The Department of Physics at Royal Holloway holds a series of highly interesting seminars on Particle Physics, as a member of the Quantum Institute of Royal Holloway, and on more general topics. The audience typically consists of faculty members and students.
Spring Term 2023
Coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic some of the particle physics seminars will be held in-person and/or remotely via zoom. The connection details are distributed before event. Please email for further details.
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 01/02/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Nicholas Bonne, University of Portsmouth |
The Tactile Universe: Accessible astrophysics public engagement with the vision impaired community |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 08/02/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Neda Darvishi | nHDMs and their Accidental Symmetries | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 15/02/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Anna Neuweiler, University of Potsdam | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
| Wed, 22/02/2023, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Ioannis Manthos, University of Birmingham |
Spherical Proportional Counter: Detector concept and applications |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
Autumn Term 2022
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 07/09/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Colm Talbot (MIT Kavli Institute) | Tolansky Building (T125) | |
| Wed, 28/09/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Moinul Hussain Rahat (University of Southampton) |
BBN Photodisintegration Constraints on Gravitationally Produced Vector Bosons |
Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wed, 05/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Ulla Blumenschein (Queen Mary University of London) | Tolansky Building (T125) | |
| Wed, 12/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Simon Williams (Imperial College London) | Simulating high energy collision events on a quantum computer | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wed, 19/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Paolo Franchini (Royal Holloway, University of London and Lancaster University) | QUEST-DMC: Simulation studies for the detection of sub-GeV dark matter with a superfluid Helium-3 calorimeter | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 26/10/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Chris Hays (University of Oxford) |
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 02/11/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Alice Hamer (Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Edinburgh) | Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) | |
| Wed, 16/11/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Jean-Baptiste Sauvan (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Ecole Polytechnique, France) |
Reconstructing the HGCAL data in real-time at the CMS Level 1 trigger |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 23/11/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton) |
Vector Dark Matter via a Fermionic Portal from a New Gauge Sector |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
| Wed, 07/12/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | James Greer (University of Sheffield) |
Novel Mixed-Field Neutron-Gamma Detectors for Oil and Gas Well-Logging. |
Horton Lecture Theatre 1 (HLT1) |
Quantum Materials and Technologies Seminars :
| Wed, 23/11/2022, 14:00 to 15:00 |
Dr Michael Vanner (Imperial College London) | Tolansky Building (T125) |
Summer Term 2022
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Wed, 06/07/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Tommaso Dorigo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Padova) | Toward the end-to-end optimization of experiments with deep learning | Tolansky Building (T125) |
Spring Term 2022
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 26/01/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Andrey Oleinik (Royal Holloway) | Pyroelectric particle accelerators and sources: state-of-art and further development |
| Wed, 09/02/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Alexander Gerbershagen (Particle Therapy Research Center - PARTREC) | Use of complementary simulation codes in complex beam optics |
| Wed, 09/03/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London) | The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable? |
| Wed, 16/03/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Adriana Dias (Royal Holloway, University of London) | PlomBOX - development of a low-cost CMOS device for environmental monitoring |
| Wed, 27/04/2022, 15:30 to 16:30 | Professor Alessandra Brazzale (University of Padova) | Case studies in astro and particle physics : challenges and opportunities for statistics |
Condensed Matter Seminars :
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic condensed matter physics seminars are currently held in-person or/and remotely via MS Teams. The connection details are distributed before event. Please contact Dr Andrew Ho for further details.
