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| 1 million Euros for black holes made from semimetals |
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| Published on Wednesday, 03 March 2021 | |
| Semimetals are a class of materials which share features known from both metals and semiconductors. In recent years, it was found that the electrons flowing in certain novel – so-called “topologica... |
| Advancing diagnosis and therapy: Exploring the cancer microbiome |
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| Published on Tuesday, 23 March 2021 | |
| Six new interdisciplinary research projects have received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. |
| Online Physics Colloquium: Rare earth ions as local probes and novel (mixed-anionic) hydrides |
| Event date: Wednesday, 31 March 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Webex |
| Speaker: Prof. Nathalie Kunkel, University of Göttingen and Technical University of Munich, invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Quantum Science & Technology Seminar |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 06 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 11:45 12:45 | |
| Place: Online Seminar: Zoom | |
| Speaker: Professor Tomaž PROSEN, Invited by Dr. Aurelia CHENU, Research Scientist |
| Joint Virtual Workshop on Soft Matter Physics and Self-Assembly and Panel Discussion on the Life of a PhD Candidate |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 13 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 8:50 13:00 | |
| Place: Webex link | |
| Speaker: Jan Lagerwall,Johanna Bruckner,Irvine Ong,Kirsten Harth,Yong Geng |
| Online Physics Seminar:Collisions of monopoles and disclinations in nematics |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 20 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Webex | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Pawel Pieranski,Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta. |
| Online Physics Colloquium:Quantum parameter estimation - from fundamentals to applications |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Manuel Gessner, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| Helping robots analyse their surroundings |
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| Published on Wednesday, 28 April 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have recently presented a new material which can become a key component of a new infrastructure designed to help robots understand their surroundings. T... |
| The future is now - how can humans and robots live together? |
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| Published on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 | |
| TRANSCEND is one of six new interdisciplinary research projects which received multi-year funding in the context of the Audacity funding instrument of the University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. |
| Physics Colloquium online |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 1.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Luca Ghiringhelli, invited by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
| Virtual PhD Thesis Defense:Liquid Crystal Shells: from Physics Mysteries, via Chemistry Challenges, to Biosensing Opportunities |
| Event date: Friday, 28 May 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 19:30 |
| Place: BSC 0.03 webex link: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=mfbabb907bf252c3cad7e7b1b7af85014 |
| Speaker: Talk by Anjali SHARMA, supervisor Prof. Jan Lagerwall |
| Magnetic materials analysis has never been so comprehensible |
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| Published on Monday, 31 May 2021 | |
| Professor Andreas Michels, physicist at the University of Luxembourg, explores the complex world of magnetic materials by shooting neutrons on them. He has now published his insights in a 380-page-... |
| Solar cell efficiency record: University of Luxembourg comes close |
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| Published on Tuesday, 08 June 2021 | |
| A solar cell developed by physicists from the University of Luxembourg and Uppsala University has recently been certified with an efficiency of 14%, which comes close to the world record of 15.5%.... |
| Physics Colloquium: Driving phase transition in ceramics: an overlooked asset for energy applications |
| Event date: Wednesday, 09 June 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences amphi BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Defay, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Physics Colloquium: Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS. 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Pr. Dr. Oleg Prezhdo, invited by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
| John Templeton Foundation grant to better understand the universe |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 | |
| Researcher Aurelia Chenu from the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembourg has recently received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in order to p... |
| MASSENA Young Scientist Conference 2021 |
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| Event date: Thursday, 24 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 8:30 25-06 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Sport Hotel Leweck Lepschter-Dellt L-9378 Lipperscheid Luxembourg |
| MASSENA Young Scientist Conference 2021 - 24th, 25th of June 2021 |
| Event date: Thursday, 24 June 2021 |
| Hour: 9:00 25-06 | 17:00 |
| Place: Leweck Resort Lepschter-Dellt 9378 Lipperscheid Luxembourg (+352) 99 00 22 info@sporthotel.lu |
| Thermodynamic cost of active materials |
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| Published on Monday, 28 June 2021 | |
| An international team of scientists, including Professor Etienne Fodor, a theoretical physicist from the University of Luxembourg, have recently studied the thermodynamic cost in active field theor... |
| LCL x FSTM Energy Seminar: Flexibility for the Energy System of the Future |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021 | |
| Hour: 17:00 18:30 | |
| Place: Campus Belval room MSA 3.510 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Ferdi Schüth, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung |
