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The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) is the national professional association of Physicists coming from teaching, research, development and industry. The diversity of modern research in physics is reflected in ten specific sections.

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Plenary Talks

Highlights at our annual meetings are always the plenary talks (PT). The topics are carefully selected by a committee to assure a broad coverage of the actual research fields. The speakers are asked to present their results in such a way to be understandable by a not-necessarily in this field working physicist.

With this new series we aim on "hot" and didactically best explained physics, and we hope that our members who joined or unfortunately missed the sessions will enjoy the idea and take profit. Most of our plenary speakers agreed to deliver extended versions of their abstracts. We group the articles by year and in the order of printing in the SPS Communications. This order does not correlate with the one in the conference program.


Plenary Talks 2023

The talks have been held at the Joint Annual meeting of SPS and ÖPG in Basel from 4 - 8 September. The conference program can be found here.


Plenary Talks 2022

The talks have been held at the SPS annual meeting in Fribourg from 27 - 30 June. The conference program can be found here.


Plenary Talks 2021

The talks have been held at the joint annual meeting in Innsbruck from 30 August - 3 September. The conference program can be found here.


Plenary Talks 2019

The talks have been held at the joint annual meeting in Zürich from 26 - 30 August. The conference program can be found here.


Plenary Talks 2018

The talks have been held at the annual meeting in Lausanne from 28 - 31 August. The conference program can be found here.

The topics of Gino Isidori's and Beat Jeckelmann's talks are covered in our series Progress in Physics. Maurice Bourquin's theme is presented as two-parter here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).


Plenary Talks 2017

The talks have been held at the joint annual meeting in Geneva from 21 - 25 August. The conference program can be found here.


Plenary Talks 2016

The talks have been held at the annual meeting in Lugano from 23 - 25 August. The conference program can be found here.


Plenary Talks 2015

The talks have been held at the joint annual meeting in Vienna from 1 - 4 September. The conference program can be found here.