Ryle Seminar Room


2021-11-23 16:00: Interpreting LHC data using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (Maeve Madigan (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-30 16:00: Colliders and Cosmic Origin Stories (Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-18 16:00: Particle Physics for All (Giordon Stark (UCSC))

2022-01-25 16:00: SUSY wanted - dead or alive (Melissa van Beekveld (University of Oxford))

2022-02-01 16:00: NLO QCD corrections to diphoton-plus-jet production through gluon fusion at the LHC (Ryan Moodie (Durham University))

2022-02-08 16:00: Rare B-meson decays to muons at the LHCb experiment (Ifan Williams (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-22 16:00: Testing Bell Inequalities at the LHC (Prof Alan Barr (University of Oxford))

2022-03-01 16:00: Event-shape variables and alpha_s determinations using the ATLAS detector (Manuel Alvarez Estevez (UAM Madrid))

2022-03-08 16:00: Recent tests of lepton flavour universality at LHCb (John Smeaton (University of Cambridge))

2022-03-15 16:00: Unbiased Elimination of Negative Weights in Monte Carlo Samples  (Andreas Maier (DESY Zeuthen))

2022-03-22 16:00: From SCT luminosity to compressed SUSY  (Claire Malone (University of Cambridge))

2022-04-26 16:00: Exploring the lifetime frontier: the MATHUSLA detector proposal (Cristiano Alpigiani (University of Washington))

2022-05-10 16:00: When in a hole, stop digging: searching for long-lived particles at LHCb (Vladimir Gligorov (CNRS))

2022-05-24 16:00: Colour meets Flavour: QCD contributions to the decay of heavy hadrons (Maria Laura Piscopo (University of Siegen))

2022-05-31 16:00: Precision Physics with Polarised W-bosons at the LHC (Andrei Popescu (Cambridge))

2022-06-07 16:00: The upgrade of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC (Luigi Marchese (ETH, Zurich))

2022-06-28 14:00: Optical Stochatic Cooling of Electrons -- Maxwell's Demon goes optical! (Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay (Fermilab/NIU/CERN/Stanford))

2022-10-04 11:00: The search for exotic long-lived particles: illuminating a blind spot of the LHC programme (Louie Corpe (CERN))

2022-10-11 11:00: QED and hadronics in B->Kll et al (Roman Zwicky (University of Edinburgh))

2022-10-25 11:00: Time-dependent and rare probes of the Standard Model: status at Belle II (Thibaud Humair (Max Planck Institute for Physics))

2022-11-01 11:00: Machine Learning - the future of particle physics?  (Nadya Chernyavskaya (CERN))

2022-11-08 11:00: Properties of the Higgs boson: A decade of Higgs measurements with the ATLAS detector (Ashley Mcdougall (Nikhef))

2022-11-15 11:00: Semileptonic B decays at LHCb (Mark Smith (Imperial))

2022-11-22 11:00: Exploring the Unknown with Higgs Boson Pairs (Bill Balunas (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-29 11:00: Applications of Timepix technology for Beam Instrumentation at CERN (James Storey (CERN))

2022-12-06 11:00: Evidence is all you need: Nested Sampling for particle physics (David Yallup (Cambridge))

2022-12-13 11:00: Vector Boson Scattering to Unravel EWSB and probe BSM physics (Karolos Potamianos (University of Oxford))

2023-01-17 11:00: Rare neutral current decays of b quarks at LHCb (Lakshan Mohan (University of Cambridge))

2023-01-24 11:00: Custom Orthogonal Weight functions (COWs) - an improved event weighting procedure for removing background from signal. (Matt Kenzie (University of Warwick))

2023-01-31 11:00: Heavy quark fragmentation: why, how, and where to? (Chris Pollard (Warwick))

2023-02-07 11:00: Extending the leading direct dark matter searches to lighter particles (Prof Henrique Araujo (Imperial))

2023-02-28 11:00: High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector (Prof Chris Hays (University of Oxford))

2023-03-07 11:00: HHarmony in Bb — the present and future of ATLAS DiHiggs(4b) searches (Teng Jian Khoo (Humboldt University of Berlin))

2023-04-25 11:00: Beauty meson to double charm decays at LHCb (Fionn Bishop (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-02 11:00: The Force Aweakens: searching for new sources of CP violation in the electroweak sector (Prof Andrew Pilkington (University of Manchester))

