News about Physics

Black holes are coming to Copenhagen in August 2024

The Niels Bohr Institute is celebrating 50 years of Hawking radiation and a decade of amazing developments in black hole science. Worldwide experts will gather at the Black Diamond and at the Copenhagen Planetarium, to…

Matthias Wilhelm receives Sapere Aude grant from Denmark's Independent Research Fund

Associate Professor Matthias Wilhelm has been awarded a Sapere Aude Starting Grant from Denmark's Independent Research Fund for his project titled “Leveraging Algebraic Geometry for High-Precision Fundamental Physics.”…

Kasper Skjold Tølløse

Prediction of Atmospheric Dispersion on All Scales for Emergency Preparedness Supervisors: Eigil Kaas (NBI) & Jens Havskov Sørensen (DMI)

Blockbuster of the Blok - Saulius Vaitikenas

The NBI teaching committee has decided to highlight a teacher four times a year to recognize outstanding teaching at the institute. The first one is Saulius Vaitikenas in Blok 3 in 2024.

#blackholeweek

The #blackholeweek is taking place in Copenhagen this August! The Strong Group is co-organizing a series of events happening across Copenhagen at the end of August to celebrate the 50 years anniversary of Hawking…

Resonance

Dimitris Theocharis, a visual artist and one of the artists in residency at Strong in 2024, inaugurated today his beautiful art installation entitled Resonance (2024). Resonance is an artwork designed to react to the…

1K clicks in a month

Our webpage recently achieved a milestone of 1,000 clicks from Google Search within a span of 28 days. On average, we received 36 clicks per day redirected from Google's search engine. It possibly shows the impact of…

Gravity Seminar: Nicola Gaspari

Gravity Seminar: Nicola Gaspari

Gregorio Carullo moves to Birmingham

Starting later this year, Strong member Gregorio Carullo will join the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Full of excitement for this new…

Shilpa joins Saha as Associate Professor

Strong postdoc Shilpa Kastha will join the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in India as an Associate Professor at the end of the year. Thankful to all her mentors and friends for being the giants on whose shoulders sh…

Look up in August

Read here (in Danish) what's visible in the stellar sky in August.

Superconducting Resonators and Quantum Bits: Simulation and/or Cryogenic Measurements

Bachelor/Masters Project Description Quantum computing is receiving much attention these years with various platforms competing to demonstrate superior properties. This project focuses on the superconducting platform an…

“Milla Baldo Ceolin” National Prize for Marta Cocco

Marta Cocco has been awarded the prestigious “Milla Baldo Ceolin” National Prize of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) for the year 2023. This prize, entitled “Woman in Theoretical Physics”, is assigned t…

New Horizons for Psi

In recent years, there has been significant advancement and a notable surge in the exploration of fundamental field in regions with strong gravity. In light of this expanding and evolving community, the New Horizons fo…

Characterization of Quantum Bits and Their Building Blocks

Bachelor/Masters Project Description At NQCP we are developing quantum bits. Besides characterizing the qubits themselves, a big part of that work is to characterize the materials and components which together make the…

Engineering High-Performance Microwave Resonators for Superconducting Quantum Computers

Masters Project Description Superconducting quantum computers hold immense potential but rely on microwave resonators for qubit control. These resonators, which are made up of superconducting material on silicon, use…

Fabrication Techniques for Josephson Junctions and their Characterization

Masters Project Description This project explores how Josephson junctions, made with a special angled metal deposition technique, can be used to create superconducting qubits. Understanding how these junctions work is…

"Bohr Fencing Club" Takes the Gold

Three physics students from NBI, Sejr S. Bergman, Ivan Kanev and Peter E. Rischel, succeeded in winning gold at the official Danish championships in sabre fencing for teams. They have thus shown that focused training…

Gravity Seminar: Mikolaj Korzynski

Title: Optical drift effects in general relativity Abstract: I will discuss the redshift and the position drifts in general relativity, i.e. the temporal variations of the redshift and the position on the sky of a ligh…

This month's starry sky

Read here (in Danish) what's currently visible on the stellar sky.

Force Times Velocity

During the Rijksakademie Open Studios 2024, artist Alexandra Hunts and special guest Professor Vitor Cardoso, an expert in gravitational-wave and black-hole physics from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, embarked…

Joining Forces with MIT for Transatlantic Research in Quantum Computing

We are pleased to announce that we are building two identical quantum laboratory setups—one at here at NQCP and one at MIT. This initiative lets us continuously collaborate to develop research into fault tolerant quantu…

Master defense by Edgars Karnickis

On Monday June 17, 2024 at 13.00 in Bk2 at Blegdamsvej, Edgars Karnickis will defend his master thesis supervised by David Pereñiguez Rodriguez, and Vitor Cardoso. Censor will be Marta Orselli (University of Perugia).…

Simulating the Future through Science Fiction

Jaime Redondo-Yuste recently was part of the winning team of the PSI 15th Anniversary Reunion Pitch Grant. The event took place at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo (Canada), while celebrating th…