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 | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
23/09
| Cecilie Glittum | |||
| 07/10 | Panagiotis Giannadakis (King's College London) | [slides] | Marcos | |
| 28/10 | Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA) | Zhao | ||
04/11 +05/11 | Álvaro Parra-López (UiO) Introduction to analogue gravity |
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| 25/11 | Yuan Miao (LPENS) TBD | Zhao | ||
| 02/12 | Håvard Ringsevjen (UiO) | Zhao |
Spring term 2026
Date | SpeakerTitle | 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) | [pdf] | ||
| 04/02 | Francesco Pietro Massel (FI / USN) | [pdf] | ||
| 11/02 | Markus R. Mosbech (KIT Karlsruhe) | [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 | |||
| 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) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
29/04
| Jan Gulla & Johannes Skaar | |||
| 06/05 | Takashi Toma (U. Kanazawa) Boosted dark matter from semi-annihilation in a neutrino mass model | [pdf] | Torsten | |
Autumn term 2025
Date | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13/08 | Martin Sloth (SDU Odense) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 20/08 | Gunnar Lange (FI) | [pdf] | ||
27/08 03/09 | Torsten Bringmann | |||
| 01/10 | Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA Trieste) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 29/10 | Kishore Thapliyal Unveiling singularities in quantum Bosonic systems; from diabolical to exceptional | Joakim | ||
| 05+12/11 | Marcos Flores | |||
| 26/11 | Álvaro Parra (FI) | [pdf] | ||
| 10/12 | Andreas Helset (CERN / UiS) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
Spring term 2025
Date | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/01 (Friday) | Yong Xu (MITP Mainz) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 22/01 | Rishav Roshan (U. of Southampton) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 29/01 | Jan Olav Eeg (FI) | [pdf] | ||
| 05/02 | Marcos Flores (LPENS Paris) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 19+26/02 | Olav Syljuåsen | |||
| 02+09/04 | Joakim Bergli | |||
| 23/04 | Cecilie Glittum (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) Doping-induced RVB spin liquid in a frustrated Mott insulator | [pdf] | Olav | |
| 30/04 | Jon Magne Leinaas | [pdf] | [Jon Magne] | |
| 07/05 | Anna Pachol (USN) | [pdf] | Torsten |
Autumn term 2024
Date | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21/08 | Pieter Braat (NIKHEF Amsterdam) Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on resonant Dark Matter annihilations | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 28/08 | Øyvind Christiansen (ITA) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 04/09 | David J. E. Marsh (King's College, London) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 18/09 | Maria Ubiali (DAMTP Cambridge) | [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) | [pdf] | Olav | |
| 09/10 | Åsmund Schiager Folkestad (MIT) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
15/10 + 16/10 | Zhao Zhang | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31/01 | Nils Johannes Mikkelsen |
| [Nils] | |
07/02 + 14/03 | Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY) |
| Torsten | |
| 21/02 | Halvor Melkild | [pdf]
| [Halvor] | |
| 28/02 + 06/03 | Johannes Skaar |
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| 13/03 | Carlo Tasillo (DESY) Exploring cosmological phase transitions with pulsar timing arrays | [pdf]
| Torsten | |
| 03/04 | Takashi Toma (Kanazawa University) | [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 | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/09 | Cecilie Glittum (Cambridge) Sublattice pairing in pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnets |
[pdf] | Olav | |
| 04/10 + 11/10 | Torsten Bringmann |
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| 18/10 | Aleksi Kurkela (University of Stavanger) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 25/10 | Zhao Zhang | [pdf] | [Zhao] | |
| 08/11 | Amine Rusi El Hassani (University of Lausanne) | [pdf] | Arndt Inge | |
| 15/11 + 22/11 | Olav F. Syljuåsen | |||
| 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 | [Lasse] |
Spring term 2023
Date | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25/01 | Johannes Skaar (FI) |
| [Johannes] | |
| 01/02 | Gunnar Lange (Cambridge) |
[pdf] | Torsten | |
| 15/02 | Sarif Khan (University og Göttingen) [cancelled] | Torsten | ||
15/03 note the new date! | Frederik Depta (MPI Heidelberg) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 12/04 | Victor Pozsgay (Imperial College London) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 19/04 | Anders Kvellestad (FI) | [pdf] | [Anders] | |
| 03/05 | Joakim Bergli (FI) | [Joakim] | ||
| 24/05 | Joseph Pradler (ÖAW Vienna) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
| 07/06 | Tomas Gonzalo (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | [pdf] | Are | |
| ........ |
Autumn term 2022
Date | SpeakerTitle | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24/08 | Torsten Bringmann (FI) |
[pdf] | [Torsten] | |
| 31/08 | Are Raklev (FI) PLUMBIN' — Developing solvents for unclogging the calculational bottleneck in high-energy physic |
| [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 | Are | ||
| 12/10 | Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY) | [pdf] | Torsten | |
09/11 9:30 | Bror Hjemgaard (FI) Quantum field theory at finite temperature | [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.