| Young scientists exchange about energy materials |
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| Published on Thursday, 08 July 2021 | |
| On 24-25 June 2021, the MASSENA Young Scientist Conference organised by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) gathered almost 70 young researche... |
| Physics Colloquium: Integrating Electronic Structure Theory and Machine Learning |
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| Event date: Thursday, 29 July 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Johannes Margraf, invited by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
| Luxembourg Olympiads in natural sciences: congrats to the winners! |
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| Published on Friday, 30 July 2021 | |
| On 1 July 2021, 18 secondary school students who won the Luxembourg Biology Olympiad, the Luxembourg Chemistry Olympiad and the Luxembourg Physics Olympiad were congratulated during the award cerem... |
| European scientists develop technology for protein identification |
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| Published on Thursday, 05 August 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg participates in PROTEIN-ID, a research consortium that aspires to create device able to generate a proteins identity card. The newly funded project will develop a metho... |
| Physics Seminar:INFRARED METAMATERIALS FOR THERMAL RADIATION, SENSING AND MANAGEMENT |
| Event date: Friday, 03 September 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 0.03 WEBEX |
| Speaker: Mr. Sreyash Sarkar, PhD Scholar at ESIEE PARIS, invited by Dr. Nicolò Maccaferri. |
| DyProSo 2021: International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids |
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| Event date: Monday, 06 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 08-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: University of Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg 162a rue de la Faïencerie Luxembourg. |
| Physicists exchange about dynamical properties of solids |
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| Published on Monday, 13 September 2021 | |
| From 6 to 8 September 2021, the university of Luxembourg hosted the 38th International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids (DyProSo 2021) on the campus Limpertsberg. The event,... |
| Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2021: discover the magic of science! |
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| Event date: Sunday, 19 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 10:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Campus Kirchberg: 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg: 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1511 Luxembourg |
| "Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg 2021": 560 Visitors Discover Our Labs |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 September 2021 | |
| On 19 September 2021, the University of Luxembourg welcomed 560 visitors on Kirchberg and Limpertsberg campus sites to discover the laboratories in engineering, space, mobility and physics in the f... |
| PhD defense: "Quantum Transport in topological condensed matter systems" |
| Event date: Wednesday, 22 September 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Libertsberg, BSC 007 WEBEX |
| Speaker: Talk by Johan EKSTRÖM, Supervisor Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| Hybrid Physics Colloquium: Mean-Field Dynamics in Neural Networks: Implications for Generalization and Applications |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 22 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Assistant Professor Grant Rotskoff, invited by Dr. Matteo Polettini |
| Statistical physics provides novel strategies for low-power computers |
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| Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with the University of Louvain have reported a comprehensive theory on how to construct rigorous stochastic models of complex electroni... |
| Statistical physics provides novel strategies for low-power computers |
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| Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with the University of Louvain have reported a comprehensive theory on how to construct rigorous stochastic models of complex electroni... |
| Physics Seminar:Half-integer charge injection by a Josephson junction without excess noise |
| Event date: Thursday, 23 September 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Dr. Fabian Hassler, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| Online Physics Colloquium:Using computational tissue biomechanics for improving cardiovascular healthcare: applications to the vasculature |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 29 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: webex link : https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=me5b82e8a79dfa938ff2ffd282406ccd4 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Ankush Aggarwal, University of Glasgow, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| PhD Thesis Defense:Electrospinning Core-Sheath Functional Fibers |
| Event date: Friday, 08 October 2021 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 0.03, WEBEX |
| Speaker: Talk by Shameek Vats,Supervisor: Professor Jan Lagerwall |
| Launch of the Luxembourgish EPS Young Minds team |
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| Published on Wednesday, 13 October 2021 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) have recently launched a national section of the European Physical Society (EPS) Young Mi... |
| Secondary school students learn more about energy |
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| Published on Friday, 22 October 2021 | |
| Students from the Lycée Michel Lucius participated in the energy balance workshop conceived by physicists and computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg. By doing experiments with renewa... |
| FNR Awards 2021: two researchers in mathematics & physics shortlisted |
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| Published on Monday, 25 October 2021 | |
| Mathematician Hugo Parlier and physicist Martin Stöhr from the University of Luxembourg have been shorlisted at the 13th edition of the FNR Awards. |