| Wed, 09/03/2022, 15:00 to 16:00 | Prof. Seamus Davis (Oxford, Cork, Cornell) |
On the Electron Pairing Mechanism of Copper-Oxide High Temperature Superconductivity |
Autumn Term 2021
Particle Physics Seminars:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 13/10/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Magnus Schlösser (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | |
| Wed, 20/10/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Elizabeth Leason (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Searches for new physics using low energy electron recoils in LUX and LZ |
| Wed, 3/11/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Sophie King (King's College London) | Electron neutrino cross section measurements with the T2K near detector, ND280 |
| Wed, 10/11/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Andreia Maia Oliveira (CERN & University of Bern) | A Large Area GEMPix detector for treatment plan verification in hadron therapy |
| Wed, 24/11/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Lukas Pickering (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Is The Mirror Cracking? Current and Future Neutrino Oscillation Measurements from T2K and DUNE |
Condensed Matter Seminars :
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic condensed matter physics seminars are currently held in-person or/and remotely via MS Teams. The connection details are distributed before event. Please contact Dr Andrew Ho for further details.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 20/10/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Vitor Pedroso (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Metastable solid 4He and the possible role of point defects. |
| Wed, 03/11/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Femke Bangma (High Field Magnet Laboratory, Nijmegen, Netherlands) | Ultra-low temperature measurements of PrOs4Sb12: The influence of nuclear interactions on an exotic phase diagram. |
| Wed, 10/11/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Sumit Kumar (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Low temperature microwave optomechanics: Anomalous force noise and optomechanically induced transparency |
| Wed, 17/11/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Dr Charlie Steiner (PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Measuring the electronic states of FeSe and SnSe2 thin films with STM |
| Wed, 08/12/2021, 15:00 to 16:00 | Prof. Vladimir Eltsov (Dept Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland) |
Summer Term 2021
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 5/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Andrea Dubla (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) | Charm cross section and fragmentation fractions in pp collision with ALICE |
| Wed, 12/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Prof Gavin Hesketh (University College London) | First results from FNAL Muon g-2 |
| Wed, 19/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Assistant Prof Daniel Hayden (Michigan State University) | ATLAS Heavy Resonance Combination |
| Wed, 26/5/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Departmental Seminar: Dr Claudia Antolini (RHUL/SEPnet) | A toolkit to build engaged research |
| Wed, 9/6/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Razvan-Daniel Moise (Imperial College London) | Test of lepton flavour universality in beauty-quark decays |
| Wed, 30/6/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Paul Scovell (Boulby Underground Laboratory) | The Boulby Underground Laboratory : The UK's deep underground science facility |
Spring term 2021
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 13/1/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Shriram Jois (RHUL) | A Search for Relic Axions and Their Frequency Modulation |
| Wed, 20/1/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Jaime Octavio Guerra-Pulido (ICN-UNAM) | Applying astroparticle physics techniques to the detection of Pb contamination in water |
| Wed, 3/2/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN) | Beamlines for fixed target experiments, test beams and particle therapy |
| Wed, 24/3/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Antonija Utrobicic (CERN GDD Laboratory) | Precise timing detector based on Micormegas (PICOSEC): Towards the large area detector. |
| Wed, 31/3/2021, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Eldwan Brianne (DESY FTX) | A high-performance calorimeter for the DUNE Near Detector |
Autumn term 2020
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Wed, 4/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Gregory Ashton (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Turning wiggles into science: How we classify and understand gravitational-wave signals |
| Wed 11/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Sarah Malik (Imperial College London) | Quantum computing for simulating high energy collisions |
| Wed 18/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Cheryl Patrick (University College London) | Neutrinoless double-beta decay and SuperNEMO |
| Wed 25/11/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr Noelia E. D. Noël (University of Surrey) | Connecting Research Culture with Stellar Populations |
| Wed 09/12/2020, 15:30 to 16:30 | Dr John Nugent (University of Glasgow) | WAGASCI: A New Near Detector at T2K |
Spring term 2020
Condensed Matter Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Wednesday 4 March 2020 16:00 - 17:00 |
Dr Matthew Bryan (Dept Electronic Engineering, RHUL) | Topological tunnelling in hybrid magnetic systems | Shilling 1-07 (Creative Thinking Room) |
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Wednesday 11 March 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Prof Ivette Fuentes (University of Nottingham, University of Vienna and Penrose Institute) | Collective excitations as quantum sensors for fundamental physics | Shilling LT |
| Wednesday 18 March 2020 | Prof Bryan Hickey (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds) | Electronic and Thermal Transport in Lateral Spin Valves | Shilling LT |
Particle Physics Seminars :
| Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
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Wednesday 15 January 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Cenk Türkoğlu (University of Sussex) | Geant4-based Electromagnetic Background Model for the CRESST Experiment | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 22 January 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Lydia Beresford (University of Oxford) | Dijet Evolution | Tolansky Building (T125) |
| Wednesday 29 January 2020 15:30 - 16:30 | Dr Eva Montbarbon (CERN) | CERN: New Physics beyond New Colliders | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 12 February 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Prof Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham) | NEWS-G: Search for Light Dark Matter with a Spherical Proportional Counter | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 19 February 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Rob Appleby (University of Manchester) | Communication in Science and Tactile Collider | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 26 February 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Florian Beutler (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth) | Expanding the BAO science case | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 4 March 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Joshuha Thomas-Wilsker | Top quark pair associated Higgs production @ the LHC: Run2 and beyond | Tolansky Building (T125) |
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Wednesday 22 April 2020 15:30 - 16:30 |
Dr Andrei Puiu (University of Milano-Biocca) | Direct measurements for neutrino mass searches with HOLMES | Tolansky Building (T125) |
