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Walther-Meißner-Institute
Archive: News and Events
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2010 |
| May 15, 2010 |
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2009 |
| October 24, 2009 |
| June 15, 2009 |
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2007 |
| October 3-5, 2007 |
| May 31, 2007 |
| March 21, 2007 |
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2006 |
| October 17, 2006 |
| October 15, 2006 |
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2005 |
| November 2, 2005 |
| August 01, 2005 |
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2004 |
| October 23, 2004 |
| October 13-17, 2004 |
| May 27-28, 2004 |
| April 1, 2004 |
| March 1, 2004 |
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2003 |
| November 1, 2003 |
| October 07, 2003 |
| July 01, 2007 |
| February 07, 2003 |
| 2010 |
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May 15, 2010
Open House at the WMI from 1800 to 2400 (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft) The Walther Meißner Institute contributes to the Open House Event (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft) at the Research Campus Garching by an attractive program for anybody being interested in science.
The Walther Meißner Institute works on topical problems of low temperature research. In talks and demonstration experiments, an insight into current research projects in the fields of superconductivity, low temperature research, and nanotechnology is given. In addition, our facilities for developing new thin film material systems can be visited. WMI poster with additional information (pdf, 863k) Information on the activities of the other research institutions can be found at Science at Garching. more (German only) ... |
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October 24, 2009
Open Day at the WMI from 11 to 18 h The Walther-Meißner-Institute contributes to the Open Day at the Research Campus Garching by an attractive program for everybody being interested in science.
The Walther-Meißner-Institute works on topical problems of low temperature research. In talks and demonstration experiments an insight into current research projects in the fields of superconductivity and spinelectronics is given. In addition, our facilities for developing new material systems as well as for liquefying helium can be visited. WMI-Poster with informations on the Open Day (pdf, 1M) Informations on the activities of the other research institutions can be found under Science at Garching. more (German only) ... |
June 15, 2009
Festkolloquium Prof. Klaus Andres
Prof. Dr. Klaus Andres, director of the Walther-Meißner-Institute from 1980 to 1999, celebrated his 75th birthday in March 2009. On this occasion, the Kolloquium der Münchner Physiker will organize a Festkolloquium on Monday, June 15th, 2009 in the Lecture Hall 2 of the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich in Garching.
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October 3-5, 2007
WMI organizes the Conference on Cryoelectronic Devices 2007 at Herrsching, Bavaria
The Conference on Cryoelectronic Devices 2007 takes place in the Haus der bayerischen Landwirtschaft Herrsching at Herrsching, Bavaria. It addresses new developments and trends in the fields of superconducting electronics and cryoengineering. Particular topics of the 2007 conference are: (i) unconventional Josephson junctions (ii) pi- Josephson junctions and ferromagnet/superconductor structures (iii) SQUIDs, SQIFs and Josephson networks, (iv) Josephson voltage standard, SETs and RSFQ, (v) superconducting qubits, (vi) microwave devices, (vii) flux pinning, (viii) cryodetectors, and (ix) cooling techniques.
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May 31, 2007
German Science Foundation (DFG) grants the second funding period (07/2007 - 06/2011) of the Collaborative Research Center 631 on Solid-State Quantum Information Processing: Physical Concepts and Materials Aspects
The Senatsausschuss für die Angelegenheiten der Sonderforschungsbereiche of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has granted the second funding period of SFB 631 during his meeting on May 21 and 22, 2007. Within 18 research projects
subdivided into three research areas, research groups from the Bavarian Academy of
Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), the Technical University
of Munich (TUM), the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU),
the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ),
as well as the University of Regensburg and the University of Augsburg are collaborating. In addition to the 35 principle investigators, more than 60 PhD
and diploma students as well as a large number postdocs and guests scientists are involved in
the research activities. Spokesman of SFB 631 is Rudolf Gross, Walther-Meißner-Institute of BAdW and Chair for Technical Physics (E23) of TUM.
