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.

Density Functional Theory: Why It Works, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next

Kieron Burke | School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

16:00 | DIPC Josebe-Olarra Lecture Hall

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

Past Colloquia

Upcoming events
2026 Feb 26

PhD Thesis Defense | Francesco Coin

Francesco Coin

15:00 | CFM Auditorium

2026 Feb 27

Quantum Breakfast and Friends

Benjamin Tirado and Jonathan Sepulveda

10:00 | CFM Auditorium

2026 Mar 3

Neutron Scattering Series

Antonio Urbina

11:00 | CFM Auditorium

2026 Mar 3

Searching for dark matter in a clumpy universe

Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

2026 Mar 4

PhD Seminar series

Eric Gómez Urreizti and Rodrigo de las Heras

12:00 | CFM Auditorium

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