Colloquium
Summer term 2023
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09.05.2023
(Tuesday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)Frontier of Universality in Critical Statics: Yang-Lee edge
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Skokov (North Carolina State University, USA EMMI Visiting Professor) -
25.05.2023, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)Tests of General Relativity: Status and Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Claus Lämmerzahl (University of Bremen, Center of Space Technology and Microgravity/ZARM) -
15.06.2023, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)Hot and cold dark matter – how to probe the invisible Universe in the laboratory
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/KIT, Institute for Astroparticle Physics) -
30.06.2023
(Friday at 14:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)All the dark we can not see - the state-of-the art in direct searches for particle dark matter
Prof. Dr. Laura Baudis (University of Zurich, Switzerland) -
07.07.2023
(Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)Frontiers of parton-shower accuracy
Dr. Melissa van Beekveld (University of Oxford, England)
Winter term 2022/23
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25.11.2022
(Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)Title: A K-Matrix Analysis of e+ e- Annihilation in the Bottomonium Region
Dr. Nils Hüsken (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) -
02.12.2022
(Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)Measuring the temperature of the hottest medium in the universe with heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
Dr. Raphaelle Bailhache (Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) - 27.01.2023
(Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)
Cosmic Birefringence: A New Probe of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu (Department of Physical Cosmology, Max-Planck Institute Astrophysics, Garching)
Summer term 2022
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07.04.2022, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)The nCTEQ Project: revealing the fundamental character of the strong force
Prof. Dr. Fredrick Olness (Prof. at SMU, Dallas, Texas) -
02.06.2022, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)Uncovering the quark‐gluon plasma: scientific and technological challenges
Dr. Luciano Musa (CERN, Speaker of the ALICE Collaboration) -
01.07.2022
(Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)
Multi-messenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos
Prof. Dr. Anna Franckowiak (Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum) -
01.07.2022
(Friday at 15:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)
The XENON project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection
Prof. Dr. Elena Aprile (Centennial Professor of Physics, Columbia University) -
07.07.2022, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)Cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Dr. Florian Beutler (Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh, UK)
Winter term 2021/22
- 18.11.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
From quarks to black holes: micro- and macrophysics of neutron star mergers
Dr. Andreas Bauswein (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenfoschung GmbH)
- 02.12.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
Supercomputer Simulations of Galaxy Formation
Prof. Dr. Volker Springel (MPI Garching)
- 16.12.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
The Einstein Telescope
Prof. Dr. Achim Stahl (RWTH Aachen University)
- 28.01.2022
(Friday at 12:00 pm via Zoom)
Quantum gravity and its connection to observations
Prof. Dr. Astrid Eichhorn (University of Southern Denmark, Odense / Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)
Summer term 2021
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22.04.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)
First Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment
Dr. Jarek Kaspar (University of Washington, Seattle)
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08.07.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)
With Beautiful Quarks to New Phenomena in Particle Physics: Recent Results from the LHCb Experiment
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Uwer (Physical Institute, University Heidelberg)
- 16.07.2021
(Friday at 12:00 pm via Zoom)
Probing the neutrino mass scale with the KATRIN experiment: First sub-eV sensitivity results
Prof. Dr. Susanne Mertens (TU München/Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Winter term 2020/21
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17.12.2020, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)
The ALICE experiment at the LHC opens a new avenue for nuclear physics
Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbietti (Technische Universität München)
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15.01.2021
Dark matter (and more) with XENON detectors
Prof. Dr. Marc Schumann (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) -
11.02.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)Shine a light! When matter shatters
Prof. Dr. Tetyana Galatyuk (Institut für Kernphysik, TU Darmstadt)
Summer term 2020
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19.06.2020
Interactive Data Analysis with JupyterHub
Dr. Markus Blank-Burian (WWU IT, Abteilung 6: Systeme) -
03.07.2020
Heavy element production in neutron star mergers and core-collapse supernovae
Prof. Dr. Almudena Arcones (Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt & GSI Helmholtzzenturm für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
Winter term 2019/20
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24.10.2019, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
Probing the neutrino mass scale with KATRIN
Dr. Kathrin Valerius (Institut für Kernphysik, KIT – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) -
08.11.2019
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - The low energy frontier of the Standard Model
Prof. Dr. Achim Denig (Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
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05.12.2019, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
Surprises in Hadron Spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Estia Eichten (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA)
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09.12.2019 (exceptionally on Monday at 14:15 p.m. and in room 304!)
Early time dynamics of heavy-ion collisions and connections to jet quenching
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sören Schlichting (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld)
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12.12.2019, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
A journey to understand the proton at the Large Hadron Collider
Prof. Dr. Christophe Royon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA)
Summer term 2019
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05.04.2019
Cornering naturalness with Higgsino searches
Dr. Rakhi Mahbubani (CERN)
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03.05.2019
The quantum world as a hologram - applied physics of black holes
Prof. Dr. Carlo Ewerz (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)
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07.06.2019
Deep learning paving the way to online calibration and physics decoding
PD Dr. Olena Linnyk (FIAS – Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
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12.07.2019
Measuring gravity at short distances and other fun tricks with levitated microspheres
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Gratta (Physics Department, Stanford University, California)
Winter term 2018/19
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19.10.2018 (exceptionally at 11:15 a.m.!)
