Colloquia 2019 - 2020

Fall Semester

• September, 26, 2019
  "Cosmology with the world’s leading dark energy experiments"
  Dr. Alkistis Pourtsidou, School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary Univ. of London (UK)

• October, 3, 2019
  "Gamma‐ray bursts: breakthroughs and challenges"
  Prof. Assaf Pe'er, Dept. of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland

• October, 10, 2019
  "Quantum information technologies: quantum networks and near‐term processors"
  Prof. Sophia Economou, Dept. of Physics, Virginia Tech (USA)

• October, 17, 2019
  Test fundamental atomic physics using precision laser spectroscopy
  Prof. Yi- Wei Liu, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

• October, 24, 2019
  Two milestones in the life of the Universe: the last scattering surface and the black body photosphere of the Universe
  Prof. Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics, Germany

• October, 31, 2019
  "Black holes, fluids and holography in string theory"
  Prof. Vasilis Niarchos, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete

• November, 7, 2019
  Cosmic jets: their dynamics and the role of the magnetic field
  Prof. Nektarios Vlahakis, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens (Greece)

• November, 14, 2019
  Exploration missions and radiation
  Dr. Marianthi Fragopoulou, HERADO, Athens

• November, 28, 2019
  "Engineering Anyons"
  Prof. Hrvoje Buljan, Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia

• December, 5, 2019
  "Quantum simulation with ultracold matter"
  Prof. Georgios Siviloglou, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

• December, 12, 2019
  "Quantum compiling methods"
  Prof. Aikaterini Mandilara, Nazarbayev University, Nur‐Sultan, Kazakhstan

Spring Semester

• February, 6, 2020
  "SQUID metamaterials: A testbed for nonlinear dynamics"
  Dr. Johanne Hizanidis, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete

• February, 12, 2020
  "ΤΗz spintronics : probing ultrafast spin and charge current dynamics"
  Prof. Evangelos Papaioannou, TU of Kaiserslautern, Germany

• February, 13, 2020
  "Localization in quasi-periodic and disordered Hamiltonians: Open and Closed Systems"
  Dr. Manas Kulkarni, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

• February, 20, 2020
  "Magnetic skyrmions and the quest to use topological solitons for nanocomputing"
  Prof. Christoforos Moutafis, University of Manchester, UK

• February, 26, 2020
  SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: "Solar Orbiter: the new space mission of Europe to the Sun"
  Dr. Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, Spain

• February, 27, 2020
  "The dark matter puzzle" - [Video]
  Prof. Françoise Combes, Obs. de Paris & College de France, France

• March, 5, 2020
  "Aspects of quantum nanophotonics: from quantum-informed plasmonics to strong coupling"
  Dr. Christos Tserkezis, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

• March, 9, 2020
  "Nonlinear couplings for quantum control of superconducting qubits photons and phonons"
  Dr. Marios Kounalakis, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

• March, 12, 2020
  "The non-perturbative dynamics of gauge theories"
  Dr. Elli Pomoni, DESY, Germany

• March, 19, 2020
  "Cellular Noise and Metabolism, as a Matter of Fat"
  Prof. Andreas Vasdekis, Dept of Physics, University of Idaho, USA

• March, 26, 2020
  "Metamaterials, toroidal electrodynamics and space-time non-seperable pulses"
  Dr. Nikitas Papasimakis, Univ. of Southampton, UK

• March, 30, 2020
  SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: "Machine Learning Moonshots" [POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE - TBD]
  Mr. Yannis Assael, DeepMind, UK

• April, 1, 2020
  "Black holes as a hologram"
  Prof. Ioannis Papadimitriou, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Korea

• April, 2, 2020
  "A new probe of dark energy" - [Video]
  Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete & IA-FORTH

• April, 30, 2020
  POSTPONED
  Prof. Erik P. Verlinde, Dept. Physics, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• May, 7, 2020
  "Strings at the horizon"
  Prof. Ulf Daniellson, Uppsala Univ., Sweden

• May, 14, 2020
  "Topology of dislocation ensembles and the understanding of work hardening in metals"
  Prof. Stefanos Papanikolaou, West Virginia University, USA

• May, 21, 2020
  “Transport, strong coupling and black holes’’
  Prof. Aristomenis Donos, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, UK