The Department Seminars (Colloquia) are broad range presentations about hot topics in Physics that are both timely and of high scientific impact.
They are addressed to all people doing research and teaching duties inside the Physics Department. Moreover, they are one of the pillars for the training of our PhD students. Additionally, people from other research institutes which are close partners of the Department and are located in Trento's area are invited to join.
The seminar speakers are usually international leading scientists. They are asked to provide high-standard presentations, but at a level that is accessible also to a wide audience of non-expert physicists.
The list of speakers is usually established on a yearly base, with the precious input of the Department staff and of the PhD students, when feasible.
Each of these Colloquia is one hour long, including the final questions, and there is a Colloquioum per month, usually on Wednesday afternoon.
Colloqui 2025
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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January 30 |
Gabriele Costantino |
Department of Food and Drugs- University of Parma |
Fostering STEM and Biomedical Education and Research in Subsharian Africa: Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities |
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February 12 |
Marc Henneaux |
Physics Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
TBD |
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February 26 |
Francesca Calegari |
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, University of Hamburg |
TBD |
Colloqui 2024
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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February 8 |
Marco Minissale |
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Physique des Interaction Ioniques et Moleculaire (PIIM) Laboratory |
Plasma and ions interaction with tungsten surfaces: interests for nuclear fusion |
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February 14 |
Francoise Combes |
Cattedra di Accoglienza del Collège de France |
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March 20 |
Silvia Spezzano |
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Center for Astrochemical Studies |
From interstellar clouds to planets: chemistry at the dawn of star and planet formation |
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April 10 |
Thomas Friedrich |
GSI Helmholtzcenter for Heavy Ion Research |
Modeling Ion Effects in Radiation Therapy and Protection: Connecting Physics with Biology |
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May 22 |
Simona Binetti |
University of Milano-Bicocca - Department of Materials Science |
Photovoltaics: Current Landscape and Future Directions in Solar Energy |
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September 25 |
Diego Misseroni |
University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering |
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October 23 |
Alberto Ceccon |
Laboratory of NMR Spectroscopy at Laimburg Research Centre, NOI Techpark Bolzano |
Solution NMR Spectroscopy: A Valid Tool for Exploring ‘Dark’ States |
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November 13 |
Diederik Wiersma |
INRIM – Torino; European Laboratory for non-linear Spectroscopy - LENS, Department of Physics, University of Florence |
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18 dicembre |
Marco Frasconi |
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova |
Colloqui 2023
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 25 | Stefano Caramori | Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Farmaceutiche ed Agrarie dell’Università di Ferrara | Photoelectrochemistry of Heterointerfaces for Solar Fuel Generation |
| February 15 | Nicola Marzari | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne / Paul Scherrer Institut | To see a world in a grain of sand |
| March 22 | Gregor Weihs | University of Innsbruck | Multi-Particle Quantum Interferometry |
| April 12 | Fabrizio Fiore | INAF - Direttore dell'Osservatorio di Trieste | Distributed architectures for a Gamma Ray Burst all-sky monitor |
| May 10 | Sandro Stringari | Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli studi di Trento e Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation - Trento | Lev Pitaevskii: from Moscow to Trento |
| May 17 | Gianpietro Cagnoli | Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon | Observing the Universe by looking at matter at the scale of 10^-20 M |
| June 6 | Mariafelicia De Laurentis | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | The Event Horizon Telescope Journey: from the Earth to the heart of galaxies |
| September 13 | Filippo Bencivenga | Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste | Nanoscale dynamics by extreme ultraviolet transient gratings |
| October 4 | Gianluca Gemme, Michele Punturo |
INFN, Sezione di Genova -- Virgo Spokesperson INFN, Sezione di Perugia -- Einstein Telescope Spokesperson |
From LIGO-Virgo to Einstein Telescope: the present and the future of Earth-based gravitational wave detectors and observations |
| November 8 | Andrea Cecilia Jimenez Dalmaroni | School of Physics and Astronomy – Cardiff University | Towards a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive physics education: from collaborative exams to interactive lectures |
| December 13 | Caterina Vozzi | Institute for photonics and nanotechnologies (IFN) | Attosecond Science for the study of electron dynamics in matter |
Colloqui 2022
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 19 | Camilla Pacifici | JWST/NIRISS Instrument Scientist - Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore | The James Webb Space Telescope: instruments, science, and data analysis |
| March 16 | Stefano Camera | Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino | Synergic cosmology across the spectrum |
| May 25 | Maria Elena Monzani | Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology - Stanford University | Direct Dark Matter Detection with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment |
| July 13 | Antonio Politi | Chair in Physics of Life Science, Department of Physics, University of Aberdeen, Scotland | Longitudinal laser instabilities revisited |
| October 26 | Caccia Massimo Luigi Maria | Department of Science and High Technology, Uni. Insubria – Como - Italy | Beyond Particle Physics, back to Particle Physics |
| November 30 | Amos Maritan | Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Padova – Italy | Statistical Physics of Ecosystems |
| December 14 | Liguori Michele | Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova | The non-Gaussian Universe: a challenge in cosmological data analysis |
Colloqui 2021
