Kolloquien
Sommersemester 2022
URL zum ICS-Kalender dieses Seminars
Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Otto-Haxel-Hörsaal
freitags 17:15
13.4.2022 17:30
INF 308, Hörsaal 1 und Online
Kolloquium der 48. Heidelberger Graduiertentage - Hans Jensen Invited Lecture
29.4.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description.
The growing ability to achieve quantum optical control over massive solid-state objects
may change that situation – by enabling experiments that directly probe the
phenomenology of quantum states of gravitational source masses. I will review the
current status in the lab and the challenges to be overcome for future experiments.
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6.5.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
“Climate change is physics”, as the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has highlighted to the
broader public. A hierarchy of physically based models of the atmosphere and ocean,
which have been developed since the mid 1960s, has predicted fingerprints of climate
change that we now observe worldwide.
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13.5.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
Festkolloquium zum 70. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Christof Wetterich
The large-scale structure of our Universe is seen as a result of quantum field
fluctuations amplified by the evolution of space-time itself. Quantum fields in curved
spacetimes have many tantalizing theoretical properties, for example particles are
being produced by the time-dependence of the geometry.
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20.5.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
The richness and diversity of planetary systems that have now been detected have
modified our perspective on planet formation and our place in the Universe. They
also represent an historical opportunity of perspectives and a compelling call to look
for signs of life on these new worlds and to reflect on the origin of life in the Solar
System.
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27.5.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
Ever noticed that annoying lag that sometimes happens during the internet streaming
from, say, your favorite football game? Called latency, this brief delay between a
camera capturing an event and the event being shown to viewers is surely annoying
during the decisive goal at a World Cup final. But it could be deadly for a passenger
of a self-driving car that detects an object on the road ahead and sends images to the
cloud for processing.
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3.6.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
In the last decades, gravity experiments have been experiencing a renaissance for
several reasons: Modern astronomical observations clearly point to the existence of
Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Their true nature and content remain a mystery
however. Furthermore, prominent candidates to formulate a consistent quantum
theory of gravitation require extra spatial dimensions.
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10.6.2022 17:00
Dr. Johann P. Klages, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven INF 308, Hörsaal 1
Exotic worlds were hiding under the Antarctic ice for millions of years. A specialized
seafloor drill rig finally enabled to recover those enigmatic sediments, witnessing lush
and warm climate conditions near the South Pole – unexpected for those highest
latitudes with more than four months of polar night darkness. This knowledge changed
our view of the severity of global climate conditions during phases of peak global
warmth and reveal the significance modern ice-sheet presence has for buffering future
climate runaway.
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17.6.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
Mankind has underestimated the lever it has in changing the biogeochemical state of the
planet earth by emitting greenhouse gasses. We are in a position where the state of the
planet is about to change into a condition that may be detrimental for mankind. It is thus
extremely urgent to minimize the emission of greenhouse gasses in a global dimension. This
can be achieved if the existing world market of fossil energy is replaced by a world market of
renewable energies. Even so it is a challenging task and requires rebuilding the largest
industry on earth within one generation.
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24.6.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
Biological systems avoid equilibrium by taking chemical energy from their
surroundings and using it to do work. Cells organise intra-cellular components into
the structures that allow them to grow, reproduce and move. Tissues, collections of
cells, differentiate locally as they develop to perform the complex functions of
different organs.
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1.7.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
Particle physics is engaged in a worldwide effort to deepen our understanding of key
issues, from the origin of dark matter and neutrino masses, to the dynamics of
electroweak symmetry breaking and of non-perturbative strong interactions. A wide
landscape of facilities and experiments, in the laboratory, in the sky and underground,
in addition to theoretical work, are mobilized in these efforts. In this landscape, collider
experiments play a special role, and, with the current success of the LHC, are
consolidating their unique potential to continue driving the future progress.
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8.7.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
The field of Asteroseismology — the study of the internal structures of stars through
their global intrinsic oscillations, has been revolutionised over the past decade. This
revolution was possible thanks to the high-precision high-cadence photometric data
from space missions CoRoT, Kepler, K2 and TESS. These missions provided long
timeseries data for hundreds of thousand stars. In many cases the brightness
variations in these timeseries data reveal the intrinsic eigenmodes of the stars. These
eigenmodes are defined by the internal structure of the star and hence, the stellar
structure can be derived from the frequencies of the eigenmodes.
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15.7.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
22.7.2022 17:00
INF 308, Hörsaal 1
About 15 years ago, it was realized that Random Tensors exhibit a 1/N expansion
dominated by melonic graphs. This result was the foundation of the theory of random
tensors. In this talk, I will present this 1/N expansion and its implications for the study
of random geometries and strongly interacting quantum field theories.
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29.7.2022 17:00
Prof. Dr. Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz INF 308, Hörsaal 1
A central challenge for animals when alone, or when grouping with others, is deciding
where to go. Running, swimming, or flying through the world, animals are constantly
making decisions while on the move—decisions that allow them to choose where to
eat, where to hide, and with whom to associate. Despite this, most studies have
considered only on the outcome of, and time taken to make, decisions.
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