Colloquia 2015-2016 Fall


The Physics Colloquia are designed to address a non-specialist, broad audience and introduce topics of contemporary research through lectures by leading experts. We warmly invite all members of the student body, including undergraduates enrolled in any programme.

Each colloquium will be held in Electrical and Electronics Engineering building theater EE01 (Click here to see the map, click here for the campus map and building codes)

day timelocation
Wednesdays15:40EE01
Sep 16Ümit Özgür — Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA USAIII-Nitride LEDs for Lighting: Opportunities and challenges » more
Nov 4Dieter Suter — Fakultät Physik, TU Dortmund, GermanyQuantum computers: promise, problems and possible solutions » more
Nov 11Onofrio Maragò — CNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Messina, Italy
Optical trapping of nanostructures » more
Nov 18Jens Biegert — ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, SpainMid-IR-driven Electron Recollision: Molecular Diffraction Imaging and Attosecond soft-X-rays » more
Nov 25Paolo Creminelli — ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Inflation: What do we know about the beginning of the Universe? » more
Dec 16Feryal Özel — University of Arizona, USA
Solving the Mysteries of Neutron Stars and Black Holes » more