Seminars

In the academic year 2025–26, 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 2025–26 are given below.

Semester 1

8 October - Farbod Sayyed Rassouli (Nottingham): Unimodular JT gravity and de Sitter quantum cosmology

15 October - no seminar - Albrecht Klemm colloquium

22 October - Debnandini Mukherjee (Birmingham): Searching for giants and dwarves: searches for compact objects

29 October - Erik Jensko (University College London): Intrinsic entropy couplings in the dark sector

5 November - Andrew Svesko (King's College London): Quantum black holes at world's end 

12 November - Joaquim M. Gomes (Liverpool): Dark energy with the help of interacting dark sectors

3 December - Patricia Ribes Metidieri (York): Inflation does not create entanglement in local observables

10 December - no seminar - MPS Christmas Party

17 December - Mahdi Najafi (Rome): Dynamics of Dark Energy in the Era of the New Generation of Cosmological Experiments - online

Semester 2