COLLOQUIUM EHRENFESTII 2024

initiated by Paul Ehrenfest in 1912
currently organized by Ana Achúcarro & Luca Giomi (read about its history)

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NEW LOCATION STARTING 2025

The Colloquium Ehrenfestii takes place Wednesday evenings starting at 19:30 hours in the Gorlaeus building, lecture hall CM 1.26 (first floor, near main entrance on Einsteinweg 55). Before the Colloquium, there is a common dinner in the Beta Café (far end of the first floor, see map). This dinner starts at 18:00 hours sharp and is free of charge, under the condition that one attends the colloquium and that one has made a reservation before noon on the Tuesday preceding the colloquium.

Colloquium Ehrenfestii Program 2024

10 Jan

Jay Fineberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Friction, Earthquakes and Everything in Between

21 Feb

Sera Markoff (Anton Pannekoek Inst., University of Amsterdam)

A tale of two black holes: Sgr A* and M87*

10 Apr

Christopher Fuchs (University of Boston)

Repainting Quantum Mechanics on QBist Canvas

08 May

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)

Quantum Gravity and Predictions for our Universe

29 May

William Bialek (Princeton University)

Physics for maggots

25 Sep

Chiara Mariotti (CERN, INFN Turin)

Stairways to heaven: precise measurements and searches at the LHC experiments

16 Oct

Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT)

Origin of light (and other elementary particles) -- a unification of matter and information

06 Nov

Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU Munich)

The Quantum Universe

11 Dec

George Efstathiou (Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology)

Challenges to the Lambda CDM cosmology

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