News (2019)18 December 2019|MIN-enMildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship: call for nominationsPhoto: Columbia University, Collage Jana BackhausThe call for nominations or self-applications to the “Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2020” is now open. Acknowledging Mildred Dresselhaus’...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter17 December 2019|MIN-enUsing corkscrew lasers to separate mirror moleculesPhoto: DESY, Andrey YachmenevMany of the molecular building blocks of life have two versions that are mirror images of one another, known as enantiomers. Although seemingly...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights3 December 2019|MIN-enGöttingen Academy Award for Tobias BeckPhoto: Renate SchüttProf. Dr. Tobias Beck was awarded the Academy Prize 2019 for Chemistry at the annual celebration of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Beck...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter21 November 2019|MIN-enHighly Cited Researchers 2019Photo: UHH; DESY; UHH, DinglerThree scientists from the Department of Physics at the Universität Hamburg are on the now published list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2019" of the Web...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter19 November 2019|MIN-enFirst molecular movies at European XFELPhoto: European XFEL / Blue Clay StudiosIn a paper published yesterday in Nature Methods, scientists show how to effectively use the high X-ray pulse repetition rate of the European XFEL to...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights20 September 2019|MIN-enMemorial symposium for Wilfried WurthPhoto: DESYOn Friday, friends and colleagues of Prof. Dr. Wilfried Wurth paid him their last respects at a memorial symposium held at the Center for...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en5 September 2019|MIN-enOne million euros for inventory of galaxiesPhoto: ESO/BeletskyThe Universität Hamburg receives around 500,000 euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a spectrograph and supports its acquisition with a...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en23 August 2019|MIN-enSpontaneous occurrence of magnetic knots discoveredPhoto: UHH/MIN/KubetzkaSince their experimental discovery, magnetic skyrmions - tiny magnetic knots - have moved into the focus of research. Scientists from Hamburg and Kiel...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en23 August 2019|MIN-enBuilding an atomic-scale vacuum trap for spin-polarized electronsPhoto: UHH/MIN/KrausePhysicists at the University of Hamburg in Germany experimentally realized a spin-resolved electron interferometer on the atomic scale. They placed an...16 August 2019|MIN-enPhysics Project Days for high school studentsPhoto: UHH/MIN, Heiko FuchsFor the second time, the Physics Project Days (August 14-17, 2019) will take place at the Universität Hamburg. The four-day physics workshop on the...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter12 August 2019|MIN-enThis has something to do with pressure!Photo: UHH/CUI, SchonefeldThe "Light & Schools" school laboratory's holiday course on research introduced children of primary school age to physical topics in a playful way...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter9 August 2019|MIN-enNew Concept for High Quality Plasma AcceleratorsPhoto: DESY/UHH/PousaScientists have proposed a new concept for so-called plasma accelerators that could overcome some of the current limitations of this technology. These...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en1 August 2019|MIN-enNew Emmy Noether group studies complex materialsPhoto: UHH/MIN/FuchsThe German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Emmy Noether junior research group at the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en26 July 2019|MIN-enOn the way to robust quantum computersPhoto: UHH/MIN/Kim/WiesendangerResearchers at the University of Hamburg have for the first time detected Majorana states at the edges of iron islands on superconducting rhenium...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en25 July 2019|MIN-enNew professorship in physicsPhoto: ISO K° photographyDr. Oliver Gerberding has accepted the call for a W1 (Tenure Track W2) professorship in "Gravitational Wave Detection". Gerberding will participate in...11 July 2019|MIN-enExperimental mini-accelerator achieves record energyPhoto: DESY, Gesine BornScientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have achieved a new world record for an experimental type of miniature particle accelerator: For the first...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights8 July 2019|MIN-enArtificial intelligence identifies quantum phase transitionsPhoto: UHH/Sengstock groupResearchers from Universität Hamburg have used machine-learning techniques for improving the identification of quantum phase transitions from...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights4 July 2019|MIN-enScientists develop second sound theoryPhoto: UHH, Mathey groupSound moves at different speeds depending on whether it passes through air, water or another liquid. In superfluid helium, it can even be heard twice...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights27 June 2019|MIN-enNew Emmy Noether Group searches for Dark MatterPhoto: UHH/MIN/FuchsThe largest part of our universe consists of so-called Dark Matter - a substance that is invisible and simultaneously holds galaxies together. A new...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en18 June 2019|MIN-enCelebration of the joint 100-year anniversaryPhoto: UHH/MIN/FuchsFrom 17 to 20 June the 8th International Conference on Scanning Probe Spectroscopy - SPS'19 will take place in Hamburg, which was jointly organized by...Contribution from the news channel MIN-enMore articles