2012.11.23 | Staff, Public / media, Department of Physics
In recent years, a whole new class of materials has taken the world of physics by storm, and it is one of the hot topics in the international world of research. Professor Philip Hofmann will now try to solve the mystery of topological insulators – materials that can cause the technological development of the future to take a new turn.
2012.11.19 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Greenland's viking settlers, the Norse, disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from Greenland about 500 years ago. Natural disasters, climate change and the inability to adapt have all been proposed as theories to explain their disappearance. But now a Danish-Canadian research team has demonstrated the Norse society did not die out due to an…
2012.11.15 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
An international conference organised by and for young physicists created synergy among the next generation of top European researchers. This established strong European ties, which can benefit research in the future.
2012.10.23 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Two young researchers at the Department of Physics and Astronomy have invited some of the top European talents in cold physics to build up a network that can benefit the research of the future.
2012.10.11 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
Four Master’s degree students, Tilo Planke, Lasse Haahr-Lillevang, Simon Holmbo and Jonas Refsgaard receive grant of DKK 40,000 from IFA IDEAS for the purpose of purchasing a CCD camera for a telescope at the Ole Roemer Observatory.
2012.10.08 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
In collaboration with a colleague in the UK, Jesper Olsen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Mads Faurschou Knudsen, Department of Geoscience, have carried out research into changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) during the last 5,200 years. Their results have now been published in Nature Geoscience – Letters.
2012.10.05 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Bjørk Hammer has been awarded an Advanced Grant of DKK 12 million from the Sapere Aude (Dare to know) research career programme. The grant supports the development of selective catalysts that can make biochemical products more economical in the future.
2012.10.01 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
The traditional annual IFA "Skovtur" (fieldtrip) will thiS year take place Thursday the 11th of October.
2012.09.14 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
Have you ever wondered where you came from? Physicists have long had the answer to this question – we are all made of stardust. Scientists roughly know how the elements of stardust are made, but little is known about the very first stage. A physicist at Aarhus University now has the opportunity to find out – he has been awarded a grant by the…
2012.09.11 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
While the Danish media were using expressions throughout the day such as ‘researchers doing back flips of excitement’ and ‘the world’s ultimate research machine’, more than 100 people gathered in the basement below the Department of Physics and Astronomy to inaugurate the new ASTRID2 particle accelerator.
2012.08.17 | Department of Physics, Staff
New AU HR Course overview
2012.08.17 | Department of Physics, Staff
From the end of August to mid-September, the IT systems that Aarhus University uses for financial management will be converted-
2012.08.17 | Department of Physics, Staff
ISA and CSS get a new EAN number as of 20 August 2012. The EAN number for IFA is unchanged.
2012.08.08 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
As of 1 June 2012, Lars Bojer Madsen has been appointed Professor of theoretical atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics.
2012.07.18 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
“Summer holidays? No thank you,” say the teenagers attending the UNF Physics Camp at Aarhus University from 15 to 21 July, where they are taking part in interesting experiments in radiation, elementary particles and much more. These topics have become even more relevant in the light of the exciting news about the Higgs boson earlier this month.
2012.07.03 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
The opening of the Stellar Astrophysics Centre at Aarhus University puts us in the midst of an exciting period for space research. Technological progress and new scientific thinking will bring mankind significantly closer to being able to answer some of the biggest and most fascinating questions in future.
2012.07.02 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff, Centre for Science Studies
The Physics and Astronomy Library and the Steno Library have now moved in to newly-restored surroundings in building 1520, 4.
2012.06.29 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Søren Ulstrup, Ph.D. student from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, obtains award for best talk at Carbonhagen 2012
2012.06.28 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
Two students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, shared the poster prize at the annual meeting of Danish Physical Society, June 19th and 20th 2012.
2012.06.25 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Jeff Hangst has been appointed professor with special responsibilities in “creation of antimatter and spectroscopic investigations of antimatter” for the period 1 June 2012 – 31 May 2017.
2012.06.21 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
In collaboration with NASA and other astronomers all over the world, astronomers at Aarhus University have discovered a planet system consisting of two very different planets that orbit each other in virtually the same path.
2012.06.07 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
About 200 astronomy enthusiasts saw the transit of Venus across the Sun on Wednesday morning at Moesgaard Beach. The Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Steno Museum at Aarhus University were responsible for providing information and solar binoculars.
2012.06.01 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
The construction of the ASTRID2 accelerator has now been completed and the commissioning has started. The first half turn in the ring took place on 29th May. The actual construction of ASTRID2 took one and a half years and can be viewed in this 20-second video sequence.
2012.05.30 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Hanne Andersen has been appointed professor with special responsibilities as leader of the Centre for Science Studies at the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1 May 2012 to 30 April 2015.
2012.05.24 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
It was not thought to be possible, but now it has happened. A group of physicists has managed to get an ultracold gas consisting of lithium and potassium atoms to form a completely new quantum state in which the atoms repulse each other as strongly as is allowed by quantum mechanics.
2012.05.22 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
A piece of Denmark’s technological history is in the making in the basement below the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In the time ahead, you can keep up with the final stages as one of the world’s most brilliant sources of light is created.
