Colloquia

Monthly colloquium-style talks by outstanding speakers covering all areas of natural sciences
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Contact

The DIPC Colloquia are currently organized and coordinated by Geza Giedke and Thomas Frederiksen. You can contact them at

colloquium@dipc.org

Within DIPC International Physics Colloquia initiative, outstanding guest speakers covering all areas of natural science are invited every month or so to deliver colloquium-style talks.

Scope & aim

The intended audience of DIPC colloquia are all interested scientists at DIPC and neighboring institutes, from PhD student to Professors.

Colloquium speakers are encouraged to give broadly accessible talks with emphasis on providing an overview and general ideas of their research field as well as a personal view of the open questions, grand challenges, and future research directions.

DIPC colloquia are primarily addressed to scientists and may thus contain specialized and technical material, but they are open to anyone interested in science.

Coordinates & format

Colloquia are held in the "Josebe Olarra" DIPC's Seminar Room (building 1, DIPC headquarters) and generally scheduled on Thursday afternoons. The duration of the talk is about one hour. DIPC offers refreshments afterwards to make occasion to meet the speaker and other colleagues and discuss the presentation.

Density Functional Theory: Why It Works, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next

Kieron Burke | School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

Self-Assembly of the Tau Protein: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Fibrillization

Joan-Emma Shea | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

Battling the underdetermination of dark energy

Pedro G. Ferreira | Astrophysics, University of Oxford, UK

16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

Past Colloquia

Upcoming events
2026 Mar 15

Spring School on Near-Term Quantum Computing

A. Cervera-Lierta (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), A. Pérez-Salinas (ETH Zürich), A. Pozas-Kerstjens (U. de Genève - Constructor University), J. Argüello-Luengo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

2026/03/15 - 2026/03/21 | Benasque Science Center Pedro Pascual

2026 Mar 16

Colloquium: Ultra-fast all optical switching in spintronic devices

Stéphane Mangin

11:00 | CIC nanoGUNE Seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian

2026 Mar 17

Bulk Superconducting Magnets in Potential Medical Applications.

Zhenyang Xu

11:00 | CIC nanoGUNE Seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian

2026 Apr 5

Discussions on Nano and Mesoscopic Optics (DINAMO 2026)

Stefan Maier (Monash University), Andrea Bragas (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Mark Tame (Stellenbosch University)

2026/04/05 - 2026/04/10 | Le Franschhoek Hotel and Spa, South Africa

2026 Apr 16

Density Functional Theory: Why It Works, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next

Kieron Burke

16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

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