Scientific Agenda
CFM Seminars
PhD Thesis Defense | Zuzanna Lawera
Zuzanna Lawera | CFM | Supervised by: Prof. Marek Grzelczak and Prof. Rafael Yuste
12:00 | CFM Auditorium
DIPC Seminars
Spintronics and Correlation Effects in Two-Dimensional Magnetic Materials: From FenGeTe2 to p-Wave Magnets
Andrea Droghetti | University of Venice | Julen Ibañez
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
CIC nanoGUNE Seminars
Nanostructured block copolymers as solid-state electrolytes for battery applications
Irune Villaluenga | POLYMAT, UPV/EHU | Andrey Chuvilin
11:00 | CIC nanoGUNE Seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian
DIPC Seminars
Therapeutic In Vivo Synthetic Chemistry
Katsunori Tanaka | Institute of Science Tokyo & RIKEN | Luca Salassa
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
DIPC Seminars
Tracing Planetary Systems Dynamics Across Stellar Lifetimes
Santiago Torres | Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) | Nate Bastian
14:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
DIPC Seminars
Binary-Stripped Stars: from Atomic Scales to Cosmic Dawn
Ylva Gotberg | Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) | Nate Bastian
14:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
DIPC Seminars
Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Method Development and Applications
Edison Salazar | DIPC | Mario Piris
10:00 | Faculty of Chemistry, Salón de Actos
DIPC Seminars
Harnessing quantum back-action for time-series processing
Pere Mujal & Giacomo Franceschetto | ICFO | Rodrigo Martínez-Peña
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
DIPC Seminars
Integrative computational microscopy: Bridging cellular 3D imaging with physics-based simulations for biological discovery
Sergio Cruz-León | Max Planck Institute of Biophysics | David de Sancho
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
Colloquia
Adiabaticity and Quantum Geometry
Raffaele Resta | CNR-IOM Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Trieste, Italy
16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall
DIPC Seminars
Quantum optics experiments with laser-cooled atoms and optical cavities
Pau Farrera Soler | Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | Ricardo Díez Muiño
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
DIPC Seminars
Modelling Photoluminescence in Organic Systems: Exploring the impact of aggregation and mechanical effects on the molecular, electronic and optical properties
Josianne Owona | DIPC | Claire Tonnelé
11:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
PhD Program
Toward controlling the topology of branched cyclic polyglycerol: from the monomer approach to the hypergrafting of cyclic polyglycidol
Carlo Andrea Pagnacco
11:00 | CFM Auditorium, Donostia / San Sebastián
DIPC Seminars
Multiplexing and entanglement of solid-state quantum memories for intercity quantum networks
Markus Teller | ICFO | Ricardo Diez Muino
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
Workshops
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
Workshops
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
Workshops
International Quantum Matter Conference & Expo – QUANTUMatter 2026
Antonio Correia (Phantoms Foundation), Silvano de Franceschi (CEA/UGA), Ricardo Díez Muiño (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll (IFF-CSIC), Stephan Roche (ICREA/ICN2), Jordi Arbiol (ICREA/ICN2), Adrian Bachtold (ICFO), Bruno Julia (UB), John Calsamiglia (UAB), Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Pietro Massignan (UPC)
2026/04/27 - 2026/04/30 | Barceló Sants Hotel, Barcelona.
Workshops
Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials (AI4AM2026)
Antonio Correia (Phantoms Foundation), Konstantin S. Novoselov (NUS / Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, Singapore), Ricardo Díez Muiño (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Stephan Roche (ICREA/ICN2), Pedro Serena (ICMM-CSIC), Andrey Ustyuzhanin (Constructor University, Germany), Jose Manuel Perlado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
2026/05/19 - 2026/05/21 | Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Workshops
New Developments in Non-linear Transport and Magnetism (NLTM)
Fernando de Juan (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Adolfo González Grushin (DIPC, Ikerbasque),
2026/05/26 - 2026/05/29 | Materials Physics Center (CFM)
Colloquia
Battling the underdetermination of dark energy
Pedro G. Ferreira | Astrophysics, University of Oxford, UK
16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall
Workshops
On-Surface Synthesis International Workshop (OSS26)
Dimas G. de Oteyza (CINN, CSIC-UNIOVI-PA), Martina Corso (CFM-CSIC-EHU), Roman Fasel (EMPA)
2026/06/07 - 2026/06/12 | Gran Hotel del Sella, Ribadesella.
Workshops
Artificial Intelligence Photonics (AIPhotonics26)
Cefe López (ICMM-CSIC, DIPC), David García Fernández (ICMM-CSIC, DIPC), Aitzol García-Etxarri (DIPC, Ikerbasque)
2026/06/15 - 2026/06/18 | Miramar Palace, Donostia / San Sebastián
Workshops
IV International Conference on Novel 2D Materials Explored Via Scanning Probe Microscopy & Spectroscopy (2DSPM 2026)
Miguel M. Ugeda (DIPC, CFM-MPC, Ikerbasque), Iván Brihuega (UAM-IFIMAC),
2026/06/22 - 2026/06/26 | Miramar Palace, Donostia / San Sebastián
Workshops
16th edition of Graphene Conference series (Graphene2026)
Antonio Correia (Phantoms Foundation), Francesco Bonaccorso (Bedimensional), Jean-Christophe Charlier (Universite Catholique de Louvain), Ricardo Díez Muiño (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Vladimir Falko (The University of Manchester / NGI), Xinliang Feng (Technische Universitaet Dresden), Max Lemme (AMO GmbH / RWTH Aachen), Stephan Roche (ICREA/ICN2), Adrian Bachtold (ICFO), David Jiménez (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Kostas Kostarelos (ICREA/ICN2), Aitor Mugarza (ICREA/ICN2), Sergio Valenzuela (ICREA/ICN2)
2026/06/30 - 2026/07/03 | Barceló Sants Hotel, Barcelona
Workshops
Amber Machine Learning and Free Energy Simulation Workshop (AMBER2026)
Xabier López (EHU, DIPC), Jose M. Mercero (EHU), Elena Formoso (EHU), Jon Uranga (EHU), Darrin York (Rutgers University), Solen Ekesan (Rutgers University)
2026/07/13 - 2026/07/17 | DIPC / Faculty of Chemistry (EHU), Donostia / San Sebastián
Colloquia
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
Workshops
Twistoptics 2026
Sejeong Kim, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea, Alexey Nikitin, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain
2026/07/20 - 2026/07/23 | Miramar Palace, Donostia / San Sebastián
Schools
Topological Matter School 2026 (TMS26)
Maia G. Vergniory (DIPC, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Reyes Calvo (BC Materials), Santiago Blanco-Canosa (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Adolfo Grushin (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Alexander Altland (University of Cologne), Julen Ibañez Azpiroz (CFM, Ikerbasque)
2026/08/17 - 2026/08/21 | Miramar Palace, Donostia / San Sebastián
Workshops
21st International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications (DFT2026)
Eduard Matito (DIPC, Ikerbasque), Eloy Ramos-Córdoba (IQAC-CSIC), Irene Casademont Reig (DIPC), Jesús M. Ugalde (EHU, DIPC), Roberto Álvarez Boto (EHU), Ishita Bhattacharjee (DIPC)
2026/08/23 - 2026/08/27 | Miramar Palace, Donostia / San Sebastián
Workshops
The Forth Spins on Surface Workshop (SoS4)
Deung-Jang Choi (CFM-MPC, DIPC, Ikerbasque), Andreas Heinrich (QNS)
2026/08/31 - 2026/09/04 | Miramar Palace, Donostia / San Sebastián