Physics Colloquium

During the lecture period on selected Tuesdays, a guest usually speaks about his or her current area of research. Everyone is cordially invited to this public event. Especially for students, this offers the opportunity to get a good overview of current topics in physics and adjacent areas.

Inaugural lecture Hide: New professors introduce themselves and their research with an inaugural lecture, a generally understandable scientific lecture in a festive setting, to students and members of the Institute of Physics as well as the general university public.
Colloquium day of the students Hide: Once a semester, the speaker in the Physics Colloquium is invited by the students.Once a semester, the speaker in the Physics Colloquium is invited by the students.
Physicists at Work - Alumni Colloquium Hide: In cooperation with the 'Absolventen- und Förderverein MPI Uni Bayreuth e.V. ', the Department of Physics organizes a special alumni colloquium at which an alumni of physics reports on his professional practice after his studies in Bayreuth.

Organizer

The lecturers of physics

Programme for the winter semester 2025/2026

programme overview (PDF)

Wednesday, 22. October, 6 p.m., H15, NW I	Emil Warburg Award Ceremony Mikro-Dartscheiben für das Quanteninternet - Als eine Quantenlichtquelle auszog um Europa zu bereisen... (Micro dartboards for the quantum internet - When a quantum light source set out to travel across Europe...) Prof. Dr. Tobias Heindel (Department für Quantentechnologien, Universität Münster) https://www.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/warburgpreis
28 October	Physikalisches Kolloquium der Studierenden Cilia driven flow in the mammalian brain [poster] Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Eberhard Bodenschatz (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
11 November 2025	Connecting Ferrofluids and Living Matter [poster] Prof. Dr. Jaakko Timonen (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland)
25 November 2025	Quantum Billiards with Free Electrons [poster] Prof. Dr. Claus Ropers (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen)
9 Dezember 2025	Explaining flow patterns by non-existing solutions of the governing equations [poster] Prof. Dr. Tobias Schneider (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
13 January 2026	Physicists at Work - Almni Colloquium Lebensretter bei einem Crash: Einblicke in die Entwicklung von Kindersitzen bei Cybex (Life savers in a crash: insights into the development of child seats at Cybex) Dr. Thomas Müller (Director Analysis & Testing, Cybex, Bayreuth)
27 January 2026	“The Photophysics of Molecular Aggregates [poster] Prof. Dr. Jürgen Köhler (Soft Matter Spectroscopy, University of Bayreuth)

Place and time

Unless otherwise stated, on Tuesday, 5 pm (s.t.) in the Lecture Hall H18, building NW II.

Next event

Physikalisches Kolloquium am 27. Januar 2026

Talk

The Photophysics of Molecular Aggregates

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Köhler
Soft Matter Spectroscopy, University of Bayreuth

Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 5pm s.t.

lecture hall H18, building NW II
University of Bayreuth

Department of Physics at the University of Bayreuth

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences