Studying and doing research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn and is made up of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy, the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics, the Institute for Applied Physics and the Physikalisches Institut.
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Christmas Physics Show 2024
Physics professor Scrooginger doesn't think highly of other people: Colleagues are ungrateful, PhD students are lazy and students are dumb. So what should Scrooginger think of all the ghosts who appear just before Christmas, along with physics experiments?
The show “Eine physikalische Weihnachtsgeschichte” (“A Physics Christmas Carol”) will be performed on 19.12.2024 at 5 pm in the Wolfgang-Paul lecture hall.
First Observation of Top Quarks in Heavy-Ion collisions
The ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported the first observation of top quarks in collisions between lead ions in a talk held at CERN last week. Members of the research group of Prof. Dr. Matthias Schott from the Physikalisches Institut at the University of Bonn have been contributing to this new study. The observation of top-quark pairs represents a significant step forward in heavy-ion collision physics, paving the way for new measurements of the quark–gluon plasma that is created in these collisions and delivering fresh insights into the nature of the strong force that binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together.
University of Bonn participating in two ERC Synergy Grants
The University of Bonn has been successful twice in the funding line for the Synergy Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) with other partners. The GravNet project is building a global detector network to search for high-frequency gravitational waves. The CeLEARN project coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – CAESAR aims to decode how single cells learn from their environment. The ERC uses Synergy Grants to support research groups in which different skills, knowledge, and resources are brought together in order to tackle ambitious research questions. The projects will receive several million euros of support in the next six years.
Embracing Diversity in High Energy Physics
October 07-09, 2024Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics
Particle Physics Seminar: Solving the dark matter mystery at t...
FTD
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
"Solving the dark matter mystery at the LHC and beyond" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". For further ...
Amplitudes Seminar: TBA
Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn
01:15 PM - 03:00 PM
"TBA" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". For further details, follow the link in the "Additional Information" ...
Women* in Physics Bonn: Informal meeting with coffee & cake (a...
Wegelerstr. 10, 53115 ...
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
"Informal meeting with coffee & cake (aimed at women* in physics)" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". For ...
Physics Colloquium: Rings of Dust and Gas - The Keys to Unders...
PI
01:15 PM - 03:00 PM
"Rings of Dust and Gas - The Keys to Understanding the Origins of Planets" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". ...
