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 Karl Franzens University Graz

Graz University of Technology 

TUG/KFU Physics Colloquium Winter 2022

 

Tuesday 11 October 2022      KFU


16:15 - 17:15

Self-organisation of proteins in cells
Prof. Erwin Frey, Arnold Sommerfeld Center - LMU Munich
https://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/about/board/erwin_frey/

Protein pattern formation is essential for the spatial organization of intracellular processes like cell division, and flagellum positioning. A prominent example of intracellular patterns is the oscillatory pole-to-pole oscillations of Min proteins in E. coli whose function is to ... more

 

Tuesday 18 October 2022      Online talk


16:15 - 17:15

Changing the Face of Greenhouse Gas Sensing with Optical Frequency Combs
Ian Coddington, NIST Boulder USA
https://tugraz.webex.com/tugraz/j.php?MTID=mdde3bbd4defd33edd854f185af1d6693

The optical frequency comb is rapidly maturing from a laboratory curiosity to a critically enabling technology in areas ranging from dual-comb spectroscopy of atmospheric gasses, to precision time dissemination, to the search for earth sized exoplanets. This talk will focus on th ... more

 

Tuesday 25 October 2022      KFU

16:15 - 17:15

A Journey through the Nano-world of Porous Silicon: From Theory to Praxis
Chris Burns, Director of The Porous Silicon Company

Today’s seminar takes a deep dive into the magical world of porous silicon. The journey begins describing multiple ways to manufacture and manipulate Silicon to create high surface area and high porosity substrates, films and particles. By orchestrating the Silicon dopant le ... more

 

Tuesday 08 November 2022      KFU

16:15 - 17:15

Towards single-molecule analysis with nanomechanical resonators
Prof. Silvan Schmid, Micro- and Nanosensors, Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems, TU Wien

The identification and quantification of samples are a fundamental task in most applications in medicine, science and engineering. Mass spectrometry and absorption spectroscopy are two indispensable instrumental methods available in analytical chemistry today. While these are two ... more

 

Tuesday 15 November 2022      TUG


16:15 - 17:15

Anomalous Transport in Correlated Quantum Matter
Prof. Dr. Michael Knap, Physics Department, Technical University Munich
https://users.ph.nat.tum.de/ga32pex/

Universality in equilibrium asserts that microscopic details are irrelevant for the emergent quantum phases of matter and their transitions. Rather, symmetries and topology determine the essential macroscopic properties. By contrast, all scales, from low to high energies, are rel ... more

 

Tuesday 22 November 2022      KFU


16:15 - 17:15

Formation of moiré interlayer excitons in space and time
Prof. Stefan Mathias , I. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/580823.html

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are an exciting model system to study ultrafast energy dissipation pathways, and to create and tailor new emergent quantum phases [1,2]. The versatility of TMDs results from the confinement of optical excitations in two-dimensions and the c ... more

 

Tuesday 29 November 2022      TUG


16:15 - 17:15

Chemical reaction dynamics of ions: from classical to quantum
Prof. Dr. Roland Wester, University of Innsbruck

To understand how chemical reactions proceed has been a goal of research in physics and chemistry for more than a century. In this talk I will show how single-collision experiments combined with product velocity map imaging and reaction dynamics calculations can provide detailed ... more

 

Tuesday 06 December 2022      KFU

16:15 - 17:15

Controlling optical properties at the nanoscale: an (electro-)chemical approach
Prof. Gilles R. Bourret, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
https://www.plus.ac.at/chemie-und-physik-der-materialien/staff-2/a-bis-d/bourret/

The optical and electrical properties of nanomaterials strongly depend on their composition and geometry at the nanoscale. The intrinsic constraints of conventional synthetic and lithographic techniques have limited the types of heterostructures that can be created and studied in ... more

 

Tuesday 13 December 2022      TUG


16:15 - 17:15

Biophysical modelling of the role of geometry on tissue patterning and growth
John Dunlop, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg
https://www.morphophysics.com/john-dunlop

It is well known that the physical environment of growing cells and tissues plays an important role on their behaviour. In particular recent research has shown that the curvature of a substrate can influence the growth of a tissue and also the organisation of the extracellular ma ... more

 

Tuesday 10 January 2023      KFU


16:15 - 17:15

Single-photon sources and detectors for quantum based radiometry
Prof. Stefan Kück, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

In this presentation, an overview of single photon sources and detectors is given with regard to their application in metrology, especially quantum radiometry. Single photon sources and detectors have a broad field of application, ranging from almost pure research areas such as q ... more

 

Tuesday 17 January 2023      TUG


16:15 - 17:15

Ultrafast charge transfer in heterostructures of two-dimensional materials
Prof. Giulio Cerullo, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico Milano

Heterostructures (HS) of two-dimensional materials offer unlimited possibilities to design new materials for applications to optoelectronics and photonics. In such HS the electronic structure of the individual layers is well retained because of the weak interlayer van der Waals c ... more

 

Tuesday 24 January 2023      KFU

16:15 - 17:15

From quarks and gluons to exotic hadrons
Gernot Eichmann

With recent experimental evidence for tetraquarks and pentaquarks, hadron spectroscopy is nowadays a cutting-edge area of research with the LHC among its central facilities. Hadrons are bound states of quarks and gluons in QCD, the theory of the strong interaction, but their spec ... more