Colloquia 2020 - 2021

Fall Semester

• September, 24, 2020

  “Exploring possibilities of near-term quantum computers. Hybrid Quantum/Classical approaches for fermionic problems.’’

  Dr. Panagiotis Barkoutsos, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland

• October, 1, 2020

  “New perspectives on the neutral interstellar medium: from the Milky Way to nearby galaxies’’

  Prof. Snezana Stanimirovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• October, 8, 2020

  “Modeling 2D materials and biomolecular systems’’

  Prof. George Kalosakas, Dept. of Materials Science, Univ. of Patras

• October, 15, 2020

  “Dark matter halos from parametric resonance and their signatures’’

  Prof. Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute, Canada

• October, 22, 2020

  “A glimpse on the dynamics of relativistic quantum fields through the prism of classical and quantum simulation’’

  Dr. Spyros Sotiriadis, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• October, 29, 2020

  “Studying neutron stars with gravitational waves’’

  Prof. Katerina Chatziioannou, Caltech, USA

• November, 5, 2020

  “Properties and design of nanomaterials from first principles’’

  Dr. Lyverios Lymperakis, Max-Planck Institute für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany

• November, 12, 2020

  “Quantum oscillations in solids: past, present and future’’

  Prof. Dr. Andrew McKenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany

• November, 19, 2020

  “Scaling, Universality, and Supersymmetry in the Random-Field Ising Model’’

  Prof. Nikolaos Fytas, Dept. of Mathematics and Physics, Coventry University, UK

• November, 26, 2020

  “Designing 2D (hetero)structures through computational modeling’’

  Prof. Maria Fyta,  Institute for Computational Physics, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

• December, 3, 2020

  “Understanding exciton dynamics and photogeneration in molecular semiconductors’’

  Dr. Stavros Athanasopoulos, Dept. de Física, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• December, 7, 2020

  “Towards the computational design of Moire assemblies’’

  Dr. Georgios Tritsaris, Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

• December, 10, 2020

  “From Nanoparticles by Design to Design by Nanoparticles’’

  Dr. Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology University (OIST), Japan.

• December, 17, 2020

  “Phase transitions in the driven dissipative Jaynes-Cummings (JC) oscillator: monitoring an archetypal quantum nonlinearity in a "thermodynamic limit"’’

  Dr. Themistoklis Mavrogordatos, Dept. of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden

• December, 21, 2020

  “Multiscale Modeling of Biomolecules and Materials’’

  Dr. Zoe Cournia, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece

Spring Semester

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• February, 4, 2021

  “How a detailed description of ultrafast dynamics of laser-excited solids and the fundamental multiscale physics processes can lead to advanced material processing’’

  Dr. George Tsimpidis, IESL-FORTH

• February, 11, 2021

  “Tuning magnetic and polar phase transitions with pressure’’

  Prof. Siddharth Saxena, Cambridge Univ., UK

• February, 18, 2021

  “Space-time nonlocal integrable models’’

  Prof. Ziad Musslimani, Florida State University, USA

• February, 25, 2021

  “Sublinear response as a means for hypersensitive sensing’’

  Prof. Tsampikos Kottos, Wesleyan University, USA

• March, 4, 2021

  “Coulomb gap here, there, and everywhere’’

  Prof. Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota, USA

• March, 10, 2021

  Special Colloquium: “A brief history of nuclear astrophysics: The energy of the Sun and the stars’’ - YouTube channel

  Dr. Nicolas Prantzos, Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris, France

• March, 11, 2021

  “The physics of exceptional points’’

  Prof. Stefan Rotter, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU-Wien, Austria

• March, 17, 2021

  Special Colloquium: “A brief history of nuclear astrophysics: The origin of the elements in the Universe’’ - YouTube channel

  Dr. Nicolas Prantzos, Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris, France

• March, 18, 2021

  “Casimir Forces’’

  Prof. Serge Reynaud, CNRS, Univ. Paris Sciences & Lettres, France

• April, 1, 2021

  “From quantum field theory to experiment through development of materials’ specific theory for superconductors’’

  Dr. Alex Aperis, Uppsala University, Sweden

• April, 8, 2021

  “Could we recognize a pure relativistic black hole from gravitational wave signals?’’

  Prof. Theocharis Apostolatos, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens

• April, 15, 2021

  “Dynamic properties of the Kitaev model at finite temperatures’’

  Dr. Alexandros Metavitsiadis, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

• April, 22, 2021

  “Exploration of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center with GRAVITY’’ - YouTube video

  Dr. Guy Perrin, Observatoire de Paris & CNRS, France

• May, 13, 2021

  “CANCELED’’

  Dr. Who

• May, 20, 2021

  “Self-defeating Alfvén waves and self-sustaining sound in collisionless plasma (or, how to reduce stress and surf in a storm)’’ - YouTube video

  Prof. Matthew Kunz, Princeton University, USA

• June, 3, 2021

  Special Colloquium - 2020 Nick Kylafis Lecture “The Future of Cosmology’’

  Prof. Joseph Silk, IAP (France) & Johns Hopkings Univ. (USA) & Oxford Univ. (UK)