Colloquium

Every 1st or 3rd Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9, 48149 Münster.

Winter term 2024/25

  • 18.10.2024
    What's wrong with me? Why are sexism, homophobia and racism still so prevalent in physics? I start from my personal experience to demonstrate that in fact the personal is political. CERN, the largest physics laboratory in the world, welcomes scientists from 112 nationalities but still about 80% of them are white and 80% are male. I examine why people from so many various groups have been historically excluded from physics and suggest a series of easily applicable measures that could greatly improve diversity in physics. These measures would benefit all scientists, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, physical ability or religion. It has been established that diversity benefits science by increasing the creativity potential, a key ingredient in scientific research.
     Dr. Pauline Gagnon (CERN)

  • 09.01.2025 within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department" - GRK Closing event with party after the colloquium
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    Unraveling the mysteries of the most energetic particles in Nature
    Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kampert (Uni Wuppertal)

Summer term 2024

  • 18.04.2024, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    The emergence of galaxies in the first billion years: implications for reionization, cosmology and gravitational wave astronomy
    Prof. Dr. Pratika Dayal (University of Groningen)

  • 17.05.2024
    The bright side of searching for Dark Matter
    Prof. Dr. Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

  • 06.06.2024, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    Precision theory predictions for high energy collider physics
    Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehrmann (Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich)

  • 28.06.2024
    Nonlinear dynamics of high-intensity beams in accelerators: understanding
    and challenges
    PD Dr. Giuliano Franchetti (GSI Darmstadt & Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

  • 05.07.2024
    Exploring New Physics and Supersymmetry at the Dawn of LHC Run 3 and at the HL-LHC
    Prof. Dr. Benjamin Fuks (LPTHE Paris)

  • 12.07.2024
    Direct neutrino-mass measurement with the new dataset of the KATRIN experiment
    Dr. Alexey Lokhov (KIT Karlsruhe)

Winter term 2023/24

  • 03.11.2023
    Probing New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier
    Prof. Dr. Kai Schmitz (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Münster)

  • 07.12.2023, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

    The proton structure in the LHC era
    Prof. Dr. Sven-Olaf Moch (II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg)

  • 11.01.2024, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

    Neutrinos in cosmology: A match made in the heavens
    Prof. Dr. Yvonne Wong (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney)

  • 18.01.2024, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

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    Prof. Dr. Ralph Engel (Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/KIT)

Summer term 2023

  • 09.05.2023
    (Tuesday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

     Frontier of Universality in Critical Statics:  Yang-Lee edge
     Prof. Dr. Vladimir Skokov (North Carolina State University, USA EMMI Visiting Professor)

  • 25.05.2023, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

    Tests of General Relativity: Status and Perspectives
     Prof. Dr. Claus Lämmerzahl (University of Bremen, Center of Space Technology and Microgravity/ZARM)

  • 15.06.2023, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

    Hot and cold dark matter – how to probe the invisible Universe in the laboratory
     Prof. Dr. Kathrin Valerius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/KIT, Institute for Astroparticle Physics) 

  • 30.06.2023
    (Friday at 14:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

     All the dark we can not see - the state-of-the art in direct searches for particle dark matter
     Prof. Dr. Laura Baudis (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

  • 07.07.2023
    (Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

     Frontiers of parton-shower accuracy
     Dr. Melissa van Beekveld (University of Oxford, England)

Winter term 2022/23

  • 25.11.2022
    (Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

     Title: A K-Matrix Analysis of e+ e- Annihilation in the Bottomonium Region
     Dr. Nils Hüsken (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

  • 02.12.2022
    (Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

     Measuring the temperature of the hottest medium in the universe with heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
     Dr. Raphaelle Bailhache (Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

  • 27.01.2023
    (Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

    Cosmic Birefringence: A New Probe of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
    Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu (Department of Physical Cosmology, Max-Planck Institute Astrophysics, Garching)

Summer term 2022

  • 07.04.2022, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

     The nCTEQ Project: revealing the fundamental character of the strong force
     Prof. Dr. Fredrick Olness (Prof. at SMU, Dallas, Texas) 

  • 02.06.2022, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

     Uncovering the quark‐gluon plasma: scientific and technological challenges 
     Dr. Luciano Musa (CERN, Speaker of the ALICE Collaboration)

  • 01.07.2022
    (Friday at 12:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

    Multi-messenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos
    Prof. Dr. Anna Franckowiak (Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

  • 01.07.2022
    (Friday at 15:00 (s.t.) in room KP 404, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9)

