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| Physics Colloquium : Operando photoelectron spectroscopy for the characterization of solar cells |
| Event date: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Belval Maison du Savoir – room 3.010 |
| Speaker: Ass. Prof. Ute Cappel - Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Physics Colloquium: Nature’s amazing labyrinths: Bicontinuous phases in biology and material |
| Event date: Thursday, 03 October 2019 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room 1.03 |
| Speaker: Prof. Gerd Schröder Turk, Murdoch University in Perth, Invited by Prof. Ludger Wirtz |
| Physics Seminar: Ultrafast optoelectronics in materials with topological order |
| Event date: Thursday, 03 October 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 1.04 |
| Speaker: Dr Christoph Kastl, invited by Professor Thomas Schmidt |
| Physics Seminar: Quantum spin Hall quantum point contacts |
| Event date: Wednesday, 09 October 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Room BSC 2.04 |
| Speaker: Christoph Fleckenstein |
| Physics Colloquium: Lattice dynamics, phonons and mechanics in disordered and dissipative systems |
| Event date: Thursday, 10 October 2019 |
| Hour: 9:00 10:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room BS 0.04 |
| Speaker: Prof. Alessio Zaccone, University of Milan, Invited by Physics Research Unit |
| Physics Colloquium: Non-equilibrium processes in biosystems: active membrane fluctuations and the formation of cell aggregates |
| Event date: Thursday, 10 October 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences –room BS 0.04 |
| Speaker: Prof. Dmitry Fedosov, Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, Invited by Physics Research unit |
| Physics Seminar: The Physics of Bioemulsions |
| Event date: Friday, 11 October 2019 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg BSC 0.15 |
| Speaker: Talk by Elizabeth K.Mann |
| Ph.D. Defense: Liquid Metals and Liquid Crystals Subject to Flow: From Fundamental Fluid Physics to Functional Fibers |
| Event date: Friday, 11 October 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Room BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Lawrence W. Honaker |
| PhD defense: Liquid Metals and Liquid Crystals Subject to Flow: From Fundamental Fluid Physics to Functional Fibers |
| Event date: Friday, 11 October 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Limpertsberg Campus, 0.03 |
| Speaker: Lawrence William HONAKER |
| Physics Colloquium: Recent research using polarized neutrons on some not-very-recent materials |
| Event date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
| Speaker: Ross Stewart, invited by Prof. Andreas Michels |
| Surfing on waves in a one-dimensional quantum liquid |
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| Published on Thursday, 17 October 2019 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg, together with international collaborators, have recently published an article in the internationally renowned journal Physical Review Letters. In this... |
| Physics Colloquium: Unraveling the potential of nanostructures in molecular detection: a modeling paradigm |
| Event date: Thursday, 17 October 2019 |
| Hour: 9:00 10:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room BS 1.03 |
| Speaker: Prof. Maria Fyta, University of Stuttgart, Invited by Physics Research Unit |
| Physics Colloquium: Molecular simulations of biological interfaces: living dangerously out-of equilibrium |
| Event date: Thursday, 17 October 2019 |
| Hour: 13:00 14:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room BS 1.03 |
| Speaker: Prof. Stefano Vanni, University of Fribourg, Invited by Physics Research Unit |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko elected as American Physical Society Fellow |
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| Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 | |
| For the first time in Luxembourg, a physicist has been recognised by the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding contributions to physics. Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Physics an... |
| Thermodynamics 2.0: New thermodynamic framework for cells |
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| Published on Monday, 21 October 2019 | |
| Physicists at the University of Luxembourg have developed theoretical tools to analyse and optimise chemical engines ranging from simple chemical reaction networks to complex metabolic pathways. |
| FNR Award 2019 for physicist Riccardo Rao |
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| Published on Monday, 28 October 2019 | |
| Riccardo Rao, former doctoral candidate at the University of Luxembourg, received the 2019 FNR Award in the category Outstanding PhD Thesis for his project entitled “Conservation Laws i... |
| Physics Seminar: Mobile impurity and Nonlinear Luttinger Liquid |
| Event date: Tuesday, 29 October 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg - BRB 2.12 |
| Speaker: Dr. Oleksandr Gamayun, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| Physics Colloquium: Local structure and configurational entropy in liquids |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 06 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences - Room BS 0.04 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Francesco TURCI, invited by Dr. Matteo POLETTINI |
| Physics Seminar: Aggregation and coalescence of partially crystalline emulsion drops investigated using optical tweezers |
| Event date: Tuesday, 12 November 2019 |
| Hour: 11:00 13:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 1.04 |
| Speaker: Dr. Mariela Rodriguez Otazo, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| PV Seminar : Nanoribbon antimony selenide solar cells |
| Event date: Tuesday, 12 November 2019 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Campus Belval Maison du Savoir – room 4.510 |
| Speaker: Dr Jon Major, University of Liverpool, invited by Prof. Phillip Dale |
