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Current-induced magnetization control and spin transport in ferromagnetic heterostructures

Spin-based electronics, or the so-called spintronics, is a research field whose aim is to use magnetic materials and the electron’s spin to store, manipulate, and carry information in electronic devices [1]. Spintronics offers very appealing and promising…

Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stueckelberg

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

The quantum mechanics of perfect fluids

Hydrodynamics of an ordinary inviscid fluid can be systematically described by a classical long distance Effective Field Theory for sound waves. However, this EFT has non-propagating modes and it is hard to make sense of it as a quantum field theory in a…

Ecole de Physique / Room 234

Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys: challenges and opportunities

The ongoing and upcoming photometric galaxy surveys are a central piece in our strategy to improve our understanding of cosmology. In particular, the combination of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to simultaneously…

Ecole de Physique / Salle 234, 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet

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

Is Inflationary Cosmology consistent with Fundamental Physics?

The inflationary scenario has become the standard paradigm of early universe cosmology. However, there are now indications based on fundamental physics considerations that inflation is very hard to realize. I will review the successes of inflation,…

Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stueckelberg

Control of Octahedral Rotations and Lattice-Orbital Coupling in ReVO₃ Heterostructures

par Monsieur Hugo MELEY, candidat au doctorat ès sciences, mention doctorat es sciences mention physique. En anglais

Sciences III / Ecole de physique, Auditoire Stückelberg, 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet

Full Control of the Polarisation Configuration in Epitaxial Lead Titanate Ferroelectric Ultrathin Films

par Monsieur Christian WEYMANN, candidat au doctorat ès sciences, mention physique. En anglais

Ecole de Physique / Grand Auditoire 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet

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

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Ecole de Physique / Auditoire Stuckelberg