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
SMECS2026 Key NOTE Talks
Paulo Monteiro and Jyotirmoy Mandal
2026/04/22 - 2026/04/23 | CFM Auditorium
The Jesuits and Science: Their Contribution to Cyclone Prediction
Aitor Anduaga Egaña
17:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
Probing Chemistry at the Ångström-Scale via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Combined Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Nan Jiang
12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room
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.
Real-space imaging of plasmon polaritons in quasi-freestanding gold monolayers
Andrei Bylinkin
11:00 | CIC nanoGUNE Seminar room, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian