Public Lectures and Colloquia

ICC seminars will normally take place once a month on Mondays at 12:00. You can also check out ICC Seminars at Google Calendars



Lecture Schedule

Date Speaker Title
26-Mar-2012
Rosalba Perna
(University of Colorado at Boulder)
Gamma-Ray Bursts as Tools for Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology
19-Mar-2012
Carlos Salgado
(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era
12-Mar-2012
Pavlos Protopapas (ICREA candidate)
()
Interdisciplinary science
5-Mar-2012
Carles Badenes
(University of Pittsburgh)
Type Ia Supernova Progenitors: Ripple in Still Water
23-Jan-2012
Frank Close
(Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics)
The Infinity Puzzle: from atoms to the LHC and how to win a Nobel Prize - but did you deserve it?
5-Dec-2011
Aake Nordlund
(Centre for Star and Planet Formation and Niels Bohr International Academy, University of Copenhagen)
Traces of the Origins of the Solar System
28-Nov-2011
Frank Avignone
(University of South Carolina)
Anecdotes from Early Low-Energy Neutrino Physics and the CUORE Neutrino-less Double-Beta Decay Experiment
14-Nov-2011
Dave Sanders
(Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)
The Infrared Universe: The Cosmic Evolution of Superstarbursts and Merging Massive Black Holes
8-Nov-2011
Harald Fritzsch
(NITheP, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet)
The Fundamental Constants and their Time Variation
7-Nov-2011
Steve Giddings
(UCSB)
Ultraplanckian scattering, black holes, and the problems of quantum gravity
12-Sep-2011
Ue-Li Pen
(Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
21cm cosmology
6-Jun-2011
Hiranya Peiris
(UCL)
Exploring the origin and evolution of structure in the universe
16-May-2011
Clifford Will
(Washington University, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
9-May-2011
Adolfo F. Viñas
(NASA/GSFC, Heliosphysics Science Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory)
Kinetic Physics of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind System
21-Mar-2011
Berta Rubio
(Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Univ. Valencia)
Perspectives in Nuclear Physics at FAIR
14-Mar-2011
James Binney
(Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University)
Modelling our Galaxy in this age of great surveys
21-Feb-2011
Daniel Stern
()
The Present and Future of Wide-Field Infrared Surveys from Space
31-Jan-2011
Paul Kuijer
(NIKHEF)
ALICE first physics results
22-Nov-2010
Gustavo E. Romero
(Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR -CONICET) FACG, University of La Plata)
Irreversibility and Cosmology
10-May-2010
Marc Davis
(University of California)
The DEEP2 redshift survey: Probing the structure of the Universe at z=1, and a big surprise
6-Apr-2010
Tsvi Piran
(Hebrew University Jerusalem)
GRBs - Enigma and a Tool
8-Jun-2009
Andrew Gould
(Ohio State University - Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris)
Microlensing: Measuring the Galactic Distribution of Planets
23-Feb-2009
Alessandro Bettini
(Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and INFN, Padova, Italy / Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, Canrfanc (Huesca) Spain)
Dark Matter Searches
10-Nov-2008
Gustavo E. Romero
(Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR), Univ. de la Plata)
Black holes and related astrophysics
9-Jun-2008
Carlos Peña-Garay
((IFIC))
A Roadmap to the 3D map of terrestrial radioactive Uranium and Thorium
5-May-2008
E.Salpeter
(Astronomy, Cornell University)
From nuclear astrophysics to biology and medicine