This series of colloquia in the Cavendish Laboratory aims to cover all aspects of modern quantum many-body physics. It is broadly aligned with our research themes on Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Fundamental Physics of Quantum Matter, Applied Quantum Physics and Devices, Synthetic Quantum Systems, Quantum Information and Control, and Energy Materials
As such, it features talks on both fundamental many-body physics as well as their exploitation in devices, covering all aspects of quantum phenomena in condensed matter and synthetic many-body systems, and their theoretical description.
The aim for these colloquia is to be accessible to a wider audience compared to a typical group seminar, and everyone is most welcome to attend them!
4 upcoming talks
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π€ George Booth (King's College London)
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Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:15-17:15
π Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
π€ Pedram Roushan (Google Quantum AI)
π
Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:15-17:15
π Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
π€ Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich)
π
Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:15-17:15
π Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
π€ Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College London & Oxford University)
π
Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
π€ Frank Verstraete (DAMTP, Cambridge)
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Wednesday 12 November 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
π€ David DiVincenzo (Forschungszentrum JΓΌlich & JARA Institute for Quantum Information, Aachen)
π
Wednesday 29 October 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
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π€ Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich)
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Wednesday 15 October 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Cluster Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre
π€ Peter Littlewood (The University of Chicago)
π
Wednesday 08 October 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre
π€ Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
π
Wednesday 04 June 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre
π€ Martin Weides (Glasgow)
π
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre
π€ Simon Trebst (Cologne)
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Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Lecture Teatre, Ray Dolby Centre
π€ Sergey Frolov (University of Pittsburgh)
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Monday 14 April 2025, 15:00-16:00
π Cluster Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
π€ Natalia Berloff (DAMTP)
π
Wednesday 12 March 2025, 00:00-00:00
π Venue to be confirmed
π€ Rachel Oliver (DMSM)
π
Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Michael Tarbutt (Imperial College)
π
Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Frank Pollmann (TU Munich)
π
Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:15-17:15
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Martin Zwierlein (MIT)
π
Monday 13 January 2025, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Ian Fisher (Stanford)
π
Thursday 05 December 2024, 15:00-16:00
π Venue to be confirmed
π€ Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich)
π
Tuesday 03 December 2024, 15:30-16:30
π Venue to be confirmed
π€ Brad Ramshaw (Cornell)
π
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Konstantin Novoselov (Manchester)
π
Friday 22 November 2024, 10:30-11:30
π Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Andrew Daley (Oxford)
π
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Amir Yacoby (Harvard)
π
Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Sebastian Huber (ETH Zurich)
π
Wednesday 30 October 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Philip Kim (Harvard)
π
Friday 18 October 2024, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Ali Yazdani (Princeton)
π
Wednesday 16 October 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Peter Abbamonte (UIUC)
π
Wednesday 05 June 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University
π
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Jean Dalibard, CollΓ¨ge de France, Kaster Brossel Laboratory
π
Wednesday 15 May 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
π
Wednesday 01 May 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Maciej Lewenstein, ICFO β The Institute of Photonic Sciences
π
Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT
π
Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford
π
Tuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Werner Krauth, Ecole Normale SupΓ©rieure Paris, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
π
Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Ian Walmsley FRS, Imperial College London
π
Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Eugene Demler, ETH ZΓΌrich
π
Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Mehran Kardar, MIT
π
Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, LMU
π
Thursday 26 October 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford
π
Wednesday 11 October 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
π
Wednesday 14 June 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Steve Kivelson, Stanford University
π
Wednesday 31 May 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof J.C. SΓ©amus Davis, University of Oxford, University College Cork, Cornell University
π
Wednesday 17 May 2023, 16:00-17:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut dβOptique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry
π
Friday 28 February 2020, 14:30-15:30
π Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Dr. Anthony Laing, University of Bristol
π
Friday 14 February 2020, 14:30-15:30
π Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Carlo Beenakker
π
Friday 31 January 2020, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro
π
Friday 17 January 2020, 14:30-15:30
π Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
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π€ Prof Philip Kim, Harvard University
π
Friday 31 May 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof Dr Roser Valenti, Goethe University Frankfurt
π
Friday 10 May 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Dr Lucy Clark, University of Liverpool
π
Friday 26 April 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue
π€ Prof. Antoine Browaeys, Institut dβOptique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry
π
Friday 15 March 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building
π€ Dr. Hannah Price, University of Birmingham
π
Friday 01 March 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building
π€ Prof. David Lucas, University of Oxford
π
Friday 15 February 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building
π€ Prof. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich
π
Friday 01 February 2019, 15:00-16:00
π Small lecture theatre* please note change of time and location
π€ Dr. Helen Walker. Merlin Instrument Scientist, STFC Β· Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
π
Friday 18 January 2019, 14:30-15:30
π Rayleigh and JJ Thompson Seminar room, Maxwell Building
π€ Associate Professor, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
π
Friday 30 November 2018, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr Andrew Jardine, University of Cambridge
π
Friday 16 November 2018, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr Akshay Rao, EPSRC Early Career Fellow, Winton Advanced Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory
π
Friday 02 November 2018, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Prof. Manish Chhowalla, Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
π
Friday 19 October 2018, 14:30-15:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
π
Thursday 04 October 2018, 15:30-16:30
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Prof. Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
π
Friday 16 March 2018, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Prof. Chris Ford & Prof. Charles Smith SP Group, Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge
π
Friday 09 March 2018, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Prof. Achim Rosch, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
π
Friday 16 February 2018, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr. Christian Gross, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
π
Friday 02 February 2018, 15:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr. F. Malte Grosche, QM group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
π
Friday 24 November 2017, 14:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr. Benjamin Beri, Cavendish & DAMTP, Cambridge
π
Friday 10 November 2017, 14:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr. Adrian Ionescu, TFM group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
π
Friday 27 October 2017, 14:00-16:00
π Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department)
π€ Dr. Ulrich Schneider, AMOP group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
π
Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-16:00
π TCM Seminar room, Mott building
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George Booth (King's College London).
Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:15-17:15