PHYSICS COLLOQUIA AND SEMINARS, VOLTIAN LECTURE

Physics Colloquia and Seminars are held usually on Thursdays afternoon at 16 pm in Room A102-Aula Giulotto during the Fall and Spring semesters, unless otherwise announced.

The Physics Colloquia host distinguished guest speakers who highlight the forefront of ongoing research in Physics and in related fields. Colloquia are addressed to a general audience of graduate students (M.Sci. and PhD) in all areas of physics. Presentations last about 45-min, followed by an ample discussion time. The Colloquia series provides an excellent opportunity for the graduate students to get a feeling of different research areas in physics and related fields, to sample the various research opportunities for future jobs and to talk directly with leading scientists. The Physics Seminars are similar to the Colloquia, but they may deal with more focused subjects and can be somewhat more specialized.

Attendance of the Colloquia is compulsory for all graduate students. Attendance to the Seminars is encouraged for everybody, and is compulsory for graduate students of the corresponding area/curriculum.

The Voltian Lecture is an annual event named after the renowned Italian scientist, professor of experimental Physics at the University of Pavia during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It is often the inaugural event of the series of Physics Colloquia for each academic year, and it represent an important part of the Graduate School's public events programme. It is also meant to create a wider awareness of the outcome and benefits of our research. The Voltian Lecture is awarded to a career scientist whose work has made a major contribution in Physics. 

2024/2025 VOLTIAN LECTURE:

17 October 2024 at 16:00 in Aula Volta - Harald Paganetti (Massachussets General Hospital and Harvard Medical School): Radiation oncology: where physics meets cancer theraphy - Announcement

COLLOQUIA 2024/2025

14 November 2024 at 16:00 - M. Campisi (NEST & Scuola Normale Superiore): How to prepare high-fidelity quantum registers: theory and practice - Announcement

12 December 2024 at 16:00 - A. Cavalleri (MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter & Oxford University) - New physics in driven quantum materials - Announcement

16 January 2025 at 16:00 - F. Maltoni (Univ Catholique Louvain & Univ Bologna: Quantum observables in high energy physics - Announcement

20 February 2025 at 16:00 - F. Terranova (Univ. Milano Bicocca): Quantum superposition of neutrinos: a golden pathway to exploring the Yukawa Sector of the Standard Model - Announcement 

20 March 2025 at 16:00 - M.G. Bisogni (Univ & INFN Pisa): FLASH radiotheraphy: advances, challenges, and future directions in ultra-high dose rate cancer treatment - Announcement

03 April 2025 at 16:00 - A. Balbi (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata): The physics of habitable worlds - Announcement

22 May 2025 at 16:00 - M. Sakellariadou

2023/2024 VOLTIAN LECTURE:

12 October 2023 at 16:00 in Aula Volta - Catherine Blundell (Oxford University): Our Galaxy: Close encounters in turbulent times - Announcement

COLLOQUIA 2023/2024

16 November 2023 at 17:00 in A101 - Nicole d'Hose (CEA Saclay): Recent Insights in Proton Structure - Announcement

14 December 2023 at 16:00 in A101 - Pietro Faccioli (Univ Milano Bicocca): All-atom computer simulations empower a new paradigm in drug discovery

2022/2023 VOLTIAN LECTURE:

18 October 2022 at 16.00 in Aula 102 - Thierry Giamarchi (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Quantum simulation - Poster - Announcement

COLLOQUIA 2022/2023

17 November 2022 at 16.00 in aula 101 - Marco Battaglieri (INFN Genova): Searching for Light Dark Matter at intensity frontier - Announcement

19 January 2023 at 16h in aula 102 - Caterina Vozzi (IFN-CNR Milano): Ultrafast XUV spectroscoy based on high-order harmonic generation - Announcement

16 February 2023 at 16h in aula 101 - Speranza Falciano (INFN Roma & GSSI): Nuclear physics technologies for cultural heritage and environment - Announcement

