Physics Colloquia

This is the page for the Physics Colloquia of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

The Physics Colloquia take place Thursdays at 16:00.
The in-person presentations will be held in different lecture halls. Please see the announcement poster for more details.

For Master students:
In order to get credits for the colloquia you attend, you need to be registered for the course in Nestor. It is your responsibility to make sure that you do indeed appear in the student list. If in doubt, please contact Anastasia Borschevsky (a.borschevsky rug.nl).

As a reminder, to complete this course, you need to attend 10 colloquia.

During the colloquium sessions a presence list will be circulated for students to sign to registration their attendance. If the list is not circulated, it can be signed by the end of the colloquium in the front of the room. Students are encouraged to verify the correct registrations of their attendance on the Nestor site regularly. Normally attendance is registered within a week.

The chair of the Colloquium Committee, Anastasia Borschevsky is responsible for the decision that students have fulfilled their colloquium obligation. In case of exceptional registrations (e.g. in the case of the attendance of other symposia than the General Physics Colloquium) students should contact Anastasia (a.borschevsky@rug.nl)

The registration of the attended colloquia on this Nestor site is carried out by Ms. Annelien Blanksma. Students can find the number of colloquia they are registered for attendance under the button 'Registered Attendances'. For matters concerning the actual registration of attended colloquia, students can contact mrs. Annelien Blanksma (a.m.blanksma@rug.nl).

Our schedule for the next academic year is:

Date	Speaker	Title / Topic

7 November 2024	Zernike Colloquium: Alex Weber-Bargioni, Berkeley University	Controlling and Protecting Quasiparticles in 2-D Quantum Materials
14 November 2024	Patrick Steinegger	t.b.a.
21 November 2024	Maxim Brodeur	t.b.a.
28 November 2024	Machteld Kamminga	t.b.a.
5 December 2024	Zernike Colloquium	t.b.a.
12 December 2024	Charlotte Sanders	t.b.a.
19 December 2024	t.b.a.	t.b.a.
26 December 2024	no Physics Colloquium	-
2 January 2025	no Physics Colloquium	-
9 January 2025	Zernike Colloquium	t.b.a.
16 January 2025	Phil King	t.b.a.
23 January 2025	Jelle Aalbers, VSI, University of Groningen	t.b.a.
30 January 2025	Philipp Mösta	t.b.a.
6 February 2025	Zernike Colloquium	t.b.a.
13 February 2025	Tobias Fischer	t.b.a.
20 February 2025	t.b.a.	t.b.a.
27 February 2025	Annika Johansson	t.b.a.

