HEP Seminars

Seminars take place at 1330 UK time on Fridays.



Autumn Term 2025

Date Speaker Title
(Click for Abstract)		 Slides
1 October - 15.00
Blackett 630 		Mitesh Patel
(Imperial) 		State of the nation [slides]
3 October Chris Palmer
(Maryland) 		Precision at Peak Performance: CMS Delivers the Most Precise Luminosity Measurement at any bunched-beam hadron collider [slides]
10 October Olivier Davignon
(LLR) 		The Calibr-A-Ton: a novel method based on differentiable programming for calorimeter energy calibration [slides]
17 October Mark Smith
(Imperial) 		The potent power of the penguin [slides]
24 October Boris Korzh
(Geneva) 		Superconducting nanowire detectors: from quantum science to high-energy physics [slides]
31 October Eric van Herwijnen
(Imperial) 		SHiP - the Search for Hidden Particles experiment. Why, where, how and when? [slides]
7 November Tianqi Gao
(Cambridge) 		HV-MAPS Pixel Detectors for Particle Tracking and LiDAR: A Dual-Use Silicon R&D [slides]
14 November Jonathon Langford (Imperial) CMS Higgs combination
Postponed due to strikes 		[slides]
21 November Eleonora Rossi
(Oxford) 		ATLAS H->mumu [slides]
28 November
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5 December Anezka Klustova
(Imperial) 		TBC [slides]

All seminars are in Blackett Laboratory Rm 539, at 1.30 pm on Fridays, unless otherwise stated. Tea and biscuits are served 15 minutes before the seminar time when the room booking allows.

We usually take the seminar speakers for lunch before the seminar at around 12:00. If you would like to join for this lunch then you are encouraged to fill in the form here. Note that places are limited, so we can’t guarantee everyone a spot at each lunch. We will distribute places fairly to ensure a good mix of attendees, and where possible we will prioritise those with a direct interest in the seminar topic.

Anyone wishing to give a seminar should contact Mark Smith and Daniel Winterbottom.

Information on previous seminars can be found here.

Suggestions welcome - Enjoy!