Colloquia

Upcoming events

Magic Angle Graphene: a New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics

The understanding of strongly-correlated quantum matter has challenged physicists for decades. Such difficulties have stimulated new research paradigms, such as ultra-cold atom lattices for simulating quantum materials. In…

2020-02-0314:15:0015:15:00

With: Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Past events

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

In this talk I will give an overview of the development of silicon-based quantum computing (QC), from the basic science through to its prospects for industrial-scale commercialization based on CMOS manufacturing. I begin…

2019-12-1116:15:0017:15:00

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

In silico discovery and design of novel materials

2019-11-1816:15:0017:15:00

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

Physics of Morphogenesis

2019-11-1116:15:0017:15:00

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

2019-11-0417:00:0018:00:00

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

2019-10-2116:15:0017:15:00

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

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

2019-06-0314:15:0015:15:00

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

Why does actomyosin contract ?

2019-05-2716:15:0017:15:00

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

2019-05-1316:15:0017:15:00

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

From Bell’s inequalities to quantum technologies

2019-05-0616:15:0017:15:00

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

2019-04-2916:15:0017:15:00

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

2019-04-1516:15:0017:15:00

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

2019-04-0815:15:00

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

Magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin films

2018-11-1216:15:0017:15:00

With: Dr. André Thiaville, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Use of the Crooks Fluctuation Theorem to Study the Inter-domain Folding Cooperativity of a Protein

2018-10-0816:15:0017:15:00

With: Prof. Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fingerprints of electron correlation in materials: Challenges and progress of electronic structure theory

2018-10-0116:15:0017:15:00

With: Dr. Lucia Reining, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

(Sub)-nanofluidics with two-dimensional materials

2018-09-2416:15:0017:15:00

With: Dr. Slaven Garaj, National University of Singapore
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Scientific Opportunities with SwissFEL

2018-05-1416:15:0017:15:00

With: Dr. Rafael Abela, Paul Scherrer Institute
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Quantum and nonlocal phenomena in plasmonic nanostructures

2018-04-3016:15:0017:15:00

With: Prof. N. Asger Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment

2018-04-0916:15:0017:15:00

With: Prof. Klaus Kirch, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen / ETHZ
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Entanglement and tensor networks in quantum many body physics

2018-03-1916:15:0017:15:00

With: Prof. Frank Verstraete, Ghent University
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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