Seminars

Our seminar is organised by Steffen Gielen. Seminars usually take place on Wednesdays at 3pm (in practice now often 3:15pm, due to the directly preceding Pure Maths colloquium), 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 2024–25 are given below.

Semester 1

2 October - Mariana Carillo González (Imperial): Self-dual Cosmology

9 October - Tiziano Schiavone (Galileo Inst. Firenze): An effective Hubble constant in f(R) modified gravity 

16 October - Suddhasattwa Brahma (Edinburgh): Nonlocal quantum effects in the Early Universe

23 October - Rishav Roshan (Southampton): Using Gravitational Waves to see the Early Universe

30 October - Shiladitya Porey (Shiv Nadar U.; online): Primordial Dark Sector Relics from Inflation: An Additional Way to Probe Viable Inflationary Models

6 November - Rita Neves (Sheffield): An adiabatic approach to the trans-Planckian problem in loop quantum cosmology

13 November - Theo Anton (Queen Mary): Generalised tests of gravity in cosmology

20 November - Enrico Specogna (Sheffield): Model-independent Tests for General Relativity 

27 November - Sergio Sevillano Muñoz (Durham): Screening mechanisms in scalar-tensor theories from a particle perspective 

11 December - Cameron Bunney (Nottingham): Circular motion Unruh effect: in spacetime and in the laboratory

18 December - Yuejia Zhai (Sheffield): Bridging the CMB and Large-Scale Structure in the Interacting Dark Energy Model 

Semester 2

12 February - Lei Zu (NCBJ Warsaw): Probing Dark Matter Non-gravitational Interactions with Weak Lensing Surveys

19 February - Adam Smith (Sheffield): Axion-dilaton Interactions in the dark sector 

26 February - Jacob Thompson (Sheffield): Quantum corrected anti-de Sitter spacetime: backreaction from the RSET (and a little bit of RKT)

5 March - Benito Juárez Aubry (York): Advances and challenges in semiclassical gravity 

12 March - Laura Iacconi (QMUL): Mapping inflationary loop corrections to boundary terms

19 March - Jens Chluba (Manchester): CMB spectral distortion science beyond the monopole

26 March - Julio Arrechea (SISSA): Dissecting Buchdahl's limit: A surgeon's guide to compact objects 

2 April - Silvia Schiattarella (Nottingham): Tracking the nonlinear formation of an interfacial wave cascade: from one to few to many

30 April - Hanyu Cheng (Sheffield & Shanghai Jiao Tong)

7 May - Sofie Ried (Sheffield)

18 June - Laura Sberna (Nottingham)