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:

  • September 10, 2026, 13:30: Preparing for SKA: evolving array capabilities and timeline to science, Dr. Mark Sargent, EPFL, Lausanne

Past seminars:

  • July 14, 2026, 14:00: Advancing Solar Frontiers: Recent Developments and Future Capabilities at the Big Bear Solar Observatory, Prof. Dr. Wenda Cao, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Big Bear Solar Observatory, USA
  • June18, 2026, 14:00: Accelerated sparsity in quadratic inversion: Computational challenges in high-dimensional settings, Prof. Dr. Olaf Schenk, Institute of Computing, Faculty of Informatics, USI, Lugano
  • June 11, 2026, 13:30: Solar Magnetic Mapping: UV Spectropolarimetric Diagnostics from Photosphere to Transition Region, Dr. David Alfonso Delgado, IRSOL, Locarno
  • May 6, 2026, 14:30: From the search for life in the Universe to the improved detection of pancreatic tumours, Prof. Dr. Brice-Olivier Demory, Uni Bern.
  • May 5, 2026, 16:30: Sun-as-a-star flare observations HARPS-N and SST: biases and implications on coronal mass ejection detection, Dr. Alex Pietrow, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik (AIP), Potsdam, Germany
  • April 30, 2026, 13:30: Towards Earth 2.0: exoplanet characterisation in the age of CHEOPS and PLATO, Prof. Dr. Monika Lendl, Uni Geneva.
  • 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 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 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.