Division V - Physics and Mathematics

Lightning still is a poorly understood phenomenon – LOFAR Radio Telescope measures so far unknown structures and discharge processes – Research at KIT has laid technological foundations.

Award of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research goes to project for research into bionic ship coatings.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research funds cooperation project on fast and tap-proof communication.

Die Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften hat 28 herausragende Forschende aufgenommen.

BMBF funds experimental research into fundamental building blocks of matter with EUR 7.6 million.

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer is granted most important research prize in Germany.

KIT researchers investigate competing states in high-temperature superconductors.

Researchers want to find out more about the fundamental theory.

On November 20, 2018 the inauguration of the 
Helmholtz International Research School for Astroparticle Physics and Enabling Technologies (HIRSAP) took place at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires. 

Helmholtz Association funds project for accelerator technologies with nearly 30 million euros.

DFG grants funds for the RTG 2450 "Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience". Funding starts in April 2019 for initially four and a half years.

KIT spin-off receives award for revolutionary 3D laser printing process.

European Commission funds SQUARE flagship project with EUR three million.

The Center pools the interdisciplinary mathematical research at KIT.

Prof. Ulrich Husemann (ETP) was elected to the board of directors of the German Physics Society (DPG) for the first time. The DPG is the world's largest physics society. The board of directors is the "parliament" of the DPG and especially responsible for strategic decisions. 

Prof. Herbert Gleiter (INT) receives the Jan Czochralski Award for his Lifetime Achievements in Material Science at the European MRS Fall Meeting 2018.

Wasps in several-million-year-old pupae detected by synchrotron X-ray microtomography.

The European Commission honors the physicist's outstanding contributions to the theory of photovoltaics.

Dr. Frank Schröder receives an ERC Starting Grant of EUR 1.6 million for five years.

Council for Research and Promotion of Young Scientists (CRYS) confirms extraordinary success of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group "Analysis of KATRIN Data to Measure the Neutrino Mass and Search for New Physics“.

Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment KATRIN starts its data taking phase.

The coating reduces the frictional resistance of ships and makes them glide more easily through the water.

With Belle II, a globally unique particle accelerator experiment goes into operation in Japan.

He received the award for his achievements in astroparticle physics and in the international experiment IceCube.

On April 17, 2018 the kick-off event for the Helmholtz International Research School for Astroparticle Physics and Enabling Technologies (HIRSAP) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took place at KIT.

Ellen Gottschämmer from the Geophysical Institute has been honoured for excellent teaching.

The German Physical Society grants a prize to the Institute of Nanotechnology and the Innovation Management Service Unit.

The Pierre Auger Collaboration receives the award Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of 2017 for their proof of extra-
galactic origin of high-energy cosmic rays. 

At the November meeting of the members of the Pierre Auger Collaboration in Malargüe, Argentina, Dr. Ralph Engel (IKP) has been elected as spokesperson of the international collaboration which consists of 89 institutes in 17 countries. The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest and most famous project to study ultra-high energy cosmic rays. 

KIT scientists have implemented Grover’s quantum algorithm for search in unsorted databases.

A new multifunctional electron microscope of KIT can detect structures in sensitive materials.

The Helmholtz Association supports three international research schools, among them the International Research School on Astroparticle Physics and Enabling Technologies, applied by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) together with Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires. The spokespersons of the Research School, that is expected to start on April 1, 2018, are Dr. Ralph Engel from the German side and Dr. Alberto Etchegoyen from the Argentinian side.

Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration prove extragalactic origin of high-energy cosmic rays.

The Helmholtz Association and the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) have selected the first six joint research groups for their "Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Groups" funding program, including the Karlsruhe-Russian Astroparticle Data Life Cycle Initiative. The aim of this project is to make publicly available a broad spectrum of data on high-energy cosmic rays. The participating researchers from KIT are Dr. A. Haungs, IKP, and Prof. A. Streit, SCC, and from the Russian side Prof. A Kryukov, MSU. 

Texas suffers direct losses of $58 billion, further increases in costs may be expected. Only Sandy and Katrina were more expensive.

Am 13. Juli fanden die Feierlichkeiten anlässlich der Einweihung des Linear-
beschleunigers FLUTE statt. Am Linearbeschleuniger FLUTE (Ferninfrarot Linac- Und Test Experiment) erforscht das KIT Technologien für die Beschleuniger von morgen und die Anwendung von Terahertzstrahlung in Wissenschaft, Industrie und Medizin.

Prof. Marlis Hochbruck has been elected as vice president for further 4 years by the Joint Committee of Deutsche Forschungs-
gemeinschaft (DFG). Since 2014, Marlis Hochbruck from the Institute of Applied and Numerical Analysis at KIT has worked honorarily as vice president for the DFG. 

During the travel of Chancellor Angela Merkel to Argentina on June 8 an exchange with students and young scientists took place concerning cooperations. Doctoral students of the Double Doctoral degree in Astrophysics (DDAp) - a program between KIT and the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires - participated in the dialogue.

Just in time for the upcoming open day the KASCADE/ KASCADE-Grande information board has been mounted in the southwesterly corner of the former KASCADE detector array at Campus North. The extensive air shower experiment Karlsruhe Shower Core and Array Detector (KASCADE) studied successfully the characteristics of cosmic radiation from February 1994 to January 2013. The KASCADE data are made available for public usage at the KASCADE Cosmic Ray Data Centre (KCDC).

Der Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC am europäischen Teilchenphysiklabor CERN bei Genf hat wieder seinen Betrieb aufgenommen. Am CMS-Experiment wurde in der Winterpause ein neuer Silizium-Pixeldetektor eingebaut. Physiker, Ingenieure und Techniker vom Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) haben dazu an vielen Stellen wichtige Beiträge geleistet.

European Research Council (ERC) selects Wolfgang Wernsdorfer for funding through an ERC Advanced Grant.

The international network Neutrino mass develops more precise detectors for particle physics experiments like KATRIN.

Robert Klanner was nominated for the 2016 Julius Wess Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to  the development of silicon microstrip detectors.

Die United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) hat Professor Horst Hahn zu einem ihrer 249 „foreign members“ gewählt.

KATRIN experiment has reached the next major milestone: For the first time, electrons flew through the whole facility to the detector.

Three KIT scientists receive the award worth EUR 50,000 for their interdisciplinary reasearch on three-dimensional cell culturing.

Die 900 Eisenplatten dienen in Zukunft als "Bremsklotz" für das FAIR-Experiment in Darmstadt.

James W. Cronin, American physicist and nobel laureate, died August 25, 2016 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, at the age of 84.

The Prize will be handed over to the the theoretical physicist of Harvard University on July 8.

In the focus of the visit was a cooperation project with universities in the South of Brazil.

New Research Training Group of KIT and the University of Heidelberg will begin its work by October.

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship awarded to Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, who will conduct research at KIT from June.

The restored building on KIT Campus South is an example of sustainable campus architecture.

The further development of new and ongoing cooperations where being discussed.

The internationally acknowledged physicist Wolfgang Wernsdorfer will come to KIT.

Developed at the KIT, the simulation code CoREAS leads to new insights about cosmic rays.

Pierre Auger Observatory with KIT participating will be continued and expanded.