16 March 2023 at 16h in aula 101 - Antonio Acin (ICFO Barcellona): The device-independent scenario: quantum information processing based on Bell theorem - Announcement

13 April 2023 at 16h in aula 102 - Karl Jacobs (Univ. Freiburg): The Higgs Boson and the future of Particle Physics

2021/2022 VOLTIAN LECTURE:

28 October 2021 at 16.30 in Aula 102 - Roberto Battiston (Univ. Trento): High precision cosmic ray physics with AMS-02 on the International Space Station - Announcement

COLLOQUIA 2021/2022

22 November 2021 at 17h in aula 102 - Ilaria Mattei (INFN Milano): Recent developments on range monitoring in particle therapy - Announcement - Slides - Recording

13 December 2021 at 17h in aula 102 - Gianni Profeta (Università dell'Aquila): A dream comes true: Room-temperature superconductivity - Announcement - Slides

17 February 2022 at 16h in aula 102 - Fernando Ferroni (Gran Sasso Science Institute): Einstein telescope: A look at the dawn of the universe - Announcement - Poster

17 March 2022 at 16h in aula 101 - Alessandra Retico (INFN Pisa): The potential of AI in advancing medical imaging - Announcement - Poster

28 April 2022 at 16h in aula 101 - Vincenzo Greco (Univ. Catania): Phase transition and properties of the Hot QCD matter created in ultra-relativistic collisions - Announcement - Poster

19 May 2022 at 16h in aula 101 - Rinaldo Trotta (Univ. Roma La Sapienza): Quantum communication with entangled photons from artificial atoms - Announcement - Poster

16 June 2022 at 16h in aula 101 - Angelo Vulpiani (Univ. Roma La Sapienza): Multifractal approach to fully developed turbulence - Announcement - Poster

COLLOQUIA 2020/2021

29 October 2020 at 15 pm, online on Zoom - Opening Colloquium by Sergio Bertolucci (University of Bologna and INFN): Next generation neutrino experiments at accelerators: the DUNE experiment at FNAL - Announcement - Slides - Recording

19 November 2020 at 16h, online on Zoom - Sandro Stringari (BEC Center and University of Trento): Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold atomic gases - Announcement - Slides - Recording

11 February 2021 at 16h, online on Zoom - Andrea Alù (City University of New York and City College of New York): Metamaterials for Exotic Wave-Matter Interactions - Announcement - Slides - Recording

4 March 2021 at 16h, online on Zoom - Quentin Pankhurst (Univ College London): Biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles - Announcement - Slides - Recording

22 March 2021 (Monday) at 16h, online on Zoom - Massimiliano Razzano (Univ. of Pisa and INFN Pisa): Gravitational waves and the dawn of multimessenger astrophysics - Announcement - Slides

29 April 2021 at 16h, online on Zoom - Zachary Vernon (Xanadu, Toronto): Scaling photonic quantum computers - Announcement - Slides - Recording

13 May 2021 at 16h, online on Zoom - Graziano Venanzoni (INFN Pisa): New results from the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab - Announcement - Recording

2019/2020 VOLTIAN LECTURE:

17 October 2019 at 16 pm - Michele Parrinello (ETHZ Zurich, USI Lugano & IIT Genova): Atoms and computers - Announcement - Dedicated web page - Slides

COLLOQUIA 2019/2020 (titles may be preliminary)

14 November 2019 - Alberto Diaspro (IIT-CHT and University of Genova): Multi-messenger optical microscopy: from multiphoton to nanoscopy - Announcement

30 January 2020 - Christine Aidala (University of Michigan): Spin-momentum correlations, Aharonov-Bohm, and color entanglement in quantum chromodynamics - Announcement - Slides

12 March 2020 - Armando Rastelli (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz): Semiconductor-based sources of quantum light - Announcement - Slides - Recording

26 March 2020 - Roberto Contino (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Higgs & new physics - Announcement - Slides - Recording 

