Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2017: Call for Nominations
Self-applications and nominations are now possible for The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2017, which CUI and the Joachim Herz Stiftung will jointly award in the research areas of atoms,...
View ArticleMildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2017: Call for Nominations and...
CUI is calling for nominations or self-applications to the „Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2017“. Mildred Dresselhaus (1939 – 2017), Professor of Physics and Engineering at the MIT, was a...
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Novel nozzle saves crystals
Thanks to an innovative nozzle, scientists can now analyse more types of proteins while using fewer of the hard-to-get protein crystals. The nozzle can reduce protein consumption eightfold in serial...
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Women’s Career Day: Conflicts can be good
What is important in a scientific career? What are strategies to apply for funding? What challenges need to be overcome? The “Women’s Career Day 2017” offered multiple answers to these questions. The...
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Mentoring: Apply now
The call for applications for the next round of “Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences” is now open. The project is a joint venture of CUI, DESY, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics...
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Successful Habilitation
CUI member Dr. Christian Kränkel has received his postdoctoral qualification. The Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at Universität Hamburg has confirmed the Habilitation of Dr....
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Offer of Appointment accepted
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Mathey from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg has accepted the offer of appointment as CUI professor (W2). Prof. Mathey conducts research in the field of “Theory of...
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High Level Graduate Days
About 80 scientists met for the fourth CUI Graduate Days on Campus Bahrenfeld, exchanged the current state of research and attended the extensive program including courses and talks. An exciting and...
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Science on Tap
Get ready for the third round of scientific talks in Hamburg’s bars: On Thursday, 27 April 2017, at 7 pm “Wissen vom Fass” (Science on Tap) will again give fascinating insights into science. What is...
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Pinball at the atomic level
A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at CFEL in Hamburg and the University of Edinburgh, through improved sample handing, have discovered a...
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Henry Chapman receives “Röntgenplakette”
In honor of his pioneering research on the application of X-ray lasers for determining the structure of biological macromolecules, Prof. Henry N. Chapman will be honored with the “Röntgenplakette” by...
View ArticleLouise Johnson Fellowship: new call for applications
CUI is now calling for applications for the Louise Johnson Fellowship 2017: The fellowship was initiated within the framework of CUI’s equal opportunity program and offers a one year employment to a...
View ArticleLecture Series with Mikhail Katsnelson
As part of the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, CUI invites to a lecture series with price recipient 2016 Mikhail Katsnelson of Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lecture I: “Dual...
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Human Frontier Science Program supports intercontinental collaboration
An international team of researchers, including CUI scientist Henry Chapman (Universität Hamburg, DESY, CFEL), has been awarded a research grant by the Human Frontier Science Program to develop a novel...
View ArticlePro Exzellenzia meets CUI: What is a Career?
„Kreuzung oder Einbahnstraße – Karriere, was kann das sein?“ Wie können unterschiedliche Karrieren in- und außerhalb der Wissenschaft aussehen? Together with CUI, the Equal Opportunity Unit at...
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Wissen vom Fass entering the third round
During the third round of „Wissen vom Fass“ at the end of April 2017, guests of about 45 bars und pubs in Hamburg again gained fascinating and sometimes even curious insights into science.“How did the...
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Experiencing Science With All Senses
CUI and its school lab „Light & Schools” presented the widest range of activities on their annual Girl’s Day so far, offering two workshops and insights into two labs to female students from grade...
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Arts & Science in Hamburg’s City Hall
From 1 – 15 June 2017 the cluster of excellence CUI presents images from the micro world in Hamburg’s City Hall. In the center is the beauty of visualizations of scientific phenomena and structures...
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Double flashes with attosecond precision
Thanks to a smart mirror scientists can control the phase of X-rays from DESY’s free-electron laser FLASH with attosecond precision. The feat enables new investigations of the interactions of light and...
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X-ray pulses create “molecular black hole”
Scientists have used an ultra-bright pulse of X-ray light to turn an atom in a molecule briefly into a sort of electromagnetic black hole. Unlike a black hole in space, the X-rayed atom does not draw...
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