| Science Festival 2021: participate in our workshops! |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-11 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster + Musée national d’histoire naturelle |
| Hybrid Physics Colloquium: Dynamical Landscape and Multistability of the Earth’s Climate |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 17 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Professor Valerio Lucarini, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Science Festival 2021: researchers share their passion for science |
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| Published on Thursday, 18 November 2021 | |
| On the occasion of the Science Festival Luxembourg which took place on 11-14 November 2021 at Neumünster Abbey, researchers from the University of Luxembourg interacted with the general public to e... |
| PV Seminar : Electrical characterization of CIGSe solar cells and thin films with controlled alkali content |
| Event date: Thursday, 18 November 2021 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:30 |
| Place: Belvaux LIST Building : 41 rue du Brill, 4422 Belvaux room F011.A |
| Speaker: Prof. Małgorzata IGALSON, Warsaw University of Technology, invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| PhD Defense : Mohit SOOD |
| Event date: Friday, 19 November 2021 |
| Hour: 13:30 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Belval Maison du Savoir room MSA 4.520 |
| Speaker: Mohit Sood, Supervisor Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Hyperbolic metamaterials provide a novel strategy for nanophotonics |
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| Published on Monday, 22 November 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg in collaboration with international partners from Sweden, USA and Italy have reported on a novel magnetically tunable optical effect in a special kind o... |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Co-evaporation and scanning probe microscopy characterizations of hybrid halide perovskite thin films for solar cells |
| Event date: Friday, 26 November 2021 |
| Hour: 13:00 16:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences 0.03 |
| Speaker: Thibaut GALLET, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Alex Redinger |
| Hybrid Physics Colloquium:"Cubic and lamellar configurations of plant plastid membranes and their structural dynamics" |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 08 December 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Bâtiment des Sciences,room BSC 0.03 - Webex link | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Łucja Kowalewska,Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland,Invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Samuel LOURENCO JACOB |
| Event date: Monday, 13 December 2021 |
| Hour: 15:30 18:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Room BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Talk by Samuel LOURENCO JACOB, supervisor Professor Massimiliano Esposito |
| Two University professors on Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 December 2021 | |
| Professors Stéphane Bordas and Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine have been ranked among the world’s most influential academics on the “Highly Cited Researche... |
| Developing new protocols to better understand quantum systems |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021 | |
| Aurélia Chenu, who joined the University of Luxembourg in January 2021, recently won the prestigious ATTRACT funding from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) to create her own group in quan... |
| Enhancing and inhibiting protein aggregation in biomolecular condensates |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 12 January 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 19:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS. 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Associate Professor. Evan Spruijt, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Workshop: From materials innovation to autonomous robots |
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| Event date: Friday, 14 January 2022 | |
| Hour: 9:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Mohammad Reza KARIMPOUR |
| Event date: Friday, 14 January 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS. 2.01 |
| Speaker: Mohammad Reza KARIMPOUR, supervisor Professor Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
| Physics department workshop: developing synergies! |
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| Published on Tuesday, 18 January 2022 | |
| After a hiatus of over two-years caused by the pandemic, the second edition of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) workshop took place on 15 December 2021 at the Tramsscha... |
| PhD Thesis Defense : Sharif Shahini |
| Event date: Wednesday, 19 January 2022 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Sharif Shahini, under the supervision of Dr Giusy Scalia |
| Predicting protein structures: from AlphaFold2 to single sequence prediction |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 19 January 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 3.04 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Nazim Bouatta, invited by Professor Massimiliano Esposito |
| Physics Seminar : "Topology of the kagome and the honeycomb lattice in various physical systems" |
| Event date: Tuesday, 25 January 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg - BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Dr. Julian Legendre, École Polytechnique Paris, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| CANCELLED // PV Seminar : Metastabilities and ideality factors in silicon solar cells |
| Event date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:30 |
| Speaker: Prof. Jan Schmidt, Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin and Leibniz University Hannover, invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Jan Lagerwall obtains ERC Grant to produce smart mechanical sensors |
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| Published on Monday, 07 February 2022 | |
| Prof. Jan Lagerwall, physicist at the University of Luxembourg, has obtained a Proof-of-concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He will work on the production of sheets and fibres o... |
