Introduction to Physics and Energy Science Degrees

Tuesday, 11.10.2016, lecture hall MC 122:

    10:00 hrs Introduction to university studies
    12:00 hrs Get-together with the student council

Thursday, 13.10.2016, Meeting Point Foyer in front of the lecture hall MC 122:

    10:00 hrs Breakfast (please bring your own plates, cups and cutlery)
    12:00 hrs Rally through the university
    15:00 hrs Professors’ Cafe
    17:00 hrs Pub crawl

It’s all happening here: With four event locations at the same time the University Duisburg-Essen is participating in the Ruhr Night of Knowledge on 30.09.2016 when the Ruhr area will be transformed into a huge research laboratory from 16:00-22:00 hrs. The UDE will present itself in Duisburg and Essen with exciting contributions from the Faculties of Physics and Medicine, the Nano Technology Centre and the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance.

From dark matter to planet formation

Cosmic radiation is a flow of particles from outer space that bombards us constantly. It provides the link between the research groups that have joined forces in the Ruhr Astroparticle and Plasma Physics Center, RAPP for short. These include the experimental physicists in Professor Gerhard Wurm’s group. Around 100 scientists will now celebrate the opening of the new center on 21st September 2016 in the planetarium in Bochum. Afterwards a conference will take place at the Ruhr University.

Lecturer Dr. Fred Hucht has been invited to Lyon to give a talk on his latest research results at Statphys – the largest statistical physics conference. The title of his talk is “The Casimir effect in near-critical systems”.

On Tuesday, 25th October 2016, from 16:00 – 18:15 hrs, in MC 122, the Faculty of Physics will hold the Energy Science Day for the second time. The event is directed towards students of this degree (including first-term students), tutors, lecturers, professors and guests.

The project that will last for three years includes the funding of a PhD student and various material expenses. Within the framework of this project, and with the help of in situ multi-frequent ferromagnetic resonance, Dr. Römer will investigate the damping qualities of ferromagnet / non ferromagnet interfaces. One of the evaluators is expecting “a huge acquisition of knowledge on spin pumping” which will also be relevant for other “research fields that use spin-transfer torque effects, and moreover for the highly topical spin caloric effects and the spin transistor”. The unofficial job advertisement (official one to follow) may be found here. Themes for writing Bachelor and Master theses are also available in this field.

In the CHE-University Ranking Physics at the University Duisburg-Essen has achieved top marks in many categories. The UDE students are very satisfied with the personal supervision by lecturers and contact with their fellow students. Physics at the UDE is also in the top group for its international orientation and for obtaining a degree within a reasonable period.

On 07.05.2015 the newspaper “Die Zeit” referred to this as excellence in the Ruhr area, saying that the University Duisburg-Essen is the only university which is in the top group for each of the three listed categories, namely  international orientation, obtaining a degree within a reasonable period and  supervision by lecturers.