Former Physics Colloquia

31 October 2024	Ilja Voets, TU/e CANCELLED	Some like it cold: from computational protein design to the physics of cryopreservation
24 October 2024	Peter Pang, Utrecht University	Piecing Together the Neutron Star Puzzle: A Multi-Messenger Exploration of Extreme Matter
17 October 2024	Elisabeth Gruber, University Innsbruck, Austria	Probing singly and multiply charged molecular ions withinhelium nanodroplets
3 October 2024	Jacinda Ginges, University of Queensland, Australia	The hyperfine anomaly: adventures at the interface of atomic, nuclear and particle physics
2 October 2024	ZIAM Colloquium, Jingxiu Xie	Intensified catalytic processes for CO2 conversion to chemicals and fuels
26 September 2024	Loredana Gastaldo, KIP Heidelberg University, Germany	ECHo: a "cool" neutrino mass experiment
11 July 2024	Ioana Ilie, UVA	Cracking the code: a Computanional Expedition into Neuroregenerative Proteins and Innovative Therapies
20 June 2024	Jorik van de Groep, UvA/AMOLF	Exciton resonance tuning in atomically-thin metasurfaces
13 June 2024	Philipp Mertsch, Univesity of Aachen	The Galaxy under a high-energy microscope
6 June 2024	ZIAM Colloquium Dr. Silvia Picozzi, CNR-SPIN	Multiferroicity and Magneto-electricity in the Flatland
30 May 2024	Ania Kwiatkowski, Triumf	What can one radioactive ion tell us about the universe? Studies at Titan-Triumf
23 May 2024	Fabio Iocco, University of Naples	The dark matter distribution in the Milky Way (its uncertainties and effects on determination of new physics)
2 May 2024	Maz Ali, TU Delft	Kagome: From Basket Weaving to Josephson Diodes
25 April 2024	Bjorn Corzlius, University of Rodstock	Site-specific dynamic nuclear polarization in biomolecular MAS NMR
18 April 2024	Sonia Conesa-Boj, TU Delft	Towards a New Generation of van der Waals Materials of Quantum Technologies
11 April 2024	Richard Wilhelm, TU Wien, Vienna	Determining ultrafast surface charge dynamics of 2D materials with ion-electron coincidence spectroscopy
4 April 2024	ZIAM Colloquium Prof. Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia	Quantum Materials by Design
21 March 2024	Flavia Dias, UvA/Nikhef	On the Hunt for New Particles at the Large Hadron Collider
14 March 2024	Charusheela Ranaman, VU / Max Planck Institute	Competitive Photophysical Pathways in Organic Choromphore Systems
15 February 2024	Tim Lichenberg, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute	Internal fractionation of atmospheric volatiles on molten exoplanets
8 February 2024	ZIAM Colloquium Prof. Liv Hornekaer, Aarhus University	Interstellar Catalysis - a Route to Molecular Complexity in Space
1 February 2024	Sotiris Loucatos, APC-Saclay	Cosmic Microwave Background measurements with mm - telescopes
25 January 2024	Rene Reifart, University of Frankfurt, Los Alamos	Where do we come from - ion storage rings for nuclear astrophysics
14 December 2023	Federica Bradascio, CEA-IRFU, France	Multimessenger Astronomy with high-energy neutrinos and gamma-rays
7 December 2023	ZIAM Colloquium Nacho Pascual	The Emergence of Magnetism in Graphene Nanostructures
6 December 2023	Natalia Oreshkina, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany	Nuclear Radii: why to care and how to measure
30 November 2023	Ticijana Ban, Insitute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia	Multichannel laser cooling of atoms using an optical frequency comb
23 November 2023	Oscar Versolato, ARCNL/VU	Generating EUV light from laser-produced plasma
9 November	FOTU-event, House of Connections	Fundamentals of the Universe
2 November	ZIAM Colloquium, Mathieu Luisier	Building Tomorrow's Electronics: From Atoms to Devices
26 October 2023	Maxim Pchenitchnikov	Attoscience
19 October 2023	Esra Yuksel, Surrey UK	Implications of PREX-II and CREX experiments for relativistic nuclear energy density functionals
12 October 2023	Laura Tolos, ICE Barcelona	The Strangeness of Neutron Stars
5 October 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, Roberto Lo Conte	Topological hybrid quantum materials
21 September 2023	Tjerk Oosterkamp, Leiden University	Towards studying Gravity and Quantum Mechanics using Cold Mechanical Resonators
14 September 2023	Michael Fuhrer, Monash University, Australia	Topological Materials for Low-Energy Electronics
6 July 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, Emily Carter, Princeton University
22 June 2023	Vinicius Mikuni, Berkeley NERSC	Collider Physics Innovations Powered by Machine Learning
15 June 2023	Trisan Du Pree, Nikhef	The Higgs boson - a decade after its discovery
