This web page lists the talks and seminars I have given.

Talks

• Quantum Devices for Dark Matter studies (pdf), Quantum @ Boulby workshop, Sept 2024.
• A proposal for a new quantum tech based dark matter experiment: QuaDMOS (pdf) GUINEAPIG 2024 Workshop on Light Dark Matter, Toronto, Canada, August 2024.
• Subatomic qubit pairs. What can we learn? (pdf), QMUL-SNOLab, Sudbury, Canada, Jan 2024.
• Testing the Unitarity Triangle with BaBar, KM 50 meeting at KEK, 2023 (pdf)
• Machine learning in theoretical and experimental high energy physics, Nature Reviews Physics discussion session 2022, webpage
• Common Tools, IPA2022: Interplay between Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Vienna 2022 pdf
• Hadronic radiation detection using solid state organic devices, EMRS Symposium M, Spring meeting (virtual) 2022 Symposium M
• Industry Links, LHC Paperfest, IoP, May 2022. pdf
• Organic Electronic Neutron Detectors, Technical Meeting on Advances in Neutron Detectors for Neutron Scattering and Imaging Applications, IAEA, September 2021
• Machine Learning in Physics, CogX 2020, June 2020. You Tube [Data Science for Science Session, starts at 2hr 20min] and slides are available.
• Challenges of Machine Learning in Physics, Physics challenges in Machine Learning and Network Science, Sept 2019.
• Challenges of Machine Learning in Physics, British Council Researcher Links Workshop, Sept 2019.
• Machine learning techniques for detecting topological avatars of new physics, Topological Avatars of New Physics, March 2019.
• Rare Decays including angular analysis of Bd->K*mu mu with ATLAS, Heavy Quarks and Leptons, Yamagata, Japan, 2018.
• Machine Learning in HEP, HORSE2017: On "Horses" in Applied Machine Learning, Sept. 2017.
• The potential for searching for monopoles in polar ice samples, 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2017) August 2017
• Testing the discrete symmetries CP, T and CPT using neutral meson decays and entanglement, Workshop on Discrete Symmetries and Entanglement (Jangiellonian Symposium on Fundamental and Applied Subatomic Physics), June 2017.
• Electroweak Heavy Flavour Physics from ATLAS and CMS, 52nd Recontres de Moriond, La Thuile, Italy (2017).
• Search for new physics in rare decays of B mesons, CKM 2016, Mumbai.
• Experimental Summary, FPCP 2016 Caltech.
• Search for new physics in rare decays of B mesons, DIS 2016, Hamburg.
• Recent Results from BaBar on Charmed Mesons, DIS 2016, Hamburg.
• Discrete symmetries and quark flavour searches for new phenomena Symmetries and Phases in the Universe 2015
• C, P and CP asymmetry observables based on triple product asymmetries Charm 2015.
• Recent results from ATLAS Rare B Decays in 2015 - experiment and theory.
• T odd asymmetry in triple products Workshop on Physics at a future high intensity collider @ 2-7 GeV in China.
• Experimental prospects for C, P, T, CP and CPT tests, DISCRETE 2014.
• Resonance production with the ATLAS experiment, Resonance Workshop @ Catania.
• Symmetry violations at BaBar, BEACH 2014.
• Some thoughts on B to mumu and K*ll, Aspen workshop on Connecting Flavor Physics with Naturalness: from Theory to Experiment 2014.
• Experimental prospects for T and CPT symmetries tests in the B meson system, Questioning Fundamental Physical Principles 2014.
• Bounding hadronic uncertainties in c to u decays, EPS 2013.
• Physics summary Workshop on Tau-Charm at High Luminosity.
• Future experiments on T violation and CPT tests in the B0 (D0) systems MITP workshop on T and CPT violation in neutral meson systems.
• Experimental studies of T violation IOP HEPP Meeting 2013.
• Experimental T-violation studies, KEK Workshop on Flavor Physics (March 2013).
• Physics at Super B factory, KEK Workshop on Flavor Physics (March 2013).
• Search for dark-sector Higgs and gauge bosons at BaBar, ICHEP July 2012.
• Complementarity of Super Flavour Factories with Hadron Machines, Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2011, Paris, November 2011.
• Physics at SuperB, Charm Physics at threshold, IHEP, Beijing, October, 2011.
• Reaches of rare charm decays, Charm Physics at threshold, IHEP, Beijing, October, 2011.
• SuperB physics programme, SuperB Information Day, Strasbourg, France, September2011.
• Physics at SuperB, Lomonosov XV, Moscow, August 2011.
• From beauty to charm, Time-dependent CP asymmetries in charm decays, EPS, Grenoble, 2011.