23 April 2020 - Sandro Scandolo (ICTP Trieste): A solid-state physicist's journey to the center of planets - Announcement - Slides - Recording

2018/2019 VOLTIAN LECTURE:

18 October 2018 - Giorgio Parisi (Università di Roma La Sapienza & Presidente, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei): Alcuni ricordi personali della fisica del secolo scorso - Dedicated web page - Video

COLLOQUIA 2018/2019  (titles may be preliminary)

8 November 2018 - Nikolina Jankovic (BioSense Institute, Novi Sad): special seminar on Fundraising and research careers in EU R&I Framework Programme - Slides

15 November 2018 - Rosario Fazio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Quantum simulators - Slides

13 December 2018 - Roberto Osellame (IFN-CNR & Politecnico di Milano): Femtosecond-laser micromachining of transparent materials: an enabling tool for physics on a chip - Slides

24 January 2019 - Francesco Romanelli (Università di Roma Tor Vergata & ENEA Frascati): Roadmap to energy from nuclear fusion - Slides

14 February 2019 - Ivano Tavernelli (IBM Zurich): Quantum computing simulations: applications in physics and chemistry - Slides

7 March 2019 - Daniel Phillips (Ohio University): Knowing what you don't know: Nuclear physics, effective field theory, and uncertainty quantification - Slides

21 March 2019 - Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN): Quantum investigations underground - hunt of the "impossible" radiation - 