| Shedding light into mechanics of biological systems |
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| Published on Thursday, 10 February 2022 | |
| An interdisciplinary research article published in Nature Communications provides novel insights into collective mechanical forces induced by light absorbed in biological systems. This research is... |
| Multiscale modelling of bacterial populations |
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| Event date: Thursday, 24 February 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 3.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Philip Pearce, invited by Dr. Luke Davis |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Valentin VASSILEV GALINDO |
| Event date: Thursday, 03 March 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: Valentin VASSILEV GALINDO under the supervision of Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
| Tiny but Mighty: Atomic Forces at the Engineering Scale |
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| Published on Monday, 14 March 2022 | |
| An interdisciplinary manuscript reporting on a collaboration between physicists and computational engineers from the University of Luxembourg and Padova (Italy) has been published in Physical Revie... |
| Energy Seminar : "Demand side flexibility in energy systems" |
| Event date: Wednesday, 16 March 2022 |
| Hour: 17:00 18:30 |
| Place: Campus Belval room MSA 3.510 2 Avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Speaker: Prof. Asgeir Tomasgard, Denis Bauer and Prof. Gilbert Fridgen - Invited by Prof. P. Dale, As Prof. N. Löhndorf and Prof. S. Siebentritt |
| The University of Luxembourg leading research in thermodynamics |
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| Published on Friday, 18 March 2022 | |
| Molecular machines are the smallest machines ever built by mankind and such outstanding result has been sealed by the 2016 Nobel prize in Chemistry. But how do such machines really work? |
| Multiscale simulation approaches for probing biomolecular phase behaviour |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 29 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Jerelle A. Joseph Research Fellow, King’s College Cambridge, invited by Dr. Luke Davis |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Emanuele Penocchio |
| Event date: Wednesday, 30 March 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: Emanuele Penocchio, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Controlling self-assembly by chemical fuels |
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| Event date: Thursday, 31 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Thomas Hermans, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| ERC Advanced Grant on Quantum Materials for Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
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| Published on Tuesday, 26 April 2022 | |
| Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko, head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and professor of theoretical chemical physics at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded an Advanced G... |
| Physics Colloquium: 3D imaging of flow in porous materials: From rocks to termite nests |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 27 April 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 003 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Kamaljit Singh, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Dept. of Physics & Materials Science and LIST/MRT cohost PhD gathering |
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| Published on Tuesday, 03 May 2022 | |
| In the framework of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Materials Science (DPPM), the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) of the University of Luxembourg and the Department... |
| University researcher receives the first EIC grant in Luxembourg |
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| Published on Wednesday, 04 May 2022 | |
| A consortium including the University of Luxembourg has been awarded a prestigious PathFinder Open grant of the European Innovation Council (EIC) that supports innovative and disruptive t... |
| The Chemical Origins of Biological Metabolism |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 04 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.04 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Joseph Moran, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Characterization of the Surface Properties of Polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Using a Combination of Scanning Probe Microscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| Event date: Wednesday, 11 May 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Christian Kameni Boumenou, under the supervision of Prof. Dr Alex Redinger |
| Physics Seminar: “Ultra-fast charging of Dicke Quantum Batteries” |
| Event date: Tuesday, 24 May 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 003 |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Dario Ferraro, invited by Dr. Edvin Idrisov |
| BSc Physics student publishes breakthrough article on quantum chaos |
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| Published on Tuesday, 07 June 2022 | |
| The quest for the understanding of complex quantum systems and their properties occupies a central stage at the frontiers of physics, with applications ranging from material science to black holes.... |
| Seminar on Photonics in the context of collaboration with Centrale Supélec |
| Event date: Thursday, 09 June 2022 |
| Hour: 11:30 12:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg,BSC 003 WEBEX : https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m52280853b789f431a6ba9f89603b9eb3 |
| Speaker: Talk by Marc Sciamanna ,Titulaire de la Chaire – Professeur,CHAIRE PHOTONIQUE,CentraleSupélec - Campus de Metz-LMOPS , invited by Prof. Daniele Brida |
| International Team Identifies Neurotoxins generated by COVID-19 |
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| Published on Monday, 13 June 2022 | |
| New results from an international research team composed of the La Trobe and Swinburne Universities in Melbourne, ETH Zurich, and the University of Luxembourg, published in the peer reviewed Nature... |
