Physics Colloquium at Freie Universität Berlin
Physikalisches Kolloquium
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The Physics Colloquium is aimed at everyone who wants to learn about groundbreaking discoveries in current physical research – students, educators, and researchers from Freie Universität Berlin as well as other academic institutions.
The speakers are distinguished scientists who work internationally and across disciplines on fundamental questions in physics. They present findings from current research projects, answer questions from the audience, and discuss insights and new scientific ideas.
- When: Fridays 3 - 5 pm, only during the lecture period
- Where: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14), Department of Physics, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
- Language: mostly English
Physics Colloquium
Physics Colloquium: Prof Hyunsoo Yang "THz Spin Dynamics and Magnon Torques"
National University of Singapore
Location: Lecture Hall A ( Room 1.3.14) Physics Department Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Special Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Harald Brune "Magnetism of Adatoms – from Storage to Qubits"
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Location: Lecture Hall A (Room 1.3.14) Physics Department Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Dr. Sebastian F. Maehrlein "Driving Coherent Phonon-Phonon Angular Momentum Transfer via Lattice Anharmonicity"
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiation Physics; Technical University Dresden, Institute of Applied Physic; Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society, Department of Physical Chemistry
Location: Lecture Hall A (Room 1.3.14) Physics Department Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Andrés Ordóñez "Chiral light-matter interaction in the multiphoton regime"
Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Freie Universität Berlin
Location: Lecture Hall A ( Room 1.3.14) Physics Department Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Angela Wittmann "Exploring spin and chirality at unconventional hybrid interfaces"
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Location: Lecture Hall A Physics Department Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Physikalisches Kolloquium: Prof. Edvardas Narevicius
TU Dortmund
Location: Lecture Hall A ( Room 1.3.14) Physics Department Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Dr. Ralph Ernstorfer "Watching ultrafast excitation dynamics in momentum space"
Technical University of Berlin and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Dr. Yuriy Dedkov "Spectroscopy of MPX3 Materials"
Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Ron Naaman "Spin and chirality — opportunities and challenges"
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Cecilia Clementi "The Physics of Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Physics"
Professor Cecilia Clementi teaches and researches at the Free University of Berlin. Her working group deals with computer simulations of biomolecules.
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Dr. Matias Bargheer "Controlling and calibrating ultrafast energy transfer processes in metal nanostructures for ultrafast spin dynamics and light driven catalysis"
Potsdam University, Institute of Physics and Astronomy; Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Dr. Janet Anders: Quantum thermodynamic insights and their use for atomistic spin dynamics simulations and cold atom thermometry
University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Theoretical Quantum Physics Group, Potsdam
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Peter Vöhringer: Emit a greenhouse gas and learn about its binding: Insights from femtosecond infrared spectroscopy
Universität Bonn, Clausius Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Physical Chemistry
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Dr. Niels Schröter - Chiral topological semimetals: Next-generation quantum materials at the intersection of topology, correlations, and magnetism
Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics, Schröter Lab for Quantum Materials & Technologies, Halle (Saale)
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Janik Wolters: Physical Model Systems for the Information Society
Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty II - Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics, Group Physical Foundations of IT Security and German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Optical Sensor Systems and Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF)
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Scuseria: Exploiting Dualities for Strong Correlation
Rice University, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, Texas, USA
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Maxim Breitkreiz: Quantum Anomalies in Condensed Matter - Superstructures and Interfaces
Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics, Emmy Noether-research group "Microscopic and Nanoscopic Physics of Topological Metals" and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems (DCCQS), Berlin
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Qolloquium: Prof. Dr. Peter Zoller: Programmable Quantum Simulators and Quantum Sensors with Atoms and Ions
University of Innsbruck, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Theoretical Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and Austrian Academy of Science, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Innsbruck, Austria
Location: Großer Hörsaal (0.3.12) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Dr. Alexander Holleitner: How to observe an excitonic Bose-Einstein condensate
Technical University of Munich, Department of Physics and Walter Schottky Institute, Munich Joint Colloquium of the Physics Department and the TRR 227 „Ultrafast Spin Dynamics“ In this lecture, Prof. Holleitner will present his research in the field of excitons. In particular, he will discuss the Bose-Einstein condensate and the impact of temperatures
Location: Lecture Hall B (0.1.01) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Barbora Špačková: Label-free single-molecule imaging
Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU), Institute of Physics, Laboratory of Biophotonics, Prague, Czech Republic
Location: Lecture Hall B (0.1.01) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Sigrid Milles: Extremely dynamic protein systems - Integrating single molecule fluorescence and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Structural Biology, Integrated Structural Dynamics, Berlin
Location: Lecture Hall B (0.1.01) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Postponed: Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Ofer Firstenberg - Photon-photon interactions: From conditional phase to quantum vortices
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Rehovot, Israel
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Daniel Reich - There and Back Again - A Journey Through the World of Quantum Dynamics and Quantum Control
Freie Universität Berlin In this talk Dr. Daniel Reich will demonstrate the power of "simple quantum mechanics" in the investigation of molecular systems
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Heinrich - Towards Quantum Computing with Spins on Surfaces
Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) und Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, 03760, Republic of Korea.
