Benjamin List received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

Public lecture of Nobel Prize Winner Benjamin List at TU Dresden 

With Benjamin List, we welcome another Nobel Prize winner to the TU Dresden Audimax this year.
On 3 May, in his lecture "Catalysis for the World", the Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry will talk about catalysis with organic molecules and how strong and restricted acids could become universal catalysts.
The lecture will be held in German at 7 pm at the TU Dresden Lecture Hall Centre (Audimax). As always, admission is free of charge. Registration is requested.

Laura Degenhardt. © Laura Degenhardt

Website Team Digital Teaching is online now!
 
In September 2022, the digital teaching team at the School of Science with the advisor Laura Degenhardt and our ZiLL partner Claudia Albrecht started the work and exchange on the concept of "digitally supported teaching". On the team's website, you will find information on various topics, for example, on subsidies that have been announced or contact persons for teaching room equipment, which is constantly updated and expanded as needed.
Furthermore, we are looking forward to the reinforcement and thus completion of the team in May, which will of course be announced on the website. So take a look at https://tu-dresden.de/mn/der-bereich/team-digitale-lehre!
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or need support (digitalelehre.mn@tu-dresden.de).

© Carsten Albert

Dresden Excellence Award 2022 for Carsten Albert

The physics student teacher Carsten Albert receives the Dresden Excellence Award for his state examination thesis "Development of a guideline for the creation of accompanying texts with interpretation aids for exhibits on quantum mechanics". In it, he develops a physics didactic and museum educational approach to the seminal topic of quantum mechanics in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) and the Dresden Technical Collections (TSD).

© Crispin-Iven Mokry

Promotionspreis Physik 2022 awarded to two female scientists

On 31 January 2023, the Faculty of Physics awarded the Promotionspreis Physik to two young female scientists. Dr. Erjuan Guo and Dr. Marta Urbańska were honoured for their outstanding dissertations. The chairman of the prize committee, Prof. Roland Ketzmerick, gave the laudatory speech for the prize winners. Afterwards, both physicists presented their research work in short scientific lectures.  The awards were presented during the Physics Colloquium.

A team of researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat based at the universities JMU Würzburg and TU Dresden has engineered the topological insulator manganese bismuth telluride (MnBi6Te10) to make it ferromagnetic. The amazing thing about this quantum material is that its ferromagnetic properties only occur when antisite disorder is introduced into its atomic structure. To achieve this, some manganese atoms (green) need to be relocated from their original position (second green atomic layer from the top). Only when manganese atoms are present in all the layers containing bismuth atoms (gray) does the magnetic interaction between them become sufficiently contagious to point them in the same direction and create ferromagnetism.

© Jörg Bandmann/ct.qmat

Surprise in the quantum world: Disorder leads to ferromagnetic topological insulator

Magnetic topological insulators are an exotic class of materials that conduct electrons without any resistance at all and so are regarded as a promising breakthrough in materials science. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat (Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter) have achieved a significant milestone in the pursuit of energy-efficient quantum technologies by designing the ferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi₆Te₁₀ from the manganese bismuth telluride family. The amazing thing about this quantum material is that its ferromagnetic properties only occur when some atoms swap places, introducing antisite disorder.

 

Public lecture

Lecture by Brett Kagan

 Heinz-Schönfeld lecture hall

Discussion evening

Let's talk about genetics

 Great Hall in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden

Board

School Committee School of Science 

            

Information event

Girls Day

 in presence and digital

Public lecture

Nobel Prize Laureate Benjamin List: "Katalyse für die Welt"

 Audimax, HSZ

           

How does the TU Dresden's energy-saving thermometer work? Janine uncovers - Episode 11

Every degree counts - Energy-saving thermometers were distributed as part of TU Dresden's energy-saving campaign. Chemist Janine asked herself how they work. The answer is found in liquid crystals. She explains what's behind it in the current Chemtastisch episode.


