Physics Colloquium
Welcome to the page of the Physics Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics. Our Colloquium takes place weekly during the lecture periods of the respective semester. It offers a broad spectrum of talks of renowned experts from all fields of physics. In addition, inaugural lectures of new colleagues, presentation of habilitation projects and other festive events of the Faculty of Physics take place in the Physics Colloquium.
The Physics Colloquium takes place every Tuesday during the lecture weeks of the semester in the 5th double period (starting 2:50 pm) in person and is additionally streamed online. Default site for the Physics Colloquium is the lecture hall REC C 213. Deviations related to time and place will be announced in the program below. Information to the different events (incl. online access) will be posted here, as soon as they are available. Please check back regularly.
Information for students: The certification of participation in the Phyics Colloquium will be issued in either of the two ways: In-presence participation: Signature by the host of the event. Online-meeting: The coordinator of the colloquium (Sebastian Reineke) signs the participation document (pdf format). For the latter, please proceed as follows:
- Participate in the actual event. Your participation will be checked based on participation lists from the online tool.
- Send an email to the coordinator on the day of your participation with an request for certification. Please attach your document, where the certifications are listed as pdf, and include title and speaker of the respective colloquium.
Program winter semester 2025/26
| date | speaker | topic | host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.10. | no colloquium | ||
| 21.10. | no colloquium | ||
|
28.10. (cal) |
Prof. Matthias Eschrig (University of Greifswald) |
Geometric Phases and Superconducting Diode Effect (pdf) | C. Timm |
| 4.11. | no colloquium | ||
| 11.11. | no colloquium | ||
|
18.11. (cal) |
Prof. Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University) |
Special colloquium: Physik-Preis Dresden Unified theory of interacting dirac fermions in two dimensions (pdf) IMPORTANT: different starting time (4 pm) and location (MPI-PKS) |
MPI-PKS and Faculty of Physics |
|
25.11. (cal) |
Prof. Matthias Hoeft (Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg und Universität Leipzig) | Exploring cosmic magnetism with a new generation of radio telescopes (pdf) | D. Bemmerer |
|
2.12. (cal) |
Dr. Maxililian Obst und Dr. Nilotpal Chakraborty | Prize Colloquium: Dresdner Promotionspreis Physik 2025 (pdf) | Faculty of Physics |
|
9.12. (cal) |
Prof. Simone Sanna (Justus-Liebig-Univ. Gießen, Germany) | Modelling ferroelectric crystals from first principles: Nonlinear optical effects and domain structure (pdf) | L. Eng |
|
16.12. (cal) |
Jun.-Prof. Salome Flegr (TU Dresden) |
The role of dynamic and interactive visualizations (simulations) for enhancing instructional physics experiments to foster conceptual understanding (pdf) Inaugural lecture |
Dean of the Faculty of Physics |
|
6.1.26 (cal) |
Dr. Philip Sommer (TU Dresden) |
Testing the Electroweak Theory at Highest Energies (pdf) Introduction for habilitation |
M. Kobel |
|
13.1.26 (cal) |
Prof. Aparajita Singha (TU Dresden) |
From Defects to Sensors: Nanoscale Magnetometry with Diamond (pdf) Inaugural lecture |
Dean of the Faculty of Physics |
|
20.1.26 (cal) |
Prof. Shlomo Havlin (Bar-Ilan University) | General Theory and Microscopic Origin of Abrupt Phase Transitions based on Network Theory (pdf) | M. Timme |
| 27.1.26 | no colloquium | ||
|
3.2.26 (cal) |
Prof. Malte Gather (Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Universität zu Köln & Organic Semiconductor Centre, University of St Andrews) |
Organic Optoelectronics: From Curiosity to Multi-billion Dollar Industry and A Few Ideas for What’s Next (pdf) Special Colloquium: 65th birthday of Prof. Karl Leo |
Dean of the Faculty of Physics |
Internal: Planning site for the upcoming winter semester 2025/26