Nico van Kampen Colloquium in Theoretical Physics

Nico van Kampen Colloquium in Theoretical Physics
Wednesdays 
Time: 16h00 – 17h00 

Schedule 2025-2026 Nico van Kampen Colloquium   
Colloquia will be in person and will begin at 4pm.
 

WEDNESDAY  6 May 2026   
Speaker:             Eric Laenen 
Title:                   The 2026 European Strategy for Particle Physics Update
Place & time:     16h00 in KBG-Pangea 
Host:                  Tomislav Prokopec 

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

WEDNESDAY  3 June 2026   
Speaker:              Luca Santoni ( APC Paris ) 
Title:                    tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in KBG-Pangea 
Host:                  Tanja Hinderer  

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

Summer Recess: Jun 29 - Aug 28 2026 

Locations

The Nico van Kampen Colloquium is usually held in person in the scheduled lecture hall. 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, career events and questions to the speakers.
Furthermore, supervisors in the second year should write colloquium attendance as student’s (bi-)weekly activity.

WEDNESDAY  16 September 2026   
Speaker:             Neil Turok ( Edinburgh )
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Tomislav Prokopec 

WEDNESDAY  30 September 2026   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Stefan Vandoren 

WEDNESDAY  14 October 2026   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Joost de Graaf 

WEDNESDAY   28 October 2026   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Lars Fritz 

Second period: Monday 16 Nov 2026  (week 47)  – 07 Feb 2027 (week 5)

WEDNESDAY   25 November 2026   
Speaker:             Rudy Thomale ( Würzburg University ) 
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Dirk Schuricht 

WEDNESDAY   9 December 2026   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Henk Stoof 

WEDNESDAY   23 December 2026   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Farshid Jafarpour 

2027

WEDNESDAY   13 January 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Elisa Chisari 

WEDNESDAY   27 January 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Matthieu Verstraete 

WEDNESDAY   10 February 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  New Faculty 

WEDNESDAY   24 February 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                  Tanja Hinderer 

WEDNESDAY   10 March 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Cristiane de Morais - Smith 

WEDNESDAY   24 March 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Rene van Roij 

WEDNESDAY   7 April 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Ro Jefferson 

WEDNESDAY   21 April 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Tanja Hinderer 

WEDNESDAY   5 May 2027  ( NO Colloquium - Bevrijdingsdag )   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 NONE Bevrijdingsdag 

WEDNESDAY   19 May 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Eric Laenen 

WEDNESDAY   2 June 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Rembert Duine 

WEDNESDAY   16 June 2027   
Speaker:             tba
Title:                   tba 
Place & time:     16h00 in ? 
Host:                 Thomas Grimm