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14FEB 2023
General
A trailblazer in the field of geology: Dixie Lee Bryant
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named a lecture hall after her. Here in Germany, hardly anyone knows her name. And yet she could be a real inspiration for young women in science: Dixie Lee Bryant, the daughter of a businessman from Kentucky, USA, studied at MIT before becoming the first woman to receive […]
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26JAN 2023
Department of Data Science
Invitation to lectures by Prof. Dr. Nick Trefethen on Feb. 1, 2023
As part of a lecture series of the FAU Research Center Mathematics of Data (MoD), Prof. Dr. Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford, will give two lectures on February 1, 2023. At 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Prof. Trefethen will speak on “Applications of AAA Rational Approximation” in room 04.363, Cauerstr. 11, Erlangen as well as via […]
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24JAN 2023
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Prof. Dr. Siow Woon Ng new at the Faculty
As of January 1, 2023, Siow Woon Ng is Junior Professor for Physical Chemistry of Interfaces at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy. The tenure track professorship is affiliated to the Chair of Physical Chemistry II. Prof. Ng studied physics and solid state physics at Universiti Sains Malaysia from 2007 – 2013. From 2014 – […]
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02NOV 2022
Events
Guest lecture on Nov. 8th, 2022: “Photo-induced Charge Transfer Dynamics in Thin Films of Light Harvesting Sb2S3”
Guest lecture: 08.11.2022 – 12.15p.m. – On site Elizabeth R. Young – Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA: „Photo-induced Charge Transfer Dynamics in Thin Films of Light Harvesting Sb2S3“ Solar light harvesting and interconversion of solar energy into either electricity or driving force for small molecule activation reactions are critical to the production of energy that our […]
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05AUG 2022
Allgemein
FAU is set to become a beacon in quantum research
In recognition of our outstanding expertise in quantum research: a consortium consisting of eleven researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025. The new lighthouse project Quantum Measurement and Control for the Enablement of Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing (QuMeCo) will ignite basic research into quantum computing, sensing […]In recognition of our outstanding expertise in quantum research: a consortium consisting of eleven researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025. The new lighthouse project Quantum Measurement and Control for the Enablement of Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing (QuMeCo) will ignite basic research into quantum computing, sensing […]
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20JUL 2022
Allgemein
Web archive with astronomical photographic plates goes online
Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers’ hearts miss a beat. We are talking about historical photographic plates showing negatives of the night sky. Together with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and […]
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