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Magnetism and Nanoscale Electronic Properties in Transition Metal Oxides	Colloquium Prof. Bernd Büchner (IFW Dresden, March 13, 2014)	5783 Kb	03/21/14 09:56
Aidala-Spin-Momentum-Correlations-30-01-2020.pdf	Slides Colloquium Christine Aidala 30-01-2020	3294 Kb	01/29/20 16:10
Alu-11-02-2021-con-bio.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Andrea Alù, 11/02/2021	178 Kb	01/21/21 10:27
Alu-Metamaterials-11-02-2021-slides.pdf	Slides Colloquium Alù Metamaterials 11-02-2021	9728 Kb	02/11/21 15:53
Battiston-28-10-2021-announcement.pdf	Announcement Voltian Lecture Battiston 28-10-2021	190 Kb	10/18/21 21:14
Belardi Hollow-Core Fibers	Seminar Belardi 10 March 2016	23281 Kb	03/15/16 10:33
Bersanelli-Missione-Planck-23-06-2016.pdf	Colloquium Bersanelli Missione Planck 23 June 2016	4483 Kb	06/27/16 11:33
Bertolucci-29-10-2020-slides.pdf	Slides Colloquium Sergio Bertolucci, 29/10/2020	58833 Kb	10/29/20 15:00
Bertolucci-29-10-2020_announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Sergio Bertolucci, 29/10/2020	157 Kb	10/18/20 12:12
Blundell How to Build a Superconductor	Colloquium Blundell 23-04-2015	14976 Kb	05/12/15 08:22
Camporesi_True_Meas_False_Discov_23_03_2017.pdf	Camporesi True Meas False Discov colloquium 23-03-2017	3620 Kb	03/23/17 15:10
Carlson puzzle proton radius 19-05-2016.pdf	Colloquium Carlson 19 May 2016	2937 Kb	05/20/16 17:13
Colangelo Masses Lightest Quarks 31-05-2018.pdf	Slides Colloquium Colangelo masses lightest quarks 31-05-2018	1062 Kb	05/31/18 13:49
Colloquium Aidala 30-01-2020.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Christine Aidala 30 January 2020	330 Kb	01/28/20 19:13
Colloquium Contino 26-03-2020.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Roberto Contino 26 March 2020	332 Kb	03/24/20 12:42
Colloquium Diaspro 14-11-2019.pdf	Announcement colloquium Diaspro 14-11-2019	360 Kb	10/25/19 14:48
Colloquium Pankhurst-04-03-2021-slides.pdf	Colloquium Pankhurst 04-03-2021 slides	3077 Kb	03/04/21 15:47
Colloquium Rastelli 12-03-2020.pdf	Announcement colloquium Armando Rastelli 12-03-2020	161 Kb	02/12/20 16:39
Colloquium Scandolo 23-04-2020.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Sandro Scandolo 23 aprile 2020	245 Kb	04/17/20 09:09
Colloquium Vulpiani 16-06-2022.pdf	Poster Colloquium Vulpiani 16-06-2022	1490 Kb	06/01/22 08:25
Colloquium-Contino-26-03-2020-slides.pdf	Slides Colloquium Roberto Contino 26 March 2020	7434 Kb	03/26/20 14:42
Colloquium-Greco-28-04-2022-announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Vincenzo Greco 28-04-2022	1504 Kb	04/06/22 18:49
Colloquium-Profeta-13-12-2021-slides.pdf	Slides Colloquium Profeta superconductivity 13-12-2021	58129 Kb	12/14/21 16:10
Colloquium-Rastelli-12-03-2020-slides.pdf	Colloquium Armando Rastelli 12-03-2020 slides	5196 Kb	03/12/20 11:20
Colloquium-Vernon-29-04-2021-slides.pdf	Slides Colloquium Vernon scaling photonic quantum computers 29-04-2021	8386 Kb	04/29/21 14:49
Colloquium Rasanen Breaking the symmetry Cosmological structure formation and ac	Colloquium (november 25, 2001) By Prof. Syksy Rasanen	6083 Kb	05/16/13 09:25
Colloquium_Gisin_photo.JPG		1810 Kb	02/13/15 11:17
Crisconio 23-05-2017.pdf	Colloquium Crisconio 23-05-2017	294 Kb	05/05/17 11:44
De Angelis 3D Nanostructures Biophotonics Neuroplasmonics.pdf	Colloquium De Angelis 07-04-2016	5585 Kb	04/07/16 17:48
Dynamics of the effective mass and the anomalous velocity	Seminar Prof. John Sipe, June 4th, 2015	10290 Kb	06/24/15 16:29
