Colloquia

Upcoming events

Black Holes as Extreme Quantum Information Processors

It is often suggested that our theory of spacetime and gravity is in tension with quantum theory, for example, that quantum information might be lost in black holes. However, recent developments suggest that spacetime and…

17-05-202117-05-2021

With: Prof. Brian Swingle, University of Maryland
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/82443983203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Past events

Shaping fluid lipid membranes with proteins and cytoskeletal filaments

§Cell membranes are highly deformable and have to be strongly curved, for instance during trafficking when small buds form and eventually detach from cell membranes, or during cell migration upon the formation of…

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

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14-12-202014-12-2020

With: Prof. Massimo Vergassola, UCSD
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

Physics of Morphogenesis

11-11-201911-11-2019

With: Prof. Boris Shraiman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Route to Commercial Fusion — Bringing Down the Cost

04-11-201904-11-2019

With: Prof. Steven Cowley, Director Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Direct Multipixel Imaging of an exo-Earth with a Solar Gravitational Lens Telescope

21-10-201921-10-2019

With: Prof. Slava Turyshev, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / CALTECH
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

03-06-201903-06-2019

With: Prof. Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Why does actomyosin contract ?

27-05-201927-05-2019

With: Dr. Martin Lenz, Senior CNRS researcher, Université Paris-Sud
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fusion energy, stellarators, and the Wendelstein 7-X project

13-05-201913-05-2019

With: Prof. Per Helander, Max Planck Institut, Greifswald
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

From Bell’s inequalities to quantum technologies

06-05-201906-05-2019

With: Prof. Philippe Grangier, Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves

29-04-201929-04-2019

With: Prof. Vitor Cardoso, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Campus Lecture – Our New International System of Units

15-04-201915-04-2019

With: Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
Place and room: Rolex Learning Center, Forum
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Science, Reality, and Credibility

08-04-201908-04-2019

With:  Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
Place and room: BC 420, BC 410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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