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.
Date Speaker Institute Title
17 Sep 13:30Elliot ReynoldsLawrence Berkeley National Lab. Probing the associated production of the Higgs boson and charm quarks at ATLAS-
09 Oct 13:30Kimberly PalladinoUniversity of Oxford In Pursuit of Particle Dark Matter: Recent results from LZ and plans for XLZD-
16 Oct 13:30Lingxin MengLancaster University The ATLAS ITk Pixel Detector for Phase-II LHC Upgrade-
23 Oct 13:30Andrew BlueUniversity of Glasgow The ATLAS ITk Strip Detector for Phase-II LHC Upgrade-
30 Oct 13:30Danny van DykIPPP Durham Status of Theoretical Predictions for Exclusive $b \to s \mu \mu$ ProcessesPDF
06 Nov 13:30Alex KeshavarziUniversity of Manchester The Proton EDM Experiment-
20 Nov 13:30Joel SwallowINFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati New measurement of the $K^+ \to \pi^+\nu \bar{\nu}$ decay by the NA62 ExperimentPDF
27 Nov 13:30Jonathon Mark LangfordImperial College Higgs boson combinations at CMSPDF
04 Dec 13:30Niall Thomas MchughUniversity of Glasgow POSTPONED [Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCb]-
11 Dec 13:30Stephen MapleUniversity of Birmingham Tracking and Inclusive DIS reconstruction with the ePIC detector at the EICPDF
Date Speaker Institute Title
10 Jan 14:00Dave CharltonUniversity of Birmingham Celebration of John Dowell's 90th birthday-
22 Jan 13:30Andrew PilkingtonUniversity Of Manchester FCC-hh: Understanding the universe-
29 Jan 13:30 PhD Admissions Interviews (No Seminar)-
05 Feb 13:30Fernando AbudinénUniversity of Warwick Searching for the weak among the strong at LHCb --- extremely rare decays of excited B mesons into two muons.PDF
12 Feb 13:30Adriana MilicCERN Expanding the ATLAS discovery potential-
19 Feb 13:30Dan ThompsonUniversity of Birmingham LHCb Upgrade II - Finding Flavour in ChaosPDF
26 Feb 13:30Niall Thomas MchughUniversity of Glasgow Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCbPDF
05 Mar 13:30 vacant-
12 Mar 13:30Lars HenkelmannUniversity of Cambridge Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS-
19 Mar 13:30Paschal CoyleFaculte des Sciences de Luminy Neutrinos out of the blue: Astroparticle and oscillation research in the abyss with KM3NeT-
26 Mar 13:30 vacant-
Date Speaker Institute Title
02 Apr 13:30 vacant-
07 May 13:30 vacant-
14 May 13:30Paul Nathaniel SwallowUniversity of Cambridge ANUBIS: Searching for Exotic Long-Lived Particles-
21 May 13:30Jian LiuUniversity of Liverpool ALICE ITS2/ITS3-
28 May 13:30 vacant-
04 Jun 13:30Andrew Stephen ChisholmUniversity of Birmingham Investigating the Digital Preservation of Raw Bubble Chamber Data (tenative)-
11 Jun 13:30Adrian HillierRAL ISIS-
18 Jun 13:30Lex MillinsUniversity of Birmingham MIGDAL (tenative)-
25 Jun 13:30Adam Mateusz TomczakUniversity of Birmingham NA62 (tenative, ending public results)-
Links to Previous Seminar Progammes:

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