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.

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

Past Colloquia

Upcoming scientific events
2026 May 14

2D Materials - Structure and Properties

Gotthard Seifert

12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

2026 May 14

Einstein, Relativity and … Anti-Semitism?

Jaume Navarro

17:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

2026 May 18

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)

2026 May 19

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)

2026 May 26

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)

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