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:
- Ruppert Building, lecture rooms Wit, Paars, Blauw, or 042 Leuvenlaan 21, Utrecht
- Koningsberger Building, (KBG), lecture rooms ATLAS, COSMOS or PANGEA, Budapestlaan 4a-b, Utrecht
- Willem C. van Unnikgebouw, lecture room 211, Heidelberglaan 2, Utrecht
- Minnaertgebouw, lecture rooms 201, 202, Leuvenlaan 4, Utrecht
- Educatorium, lecture room Theatron, Leuvenlaan 19, Utrecht
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