Seminars

Seminars at DIFFER cover a wide range of topics and are held on Thursdays at 11.15 AM in the seminar room of the institute (unless otherwise stated). Seminars are open to everybody. If you are interested in visiting a DIFFER seminar or want to subscribe to our mailing list, please follow the instructions for external visitors.

DIFFER Seminar: Revealing (multi-phase and reactive) flow within porous media through advances in time-resolved X-ray micro-computed tomography

Seminar, 2023/12/14 - 11:15 to 2023/12/14 - 12:30

To date, the underlying mechanisms controlling multi-phase and reactive flow within porous media are not fully understood. The lack of physical expressions in our computational models drives the need for more and more accurate experimental data on this subject.

DIFFER Seminar: Overview of High Accuracy, Multi-device Disruption Event Characterization and Forecasting (DECAF) Research

Seminar, 2023/11/16 - 15:00 to 2023/11/16 - 16:15

Physics-based disruption event characterization and forecasting (DECAF) research [1] determines the proximity of tokamak plasma states to a critical disruption warning le

DIFFER Seminar: The first inroads into the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum

Seminar, 2023/10/19 - 15:00 to 2023/10/19 - 16:00

Black hole devours a neutron star. Scientists say they have seen tantalizing, first-time evidence of a black hole eating a neutron star-first stretching the neutron star into a crescent, swallowing it, and then gulping up crumbs of the broken star in the minutes and hours that followed. Picture: NASA

Supermassive black holes at the centers of merging galaxies are expected to form binary systems whose orbital motion generates gravitational waves.

DIFFER Seminar: Magnetic Switches, Molecular Sensors, and Transition Metal-Based Catalysts

Seminar, 2023/09/27 - 11:15 to 2023/09/27 - 12:30

The versatility of ethylenediamine-inspired Schiff-base transition metal complexes has been shown in their extensive applications in molecular sensors (e.g. electrochromic, recognition) and molecular switches (e.g. redox, magnetic).

DIFFER Seminar: Soccer, physics modelling, social habits and COVID data: How to assign infections to social changes due to large scale sports events

Seminar, 2023/09/14 - 11:15 to 2023/09/14 - 12:30

The fundamental properties of the pandemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 have been understood very early.