Theory seminars

Unless indicated otherwise, our common seminars take place on Wednesdays at 1:05 pm (note the time!). Seminars take place in the common room of the theory section (if there are too many people attending, we move to an auditorium).

Please let me know if you want to invite anyone for a seminar. For inquiries concerning a particular speaker or talk, you can also directly contact the host. Slots marked in purple are not theory seminars but part of the theory master lectures;  note that time and place for those may differ - so check here for updates.


Autumn term 2026

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 

23/09

 

Cecilie Glittum

Introduction to frustrated magnetism

  
 07/10

Panagiotis Giannadakis (King's College London)

Cosmology of long range interactions

[slides]Marcos
 28/10

Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA)

Mind the gaps

 Zhao
 

04/11

+05/11

Álvaro Parra-López (UiO)

Introduction to analogue gravity

 

 

 

 25/11

Yuan Miao (LPENS)

TBD

 Zhao
 02/12

Håvard Ringsevjen (UiO)

Quantum Physics according to a neuroscientist

 Zhao

Spring term 2026

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 14/01

Djuna Croon (IPPP Durham)

Probing dark matter and cosmology using gravitational microlensing

[pdf]Torsten
 28/01

Silvia Lucia Correa Angel (FI / UFRN Brazil)

Introduction to Indirect Detection of Dark Matter

[pdf] 
 04/02

Francesco Pietro Massel (FI / USN)

Universal Limits on Quantum Noise

[pdf] 
 11/02

Markus R. Mosbech (KIT Karlsruhe)

Probing dark matter particle physics with cosmology

[pdf]Torsten
 25/02

Patricia Ribes Metidieri (U. York)

Inflation does not generate entanglement in local observables

[pdf]Álvaro
 

04/03

11/03

Marco Palmiotto

Dark matter thermal relic density computations

  
 25/03

Duarte Feiteira (U. Helsinki)

Cosmological gravitational particle production and implications for dark matter phenomenology

[pdf]Torsten
 08/04

Philipp Schicho (U. Geneva)

From microphysics to Gravitational Waves for cosmological phase transitions

[pdf]Torsten
 22/04

Filippo Sala (U. Bologna)

High energy neutrinos from dark matter around blazars

[pdf]Torsten
 

29/04

 

Jan Gulla & Johannes Skaar

Local algebras and the Reeh-Schlieder theorem

  
 06/05

Takashi Toma (U. Kanazawa)

Boosted dark matter from semi-annihilation in a neutrino mass model

[pdf]Torsten
     

Autumn term 2025

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 13/08

Martin Sloth (SDU Odense)

The future of de Sitter

[pdf]Torsten
 20/08
 

Gunnar Lange (FI)

Quantum geometry and its relation to metrology

[pdf] 
 

27/08

03/09

Torsten Bringmann

Phase transitions in field theory and cosmology

  
 01/10

Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA Trieste)

Magnetic Monopoles in Heaven and Earth

[pdf]Torsten
 29/10

Kishore Thapliyal

Unveiling singularities in quantum Bosonic systems; from diabolical to exceptional

 Joakim
 05+12/11

Marcos Flores

Introduction to Cosmological Inflation

  
 26/11

Álvaro Parra (FI)

Cosmological particle production: From dark matter creation in the early universe to quantum field simulation in the laboratory

[pdf] 
 10/12

Andreas Helset (CERN / UiS)

Black hole dynamics from scattering amplitudes

[pdf]Torsten
     

Spring term 2025

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 10/01
(Friday)

Yong Xu (MITP Mainz)

Probing the Pre-BBN Universe with Gravitational Waves

[pdf]Torsten
 22/01

Rishav Roshan (U. of Southampton)

Using Gravitational Waves to see the Early Universe

[pdf]Torsten
 29/01 

Jan Olav Eeg (FI)

How the Standard Model was built. Historical Aspects

[pdf] 
 05/02

Marcos Flores (LPENS Paris)

Long-range interactions and the early Universe

[pdf]Torsten
 19+26/02

Olav Syljuåsen

Magnons

  
 02+09/04

Joakim Bergli

Geometric phases (quantum and classical)

  
 23/04

Cecilie Glittum (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

Doping-induced RVB spin liquid in a frustrated Mott insulator

[pdf]Olav
 30/04

Jon Magne Leinaas

Anyons - interpolating between bosons and fermions

[pdf][Jon Magne]
 07/05

Anna Pachol (USN)

Noncommutative geometry and quantum gravity

[pdf]Torsten

Autumn term 2024

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 21/08

Pieter Braat (NIKHEF Amsterdam)

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on resonant Dark Matter annihilations

[pdf]Torsten
 28/08

Øyvind Christiansen (ITA)

Late-time domain walls in cosmological simulations

[pdf]Torsten
 04/09 

David J. E. Marsh (King's College, London)

The String Axiverse in 2024

[pdf]Torsten
 18/09

Maria Ubiali (DAMTP Cambridge)

Proton structure determination with machine learning

[pdf]Are
 25/09

Arnt Inge Vistnes (FI)

Lysets natur – har vi vent oss til noen formuleringer som burde vært skrotet for lenge siden? (talk in Norwegian)

  
 02/10

Avadh Saxena (Los Alamos)

Hopfions in Condensed Matter and Field Theory

[pdf]Olav
 09/10

Åsmund Schiager Folkestad (MIT)

Is the end of the Information Problem on the Horizon?

