Colloquium

Every 1st or 3rd Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9, 48149 Münster.

Summer term 2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 05.04.2019
    Cornering naturalness with Higgsino searches
    Dr. Rakhi Mahbubani (CERN)

  • 03.05.2019
    The quantum world as a hologram - applied physics of black holes
    Prof. Dr. Carlo Ewerz (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

  • 07.06.2019
    Deep learning paving the way to online calibration and physics decoding
    PD Dr. Olena Linnyk (FIAS – Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

  • 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

  • 19.10.2018 (exceptionally at 11:15 a.m.!)
    Environment, Genes & Behaviour
    Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser (Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster)

  • 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

  • 27.10.2017
    Cosmological seed magnetic fields from aperiodic plasma fluctuations
    Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

  • 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)