News Overview
Stay informed with our latest news and announcements on this page. For more in-depth content, we also encourage visitors to explore our bimonthly STRUCTURES Newsletter magazine, which features a variety of articles, interviews with members, and background information on our latest research and activities.
We cordially invite you to the newly founded CP7 lunch seminar on selected Wednesdays during the semester. This seminar is an informal meeting for members and anyone who might be interested. Participants take turns at illustrating their area of research or a neighboring field, in 30-minute talks aimed at a broader audience. The goal is to stimulate discussions and explore possible collaborations at the interface between Mathematics and Physics.
For the updated schedule and more information, please visit the CP7 Seminar webpage.
Discovering physics in a whole new light was the aim of Girls'Day, April 22. At this day it was possible to look behind the curtain of the scientific work of the department of physics and astronomy at Heidelberg University. Welcomed by the dean of the department for physics and astronomy, 120 young girls from all over Germany took part in twelve extraordinary online workshops with diverse topics such as black holes, programming with robots, mysteries of light and the universe.
We thank all participating scientists and are looking forward to taking part next year again. The Girls`Day was jointly supported by STRUCTURESthe Collaborative Research Centre 1225 "Isolated Quantum Systems and universality in extreme conditions", the Collaborative Research Centre 881 "The Milky Way System" and the HighRR Research Training Group.
Watch the introductory video by some of our YRC members about the daily life of a scientist here.
We congratulate Anna Wienhard on receiving an ERC Advanced Grant. For her project on Symmetries in Mathematics, she got awarded with about two million Euro over a funding period of five years.
Anna Wienhard is Professor at the Mathematical Institute on Differential Geometry and leads the research group Groups and Geometry at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). She is Co-Spokesperson of STRUCTURES and Scientific Director of the Research Station Geometry and Dynamics.
See press release from April 22, 2021 (in German).
We are happy to announce that Dr. Lauriane Chomaz has accepted the new STRUCTURES Tenure-Track-Professorship on Experimental Physics. Professor Chomaz, a world leading expert on quantum fluids, explores their behavior using ultracold assemblies of atoms. She joined the STRUCTURES community this February.
STRUCTURES member Ralf Klessen investigates interstellar gas clouds, as part of an international cooperation.
New level computer simulations reveal the role of turbulence in interstellar molecular clouds in star formation. In their publication, the authors show how their results allow to draw conclusions how this turbulent movement transitions from the supersonic to subsonic regime
The work of this international research team was led by scientists of the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH) and of the Australian National University in Canberra. The simulations took place at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Science and Humanities.
See press release from January 11, 2021 (in English) or from January 15, 2021 (in German).
Original publication in Nature Astronomy from January 11, 2021 (in English).
ONLINE SCIENCE PUB QUIZ @ SCIENCE DAYS
Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Time: 07:30pm - 10:30 pm
As this month`s edition will be hosted as part of the Science Days (one of Germany`s oldest science festivals), this quiz edition will be in German only! Nevertheless, there will be many interesting questions like "Why should you pet a basil plant? How would you draw a Dugong? And which quack medicine can turn your skin blue?".
This month`s guest will be Fabian Navarro, who will talk about his current project Eloquentron 3000 (a bot writing poems) and the release of the new book "poesie.exe". You can register here to get all information and the link for participation: https://2020.science-days.digital. If you want to know more about the Science Pub Quiz Heidelberg, just visit the brandnew website: https://www.scipubquiz.de.
Dennis and Lisa have also presented their idea of the Science Pub Quiz at the WissKon2020: https://youtu.be/rp34ZoLRTqg.
Applications are invited for several postdoctoral appointments at the University of Heidelberg in Theoretical/Mathematical Physics. The appointments are made in the context of the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence, EXC 2181/1 and of the European Research Council "Random Tensors and Field Theory" grant (principal investigator Razvan Gurau). The successful applicant is expected to dedicate part of their research time to working on core topics in the Random Tensors research program.
The deadline for applications is November 22, 2020. The starting date for the appointment is no earlier than September 1, 2021, but can be at a later date. The initial appointment is for two years, but can be extended. The salary is commensurate with experience.
The interested candidates should submit their application through the academicjobsonline website.