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 7

On-Surface Synthesis International Workshop (OSS26)

Dimas G. de Oteyza (CINN, CSIC-UNIOVI-PA), Martina Corso (CFM-CSIC-EHU), Roman Fasel (EMPA)

2026/06/07 - 2026/06/12 | Gran Hotel del Sella, Ribadesella.

2026 Jun 8

Nitrogen Vacancy Centers for Quantum Sensing Applications

Mikel Quintana

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

2026 Jun 8

The mysterious case of qubit readout in circuit QED

Alexandre Blais

12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

2026 Jun 10
2026 Jun 10

Quantum Hall Effect without Chern Bands

Benjamin Michen

12:00 | DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

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