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 summer semester 2026

programme overview (PDF) will follow soon...

28 April 2026	Structure and History of Granular Sediments [poster] Prof. Dr. Thorsten Pöschel Institute of Multiscale Simulation, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
5 May	Nobel Laureate Lecture in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry and the JCF Bayreuth From Molecular Machines to Photopharmacology [poster] Prof. Dr. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, NL with a live video feed to the Chemistry Lecture Hall H14!
12 May	Physicists at Work - Alumni Colloquium Als Physiker im Projekt-Management (As a Physicist in Project Management) [poster] Dr. Markus Reichenberger Head of Project Management, Kyon Energy, Munich
9 June	Modeling of equilibrium and non-equilibrium time-series data: from protein folding to weather forecasting [poster] Prof. Dr. Roland Netz Theoretical Bio- and Soft Matter Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
16 June	Ultrafast Nanooptics [poster] Prof. Dr. Markus Lippitz Experimental Physics III - Ultrafast Nanooptics, University of Bayreuth
23 June	Brownian motion near complex interfaces [poster] Dr. Thomas Salez Research Director LOMA, CNRS, Bordeaux, France
30 June	Student ColloquiumTowards Ultimate Nonlinear Kernel Machines - From Nonlinear Mapping to Brain-Inspired Computing in Optical Fibers [poster] Prof. Dr. Mario Chemnitz Leibnitz Institite of Photonic Technology, University of Jena

Place and time

Unless otherwise stated, on Tuesday, 5:00 pm (s.t.) in the Emil Warburg Lecture Hall H15, building NW I.

Next event

Physikalisches Kolloquium am 23. Juni 2026

Talk

Brownian motion near complex interfaces

Dr. Thomas Salez
CNRS Research Director, LOMA, Bordeaux, Frankreich

Tuesday, 23 June 2026
5 pm (s.t.)

University of Bayreuth
Building NW I, Emil Warburg Lecture Hall H15

Department of Physics at the University of Bayreuth

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences