Colloquia Archive 2026

The steady interest in understanding the thermodynamics of quantum systems has led to several approaches to defining work and heat in a quantum mechanically consistent way. Quantum thermodynamics as a subfield has grown steadily in the last 15 years, revealing the impact that coherence can have on the energetics of ...

Quantum field theory has proven to be the most powerful and successful tool in physics, yet despite a century of progress many problems remain open. Some of these problems are just coming to light, e.g. non-Fermi liquids, while others have been around a while but are still open, such ...

Energy correlations are infrared-safe observables that measure the flux of energy deposited in calorimeters located at different points on the celestial sphere, thereby encoding detailed information about the dynamics of the underlying theory. Originally introduced to characterize hadronic final states in e^+e^- annihilation, they play a central role in ...