Month: October 2023

Since 2005 the FAU  awards the Renate Wittern Sterzel Prize annually. The prize is named after the first FAU women's representative who founded the equality prize. Innovative projects to promote equality, exemplary measures to constructively deal with and promote diversity and outstanding succes...

FAU team of researchers succeed for the first time in accelerating electrons using a nano device Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research center...

New in Erlangen: panOPTICUM – getting to grips with research Using targeted thermal radiation to make popcorn pop, discovering everyday objects from a completely new perspective under the microscope or using lasers to make lights dance – all of these involve optics. At various interactive stands, t...

Last week, the International Conference on Quantum Cooperativity of Light and Matter took place at the Physics department in Erlangen. After a warm welcome by Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier (speaker of TRR 306 QuCoLiMa), Prof. Dr. Kai Phillip Schmidt (speaker of FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.Qu...

F1 in schools is the largest technology competition for schools worldwide. Teams of 3-6 students design a miniature car and send it into the race. Similar to the big Formula 1, a comprehensive set of rules must be obeyed. The cars are powered by opening a CO2 cartridge, and the car then races along ...

A deeper understanding of thermodynamic dependencies thanks to new measurement method Negative pressure is a rare and challenging-to-detect phenomenon in physics. Using liquid-filled optical fibers and sound waves, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen h...