Seminars
Seminars Spring 2025
Seminars are organised by Swagat Saurav Mishra. Unless stated otherwise, seminars take place at 13.00 on Tuesday and are held (or for remote speakers, are streamed) in CAPT in room A113 on the ground floor.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1pm Tue 21 Jan |
Ramkishor Sharma (Prague Institute of Physics) |
Generation of Magnetic Fields during Inflation |
| 1pm Tue 28 Jan |
Extra journal club |
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| 1pm Tue 4 Feb |
Andrzej Wereszczynski (Jagiellonian University) |
Oscillons from Q-balls through Renormalization |
| 3pm Thu 6 Feb |
Daniel Canillas Martínez (University of Salamanca) |
Composite solutions of Q-balls and kinks |
| 1pm Tue 11 Feb |
Keir Rogers (Imperial College London) |
Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter |
| 1pm Tue 18 Feb |
John Carlton (King's College London) |
Atom interferometers |
| 1pm Tue 25 Feb |
Qi-Xin Xie (University of Nottingham) |
Q-ball superradiance |
| 1pm Mon 3 Mar |
Tuomas Tenkanen (University of Helsinki) |
What's still hot in electroweak phase transitions? A perspective from three spatial dimensions over the past decade |
| 1pm Tue 4 Mar |
No seminar (PhD interviews) |
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| 1pm Tue 11 Mar |
Diksha Jain (University of Cambridge) |
The S-matrix and boundary correlators in flat space |
| 1pm Tue 25 Mar |
Peter Millington (University of Manchester) |
Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum Field Theories from First Principles |
| 1pm Tue 1 Apr |
Anna Kormu (University of Helsinki) |
Testing nucleation calculations for strong phase transitions |
| 1pm Tue 8 Apr |
No seminar (Tales of Gravity) |
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Kieran Wood (University of Nottingham) |
A new look at multi-gravity and dimensional deconstruction |
| 1pm Tue 22 Apr |
Isobel Romero (University of Cambridge) |
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| 1pm Tue 29 Apr |
Daniel Panizo (Kyoto University) |
Dark bubble cosmology |
| 1pm Tue 6 May |
Ameek Malhotra (Swansea University) |
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| 1pm Tue 13 May |
David Trestini (University of Southampton) |
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| 1pm Tue 20 May |
Diederik Roest (University of Groningen) |
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Student Journal Club
The student journal club is an informal discussion specifically for students, but postdocs are also welcome to come. It is currently held every other Thursday at 15:00 Online, alternating with the all member's Journal Club.
This term (Spring 2025) we have the following sessions:
- 16 Jan
- 30 Jan
- 13 Feb
- 27 Feb
- 13 Mar
- 27 Mar
Student journal club is currently run by Trevor Cheung, Benjamin Muntz and Farbod Rassouli.
Journal Club
Our journal club is an informal discussion for all members of the group, who are encouraged to bring along any interesting papers they have found. We use Benty-Fields as our online platform for suggesting and voting on papers, on which see 'Particle Cosmology - general journal club'. The journal club is currently held in CAPT A113 every other Thursday at 15:00.
This term (Spring 2025) we have the following sessions:
- 23 Jan: Farbod Rassouli
- 28 Jan: Benty-Fields
- 6 Feb: Daniel Canillas Martínez
- 20 Feb: Zhehan Qin
- 6 Mar: Benty-Fields
- 20 Mar: Benty-Fields
- 3 Apr: Benty-Fields
Journal club is currently run by Joonas Hirvonen and Oliver Gould.
Upcoming Post-Doc Lectures
There are no upcoming Post-Doc lectures currently arranged.
Previous archives of seminars, journal clubs, etc. can be found here.