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.

The End of Ab Initio MD

• TH Department Online Seminar
• Date: Jun 30, 2022
• Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Gábor Csányi
• University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Location: https://zoom.us/j/91272966563?pwd=eGo0V2Mrd3pwOXVaVXJ0VklGd041QT09
• Room: Meeting ID: 912 7296 6563 | Passcode: 057467
• Host: TH Department

A new computational task has been defined and solved over the past 15 years for extended material systems: the analytic fitting of the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface as a function of nuclear coordinates under the assumption of medium-range interactions, 5 ~ 10 Å. [more]

Quantum Sensors in Diamond for Nano- and Microscale Magnetic Resonance Applications

• TH Department Seminar
• Date: May 16, 2024
• Time: 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Dominik Bucher
• TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
• Location: https://zoom.us/j/99512086991?pwd=UE03TkprcitLQjdMRk5ZdVp0c0RQQT09
• Room: Meeting ID: 912 7296 6563 | Passcode: 057467
• Host: TH Department

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) point defects in diamond have emerged as a promising platform for quantum sensing. The electronic spin state of these solid-state qubits can be optically polarised, coherently manipulated with microwave pulses, and read out via their spin-state-dependent photoluminescence. Using this optically detected magnetic resonance method, magnetic signals from a single molecules or spins can be detected [1]. [more]