| Physics Colloquium:Stimuli-responsive and active soft matter |
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| Event date: Thursday, 14 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 9:00 10:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 1.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Andreas Menzel invited by Physics Research Unit. |
| Physics Colloquium:Quantum machine learning and perturbation theory for accelerated exploration of compound space |
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| Event date: Thursday, 14 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 13:00 14:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences - Room BSC 1.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Anatole Von Lilienfeld invited by Physics Research Unit |
| Award Ceremony of the European Solar Prize 2019 |
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| Event date: Friday, 15 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 13:30 19:30 | |
| Place: Belval campus, Maison des Art et des Etudiants |
| AI algorithm can learn the laws of quantum mechanics |
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| Published on Monday, 18 November 2019 | |
| An interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, and computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Warwick and the Technical University of Berlin have developed a deep... |
| Physics Colloquium: Halide Perovskites: Is it all about the interfaces? |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 20 November 2019 | |
| Hour: 15:30 17:30 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 | |
| Speaker: Philip Schulz, invited by Prof. Alex Redinger |
| The “Physics meets Biology” website is launched! |
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| Published on Thursday, 21 November 2019 | |
| Physicists and biologists from the University of Luxembourg have recently launched the "Physics meets Biology" website. This initiative combines expertise in condensed matter physics... |
| New opportunities for proteins identification using nanotechnology |
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| Published on Friday, 22 November 2019 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg and their international research partners have reported a comprehensive perspective on how novel nanoscale tools called plasmonic nanopores might improv... |
| Physics Seminar: Emergence of phytoplankton patchiness at small scales in mild turbulence |
| Event date: Monday, 25 November 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 0.10 |
| Speaker: Dr. Marco Mazza, invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Physics Colloquium: Thermodynamics Meets Quantum Mechanics–Subtleties, Challenges, and Future developments |
| Event date: Wednesday, 27 November 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
| Speaker: Joachim Ankerhold, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| Physics Seminar : Out of equilibrium chemical network: Dissipation shapes selection |
| Event date: Friday, 29 November 2019 |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg BS 1.03 |
| Speaker: Dr. Daniel Maria Busiello, Laboratory of Statistical Biophysics, EPFL, Lausanne - Invited by Prof. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Graduation Ceremony of the Saar-Lor-Lux Bachelor programme in Physics |
| Event date: Friday, 06 December 2019 |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsbert, Bâtiment des Sciences, Auditoire E01-004 |
| Graduation Ceremony Saar-Lor-Lux Bachelor programme in physics |
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| Event date: Friday, 06 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 | |
| Place: Université du Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg, auditoire BS 0.04 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg |
| Physics Colloquium: Understanding Collective Phenomena in Molecular and Hybrid Crystals from First Principles |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 10 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sicences, BSC 3.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Leeor KRONIK, invited by Prof. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
| Physics Seminar: Entropy production bounds under Hamiltonian and rate matrix constraints |
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| Event date: Thursday, 12 December 2019 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:30 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences - Room BS 2.04 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Artemy KOLCHINSKY, invited by Prof. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
| Surfing on Quantum Waves: protein folding revisited |
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| Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 | |
| Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg have now unambiguously shown that quantum-mechanical wavelike interactions are indeed crucial even at the scale of natural biological processes. |
| Physics Colloquium: Image Scanning Microscopy and Metal Induced Energy Transfer: Enhancing Microscopy Resolution in All Directions |
| Event date: Wednesday, 18 December 2019 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg Enderlein invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Physics Colloquium - Universal dynamics across a phase transition: from condensed matter to quantum computing |
| Event date: Monday, 06 January 2020 |
| Hour: 9:00 10:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Bâtiment des Sciences – room BS 1.03 |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Adolfo Del Campo invited by Physics and Materials Science Department |
| Physics Colloquium- Superradiance of two-dimensional molecular aggregates |
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| Event date: Monday, 06 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 13:00 14:00 | |