• SuperB Physics Programme, Round Table Contribution, Capri, July 2010.
• Results from the B Factories, Indirect Searches for New Physics at the time of LHC - Conference Florence, Italy, March 2010.
• Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, NEXT Meeting on B-Physics, Southampton University, January 2010.
• Flavour physics at B-factories and other machines, EPS '09, Krakow, Poland, July 2009. (pdf).
• SuperB, CIPANP '09, San Diego, CA, May 2009. (pdf).
• The measurement of alpha from the B factories CIPANP '09, San Diego, CA, May 2009. (pdf)
• Measuring alpha at SuperB SuperB Physics Meeting Warwick, UK, April 2009. (pdf)
• CP Violation in B Decay IoP Half Day Meeting: BaBar Sympoisium, QMUL, UK, 1st April 2009. (pdf).
• B->VV Decays Hints for new physics in flavor decays, KEK, Japan, 20-21st March 2009 (pdf).
• SuperB Recontres de Moriond EW 2009 La Thuile, Italy, 7-14th March 2009 (pdf).
• Lectures: Results from the B Factories, Helmholtz Summer School Lectures on Heavy Flavour Physics, follow this link for pdf files of these lectures Dubna, Russia, August 2008.
• Calorimeter Test Beam for SuperB, SuperB Detector Workshop I SLAC 14-16th February 2008 (pdf).
• Invited talk (45min) B->l nu (gamma), SuperB Workshop VI: New Physics at the Super Flavour Factory SuperB Valencia, 7-15th January 2008 (pdf).
• Invited talk (20min) The Physics case of the SuperB facility, XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy - Hadron07 Frascati, 8-13th October 2007 (pdf)
• Invited talk (45min) Experimental reach for CKM angles and sides, Coseners Forum, Heavy Flavour Physics Abingdon, 21st-22nd June 2007 (pdf)
• Invited talk (20min) Measuring Alpha to 1 degree. Is it possible?, 5th Super B Workshop, Paris, 9-11 May 2007 (pdf)
• Invited talk (30 min) Rare B Decays, The 6th KEK Topical Conference: Frontiers in Particle Physics and Cosmology (KEKTC6), Tsukuba, 6-8th February 2007 (BaBar talk record, pdf)
• Invited talk (20 min) Measuring alpha from B to pi pi decays CKM workshop, Nagoya, 12-16th December 2006 (pdf)
• Invited talk (20 min) Rare Hadronic B Decays Flavour Physics in the LHC Era, CERN, 9th - 11th October 2006 (pdf)
• Invited talk (25 min) The Super Flavor Factory Beauty 2006, Oxford, UK, 25th - 29th September 2006 (pdf)
• Invited talk (30 min) Rare Hadronic B decays (babar and Belle mini review talk) ICFP 2005, Chung-Li, Taiwan, 3rd - 8th October 2005 (pdf)
• Invited talk (25 min) Measuring alpha from B -> rhorho decays CKM workshop, San Diego, 15th - 18th March 2005 (pdf)
• Invited talk (30 min) sin2alpha/phi_2 from pi+pi-, rhopi, rhorho modes (babar and Belle mini review talk) Flavor Physics and CP Violation, Daegu, Korea 4th-9th October 2004. hep-ex/0411090 (pdf)
• Invited talk (30 min) Physics of babar IOP Annual meeting on Particle Physics, Birmingham, 4th-7th April 2004 (pdf)
• Invited talk (45 min) CP Violation Studies IOP half day meeting on Physics at B Factories, Manchester, 19th November 2003 ()
• Invited review talk (45min): Recent results from babar Helenic High Energy Physics meeting, Athens, 17th-20th April 2003 ()
• Talk entitled: Measuring alpha with babar Particle Physics 2003 (IOP) conference, Durham, 14th-16th April 2003
• Talk entitled: Measurement of B->hpi0 and search for B0->pi0pi0 with babar Joint DPF/APS meeting, Philadelphia, 5th-8th April 2003.
• Invited talk: Direct CP asymmetries and charmless branching fractions with babar International Conference on High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, 24th-31st July 2002. Proceedings of ICHEP 2002, 525-528, SLAC-PUB-10223 (pdf)
• Invited talk: Recent rare decay results from NA48 UK Phenomenology Workshop on Heavy Flavour and CP Violation, Durham, September 2000, J. Phys G Vol. 27 1161-1164 (2001)
• Talk entitled: Preliminary results on the decay K0L->mumugamma from NA48's 1998 data-set. Particle Physics 2000 (IOP) conference, Edinburgh, April 2000
• Participation in a rare kaon decay workshop at CERN dedicated to investigating the charged and neutral kaon physics reach of NA48 once epsilon' data taking had been completed. CERN (1998)

Seminars

I am able to give seminars on my research, including flavour physcis and detector development. I work on ATLAS, the ATLAS Phase II upgrade and novel detector development using ultra thin silicon, diamond, organic semiconductor and perovskite technologies.

