Seminars

In the academic year 2026–27, our seminar series is organised by Steffen Gielen (Semester 1) and Sam Dolan (Semester 2). Seminars usually take place on Wednesdays at 3pm, followed by an informal tea break. We usually aim for broadly accessible talks across the range of research areas represented in the group. In general we have a mixture of in-person seminars and virtual talks (using Blackboard Collaborate).

Details of the seminar programme for the academic year 2026–27 are given below.

Semester 1

30 September - James Unwin (U. Illinois Chicago) - Freeze-in Dark Matter

7 October - Simone D'Onofrio (ICE, Barcelona) - Tidal deformability of compact objects and the effects of an environment 

9 October - Fotios Anagnostopoulos (Peloponnese U.) - The Interacting Dark Sector: Ideas, Theory, and Observations - online

14 October - Maurice van Putten (Sejong U.) - On the origin of tensions in ΛCDM since cosmic dawn from cosmological background geometry

21 October - Carlos Ortiz (Zacatecas U.) - Covariant d’Alembert–Lagrange Framework: Constraints and Cosmological Dynamics

3 November - Lucien Heurtier (King's College London) - Hunting for Cosmic Stasis Within the Cosmological Timeline

4 November - William Wolf (Oxford) - online - The Current Status of Scalar Field Dark Energy 

11 November - Benjamin Muntz (Nottingham) - What can solve the cosmological constant problem?

18 November - Tommaso Bambagiotti (Bologna)

25 November - Robie Hennigar (Durham)

2 December - Peter Millington (Manchester)

Semester 2