Colloquia

Contact
The DIPC Courses are currently organized and coordinated by Geza Giedke and Thomas Frederiksen. You can contact them at
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.
Upcoming Colloquia
The Quantum Way of Doing Computations, Simulations and Measurements
Rainer Blatt | Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
11:30 | Paraninfo, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bilbao
PhD thesis defense: Models of Radiolysis in Liquid Reactors for Transmission Electron Microscopy
Giuseppe De Salvo
11:00 | CFM Auditorium
How Quantum Mechanics turned out not to be a Theory of Everything (1925-1932)
Alexander Blum
15:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
PhD Mid-term Seminar Series
Jan Krpensky, Mikel Anzola
10:30 | CIC nanoGUNE Seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian
PhD thesis defense: spin and charge control of single molecules for atomic scale quantum coherence
Leonard Edens
12:00 | Salón de Grados, Doors 230-231, Faculty of Psychology, Avenida Tolosa 70
Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials (AI4AM2025)
Antonio Correia (Phantoms Foundation, Spain), Konstantin S. Novoselov (NUS / Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, Singapore), Stephan Roche (ICREA/ICN2, Spain), Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Constructor, Germany), Ricardo Díez Muiño (DIPC & Ikerbasque, Spain), Concepción Narros Hernández (Phantoms Foundation, Spain), Joaquín Gaspar Ramón-Laca Maderal (Phantoms Foundation, Spain), Jose Luis Roldán (Phantoms Foundation, Spain)
2025/04/08 - 2025/04/10 | Kursaal Congress Centre-Auditorium, Donostia / San Sebastian