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Inaugural lecture by Prof. Christopher Riseley on June 30: Cosmic Rays & Perfect Plasma - Lessons Learned From Galaxy Clusters
On Monday, June 30, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. c.t., Junior Professor Dr. Christopher Riseley will give his inaugural lecture as part of our Physics Colloquium. Riseley is junior professor for...
First images of the Vera Rubin Observatory live at the Bochum Planetarium
On Monday, June 23, 2025, the first images from the new Rubin Observatory will be presented. From 16:30, interested parties can watch the worldwide transmission of the National...
Inaugural lecture by Prof. Jean-Pierre van Helden on June 23: Shining Light on Reactive Plasmas
On Monday, June 23, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre van Helden will give his inaugural lecture as part of our Physics Colloquium. Van Helden is Professor for...
Election proposals for the student representatives in the Faculty Councils & Senate
Update: Due to a network outage, the election period will be extended until June 27, 12 noon. From June 23 to 27, students can elect their representatives to the faculty councils and to the...
Physics colloquium on June 16: Cosmic Rays & the Molecular Universe
On Monday, June 16, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next meeting of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Dr. Brandt Gaches leads the Emmy Noether group Cosmic ray astrochemistry - from...
Julia Tjus holds an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg
On May 24, 2025, Chalmers University of Technology awarded Prof. Julia Tjus an honorary doctorate. The many years of German-Swedish cooperation should help to uncover the secrets of...
Physics colloquium on June 2: Astrophysical Magnetic Fields - Extreme Energy Source Transferred Through Plasma Interactions
On Monday, June 2, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next meeting of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Dr. Kevin Schoeffler is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Plasma Physics group...
Humboldt Research Award brings guest researcher Hai-Hu Wen to RUB
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy has an international visitor: Prof. Dr. Hai-Hu Wen from Nanjing University in China is visiting us from May to July. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation...
Physics colloquium on May 26: Materials Research in Very High Magnetic Fields
On Monday, May 26, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza is director of the high-field magnetic laboratory of the...
41 schoolgirls, countless experiments, 1 review: The schoolgirl project week at Easter 2025
From April 14 to 17, 2025, the schoolgirl project week of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy took place in the Alfried Krupp School Laboratory. Under the motto "Researcher for a week", 41...
Physics Colloquium on May 19: STRONG INTERACTION AMONG HADRONS & CONNECTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS
On Monday, May 19, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next meeting of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbietti, Professor of Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter...
Secure quantum communication with crystals
The future of quantum communication is bright: Dr. Arne Ludwig and his team generate individual light particles in a high-purity crystal to transport information securely.
Elections of the student group to the Senate and Faculty Council
+++ Update from June 24: Due to another network outage on June 23, the voting period will be extended until June 27, 2025 at 12 noon. +++ +++ Update from May 20: Due to the...
Inaugural lecture by Prof. Silvana Botti on May 12: AI-POWERED MATERIALS DESIGN - FROM DISCOVERY TO APPLICATION
On Monday, May 12, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., Prof. Dr. Silvana Botti will give her inaugural lecture as part of our Physics Colloquium. Botti is Professor of Theory of Excited...
Physics colloquium on May 5: EYES VS. RADIOMETERS - A LIGHT POLLUTION ENIGMA
On Monday, May 5, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Dr. Christopher Kyba works at the Institute of Geography at Ruhr-Universität...
Federal congress for the promotion of MINT teaching
From May 1 to 4, 2025, teachers from all over Germany will meet on the campus of Ruhr-Universität Bochum for the 115th MNU Congress. Participants can expect a program with lectures,...
Physics colloquium on April 28: Helmut Koch memorial colloquium
On Monday, April 28, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place. The date is a memorial colloquium for Prof. Dr. Helmut Koch, who died almost...
Networking conference for Humboldt Fellows at the RUB
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's fellowship holders' meeting took place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum from April 9 to 11. A total of 114 researchers from 37 different countries came to this...