update: 09 October 2025
Winter term dates 2025/26
Thursday, 4 p.m. (c.t.)
From 4 p.m., all listeners are invited to the colloquium-coffee in front of HS 2.
Location: HS 2, IG 1, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster
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30.10.2025 Prof. Erwin Frey (Theoretische Physik, LMU München)
Emergence and Self-Organisation in Biological Systems
Einladender: Prof. Thiele (TP)Isolated systems tend to evolve towards thermal equilibrium, a special state that has been a research focus in physics for more than a century. By contrast, most processes studied in living and life-like systems are driven and far from thermal equilibrium. A fundamental overarching hallmark of all these processes is the emergence of structure, order, and information, and we are facing the major challenge of identifying the underlying physical principles. Two exciting problems are the self-organised formation of spatio-temporal patterns and the robust self-assembly of complex structures. In both fields, there have been recent advances in understanding the underlying physics that will be reviewed in this talk.06.11.2025 Dr. Stephen Hicks (Dept. of Earth Sciences, UCL)
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Einladende: Prof. Thomas (GP)13.11.2025 N.N.
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20.11.2025 Prof. Gernot Münster
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Lucy Mensing: Forgotten Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics
Einladender: Prof. Rohlfing (FT)In 1925 a young postdoc, Lucy Mensing, came to Göttingen to do research with the new matrix mechanics, which had just been formulated. In the following years she did groundbreaking work. She successfully made the first application of the new theory to diatomic molecules. As a by-product of this work, she was the first who found that, even though in general both integer and half-integer values are allowed for angular momentum, orbital angular momentum always takes on integer values. Impressed by her clear and masterful treatment of the problem, Pauli invited her to work with him on the polarizability of gases. After that, she worked in Tübingen. In this talk I will sketch Mensing's pioneering work and give a brief account of her life. I will also discuss why she gave up her career, which ended in 1930 after she married and started a family.27.11.2025 CRC 1459 Colloquium
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Einladende: Dr. Kriegel (SFB 1459)04.12.2025 Prof. Val Zwiller (KTH Sweden, Stockholm)
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Einladender: Prof. Schuck (Dept. for Quantum Technology)11.12.2025 N.N.
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18.12.2025 N.N.
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08.01.2026 N.N.
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15.01.2026 Prof. Gregor Koblmüller (Inst. für Festkörperphysik, TU Berlin)
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Einladende/r: Prof. Krenner (PI)
22.01.2026 N.N.
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29.01.2026 N.N.
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05.02.2026 N.N.
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