Nico van Kampen Colloquium in Theoretical Physics

Nico van Kampen Colloquium in Theoretical Physics
Wednesdays

Time: 16h00 – 17h00
Schedule 2023-2024 Nico van Kampen Colloquium   
Colloquia will be in a hybrid or virtual format (on MS Teams) and will begin at 4pm, unless stated differently.

2025 

Fourth period begins: Tuesday 22 April 2025 ( week 17 ) 

WEDNESDAY  23 APRIL   
Speaker:            Anuradha Samajdar (UU, GRASP) 
Title:                   A light in the dark - electromagnetic signature from dark mergers
Place & time:    16h00 in Ruppert 042 
Host:                 Tanja Hinderer 

WEDNESDAY 7 MAY   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:    16h00 in Ruppert 042 
Host:                  Eric Laenen & Erik Plauschinn  

WEDNESDAY  21 MAY 
Speaker:            Andrina Nicola, from University of Bonn.
Title:                   tba
Place & time:    16h00 in Ruppert 042 
Host:                 Elisa Chisari 

WEDNESDAY  4 JUNE   
Speaker:            Mike Cates (University of Cambridge)
Title:                   tba
Place & time:    16h00 in Ruppert 042 
Host:                  Joost de Graaf 

WEDNESDAY  18 JUNE  
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:    16h00 in Ruppert 042 
Host:                Cristiane Morais Smith  

Semester 1 

First Period: Monday 1 Sep - 7 November 2025  ( week 36 - 45 ) 

WEDNESDAY  10 September 2025   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:    16h00 
Host:                Stefan Vandoren 

WEDNESDAY  24 September 2025   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:    16h00  
Host:                Cristiane Morais Smith  

WEDNESDAY  8 October 2025    
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Umut Gürsoy 

WEDNESDAY  22 October 2025   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00  
Host:                  Farshid Jafarpour 

Second Period: Monday 10 November 2025 - 30 Jan 2026 ( week 46 ) 

WEDNESDAY  19 November 2025 
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00  
Host:                  Tomislav Prokopec 

WEDNESDAY  3 December 2025  
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Lars Fritz 

WEDNESDAY  17 December 2025   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Ro Jefferson & Umut Gürsoy 

2026 

WEDNESDAY  14 January 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Matthieu Verstraete 

NWO Physics 2026: 20 and 21 January at NH Koningshof, Veldhoven. 

Week 4: EXAM WEEK 

Semester 2 

Third Period: Monday 2 Feb 2026 ( week 5 ) - 17 April ( week 15 ) 

WEDNESDAY  11 February 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Rembert Duine 

WEDNESDAY  25 February 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Rene van Roij  

WEDNESDAY  11 March 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Wilke van der Schee 

WEDNESDAY  25 March 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                 Dirk Schuricht 

WEDNESDAY  8 April 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Ro Jefferson 

Fourth Period: Mon 20 April 2026 ( week 16 ) - June 26 

WEDNESDAY  22 April 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Tanja Hinderer 

WEDNESDAY  6 May 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Henk Stoof 

WEDNESDAY  20 May 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Eric Laenen 

WEDNESDAY  3 June 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Elisa Chisari 

WEDNESDAY  17 June 2026   
Speaker:            tba  
Title:                   tba
Place & time:     16h00 
Host:                  Joost de Graaf 

Summer Recess: Jun 29 - Aug 28 2026 

Locations

The Nico van Kampen Colloquium is usually held in hybrid form: in person in the scheduled lecture hall and online via MS Teams. If you are not a member of the V-ITP Team, subscribe to the mailing list to receive the links. Location of the colloquium is not fixed. Some of the locations are as follows:

Organizer

Tomislav Prokopec (t.prokopec@uu.nl)

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Note that according to the rules, students are required to attend 18 colloquia to complete the course. There are additional requirements regarding alumni talks and career events.
Furthermore, supervisors in the second year should write colloquium attendance as student’s (bi-)weekly activity.