Colloquia & Seminars
General Information
Colloquia and seminars will usually be held in Boyd Orr Building, Room 407 on Wednesdays at 2.00pm (unless otherwise stated). Come One, Come All!
You can view the upcoming (and past) collquia talks on the Events Management System, and you can also subscribe to calendar updates via RSS or iCal. Coordinated with the colloquia at the Department of Physics of the University of Strathclyde.
Schedule of Upcoming Talks
§ Internal seminar ‡ Outside of regular schedule.
20/11/24 § ● James Howarth ● Quantum Colliders: Quantum information measurements at high energy hadron colliders
Dr James Howarth (Glasgow) ● Wednesday, November 20, 2:00 PM ● Boyd Orr Building, Room 407
Quantum Colliders: Quantum information measurements at high energy hadron colliders
ATLAS recently observed quantum entanglement in pairs of top quarks using 13 TeV data, the first time that entanglement has been observed in fundamental quarks and at the highest ever energy scales. In this seminar I will explain how this ground breaking measurement was achieved, how it highlights limitations in our current state-of-the-art Monte Carlo simulations, and the implications of the result in the wider context of quantum information. I will also explain what direction this exciting new field of study at collider experiments might take and highlight new opportunities for collaborations between quantum information and collider physics.
04/12/24 ● Natalia Korolkova (St Andrews) ● An operational distinction between quantum entanglement and classical non-separability
Prof. Natalia Korolkova (St Andrews) ● Wednesday, 04 December, 2:00 PM ● Boyd Orr Building, Room 407
An operational distinction between quantum entanglement and classical non-separability
Abstract TBA
22/01/25 § ● Ian MacLaren ● TBC
Dr Ian MacLaren (Glasgow) ● Wednesday, January 22, 2:00 PM ● Boyd Orr Building, Room 407
Title TBC
Abstract TBC
05/02/25 ● Marialuisa Aliotta (Edinburgh) ● Underground studies of nuclear reactions in stars
Prof. Marialuisa Aliotta (Uni. of Edinburgh) ● Wednesday, 05 February, 2:00 PM ● McIntyre Building, Room 201
Underground studies of nuclear reactions in stars
Abstract TBA
19/02/25 ● Reinhold Walser (Darmstadt) ● Matter-wave optics for quantum sensing
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Walser (TU Darmstadt Germany) ● Wednesday, 19 February, 2:00 PM TBC ● McIntyre Building, Room 201
Technical Matter-wave optics for quantum sensing in space and on ground
Abstract TBA
05/03/25 § ● Jonathan Taylor ● TBC
Dr Jonathan Taylor (Glasgow) ● Wednesday, March 5, 2:00 PM ● Boyd Orr Building, Room 407
Title TBC
Abstract TBC
19/03/25 ● Elise Wright Knutsen (Olso) TBC ● Title TBC
Dr Elise Wright Knutsen (Uni. of Olso, Norway) ● Wednesday, March 19, 3:00 PM TBC ● Venue TBC
Title TBC
Abstract TBC
TBC § ● Rachel Montgomery [To be rescheduled]
Dr Rachel Montgomery (Glasgow) ● Date and time TBC ● Venue (TBC)
Probing the virtual meson cloud of the nucleon to shed new light on light meson structure
Rachel Montgomery1 on behalf of the Jefferson Lab Hall A, SBS and TDIS collaborations
1University of Glasgow, UK
This talk will discuss a future experiment to probe the elusive meson content of the nucleon (protons and neutrons). In the experiment, electrons will be scattered from the virtual meson cloud which surrounds the nucleon (proton/neutron). The idea that the nucleon’s mesonic content could be explored through electron-nucleon deep inelastic scattering has a long history. However, even after five decades of this idea, there is a scarcity of experimental data on meson structure. Understanding more about the inner structure of light mesons - namely the pion and the kaon - is expected to shed light on the nucleon mass enigma, whereby only ~1% of the nucleon’s mass arises from the Higgs mechanism. The future experiment, which will be performed at Jefferson Lab (USA), will measure low momentum hadrons in coincidence with scattered electrons from hydrogen (and deuterium) targets. A large acceptance spectrometer will be used to detect the scattered electrons. However, the hadron detection will be challenging and for this a novel gaseous detector, the multiple time projection chamber, is being developed. An overview of the experiment and its status will be given.
TBC § ● David Boldrin [To be rescheduled]
Dr David Boldrin (Glasgow) ● Date and time TBC ● Boyd Orr Building, Room 407
How to harness (magnetic) frustration for good
I joined the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics group during the pandemic, and still feel relatively new to the school in some respects, so I wanted to use this talk to give an overview of my research interests. I will focus mostly on the field of frustrated magnetism. I will cover my introduction into this area, exploring fundamentally exotic states of condensed matter realised in perhaps the most frustrated magnet: the quantum spin lqiuid. I will then give a brief introduction to my more recent interests in 'harnessing magnetic frustration' to deliver more energy efficient technologies, from computing to refrigeration and heat pumps. Throughout the talk I will also be covering my efforts to use neutron scattering, in any which way I can manage, to reveal interesting properties of these materials.
Contact
Questions? Comments? Speaker suggestions?
Please use the dedicated contacts below:
Colloquia:
Dr Adetunmise Dada (Adetunmise.Dada@glasgow.ac.uk)
Kelvin Building, Room 157C, Ext 6429
Internal seminars:
Dr Giulio Butera (Salvatore.Butera@glasgow.ac.uk)
Kelvin Building, Room 521, Ext xxxx
