Seminar Programme
2025–2026
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 Adam Mateusz Tomczak University of Birmingham Overview of recent results from the NA62 experimentPDF
24 Sep 13:30 vacant-
01 Oct 13:30 vacant-
08 Oct 13:30 Lachlan Milligan University of Birmingham The SABRE South Dark Matter Search and its Veto Detector-
15 Oct 13:30 Jackson Barr University Collage London Transforming Flavour Tagging at the ATLAS ExperimentPDF
22 Oct 13:30 vacant-
29 Oct 13:30 Eleonora Rossi University of Oxford ATLAS H→μμ search with the ATLAS experiment-
05 Nov 13:30 Tianqi Gao University of Cambridge HV-MAPS Pixel Detectors for Particle Tracking and LiDAR: A Dual-Use Silicon R&DPDF
12 Nov 13:30 Aidin Masouminia IPPP, Durham University (MOVED TO JAN 28) What's New in Herwig 7: EW, BSM & Onium Showers; HQET and Spin-Hadronisation-
19 Nov 13:30 Sinead Farrington University of Edinburgh PPD Director VisitPDF
26 Nov 13:30 Fabrice Piquemal Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Bordeaux R2D2: A new high pressure Xenon TPC for Neutrinoless double beta decay search-
03 Dec 13:30 Tobias Fitschen The University of Manchester Trigger-Level Analysis at ATLASPDF
10 Dec 13:30 vacant-
Date Speaker Institute Title
14 Jan 13:30 vacant-
21 Jan 13:30 vacant-
28 Jan 13:30 Aidin Masouminia IPPP, Durham University What's New in Herwig 7: EW, BSM & Onium Showers; HQET and Spin-Hadronisation-
04 Feb 13:30 vacant-
11 Feb 13:30 No Seminar - PhD Applicants Interviews-
18 Feb 13:30 Dimitra Spathara University of Birmingham Designing the Next Generation of Materials for Rare-Event Searches: High-Strength, Ultra-Pure Copper Alloys-
25 Feb 13:30 vacant-
04 Mar 13:30 Marco Bomben APC & Université Paris Cité, Paris effects on radiation damage on trackingPDF
11 Mar 13:30 vacant-
18 Mar 13:30 vacant-
25 Mar 13:00 Mark Slater Birmingham University GPU/CPU and AI and possible opportunitiesPDF
Date Speaker Institute Title
29 Apr 13:30 vacant-
06 May 13:30 Long Li University of Birmingham MAPS for Future Colliders-
03 Jun 13:30 vacant-
10 Jun 13:30 vacant-
17 Jun 13:30 vacant-
24 Jun 13:30 vacant-
01 Jul 13:30 vacant-
08 Jul 13:30 Elisabeth Leason, quantum sensors for the QUEST-DMC project-
15 Jul 13:30 vacant-
22 Jul 13:30 vacant-
Links to other seminar programmes: 2025/26 2024/25 2023/24