Seminars

SVISS Seminars are organized by the CH-EST partners and collaborators. They are carried out in hybrid format, with both in-person and online participation. To sign up for the seminars, please send a request to Svetlana. Berdyugina at Irsol. USI. ch

2026:

  • April 9, 2026, 14:00: Self-gravitating magnetized disks in astrophysics: new insights in planet formation and star formation in AGN accretion disks, Prof. Dr. Lucio Mayer, Uni Zurich.
  • April 13, 2026, 14:30: Quiet-Sun Campfires: From Picoflare Energetics to Magnetic Energy Release in the Chromosphere, Dr. Elena Podladchikova, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China; Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam, Germany.
  • April 30, 2026, 13:30: TBD, Prof. Dr. Monika Lendl, Uni Geneva.
  • May 6, 2026, 14:30: TBD, Prof. Dr. Brice-Olivier Demory, Uni Bern.

Past seminars:

  • April 2, 2026, 13:30: Clouds: their formation and importance for climate, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lohmann, Institute for Atmosphere and Climate, ETHZ.
  • February 5, 2026, 13:30: Bayesian inference for finding weak signals in noisy data, Dr. Carlo Albert, ETHZ/Eawag, and Dr. Simone Ulzega, ZHAW.