News about Physics

Conversations at Niels Bohr Office

How about we take some of the most profound thinkers of our time and we talk about science? No cuts, no editing, after all, as Seinfeld - one of the leading philosophers of our century - said "The subject should resolv…

NBI Spin-out enterprise receives prestigious tech-transfer award

QDevil, a quantum technology spin-out enterprise from the Niels Bohr Institute, has been awarded “The Technology Transfer Prize 2024” from German Physical Society. (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)

New partnership with Brazilian funding agency CNPq

Senior postdoctoral fellow in the Strong group, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, has successfully established an international collaborative network in partnership with the Brazilian funding agency CNPq (National Council for…

Sensing the signature of life

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) have removed a key obstacle for development of extremely sensitive monitoring devices based on quantum technology.

To over-ring or not to over-ring?

Image credit LIGO-Virgo collaboration Strong members Gregorio Carullo and Vitor Cardoso, together with collaborators from Johns Hopkins University, have recently published a [Reply](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20625) t…

Gravity Seminars Fall 2023

The Strong group is co-organizing the NBIA Gravity Seminar Series. This Fall we have these speakers on the program: October 17, 2023: Josu Aurrekoetxea, University of Oxford: Strong-gravity signatures from relics of th…

Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars

A a team of researchers including astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute has used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a gamma-ray burst, which turned out to be the second-brightest ever seen.

Ida Egholm Nielsen

Measurements and manipulation protocols of parafermionicmodes Academic advisor: Assoc. Prof.Michele Burrello

Astronomy on Tap

Jose Ezquiaga and Vitor Cardoso were the guest speakers at Astronomy on Tap, at Huset in Copenhagen. They had a full house to listen to the latest and not-so-latest news on black holes and gravitational waves. At half…

Oliver August Dall’Alba Sandberg

Quantum: Illuminated - Theory of light-matter interaction for quantum enhanced technologies Supervisor: Prof. Anders S. Sørensen

Strong co-organized Summer School on gravitational waves

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics is at the dawn of what will become one of the greatest scientific endeavors of the 21st century. The Nobel Prize winning first detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo…

Tetyana Pitik

High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Astrophysical Transients Supervisor: Prof. Irene Tamborra

Eliot Bohr

Exploring superradiance for enhanced sensors Supervisor: Prof. Jörg Helge Müller

VÍCTOR BRANCO VALERA BACA

The particle physics discovery potential in the ultra-high-energy neutrino era Supervised by: Mauricio Bustamante

Course on Black holes and Gravitational Waves

If you are interested please fill black hole course Lecturers: Jose Maria Ezquiaga, Maarten van de Meent Placement: Block 4 Credits: 7.5 ECTS Evaluation: exercises + research project Course description: Black holes are…

Meghana Killi

Morphology and Spectroscopy of Highredshift Galaxies - Galaxy evolution through multi-wavelength observations Supervisor: Darach Watson

Atefeh Shadmani

Heterogeneous integration of GaAs waveguides on low loss substrates for qantum photonic circuits Supervisors: Peter Lodahl and Leonardo Midolo

Mads Bjerregaard Kristensen

Optomechanical Memory for Light Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe

In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the Universe expands, and although we know approximately how fast, the two primary ways to measure this expansion do not agree. Now…

Strong at LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA in Japan

Scientists from around the world gather in Toyama, Japan, for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration meeting September 11-14, 2023. The focus of the meeting was discussing the progress of the ongoing fourth observing run…

Sara Schjødt Kjær

Title: Implementation and optimisation of a Graph Neural Network-based track reconstruction pipeline on Intel FPGAs for the ATLAS TDAQ system for HL-LHC Supervisor: Alessandra Camplani

Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created.

Simon Christian Debes

Title: Determining Detector Efficiency And Timing Through Muon Tomography And Simulation Calibration Using Graph Neural Networks On IceCube Data Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.