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25 Oct 2023 / Research, People, Info

Dominik Zumbühl elected American Physical Society Fellow for 2023

19 Sep 2023 / Research, Info

NZZ reportage: Quantum Computing

04 Sep 2023 / Events, Other

Joint Annual Meeting of SPS and ÖPG in Basel

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Location:
Physik, Neuer Hörsaal 1, Foyer EG

QCQT Seminar

Controlling photon statistics through a single quantum emitter

Marcelo Janovitch (Potts Group)

28 Nov 2023

12:35

Location:
Physik, Neuer Hörsaal 1, Foyer EG

QCQT Seminar

A Type-4 Gatemon Device

Han Zheng (Schonenberger Group)

28 Nov 2023

16:15

Location:
Seminarzimmer 3.12

Host:
Stefan Antusch

Complementary of BSM via CMB, Gravitational Waves, Primordial Black Holes and non-Gaussianity

Anish Ghoshal, University of Warsaw

30 Nov 2023

17:15

Location:
Alter Hörsaal 1.22

Host:
Stefan Antusch

Center-of-mass recoil effects for thermal dark matter pairs in the early universe

Gramos Qerimi

01 Dec 2023

13:15

Location:
Physik, Alter Hörsaal HS2

Host:
C. Schönenberger

Measuring unoccupied bands in van der Waals materials

Prof. Dr. Sense Jan van der Molen (Universität Leiden)

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6 New Post Doc Fellows

Fourth call for Georg H. Endress Postdoc Fellows

On January 14th, 2022, the fourth call for Georg H. Endress Postdoc Fellows was launched with deadline April 30th 2022. In the previous calls the Center has already appointed 18 outstanding fellows and is now opening a 4th call aiming to appoint up to 6 new Fellows to start in 2022. A complete list of list of current Georg H. Endress Postdoc Fellows can be found on the Fellows page. For more details about the open call, and to apply, please visit the Open Calls category. more

Department of Physics

The Departement of Physics of the University of Basel is a center for international top-level research in the fields of nano and quantum physics, and cosmology and particle physics. Our students benefit from the excellence in research that offers them an outstanding range of courses supervised by highly talented assistants and renowned professors.

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