Previous Seminars
Archive of previous seminars:
2025
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | Amanda Donohoe | [PhD Defence] A measurement of ultra-peripheral $\rho^0$ meson production in heavy ion collisions using the LHCb detector |
| Jan | Prof. Anna Ho | TBA |
| Jan | Gabriel Finneran | [PhD Defence] Searching for the signature of relativistic jets in stripped-envelope broad-line Ic supernovae |
2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nov | Dr. Sivanandan (Hari) Harilal | How Laser-plasmas Can Help with Nuclear Nonproliferation Monitoring |
| Nov | Kevin Mongey | [PhD Defence] Spatial and spectral characterization of micrometer scale soft x-ray emitting laser-produced plasmas |
| Nov | Eoin Carolan | [PhD Defence] Information dynamics in controlled and uncontrolled quantum systems. |
| July | Prof Ioan Andricioaei | On Slow Relaxation: Examples from Glass Transition, Biomolecular Folding, and Granular Jamming, and Computational Methods to Simulate Their Kinetics |
| June | Eric Doyle | [PhD Defence] Atomic Structure Revealed by EUV Photoabsorption of 6th Row Ions |
| June | Ann McCann | [PhD Defence] Novel methods of quantifying tumour characteristics on PET/CT and their application in personalised dosimetry and therapy for patients with neuroendocrine tumours |
| May | Prof Tomaso Zambelli | Measuring cellular forces and currents with the FluidFM |
| May | Dr. Diana Chisholm | Distinguishing between redundancy and consensus when quantifying quantum objectivity |
| May | Dr Cosimo Inserra | Supernova frontier: beyond standard stellar demises |
| May | Prof Alex Evilevitch | Intranuclear herpes DNA ejection induces robust mechanoprotection of nucleus integrity required for viral genome replication |
| April | Prof. Darach Watson & Prof. Padraig Dunne | HEAVYMETALs from Binary Neutron Star Mergers |
| March | Fionnuala Curran | Maximal intrinsic randomness of a quantum system |
| March | Dr. Pamela Sooriyan | First Impression of the Data |
| January | Parinaz Mosaddeghi Amini | Multiscale Modelling of Food Protein Absorption on Solid Surfaces |
| January | Prof. Richard A. Amos | Particle Physics in Medicine: Targeting Cancer with Ion Beams |
2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| November | Dr. Anne Matthies | Simulated Cooling on Quantum Computers |
| November | Dr. Matteo Carlesso | Space experiments to test the foundations of quantum theory |
| November | Conor McGrath | [PhD Defence] Search for dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with VERITAS |
| November | Prof. Massimo Vassalli | Fluidic Force Microscopy to study Cellular Mechanosensing |
| November | Dr. Elizabeth Hays | Innovations to unlock the high-energy gamma-ray sky |
| November | Rachel Dunwoody | [PhD Defence] System-Level Qualification, Characterisation and Operation of a Cerium Bromide Gamma-ray Burst Detector on the EIRSAT-1 CubeSat |
| October | Nicolas Wong | [PhD Defence] Photoionization studies from laser-produced plasmas to synchrotron radiation |
| October | Robert Byrne | [PhD Defence] Massive Stellar Endpoints |
| October | Luke McConnell | [PhD Defence] Measurement of the Central Exclusive Production of the ρ0 meson with the LHCb Experiment |
| September | Ahmed Thuwayb Alanazi | [PhD Defence] Advanced Nanomaterial Composites for Enhanced Photocatalysis and Sensing |
| September | Eoin O'Connor | [PhD Defence] Characterisation and optimality of open quantum system dynamics |
| September | Serena O’Keefe | [PhD Defence] Optimisation of hypo fractionation in radiation therapy |
| June | Jonas Rigo | [PhD Defence] Models and methods for complex quantum nanostructures |
| May | Henry Legg | Topological superconductivity in topological insulator and Ge devices |
| May | Pamela Sooriyan | Diversity in Physics |
| April | R. Jason Jones | Frequency Comb Spectroscopy from the MIR to the VUV |
| April | Andrew Mitchell | Analogue quantum computation with nanoelectronic circuits |