| Place: Limpertsberg Campus 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Bâtiment des Sciences – room BS 1.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Alexander Eisfeld invited by Physics and Materials Science Department |
| Taming ultrafast electrons with light |
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| Published on Thursday, 09 January 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with European researchers have exploited light to control the motion of electrons in a metallic nanocircuit. This could have major implications... |
| Physics Seminar: Stochastic thermodynamics with hidden degrees of freedom |
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| Event date: Monday, 13 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 2.04 | |
| Speaker: Jannik EHRICH, Invited by Prof. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
| Photonics Online Meetup (POM) |
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| Event date: Monday, 13 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 20:00 14-01 | 1:00 | |
| Place: Live-streaming Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 1.03 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Mete Atature, University of Cambridge - Prof. Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania - Prof. Mercedeh Khajavikhan CREOL, Florida |
| Physics Seminar: Tracking microscale nematic flows with small angle X-ray scattering |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 21 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences- room 0.07 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Paul Steffen invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
| Big Data at the Nanoscale |
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| Published on Wednesday, 22 January 2020 | |
| An international team of scientists, including physicists from the University of Luxembourg, have reported a comprehensive view-point on how machine learning approaches can be used in Nanoscience t... |
| 1.2 million euros to explore information, irreversibility and energy |
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| Published on Monday, 27 January 2020 | |
| Prof. Massimiliano Esposito from the University of Luxembourg together with international scientists have been awarded a large grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) to explore... |
| Physics Seminar: Real Time Path Integral Approaches to Dynamics and Eigenstates of Quantum Particles |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 28 January 2020 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 1.04 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Tapio RANTALA, invited by Prof. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
| How a surface treatment improves the inside of a solar cell |
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| Published on Monday, 03 February 2020 | |
| In the frame of the European project Sharc25, physicists from the University of Luxembourg with European experts have succeeded in explaining the recent efficiency improvements in thin film solar c... |
| Physics Colloquium:"On the mechanics of a Volvox embryo turning itself inside out" |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 05 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences – room BSC 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Pierre Haas,University of Cambridge |
| Physics Colloquium: Speaker Mohan SRINIVASARAO invited by Prof. Jan Lagerwall |
| Event date: Wednesday, 12 February 2020 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: cb bsc 1.03 |
| Speaker: Mohan SRINIVASARAO |
| Physics Colloquium: Quasiparticle approach to molecules rotating in quantum solvents |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 | |
| Hour: 4:00 5:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BSC 2.01 | |
| Speaker: Professor Mikhail Lemeshko, invited by Professor Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
| Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: award for physicist Irvine Ong |
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| Published on Friday, 28 February 2020 | |
| Irvine Ong, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg has been recently awarded the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from the E... |
| Physics Colloquium:The versatility of polyelemental perovskite compositions |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 11 March 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg , room BSC 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Professor Michael Saliba,Technical University of Darmstadt, invited by Professor Daniele Brida and Dr. Nicolò Maccaferri |
| Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: award for physicist Daniel Barragan |
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| Published on Monday, 30 March 2020 | |
| Daniel Barragan-Yani, postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg, has recently been awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship f... |
| Engineering meets Quantum Mechanics |
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| Published on Friday, 03 April 2020 | |
| In an interdisciplinary collaboration between computational engineers and physicists from the University of Luxembourg, published in Nature Communications, a method combining quantum and conti... |
| New Bachelors in Engineering, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg will launch four new Bachelor programmes – in engineering, medicine, physics and mathematics - starting in September 2020. |
| Doctoral research in law and physics boosted by PRIDE Grants |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 April 2020 | |
| The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has awarded two PRIDE Grants to the University of Luxembourg. The grants will support the research work of 27 PhD candidates and represent a total financ... |
| Progress for Alzheimer and Parkinson‘s treatments |
