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 Eleni Skorda.

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
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
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 POSTPONED [Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb]
11 Dec 13:30 Stephen Maple University of Birmingham Tracking and Inclusive DIS reconstruction with the ePIC detector at the EIC

Spring Term 2025

Date Speaker Institute Title
10 Jan 14:00 Dave Charlton University of Birmingham Celebration of John Dowell's 90th birthday
22 Jan 13:30 Andrew Pilkington University Of Manchester FCC-hh: Understanding the universe
29 Jan 13:30 PhD Admissions Interviews (No Seminar)
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 Adriana Milic CERN Expanding the ATLAS discovery potential
19 Feb 13:30 Dan Thompson University of Birmingham LHCb Upgrade II - Finding Flavour in Chaos
26 Feb 13:30 Niall Thomas Mchugh University of Glasgow Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb
05 Mar 13:30 vacant
12 Mar 13:30 Lars Henkelmann University of Cambridge Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS
19 Mar 13:30 Paschal Coyle Faculte des Sciences de Luminy Neutrinos out of the blue: Astroparticle and oscillation research in the abyss with KM3NeT
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 Paul Nathaniel Swallow University of Cambridge ANUBIS
21 May 13:30 Jian Liu University of Liverpool ALICE ITS2/ITS3
28 May 13:30 vacant
04 Jun 13:30 vacant
11 Jun 13:30 vacant
18 Jun 13:30 Lex Millins University of Birmingham MIGDAL (tenative)
25 Jun 13:30 Adam Mateusz Tomczak University of Birmingham NA62 (tenative, ending public results)

Seminars from previous years:

2024—25 2023—24 2022—23 2021—22 2020—21 2019—20 2018—19 2017—18 2016—17 2015—16 2014—15 2013—14 2012—13 2011—12 2010—11 2009—10 2008—9 2007—8 2006—7 2005—6 2004—5 2003—4 2002—3 2001—2 2000—1 99—2000