School of Physical Sciences


2026-04-21 10:00: RSC Organic Chemistry Community South & East Regional Meeting 2026 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-04-21 10:00: Machine Learning for Spectral Geometry and Vice Versa (Justin Solomon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2026-04-21 11:15: Necessary mechanisms for super AI and stopping hallucinations: The consistent reasoning paradox and the indeterminacy function (Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge))

2026-04-21 12:00: Formalising mathematics and spectral geometry in Lean (Laura Monk (University of Bristol))

2026-04-21 14:00: Surface Dynamics of Graphene and h-BN:  Molecular Mobility and Vibrational Energy Dissipation (Dr Anton Tamtögl, Graz University of Technology)

2026-04-21 14:00: From Physics-informed Neural Networks to Numerically Verified Proofs in Geometric Analysis (Daniel Platt (Imperial College London))

2026-04-21 14:00: Spin wavs in magnetic textures and polarization waves in ferroelectric domains (Assoc. Prof. Yuelin Zhang (Beijing Normal University))

2026-04-21 14:15: Discussion II ()

2026-04-21 15:00: Yielding and Fluidization of Sheared and Active Amorphous Solids (Professor Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)

2026-04-21 15:30: Discussion II continued ()

2026-04-22 09:30: A flexible Monte Carlo quantitative bias analysis for unmeasured confounding (Rachael Hughes (University of Bristol))

2026-04-22 11:00: Topology of the Ritz energy landscape (Gregory Berkolaiko (Texas A&M University))

2026-04-22 14:00: Title abstract tbc (Susanna Terracini (Università degli Studi di Torino))

2026-04-22 19:15: Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England (Daniela De Angelis, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2026-04-23 14:00: Chiral Lattice gauge theories from symmetry disentanglers (Prof Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington))

2026-04-24 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Giovanni Maria Tomaselli (Princeton))

2026-04-27 12:30:  Life, death, and the discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-dependent Apoptotic Response  (Mike Lee PhD, Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School)

2026-04-27 14:30: Optimal metric and approximation of free boundary minimal surfaces (Edouard Oudet (Université Grenoble Alpes))

2026-04-27 16:00: Kirk Public Lecture | A proxy window into the beautiful and challenging world of causal attribution (Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania))

2026-04-28 16:00: How Much Does Homology Really Know? (Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster))

2026-04-28 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-04-29 13:30: Block complexity and idempotent Schur multipliers (Marcel Goh (McGill University))

2026-04-29 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Christopher Wolfe (Christopher Wolfe - Stony Brook University)

2026-04-29 14:00: Title and abstract tba (Delio Mugnolo (FernUniversität Hagen))

2026-04-29 14:30: Assembly of icosahedral quasicrystals from colloidal particles (Dr Eva G. Noya, Instituto de Química-Física “Blas Cabrera” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Calle Serrano 119, Madrid 28006, Spain)

2026-04-30 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Adrian E. Feiguin (Northeastern))

2026-04-30 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Ken Lewtas, The Falcon Project Ltd.)

2026-04-30 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Floris van Doorn (University of Bonn))

2026-05-01 11:00: Quantum graphs with a time asymmetry: spectral optimization and spectral statistics (Pavel Exner (Czech Technical University))

2026-05-04 14:00: TBC (Nicolas Burq)

2026-05-05 11:00: Trigger-Level Analysis at ATLAS (Tobias Fitschen (University of Manchester))

2026-05-05 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-05-06 14:00: Differences between Robin and Neumann eigenvalues (Igor Wigman (King's College London))

2026-05-06 14:00: Classical Reductions and Converse Bounds in Quantum Hypothesis Testing (Dr Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

2026-05-06 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Mihnea Popa (Harvard))

2026-05-06 14:30: How fast is Quantum?  Exploring the speed limits of quantum information spread (Dr Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-06 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Laura DeMarco (Harvard))

2026-05-06 16:15: The physics of decision: how competitive systems compute, route, and remember (Natalia Berloff (DAMTP))

2026-05-07 14:00: Synthesizing Diverse Policies for Multi-Agent Coordination (Prof. Amanda Prorok (Cambridge))

2026-05-11 10:00: Director's Briefing (Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute))

2026-05-11 10:05: Organiser Welcome (Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv University))