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| Published on Wednesday, 22 April 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with scientists from Australia, China and Switzerland have recently studied amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's by using a part... |
| Physics Colloquium: Speaker Francesca SERRA invited by Professor Jan Lagerwall |
| Event date: Wednesday, 22 April 2020 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg BSC 0.03 |
| Speaker: Francesca SERRA |
| CANCELLED // Physics Colloquium : Multi-microscopy of defects in nitride semiconductors |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval Maison du Savoir - room 3.370 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Rachel Oliver, Invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Webex Physics Colloquium: Conflicts and synergies between individuality and collective behavior |
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| Event date: Monday, 18 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Speaker: Associate Professor Thierry Emonet, invited by Professor Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Friday, 22 May 2020 | |
| Anupam Sengupta, Professor within the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg, is principal investigator of the COVID-19 research project "V-SIDE: Virus-Sur... |
| Virtual Chalcogenide Photovoltaic Conference 2020 |
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| Event date: Monday, 25 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 8:30 28-05 | 17:00 |
| CANCELLED // Physics Colloquium:Levitons:on-demand electrons for Electron Quantum Optics |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 27 May 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Christian Glattli,CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, France, invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
| [Article series] The experts behind Luxembourg's COVID-19 fight |
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| Published on Monday, 22 June 2020 | |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko is the principal investigator of a large international consortium of physicists, chemists, mathematicians and computer scientists, aiming to investigate the fundamental mechani... |
| Academic promotions announced |
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| Published on Friday, 26 June 2020 | |
| The University of Luxembourg is pleased to announce the following academic promotions. |
| PhD Defense : Optical Defect Spectroscopy in CuInS2 Thin Films and Solar Cells |
| Event date: Monday, 29 June 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Belval - Virtual PhD Thesis Defense |
| Speaker: Alberto Lomuscio, under the supervision of Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| A step forward towards photonic circuits with metamaterials |
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| Published on Tuesday, 07 July 2020 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and their international research partners have recently reported how a special kind of artificial materials, called epsilon-near-zero metamaterials<... |
| Towards a new way of producing solar cells? |
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| Published on Monday, 20 July 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg together with international scientists have investigated the oxidation process of solar cell materials whose results could change the current way of pro... |
| Webex PV Seminar : CIGSe Based Solar Cells and Beyond |
| Event date: Wednesday, 29 July 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: Webex |
| Speaker: Dr. Manjusha Chugh - University of Paderborn - Germany, Invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Physicists pin down the pay off between speed and entropy |
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| Published on Thursday, 27 August 2020 | |
| Researchers Massimiliano Esposito and Gianmaria Falasco from the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg have developed a valuable tool to manipulate non-equilib... |
| Neutron scattering provides new insights into nanoparticles |
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| Published on Friday, 11 September 2020 | |
| Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Salamanca and from General Numerics Research Lab in Germany have investigated the spin structure of nanoparticles. Their findings ha... |
| Using Machine Learning to combat the Coronavirus |
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| Published on Monday, 14 September 2020 | |
| The intensive binding of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on human host cells appears to be a significant factor in the virus’s high infectiousness. A joint team of researchers from the University of L... |
| Webex PV Seminar: Epitaxial CIGS solar cells on GaAs, grown by MBE |
| Event date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
| Place: WEBEX (Campus Belval) |
| Speaker: Dr. Jiro Nishinaga, Senior Research Scientist at AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Tsukuba, Japan, Invited by Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
| Cellulose: an ever-present material with remarkable properties |
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| Published on Wednesday, 07 October 2020 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg have recently made significant steps forward in resolving some of the outstanding research questions about cellulose. Their findings have been published... |
| POSTPONED- New date TBC - International Conference on Sensors and Energy Harversters, organized by MASSENA candidates |
| Event date: Thursday, 15 October 2020 |
| Hour: 9:00 16-10 | 18:00 |
| Place: Sport Hotel Leweck |
| Innovative use of machine learning for discoveries in chemistry |
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| Published on Friday, 16 October 2020 | |
| Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko and his research team at the University of Luxembourg have been awarded grants totalling 500,000 euros to conduct research in the emerging field of machine learning metho... |
| New Professor in Physics of Active Matter |
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| Published on Tuesday, 20 October 2020 | |
| Etienne Fodor has recently joined the University of Luxembourg as Professor in Physics of Active Matter. |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Problems in Nonequilibrium Fluctuations Across Scales: a path integral approach |
| Event date: Wednesday, 21 October 2020 |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: Tommaso COSSETTO, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
| Nanoscience Global Lecture |
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| Event date: Friday, 23 October 2020 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Online |
| Thesis Defense: Van der Waals Dispersion Interactions in Biomolecular Systems: Quantum-Mechanical Insights and Methodological Advances |
| Event date: Wednesday, 11 November 2020 |
| Hour: 15:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BS 0.03, a WebEx session is also scheduled |
| Speaker: Martin STOEHR, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
| Two University professors on Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list |
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| Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 | |
| 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... |
| Physics meets Biology Webinar: |
| Event date: Wednesday, 18 November 2020 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: webex |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Noel CLARK,University of Colorado, at Boulder (invited by Prof. Jan Lagerwall) |
| Thesis Defense: Pressure Sensing with Nematic Liquid Crystal and Carbon Nanotube Networks |
| Event date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 |
| Hour: 10:00 12:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, BSC 0.03, a WebEx session is also scheduled |
| Speaker: Meenu MURALI, under the supervision of Dr. Giusy Scalia |
| Physics meets Biology Webinar |
| Event date: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Webinar |
| Speaker: Dr. Nazim BOUATTA, invited by Prof. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
| New ERC grant to develop novel chemical discovery platform |
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| Published on Thursday, 07 January 2021 | |
| Alexandre Tkatchenko, professor of theoretical chemical physics at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded a Proof-of-Concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a nove... |
| Modifying molecular interactions by squeezing molecules |
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| Published on Monday, 11 January 2021 | |
| In a paper published in Nature Communications on 08 January 2021, the Theoretical Chemical Physics group, from the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) at the University of Luxembou... |
| Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2020 in science |
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| Published on Friday, 22 January 2021 | |
| The Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (DSSE) at the University of Luxembourg has recently awarded nine doctoral candidates for their outstanding doctoral thesis. The research topics includ... |
| Virtual PhD Thesis Defense : Tight-binding perspective on excitons in hexagonal boron nitride |
| Event date: Friday, 22 January 2021 |
| Hour: 10:00 11:45 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg BSC 0.03 and WEBEX link |
| Speaker: PhD student Thomas Galvani, under the supervison of Professor Ludger Wirtz |
| Physics meets Biology online Colloquium |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 27 January 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Webex | |
| Speaker: Dr. Philippe NGHE, Associate Professor ESPCI, invited by Prof. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
| Surviving turbulent times: lessons from the phytoplankton |
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| Published on Tuesday, 02 February 2021 | |
| Physicists from the University of Luxembourg, together with scientists from Sweden, Israel and Switzerland, have established mechanistic links between physiological stress and migratory behaviour i... |
| Webinar: Ultraprecise computations for small molecules |
| Event date: Thursday, 04 February 2021 |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 |
| Place: Webinar |
| Speaker: Dr. Edit Matyus, invited by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
| Virtual Master Thesis Defense: Multimode behavior in the Raman spectra of (Mo,W)S2 alloys |
| Event date: Friday, 05 February 2021 |
| Hour: 13:00 14:30 |
| Place: Webex Link |
| Speaker: Muralidhar Nalabothula, Supervisor Prof. Ludger Wirtz |
| Two researchers reinforce the quantum physics team |
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| Published on Wednesday, 10 February 2021 | |
| As of January 2021, Professor Adolfo del Campo and Dr. Aurélia Chenu have joined the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DphyMS) at the University of Luxembourg to establish the “Quantum S... |
| Physics meets Biology online Colloquium |
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| Event date: Monday, 22 February 2021 | |
| Hour: 15:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Webinar | |
| Speaker: Dr. Pierre RONCERAY, invited by Assistant Prof. Étienne FODOR |
| Online Energy Seminar: Green Hydrogen – The Fuel of the Future? |
| Event date: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 |
| Hour: 17:00 19:00 |
| Speaker: Dr. Pit Losch, Advisor - Renewable Energies, Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning - Dr. Florian Ausfelder, Team Leader - Energy, DECHEMA - Dr. Gaston Trauffler, Head of Industrial Policy - FEDIL |
| 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... |