    The XENON project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection
    Prof. Dr. Elena Aprile (Centennial Professor of Physics, Columbia University)                                                                        

  • 07.07.2022, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

     Cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
     Dr. Florian Beutler (Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh, UK)

Winter term 2021/22

  • 18.11.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

             From quarks to black holes: micro- and macrophysics of neutron star mergers
             Dr. Andreas Bauswein (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenfoschung GmbH)

  • 02.12.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

             Supercomputer Simulations of Galaxy Formation
             Prof. Dr. Volker Springel (MPI Garching)

  • 16.12.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)

            The Einstein Telescope
            Prof. Dr. Achim Stahl (RWTH Aachen University)

  • 28.01.2022
    (Friday at 12:00 pm via Zoom)

    Quantum gravity and its connection to observations
    Prof. Dr. Astrid Eichhorn (University of Southern Denmark, Odense / Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

 

 

Summer term 2021

  • 22.04.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)

             First Results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment
             Dr. Jarek Kaspar (University of Washington, Seattle)

  • 08.07.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)

With Beautiful Quarks to New Phenomena in Particle Physics: Recent Results from the LHCb Experiment
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Uwer (Physical Institute, University Heidelberg)

  • 16.07.2021
    (Friday at 12:00 pm via Zoom)

             Probing the neutrino mass scale with the KATRIN experiment: First sub-eV sensitivity results
             Prof. Dr. Susanne Mertens (TU München/Max Planck Institute for Physics)

 

 

Winter term 2020/21

  • 17.12.2020, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)

             The ALICE experiment at the LHC opens a new avenue for nuclear physics
             Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbietti (Technische Universität München)

  • 15.01.2021
    Dark matter (and more) with XENON detectors
    Prof. Dr. Marc Schumann (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

  • 11.02.2021, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:00 pm via Zoom)

    Shine a light! When matter shatters
    Prof. Dr. Tetyana Galatyuk (Institut für Kernphysik, TU Darmstadt)

 

Summer term 2020

  • 19.06.2020
     Interactive Data Analysis with JupyterHub
    Dr. Markus Blank-Burian (WWU IT, Abteilung 6: Systeme)

  • 03.07.2020
    Heavy element production in neutron star mergers and core-collapse supernovae
    Prof. Dr. Almudena Arcones (Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt & GSI Helmholtzzenturm für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

 

Winter term 2019/20

  • 24.10.2019, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    Probing the neutrino mass scale with KATRIN
    Dr. Kathrin Valerius (Institut für Kernphysik, KIT – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

  • 08.11.2019
    The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon - The low energy frontier of the Standard Model
    Prof. Dr. Achim Denig (Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

  • 05.12.2019, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    Surprises in Hadron Spectroscopy
    Prof. Dr. Estia Eichten (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA)

  • 09.12.2019  (exceptionally on Monday at 14:15 p.m. and in room 304!)
    Early time dynamics of heavy-ion collisions and connections to jet quenching
    Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sören Schlichting (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld)

  • 12.12.2019, within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    A journey to understand the proton at the Large Hadron Collider
    Prof. Dr. Christophe Royon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA)

 

 

Summer term 2019

  • 05.04.2019
    Cornering naturalness with Higgsino searches
    Dr. Rakhi Mahbubani (CERN)

  • 03.05.2019
    The quantum world as a hologram - applied physics of black holes
    Prof. Dr. Carlo Ewerz (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

  • 07.06.2019
    Deep learning paving the way to online calibration and physics decoding
    PD Dr. Olena Linnyk (FIAS – Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

  • 12.07.2019
    Measuring gravity at short distances and other fun tricks with levitated microspheres
    Prof. Dr. Giorgio Gratta (Physics Department, Stanford University, California)

 

Winter term 2018/19

  • 19.10.2018 (exceptionally at 11:15 a.m.!)
    Environment, Genes & Behaviour
    Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser (Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster)

  • 08.11.2018 (exceptionally on Thursday at 16:15!)
    Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Intensity Frontier
    Dr. Martin Hoferichter (Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle)

  • 06.12.2018 (exceptionally on Thursday at 12:00 a.m. and in room 104!)
    Mass Generation in the Early Universe
    Dr. Ralf Rapp (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station)

  • 31.01.2019, also within the "Colloquium of the Physics Department"
    (Thursday at 16:15 p.m., HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10!)
    Hunting the Invisible
    Prof. Dr. Dorothea Samtleben (Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University)

