Particle Physics Seminar Programme
2024–2025
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 2024
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Sep 13:30 | Elliot Reynolds | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. | Probing the associated production of the Higgs boson and charm quarks at ATLAS | |
| 02 Oct 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 09 Oct 13:30 | Kimberly Palladino | University of Oxford | In Pursuit of Particle Dark Matter: Recent results from LZ and plans for XLZD | |
| 16 Oct 13:30 | Lingxin Meng | Lancaster University | The ATLAS ITk Pixel Detector for Phase-II LHC Upgrade | |
| 23 Oct 13:30 | Andrew Blue | University of Glasgow | The ATLAS ITk Strip Detector for Phase-II LHC Upgrade | |
| 30 Oct 13:30 | Danny van Dyk | IPPP Durham | Status of Theoretical Predictions for Exclusive $b \to s \mu \mu$ Processes | |
| 06 Nov 13:30 | Alex Keshavarzi | University of Manchester | The Proton EDM Experiment | |
| 13 Nov 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 20 Nov 13:30 | Joel Swallow | INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | New measurement of the $K^+ \to \pi^+\nu \bar{\nu}$ decay by the NA62 Experiment | |
| 27 Nov 13:30 | Jonathon Mark Langford | Imperial College | Higgs boson combinations at CMS | |
| 04 Dec 13:30 | Niall Thomas Mchugh | University of Glasgow | Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb | |
| 11 Dec 13:30 | Stephen Maple | University of Birmingham | EIC Tracking |
Spring Term 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jan 13:30 | Andrew Pilkington | University Of Manchester | FCChh | |
| 29 Jan 13:30 | Dan Thompson | University of Birmingham | LHCb | |
| 05 Feb 13:30 | Fernando Abudinén | University of Warwick | Searching for the weak among the strong at LHCb --- extremely rare decays of excited B mesons into two muons. | |
| 12 Feb 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 19 Feb 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 26 Feb 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 05 Mar 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 12 Mar 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 19 Mar 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 26 Mar 13:30 | vacant |
Summer Term 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Apr 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 07 May 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 14 May 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 21 May 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 28 May 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 04 Jun 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 11 Jun 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 18 Jun 13:30 | vacant | |||
| 25 Jun 13:30 | vacant |