2026-05-11 10:15: Title TBC (Jon Keating (University of Oxford))

2026-05-11 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-11 11:45: Title TBC (Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University))

2026-05-11 14:00: Title TBC (Laura Monk (University of Bristol))

2026-05-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Angeliki Menegaki)

2026-05-11 14:30: The Dirac equation and geometry (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-11 14:30: The Dirac equation and geometry (Professor Nigel Hitchin - Oxford University)

2026-05-11 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-11 15:30: Title TBC (Will  Hide (University of Oxford))

2026-05-11 16:30: Welcome Reception and Poster Session ()

2026-05-12 10:15: Title TBC (Yunhui Wu (Tsinghua University))

2026-05-12 11:00: Title to be confirmed: ANUBIS (To Be Confirmed)

2026-05-12 11:15: Morning Break / Group Photo ()

2026-05-12 11:45: Title TBC (Tuomas Sahlsten (University of Helsinki))

2026-05-12 14:00: Title TBC (Ramon  van Handel (Princeton University))

2026-05-12 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-12 15:30: Title TBC (Pär Kurlberg (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology))

2026-05-12 16:00: Carrollian momenta from anti de Sitter ( Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechnique))

2026-05-12 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-05-13 10:15: Title TBC (Nalini Anantharaman (Collège de France))

2026-05-13 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-13 11:45: Title TBC (Stephen Muirhead (Monash University))

2026-05-13 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-13 14:00: A Unified Framework for Change of Measure Inequalities: Applications to Generalization, Memorization and Privacy (Dr. Yanxiao Liu, Imperial College London)

2026-05-13 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Connor Box, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-13 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-13 15:30: Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani ( EDI Film Screening) ()

2026-05-13 19:30: Formal Dinner at Selwyn College ()

2026-05-14 10:15: Title TBC (Damien Gayet (Université Grenoble Alpes))

2026-05-14 11:00: Laser tomography for wide area gas emission spatio-temporal reconstruction (Dr Damien Weidmann, Space Science & Technology Dept (RAL Space))

2026-05-14 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-14 11:45: Title TBC (Steve Lester (King's College London))

2026-05-14 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Raul Perea-Causin (Stockholm))

2026-05-14 14:00: Title TBC (Frederic Naud (Sorbonne Université))

2026-05-14 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-14 15:00: Advances in Label-Free High-Resolution Molecular Imaging using J Series III Cluster SIMS (Naoko Sano, Ionoptika. Ltd., Chandler’s Ford, UK)

2026-05-14 15:30: Spectral rigidity of random covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces (Elena Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2026-05-15 10:15: Title TBC (Dmitry Belyaev (University of Oxford))

2026-05-15 11:15: Morning Break ()

2026-05-15 11:45: Title TBC (Lakshmi Priya M.E. (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore))

2026-05-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Katy Clough (Queen Mary))

2026-05-15 14:00: Title TBC (Joe Thomas (Durham University))

2026-05-15 15:00: Afternoon Break ()

2026-05-18 12:00: Scientific Steering Committee meeting ()

2026-05-18 12:30: TBC (Luke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco)

2026-05-18 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Borbala Gerhat)

2026-05-19 11:00: Title to be confirmed: CMS  (Michael Revering)

2026-05-19 16:00: Rothschild Public Lecture: The Quantum Centenary: from Order to Chaos (Jens Marklof (University of Bristol))

2026-05-19 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-05-20 11:00: Spectral theory for Dirac operators with singular potentials (Jussi Behrndt (Technische Universität Graz))

2026-05-20 14:00: The Inaccessible Game (Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 14:00: title abstract tba (Chris  Sogge (Johns Hopkins University))

2026-05-20 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-20 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Sougato Bose (University College London))

2026-05-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Marko Ljubotina (TUM))

2026-05-21 15:00: How bubble acoustics can help in three apocalypses (Tim Leighton, Sloan Water Technology, Romsey, Hampshire)

2026-05-22 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ericka Florio (DAMTP))

2026-05-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Asma Hassannezhad)

2026-05-25 16:00: title and abstract tba (joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds) (Egor Shelukhin (Université de Montréal))

2026-05-26 11:00: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO): Status and First Physics Results  (Xianguo Lu (University of Warwick))

