The colloquia of the Department of Physics (DF) during the 1st semester of 2018/2019 will start on October 3.
Each colloquium will be organised according to the following 4 topics:
- The end of Nature,
- Trends and frontiers in Physics,
- Physics at the core of Technology,
- Paths and ways for a graduate in Physics.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| 3rd Oct | CO2 plasmas: from solar fuels to oxygen production on Mars | Vasco Guerra | IPFN, IST | 3rd |
| 10th Oct | Sailing to New Physics | Igor Ivanov | CFTP, IST | 2nd |
| 17th Oct | Probing the nature of gravity and extreme matter with gravitational-wave observations* | Alessandra Buonanno | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics | 2nd |
| 31st Oct | Extreme science with extreme lasers: the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 |
Gonçalo Figueira; Luís O. Silva | IPFN, IST | |
| 7th Nov | “P = mc2” – Physics in Medicine of Cancer Care | João Seco | German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ.) – E041; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University | 2nd |
| 21st Nov | Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis** | Carlos Herdeiro | CENTRA, IST | 2nd |
| 5th Dec | The Highest-Energy Particles in Nature: what they tell us about astrophysics and particle physics*** | Alan Watson | University of Leeds | 2nd/3rd |
- *Jointly organized with CENTRA. / **New date: Nov, 21 (instead Nov, 14).
***Jointly organized with LIP.
Venue: Civil Engineering building, VA4 amphitheatre, floor -1.
Schedule: 4 p.m.
