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Exploring New Computational Frontiers in Quantum Many-Body Physics

Since the early days of quantum mechanics, significant effort has been put into solving its fundamental equations for systems with many particles. This intrinsically complex problem lies at the heart of the possibility of…

30-05-202330-05-2023

With: Prof. Giuseppe Carleo, Computational Quantum Science Laboratory, EPFL
Place and room: BSP 231
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Whole brain approaches to C. elegans neuroscience

15-05-202315-05-2023

With: Prof. Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard University
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Improved operation of fusion plasmas via innovative shaping

17-04-202317-04-2023

With: Prof. Christian Theiler, Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

On the physics and prospects of fusion energy – an exciting journey

20-03-202320-03-2023

With: Prof. Frank Jenko, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Testing relativity in the laboratory with a miniature network of optical lattice atomic clocks

20-02-202320-02-2023

With: Prof. Shimon Kolkowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Quantum simulations with atoms and photons

16-01-202316-01-2023

With: Prof. Jean-Philippe Brantut, Lab for Quantum Gases, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 5
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63907315396
Category: Conferences – Seminars

A Quantum Future of Computing

12-12-202212-12-2022

With: Matthias Troyer, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Non-equilibrium matter through the prism of quantum entanglement

25-11-202225-11-2022

With: Prof. Dmitry Abanin, Université de Genève
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Nonequilibrium Physics in Living Systems and Machine Learning

17-10-202217-10-2022

With: Dr Yuhai TU, IBM research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA
Place and room: CM 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fundamental Physics with Quantum Sensors

10-10-202210-10-2022

With: Prof. Surjeet Rajendran, Johns Hopkins
Place and room: CM 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Space of Quantum Field Theories

09-06-202209-06-2022

With: Prof. Joao Penedones, Fields and Strings Laboratory, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 5
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69729277266
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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23-05-202223-05-2022

With: Prof. Erwin Frey, LMU
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Self-organisation and pattern formation in cellular systems

23-05-202223-05-2022

With: Prof. Erwin Frey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Theory, Practice, and Sociology of Physical Cosmology

16-05-202216-05-2022

With: Prof. P. James Peebles, Princeton University, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019  /  recording of the colloquium : https://tube.switch.ch/videos/tVKu3lAwh0
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Quantum simulators: from the Fermi Hubbard model to quantum assisted NMR inference

21-03-202221-03-2022

With: Prof. Eugene Demler, ETHZ
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

PTOLEMY: Experimental Quest to Detect Relic Neutrinos from the Big Bang

06-12-202106-12-2021

With: Prof. Chris Tully, Princeton University – video and powerpoint of the colloquium : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1090250/
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62025059723
Category: Conferences – Seminars

ITER – An Essential Step Toward Fusion Energy

29-11-202129-11-2021

With: Dr Tim Luce, Head of Science and Operations, ITER
Place and room: CM 1
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62025059723
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Black Holes as Extreme Quantum Information Processors

17-05-202117-05-2021

With: Prof. Brian Swingle, University of Maryland  —   video of the colloquium  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5oJ6J-wLRU
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Shaping fluid lipid membranes with proteins and cytoskeletal filaments

03-05-202103-05-2021

With: Prof. Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, Laboratoire Physico Chimie Curie, Paris
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/82443983203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Connecting and scaling semiconductor quantum systems

22-04-202122-04-2021

With: Prof. Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85936312779
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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