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First MASSENA Business Club Day |
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Published on Friday, 04 January 2019 | |
On 13 December 2018, the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) organised the first business club day of the Doctoral Training Unit "Materials f... |
PV Seminar - Deep level electrical spectroscopy in CIGS solar cells and thin films: results, questions and (a few) answers |
Event date: Friday, 11 January 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Campus Belval - LIST Bulding - Room G1.30 |
Speaker: Prof. Małgorzata Igalson |
“Physics meets Biology” meeting: fruitful interdisciplinary exchanges |
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Published on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 | |
What happens when physicists meet biologists? A dense and rich event with exciting presentations and lively discussions. This is how a recent initiative from the Physics an... |
New computational method reduces risk of drug formulation |
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Published on Thursday, 31 January 2019 | |
One major factor that determines the efficacy of a drug is the structure that its molecules form in a solid state. Changed structures can entail that pills stop functioning properly and are therefo... |
Physics Seminar: Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Harness the Promises of Liquid Crystals |
Event date: Thursday, 07 February 2019 |
Hour: 10:15 12:15 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences BSC 1.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Irvine Ong |
Fractional charges in conventional sequential electron tunneling |
Event date: Tuesday, 12 February 2019 |
Hour: 11:00 12:00 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences Room 1.04 |
Speaker: Dr Roman RIWAR |
Seminar Invitation: Nanofibers and cotton finishes from thermoresponsive block copolymers |
Event date: Thursday, 14 February 2019 |
Hour: 16:30 18:30 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences - BSC 1.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Margaret Frey |
Ph.D. Defense: Confined in a fiber: Realizing flexible gas senstors by electrospinning liquid crystals |
Event date: Friday, 15 February 2019 |
Hour: 15:00 18:00 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences - Room BSC 0.03 |
Speaker: Ph.D. Student Catherine REYES |
PV Seminar : Advanced Materials and Processes for Perowskite-Based Tandem PV |
Event date: Tuesday, 19 February 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Maison du Savoir - room 4.520 |
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich W. Paetzold |
From Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials to Materials Chemistry |
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Event date: Wednesday, 27 February 2019 | |
Hour: 11:00 12:30 | |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences | |
Speaker: Dr. Volker Deringer, University of Cambridge |
Inaugural lecture Prof. Daniele Brida |
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Event date: Thursday, 28 February 2019 | |
Hour: 18:00 20:00 | |
Place: Limpertsberg Campus – BSC, Room 003 | |
Speaker: Prof. Daniele Brida |
Scientists study method for researching magnetic materials |
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Published on Wednesday, 06 March 2019 | |
Physicists from the University of Luxembourg and their research partners have demonstrated for the first time in a comprehensive study how different magnetic materials can be examined using neutron... |
Seminar: Research Ethics for Physicists |
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Event date: Wednesday, 13 March 2019 | |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences BSC – 2.03 | |
Speaker: Dr. Katrina Bramstedt invited by Professor Susanne Siebentritt |
PhD Defence : The cause of interface recombination in Cu-rich CIS thin film solar cells |
Event date: Friday, 15 March 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Maison du Savoir - Room 3.370 |
Speaker: Hossam Elanzeery |
Physics Colloquium: Building towards bio-mechanical fluidic machines |
Event date: Wednesday, 20 March 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr Tyler Schendruk invited by Professor Anupam Sengupta |
Physics Colloquium: Using Disorder or Liquid Electrolyte Gating to Design and Control Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Materials |
Event date: Friday, 22 March 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: BSC 1.03 |
Speaker: Dr Julie Karel invited by RU PHYMS |
Physics Seminar: Majorana nanowire with unconventional superconductivity and RKKY interaction in Borophene |
Event date: Tuesday, 26 March 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences BSC 2.04 |
Speaker: Paul Ganesh invited by Prof. Thomas Schmidt |
Physics Colloquium: Dynamics and control of open quantum systems |
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Event date: Wednesday, 27 March 2019 | |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
Place: BSC 2.04 | |
Speaker: Dr Aurelia Chenu invited by Professor Massimiliano Esposito |
Colloquium: New aspects of quantum impurities: topology and how to realize anyons |
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Event date: Friday, 29 March 2019 | |
Hour: 14:00 15:00 | |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences BSC 2.04 | |
Speaker: Dr. Enderalp Yakaboylu invited by RU PHYMS |
Physics Seminar: Protein Energy Landscapes seen by Neutron Scattering |
Event date: Wednesday, 03 April 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 17:30 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences BSC 1.03 |
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gerald Kneller invited by Professor Andreas Michels |
Adaptive algorithm for sampling large deviation functions |
Event date: Monday, 08 April 2019 |
Hour: 13:00 17:00 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences Room BS 004 |
