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...

SoftBio Theory Seminar: Pattern formation by living droplets in chemoattractant gradients

Philip Pearce (University College London)

22 Apr 2024, 3:00pm - 22 Apr 2024, 4:00pm
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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QUEST-DMC: superfluid helium-3 calorimetry for low mass dark matter searches

Dr Elizabeth Leason
University of Oxford

23 Apr 2024, 2:15pm
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Jovan Jovanovic

Jovan Jovanovic (Oxford)

24 Apr 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Uncertainty quantification in enhanced weathering and implications for scaling open-system carbon dioxide removal

Dr Ella Holme (Isometric, New York)

25 Apr 2024, 12:00pm - 25 Apr 2024, 1:00pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
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Novel Probes of the Primordial Liquid

Krishna Rajagopal

25 Apr 2024, 4:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Machine-Learning in climate modelling at NCAR

Dr David John Gagne (US National Center for Atmospheric Research)

26 Apr 2024, 11:30am - 26 Apr 2024, 12:30pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
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ALP Seminar: Optical Learning Machines

Prof. Demetri Psaltis (EPFL)

29 Apr 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Dr Mark Clampin

Dr Mark Clampin

29 Apr 2024, 2:00pm - 29 Apr 2024, 3:00pm
Seminar series
Astrophysics colloquia
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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Growing excesses of new scalars at the Electro-weak scale at the LHC

Professor Bruce Mellado
University of the Witwatersrand/iThemba LABS

30 Apr 2024, 2:15pm
Seminar series
Experimental particle physics seminar
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Jonathan Classen-Howes

Jonathan Classen-Howes (Oxford)

01 May 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Stationary Rossby waves in a baroclinic atmospheric waveguide

Peiqiang Xu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

02 May 2024, 11:30am - 02 May 2024, 12:30pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
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Photoproduction and Ultra-peripheral collisions in Pythia 8

Ilkka Helenius

02 May 2024, 4:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Professor Andrew Hamilton

Prof Andrew Hamilton 

07 May 2024, 2:00pm - 07 May 2024, 3:00pm
Seminar series
Astrophysics colloquia
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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Investigating Solar System Origins with Occultations

Marc Buie (Southwest Research Institute)

08 May 2024, 11:30am - 08 May 2024, 12:30pm
Seminar series
AOPP seminar
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ALP Seminar: Exploring Classical and Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetimes: Lab-Based Investigations into Black Holes and Early Universe Physics

Prof. Silke Weinfurtner, University of Nottingham

09 May 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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The Fluctuating Spacetime of Dark Matter

Jeff A. Dror

09 May 2024, 4:00pm - 09 May 2024, 5:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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ALP Seminar: Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light

Prof. Marzena Szymanska, UCL

13 May 2024, 11:30am
Seminar series
ALP seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Early Career Showcase

13 May 2024, 2:00pm - 13 May 2024, 3:00pm
Seminar series
Astrophysics colloquia
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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CMT Forum: Ananda Roy

Ananda Roy (Rutgers)

15 May 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces

Amalia Madden (Perimeter)

16 May 2024, 1:00pm - 16 May 2024, 2:00pm
Seminar series
Dalitz seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Is the Coleman de Luccia action minimum?: AdS/CFT approach

Masahide Yamaguchi

16 May 2024, 4:00pm - 16 May 2024, 5:00pm
Seminar series
Theoretical particle physics seminar
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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SoftBio Theory Seminar: Liquid Hopfield model - retrieval and localization in heterogeneous liquid mixtures

Izaak Neri (King's College London)

20 May 2024, 2:00pm - 20 May 2024, 3:00pm
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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Dr Cherry Ng

Dr Cherry Ng

20 May 2024, 2:00pm - 20 May 2024, 3:00pm
Seminar series
Astrophysics colloquia
Room
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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Cosmology seminar - Florian Beutler

 Florian Beutler

21 May 2024, 11:30am - 21 May 2024, 12:30pm
Room
Beecroft Seminar Room
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CMT Forum: Paul Fendley

Paul Fendley (Oxford)

22 May 2024, 11:15am
Seminar series
CMT Forum
Room
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
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