Dear students, dear colleagues
Please join us for today's colloquium by
Dirk Brockmann
who will talk about human travel and how to trace/describe it with a
physicist's tools,
Feel sick? Follow the money! The scaling laws of human travel
Please visit our web page http://www.colloquium.phys.ethz.ch for
details.
Best regards
Gianni Blatter
Tilman Esslinger
Thomas Gehrmann
Gianni Blatter
Theoretische Physik
Schafmattstr. 32
ETH Hönggerberg
CH-8093 Zürich
office: +41 44 633 2568
home: +41 44 844 42 50
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Dear students and colleagues
With this message we wish to introduce the Zurich Physics Colloquium
in its new form. You find all information on this weekly event under
our webpage
http://www.colloquium.phys.ethz.ch
Please spend a few minutes to study our page and extract the relevant
information; in particular, take a look at our mission statement and
note our
recommendations to students (noted under `Education'), our comments to
speakers (noted under `Info for Speakers'), as well as those to the
hosts
(noted under `Info for Hosts'); there you also find a link for
submission of
new proposals. Members of the faculty of UniZH and ETHZ are invited
to submit
proposals for speakers at any time.
The communication on the physics colloquium is organized via the `Zurich
Physics Colloquium' mailing list; you will obtain a reminder to join the
colloquium every week during the semester. All faculty members of
UniZH and
ETHZ on the official faculty lists (maintained by the two physics
institutes
at UniZH and the physics department at ETHZ) are on the colloquium
list by
default (we appologize for last weeks mailings regarding removal of
faculty
from the `Physics Kolloquium' mailing list due to reorganization of
the new
list). All other are asked to subscribe via the webpage
http://www.colloquium.phys.ethz.ch
obviously, if you receive this mail you are already in the list and
no further
action is required. Please motivate your colleagues who did not
obtain this
announcement to subscribe. Also, please tell the students in your
class to
subscribe (you can download a poster and make some reclama).
We plan to make the Zurich Physics Colloquium an event which is worth to
attend every week --- we need your collaboration in terms of personal
interest
(please attend the colloquium as often as possible) and suggestions
for top
class speakers (please make sure that your suggestion fits the
mission of the
colloquium).
We wish to thank
Etusch Szabo
Hanni Hediger
Sebastian Huber
for the many ideas and hours they have invested in this project.
Kind regards
Gianni Blatter
Tilman Esslinger
Thomas Gehrmann
Gianni Blatter
Theoretische Physik
Schafmattstr. 32
ETH Hönggerberg
CH-8093 Zürich
office: +41 44 633 2568
home: +41 44 844 42 50
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First announcement of the Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2007)
The conference will take place in Brussels from 5th till 8th September,
2007.
For further information, please click on the link below:
http://ccp2007.ulb.ac.be/FAleaflet.pdf
Nachwuchsförderung in Technik und Naturwissenschaften
Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2005 findet an der Universität Zürich Irchel das
Finale des "18th International Young Physicists' Tournament" statt.
Dieses internationale Turnier für junge Talente findet im Jahr der
Physik zum ersten Mal in der Schweiz statt. ETH- und Uni-Angehörige,
die sich für den Nachwuchs an Wissenschaftlern und Laboranten
interessieren, sind herzlich eingeladen an der Schlussveranstaltung mit
Workshop und Finalwettkämpfen teilzunehmen. Ein Detailprogramm kann
heruntergeladen werden: http://www.iypt.ch/Documents/flyer_final.pdf
--
Thomas A. Jung
Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology
Paul Scherrer Institute
CH-5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
Phone: ++41 56 310 45 18
Home: ++41 1 720 61 42
Fax: ++41 56 310 26 46
http://www.psi.ch/lmnhttp://www.nccr-nano.orghttp://monet.physik.unibas.ch/gue/nanolab/
Dear Colleagues
Today Wednesday, at 17:15, the Kolloquium series of SS05 will terminate
with a talk on
Astrophysics (see abstract below). From 16:45, there will be tea and
coffee in front of the
lecture hall 16 G 05 at the Irchel Campus of the University (the usual
place!).
For directions or further information, go to
http://www.physik.unizh.ch/teaching/kolloquium05/kolloquium.html
Please note: There will be no talk in the last week of the semester.
With best regards,
Juerg Osterwalder
Gravitational Lenses, Hubble Constant, and QSOS
Georges Meylan
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, EPFL
In the context of the new scientific orientation of the Laboratory of
Astrophysics of the EPFL, I will present three interconnected topics in
extragalactic astrophysics: (i) COMOGRAIL is a photometric monitoring
program of already known lensed quasars. Started in September 2004, it
will provide, within 3 years, Ho determination with a precision better
than 2%, including systematics. The project also involves VLT and HST
follow up and the use of the most advanced image deconvolution
softwares. (ii) Strong lensing can be efficiently used in the study
(lensed) quasar accretion disk, by following the microlensing chromatic
variations induced by the lensing galaxy. Our VLT spectrophotometric
monitoring of the Einstein Cross is currently searching for chromatic
microlensing events in order to constrain the energy distribution of
the quasar accretion disk, at a resolution of a few micro, possibly
even nano arcseconds. (iii) I will present the first results of a
direct spectroscopic VLT and HST study of quasars hosts galaxies at low
redshift (z<0.3).
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Prof. Dr. Jürg Osterwalder
Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich
Winterthurerstr. 190
CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
phone: +41 44 635 5827 <<< NOTE NEW AREA CODE ! >>>
lab: +41 44 635 5745
sekr: +41 44 635 5781
fax: +41 44 635 5704
e-mail: osterwal(a)physik.unizh.ch
web: http://www.physik.unizh.ch/groups/grouposterwalder/
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