Speaker: Gregoire FERRE invited by Professor Massimiliano Esposito |
Physics Colloquium: Orderly Self-Assembling and Mechanochemically Disassembling Materials for Catalysis |
Event date: Thursday, 11 April 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg - Bâtiment des Sciences 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Pit Losch invited by the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit |
Physics Colloquium: When electrons meet light: attosecond coherent control of matter waves for low-dimensional phonics |
Event date: Friday, 12 April 2019 |
Hour: 4:00 6:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BSC 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Gianmaria Vanacore - invited by Professor Ludger Wirtz |
Physics Colloquium: Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers - a bit of a stretch ! |
Event date: Wednesday, 24 April 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: BSC 2.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Helen Gleeson invited by Professor Jan Lagerwall |
Physics Seminar: Advanced Materials from Anisotropic Nanomaterial Dispersions |
Event date: Thursday, 02 May 2019 |
Hour: 13:00 15:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Room 1.03 |
Speaker: Talk by Dr. Virginia A. Davis |
General Assembly : Doctoral Programme in Physics and Materials Science |
Event date: Friday, 03 May 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Maison du Savoir - room 3.040 |
Phd Defense: Self-Organizing Cellulose Nanocrystals: From the fundamental physical chemistry of self-assembly to the preparation of functional films |
Event date: Friday, 03 May 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Room BSC 2.01 |
Speaker: Camila Honorato under Supervision of Prof. Jan Lagerwall |
Physics Seminar: Frontiers of Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics |
Event date: Tuesday, 07 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Cecilia Clementi, Rice University, Houston, Texas, invited by Prof. Tkatchenko |
Physics Colloquium: Machine Learning for Molecular Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics |
Event date: Wednesday, 08 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: BSC 2.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Frank Noé invited by Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko |
PhD defence : Optical investigation of voltage losses in high-efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells |
Event date: Thursday, 09 May 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Maison des Sciences Humaines LISER conference room - 2nd floor room 1.090-2.240 |
Speaker: Max Wolter, under the supervision of Prof. Susanne Siebentritt |
Physics Seminar : Strong and smart shape memory polymer fibers |
Event date: Friday, 10 May 2019 |
Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Philippe Poulin, invited by Prof. Giusy Scalia |
Physics Seminar : Aligned carbon nanotube assemblies for high-performance CNT applications including Space Elevator |
Event date: Monday, 13 May 2019 |
Hour: 10:00 11:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Yoku Inoue, invited by Prof. Giusy Scalia |
Physics Seminar : Acoustic Metasurfaces |
Event date: Monday, 13 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
Speaker: Prof. John Roy Sambles, invited by Prof. Giusy Scalia |
Physics Colloquium: Geometry, defects and motion in active matte |
Event date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: BSC 2.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Luca Giomi invited by Professor Anupam Sengupta |
Physics Colloquium : Machine Learning Approaches for an Atomistic Understanding of Amorphous Functional Materials |
Event date: Monday, 20 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsbeg Bâtiment des Sciences Room 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Volker L. Deringer, invited by PHYMS RU |
Physics Colloquium: Cation mutation in hybrid perovskites: solubility limits and phase stabilizing effects |
Event date: Wednesday, 22 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Maison du Savoir Room 3.530 |
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Susan Schorr invited by Professor Susanne Siebentritt |
Physics beyond physics: secondary school teachers meet researchers |
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Published on Tuesday, 28 May 2019 | |
On 6 May 2019, the Scienteens Lab organised an afternoon of training for Luxembourgish teachers on Limpertsberg campus. Titled “Physics beyond physics: From liquid crystal-enabled design to microbe... |
Physics Seminar: Feedback Control with Minimum Directed Information |
Event date: Tuesday, 28 May 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 0.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Henrik Sandberg invited by Prof. Massimiliano Esposito |
Physics Colloquium: Coherent Coulom drag effect in double quantum dots |
Event date: Monday, 03 June 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: BSC 1.03 |
Speaker: Dr Rosa Lopez invited by Professor Massimiliano Esposito |
Physics Seminar: Why one can never get bored of optics - investigations of soft materials with optical methods |
Event date: Tuesday, 04 June 2019 |
Hour: 13:30 14:30 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Room BSC 1.04 |
Speaker: Talk by Prof. Irena Drevenšek Olenik invited by Prof. Jan Lagerwall |
Physics Seminar: Microbial response to surfaces in aquatic environments |
Event date: Thursday, 06 June 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg: BSC 0.04 |
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Grossart invited by Prof. Anupam Sengupta |
First PHYMS Workshop of the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit |
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Event date: Thursday, 13 June 2019 | |
Hour: 8:45 17:30 | |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences - Room 0.03 | |
Speaker: RU PHYMS members |
