2021
2021
- The physics competition "Katja's Big Throw" for pupils aged 10 to 14 has started. It is organised by the Physics Education and Science Communication working group. Until 17 December, interested parties can register for the competition in groups of up to three. The actual competition is scheduled for 15 February (see www.presse.uni-olde nburg.de/mit/2021/215.html).
The participants have to help Katja get her birthday present for Anna across the Hunte and fulfil a number of conditions in the process. They will be transported back to a time when Oldenburg was surrounded by marshes and moors and there were no bridges over the Hunte. The aim is to construct a tower and throw the gift across the river from there by experimenting and having fun.
200 euros in prize money awaits the group with the best solution. Second place will be rewarded with 150 euros and third place with 100 euros. All information and a video about the task can be found at uol.de/diphywi/schuelerwettbewerb
. The competition was organised by Anna Maroti and Katja Seidel, who are completing their Voluntary Scientific Year (FWJ) in the physics didactics working group. They are accepting applications or and are available to answer questions. The competition is also part of the BMBF's AHOI_MINT project to promote regional education in the so-called MINT subjects(www.ahoi-mint.de/), which is co-led by the Physics Didactics working group.
- Extremely thin crystals as laser light sources
Crystals consisting of only three layers of atoms can emit light at room temperature that is similar to that of a laser. These novel materials therefore have the potential to be used as light sources in miniaturised circuits or in future quantum applications. This is reported by an international team led by Oldenburg physicists Dr Hangyon Shan, Prof. Dr Christian Schneider and Dr Carlos Anton-Solanas in the journal Nature Communications.
www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2021/194.html
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26715-9 - Half of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Prof Giorgio Parisi from the University of Rome. One of his main areas of research for which Prof. Parisi received the Nobel Prize is spin glasses.
If you would like to learn more about the physics of spin glasses in a playful way, you can play the board game "Spin Glass - My Party!", which was developed at the University of Oldenburg. The game can be purchased from the Computer Physics working group (directly from Prof Dr Alexander Hartmann) or downloaded free of charge to play yourself. - Many lasers oscillate together like a single one
The development of a topological, vertically emitting laser array with the participation of Oldenburg scientists from the Quantum Materials Group has been published in the journal Science:
doi.org/10.1126/science.abj2232
phys.org/news/2021-09-tiny-lasers-topological-vertical-cavity.html
uol.de/en/quantum-materials - The "Applied Photonics" Summer School will take place in Bad Honnef from 05.09. to 10.09.2021, organised by Prof. Dr. Walter Neu, a member of the HS Emden/Leer and the University of Oldenburg. Last-minute students can still register via the website: www.appliedphotonics.de/
- There will be a two-week preliminary course in maths for all first-semester students in the winter semester 2021/22!
- On the website of the young DPG (jDPG), a former student and doctoral candidate of our Institute, Daniela Poppinga, is interviewed about her studies of physics and her career.
Here is the link to the jDPG podcast. - On the way to the smallest possible laser
Oldenburg physicists create exotic quantum state in crystal from a single atomic layer
www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2021/075.html
uol.de/en/quantum-materials
Here is also the link to the original publication
www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-01000-8 - Online-International Conference: "European Hyperloop Technology"
Development of Large Scale Research Infrastructure
with Minister Björn Thümler and Vice President Martin-Georg Fränzle.
Registration: indico.cern.ch/event/1000964/registrations/69507/
Organiser: University of Oldenburg
Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Hyperloop Technology
Nds. Ministeirium f. Wissenschaft u. Kultur
The conference programme can be found here.
Further information can be found here.
A greeting from the Minister of Science can be found here.
The conference presentations can be downloaded here.