[pdf]Torsten
 

15/10 +

16/10

Zhao Zhang

Conformal field theory på 1-2-3

  
 23/10

Tore Klungland 

Next-to-leading power resummation in slepton pair production

[pdf][Tore]
 30/10

Indra Kumar Banerjee (MIT)

Spinning Primordial Black Holes from First Order Phase Transitions

[pdf]Torsten
 

06/11 +

13/11

Are Raklev

Group theory and Lie algebras

  
 04/12

Sergey Ketov (Tokyo Met. & Kavli IPMU)

Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves from Inflation and Primordial Black Holes Production

 Torsten

Spring term 2024

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 31/01

Nils Johannes Mikkelsen 

The Road to Hilbert Land

 

 

[Nils]
 

07/02 +

14/03

Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY)

A brief tour through the axiverse

 

 

Torsten
 21/02

Halvor Melkild 

Neutrino mass, left-right symmetry and inverted seesaws

[pdf]

 

[Halvor]
 28/02 + 06/03

Johannes Skaar

Elements of quantum information theory

 

 

 
 13/03

Carlo Tasillo  (DESY)

Exploring cosmological phase transitions with pulsar timing arrays

[pdf]

 

Torsten
 03/04

Takashi Toma (Kanazawa University)

Signals of boosted dark matter and neutrinos

[pdf]Torsten
 10/04

Florian Niedermann (NORDITA)

Addressing the Hubble Tension with a New Phase Transition in the Early Universe

[pdf]Torsten

Autumn term 2023

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 06/09

Cecilie Glittum (Cambridge)

Sublattice pairing in pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnets

 

[pdf]

Olav
 04/10 + 11/10

Torsten Bringmann

Kaluza-Klein theories

 

 

 
 18/10

Aleksi Kurkela (University of Stavanger)

QCD in the cores of neutron stars

[pdf]Torsten
 25/10

Zhao Zhang

Coloured matter physics

[pdf][Zhao]
 08/11

Amine Rusi El Hassani (University of Lausanne)

Rethinking Geometry in Physics

[pdf]Arndt Inge
 15/11 +  22/11

Olav F. Syljuåsen 

Finite Temperature Quantum Monte Carlo

  
 29/11

Helena Kolešová (University of Stavanger)

Non-Abelian dark sectors: gravitational waves vs dark matter

[pdf]Torsten
 06/12

Vidar Skogvoll 

Topological defects across systems - from Bose-Einstein condensates to solid crystals

[ppt][Vidar]
 13/12

Lasse Lorentz Braseth 

Renormalization by extension of distributions

 [Lasse]

Spring term 2023

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 25/01

Johannes Skaar (FI)

Strictly localized states

 

 

[Johannes]
 01/02

Gunnar Lange (Cambridge)

Multi-gap topology & non-abelian braiding in k-space

 

[pdf]

Torsten
 15/02

Sarif Khan (University og Göttingen)

[cancelled]

 Torsten
 

15/03

note the new date!

Frederik Depta (MPI Heidelberg)

Too much energy for too little noise: Dark sector phase transitions in light of PTAs, BBN, and the CMB

[pdf]Torsten
 12/04

Victor Pozsgay (Imperial College London)

Low-energy EFT causality bounds

[pdf]Torsten
 19/04

Anders Kvellestad (FI)

50 ways to leave your low-dimensional theory space

[pdf][Anders]
 03/05

Joakim Bergli (FI)

Black hole evaporation: Unitarity and firewalls

 [Joakim]
 24/05

Joseph Pradler (ÖAW Vienna)

New light on light dark sectors

[pdf]Torsten
 07/06

Tomas Gonzalo (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Neutrino oscillations through matter

[pdf]Are
   ........ 

Autumn term 2022

 

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Host

 24/08

Torsten Bringmann (FI)

Dark matter production from the primordial heat bath

 

[pdf]

[Torsten]
 31/08

Are Raklev (FI)

PLUMBIN' — Developing solvents for unclogging the calculational bottleneck in high-energy physic

 

[pdf]

[Are]
 21/09

Debanjan Chowdhury (Cornell University)

Revisiting Metal-Insulator Transitions in Moiré Heterostructures

 Olav
 06/10
15:05

Melissa van Beekveld (Oxford)

Frontiers of parton-shower accuracy
Note special day and time!

 Are
 12/10

Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY)

Dark Matter from Exponential Growth (aka Pandemic DM)

[pdf]Torsten
 

09/11

9:30

Bror Hjemgaard (FI)

Quantum field theory at finite temperature
Note special time!

[pdf][Bror]
 09/11

Mikko Laine (AEI Bern)

On the quantum statistical physics of dark matter freeze-out

[pdf]Torsten
 16/11

Yann Mambrini (LPT Orsay)

(Dark) matter production in the (very) early stage of the Universe

[pdf]Torsten
   ........ 

 

We also keep slides and announcements of earlier seminars in the theory group.

Published Aug. 6, 2015 10:46 AM - Last modified Oct. 8, 2026 1:37 PM