News (2019)16 August 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterPhysics Project Days for high school studentsPhoto: UHH/MIN, Heiko FuchsFor the second time, the Physics Project Days (August 14-17, 2019) will take place at the Universität Hamburg. The four-day physics workshop on the...14 August 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsHow bacteria absorb vital ironPhoto: UHH, Tidow groupA research team from the Department of Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg has succeeded in analyzing the structure of a special protein that helps...12 August 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterThis has something to do with pressure!Photo: UHH/CUI, SchonefeldThe "Light & Schools" school laboratory's holiday course on research introduced children of primary school age to physical topics in a playful way...30 July 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsScientists film molecular rotationPhoto: DESY, Evangelos Karamatskos/Britta LiebaugScientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one...19 July 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterWe are excellent!Photo: UHH/SchöttmerUniversität Hamburg is a University of Excellence. The official announcement was made by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja...Contribution from the university's newsroom16 July 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterCall acceptedPhoto: Renate SchüttDr. Tobias Beck has accepted the call for the W1 TT W2 professorship for "Inorganic or Physical Chemistry with a Focus on Structure and Dynamics of...11 July 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsExperimental mini-accelerator achieves record energyPhoto: DESY, Gesine BornScientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have achieved a new world record for an experimental type of miniature particle accelerator: For the first...8 July 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsArtificial intelligence identifies quantum phase transitionsPhoto: UHH/Sengstock groupResearchers from Universität Hamburg have used machine-learning techniques for improving the identification of quantum phase transitions from...4 July 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsScientists develop second sound theoryPhoto: UHH, Mathey groupSound moves at different speeds depending on whether it passes through air, water or another liquid. In superfluid helium, it can even be heard twice...26 June 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterFour great daysPhoto: Redaktion NdWFor four days, Hamburg's universities and science institutes turned the Rathausmarkt into a public campus. The Universität Hamburg had the largest...19 June 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterThe Fascination of SciencePhoto: UHH/CUI, AdlerWhy does the magnetic ball float? How to adjust a laser? Where do the students who attend "Light & Schools" come from? What applications are behind...13 June 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsLaser trick produces high-energy terahertz pulsesPhoto: DESY, Lucid BerlinA team of scientists from DESY and the Universität Hamburg has achieved an important milestone in the quest for a new type of compact particle...13 June 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsWith the right symmetry to more stable data bitsPhoto: UHH/MIN/WiebeA team from the Universität Hamburg in cooperation with Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Dutch University of Leiden has succeeded in magnetically...10 June 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsDiscovery of light-induced ferroelectricity in strontium titanatePhoto: Jörg Harms / MPSDLight can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function of...4 June 2019|Advanced Imaging of Matter"Is it really important?"Photo: UHH/OhmeDo 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...31 May 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterDiscussing the dynamics of atoms, ancient manuscripts, extreme weather and the big bangPhoto: UHH, KrätzigUnderstanding excellent research: on 3 June Senator Katharina Fegebank and UHH president Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Lenzen will present the four...29 May 2019|Advanced Imaging of Matter"Sommer des Wissens" on the Hamburg Town Hall SquarePhoto: congressaIn recent years, the "Nacht des Wissens" (Night of Science) and the "Tag des Wissens" (Day of Knowledge) have inspired numerous people alternately...23 May 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterMildred Dresselhaus Prize Recipients 2019Photo: PrivateProf. Dr. Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Prof. Dr. Alicia Palacios, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, will be awarded the 2019...23 May 2019|Advanced Imaging HighlightsX-rays show self-organization of nanocrystals livePhoto: DESY, Irina LoktevaUsing X-rays, a research team has watched live how nanocrystals organize themselves into a highly ordered layer. The study helps to better understand...23 May 2019|Advanced Imaging of MatterA great loss to the scientific communityPhoto: DESYThe Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging mourns the loss of of one of its most renowned members: Prof. Wilfried Wurth passed away unexpectedly at the...Previous articlesMore articlesA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with
