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The Physics Section
The Physics Section at the University of Geneva provides a lively environment where students, lecturers and researchers meet on a daily basis and work closely together.
The level of research and teaching in the Physics Section is excellent, and is highly competitive in Switzerland, Europe and across the world. UNIGE is currently in 58th position worldwide (out of 20,000) in the University of Shanghai’s classification (2019), and the physics Section as a standalone is ranked in 40st place. Thanks to the outstanding quality of research at world level, the university offers a highly international and open environment, where the atmosphere is conducive to discussion and debate and generating innovative ideas.
The teaching programmes run by the Physics Section offer a comprehensive range of specialisations, with a particular focus on new applications of fundamental physics.
Agenda of the physics Section
- Soutenance de thèse
Machine Learning-Based Identification of Boosted Objects and Search for Pair Production of Heavy Vector-like Quarks in Fully-hadronic Final States with the ATLAS Detector
Auditoire Stückelberg 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet
Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stückelberg 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet
- Animations
Cosmic Beer
Enjoy a beer at Mr. Pickwick while young dynamic physicists present you the frontiers of Black Holes in a casual and relaxed atmosphere! Two short presentations will be followed by a quizz. The event is public and the entrance is free!
Mr. Pickwick, Rue de Lausanne 80, 1202 Genève
- Séminaire
Formation and Abundance of Primordial Black Holes
Primordial black holes can form in the early Universe from the collapse of cosmological perturbations after the cosmological horizon crossing. They are possible candidates for the dark matter as well as for the seeds of supermassive black holes observed…
Ecole de Physique / Salle 234, 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet
- Séminaire
Fundamental physics with muons: from the proton radius to antimatter gravity
At the Paul Scherrer Institute ongoing precision experiments involving muons and muonic atoms are targeting fundamental questions in flavor physics, probing the symmetries of the Standar Model, and measuring fundamental constants. In this talk these…
Ecole de Physique / Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24 1211 Genève 4 Grand Auditoire A
- Soutenance de thèse
High Repetition Rate Laser Frequency Combs for Astronomical Spectrograph Calibration
par Madame Ewelina OBRZUD, candidate au doctorat ès sciences, mention interdisciplinaire. En anglais
Observatoire Astronomique de Genève / Aula 51, Chemin des Maillettes, Sauverny, 1290 Versoix
- Colloque
Is Inflationary Cosmology consistent with Fundamental Physics?
Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stueckelberg
- Séminaire
Romancing the CERN: Constructive Interferences between Physics and Literature
Physics and literature make odd bedfellows. More than 60 years after the famous C.P. Snow’s anathema sanctioning the incommunicability between the sciences and the humanities, the debate on the two cultures is still very much alive. Studies in the field…
Ecole de Physique / Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24 1211 Genève 4 Grand Auditoire A
- Colloque
TBA
Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stuckelberg
Soutenance de thèseMachine Learning-Based Identification of Boosted Objects and Search for Pair Production of Heavy Vector-like Quarks in Fully-hadronic Final States with the ATLAS Detector
More information05.12.2019 15:30 – 16:30 / Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stückelberg 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet
AnimationsCosmic Beer
More information05.12.2019 20:00 – 22:00 / Mr. Pickwick, Rue de Lausanne 80, 1202 Genève
SéminaireFormation and Abundance of Primordial Black Holes
More information06.12.2019 11:30 – 12:30 / Ecole de Physique / Salle 234, 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet
SéminaireFundamental physics with muons: from the proton radius to antimatter gravity
More information11.12.2019 11:15 – 12:15 / Ecole de Physique / Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24 1211 Genève 4 Grand Auditoire A
Soutenance de thèseHigh Repetition Rate Laser Frequency Combs for Astronomical Spectrograph Calibration
More information13.12.2019 14:00 – 16:00 / Observatoire Astronomique de Genève / Aula 51, Chemin des Maillettes, Sauverny, 1290 Versoix
ColloqueIs Inflationary Cosmology consistent with Fundamental Physics?
More information13.12.2019 14:15 – 15:15 / Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stueckelberg
SéminaireRomancing the CERN: Constructive Interferences between Physics and Literature
More information15.01.2020 11:15 – 12:15 / Ecole de Physique / Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24 1211 Genève 4 Grand Auditoire A
ColloqueTBA
More information29.05.2020 14:15 – 15:15 / Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stuckelberg