News (2024)

16 October 2024|CHAMPP

Panofsky Prize for Eckhard Elsen and Robert Klanner

Photo: UHH/FIAS

Next spring, particle physicists Eckhard Elsen and Robert Klanner will be awarded the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics by the...

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9 October 2024|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Philip Moll honored with APS Fellowship

Portrait of Philip Moll in a reserach building

Photo: MPSD

MPSD Director Philip Moll has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). In its citation, the Society highlights his achievements...

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9 October 2024|Research

How the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics is linked to Quantum Universe research

Photo: Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopkins (Princeton University, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Canada)...

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2 October 2024|Advanced Imaging of Matter

New webinar series on mental health

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The Clusters of Excellence at the University of Hamburg have joined forces to provide a more extensive webinar offer on mental health. Together with...

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2 October 2024|Quantum Universe

New webinar series on mental health

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The Clusters of Excellence at the University of Hamburg have joined forces to provide a more extensive webinar offer on mental health. Together with...

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17 September 2024|Research

W boson on the particle scale

CMS candidate collision event for a W boson decaying into a muon (red line) and a neutrino that escapes detection (pink arrow).

Photo: CMS/CERN

Scientists need to know just how much mass the W boson has in order to check whether their theoretical predictions hold and spot deviations from them...

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4 September 2024|Transfer

Exploring gravitational waves with Taylor, Justin and the Scorpions

Several concerts have already served as a basis for the researchers. Further measurements of major musical events in the Barclays Arena will follow.

Photo: Barclays Arena

At the end of July, up to 800 people simultaneously followed the seismic waves emanating from the Taylor Swift concert in Hamburg's Volksparkstadion...

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26 August 2024|Campus

"It was my first time trying out physics research, and I had a wonderful time!"

Photo of Shreya Mogulothu from her stay in Hamburg.

Photo: Shreya Mogulothu

Shreya Mogulothu is a physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently a summer intern at the University of Hamburg...

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21 August 2024|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Valuable experience at the CUI summer school in Schwerin

A group of young people in front of an old building

Photo: CUI Graduate School

Five days full of exciting research highlights, discussions, and science slams awaited the students during the CUI Graduate Summer School in July...

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2 August 2024|Event

When research and art join paths: a musical dialogue between science and spirituality

Poster for the opera performance 'Creazione / Creation, Fragments', which will take place on September 1, 2024 in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

Photo: Gloria Bruni / DESY

An opera that takes the audience from nothing to existence: where do we come from? Where are we heading? How and why did it all begin? Questions about...

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