1 June 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, Prof. Harish Bhaskaran, University of Oxford	Neuromorphic Computing with Optoelectronics
25 May 2023	Kathye Mulrey, Radboud University, Nijmegen	Detecting ultra-high-energy neutrinos using radio techniques
11 May 2023	Julieta I. Paez, University of Twente	Bioinspired thiol-mediated crosslinking enables covalient adaptable hydrogels with dynamic behavior as extracellular-matrix mimics
4 May 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, Micloa spaldin, ETH Zurich	Hunting for Hidden Magnetic Order
20 April 2023	Marianne Bauer, TU Delft	Information processing during gene regulation
6 April 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, xinliang Feng, TU Dresden
30 March 2023	Anu Kankainen, University of Jyväkylä, Finland	Precision measurements of atomic nuclei for nuclear astrophysics
23 March 2023	Harm Schoorlemmer, Radboud University, Nijmegen	Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
16 March 2023	Adam Ritz, University of Victoria, Canada	Light dark matter and dark sectors at accelerators
9 March 2023	Edda Gschwendtner, CERN	Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and the AWAKE Experiment at CERN: A New Technology of Push and Particle Energy Frontier
2 March 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of colloids and Interfaces	-
23 February 2023	Sara Buson, Würzburg University CANCELLED	Beginning a journey across the Universe: the discovery of extragalatic neutrino factories
9 February 2023	Semonti Bhattacharyya, Leiden University	Direc Fermions at the interfaces
2 February 2023	ZIAM Colloquium, Josef A. Käs	Drivers of Cancer Unjamming
26 January 2023	Sam Witte, University of Amsterdam	Neutron star magnetospheres as dark matter laboratories
19 January 2023	Tuija Jokinen, Cyprus Institute	Link between different ecosystems, clouds and climat
12 January 2023	Robert Pollice, Stratingh Institute	Inverse Molecular Design for Organic Electronic Materials and Catalysts
15 December 2022	Panos Christakoglou, Utrecht Univesity / Nikhef	The Quark Gluon Plasma: studying primordial matter in the laboratory
8 December 2022	Andreas Massling, Aarhus University	Villum Research Station (VILLUM) in North Greenland
1 December 2022	Marnix Wagemaker, Delft University of Technology	Material Science for Next Generation Batteries
24 November 2022	Ralf Richter, University of Leeds	Flexible polymers at biological interfaces - from cell adhesion at the blood vessel wall to nucleocytoplasmic transport
17 November 2022	Anna Isaeva, UvA	Towards higher Curie temperature in intrinsic ferrymagnetic topological insulators
10 November 2022	Odile Smits, Massey University, New Zealand	From atomic interactions to the melting transition
3 November 2022	Jiwoong Park, University of Chicago	New 2D with Atomically Thin Crystals
27 October 2022	Simon Friederich, RUG	Foundations of Quantum Theory - an Opinionated Introduction
20 October 2022	Lyuba Amitonova, ARCNL	Computational compressive imaging
13 October 2022	Agustín Aucar	Parity violation effects in chiral molecules
6 October 2022	Antonija Grubisic Cabo, Zernike Institute	Time- and Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy on 2D-Materials
29 September 2022	Bart Hoogenboom, UCL	Exotic states of matter in the bacterial outer membrane
22 September 2022	Ian Howard, KIT	Excited State Dynamics of Light Emission and Lasing in Quasi-2D and 3D Perovskites
15 September 2022	Steven Jones (VSI/ALPHA)	Antihydrogen
8 September 2022	Zhen Yuan, Strasbourg Observatory	Origin of Elements in the Early Galaxy
23 June 2022	Damien Dornic, CNRS/CPPM	Multi-Messenger Studies to Explore Cosmic Ray Sources
16 June 2022	Siddharth Deshpande, Wageningen University & Research	A Tale of Two Droplets: from Synthetic Cells to Biosensors
9 June 2022	Azadeh Fattahi, University of Durham	Simulations of Local Universes
2 June 2022	Zernike Colloquium, Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania	Relaxing in Weird Places
26 may 2022	Ascension Day
19 May 2022	Philine van Vliet, DESY	The Conformal Bootstrap: exploring line defects with O(2) symmetry
12 May 2022	Zernike Colloquium, Clare Grey, University of Cambridge	Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and "beyond-Li" bettery technologies function
5 May 2022	Liberation Day
28 April 2022	Luigi Tibaldo, CNRS	Observational tests of the matter - antimatter asymmetry in the Universe
21 April 2022	Jordy de Vries, UvA/Nikhef	Electric dipole moments: a perspective from Particle Physics
14 April 2022	Said Rodriguez, AMOLF	Polarization Switching and Broken Detailed Balance in a Multistable Perovskite Semiconductor Cavity
