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.

Battling the underdetermination of dark energy

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

16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

Four geometrical-optics illusions

Michael Berry | University of Bristol

12:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

Past Colloquia

Upcoming scientific events
2026 Jun 15

NEUTRON DIFFRACTION WORKSHOP

Dr. Matthias Gutmann

2026/06/15 - 2026/06/16 | CFM Board Room

2026 Jun 15

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

2026 Jun 15

Bridging Macro- and Microscale Characterisation of Machining-Induced Surface Integrity

Gorka Ortiz de zarate Bengoa

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

2026 Jun 16

Fock space fragmentation in quenches of disordered interacting fermions

Soumya Bera

12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

2026 Jun 17

Record high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides

Sven Friedemann

10:00 | CFM Auditorium

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