Talk format: Colloquium

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    The laser and quantum physics
    Exactly a hundred years ago, in January 1926, Schr ödinger established the famous equation bearing his name which mark ed the birth of quantum physics . Among...
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    The Mass Accretion Rate on Young Stellar Objects: the challenge of the early stages
    One of the most fundamental questions in astronomy is how stars, the building blocks of the Universe, form. We generally understand that stars emerge from dense...
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    The multiple routes of galaxy transformation across the cosmic epochs
    In the local universe most of the stellar mass is in passive galaxies, where star formation isabsent or at very low levels. Understanding what are the...
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    The origin of Fast X-ray Transients
    Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are minute-to-hours long flashes of X-rays, first discovered serendipitously in X-ray satellite data (mainly Chandra and XMM-Newton...
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    The Reinvention of Science: from invoking invisible entities to the dinosaur extinction debate
    In this talk, one of the authors of The Reinvention of Science. Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance explores how science has often relied on postulated...
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    The Thirty Meter Telescope and Science of the Future
    The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a segmented-mirror telescope that extends the legacy of the audacious 10m Keck telescopes and the Gran Telescopio Canarias...
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    The WEAVE-TwiLight Survey: Unravelling Links Between Host Star Chemistry and Planet Formation
    Stars and planets formed within the same molecular cloud are inextricably linked in their composition. Alpha-process elements shape planetary cores and...
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    Topology in quantum condensed matter and the quantum Hall effect
    We are delighted to welcome F. Duncan Haldane, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, for a very special seminar. The study of “topological states” in quantum...
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    Ultraviolet spectroscopy of metal-poor stars: New advances and new opportunities
    Understanding the origin of the elements remains one of the major challenges of modern astrophysics. Ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy of metal-poor stars provides...