Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

For four days, Hamburg's universities and science institutes turned the Rathausmarkt into a public campus. The Universität Hamburg had the largest program on site at the Summer of Knowledge from 20 to 23 June - including the cluster of excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter, which presented itself with partners from the...

Why does the magnetic ball float? How to adjust a laser? Where do the students who attend "Light & Schools" come from? What applications are behind the research? Dr. Nina Lemmens, Member of the Executive Board at the Joachim Herz Foundation and Katrin Traoré, Advisor to the Executive Board, wanted to know everything...

A team of scientists from DESY and the Universität Hamburg has achieved an important milestone in the quest for a new type of compact particle accelerator. Using ultra-powerful pulses of laser light, they were able to produce particularly high-energy flashes of radiation in the terahertz range having a sharply defined...

Light can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function of a material can be modified, such as the ability to conduct electricity or to store information in its magnetic state. A team led by Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck...

Do we have to know what happened in the split second after the big bang? Or why people started to scratch clay tablets? Together with the spokespersons of the clusters of excellence, ZEIT journalist Oliver Hollenstein discussed their research - what, how and why they do what they do - and received surprising answers.

Understanding excellent research: on 3 June Senator Katharina Fegebank and UHH president Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Lenzen will present the four clusters of excellence at Universität Hamburg to the public for the first time. Moderated by Oliver Hollenstein (DIE ZEIT) the clusters' spokespersons will then discuss climate...