Physics Colloquium: Rescuing the kinetic properties of coarse-grained simulation models |
Event date: Monday, 24 June 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences Room BSC 1.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Joseph F. RUDZINSKI invited by PHYMS RU |
Physics Colloquium: Talk by Dr. Etienne FODOR invited by RU PHYMS |
Event date: Tuesday, 25 June 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Bâtiment des Sciences BSC 1.04 |
Physics Colloquium : Disease Ecology: Physics point of view |
Event date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, invited by Prof. Massimiliano Esposito |
Physics Seminar: The biochemical Szilard engine with applications to inference and computing |
Event date: Thursday, 18 July 2019 |
Hour: 11:00 12:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences - room 2.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Rory BRITTAIN invited by Prof. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
Physics Seminar : Mesoscale fluctuational electrodynamics: modeling and bounds, from molecules to continuous media |
Event date: Friday, 19 July 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 15:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences - room 0.03 |
Speaker: Mr. Prashanth Venkataram, invited by Prof. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
Physics Seminar : Molecular mechanics models for biomolecular simulations:accuracy and transferability |
Event date: Wednesday, 24 July 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences - room 2.04 |
Speaker: Associate Professor Sameer Varma, invited by Prof. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
Physics Colloquium : The Colorful Palette of 2D-Materials:Defects, Shapes, and Growth |
Event date: Friday, 26 July 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 16:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences - room 2.04 |
Speaker: Professor Boris I. Yakobson, invited by Prof. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
Physics Seminar : Role of Topological Phases in Quantum Molecular Dynamics |
Event date: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 |
Hour: 11:00 12:30 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences - room 2.04 |
Speaker: Associate Professor Artur Izmaylov, invited by Prof. Alexandre TKATCHENKO |
Physics Colloquium: Geometric phases and the separation of the world |
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Event date: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 | |
Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des Sciences Room 0.03 | |
Speaker: Prof. Sir Michael Berry, invited by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko |
Phd Defense: First-principles high-throughput study of linear and nonlinear optical materials |
Event date: Friday, 30 August 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg Room BSC 0.03 |
Speaker: Francesco NACCARATO under joint supervision of Prof. Ludger Wirtz (University of Luxembourg) and Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese (UCL Louvain) |
PhD Defence: Thermodynamics and Aggregation Kinetics of Lysozyme-Derived Peptides |
Event date: Monday, 02 September 2019 |
Hour: 13:30 15:00 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Room BSC 0.04 |
Speaker: Ali Asghar HAKAMI ZANJANI under joint supervision of Dr. Josh Berryman (University of Luxembourg) and Prof. Dr. Tanja Schilling (University of Freiburg/Germany) |
Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg: visit our labs in physics and engineering |
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Event date: Sunday, 22 September 2019 | |
Hour: 10:00 18:00 | |
Place: Physics: Campus Limpertsberg, 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1511 Luxembourg Engineering: Campus Kirchberg, 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg |
Physics Seminar: A chemical view on artificial energy transduction |
Event date: Monday, 23 September 2019 |
Hour: 11:00 12:30 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 1.04 |
Speaker: Dr. Giulio Ragazzon invited by Prof. Massimiliano ESPOSITO |
Portes Ouvertes Luxembourg: more than 400 visitors! |
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Published on Tuesday, 24 September 2019 | |
On 22 September 2019, the University of Luxembourg welcomed more than 400 visitors on Limpertsberg and Kirchberg campus sites to discover the laboratories for Physics and Engineering. |
Physics Colloquium: Polarized neutrons and magnetism |
Event date: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 |
Hour: 16:00 17:30 |
Place: Campus Limpertsberg: Bâtiment des Sciences – room 2.04 |
Speaker: Artem Goukassov, invited by Prof. Andreas Michels |
PhD Defence: First-principles approaches to the description of indirect absorption and luminescence spectroscopy: exciton-phonon coupling in hexagonal boron nitride |
Event date: Monday, 30 September 2019 |
Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
Place: Campus Limprtsberg Bâtiment des Sciences - BSC 2.01 |
Speaker: Fulvio Paleari, under the supervision of Prof. Ludger Wirtz |
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 |
POSTPONED to February 24th, 2021 - Energy Seminar: Flexibility for the Energy System of the Future |
Event date: Monday, 24 February 2020 |
Hour: 17:00 18:30 |
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 |
Energy Seminar: Flexibility for the Energy System of the Future |
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Event date: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 | |
Hour: 17:00 18:30 | |
Speaker: Prof. Ferdi Schüth, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung |
DyProSo 2021: International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids |
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Event date: Sunday, 05 September 2021 | |
Hour: 9:00 09-09 | 18:00 | |
Place: University of Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg 162a rue de la Faïencerie Luxembourg. |