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Searching for new physics beyond the energy frontier

Heavy flavour, long-lived particles and the next generation experiments:  Despite extensive searches at the highest collision energies, the nature of physics beyond the Standard Model remains unknown. New phenomena may…

 28.09.2026   13:0014:00

Speaker: Prof. Lesya Shchutska, EPFL, High Energy Physics Laboratory
Location:  CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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 12.10.2026   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Angela Wittmann
Location:  CM 1 5
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Plasma heating, particle acceleration and avalanches in magnetic flux ropes in solar flares

 02.11.2026   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Philippa Browning
Location:  CM 1 5
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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Past events

Many-body entanglement in quantum computing

The idea of quantum computers is that "More is different" when it comes to qubits.  One qubit is not so interesting but many of them together can create exotic and computationally powerful forms of many-body…

 27.04.2026   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Aram Harrow, MIT, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Location:  CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Spin shuttling – a new paradigm for semiconductor spin qubits

 26.01.2026   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Lieven Vandersypen, Delft University of Technology
Location:  BM 5202
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

The emergent "graviton" in the fractional quantum Hall effect

 15.12.2025   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Dam T. Son, University of Chicago
Location:  MA B1 11
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Strongly correlated electrons in semiconductor moire materials: from kinetic magnetism to optical orientation of topological states

 05.05.2025   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Atac Imamoglu, ETHZ. Full Professor at the Department of Physics. Deputy head of Institute for Quantum Electronics
Location:  CM 1 1 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

IMX/IPHYS Talks – Designing Hierarchical Soft Materials through Self-Assembly and Phase Separation

 01.05.2025   09:0010:00

Speaker: Dr. Carla Fernández Rico, ETHZ
Location:  BM 5202 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

IMX/IPHYS Talks – Designing Resilience at Materials Interfaces for Extreme Tribological Demands

 01.05.2025   14:0015:00

Speaker: Prof. Wenjun (Rebecca) Cai, Virginia Tech, USA
Location:  BM 5202 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Exploring Quantum Hall Edge Channels in Graphene as a Path to Topological Superconductivity

 14.04.2025   16:1517:15

Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Sacépé, Néel Institute, CNRS Grenoble. https://sacepe-quest.neel.cnrs.fr/
Location:  CM 1 5 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Recent Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Implications for our Understanding of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

 20.03.2025   12:1513:15

Speaker: Prof. David Spergel, Princeton University, President of the Simons Foundation    David Spergel is president of the Simons Foundation. He is the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Princeton University and was the founding director of the Center of Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York. Spergel received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1982. After a year of study at Oxford University, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1985. After two years as a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Princeton astrophysics faculty in 1987, where he was also associate faculty in the Departments of Physics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In 2021, he assumed leadership of the Simons Foundation. Spergel is the author of over 400 papers.  He is known for his contributions to understanding the cosmic microwave background, the left-over heat from the Big Bang.  He has received numerous prizes for his work on cosmology including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Shaw Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.  
Location:  CE 1 4 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter

 10.03.2025   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT. The speaker Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is Professor in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2018 he presented a new 2D-platform to investigate strongly correlated physics, based on graphene moiré superlattices.
Location:  RLC E1 240 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Sloppy models, differential geometry, and why science works

 11.11.2024   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. James Sethna, Cornell University
Location:  CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Physics with artificial atoms

 28.10.2024   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Director of the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. Per is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), and of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is also a Distinguished Professor appointed by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a Wallenberg Scholar.
Location:  CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

 23.09.2024   16:1517:15

Speaker: Dr David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Location:  CE 1 2 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Practical Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions

 27.05.2024   14:1515:15

Speaker: Prof. Jungsang Kim, Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology , Duke University
Location:  CE 1 2 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells

 13.05.2024   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Ibrahim Cissé
Location:  CE1 2 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Towards Quantum Computing with Spins on Surfaces

 02.04.2024   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Heinrich, Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Seoul & Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
Location:  CE 1 2 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Imaging Electronic and Atomic Motion in Molecules

 25.03.2024   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Manish Garg, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Location:  CE 1 2 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

What Do We Know Today About the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model ?

 11.03.2024   14:0015:00

Speaker: Prof. Antoine GEORGES, Collège de France, Paris – Flatiron Institute, New York – Université Genève
Location:  CM 1 120 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Novel approaches to scaling trapped-ion quantum computing

 05.02.2024   15:0016:00

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Home, ETHZ, Institut für Quantenelektronik
Location:  CE 1 2 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Epigenetic factor competition can reshape the EMT landscape in breast cancer cells

 23.10.2023   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Herbert Levine, Northeastern University, Boston
Location:  CE 1 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Local quantum probes of quantum matter

 04.10.2023   16:1517:15

Speaker: Prof. Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Location:  CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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