Colloquia Fall 2014-2015

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 17Peer Fischer — Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, GermanyThree-Dimensional Hybrid Nanostructures, Chemical Nanomotors,
and Nanorobot Propulsion » more
Oct 01Ivan Shelykh — University of Iceland, Reykjavik, IcelandOptical Analogs of Aharonov-Bohm Effect » more
Nov 05Máté Nagy — Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Collective Motion and Group Behaviour
Observations, Models, Quantitative Analysis and Robotic Applications » more
Nov 12Charles Reichhardt — Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
Jamming and Clogging Transitions in
Driven Systems in the Presence of Obstacle Arrays » more
Nov 19Hartmut Löwen — Düsseldorf University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Physics of Active Matter » more
Nov 26Roland G. Winkler — Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Physics of Bacteria Locomotion » more
Dec 03Balázs Dóra — Budapest Uni. of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
How to Engineer the Band Structure of a (Topological) Insulator? » more
Dec 10Eric Westman — Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease Using Multimodal Imaging » more
Dec 17N. Gökhan Ünel — University of California, Irvine, USA
Higgs Particle as the Fruit of the Marriage Between Physics and Engineering » more