Kumpula Physics and HIP Colloquium

Our departmental colloquium series is intended to cut across subfields, with interesting and thought-provoking talks about physics in particular and its relationship with the other sciences and the real world. Our aim is to get excellent speakers to speak about topical issues in research and society that are of interest to the Physics department and HIP.

Talks will be accessible to the whole departmental community! Speakers will come from a variety of backgrounds; from academia and industry, and from near and far. In particular, we will invite new professors at the department to give an inaugural talk to their departmental colleagues so that people get to know each other better.

Each talk lasts 30 minutes, and is followed by a cocktail event for socialising, networking and discussion.

For queries or information about the colloquium, please contact the Wellbeing Group at .
Upcoming events

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Past events
Past talks from autumn 2018 to spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • 14th March at 14:15 (Physicum E204) : Danièle Steer: Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
  • 16th May at 14:15 (Room TBA): Ian Moss: The hot big bang in a cold gas

Autumn 2024

  • 13th September at 14:15 : Vivek Sharma: Proton pumps in biological energy conversion

Spring 2024

  • 26th January at 14:15 (Chemicum A110): Hanna Vehkamäki: Everyday tips for implementing Kumpula code of conduct
  • 8th March  at 14:15 (Physicum E204): Pauliina Ilmonen: On extreme quantile regions
  • 17th May at 14:15 (Exactum B123): Tanja Kallio: Artificial Cathode Electrolyte Interfaces for Understanding and Engineering of Lithium Battery High-Voltage Cathodes

Autumn 2023

  • 15th September at 14:15 (Exactum CK112): Anna Watts: A NICER view of neutron stars
  • 27th October at 14:15 (Exactum, D123): Jaan Praks: Quo vadis, New Space
  • 3rd November at 14:15 (Exactum, CK112): Matilda Backholm: How to swim at the mesoscale
  • 8th December at 14:15 (Exactum, CK112): Teemu Siiskonen:  Safety and efficacy of modern radiotherapy: Techniques and development toward accurate patient-specific dosimetry

Spring 2023

  • 24th March at 14:15 (Physicum E204): Sara Wickström: Regulation of cell fate and integrity by nuclear mechanotransduction
  • 14th April at 14:15 (Chemicum A129): Tuomas Lappi: The Electron-Ion Collider EIC – the most powerful microscope on Earth
  • 5th May at 14:15 (Physicum E204): Tuija Saresma: Hate Speech Online – a threat to equality, participation and academic freedom
  • 8th June at 13:15 (Physicum E204): Adrienne Traxler: Gender and physics education: Systemic issues and levers for change

Autumn 2022

  • 7th October at 14:15 (Physicum E204): Aleksi Vuorinen: Neutron-star cores as a laboratory for particle physics
  • 11th November at 14:15 (Physicum E204):  Mika Panzar and Visa Heinonen: What you always wanted to know about economics but didn’t dare to ask?

Spring 2022

  • 28th January at 14:15 (Zoom): Kimmo Tuominen: Phases of gauge theories (inaugural lecture)
  • 4th March at 14:15 (Physicum E204 and Zoom): Marja Makarow: European Innovation Council: Funding concept and instruments
  • 25th March at 14:15 (Zoom): Thomas Michely: About 2D crystals of clusters and correlated electrons in 1D cavities
  • 21st April at 14:15: Peter Liljeroth: Designer quantum materials with van der Waals heterostructures

Autumn 2021

  • 17th September 2021 at 14:15 (Zoom): Minna Palmroth: Citizen scientists discover a new auroral form: Dunes provide insight into the upper atmosphere
  • 22nd October 2021 at 14:15 (Zoom): Andrzej Kotarba: A new paradigm in the fabrication of functional nanomaterials: let bacteria do the job
  • 19th November 2021 at 14:15 (Zoom): Hanna Kokko: If evolution is all about the survival of the fittest, how come it produces so much diversity?
  • 10th December 2021 at 14:15: Hannu Kurki-Suonio: Euclid space mission: Is the acceleration of the expansion of the universe caused by dark energy? (inaugural lecture)

