Kolloquien

Physikalisches Kolloquium

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Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Otto-Haxel-Hörsaal
Friday 17:15

10.10.2024 17:30
Prof. Dr. Anton Zeilinger, Universität Wien
INF 308 HS1
Kolloquium der 53. Heidelberger Graduiertentage - Hans Jensen Invited Lecture
18.10.2024 17:00
Prof. Dr. Walter Metzner, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart
KIP, INF 227, Hörsaal 1
Festkolloquium anlässlich des 60. Geburtstags von Prof. Dr. Manfred Salmhofer
Fermi liquids are interacting fermion systems whose elementary excitations and low temperature properties resemble those of a non-interacting Fermi gas. In particular, the conduction electrons in conventional metals form a Fermi liquid, and many metallic properties can be understood in terms of a simple Fermi gas model, as is frequently done in solid state physics courses. The at first sight surprising immunity of Fermi liquids to interactions is due to Pauli's exclusion principle, which follows from the fermionic statistics. Fermi liquid theory has been developed by Lev Landau already in the 1950s, but it was formulated on mathematically rigorous grounds only in the 1990s.   more...
25.10.2024 17:00
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle, Physics Department, MIT
INF 308, Hörsaal 1 !!!
Scattering of light is one of the most elementary processes for atoms and is discussed in many textbooks. We have performed several light scattering experiments which reveal fundamental quantum aspects. At ultralow temperatures, light scattering is suppressed or enhanced by Pauli blocking and bosonic stimulation, respectively. Light scattering can distinguish a superfluid from a Mott insulator. Finally, we have experimentally investigated whether light is coherent and incoherent when scattered by single atoms.   more...
15.11.2024 17:00
Prof. Dr. Sami Haddadin, Technische Universität München
KIP, INF 227, Hörsaal 1
Robots have achieved unprecedented performance jumps over the last decade. As of today, however, robot design and build are laborious and suboptimal, costly and constitute a major limitation in achieving the anticipated robotics revolution. At the same time, we see intelligent machines that learn and perform tasks, and are able to generalize their skills to new contexts.   more...
29.11.2024 17:00
Prof. Dr. Oriol Vendrell, Institute for Physical Chemistry (PCI) & Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg
KIP, INF 227, Hörsaal 1
The microscopic quantum world is increasingly present in our everyday lives and technology. To keep up, we need to advance theoretical and numerical tools capable of handling highly dimensional, coupled, and correlated quantum systems. For molecules, this task is especially challenging due to strong, anharmonic interactions among nuclei and electrons.   more...
13.12.2024 17:00
Prof. Chang Kee Jung, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
KIP, INF 227, Hörsaal 1
Sports occupy an important part of our lives. It is often difficult to flip through the TV channels without encountering sports shows. Surprisingly, a large fraction of the intriguing and often spectacular sports actions and feats can be explained using relatively basic physics concepts. In this talk, I will present and discuss the physics behind some remarkably creative innovations in popular sports (baseball, soccer/football, volleyball, basketball, high Jump, gymnastics and swimming) using basic concepts in classical physics.   more...
24.1.2025 17:00
Prof. Dr. Felix Deschler, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg
KIP, INF 227, Hörsaal 1
31.1.2025 17:00
Prof. Dr. Susanne Mertens, TUM und MPIK Heidelberg
KIP, INF 227, Hörsaal 1