Colloquia

Upcoming events

A Quantum Future of Computing

While still in early development, quantum computers are already overturning our notions of computing by promising to solve certain problems that are intractable on any imaginable classical computer.  I will present simple…

12-12-202212-12-2022

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

Cancelled

tbd

19-12-202219-12-2022

With: Prof. Matthias Troyer, Microsoft
Place and room: CM 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Past events

Non-equilibrium matter through the prism of quantum entanglement

Remarkable experimental progress in quantum simulation enabled studies of non-equilibrium phenomena in interacting quantum systems. Bringing quantum matter out-of-equilibrium provides a tool to engineer desired properties,…

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

tbd

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

ETHZ Sustainability Week 2021

08-03-202112-03-2021

Online: https://www.nachhaltigkeitswoche.ch/programm/
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Learning to navigate turbulent environments

14-12-202014-12-2020

With: Prof. Massimo Vergassola, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84048962946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The magic of moiré quantum matter

16-11-202016-11-2020

With: Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84048962946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Search for Quantum Gravity

09-11-202009-11-2020

With: Prof. Shiraz Minwalla Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84048962946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Computational Quantum Matter

19-10-202019-10-2020

With: Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85265970380
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Silicon-based quantum computing:the path from the laboratory to industrial manufacture

11-12-201911-12-2019

With: Prof. Andrew Dzurak, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

In silico discovery and design of novel materials

18-11-201918-11-2019

With: Prof. Oleg Yazyev, Chair of Computational Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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