HEP Seminars

All seminars take place at 1500 UK time on Wednesdays.



Spring Term 2025

Date Speaker Title
(Click for Abstract)		 Slides
8 January
[slides]
15 January Joaquim Matias
(Barcelona) 		Selected overview of B-flavour anomalies: semileptonic and non-leptonic ones [slides]
22 January Kenneth Long
(MIT) 		High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS detector at the LHC [slides]
29 January
Huxley 711C 		Afiq Anuar
(DESY/Hamburg) 		In Search of Top Quark Pairs With Zero Total Angular Momentum [slides]
5 February Brais Palmeiro
(Manchester) 		Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT experiment [slides]
12 February
Blackett 1004 		Tilman Plehn
(Heidelberg) 		Modern Neural Networks with Calibrated Learned Uncertainties [slides]
19 February Nicola McConkey
(Queen Mary) 		Determination of the Absolute Neutrino Mass with Quantum Technologies [slides]
26 February Konstantinos Mavrokoridis
(Liverpool) 		Large Scale Demonstration of 3D Optical Readout for Dual Phase LArTPCs at the CERN Neutrino Platform [slides]
5 March (14.00) Chris Pollard
(Warwick) 		Likelihood-free inference: making it a reality in particle physics [slides]
12 March
(Imperial) 		First year presentations [slides]
19 March
(Imperial) 		First year presentations [slides]

All seminars are in Blackett Laboratory Rm 539, at 3 pm on Wednesdays, unless otherwise stated. Tea and biscuits are served 15 minutes before the seminar time when the room booking allows. A zoom link will also be available for those who are isolating or who cannot attend in person.

Anyone wishing to give a seminar should contact Mark Smith, Daniel Winterbottom and Kelsey Oliver-Mallory.

Information on previous seminars can be found here.

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