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| 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... |
| 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 |
| PhD Thesis Defense: Emanuele Penocchio |
| Event date: Wednesday, 30 March 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: Emanuele Penocchio, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Physics Colloquium: talk by Prof. Thomas Hermans |
| Event date: Thursday, 31 March 2022 |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, Room BS 0.03 |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Thomas Hermans, invited by Prof Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