Spring 2021

  • 19th February 2021 at 14:15 (Zoom): Otso Ovaskainen: A planetary inventory of life – a new synthesis built on big data combined with novel statistical methods
  • 5th March 2021 at 14:15: Manohar Kumar: Mystery particle anyons finally revealed their identity in a particle collider
  • 9th April 2021: Karl Ziemelis: Writing for Impact
  • 7th May 2021 at 14:15: Emilia Kilpua: The art of predicting space weather

Autumn 2020

  • 30th October 2020 at 14:15 (Zoom): Joonas Nättilä: Astrophysical turbulence: from stirring coffee to illuminating black holes
  • 27th November 2020 at 14:15 (Zoom): Christer Fuglesang: From KTH to Space: A story of space travel to ISS and future large projects
  • 18th December 2020 at 14:15 (Zoom): Sabrina Maniscalco: The Promise of Quantum

Spring 2020

  • 24th January 2020 at 14:15 (Physicum E204): Flyura Djurabekova: Materials in extreme environments of particle accelerators
  • 7th February 2020 at 14:15 (Physicum D101): Panu Jaakkola: Cellular oxygen sensing, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2019
  • 27th March 2020 at 14:15 (Physicum D101): Otso Ovaskainen (cancelled due to coronavirus)
  • 24th April 2020 at 14:15 (Zoom ID: 672 8578 8599): Hanna Vehkamäki: Molecular cluster formation in the atmosphere:
     
  • 29th May 2020 at 15:15 (Zoom ID: 68558909770): Shohini Ghose: The quantum revolution

Autumn 2019

  • 4th October 2019 at 14:00 (Exactum A111): High Performance Computing Applications
  • 11th October 2019 at 14:15: Tuija Pulkkinen: Wellbeing in the academia – how to achieve the oxymoron?
  • 1st November 2019 at 14:15 (Exactum B123): Minna Huotilainen: Can brain research be helpful in advancing physics – optimising scientific work
  • 13th December 2019 at 14:15 (Physicum E204): Filip Tuomisto: Antimatter: does it matter?

Spring 2019

  • 18th January 2019 at 14.15: Eero Castren – Everything you always wanted to know about the Brain (but did not know whom to ask)
  • 8th February 2019 at 14.15: Peter Johansson – The birth, life and death of astrophysical black holes
  • 12th April 2019 at 14.15: Pauline Gagnon – The tragic destiny of Mileva Marić Einstein
  • 24th May 2019 at 14.30: Bergita Ganse – Space Medicine – Weightlessness and Shrimp Cocktail

Autumn 2018

  • 7th September 2018 at 14.15: Samuli Siltanen – Three-dimensional X-ray vision by sparse tomography
  • 26th October 2018 at 14.15: Simo Huotari – Let there be light: X-rays for life sciences, mathematics, cultural heritage, energy, health, and environment
  • 16th November 2018 at 14.15: Michael Ramsey-Musolf – Shattering the Lavender Ceiling: A Gay Theoretical Physicist’s Perspective []
  • 14th December 2018 at 14.15: Ilona Riipinen – How clouds clean the air and influence the climate – and why should you care?

Spring 2018

  • 26th January 2018 at 14.15: Claus Montonen – Nobel lecture
  • 16th February 2018 at 14.15: Jaakko Lehtinen – When you see x, say y []
  • 16th March 2018 at 14.15: Minna Palmroth – Space is the new black! []
  • 28th March 2018 at 16.30: Special event – Stephen Hawking Symposium []
  • 13th April 2018 at 14.15: Ilpo Vattulainen – A physicist’s random walk in the life sciences []
  • 18th May 2018 at 14.15 in E204: Mark Hindmarsh – Higgs Fizz in the Big Bang