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.

Emergent Electronic and Spin States Revealed by Spin Resolved Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

• FHI/IMS Joint Online Seminar
• Date: Jul 21, 2022
• Time: 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Sujit Manna
• Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Under special conditions, a fermion in a superconductor can separate in space into two parts known as Majorana zero modes (MZM), which are immune to decoherence from local noise sources and are attractive building blocks for quantum computers. Promising experimental progress has been made to synthesize topological superconductors that demonstrate Majorana zero modes in materials with strong spin–orbit coupling proximity coupled to superconductors. [more]