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March 21, 2007
Semiconductor Spintronics: WMI participates in the new DFG Priority Program 1285 The Walther-Meißner-Institute participates in the new DFG Priority Program on "Semiconductor Spin Electronics" with the project Spin Injection, Spin Transport and Controllable Ferromagnetism in Transition Metal Doped ZnO. The program has been granted by the senate of the German Science Foundation (DFG) and starts in May 2007.
The new priority program aims at the clarification of the physical foundations of a future semiconductor based spin electronics as well as the development of basic spintronic devices by a close collaboration of theoretical, experimental, and materials science oriented groups.
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October 17, 2006
Excellent Research at WMI: Cluster of Excellence "Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)" has been granted
The cluster “Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)” is one of the Clusters of Excellence, which have been selected on October 13, 2006 by the German government's “Excellence Initiative”. In the cluster of excellence Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), scientists from various research facilities in the Munich area in the fields of physics, biophysics, physical chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, biology, electronics and medicine work together. The goal is to design, produce and control a series of artificial and multifunctional nanosystems. Ultimately the researchers wish to create interconnected and interactive networks of artificial nanomodules.
The cluster is coordinated by J.P. Kotthaus (CeNS, LMU Munich) and G. Abstreiter (WSI, TU Munich).
The Walther-Meißner-Institute actively participates in the research program of NIM in the research areas A (single electron and spin nanosystems), C (quantum information nanosystems), and F (nanoanalytics and enabling techniques). Rudolf Gross of Walther-Meißner-Institute is member of the coordination board of NIM. more..... |
October 15, 2006
Open Day at the WMI from 10 to 17 h
The Walther-Meißner-Institute contributes to the Open Day at the Research Campus Garching by an attractive program for everybody being interested in science.
The Walther-Meißner-Institute works on topical problems of low temperature research. In talks and demonstration experiments an insight into current research projects in the fields of superconductivity and spinelectronics is given. In addition, our facilities for developing new material systems as well as for liquefying helium can be visited.
WMI-Poster with informations on the Open Day (pdf, 212 kB) Informations on the activities of the other research institutions can be found under Science at Garching. more (only in German) ..... |
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November 2, 2005
DFG grants second period of Priority Program 1157 on Integrated Electroceramic Functional Structures
The Walther-Meißner-Institute participates in the DFG Priority Program 1157 on Integrated Electroceramic Functional Structures since 2003. The review meeting of the first two-year period took place in June 2005 at Bertesgaden. The project on "New Functional Thin Film Structures Based on Artificial Heteroepitaxial Multilayers of Transition Metal Oxides" submitted by the Walther-Meißner-Institute (Prof. Gross) in close collaboration with the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Bonn (Prof. Mader) was evaluated positively and is funded for a further two-year period.The project aims at the fabrication of multi-functional thin film structures with optimized materials properties and new functionality using Laser molecular beam epitaxy. Spin engineering in magnetic heterostructures, the exploition of strain for modifying and control of magnetic properties, and the development of multiferroic materials are central aspects of the project. An important goal is the development of a thorough understanding of the underlying physics as well as the optimization of material properties and functionality.In this respect the clarification of the interdependence between structural and electronic/magnetic properties of the complex multilayer structures is of key relevance. more (only in German) ..... |
August 01, 2005
Dr. Kurt Uhlig of WMI received the Cryogenics 2004 Award
Dr. Kurt Uhlig received the Cryogenics 2004 Award for his article entiteld "Dry dilution refrigerator with pulse tube precooling". The award ceremony took place during the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference 2005 in Keystone, Colorado.
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October 23, 2004
Open Day at the Walther-Meißner-Institute
The Walther-Meißner-Institute actively contributes to the Open Day at the Research Campus Garching by an attractive information program for everybody being interested in science.
The Walther-Meißner-Institute works on topical problems of low temperature research. In talks and demonstration experiments an insight into current research projects in the fields of superconductivity and spinelectronics is given. In addition, our facilities for developing new material systems as well as for liquefying helium can be visited.
