Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Establishing a New Canadian IR-FEL Program of Research

• Date: Mar 2, 2020
• Time: 03:00 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. W. Scott Hopkins
• Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Location: Haber-Villa
• Room: Seminar Room
• Host: Free-Electron Laser Facility
• Contact: wschoell@fhi-berlin.mpg.de

The Canadian research community is planning to create a new national program for IR-FEL-based research. [more]

Quantum sensor networks as exotic field telescopes for multi-messenger astronomy

• Date: Mar 6, 2020
• Time: 02:30 PM c.t. (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Conner Dailey
• University of Nevada at Reno
• Location: Haber-Villa
• Room: Seminar Room
• Host: Molecular Physics
• Contact: jperezri@fhi-berlin.mpg.de

Multi-messenger astronomy, the coordinated observation of different classes of signals originating from the same astrophysical event, provides a wealth of information about astrophysical processes with far-reaching implications. [more]

Quantum control of ultracold ion-atom collisions

• Seminar of the Molecular Physics Department
• Date: Nov 4, 2022
• Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Michał Tomza
• University of Warsaw, Poland, http://quantmol.uw.edu.pl/people/tomza_cv/
• Location: Haber-Villa
• Room: Seminar Room
• Host: Molecular Physics

Hybrid systems of laser-cooled trapped ions and ultracold atoms combined in a single experimental setup have recently emerged as a new platform for fundamental research in quantum physics and chemistry [1]. Reaching the ultracold s-wave quantum regime has been one of the most critical challenges in this field for a long time. Unfortunately, the lowest attainable temperatures in experiments using the Paul ion trap are limited by the possible rf-field-induced heating related to the micromotion. [more]

Excited-electron mediated defect diffusion, secondary electrons, and problems withthermalization

• Date: Jul 24, 2023
• Time: 10:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. André Schleife
• Blue Waters Associate Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
• Location: Haber-Villa
• Host: NOMAD Laboratory

In this talk, I will present on our simulation work of using electronic excitations, induced by laser or ion irradiation, to trigger defect mobility. [more]