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 20 | Andrea Shindler | National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Center for Quantum Computing, Science, and Engeneering (MSU-Q) Department of Physics & Astronomy - Michigan State University |
Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics towards the Exascale Computing Era |
| March 3 | Silvia Picozzi | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto CNR-SPIN Chieti, c/o Univ. “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara (Italy) |
Spin-orbit coupling: a small interaction leading to rich physics |
| March 17 | Irene Tamborra | Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen | Ghostly Messengers of the Cosmos |
| April 14 | Mirko Piersanti | Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - IAPS, Roma | Magnetospheric-Ionospheric-Lithospheric coupling model: Application for the August 5, 2018 Bayan Earthquake |
| May 19 | Cecilia Ceccarelli | Universitè Grenoble Alpes, IPAG, France | The astrochemical trail of our origin |
| June 16 | Victor Manuel dos Santos Cardoso | Istituto Superior Tecnico – Università di Lisbona | Black holes: the last frontier |
| July 21 | Bella Lake | Helmholtz Zentrum für Materialien und Energie – Berlin – Germany Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Festkörperphysik – Berlin – Germany | The Neutron Scattering Studies of Quantum Magnets |
| September 15 | Sofia Quaglioni | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Ab Initio Calculations of Atomic Nuclei and Their Interactions |
| October 13 | Paolo Fornasiero | Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, INSTM and ICCOM-CNR, University of Trieste | Nanocatalysts for more sustainable chemical processes: opportunities and challenge |
| November 17 | Federico Laudisa | Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Trento | Is the interpretation of quantum mechanics still an open problem? |
| December 15 | Antonio De Simone | Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, and SISSA, Trieste | Morphing and Shape Control: from Mechano-Biology and Bio-Physics to Micro-Robotics |
Colloqui 2020
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 22 | Giovanni Modugno | LENS and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze; CNR-INO, sezione di Pisa | Exploring the supersolid phase of matter with a dipolar quantum gas |
| February 12 | Luciano Iess | Dipartimento di Ingegneria meccanica e aerospaziale Sapienza Università di Roma | Measuring gravity in the solar system |
| June 24 | Anna Letizia Allegra Mascaro | Neuroscience Institute, CNR, Pisa, & European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino | In vivo fluorescence imaging of cortical plasticity after stroke |
| July 8 | Thorsten Schumm | Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, TU-Wien, Atominstitut | Quo Vadis Thorium-229 |
| November 11 | Nader Engheta | University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, USA | Structuring Light with Spatiotemporal Metamaterials |
| December 16 | Guglielmo Mazzola | IBM Research Zurich | Machine learning physics of dense hydrogen |
Colloqui 2019
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 15 | Giancarlo Ruocco | CLNS-IIT, Director, and Dept. of Physics - Sapienza University of Rome | From super-resolution to high-throughput Brillouin microscopy at CLNS |
| February 20 | Ines De Vega | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Open quantum systems: models, limits and simulation |
| March 6 | Barbara Rossi | Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste | Synchrotron-based UV Resonance Raman scattering for material science |
| March 20 | Serge Haroche | Collège de France, Paris | Laser breakthroughs in basic science |
| March 27 | Miriam Vitiello | NEST-CNR, Pisa, Italy | Photonic engineering of high performance quantum cascade lasers at Terahertz frequencies |
| April 10 | Vanni Antoni | CNR Istituto Gas Ionizzati - Padova | The Roadmap to Fusion Energy |
| May 29 | Helmut Grubmueller | Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany | Nanomachines at Work: Atomistic Simulations of Biomolecular Systems |
| September 18 | Andrea Miglio | School of Physics and Astronomy University of Birmingham | Asterosismologia: dagli interni stellari allo studio della Galassia |
| November 13 | Bernardo Barbiellini | LUT University of Technology, Lappeenranta (Finland) | Li-ion Batteries ageing studied by Advanced Spectroscopic and Computational Techniques |
| December 18 | Michele Parrinello | Italian Institute of Technology - Genova | Atoms and Computers |
Colloqui 2018
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 24 | Giovanni Ciccotti | Institute for Applied Mathematics "Mauro Picone" (IAC), CNR, Roma | Hydrodynamics from Dynamical Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics |
| February 19 | Michael Berry | Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at the University of Bristol, UK | Magic mirrors and magic windows |
| March 8 | Anna Cereseto | Centre for Integrative Biology - CIBIO - Trento | CRISPR/Cas9: new tools for genome editing |
| March 28 | Thomas Franosch | Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck | Non-equilibrium dynamics of active agents and driven particles in microrheology |
| April 12 | Michele Trenti | School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Australia | Galaxy formation at cosmic dawn from space observations |
| May 23 | Franco Dalfovo | Università di Trento | Publish or perish, an editor perspective |
| July 11 | Antonio Politi | University of Aberdeen (UK) | Modelling collective neural activity |
| October 25 | Vincenzo Patera | Università Roma La Sapienza | Nuclear interaction and Particle Therapy |
| November 13 | Simone Meloni | Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome | Wetting of lyophobic textured surfaces and porous materials |
| December 12 | Mairi Sakellariadou | King’s College London, University of London | Anisotropies in the stochastic gravitational wave background |
Colloqui 2017
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 18 | Giovanna Tinetti | University College London | Galactic Planetary Science |
| February 8 | Christoph Hugenschmidt | TUM- FRMII Munich | Positrons Probing Matter: Applications of a Low-Energy High-Intensity Positron Beam |
| March 29 | Enrico Flamini | ASI | Small bodies, great science: Rosetta and Philae |
| April 26 | Ilia Solov'yov | University of Southern Denmark | Introducing VIKING - the next generation virtual laboratory |
| May 10 | Fabio Beltram | Consiglio Direttivo ANVUR | La Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca e l'Università di Trento |
| October 26 | Claudio Giannetti | Università Cattolica Brescia | Ultrafast dynamics in correlated materials and superconductors |
| November 22 | Matt Visser | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand | Analogue spacetimes |
Organizzatore: prof. Francesco Tommasino