flavour decays |
| 17th Nov. | Patrick Huber (Wisconsin) | The future of neutrino physics - The race for theta_13 |
| 24th Nov. | David Evans (Birmingham) | Status of the ALICE experiment at the LHC |
| 1st Dec. | Nigel Smith () | Searching for WIMPs in the UK |
| 8th Dec. | Silvia Pascoli () | Determining the neutrino mass hierachy |
2004 Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 26th October | Phil Burrows () | The Linear Collider: Microscope on TeV-Scale Physics |
Colloquia
| 10th November, 2004 | Gary Barker, Paul Harrison, Yorck Ramachers | Neutrino Physics at 海角社区 (Barker, Harrison, ) |
| 30th November, 2005 | Kevin McFarland () | Neutrinos: worth the wait |
| 2006 | Brian Foster (Oxford) | The Linear Collider |
| 11th Feb., 2009 | Ken Long (Imperial College) | The Neutrino Factory and MICE |