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.
- Looking forward to new physics with the LHC (PT 01/2023)
- A journey to the Sun: why, how and what is being discovered (PT 02/2023)
- Sensirion: From Start-Up to a Global Player (PT 03/2023)
- Photoemission orbital tomography: imaging molecular orbitals at intrinsic length and time scales (PT 04/2023)
- Tailoring the environment to steer laser-driven reactions at surfaces: Solvation, confinement, and more (PT 05/2023)
- Science Education in an International Context (PT 06/2023)
- A World not in Spacetime? (PT 07/2023)
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.
- Large Research Infrastructures in Switzerland; History, Results and Opportunities (PT 1/2022)
- Monitoring carbon dioxide emissions from space (PT 2/2022)
- Physics & Education - Perspectives from Condensed Matter and Biophysics (PT 3/2022)
- The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (PT 4/2022)
- The dawn of Language Models in Chemistry and Beyond (PT 5/2022)
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.
- Kepler, Brahe, and Bürgi: To measure and calculate the celestial bodies (PT 1/2021)
- Kepler: From the planets to dark matter (PT 2/2021)
- The first image of a black hole (PT 3/2021)
- Where Physics Meets Chemistry: Surfaces at the Atomic Scale (PT 4/2021)
- Physics & Education – Perspectives from Particle Physics (PT 5/2021)
- The Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study (PT 6/2021)
- How to characterize rocky Exoplanets: Ideas & Challenges (PT 7/2021)
- Science and its Publics: the Case of Physics (PT 8/2021)
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.
- Understanding Giant Planets (PT 1/2019)
- Synthetic holography with spatial light modulators for biophotonics applications (PT 2/2019)
- First Electron Acceleration in AWAKE (PT 3/2019)
- Economic Materials Design for Clean Energy Applications (PT 4/2019)
- Artificial intelligence in materials science - hype or revolution? (PT 5/2019)
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.
- General Introduction to CERN, its mission and future projects (PT 01/2017)
- The Experimental Physics Program of CERN (PT 02/2017)
- A Higgs-Eye View of the Cosmos (PT 03/2017)
- Quantum Photonics with Solid-State Emitters (PT 04/2017)
- Technology dependance of reflective optical systems for EUV and astronomical applications (PT 05/2017)
- Angulon quasiparticle: novel approach to angular momentum in quantum many-particle systems (PT 06/2017)
- Trapped-ion interfaces for quantum networks (PT 07/2017)
- The CHEOPS Mission: Goals and challenges (PT 08/2017)
- Spectroscopy of trapped antihydrogen atoms (PT 09/2017)
- Gravitational waves: a new window to explore the Universe (PT 10/2017)
- Accelerators: multifaceted instruments for science and industry (PT 11/2017)
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.
- Science with the most modern stellarator, Wendelstein 7-X (PT 01/2016)
- Artificial Ferroic Systems (PT 02/2016)
- The state-of-the-art in the search for dark matter (PT 03/2016)
- 2D-material nanopores as a new playground for biophysics (PT 04/2016)
- Quantum information and state control with trapped ions (PT 05/2016)
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.
- Optoelectronics in two-dimensional atomic crystals (PT 01/2015)
- Precision particle physics at low energies (PT 02/2015)
- Chiral interaction of light and matter in confined geometries (PT 03/2015)
- Studying band-topology with ultracold fermions in an optical lattice: Experimental realisation of the Haldane model (PT 04/2015)
- Shedding light on Dark Photons (PT 05/2015)
- Molecular structure identification of single molecules on thin insulating films (PT 06/2015)
- Physics Challenges for Burning Plasmas (PT 07/2015)
- Planck 2015 Cosmology (PT 08/2015)