Ferroni-17-02-2022-announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Fernando Ferroni 17-02-2022	228 Kb	02/03/22 18:25
Fisica-Pavia-Cerebnet (D'Angelo)	Colloquium Prof. Egidio D'Angelo (Univ. di Pavia, Gennaio 16, 2014)	5043 Kb	01/28/14 11:01
Fornengo Dark Matter 11-06-2015	Colloquium Fornengo (June 11, 2015)	39106 Kb	06/12/15 09:20
Colloquium Fredenhagen 02-02-2017	Colloquium Fredenhagen 02-02-2017	256 Kb	02/02/17 14:36
From_Newton_to_quantum_teleportation_Gisin.pdf	A.A. 2014-2015 Voltian lecture Prof. Nicolas Gisin (UNI Geneva)	2311 Kb	02/13/15 11:20
Gaudino Photons to the Home	Colloquium Gaudino 02-11-2016	3146 Kb	02/11/16 18:24
The Humane Genome: beyond the DNA sequence I	The Humane Genome: beyond the DNA sequence I Conference Prof. G. Ranzani	15671 Kb	05/16/13 09:26
The Humane Genome: beyond the DNA sequence II	The Humane Genome: beyond the DNA sequence II Conference Prof. G. Ranzani	8485 Kb	05/16/13 09:26
Ghiringhelli UniPV Colloquium May 2017.pdf	Ghiringhelli X-ray vision of high Tc superconductivity Colloquium 11-05-2017	6141 Kb	05/11/17 14:58
Giamarchi-2022-10-18-Lezione-Voltiana.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Voltian Lecture Giamarchi 18-10-2022	1486 Kb	10/05/22 14:54
Heavy-ions-Durante-09-06-2016.pdf	Colloquium Durante 9 June 2016	13901 Kb	06/09/16 16:42
Iannuzzi_Fiber_top_technology_26_01_2017.pdf	Slides Colloquium Iannuzzi 26-01-2017	7361 Kb	01/29/17 16:29
Ilaria-Mattei-22-11-2021-slides.pdf	Colloquium Mattei 22-11-2021 slides	51774 Kb	12/09/21 10:42
Integrated Nanophotonics: Issues and opportunities	Colloquium (March2, 2012) By Prof. T. F. Krauss	4835 Kb	03/05/12 16:56
Lezione-Voltiana-Parrinello-17-10-2019.pdf	Announcement Volta Lecture by Michele Parrinello, 17 October 2019	257 Kb	10/09/19 09:56
Mantegna-19-04-2018-Econophysics.pdf	Slides Colloquium Mantegna Econophysics 19-04-2018	5790 Kb	04/19/18 10:35
Symmetries, Masses and Mysteries: The origin of masses, flavor and CP violation	A.A. 2011-12 Voltian Lecture by Prof. G. Martinelli, SISSA	35095 Kb	02/02/12 14:55
Marzari_03_05_18_See_world_in_grain_sand.pdf	Colloquium Nicola Marzari 3 May 2018	10066 Kb	05/03/18 14:27
Mataloni Integrated Photonic Circuits Quantum Simulation	Colloquium Mataloni 25-02-2016	26504 Kb	02/25/16 17:52
Mattei-15-11-2021-announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Ilaria Mattei 15-11-2021	200 Kb	11/04/21 14:45
Measurements-strong-coupling-alpha_s-Bethke-Pavia-2019-04-11-r.pdf	Measurements Stroung Coupling alpha_s slides Bethke 11-04-2019	2315 Kb	04/11/19 09:05
Superluminal Neutrinos, OPERA ICARUS	Seminar by Prof. A. Menegolli	5889 Kb	05/16/13 09:26
Mukhanov Quantum Universe 02-03-2017	Colloquium Mukhanov Quantum Universe 02-03-2017	11491 Kb	03/14/17 19:47
Nikolina-Jankovic-Pavia-EU-08-11-2018.pdf	Seminar Nikolina Jankovic Fundaraising and Research Careers in EU... 8-11-2018	4464 Kb	11/09/18 17:33
Nisati-Future-High-Energy-Physics-05-05-2016.pdf	Colloquium Nisati 05-05-2016	20903 Kb	05/11/16 09:13
Nuclear Reactions Phillips Colloquiu, 07-03-2019.pdf	Colloquium Daniel Phillips 03-07-209 slides	11199 Kb	03/07/19 14:55
Orbital-Lattice-Spin Interactions in Functional Materials	Seminar Prof. C. Franchini (April 9th, 2015)	7010 Kb	04/13/15 10:38
Osellame-Femtosecond-colloquium-13.12.2018.pdf	Colloquium Osellame Femtosecond-laser micromachining 13-12-2018	13098 Kb	12/13/18 14:42
Paganelli_slides_colloquium_16-05-2019.pdf	Slides colloquium Paganelli 16 May 2019	3751 Kb	05/22/19 11:07
Pandurovic-Linear-Colliders-22-02-3028.pdf	Colloquium Pandurovic linear colliders 22-03-2018	6308 Kb	03/22/18 12:55