2012.05.22 | Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
Britta Johansen has received an award for best poster presentation at the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting's symposium on "Applied Nanoplasmonics: Nanoplasmonic Functional Materials and Devices" in Strasbourg. Britta Johansen is research assistent in the Semiconductor…
2012.05.14 | Department of Physics, Staff
The workshop will be organised by the Research Support Office on June 12, 13 and 14 and on September 19 and 20 and November 27 and 29. The workshop is aimed at scientists with no or little experience within grant writing. On June 14 and November 29 the workshop will be in English, and non-Danish speaking scientists will have first priority.
2012.05.08 | Department of Physics, Staff
For staff and PhD students at Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Geoscience
2012.05.08 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
Danish Physical Society Annual Meeting 19-20 June 2012 at Hotel Nyborg Strand
2012.04.25 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
The World Cultural Council’s special recognition is granted to talented researchers who early in their careers have had international impact through their research. Along with the honour Lars Bojer Madsen receives a travel scholarship of DKK 25,000 provided by Aarhus University and Director M. C. Holst’s foundation for the benefit of Aarhus…
2012.04.25 | Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University invites applications for 10-15 grants, each covering a 3 or 6 months preparation period for enrolment in the PhD programme.
2012.03.26 | Public / media, Staff, Department of Physics
As of 1 January 2012, Sune Nørhøj Jespersen has been employed as associate professor in a position divided between Science and Technology and Health.
2012.03.07 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed, Department of Physics, Public / media, Staff
A physicist from Aarhus University and an international team of researchers at CERN have taken yet another step towards solving the antimatter mystery, and thus the mystery of the universe.
2012.02.20 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed, Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured. However, the international CERN team responsible for experiment NA63 – mainly staffed by physicists from Aarhus University – has now succeeded in dragging out the process, thereby making it measurable.
2012.02.10 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed, Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation has awarded a grant of DKK 288,000 (approximately EUR 39,000) to physicist Nikolaj Thomas Zinner, Aarhus University, to set up permanent collaboration with three universities in São Paulo regarding research and education in theoretical physics.
2012.01.23 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed, Department of Physics, Staff, Public / media
He compares quantum computers with bridal bouquets, and wave functions with violin strings. Professor Klaus Mølmer is a popular communicator and top researcher. On Monday 23 January 2012, he is receiving the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The research award is valued at DKK 2.5 million (approximately EUR…
2012.01.20 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
The Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the highest award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), People’s Republic of China. This award is to commend and honor those eminent foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to facilitate cooperation with CAS.
2011.12.21 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Hans Kjeldsen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been selected by the Danish journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer) as winners of ‘Science’s Top 5’ – an annual competition to find the best Danish research results in engineering and science.
2011.12.19 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
The Carlsberg Foundation has granted DKK 3.3 million (approximately EUR 450,000) to Associate Professor Jeffrey Hangst, Aarhus University, to purchase new research equipment. Associate Professor Hangst is the spokesperson for the ALPHA group at CERN, the world leader in research into antihydrogen.
2011.12.19 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
On 14 December, Dean Brian Bech Nielsen, Science and Technology, and Head of Department Lars H. Andersen, Physics and Astronomy, conferred a doctorate on Ulrik Ingerslev Uggerhøj.
2011.12.09 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Astronomers at Aarhus University have studied the interiors of giant stars and can ascertain that they behave quite differently from the Sun.
2011.12.09 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Among the three best candidates for the Danish Research Results of the Year 2011, Videnskab.dk selected Jacob Friis Sherson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and his incredibly precise tweezers, which can grab hold of a single atom at a time.
2011.12.08 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
On Monday 5 December 2011, Hans Kjeldsen, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Christoffer Karoff et al., Department of Physics and Astronomy, published the discovery of a new Earth-like planet 600 light years away.
2011.12.07 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope have succeeded for the first time in finding a planet with a surface temperature that, in principle, is favourable for life. The newly discovered planet is 600 light years from Earth.
2011.12.05 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
In quantum mechanics, particles can travel through areas that are forbidden according to classical physics, a phenomenon called tunnelling. Researchers at Aarhus University and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have now mapped precisely where the particle emerges after its passage.
2011.11.28 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
With a grant of DKK 10 million (approximately EUR 1.3 million) from the Lundbeck Foundation, the talented young German physicist Jan Arlt can set up his own research group at Aarhus University.
2011.11.18 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Jacob Friis Sherson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has contributed to an article featuring his atom tweezers in the popular online tech magazine TechNewsWorld. The article provides a popular scientific explanation of the potential of the quantum computer. Based on statements made by top researchers at universities and companies all over the…
2011.12.01 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Afstemning på videnskab.dk: Hvem har skabt det flotteste forskningsresultat i Danmark i år?
2011.11.11 | imported:phys.au.dk:20:Nyhed
Research groups at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, and Aarhus University are the first to succeed in identifying the geometry and interaction mechanism of molecules that bind in special reaction pockets during their synthesis on a catalytic metal surface. This new knowledge provides researchers with an opportunity to deliberately control the…
