Colloquia
Contact
The DIPC Colloquia 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
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
Four geometrical-optics illusions
Michael Berry | University of Bristol
12:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall
Quantum Computing, Complexity and Control (QCCC2026)
Budhaditya Bhattacharjee (University of Luxembourg), Adolfo del Campo (University of Luxembourg, DIPC), Xi Chen (ICMM-CSIC), Geza Giedke (DIPC)
2026/05/18 - 2026/05/22 | Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
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)
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)