Pankhurst-04-03-2021.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Quentin Pankhurst, 04-03-2021	86 Kb	02/16/21 10:32
Passera_Testing_SM_Lepton_g-2_21_04_2016.pdf	Seminar Passera 21 April 2016	7877 Kb	04/22/16 15:08
The Higgs boson and new Physics (G. Degrassi)	Colloquium Prof. G. Degrassi (April 11)	4398 Kb	05/16/13 09:27
Potestio-08-03-2018-computational-soft-matter.pdf	Colloquium Potestio 08-03-2018 Computational soft matter	32578 Kb	03/08/18 14:43
Profeta-13-12-2021-announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Profeta 13-12-2021	181 Kb	12/08/21 18:51
Punturo-Gravitational-waves-20-10-2016.pdf	Colloquium Punturo Gravitational waves 20-10-2016	9695 Kb	10/20/16 14:49
Quantum Computing Tavernelli 14-02-2019.pdf	Quantum Computing slides colloquium Ivano Tavernelli 14-02-2019	17144 Kb	02/21/19 17:07
Quantum-mechanics-underground-Catalina-Curceanu-21-03-2019.pdf	Colloquium Catalina Curceanu 21 March 2019 slides	3640 Kb	03/21/19 12:29
Quantum-Simulators-Rosario-Fazio-15-11-2018.pdf	Slides colloquium by Rosario Fazio 15-11-2018	4820 Kb	11/15/18 13:04
Razzano-22-03-2021.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Razzano 22-03-2021	88 Kb	03/04/21 18:33
Slides Colloquium Razzano 2021-03-22		6182 Kb	03/22/21 15:49
Is quantum theory informationally complete?	Colloquium (February 9, 2012) By Prof. R. Renner	8351 Kb	03/05/12 17:08
Retico-17-03-2022-announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Alessandra Retico 17-03-2022	1540 Kb	03/07/22 14:51
Roadmap-energy-nuclear-fusion-Romanelli-24-01-2019.pdf	Roadmap to energy from nuclear fusion, Francesco Romanelli 24-01-2019	12876 Kb	01/24/19 12:42
Rossi-CNAO-21-05-2015	Seminar Dr. Sandro Rossi on CNAO (May 21, 2015)	16207 Kb	05/26/15 18:13
Savage_Pavia_27_June_2019.pdf	Slides seminar Martin Savage, Pavia 27-06-2019	11824 Kb	07/01/19 09:16
Sciarrino-16-11-17-quantum-info-photonic-chip.pdf	Colloquium Sciarrino 16-11-2017 Quantum Info Photonic Chip	44617 Kb	11/16/17 13:16
Scientific-Utilization-ISS-Crisconio-23-05-2017.pdf	Scientific utilization of the ISS - Crisconio 23-05-2017	2817 Kb	05/22/17 14:32
Slides-colloquium-Scandolo-23-04-2020.pdf	Slides Colloquium Scandolo 23-04-2020	11173 Kb	04/23/20 09:49
Slides-Lezione-Voltiana-Parrinello-17-10-2019.pdf	Slides Voltian Lecture Michele Parrinello 17/10/2019	55163 Kb	10/17/19 14:41
Slids-Colloquium-Stringari-19-11-2020.pdf	Slides colloquium Sandro Stringari 19-11-2020	3662 Kb	11/18/20 19:10
Stringari-19-11-2020.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Sandro Stringari, 19-11-2020	125 Kb	11/03/20 18:55
Trotta-19-05-2022-announcement.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Rinaldo Trotta 19-05-2022	1501 Kb	05/12/22 12:33
Venanzoni-13-05-2021.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Graziano Venanzoni 13-05-2021	87 Kb	04/28/21 21:39
Vernon-29-04-2021.pdf	Announcement Colloquium Zachary Vernon 29-04-2021	85 Kb	04/10/21 17:06
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Volta-lecture-Wigmans-8.jpg		162 Kb	02/04/16 10:40
Weisbuch LEDs for lighting 12-03-2015	Colloquium Prof. C. Weisbuch (March 12th, 2015)	11066 Kb	03/19/15 19:44
Some practical applications of Calorimetry	Voltian Lecture Wigmans 28-01-2016	8199 Kb	02/01/16 09:41
Workshop Biomedical Physics 16-02-2017	Workshop on Biomedical Physics Parodi Sihver 16-02-2017	418 Kb	02/03/17 09:58
Zapperi-Complex-Systems-24-11-2016.pdf	Zapperi Colloquium Complex Systems 24-11-2016	20188 Kb	11/24/16 14:50