| March | Xiongfei Bai | [PhD Defence] A study of low-dimensional laser-produced plasmas through modelling and experimentation |
| March | Emrullah Kargin | [PhD Defence] Probing electrostatic and electrochemical processes at the solid-liquid interface with electrochemical force microscopy (EcFM) |
| March | Nick Brereton | Lessons from Microbiome Exploration within Space Science |
| February | Maeve Doyle | [PhD Defence] On-Board Software Development & Mission Testing for the EIRSAT-1 Satellite and Prospects for Future Astrophysics Missions |
| February | Abolfazl Bayat | Quantum many-body probes |
2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| December | Richard Woolf | High-Energy Space Environment Research at NRL |
| November | Joseph Mangan | [PhD Defence] Hardware and Embedded Firmware Development of a Gamma-Ray Burst Detector for a 2U CubeSat |
| November | Hans-Joachim Galla | Cooperativity determines membrane protein function: ABC transporters and annexin |
| November | Alessandro Podesta’ | The interaction of room-temperature ionic liquids with cells and model biomembranes. An atomic force microscopy study |
| November | Hossam Ibrahim | [PhD Defence] The development of a spheroid-based migration assay on tissue-specific extracellular matrix |
| November | Dr. Pallavi Kumari | Correlative nano-mechanics of plant cell wall and polymer |
| September | Eleni Diamanti | Secure Communication in a Quantum World |
| September | Maria Moutzouri | [PhD Defence] Study of emission from the bow shocks of runaway massive stars at radio frequencies |
| August | Sean Brennan | [PhD Defence] Observational constraints on Supernovae and Supernova Impostors |
| August | Silas O'Toole | [PhD Defence] PEAR: A super-resolution imaging technique through active plasmonics |
| August | Jason Howard | [PhD Defence] Development of a soft X-ray light source for soft X-ray tomography and photoelectron spectroscopy |
| August | Pablo Poggi | A dynamical perspective on the reliability of NISQ-era quantum simulators |
| July | Takanori Miyazaki | [PhD Defence] Spectroscopy of multiply charged fifth row ions from plasma sources |
| July | Antonio Faraone | Quasi-elastic neutron scattering on soft condensed matter. Recent results on polymer nanocomposites |
| July | Emma Minarelli | [PhD Defence] Quantum transport in interacting nanodevices: From quantum dots to single-molecule transistors |
| June | Agata Fularz | [PhD Defence] Design of dielectric-based platforms for Raman and fluorescence-based chemical detection |
| June | Christina Kiel | Ras-effector networks in (patho)physiological contexts |
| June | Ioan Andricioaei | Computer Simulations of the Interaction of Ions, DNA and Dendrimers with Protein Pores: Examples and Theoretical Models |
| June | Brajesh Narayan | [PhD Defence] Long-time methods for MD simulations: Markov State Models and Milestoning |
| June | Patrick Wong | [PhD Defence] Interactions and Topology in Quantum Matter. Auxiliary Field Approach & Generalized SSH Models |
| June | Visakh V S Pillai | [PhD Defence] A biophysical study of the effect of ionic liquids on single proteins and amyloids |
| May | Michael Campbell | Hybrid pixel detectors |
| April | Rhaana Starling | The X-ray flaring behaviour of gamma-ray bursts |
| April | Peter Duffy | Particle acceleration in the shear flows of astrophysical jets |
| April | Elgiva White | [PhD Defence] Spectroscopic Investigations of the Physics of High-Z Laser-Produced Plasmas |
| April | Naomi Raab | [PhD Defence] Exclusive production of J/ψ and Φ mesons at the LHCb experiment |
| March | Krissia Zawadzki | DFT-inspired approximations for work and entropy: an analysis of driven Hubbard chains |
| March | Jessica Erkal | [PhD Defence] Investigating Jets and their Role in Star Formation |
| March | Baris Cakmak | Synchronisation in quantum systems |
| February | Emma Callis | [PhD Defence] Observations of Circumstellar Interaction in Diverse CCSNe |