• SNOLab, Canada, Organic Semiconductor Alpha and Neutron Detectors, March 2023.
• Royal Holloway University of London, Support Vector Machines and Generalisation in HEP, May 2016.
• Rutherford Appleton Lab, Support Vector Machines and Generalisation in HEP, Feb 2016.
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, CP, T, and CPT Symmetry Violation Tests Using B Decays, June 2014.
• KEK, Japan, Arachnid: A CMOS MAPS R&D Programme, March 2013.
• Lancaster, UK, Studying CP Violation in charm decays, February 2013.
• Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, The SuperB Project, February 2012.
• Paris VI, VII, France, The SuperB Project, February 2012.
• SLAC National Accelerator Centre, Menlo Park, CA, USA, The SuperB Project, January 2012.
• Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, The SuperB Project, January 2012.
• Graduate University of the Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, Beijing, The SuperB Project, October 2011.
• Liverpool, UK, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, May 2010.
• DESY Zeuthen, Germany, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, May 2010 (pdf).
• DESY Hamburg, Germany, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, May 2010.
• Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, April 2010.
• MPI Munich, Germany, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, April 2010.
• Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Germany, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, April 2010.
• Imperial College London, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, February 2010.
• University College London, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, February 2010.
• Bristol University, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, January 2010.
• Queen Mary University of London, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, December 2009.
• Birmingham University, Super Flavour Factories: SuperB, November 2009.
• Queen Mary University of London, Experimental verification of Kobayashi and Maskawa three generation quark mixing model, December 2008 (pdf).
• Royal Holloway University of London, Experimental verification of Kobayashi and Maskawa three generation quark mixing model, November 2008.
• Glasgow University: The SuperB Facility, March 2008.
• Sheffield University: The SuperB Facility, Jan 2008.
• Cambridge University: The SuperB Facility, Jan 2008.
• Edinburgh University: The physics potential of a Super B Factory, Nov 2007.
• Birmingham University: The physics potential of a Super B Factory, Nov 2007 (pdf ).
• IPPP, Durham University: The physics potential of a Super B Factory, Oct 2007.
• Queen Mary University of London: Physics case for a Super B Factory, May 2007.
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: Physics at a Super Flavor Factory, January 2007.
• Liverpool University: Physics at a Super Flavor Factory, November 2006.
• KEK, Japan, Measuring the Unitarity Triangle Angle alpha with BaBar, September 2006. pdf
• Imperial College London, Measuring the Unitarity Triangle Angle alpha with the B-factories, November 2005.
• University of Zurich, Measuring the Unitarity Triangle Angle alpha/phi_2 with the B-factories, September 2005.
• Liverpool University: Measurement of the CKM angle alpha and hot topics from the B-factories, Oct 2004.
• Oxford University: Measurement of the CKM angle alpha, March 2004.
• Liverpool University: Measurement of the CKM angle alpha, Feb 2004.
• Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, CA: Measurement of the CKM angle alpha, Feb 2004.
• Liverpool University: Toward a measurement of alpha with babar, May 2003.
• Cambridge University: Toward a measurement of alpha with babar, April 2003.
• Liverpool University: Recent Results from babar, April 2003.
• Liverpool University (HEP Theory group): Recent results from babar, May 2001.
• Southampton University (HEP Theory group): K0L->mumugamma Analysis using NA48 data from 1998, February 2001.

Posters

• Organic electronic-based neutron detectors, Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, Elba, May/June 2024
• Large area curved silicon modules for future trackers, PisaMeetingon Advanced Detectors, Elba, May/June 2024
• Organic electronic-based neutron detectors, PSD12: The 12th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors, Birmingham pdf (2022)
• Support Vector Machines and Generalisation CHEP 2016, San Francisco
• EPAC '06
• The NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS, A measurement of epsilon'/epsilon at the NA48 experiment and Rare decays at the NA48 experiment, R. Arcidiacono et. al., Presented at the SLAC Summer Institute on CP Violation, Stanford, USA (1999).
• Development of an ionisation chamber array for use on the proton gantry A. Bevan et. al., 2nd International Symposium on Hadron Therapy, PSI session, Villigen, Switzerland (1996)

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