Schrödinger Colloquium
A new series of special physics colloquia in honor of the scientific legacy of Erwin Schroedinger, who was a professor at UZH from 1921 to 1927. Lectures are intended for a broad audience from the Faculty of Science, aiming at experts and non-experts.
| Universität Zürich, Physik-Institut | Irchel Campus |
| Seminar Room: | Y16 G15 |
| Time: | 16:15 |
| Refreshements after lecture | |
| Organized by L. Baudis, F. Canelli | |
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2026 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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February 23 Room: Y04 G30 |
Thomas Gehrmann Jürg Hutter Marcelle Soares Santos |
From Atoms to Cosmos Bridging Chemistry, Physics and Cosmology |
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2025 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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June 10 Room: Y15 G20 |
Aneesh Manohar University of California, San Diego |
Precision Particle Physics using Effective Theories |  |
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May 15 Room: Y15 G19 |
Bill Bialek Princeton University |
Ambitions for Theory in the Physics of Life |  |
| April 14 |
Mark Thomson |
Particle Physics: Today and Tomorrow |  |
| March 3 | Mike Headley SURF, Lab Director |
The Sanford Underground Reserch Faciltiy (SURF) |
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2024 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| October 7 | Luciano Maiani Rome University "La Sapienza" & CERN |
Exotic Hadrons: Successes and Mysteries |  |
| April 26 | Beate Heinemann DESY & Universität Hamburg |
Particle Physics Through the Ages: A Century of Discoveries and the Road Ahead |
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| February 26 |
Roberto Trotta |
The Promise of Machine Learning for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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2023 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| December 4 |
Daniel Akerib |
The Search for WIMP Dark Matter with Massive Liquid Xenon Detectors (PDF, 2 MB) |
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| November 13 |
Arzu Çöltekin |
Visualization of Science and a Science of Visualization (PDF, 8 MB) |
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2022 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| June 13 | Elena Aprile Columbia University |
The XENON Project: At the Forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection |  |
| May 9 | Nicola Spaldin ETH Zürich |
New Materials for a New Age |  |
2021 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 22 (CANCELLED) |
Astrid Kiendler-Scharr Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Climate Change and Air Quality: where are we heading? |  |
2020 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| May 18 (CANCELLED) |
Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University |
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| March 30 (CANCELLED) |
John Peacock Royal Observatory Edinburgh |
Cosmology from large-scale structure: concordance and discordance |  |
| March 17 (CANCELLED) |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell University of Oxford |
The discovery of pulsars - a graduate student’s tale |  |
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February 12 Special time and place: |
John Bush MIT Cambridge |
Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs: Droplets Walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave |
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2019 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| December 2 | Michela Massimi University of Edinburgh |
The Explanatory Role of Dark Matter |  |
| October 21 | David Stevenson Caltech, USA |
Jupiter's Interior as Revealed by Juno |  |
| April 15 | Chang Kee Jung Stony Brook University |
Neutrino Revolution and Quest for the Origin of the Matter Dominated Universe |
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| May 13 | Renato Renner ETH Zürich |
Using quantum computers to test the consistency of quatum theory |  |
2018 Serie
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| November 26 |
Chiara Macchiavello Pavia University |
Entanglement, complementarity and correlations |  |
| October 29 |
Wolfgang Auwärter NFP/NFS --- Peter Truöl Universität Zürich |
Verena Meyer Physikerin – Rektorin – Präsidentin des Wissenschaftsrats |
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| March 26 |
Werner Hofmann Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics |
The Galaxy Viewed in Very High Energy Gamma Rays |  |
| February 26 | Kate Marvel
Columbia University; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
Climate change: how hot will it get? |  |
2017 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| November 13 |
Simon White Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik |
Computer reconstruction of cosmic history |  |
| October 9 |
Andrea Fratalocchi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
Evolutionary complexity and the imitation game of Nature |  |
| May 8 | Marcel Franz University of British Columbia |
From Solids with Topology to Black Holes and Back |  |
2016 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER | |
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| October 24 | Chris Quigg Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
What Quarkonium Taught Me about the Schroedinger Equation, and vice versas |  |
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| September 23 | Lawrence Krauss Arizona State University |
Journey to the Beginning of Time: Gravitational Waves and Turning Metaphysics into Physics |  |
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| June 6 |
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Random Organization, Hyperuniformity and Photonic Bandgaps |  |
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| May 30 | Mark Trodden University of Pennsylvania |
Embracing the Dark Side: In Search of the Missing Pieces of the Cosmic Puzzles |  |
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2015 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| December 7 | David Kirby Manchester University |
Lab coats in Hollywood: scientist' impact on cinema's, cinema's impact on science |  |
| November 2 | Joe Silk Oxford University and John Hopkins University |
The limits of cosmology |  |
| October 19 | Katherine Freese Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics |
The dark side of the Universe |  |
| September 18 | Andreas Wallraff ETH Zurich |
A quantum mechanics lab on a chip |  |
| March 2 | Belen Gavela Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
The misterious flavors of the Universe |  |
2014 Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | POSTER |
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| December 1 | Rocky Kolb University of Chicago |
Erwin Schroedinger's alarming phenomenon |  |
| November 17 | Sean Carroll Caltech University |
Quantum mechanics and cosmology in very large Universes |  |