7 April 2022	Zernike Colloquium, Manuel Bibes, CNRS/Thales	Spin-charge interconvertion and superconductivity in Rashba 2D gases based on KTaO3
31 March 2022	Andrea Giuntoli, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials	Hairy nanoparticles: a promising component for impact resistant polymer nanocomposites
24 March 2022	Ilia Solov'yov, Oldenburg University	Quantum origins of magnetic sensing
17 March 2022	Piet Mulders, UvA/Nikhef	The symmetries of the standard model of particle physics
10 March 2022	Francesca Giacoppo, GSI	High precision mass spectrometry of heavy and superheavy nuclides with the SHIPTRAP setup at GSI
17 February 2022	Sense Jan vd Molen, Leiden University	Probing Quantum Properties of Van der Waals Materials
10 February 2022	Physics Heidag	The Exam of the Future For teaching staff only
3 February 2022	Zernike Colloquium, André H. Gröshel, University of Münster	Polymer Cubosomes: Adding Functionality to High Surface Area Micelles
27 January 2022	Anna Franckowiak, Universität Bochum	Multi-messenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos
16 December 2021	Lingyu Wang, Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen / ESRON	The most extreme star factories in the Universe or gorging supermassive black holes?
9 December 2021	Nathaniel Graig, University of California, Santa Barbara	The Cosmological Future of Particle Physics
2 December 2021	Zernike Colloquium, René Jansen, Eindhoven University of Technology	Organic and Perovskite photovoltaic cells and photodiodes
25 November 2021	Shirin Faraji, Zernike Institute of Advanced Materials, University of Groningen	Databased accelerated on-the-fly hybrid quantum/classical dynamics
11 November 2021	Marcel Pawlowski, Astrophysical Institute, Potsdam	Systems of Satellite Galaxies: Are their Distributions and Motions Consistent with Galaxies?
28 October 2021	Chiara Ciccarelli, Cambridge University	Moving towards faster and lower power spintronics
21 October 2021	Betsey Adams, ASTRON Kapteyn Institute	An HI perspective on dwarf galaxies as tests of simulations and cosmology
14 October 2021	Mara Senghi Soares, Nikhef	Flavour anomlies at the LHC: why did they make news?
23 September 2021	Fabian Erder, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse	Chromatin as a biomolecular condensate
16 September 2021	Konstantin Gaul, University of Marburg, Germany	Molecules: a window into fundamental physics
8 July 2021	Aires Ferreira, University of York, UK	Spin-orbit cou;ing phenomena in van der Waals materials: perspectives form theory and experiment
24 June 2021	Lee Roberts	Exploring Terra Incognita with the World's Largest Panning Trap
17 June 2021	Brian Hare, Kapteijn Institute, RUG	Resolving the Physics of Lightning with the LOFAR Radio Telescope
10 June 2021	Daan van Eijk Nikhef	The KM3NeT: where particle physics and astroparticle physics meet
3 June 2021	Zernike Colloquium Karl Duderstadt, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry	Sliding, pushing, crashing: the treacherous pathways of chromosome replication in a crowded world
27 May 2021	Ema Dimastrogiovanni, Van Swinderen Institute, RUG	Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Inflation
20 May 2021	Katja Nowack, Cornell University, New York, USA	Local Magnetic Measurements of Quantum Materials
12 May 2021	Prof Francken Symposium	Cognitive Matters - Physics of Cognitive Advancements
29 April 2021	Malte Rösner	Coulomb-Engineering in Layered Materials and its Prospects for Novel Device Concepts
18 March 2021	Marcos Guimaraes ZIAM, RUG	Using Two-dimensional Materials to manipulate Magnets
11 March 2021	Daniel Johnson CERN, CH	B -> D D h Decays: A new (virtual) laboratory for exotic particle searches at LHCb
4 March 2021	Bart Jan Ravoo	Zernike Colloquium
25 Februari 2021	Christian Smorra, Univesity of Mainz, DE	Searching beyond Standard Model physics in high-precision measurements with antiprotons
18 February 2021	Sugato Bose, University College London, UK	An Experiment to Reveal the Quantum character of Gravity
11 Februari 2021	Daan Meerburg, University of Groningen, VSI, NL	Open Questions in Cosmology
4 February 2021	Martin Ziegler	Memristive systems for the emulation of biological learning
21 January 2021	Volker Perlick, University of Bremen, DE	Calculating the shadow of a black hole
14 January 2021	Kay Saalwachter, University of halle, DE	Macroscopic and molecular rheology of associative networks for applications as self-healing materials

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