Colloquia

Upcoming events

The Theory, Practice, and Sociology of Physical Cosmology

Sociologists have interesting things to say about the practice of natural science. I will discuss the sociological phenomenon of multiples in scientific discoveries, with examples drawn from how the ΛCDM cosmology grew….

16-05-202216-05-2022

With: Prof. P. James Peebles, Princeton University, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
Place and room: CE 1 6
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63945870098?pwd=NWR4Wk55clNhYTl4R1VBMnIyTlFaZz09
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

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Past events

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

I will discuss recent progress of the optical lattice emulators of the Fermi Hubbard model. The new feature of these experiments is availability of snapshots of many-body states with single particle resolution. I will review…

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

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

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