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September 13-17, 2004
International Workshop on Solid-State Quantum Information Processing
The Walther-Meißner-Institute organizes the International Workshop on Solid-State Quantum Information Processing (QIP2004). The workshop will be held at Herrsching close to Munich, Germany, from September 13 to 17, 2004. It is sponsored by the Cooperative Research Center 631 of the German Science Foundation, which is a joint research effort on solid state based quantum information processing of several research institutions in the greater Munich area. The aim of the workshop is to promote an international discussion of the progress in solid state based quantum information processing including hardware concepts, theoretical foundations of solid state based qubits as well as quantum information theory.
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May 27-28, 2004
Workshop on Fluctuating Charge Order in HTSC at WMI
The Walther-Meißner-Institute organizes the Workshop on Fluctuating Charge Order in HTSC. The workshop is held at the Walther-Meißner-Institute in Garching.
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April 1, 2004
Prof. Gross has been elected member of the DFG Review Board "Condensed Matter Physics"
One of the main tasks of the members of the DFG Review Boards, who serve in an honorary capacity, is to ensure the quality of the DFG’s review process.
This is significantly different from the tasks carried out by the DFG’s review committees, which were in place until 2004. Whereas review committees were responsible for conducting individual peer reviews, the DFG’s review boards are now responsible for ensuring the overall quality of the review process. Peer review is generally carried out outside the review boards (please note that exceptions, particularly in the coordinated programmes, may be made). The aim is to achieve a clear distinction between individual peer review and an overall assessment of the review process (quality assurance).
Reviewers who evaluate individual proposals are no longer “elected”, but are selected for their expertise in the subject area in question. Having unelected reviewers participate in the review process is not completely new. Even during the work of the review committees, "special reviewers" were used to a considerable extent in some subject areas. This was especially necessary when the elected members of the review committees did not have the specialist knowledge of the proposals’ subject matter or could not be involved for personal reasons, for example conflicts of interest or excessive workloads. The main criteria for selecting reviewers are still their academic and scientific qualifications and standing and a specialist knowledge of the proposal's subject matter (while at the same time avoiding conflicts of interest). The review boards’ responsibilities and procedures are laid down in the “Rahmengeschäftsordnung”, a framework of rules and regulations established by the DFG’s Senate. more (only in German) ..... |
March 01, 2004
High Temperature Superconductivity: New Research Unit of the German Science Foundation
The Grants Committee on General Research Funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German
Research Foundation) has decided to establish the new Research Unit on "Doping Dependence of Phase
Transitions and Ordering Phenomena in the Cuprate Superconductors"
(FOR 538). The WMI contributes 3 projects to this joint research effort of
4 different German laboratories.
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November 01, 2003
Prof. Dr. Bianca Hermann head of new Scanning Probe Microscopy Division at WMI
On July 01, 2003, Dr. Bianca Hermann became C3 professor for experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. On October 01, 2003 she started to establish a new division for scanning probe microscopy (SPM) at the Walther-Meißner-Institute for low temperature physics of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Garching.
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October 07, 2003
Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" jointly to Alexei A. Abrikosov, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia, and Anthony J. Leggett, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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July 31, 2003
DFG grants new Collaborative Research Center 631 on "Solid state based quantum information processing: physical concepts and materials aspects"
The Sonderforschungsbereich 631 (Collaborative
Research Centre 631) was installed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(German Science Foundation) effective in July 1, 2003. Within 15 projects
research groups from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Technical University
of Munich, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, the Max-Planck-Institute for
Quantum Optics, as well as the University of Regensburg and the University
of Augsburg are collaborating. In addition to 30 senior scientists, more
than 30 PhD and diploma students as well as a large number of guests areinvolved in the research activities. more..... |
February 07, 2003
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Gross elected regular member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
On February 7th, 2003 the Bavarian Academy
of Sciences and Humanities elected Prof. Dr. Rudolf Gross, chair for technical physics
(E23) at the Technical University of Munich and director of the Walther-Meißner-Institute for low temperature research, as a regular member of the class
for natural sciences and mathematics.
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