2026-05-26 16:00: Rothschild Public Lecture | Forty years of causal inference: Report of a great-grandfather (James Robins (Harvard University))

2026-05-26 16:00:  Shape modes of CP^1 vortices (Nora Gavrea (Leeds))

2026-05-26 16:30: Online Causal Inference Semina ()

2026-05-27 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-05-27 14:30: Gas-phase photochemistry from a theoretical and computational perspective (Professor Basile Curchod, University of Bristol)

2026-05-28 11:00:  Ice-core timescales and the synchronization of paleoclimate archives (Giulia Sinnl - British Antarctic Survey)

2026-05-28 16:00: Hydrazone-Based Adaptive Materials (Prof. Ivan Aprahamian Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College)

2026-05-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Thomas Powell (University of Bath))

2026-05-29 11:00: Title and abstract tba (Emily Dryden (Bucknell University))

2026-05-29 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Jhoannes Noller (University College London))

2026-06-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Emeric Bouin)

2026-06-02 11:00: Angular analyses of b -> s ee decays at LHCb (Lorenzo Paolucci (University of Manchester))

2026-06-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Emil J. Bergholtz (Stockholm))

2026-06-02 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-06-03 11:00: title abstract tbc (Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University))

2026-06-03 13:30: Title tbc (Cosmin Pohoata (Emory))

2026-06-03 14:00: title abstract tbc (Alina Stancu (Concordia University))

2026-06-03 16:15: Quantum optics with organic molecules (Vahid Sandoghdar (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light))

2026-06-04 11:00: The Martian ozone puzzle: new insights from TGO and modelling (Benjamin Benne, University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-04 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. José J. Baldoví (University of Valencia))

2026-06-05 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Lidia Gomes da Silva (Queen Mary))

2026-06-08 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Daniel Boutros)

2026-06-09 11:00: Semiconductor-based neutron detector development at QMUL (Adrian John Bevan (Queen Mary University of London))

2026-06-09 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-06-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH))

2026-06-11 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Cameron Freer (MIT))

2026-06-12 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Mikhail Volkov (University of Tours))

2026-06-15 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Joao H. Andrade )

2026-06-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed: The Ghost Collider (Peter Williams (Daresbury Laboratory))

2026-06-18 11:30: Atmospheric Methane - rise, surge, and ongoing post-surge growth. Can we mitigate the rise, and can anything be done to reduce emissions? (Prof Euan Nisbet, Department for Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2026-06-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Brian C. Seymour (Niels Bohr Institute))

2026-06-23 16:30: Online Causal Inference Seminar ()

2026-06-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Denis Bartolo (ENS, Lyon))

2026-07-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Teuta Pilizota (Cambridge))

2026-07-06 14:30: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 14:50: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 15:15: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 15:40: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 16:05: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-06 16:35: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 17:00: Talk TBC ()

2026-07-06 17:25: Complete and Submit Project Choice Forms ()

2026-07-06 18:00: Dinner ()

2026-07-06 18:00: Teams Announced ()

2026-07-07 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-07 09:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-07 10:30: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-07 11:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-07 13:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-07 15:00: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-07 15:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-08 09:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 10:30: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-08 11:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 13:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-08 14:00: Harnessing Radical Reactivity for Molecular Innovation (Professor Huan-Ming Huang, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University)

2026-07-08 15:00: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-08 15:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-09 09:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 10:30: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-09 11:00: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 13:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-09 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Adolfo Grushin (Donostia International Physics Center))

2026-07-09 15:00: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-09 15:30: Group Work ()

2026-07-10 08:30: Morning Tea and Coffee ()

2026-07-10 09:00: Group Presentation 1 ()

2026-07-10 09:25: Group Presentation 2 ()

2026-07-10 09:50: Group Presentation 3 ()

2026-07-10 10:35: Group Presentation 4 ()

2026-07-10 11:00: Group Presentation 5 ()

2026-07-10 11:25: Tea and Coffee Break ()

2026-07-13 14:00: tbc (Prof. Choon Hong Tan, National University of Singapore)

2026-10-21 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Samuela Pasquali, Université Paris Cité)

2026-10-29 14:00: tbc (Prof. Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto)

2026-11-11 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Fabian Berger, University of Cambridge)

2026-11-25 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Roman Staňo, University of Cambridge)