Environment, Genes & Behaviour
Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser (Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster)
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08.11.2018 (exceptionally on Thursday at 16:15!)
Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Intensity Frontier
Dr. Martin Hoferichter (Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle) -
06.12.2018 (exceptionally on Thursday at 12:00 a.m. and in room 104!)
Mass Generation in the Early Universe
Dr. Ralf Rapp (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station) -
31.01.2019, also within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
(Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
Hunting the Invisible
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Samtleben (Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University) -
01.02.2019, Parallel-Lecture to Prof. Samtleben
(Friday at 11:15 a.m., Hausseminar)
A Neutrino Detector in the Mediterranean Sea as Target for a Neutrino Beam
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brunner (CPPM Marseille, Centre de Physiques des Particules de Marseille)
Summer term 2018
- 26.04.2018, "Evening Talk"
Career steps and work as consultant in the banking sector
Dr. Christian Egelkamp (Finbridge GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Homburg) - 30.04.2018 (exceptionally on Monday at 14:15!)
The Color Glass Condensate: An effective theory for the Regge limit of QCD
Prof. Dr. Raju Venugopalan (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY) - 08.06.2018
Physics beyond Higgs
Prof. Dr. Jan Kalinowski (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw) - 15.06.2018
Gauge Fields from Strings
Dr. Valentina Forini (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - 29.06.2018, within the "Symposium on Quantum and Statistical Field Theory"
(exceptionally on Friday at 15:00 in lecture hall 201, Schlossplatz 4!)
The indirect way to discoveries
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hollik (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München) - 30.06.2018, within the "Symposium on Quantum and Statistical Field Theory"
(exceptionally on Saturday at 11:30 in lecture hall 201, Schlossplatz 4!)
The discovery of the Higgs boson: A confirmation and a problem
Prof. Dr. Jean Zinn-Justin (CEA, Centre de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette) - 30.06.2018, within the "Symposium on Quantum and Statistical Field Theory"
(exceptionally on Saturday at 12:15 in lecture hall 201, Schlossplatz 4!)
How strong are the strong interactions?
Prof. Dr. Rainer Sommer (NIC, DESY Zeuthen & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- 13.07.2018
The Super-Kamiokande Experiment at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan
Prof. Dr. Kai Martens (Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo, Kamioka)
Winter term 2017/18
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27.10.2017
Cosmological seed magnetic fields from aperiodic plasma fluctuations
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
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02.02.2018
Measurements of open heavy flavours with ALICE
Dr. Denise Godoy (Institut für Kernphysik, WWU) -
09.03.2018
Probing the top quark electroweak interactions at the LHC
Dr. Markus Schulze (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Summer term 2017
- 05.05.2017
Flavor physics in the SM and beyond
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Hiller (Department of Physics, Technische Universität Dortmund) - 23.06.2017
Lepton flavour and number violation
Dr. Alexander Merle (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München) - 28.07.2017
(New) actors in social media communication
Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz (Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Winter term 2016/17
- 04.11.2016
TeV scale MSSM Dark Matter and the electroweak Sommerfeld effect
Prof. Dr. Martin Beneke (Physik-Department, Technische Universität München) - 16.12.2016
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with Ge-76
Dr. Bernhard Schwingenheuer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg) - 20.01.2017
Infrared problems. A survey of more recent progress
Prof. Dr. Detlev Buchholz (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) - 03.02.2017, exceptionally at 14:15!
Hadron physics with antiprotons
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wiedner (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Summer term 2016
- 03.06.2016
ARIANNA: Radio detection of neutrinos on the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica
Dr. Anna Nelles (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine) - 17.06.2016
Theory and Phenomenology of Neutrino Mass
Dr. Werner Rodejohann (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg) - 01.07.2016
Lattice determinations of the nucleon and pion sigma terms close to the physical point
Dr. Sara Collins (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg) - 15.07.2016
Jet shapes in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE
Dr. Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (CERN & Institut für Kernphysik, WWU)
Winter term 2015/16
- 30.10.2015
The decoupling of heavy sea quarks
Prof. Dr. Francesco Knechtli (Fachbereich C, Bergische Universität Wuppertal) - Thursday, 26.11.2015, 16:00, Inauguration Ceremony & Colloquium, HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10
Back to the future - how future experiments can tell us about the past of our Universe
Prof. Dr. Stephan Paul (Physik-Department, Technische Universität München) - 11.12.2015
The Shining: probing extreme states of QCD matter with virtual photons
Prof. Dr. Joachim Stroth (Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) - 22.01.2016
Electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC
Prof. Dr. Stefan Dittmaier (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) - 12.02.2016
Direct dark matter searches
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)