Past seminars and colloquia

We host a vibrant and stimulating calendar of academic seminars that are open to members of the Department of Physics and the wider University of Oxford community as well as invited visitors. Members of the Department of Physics can subscribe to themed mailing lists for alerts; see the full programme of what's coming up or search the past seminars and colloquia below...

Testing dark forces with the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Diego Redigolo

25 Jan 2024, 4:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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ALP Seminar: Improving and imaging laser-based radiation sources

Christopher D Murphy (University of York)

Publications

29 Jan 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Extra Galaxy Evolution Seminar -- Lulu Zhang

29 Jan 2024, 12:00pm - 29 Jan 2024, 1:00pm
Room
Beecroft Seminar Room
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Dr Sandro Tacchella

29 Jan 2024, 2:00pm - 29 Jan 2024, 3:00pm
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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FPF @ CERN: The Astroparticle Connection

Professor Subir Sarkar
University of Oxford

30 Jan 2024, 2:15pm
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Titus Neupert

Titus Neupert (University of Zurich)

31 Jan 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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AOPP Seminar - Populations of comets: which one will reveal the origins of the solar system?

Dr Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre (LGL-TPE, University of Lyon)

01 Feb 2024, 11:30am - 01 Feb 2024, 12:30pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
Room
Dobson Room (AOPP) & Zoom
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EW corrections in SMEFT

Benjamin Pecjak

01 Feb 2024, 4:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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ALP Seminar: Radiation modelling for HEDP and ICF experiments

Dr Aidan Crilly (Imperial College, London)

05 Feb 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Sophia Vaughan, Dr Lyla Jung and Dr Joe Bright

Sophia Vaughan 

Dr Lyla Jung

Dr Joe Bright

05 Feb 2024, 2:00pm - 05 Feb 2024, 3:00pm
Seminar series
Astrophysics colloquia
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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Cosmology seminar - Shin’ichiro Ando

Shin’ichiro Ando (U. of Amsterdam)

06 Feb 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
Cosmology
Room
Beecroft Seminar Room
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Entangled in Tops: How we turned the LHC into the world's largest quantum experiment

Ethan Simpson
University of Manchester

06 Feb 2024, 2:15pm
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Benedikt Placke

Benedikt Placke (Oxford)

07 Feb 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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AOPP Seminar - Windows of opportunity for predicting near-term climate extremes

Dr Nick Dunstone (Met Office)

08 Feb 2024, 11:30am - 08 Feb 2024, 12:30pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
Room
Dobson Room (AOPP) & Zoom
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TBA

Miguel Montero

08 Feb 2024, 4:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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ALP Seminar: Making and Probing Coupled 2D Quantum Field Simulator

Dr Shinichi Sunami (Oxford)

12 Feb 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Dr Harry Desmond

Harry Desmond 

12 Feb 2024, 2:00pm - 12 Feb 2024, 3:00pm
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Nicolas Regnault

Nicolas Regnault (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris and CNRS)

14 Feb 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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AOPP Seminar - Understanding polar feedbacks in radiative-advective equilibrium

Prof Rodrigo Caballero (MISU, Stockholm University)

15 Feb 2024, 11:30am - 15 Feb 2024, 12:30pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
Room
Dobson Room (AOPP) & Zoom
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Axionic Extensions of the Standard Model

Kwang Sik Jeong

15 Feb 2024, 4:00pm - 15 Feb 2024, 5:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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ALP Seminar: Photonic spin glasses: from fundamentals to combinatorial optimization and machine learning

Prof. Claudio Conti, University Sapienza, Rome

19 Feb 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Prof Martin Hendry

Martin Hendry 

19 Feb 2024, 2:00pm - 19 Feb 2024, 3:00pm
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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LILAr & Q-Pix: developing novel light collection systems for pixelated TPCs

Dr. Elena Gramellini
University of Manchester

20 Feb 2024, 2:15pm
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Nur Ünal

Nur Ünal (Cambridge)

21 Feb 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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