| Physics Seminar: Observation of Universal Hall Response in Strongly Interacting Fermions |
| Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 003 |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Michele Filippone, University of Grenoble Alpes ,CEA, IRIG_MEM-L Sim, France, invited by Dr. Edvin Idrisov |
| PhD Defense: Evandro Martin Lanzoni |
| Event date: Monday, 27 June 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Evandro Martin Lanzoni, under the supervision of Prof. Alex Redinger |
| Dr Martin Stöhr wins Rolf Tarrach Prize 2022 |
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| Published on Wednesday, 13 July 2022 | |
| The 2022 award for the best PhD thesis of the University of Luxembourg was conferred to Dr Martin Stöhr, PhD in Physics, for his work “Van der Waals Dispersion Interactions in Biomolecular Systems:... |
| Physics Seminar:Light-activated 2D micro-swimmers in a thermotropic liquid crystal |
| Event date: Thursday, 14 July 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 003 |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Antonio Tavera-Vazquez,Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,Invited by Prof. Jan lagerwall |
| Motility-induced phase separation |
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| Event date: Monday, 18 July 2022 | |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Alexandre Solon, LPTMC, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, France, invited by Professor Etienne FODOR |
| Active Time Management: Strategies from the bacterial world |
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| Published on Friday, 22 July 2022 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how living systems - despite large differences at the level of individual properties - execute key biological processes in a timely manner. |
| PhD defense: Artem Malyeyev |
| Event date: Wednesday, 27 July 2022 |
| Hour: 11:00 13:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Artem Malyeyev, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Andreas Michels |
| ECOSS 35: The 35th European Conference on Surface Science |
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| Event date: Monday, 29 August 2022 | |
| Hour: 8:00 02-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Belval campus |
| Physics Seminar:Life at Interfaces- Challenges and Opportunities in the Miniaturization of Bioinspired Robots |
| Event date: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Talk by Assistant Professor Bat-El Pinchasik Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (Invited by Prof. Jan Lagerwall) |
| Hybrid Physics Seminar:How vital can the Drying Droplet method be? Insights into the pattern formation of the Bio-colloids |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpersberg, BSC 003 WEBEX link: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m5dd8adbccacdf6a94353bcc1e9614300 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Anusuya Pal, Department of Physics, University of Warwick Invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Authors meet PRL Editors Colloquium |
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| Event date: Thursday, 01 September 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Rocio Cortes, Associate Editor PRL at APS, invited by the Department of Physics and Materials Science |
| “Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg”: Visit University Labs |
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| Published on Thursday, 15 September 2022 | |
| The University of Luxembourg will participate in the 16th edition of the “Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg”. |
| Uni opens physics and engineering labs for 16th Portes Ouvertes |
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| Published on Wednesday, 21 September 2022 | |
| Following in previous years’ footsteps, the University of Luxembourg once again opened its physics and engineering laboratories to the public this year. |
| ECOSS 2022: University hosts successful surface science conference |
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| Published on Thursday, 22 September 2022 | |
| The 35th edition of the European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS) was held in the week of the 29 August - 02 September 2022 in the Maison du Savoir, the main building of the University of Luxe... |
| Hybrid Physics Seminar:Drop impact of complex fluids: shear jamming with free surfaces |
| Event date: Monday, 26 September 2022 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 0.03 WEBEX link : https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m70416406e7f7260b7a067ac80108c0e1 |
| Speaker: Talk by Professor Michelle Driscoll,Northwestern University, USA, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| CANCELLED ! Physics Seminar: Fraunhofer pattern in the presence of Majorana zero modes |
| Event date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 2.04 |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Dr. Patrik Recher,Technische Universität Braunschweig Institut für Mathematische Physik, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| Hybrid Physics Seminar:Topological (big) Data Analysis: From biology to cosmology and beyond |
| Event date: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg : BSC 004 Webex link : https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m77d0998160f3054e368b851e9e79be76 |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Pratyush Pranav,Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, France,Invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Colour-changing fibres for smart clothes |
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| Published on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 | |
| When we think about clothing, we usually think of it as something we wear to cover our body, convey our style and protect us from the environment. What if the cloth changes its visual appearance wh... |
| Hybrid Physics Seminar:Soft matter biomicrofluidics – from mimicking blood flows to cancer drug screening |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 12 October 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 2.01 WEBEX link : https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m64971c2e94b6d112d6ad5628ca901387 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Kiran Raj M,Macromolecules and Microsystems in Biology and Medicine Laboratory, Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche, UMR 168 Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes pour la Microfluidique (IPGG) Paris, France, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Professor Jorge Iñiguez named 2022 American Physical Society Fellow |
