Events

Universitäten weltweit sind nach Jahren politischer Zurückhaltung wieder Plattformen des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses geworden. Wurden sie dabei Brutstätten von Extremisten? Oder sind sie nicht gerade in ihrer neuen Rolle Garantinnen des Gemeinwesens, offene Räume, in denen Meinungen sich im Kontext von akademischer Forschung und Lehre behaupten müssen? Vor und nach der Lesung laden wir Sie zu entspannten Gesprächen bei Kaffee und Tee, kleinen Snacks sowie einer regen Diskussion mit dem Autor ein. Die Veranstaltung wird zweisprachig auf Deutsch und Englisch durchgeführt. Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen. -------------------- After years of political restraint, universities around the world have once again become platforms for social discourse. Have they become breeding grounds for extremists? Or are they, in their new role, guarantors of the community, open spaces where opinions must assert themselves in the context of academic research and teaching? Before and after the reading, we invite you to join us for relaxed conversations over coffee, tea, and light refreshments—as well as a lively discussion with the author. The event is bilingual: German and English. We look forward to seeing you there! [more]

A clear understanding of molecular chirality in aqueous solution is directly relevant for chemical and life sciences. [more]

Die Abteilung Physikalische Chemie (PC) freut sich, Euch alle zum diesjährigen FRITZ Sommerfest einzuladen! | The Physical Chemistry (PC) department is delighted to invite you all to this years FRITZ summer party! [more]

Correlation plays a central role in emergent phenomena. Examples include, among others, quantum ground states and collective excitations. Here, I will discuss what we can learn from time-domain views of correlation in two dimensional (2D) vdW materials. In the 2D vdW magnetic semiconductor, CrSBr, excitonic transition is found to strongly couple to magnetic order [1] and this allows the easy detection of low energy (GHz-THz) magnons by visible-NIR light [2]. [more]

Power-to-Liquid (PtL) processes, which produce liquid fuels from captured CO₂ and green H₂ via methanol synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, offer a promising route to sustainable carbon-based energy carriers for sectors that cannot be readily electrified. [more]

Advanced LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is designed to measure the quadrupolar strain of space itself arising from passing gravitational waves and in 2015 made the first observation of a binary black hole merger [Abbot et al, Phys Rev A, 116, 061102 (2016)]. [more]

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The increasingly severe impacts of climate change demand us to: (a) reduce energy use (b) decarbonise existing high emissions industrial processes and (c) rapidly replace of our present range of carbon-emitting fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) by a suite of carbon-zero and carbon-neutral fuels. [more]

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With the aim of enabling vital exchange of emerging expertise, the international conference “Challenges on Renewable Energy Storage” was set up. Following the first two gatherings of this kind in 2022 and 2024, the meeting will continue to bring together front runners of the fields catalysis and electrocatalysis, allowing them to exchange views on the most recent advancements, as well as to renew the necessary interdisciplinary networks. [more]