 

           

Saving energy: Research and measures for energy efficiency at TU Dresden

With the slogan "Join in - your actions have an effect!", the TU Dresden has been calling for energy savings since last year. The fact that the measures taken are bringing success is also confirmed by science. Members of the TU Dresden give an insight into current research at the TUD on energy saving and explain how everyone can contribute. Because: Every degree counts! More information on saving energy at TU Dresden:  https://tu-dresden.de/energie

           

Exploring technologies of the future | #BrightMinds: Matthias Vojta

At the Cluster of Excellence @ctqmat, almost 400 scientists are researching quantum materials that will be able to conduct electricity without loss and store gigantic amounts of information in the future - the basis for revolutionary technical applications. Prof. Matthias Vojta is a theoretical physicist at the TU Dresden and Dresden spokesperson for the cluster. He is one of eight passionate scientists featured in the film "Bright Minds. Excellent Research." gives insights into cutting-edge research at TU Dresden. He reveals what "excellence" means to him in the video.

           

Discovering the boundaries of nature:  Bachelor's program "Physik" at TU Dresden

A new image film for the Bachelor's degree program attracts students interested in physics.

           

International Master’s Program „Physics“  at TU Dresden

Physics is about figuring out what nature makes possible; Dresden provides you with new possibilities in life. Come and join TU Dresden’s international Master’s program “Physics”.

           

You Ask We Explain

The new podcast YOU ASK we explain - launched in January 2023. 12 podcasts and videocasts on current, multi-faceted as well as relevant/significant topics will be recorded over the course of the year for exchange and a transparent look behind the scenes of medicine: Everyone asks - university medicine answers. The focus is on critical exchange between experts and the wider community. Students can demonstrate their skills as moderators and debate questions submitted by society together with doctors and scientists.
Topics such as AI in medicine, gender-specific medicine or errors in medicine are to be discussed and give impulses to society to be able to deal critically with this topic.

© Maike Heber

"International Masterclasses: Particle Physics at your Fingertips" at the TUD

This year's International Masterclass "hands on particle physics" showed that the TU Dresden is a regionally anchored, globally active university: The Saxon students who came to the TUD on this day to get to grips with the small big world of particle physics came from Seifhennersdorf, Leipzig and Zwickau, among other places. These groups formed only a fraction of the more than 200 participating institutions in 60 partner countries worldwide.

           

Chemistry Lecturers' Conference 2023

From 13 to 15 March 2023, the GDCh Chemiedozententagung took place at TU Dresden.  More than 300 participants from all over Germany used this platform to present their research and exchange ideas. In addition to the extensive scientific programme with lectures from various fields of chemistry, there were numerous informative workshops ranging from project proposal writing, research data management to "Applying for a Professorship", but also numerous networking events.
The event was organised by Prof. Jan J. Weigand (Chair), Prof. Thomas Henle, Prof. Bernd J. Plietker and Prof. Tobias A. M. Gulder from TU Dresden and the Association of German University Professors of Chemistry (ADUC).

           

In March Dresden was the European centre of physics

Whether on campus, on the train or in the city centre - from 20 to 31 March 2023, the logo of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.) could be seen all over Dresden. During these two weeks, thousands of physicists met at TU Dresden within the framework of two DPG spring conferences to discuss current issues in physics. The main topics of the conferences included questions about the building blocks of matter, the cosmos and so-called condensed matter. The local conference chairs were Dr. Frank Siegert and Prof. Jochen Geck.
On the occasion of the DPG conferences, Netzwerk Teilchenwelt also showed the pop-up exhibition "Big Bang on the Road" for four days. The mobile exhibition, which was developed by Netzwerk Teilchenwelt in cooperation with Weltmaschine at DESY in Hamburg and experts from particle physics and didactics from TU Dresden, brings the complex world of particle physics closer to interested people of all ages: It conveys how and why research is done here and, above all, how it affects our everyday life and society.