Particle Physics Seminar Programme
2023–2024
Welcome to the University of Birmingham Particle Physics group seminars page.
Particle Physics Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 1:30pm
in the Poynting Small Lecture Theatre (room S06).
The Poynting Building is at R13 on the
campus map.
Tea, coffee and biscuits are served at 1:15pm.
The agenda is directly retrieved from Indico. Abstracts and slides can be found by clicking on the title of each talk.
Speaker suggestions, offers of talks or enquires are welcome!
Please contact
Karol Krizka or
Felicia Volle.
Autumn Term 2023
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Oct 13:30 | Paul Richard Newman | University of Birmingham | The Electron-Ion Collider | |
| 18 Oct 13:30 | Josh McFayden | University of Sussex | FASER | |
| 08 Nov 13:30 | Abbey Waldron | Queen Mary, University of London | ProtoDUNE Measurements for DUNE | |
| 15 Nov 13:30 | Marc Granado Gonzalez | University of Birmingham | Applications of particle physics techniques for proton computed tomography | |
| 29 Nov 13:30 | Angela Romano | University of Birmingham | HIKE: High Intensity Kaon Experiments | |
| 06 Dec 13:30 | Saskia Charity | University of Liverpool | Measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment with the Fermilab g-2 experiment |
Spring Term 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jan 13:30 | Jan Kretzschmar | University of Liverpool | News from the W boson | |
| 24 Jan 13:30 | Sarah Louise Williams | University of Cambridge | The Future Circular Collider as a Higgs/top/EW Factory: status and plans for FCC-ee | |
| 31 Jan 13:30 | Chris Rodgers | RAL | The Muon Collider: A Next-Generation Facility at the Energy Frontier | |
| 07 Feb 13:30 | Julia Manuela Cardoso Silva | The University of Edinburgh | Search for exclusive hadronic decays of the W boson with ATLAS | |
| 13 Mar 13:30 | Stefano Vergani | UCL | PUEO and Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy |
Summer Term 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Apr 13:30 | Håkan Wennlöf | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron | The Tangerine project: Development of high-precision 65 nm silicon MAPS | |
| 01 May 13:30 | Gareth Bird | University of Cambridge | High Mass Neutral particles at ATLAS | |
| 08 May 13:30 | Mihaela Marinescu | University of Birmingham | Measurement of the W and Z cross section at 13.6 TeV with ATLAS | |
| 15 May 13:30 | William Alan Bertsche | University of Manchester | Antimatter Gravitation Studies with Trapped Antihydrogen | |
| 22 May 13:30 | Lucian Harland-Lang | University College London | The LHC as a photon-photon collider | |
| 29 May 13:30 | Maria Mironova | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. | Higgs, what now? Measurements of VH, H→bb/cc and the ATLAS Higgs Physics Program in the Post-Higgs-Boson-Discovery Era | |
| 05 Jun 13:30 | Ethan Lewis Simpson | University of Manchester | How we turned the LHC into the world’s largest quantum information experiment |