Physics Colloquia 2013-2014

Schedule: General Poster

 

Andrey Varlamov

Superconductivity: A century of Discoveries, Dreams and Delusions

Date: 04/02/2014
Topic: Superconductivity
Affiliation: SPIN-CNR, Italy

Thomas Aumann

Collective Excitations of Exotic, Neutron-rich Nuclei. Slides

Date: 25/02/2014
Topic: Nuclear Physics
Affiliation: TU Darmstadt, Germany

Rocky Kolb

The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Slides

Date: 25/03/2014
Topic: Dark Matter
Affiliation: Univ. of Chicago, USA

Immanuel Bloch 

Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter under Extreme Conditions

Date: 15/04/2014
Topic: Ultracold Atoms
Affiliation: Max Planck Inst. f. Quantenoptik, Muenchen, Germany

Jocelyn Bell-Burnell

Reflections on the Discovery of Pulsars

Date: 29/04/2014
Topic: Astrophysics
Affiliation: Univ. Oxford, UK

Ray Goldstein CANCELED
Evolution of Biological Complexity
Date: 20/05/2014
Topic: Biophysics
Affiliation:Univ.
Cambridge, UK

Stefano Zapperi
Crackling noise
Date: 20/05/2014
Topic: Material properties
Affiliation: CNR-IENI, Milano, Italy

 

Physics Colloquia 2012-2013

Schedule: General Poster

Luigi Guzzo

Probing the mystery of cosmic acceleration with galaxy surveys

Date: 11/12/2012
Topic: The EUCLID space mission, Dark Energy
Affiliation: INAF

Marco Durante

Heavy ions in therapy and space

Date: 19/02/2013
Topic: Radiation Biophysics
Affiliation: Technische Universität Darmstadt

Carlo Beenakker

Random matrices and topological states of matter

Date: 05/03/2013
Topic: Theory of random matrices with applications to nanophysics
Affiliation: Leiden University

Seth Fraden

Chemical and Physical Morphogenesis in Active Emulsions

Date: 16/04/2013
Topic:
Affiliation: Brandeis University

Fabiola Gianotti

The Higgs boson and other recent results from ATLAS SLIDES

Date: 06/05/2013
Topic: Higgs discovery
Affiliation: CERN

Klaus Blaum

Fundamental tests of nature with cooled and stored exotic ions

Date: 28/05/2013
Topic: Ion traps for the study of atomic nuclei and research in fundamental physics
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

 

Physics Colloquia 2011-2012

Session Poster

Roberto Battiston

Astroparticle physics from space and from ground: recent results and future trends

Date: 13th December 2011
Topic: Cosmic Ray
Affiliation: Università degli Studi di Perugia e INFN (ITA)

Antonio Pich

Determining the strength of the strong interactions

Date: 24th January 2012
Topic:
Affiliation: Universitat de Valencia, Valencia (SPA)

Artur Ekert

Is there a perfect cipher? SLIDES

Date: 28th February 2012
Topic:
Affiliation:University of Oxford, Oxford (GBR)

William A. Eaton

Toward observing transition paths in protein folding from single molecule photon trajectories

Date: 27th March 2012
Topic:
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD-USA)

Piet Van Duppen

Exotic nucleiSLIDES

Date: 17th April 2012
Topic:
Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Leuven (BEL)

Reinhard Genzel

Massive black holes and galaxies SLIDES

Date: 22th May 2012
Topic: Galactic Astrophysics
Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (DEU)

 

Physics Colloquia 2010-2011

General Poster Session 2010/2011

Anton Zeilinger – Quantum information and the foundations of quantum mechanics

Date: 26th January 2011
Topic:
Affiliation: Universiteit Wien, Wien (AUT)

Paolo Lipari – The nature of dark matter SLIDE

Date: 8th February 2011
Topic:
Affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma (ITA)

Alberto Diaspro – Beyond the diffraction limit of light

Date: 1st March 2011
Topic:
Affiliation: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia e Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova (ITA)

Philip J. Armitage – Unveiling the diversity of extrasolar planetary systems

Date: 22nd March 2011
Topic:
Affiliation: University of Colorado, Boulder (CO-USA)

Gian Francesco Giudice – The scientific motivations of the Large Hadron Collider

Date: 12th April 2011
Topic:
Affiliation: CERN, Geneve (CHE)

Achim Richter – Playing billiards with microwaves: quantum manifestations of classical chaos SLIDES

Date: 17th May 2011
Topic:
Affiliation: ECT, Trento (ITA)

 

Physics Colloquia 2009-2010

General Poster - Session 2009/2010

George Smoot – The cosmic microwave background: a path to precision cosmologyVIDEO

Date: 2nd December 2009
Topic: Cosmic Microwave Background
Affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (USA)

Erio Tosatti – Metallic nanocontacts: the flow of electrons and of their spin

Date: 26th January 2010
Topic: Condensed Matter
Affiliation: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste (ITA)

Serge Haroche – Exploring the quantum nature of light in a cavity SLIDES VIDEO

Date: 9th February 2010
Topic: Quantum Mechanics
Affiliation: College de France et Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (FRA)

Luis Alvarez-Gaume – Black hole: a landscape of theoretical physics problems VIDEO

Date: 23th March 2010
Topic: Super Strings
Affiliation: CERN, Geneve (CHE)

Peter Schurtenberger – Food seen through the eyes of a soft matter physicists VIDEO

Date: 20th April 2010
Topic: Food Physics
Affiliation: Université de Fribourg, Fribourg (CHE) 

Gerald Gabrielse – Probing fundamental symmetries with matter and antimatter particles and atoms VIDEO

Date: 18th May 2010
Topic: Antimatter
Affiliation: Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)