2023-05-16 11:00: Simulating Collision Events on a Quantum Computer (Simon Williams (Imperial College))

2023-05-23 11:00: The Climate Emergency: can Particle Physics ever be sustainable? (Prof Veronique Boisvert (RHUL))

2023-05-30 11:00: Measurement of the Pion Charge-Exchange Differential Cross Section on Argon with the ProtoDUNE Detector (Kang Yang (University of Oxford))

2023-06-06 11:00: Not all hopes for new physics die immediately (David Rousso (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-20 11:00: Taking Physics Forward with FASER (Prof Anna Sfyrla (University of Geneva))

2023-10-17 11:00: Where’s SUSY? The electroweak SUSY landscape after ATLAS Run 2 searches (Ben Hodkinson (University of Oxford))

2023-10-24 11:00: Mixing and CP violation in open-charmed beauty decays (Dr Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-07 11:00: How To Upgrade A Hardware Trigger (Gareth Bird (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-14 11:00: Jet Propulsion: Advancing the performance and understanding of hadronic objects in ATLAS for Run 3 (Dr Matt LeBlanc (University of Manchester))

2023-11-21 11:00: Physics for Sustainable Development (Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex))

2024-01-23 11:00: A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD (Dr Kimberly Palladino (University of Oxford))

2024-01-30 11:00: An Experimental and Phenomenological dissection of heavy quark decays into light leptons (Davide Lancierini (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-13 11:00: Overview and Status of the 2x2 NDLAr Demonstrator: A Pixel-Based LArTPC Prototype for the DUNE Near Detector (Karolina Wresilo (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-20 11:00: PUEO and Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy (Stefano Vergani (UCL))

2024-02-28 14:00: The Modelling of LHC Collisions in PYTHIA - Physics and Uncertainties (Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University))

2024-03-05 11:00: Prototyping the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (Jingyuan Shi - University of Cambridge)

2024-05-07 11:00: BREAD: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (Dr Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge))

2024-05-14 11:00: Experimental status of exotic spectroscopy (and thoughts on the future) (Mark Whitehead (Glasgow))

2024-06-04 11:00: Supernova Neutrinos (Susan Cartwright (University of Sheffield))

2024-10-08 11:00: Exploring the Performance of the CODEX-b Detector (Paul Swallow (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-15 11:00: Heavy Neutral Leptons and Slow-Moving Particles at ATLAS (Dr. Gareth Bird University of Cambridge)

2024-10-22 11:00: Summer Student Talks Part 1 (Jonas Dej, Jesse Zhang, Shikang Ni)

2024-10-29 11:00: Summer Student Talks Part 2 (Joseph Garvey, Cecilia Bombari, Ritwik Mangrulkar)

2024-11-05 11:00: 3 Flavour Oscillation Results from NOvA with 10 Years of Data (Alex Booth (Queen Mary University of London))

2024-11-12 11:00: Measuring tau g-2 at the LHC (Lydia Beresford, DESY)

2024-11-19 11:00: New measurement of the K+ → π+ν¯ ν decay by the NA62 Experiment (Joel Christopher Swallow, INFN-LNF)

2024-11-26 11:00: Latest results from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) at the LHC (Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, University of Manchester (GB))

2024-12-03 11:00: Aspects of Leptogenesis: from the low to the high scale (Jessica Turner, University of Durham)

2025-01-21 11:00: 2HDM+a and mono-Higgs at ATLAS (Dr. Nikolai Fomin, University of Cambridge)

2025-01-28 11:00: GScan’s industrial tracker system for the muon tomography applications (Andi Hektor, GScan)

2025-02-04 11:00: The Proton EDM experiment (Alex Keshavarzi, University of Manchester)

2025-02-11 11:00: ML beyond Neutrino Physics: Cancer Research (Lorena Escudero)

2025-02-18 11:00: Past, present and future involvement in the ATLAS experiment (Laura Fabbri, University of Bologna)

2025-02-25 11:00: Influence of gravity on atomic interferometers (Jeremiah Mitchell, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-04 11:00: Bound and Entangled: Adventures at the TTbar Threshold (Ethan Simpson, University of Manchester)

2025-03-11 11:00: Search for hadronic resonances below 100 GeV with ATLAS (Lars Henkelmann)