  • 01.02.2019, Parallel-Lecture to Prof. Samtleben
    (Friday at 11:15 a.m., Hausseminar)
    A Neutrino Detector in the Mediterranean Sea as Target for a Neutrino Beam
    Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brunner (CPPM Marseille, Centre de Physiques des Particules de Marseille)

 

Summer term 2018

  • 26.04.2018, "Evening Talk"
    Career steps and work as consultant in the banking sector
    Dr. Christian Egelkamp (Finbridge GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Homburg)
  • 30.04.2018 (exceptionally on Monday at 14:15!)
    The Color Glass Condensate: An effective theory for the Regge limit of QCD
    Prof. Dr. Raju Venugopalan (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY)
  • 08.06.2018
    Physics beyond Higgs
    Prof. Dr. Jan Kalinowski (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)
  • 15.06.2018
    Gauge Fields from Strings
    Dr. Valentina Forini (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • 29.06.2018, within the "Symposium on Quantum and Statistical Field Theory"
    (exceptionally on Friday at 15:00 in lecture hall 201, Schlossplatz 4!)
    The indirect way to discoveries
    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hollik (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik,  München)
  • 30.06.2018, within the "Symposium on Quantum and Statistical Field Theory"
    (exceptionally on Saturday at 11:30 in lecture hall 201, Schlossplatz 4!)
    The discovery of the Higgs boson: A confirmation and a problem
    Prof. Dr. Jean Zinn-Justin (CEA, Centre de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette)
  • 30.06.2018, within the "Symposium on Quantum and Statistical Field Theory"
    (exceptionally on Saturday at 12:15 in lecture hall 201, Schlossplatz 4!)
    How strong are the strong interactions?
    Prof. Dr. Rainer Sommer (NIC, DESY Zeuthen & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • 13.07.2018
    The Super-Kamiokande Experiment at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan
    Prof. Dr. Kai Martens (Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo, Kamioka)

 

Winter term 2017/18

  • 27.10.2017
    Cosmological seed magnetic fields from aperiodic plasma fluctuations
    Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

  • 02.02.2018
    Measurements of open heavy flavours with ALICE
    Dr. Denise Godoy (Institut für Kernphysik, WWU)

  • 09.03.2018
    Probing the top quark electroweak interactions at the LHC
    Dr. Markus Schulze (Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

 

Summer term 2017

  • 05.05.2017
    Flavor physics in the SM and beyond
    Prof. Dr. Gudrun Hiller (Department of Physics, Technische Universität Dortmund)
  • 23.06.2017
    Lepton flavour and number violation
    Dr. Alexander Merle (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik,  München)
  • 28.07.2017
    (New) actors in social media communication
    Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz (Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, Universität Duisburg-Essen)

 

 

 

 

Winter term 2016/17

  • 04.11.2016
    TeV scale MSSM Dark Matter and the electroweak Sommerfeld effect
    Prof. Dr. Martin Beneke (Physik-Department, Technische Universität München)
  • 16.12.2016
    Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with Ge-76
    Dr. Bernhard Schwingenheuer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)
  • 20.01.2017
    Infrared problems. A survey of more recent progress
    Prof. Dr. Detlev Buchholz (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
  • 03.02.2017, exceptionally at 14:15!
    Hadron physics with antiprotons
    Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wiedner (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Summer term 2016

  • 03.06.2016
    ARIANNA: Radio detection of neutrinos on the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica
    Dr. Anna Nelles (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine)
  • 17.06.2016
    Theory and Phenomenology of Neutrino Mass
    Dr. Werner Rodejohann (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)
  • 01.07.2016
    Lattice determinations of the nucleon and pion sigma terms close to the physical point
    Dr. Sara Collins (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg)
  • 15.07.2016
    Jet shapes in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE
    Dr. Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (CERN & Institut für Kernphysik, WWU)

Winter term 2015/16

  • 30.10.2015
    The decoupling of heavy sea quarks
    Prof. Dr. Francesco Knechtli (Fachbereich C, Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
  • Thursday, 26.11.2015, 16:00, Inauguration Ceremony & Colloquium, HS 2, IG I, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10
    Back to the future - how future experiments can tell us about the past of our Universe
    Prof. Dr. Stephan Paul (Physik-Department, Technische Universität München)
  • 11.12.2015
    The Shining: probing extreme states of QCD matter with virtual photons
    Prof. Dr. Joachim Stroth (Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
  • 22.01.2016
    Electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC
    Prof. Dr. Stefan Dittmaier (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
  • 12.02.2016
    Direct dark matter searches
    Priv.-Doz. Dr. Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)