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 - Almni 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

Talk

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

Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 5 p.m. 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