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: A talk within a framework of a Biophysics Symposium - Prof. Paola Borri "Shedding new light on cells with coherent optical microscopy"
Cardiff University School of Biosciences
Location: Hörsaal A (1.3.14)
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Carsten Timm - Fermi surfaces in superconductors
Technical University Dresden The talk gives an overview over the physics of the Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces, touching upon its physical explanation.
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Johannes Knolle - Anomalous Quantum Oscillations in Metals and Insulators
Technical University of Munich
Location: Lecture Hall A (1.3.14)
DCCQS Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Martin Fertl - Low-energy particle physics with precision magnetic fields
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Physics, PRISMA+ Cluster Of Excellence Colloquium of the Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Hannes Bernien - "Quantum Legos: Atom-by-Atom Towards Quantum Processors and Quantum Networks"
University of Chicago
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14)
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Dr. Kai Rossnagel – Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials
Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics and KiNSIS, Kiel Universityl / Ruprecht Haensel Laboratory, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Location: Lecture hall A (room 1.3.14), Department of Physics, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Karol Życzkowski - Thirty-six entangled officers of Euler
Center for Theoretical Physics, PAS, Warsaw and Jagiellonian University, Cracow
Location: Lecture hall A (room 1.3.14), Department of Physics, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Jens Eisert - Bell's Theorem, Absolute Randomness, and a Glimpse at Quantum Technologies
An Hommage to the Nobel Laureates Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
Location: Great Lecture Hall (0.3.12) Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Hans Schumacher – Single Electron Pumps for the Revised Ampere
Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig
Location: Lecture Hall A, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium & CRC 1078: Prof. Carlos R. Baiz - Picosecond interfacial dynamics in crowded lipid membranes probed with ultrafast 2D infrared spectroscopy
Prof. Carlos R. Baiz is Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Texas at Austin, USA. In the colloquium, he will explain how his research group uses 2D IR spectroscopy to probe the local hydrogen-bond dynamics at the lipid-water interface.
Location: Lecture hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Physics Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Jung – Programming electronic and spin states in 2D supramolecular architectures by modifications on the single atomic or molecular level
Professor Jung will report on the work of his research group "Molecular Nanoscience" at the Paul Scherrer Institute and "Nanolab" at the University of Basel. The laboratories develop surface-supported atomic and molecular systems that have specific electronic or spin states and show a particular advantage of addressability.
Location: Lecture Hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Festive Colloquium in honor of Prof. em. Bennemann and Prof. em. Matthias
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the emeriti Prof. Eckart Matthias and Prof. Karl-Heinz Bennemann, we invite physicists to a festive colloquium. In addition to a historical review of the teaching and research activities of Prof. Matthias and Prof. Bennenmann, there will be two exciting lectures from recent research by Prof. Güdde (Uni Marburg) and Prof. Schmalian (KIT). Afterwards, guests will be able to discuss a whole range of topics from the last decades during a cozy get-together.
Location: Large Lecture Hall (0.3.12, tract 3) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin Weather permitting, the get-together will take place outdoors. We recommend wearing FFP2 masks.
Physics Colloquium & TRR 227: Prof. Hermann Dürr - Ultrafast spin-lattice dynamics in magnetic materials
Professor Hermann Dürr leads the FREIA Lab at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Uppsala University, Sweden. We host this colloquium jointly with the TRR 227 " Ultrafast Spin Dynamics ".
Location: Lecture hall A (room 1.3.14) Department of Physics Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
TRR227 Special Colloquium: Magnetic Materials and Topology - Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)
The Collaborative Research Center TRR 227 "Ultrafast Spin Dynamics " will host a special colloquium within a kick-off meeting of the second funding period. The colloquium will run online via Webex and is open to all members of the physics departments of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg without any registration.
TRR 227 Special Colloquium: Probing electrons and electron dynamics in 2D materials and heterostructures - Prof. Tony Heinz (Stanford)
The Collaborative Research Center TRR 227 "Ultrafast Spin Dynamics " will host a special colloquium within a kick-off meeting of the second funding period. The colloquium will run online via Webex and is open to all members of the physics departments of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg without any registration.
Location: online über webex
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Kasra Amini - Habilitation presentation talk "Visualising the structure and photochemistry of molecules on the atomic scale"
Dr. Kasra Amini researches at Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin.
Physics Colloquium: Dr. Cynthia Heiner-Winter - Science Education
Dr. Cynthia Heiner-Winter is a science education specialist and MINToring project coordinator at Freie Universität Berlin.
Gerhard Ertl Lecture: Prof. Dr. Omar M. Yaghi "Reticular Chemistry and Precision Reactions in Infinite 2D and 3D"
University of California, Berkeley/USA
Prof. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger - Klung-Wilhelmy-Wissenschafts-Preis für Physik 2021
Prof. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau der Freien Universität, Garystr. 35, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. St. Parkin - Physkalisches Kolloquium - Chiral spintronics: non collinear spin textures with application to Racetrack Memory
Chiral spintronics: non collinear spin textures with application to Racetrack Memory
Location: online Talk
Dr. Stephan Block - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Probing Catalytic Activity and Interactions of Single Proteins Using Optical Microscopy
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Bionanointerfaces” (stephan.block@fu-berlin.de), Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Location: Online talk
Prof. Dr. Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Modeling of spin-lattice dynamics
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), Spain
Location: Online Talk
Prof. Dr. Lyderic Bocquet - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Iontronics in 1D and 2D nanomaterials
Ecole Normale Supérieure and CNRS, http://www.phys.ens.fr/~lbocquet/
Location: online Talk
Prof. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Ultracold atoms in optical lattices out-of-equilibrium
Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), 80799 Munich, Germany
Location: online Talk
Dr. Alexey Chernikov - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Interactions in two-dimensional van der Waals materials
Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany; Institute of Applied Physics, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Dr. Marcel Risch - Phsikalisches Kolloquium - Sustainable electrocatalysis: Importance of X-ray spectroscopy for understanding the active state of earth-abundant oxides in water-splitting catalysis
Young Investigator Group - Oxygen Evolution Mechanism Engineering (NOME), Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)
Dr. Ioachim Pupeza - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Electric-field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Location: Online event hosted by the Department of Physics, Freie Universität
Prof. Simon Stellmer - Physics Colloquium - Optical Clocks: From frequency measurements to applications across various disciplines
Bonn University, Germany
Location: Online event hosted by the Department of Physics, Freie Universität
Prof. Margaret Murnane - Physics Colloquium - Ultrafast electron calorimetry: Uncovering new light-induced phases in magnetic and 2D materials
Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309, USA
Location: Online event hosted by the Department of Physics, Freie Universität
Andreas Wanke - Online Talk - Freie Universität Berlin on the Way to Climate Neutrality
Freie Universität Berlin on the Way to Climate Neutrality Online Talk Freie Universität Berlin, Unit Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Karsten Reuter - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Merging Multiscale Theory and Data Sciences to Tackle Operando Energy Conversion Systems
Director of the Theory Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany,
Location: Department of Pyhsics, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Bert Koopmans - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Femto-magnetism meets spintronics: Towards integrated magneto-photonics
Location: FB Physik, Hörsaal A (lecture hall A, R. 1.3.14), Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Frank Neubrech - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Resonant Surface Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy
Location: Physics Department, Hörsaal A (lecture hall A, R. 1.3.14), Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. A. Brataas - Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena with Magnons
Colloquium Talk at the Berlin Science Week Prof. Dr. Arne Brataas Center for Quantum Spintronics, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Location: Department of Physics Lecture Hall A (room number 1.3.14) Arnimallee 14 14195 Berlin
Prof. Lydéric Bosquet - Physikalisches Kolloquium - WATER FLOWS AT ULTIMATE SCALES AND EXOTIC IONIC TRANSPORT
Location: Physics Department, Lecture hall A (Hörsaal A, R. 1.3.14), Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. Cecilia Clementi - Physikalisches Kolloquium - Frontiers of Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics
Location: Department of Physics, lecture hall A (room 1.3.14), Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. Titus Neupert - Physics Colloquium - Topology of Electronic States in Crystal
Location: Department of Physics, Lecture Hall A, R. 1.3.14), Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Prof. Sebastian Goennenwein - Physics Colloquium/ Colloquium TRR 227 - Transverse Spin Transport Phenomena
Location: Department of Physics, Lecture Hall A (Hörsaal A), R. 1.3.14, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
