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 13:30 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 $b \to s \mu \mu$ ProcessesPDF
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 ExperimentPDF
27 Nov 13:30 Jonathon Mark Langford Imperial College Higgs boson combinations at CMSPDF
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 EICPDF
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.PDF
12 Feb 13:30 Adriana Milic CERN Expanding the ATLAS discovery potentialPDF
19 Feb 13:30 Dan Thompson University of Birmingham LHCb Upgrade II - Finding Flavour in ChaosPDF
26 Feb 13:30 Niall Thomas Mchugh University of Glasgow Charm mixing and CP violation at LHCbPDF
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-
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: Searching for Exotic Long-Lived Particles-
21 May 13:30 Jian Liu University of Liverpool ALICE Inner Tracking System: from ITS2 design, construction, and performance to ITS3 advancements-
28 May 13:30 vacant-
04 Jun 13:30 Andrew Stephen Chisholm University of Birmingham Investigating the Digital Preservation of Raw Bubble Chamber Data-
11 Jun 13:30 Adrian Hillier RAL An introduction to the ISIS Muon facility, applications and potential synergies-
18 Jun 13:30 Lex Millins University of Birmingham The MIGDAL experiment: Measuring a rare atomic process to aid the search for dark matterPDF
Links to other seminar programmes: 2025/26 2024/25 2023/24