Colloquia 2020 - 2021

The Colloquia of the Department of Physics take place in the 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Physics Bldg., every Thursday at 5:00pm during the academic year. Occasionally, Special Colloquia are scheduled at alrernative days and times. The talks are in english, should be general and cover topics from all areas of physics and related sciences. The typical audience consists of members of the physics faculty, researchers, visitors, and graduate students as well as other members of the academic and research community of University of Crete and FORTH. During the 2020-21 academic year the Colloquia are also supported by the Instiutute of Astrophysics-FORTH.

The link for the next Online Colloquium of the Department is:
https://conference.physics.uoc.gr/b/uc2-jek-y4g

Ελληνικά

Fall Semester

September, 24, 2020

“Exploring possibilities of near-term quantum computers. Hybrid Quantum/Classical approaches for fermionic problems.’’

Dr. Panagiotis Barkoutsos, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland
October, 1, 2020

“New perspectives on the neutral interstellar medium: from the Milky Way to nearby galaxies’’

Prof. Snezana Stanimirovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
October, 8, 2020

“Modeling 2D materials and biomolecular systems’’

Prof. George Kalosakas, Dept. of Materials Science, Univ. of Patras
October, 15, 2020

“Dark matter halos from parametric resonance and their signatures’’

Prof. Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute, Canada
October, 22, 2020

“A glimpse on the dynamics of relativistic quantum fields through the prism of classical and quantum simulation’’

Dr. Spyros Sotiriadis, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia
October, 29, 2020

“Studying neutron stars with gravitational waves’’

Prof. Katerina Chatziioannou, Caltech, USA
November, 5, 2020

“Properties and design of nanomaterials from first principles’’

Dr. Lyverios Lymperakis, Max-Planck Institute für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany
November, 12, 2020

“Quantum oscillations in solids: past, present and future’’

Prof. Dr. Andrew McKenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
November, 19, 2020

“Scaling, Universality, and Supersymmetry in the Random-Field Ising Model’’

Prof. Nikolaos Fytas, Dept. of Mathematics and Physics, Coventry University, UK
November, 26, 2020

“Designing 2D (hetero)structures through computational modeling’’

Prof. Maria Fyta, Institute for Computational Physics, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
December, 3, 2020

“Understanding exciton dynamics and photogeneration in molecular semiconductors’’

Dr. Stavros Athanasopoulos, Dept. de Física, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
December, 7, 2020

“Towards the computational design of Moire assemblies’’

Dr. Georgios Tritsaris, Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University, Boston, USA.
December, 10, 2020

“From Nanoparticles by Design to Design by Nanoparticles’’

Dr. Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology University (OIST), Japan.
December, 17, 2020

“Phase transitions in the driven dissipative Jaynes-Cummings (JC) oscillator: monitoring an archetypal quantum nonlinearity in a "thermodynamic limit"’’

Dr. Themistoklis Mavrogordatos, Dept. of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden
December, 21, 2020

“Multiscale Modeling of Biomolecules and Materials’’

Dr. Zoe Cournia, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece

Spring Semester

February, 4, 2021

“How a detailed description of ultrafast dynamics of laser-excited solids and the fundamental multiscale physics processes can lead to advanced material processing’’

Dr. George Tsimpidis, IESL-FORTH
February, 11, 2021

“Tuning magnetic and polar phase transitions with pressure’’

Prof. Siddharth Saxena, Cambridge Univ., UK
February, 18, 2021

“Space-time nonlocal integrable models’’

Prof. Ziad Musslimani, Florida State University, USA
February, 25, 2021

“Sublinear response as a means for hypersensitive sensing’’

Prof. Tsampikos Kottos, Wesleyan University, USA
March, 4, 2021

“Coulomb gap here, there, and everywhere’’

Prof. Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota, USA
March, 10, 2021

Special Colloquium: “A brief history of nuclear astrophysics: The energy of the Sun and the stars’’ - YouTube channel

Dr. Nicolas Prantzos, Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris, France
March, 11, 2021

“The physics of exceptional points’’

Prof. Stefan Rotter, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU-Wien, Austria
March, 17, 2021

Special Colloquium: “A brief history of nuclear astrophysics: The origin of the elements in the Universe’’ - YouTube channel

Dr. Nicolas Prantzos, Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris, France
March, 18, 2021

“Casimir Forces’’

Prof. Serge Reynaud, CNRS, Univ. Paris Sciences & Lettres, France
April, 1, 2021

“From quantum field theory to experiment through development of materials’ specific theory for superconductors’’

Dr. Alex Aperis, Uppsala University, Sweden
April, 8, 2021

“Could we recognize a pure relativistic black hole from gravitational wave signals?’’

Prof. Theocharis Apostolatos, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
April, 15, 2021

“Dynamic properties of the Kitaev model at finite temperatures’’

Dr. Alexandros Metavitsiadis, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
April, 22, 2021

“Exploration of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center with GRAVITY’’ - YouTube video

Dr. Guy Perrin, Observatoire de Paris & CNRS, France
May, 13, 2021

“CANCELED’’

Dr. Who
May, 20, 2021

“Self-defeating Alfvén waves and self-sustaining sound in collisionless plasma (or, how to reduce stress and surf in a storm)’’ - YouTube video

Prof. Matthew Kunz, Princeton University, USA
June, 3, 2021

Special Colloquium - 2020 Nick Kylafis Lecture “The Future of Cosmology’’

Prof. Joseph Silk, IAP (France) & Johns Hopkings Univ. (USA) & Oxford Univ. (UK)

Colloquia 2020 - 2021

Fall Semester

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