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The "40 Years Anniversary Colloquium Series" of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete celebrates the 40 years since the commencement of teaching and reseach activities of the Department in 1978. Speakers are select graduates who continued to a successful academic career in other instituions in Greece or abroad. The Colloquia are supported by Crete University Press.
- February 22
"Monsters of the deep: Rogue waves" - [Video of the talk]
Prof. Theodore Horikis
Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece - March 1
"Quantum simulations with strongly interacting photons: Merging condensed matter with quantum optics for quantum technologies" - [Video of the talk]
Prof. Dimitris Angelakis
School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece & Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore - March 15
"SMALLER crystals, FASTER experiments, BRIGHTER beams: Drug screening and innovation via X-ray powder diffraction" - [Video of the talk]
Prof. Irene Margiolaki
Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece - March 22
"Study of the solar corona and transition region through Extreme Ultraviolet spectroscopy" [Postponed]
Dr. Costis Gontikakis
Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens, Greece - March 29
"Realizing Dirac's vision: predictive calculations of quantum processes in semiconductors"- [Video of the talk]
Prof. Emmanouil Kioupakis
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA - May 3
"Approximating electronic correlations with functionals of the one-body reduced density matrix"- [Video of the talk]
Dr. Nektarios Lathiotakis
Theoretical & Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece - May 10
"Light beyond Lighting, frontiers in Lighting Technologies: The human-centric intelligent lighting challenge"- [Video of the talk]
Prof. George Zissis
Paul Sabatier University - Toulouse III, Toulouse, France - May 17
"Time-Reversal Symmetry and its Applications to Waveform Shaping and System Protection"- [Video of the talk]
Prof. Tsampikos Kottos
Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, USA - September 27
"University of Crete, Department of Physics and FORTH: A personal perspective"- [Video of the talk]
Prof. Eleftherios Economou
Department of Physics, University of Crete - October 25
"Study of the solar corona and transition region through Extreme Ultraviolet spectroscopy" - [Video of the talk]
Dr. Costis Gontikakis
Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens, Greece - November 1
"Phononic Crystals: Controlling elastic waves from nanometers to meters" - [Video of the talk]
Prof. Michael Sigalas
Dept. of Materials Science, University of Patras - November 8
"II-As nanowires: New potentials for an old semiconductor"- [Video of the talk]
Dr. Emmanouil Dimakis
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany - November 22
"Holes in materials and their relevance in biosensing" - [Video of the talk]
Dr. Maria Fyta
Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany - November 22
"Watching and clocking electrons in condensed matter with visible light"
Dr. Eleftherios Gouliemakis
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Γερμανία - December 6
"Galaxy Evolution; From Cosmic Dawn to Cosmic Dusk" - [Video of the talk]
Prof. Georgios Magdis
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - May 9, 2019
"The Dawn of the Era of High-Cadence and Big-Data Transient Astrophysics"- [Video of the talk]
Prof. Se
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, USA - October 10, 2019
"Quantum information technologies: quantum networks and near‐term processors"
Prof. Sophia Economou
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, USA