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| Published on Friday, 04 November 2022 | |
| Jorge Iñiguez, an affiliate professor of physics at the University of Luxembourg and a leading physicist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), has been elected fellow of the... |
| Active lipids enable intelligent swimming under nutrient limitation |
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| Published on Monday, 07 November 2022 | |
| Biophysicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how microplankton – key photosynthetic organisms which produce nearly 50% of the oxygen we breathe – adopt a thrifty lifestyle when nu... |
| Miniworkshop on “Future materials for CIGS solar cells” |
| Event date: Monday, 07 November 2022 |
| Hour: 9:30 12:00 |
| Place: Campus Belval - LIST building room F011.B |
| Speaker: Professor Marika Edoff-University of Uppsala, Dr Mohit Sood and Taowen Wang, PhD Student - University of Luxembourg |
| (Post)Modern Thermodynamics |
| Event date: Monday, 05 December 2022 |
| Hour: 8:30 09-12 | 18:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 2..01 & BS 0.03 |
| Phyisics Seminar: From single cells to filaments: a dance of geometry and motion |
| Event date: Monday, 19 December 2022 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg , BSC 003 webex link: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m1e81585df46babf0e6bf3fa3b90b8296 |
| Speaker: Talk by Speaker: Jan Cammann, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Danilo Forastiere |
| Event date: Tuesday, 20 December 2022 |
| Hour: 16:30 19:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 3.04 |
| Speaker: Danilo Forastiere under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Study shows efficiency of solar cells directly linked to R&D efforts |
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| Published on Tuesday, 03 January 2023 | |
| Professor Phillip Dale of the University of Luxembourg and Professor Mike Scarpulla of the University of Utah have discovered that researchers improve the efficiency of solar cells, the constituent... |
| A new approach for solving the dark energy mystery |
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| Published on Thursday, 26 January 2023 | |
| What is behind dark energy - and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg point the way to answering these open... |
| Physics department workshop: community building & synergy development |
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| Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2023 | |
| The annual workshop of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) was held on December 5th , 2022, at the Maison des Arts et des Etudiants on the Belval Campus. This event... |
| New algorithm enables simulation of complex quantum systems |
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| Published on Monday, 30 January 2023 | |
| An international team of scientists from the University of Luxembourg, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) at TU Berlin and Google has now successfully developed a ma... |
| (post)Modern Thermodynamics School and Workshop |
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| Published on Wednesday, 01 February 2023 | |
Organized by members of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and co-funded by the FNR and by the University of Luxembourg, the event (post)Modern Thermodynamics... |
| Significant advances in nonequilibrium physics |
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| Published on Monday, 20 February 2023 | |
| Phase transitions are ubiquitous in Nature and manifest in the sudden changes in the state of matter when the external conditions are varied. Cooling a piece of iron can turn it into a ferromagnet... |
| Prof. Siebentritt receives honorary doctorate from Uppsala University |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2023 | |
| Prof. Susanne Siebentritt from the Department of Physics at the University of Luxembourg has recently been awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. This distinction marks... |
| Physics Colloquium |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 22 February 2023 | |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Professor Masahito UEDA, invited by Associate Professor Aurelia CHENU |
| Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2022 in science |
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| Published on Friday, 24 February 2023 | |
| The Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (DSSE) at the University of Luxembourg has recently awarded 13 doctoral candidates for their outstanding doctoral thesis. Their research covers a wide... |
| Physics Colloquium |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023 | |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Hartmut LÖWEN, HHU Düsseldorf, invited by Prof. Etienne Fodor |
| Physics Colloquium |
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| Event date: Thursday, 16 March 2023 | |
| Hour: 12:00 15:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Raffaele Mezzenga, invited by Dr. Josh Berryman |
| Chercheurs à l’école 2023: researchers went back to school |
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| Published on Thursday, 23 March 2023 | |
| From 13 to 17 March 2023, 24 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) participated in the 12th edition of "Chercheurs à l’école" organised by the Luxembourg... |
| Physics Colloquium |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023 | |
| Hour: 12:00 15:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Pierre GASPARD, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Inaugural lecture: Statistical Mechanics of Active Matter |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 02 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 17:30 20:00 | |
| Place: University of Luxembourg Belval campus, Maison du Savoir, room 3.330 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Etienne Fodor |
