Physikalisches Kolloquium
Tuesday, 4:15 p.m. in HS KPH

Coordinators:

Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid
Institut für Physik
friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Wittig
Institut für Kernphysik
hartmut.wittig@uni-mainz.de

Contacts:

Daniela Reibel
Sekretariat Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid
Institut für Physik
reibel@uni-mainz.de

Fulya Mank
Sekretariat Prof. Dr. Hartmut Wittig
Institut für Kernphysik
mank@uni-mainz.de

Date & Title
Feb. 10, 2026
Tyler Kutz (JGU Mainz): tba
Feb. 3, 2026
Hartmut Löwen (Universität Düsseldorf): tba
Jan. 27, 2026
Nir Barnea (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Factorization and Universality in Nuclear Physics
Jan. 20, 2026
Michaela Hegglin (Forschungszentrum Jülich): Earth observations in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement
Jan. 13, 2026
Thomas Stoehlker (Helmholtz Institut Jena): tba
Jan. 6, 2026
NN (X): tba
Dec. 16, 2025
Hari Srikanth (University of South Florida, USA): tba
Dec. 9, 2025
Bjorn Stevens (MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg): Clouds and the Climate System
Dec. 2, 2025
Christine Silberhorn (Universität Paderborn): Photonics, Quantum Information
Nov. 25, 2025
Dalibor Djukanovic (Helmholtz Institut, Mainz): The proton's crisis - when form becomes a factor
Nov. 18, 2025
Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford): A challenge to the standard cosmological model
Nov. 11, 2025
Mark Thomson (CERN): Particle Physics: Today and Tomorrow
Nov. 4, 2025
Tomas Brage (University of Lund, Sweden): Why should we care about diversity in a physics classroom?
Oct. 28, 2025
Gorazd Planinsic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Investigative Science Learning Environment teaching concept ISLE
July 15, 2025
Livia Ludhova (GSI Darmstadt/JGU Mainz): Hic Sunt Leones: At the Frontiers of Neutrino Physics
July 8, 2025
Volker Springel (Max Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching): Interfacing supercomputer simulations of galaxy formation with precision cosmology
July 1, 2025
Dennis Lehmkuhl (Universität Bonn): Philosophy of Physics
June 24, 2025
Cancelled — postponed to winter semester 2025/26 Nir Barnea (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Behaviour of Correlated Nucleon Pairs Inside Nuclei
June 17, 2025 in Staudinger Hörsaal
Serge Haroche (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France): The Physics of Rydberg Atoms: from Bohr’s Hydrogen model to Quantum Information
June 10, 2025
Günter Reiss (Universität Bielefeld): Magnetic Heterostructures: From Sensors and Memories to Altermagnets
June 3, 2025 at 3:30 p.m.
Christian Weinheimer EARLIER at 3:30pm Coffee at 3:15pm (Universität Münster): Addressing fundamental questions with astroparticle physics at low energy
May 27, 2025
*Cancelled — postponed to winter semester 2025/26* Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford): A challenge to the standard cosmological model
May 20, 2025
Libor Smejkal (JGU Mainz, INSPIRE Group): Altermagnets and Antialtermagnets
May 13, 2025
Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh, USA): Harnessing Chemo-Mechanical Interactions To Regulate Behavior Of Flexible Materials In Confined Fluids
May 6, 2025
Yafang Cheng (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry): Aerosol chemistry: from molecular dynamics to atmospheric vortices