Colloquia 2011-2018
17.08.2018 Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University): "The quantization of black holes and its impact on particle physics and general relativity"
01.06.2018 Eric Siggia (Rockefeller): "Exploring embryonic patterning with colonies of human embryonic stem cells"
25.05.2018 Poul Erik Lindelof (NBI): "Applying Modern Physics to Archaeology"
18.05.2018 Charles Bennett (IBM): "Is there such a thing as private information?"
09.02.2018 Peter Ditlevsen (NBI): "Predictability in weather and climate problems: a tale of many timescales"
20.11.2017 Eli Waxman (Weizmann): "High energy neutrino astronomy: What have we learned?"
03.11.2017 Jim Cline (McGill University): "Is there a multiverse?"
25.09.2017 L. Mahadevan (Harvard University): “Morphogenesis: geometry, physics and biology”
23.08.2017 Andrew Strominger (Harvard University): "Soft Hair on Black Holes"
21.04.2017 Anja Boisen (DTU Nanotach): "Micro- and Nanostructures for Oral Drug Delivery and Sensing"
03.03.2017 Albert Gjedde (University of Copenhagen): "Learning by doing: Neuroimaging of sensation-seeking as learned behavioral addiction"
25.11.2016 Frank Wilczek (MIT): “Augmenting Reality: Axions, Anyons, and Entangled Histories”
21.10.2016 Roger Penrose (Oxford University): “Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe”
13.06.2016 Marek Abramowicz (Gothenburg University): “Gravitational wave theory: the history”
15.04.2016 Chris Llewellyn-Smith (Oxford University): “Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably?”
11.03.2016 Martin Kalinowski (CTBTO): “The International Monitoring System – Scanning the Earth for Possible Signals from Nuclear Explosions”
02.10.2015 Katherine Freese (University of Michigan and NORDITA, Stockholm): “Inflationary Cosmology in Light of Cosmic Microwave Background Data”
25.09.2015 Mikkel Thorup (Department of Computer Science, KU): “What is the Maximum Overhang for a Stack of n Blocks?”
31.07.2015 Jack Lissauer (NASA Ames): “Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems”
19.06.2015 Antti-Pekka Jauho (DTU Nanotech): “Nanostructuring graphene: moving from ideas to practical applications”
07.05.2015 Barry Simon (Caltech): “Singular Eigenvalue Perturbation Theory”
20.03.2015 Peter Landrock (Cryptomathic): “Classical Cryptography”
20.02.2015 Kelvin Richards (University of Hawaii): “Turbulence in the Natural Environment”
06.02.2015 Martin Bizzarro (StarPlan, Natural History Museum of Denmark): “Mass transport regimes in the solar protoplanetary disk - insights from meteorites and their components”
28.11.2014 Anvar Shukurov (Newcastle University): “The Neolithic revolution: The spread of incipient farming across Eurasia, its significance and mathematical interpretation”
14.11.2014 Birger Schmitz (Lund University): “What can 50 tons of rock and 100,000 litres of hydrochloric acid tell us?”
29.08.2014 Michael B. Green (Cambridge University): “The Scope of String Theory”
09.05.2014 Peter Latham (University College London): “Neuroscience from a physicist's perspective”
04.04.2014 Kim Sneppen (NBI): “How can biodiversity be maintained?”
28.02.2014 Marc Barthélémy (CEA-Saclay): “How cities develop: a physicist's perspective”
06.12.2013 Julia Collins (University of Edinburgh): “A Knot's Tale : Three great men, two smoking boxes, one brilliant wrong idea…”
15.11.2013 Ramin Golestanian (University of Oxford): “Making Living Matter from the bottom up”
11.10.2013 Jan Heinemeier (Aarhus University): “How accelerators, carbon-14 and stable isotopes reveal news of past and present: Age of archaeological materials, tissue and wine”
22.08.2013 Itamar Procaccia: “Numbers in Nature, Art and Architecture”
14.06.2013 Michael Nauenberg: “Teaching Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the Age of Enlightenment”
17.05.2013 David Nelson (Harvard and NBIA): “Defects on Cylinders: Bacterial Cell Walls and Superfluid Helium Films”
09.04.2013 Klaus von Klitzing (MPI Stuttgart): “Physics and applications of the quantum Hall effect”
23.11.2012 Marie Louise Nosch (University of Copenhagen): “What ancient textiles tell us about cultures”
09.11.2012 Gordon Semenoff (University of British Columbia): “The Relativistic World of Graphene”
10.10.2012 David Gross (KITP, Santa Barbara): “A Century of Quantum Mechanics”
22.08.2012 J. Richard Bond (Toronto): “Probing the Cosmic Information in Early and Late Universe Physics”
08.07.2012 Roger Penrose (Oxford): “Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Its Dynamical Equations and Observational Status”
30.03.2012 Tsvi Piran (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): “The Origin of Cosmic Fireworks”
20.01.2012 Susan Stipp (Copenhagen U.): “More oil, less CO2, cleaner water, how organisms make shells and the secrets of nature at the nanoscale”
25.11.2011 Charles Marcus (Harvard & NBIA): “Decoupling a spin qubit from a noisy environment”