News about Physics

Look up in January

Read here (in Danish) about interesting objects to see the stellar sky in December.

Single atom control at European Health Summit

PhD student Jacob Thorndeldt Hansen from the CBQS-QUANTOP group led by Jean Baptiste Beguin has presented a live demonstration of a lattice of ultra-cold and trapped atoms at the European Health Summit.

Pablo Martínez Miravé is awarded prize for his PhD-thesis

The Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (RADE) awards yearly prizes to doctoral theses which excel for their scientific achievements and innovative character.

Eirini Malegiannaki

Laser ablation for water isotopic analysis with particular focus in spectral estimation for diffusion studies Supervisors: Vasileios Gkinis, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Carlo Barbante

Partnership between Strong and CNPq

Over the past months, the Strong Group hosted Mateus Malato from the Federal University of Pará (Belém-PA, Brazil), along with Pedro Croti and Lucas Tobias from the Federal University of ABC (São Paulo-SP, Brazil).

Rajeeb Sharma

Unveiling the Early Stages of Star and Planet Formation: Observational Insights From Studying Class 0 and I Protostars Supervisor: Jes K. Jørgensen

Marta Agnieszka Mrozowska

Boundary Layer Turbulence - Exploring Strategies to Improve Mixing Parameterizations in Ocean Models Supervisors: Prof. Markus Jochum and Associate Prof. James Avery

Physicists talk about Physics

The Strong Group organized the Black Hole Week and the Black Holes Inside and Out in August, an inspiring set of initiatives on black hole physics.

The sound of black holes in Osaka & Taipei

Vitor Cardoso was a plenary speaker at two major meetings with over 200 participants on gravity.

Tetiana Kozynets

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations in IceCube-DeepCore within and beyond the unitary framework Supervisor: D. Jason Koskinen

Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy

Congratulations to PhD student Pengpei Zhu who has been awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, for his master’s thesis at Leiden.

Look up in December

Read here (in Danish) about Orion and the red giant Betelgeuse in the stellar sky in December.

NQCP Photonic Pilot Line

The Photonic Pilot Line team here at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP), led by Associate Professor Stefano Paesani, is dedicated to advancing the development of quantum photonic components…

Mikkel Langgaard Lauritzen

Modeling the Greenland Ice Sheet’s Flow and Mass Loss From Past to Present Advisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

ULisboa Award for Vítor Cardoso

Vítor Cardoso was awarded the 2024 Ulisboa Award for his “extraordinary contributions to theoretical physics and to scientific progress on a global scale,” according to the press release by University of Lisboa.

Kolja Leon Kypke

Tipping in the Greenland ice sheet, Noise, rate and chaos Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant

Existing and future gravitational-wave detectors will observe signals so precisely that they will be able to detect possible deviations from Einstein’s theory of relativity and the standard model of particle physics. T…

First peek at nuclear shape transitions

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant

Maarten van de Meent, current member of the Strong Group at NBI, is one of the four principal investigators of the GWSky project, which was awarded 12 million euros by the European Research Council to investigate…

Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant

Maarten van de Meent, current member of the Strong Group at NBI, is one of the four principal investigators of the GWSky project, which was awarded 12 million euros by the European Research Council to investigate…

Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars

The temperature of elementary particles have been observed in the radioactive afterglow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole, and for the first time, made it possible to measure the…

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…

Sho Tamaki

Optomechanical Crystals with Gallium Phosphide Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

NQCP Education & Outreach Group

Building the Quantum Workforce: A profile of the Education and Outreach team at NQCP.