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28 Apr 2020 · Light

Black holes have no hair

International research team verifies the validity of the "No Hair" theorem by actual observations

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Artistic illustration of the centre of OJ 287, in which two black holes orbit each other.

Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech

22 Apr 2020 · Light · Life · Liberty

A picture is worth 1,000 words

Dr Michael Böhme turns numbers of Covid-19 cases in Thuringia into graphics

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Dr Michael Böhme in his laboratory at the Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry.

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

15 Apr 2020 · Light

EACON 2020 Conference on Nanophotonics - POSTPONED

Due to the current restrictions of the plublic life in Germany, the EACON conference did not take place in April and was...

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Graphic: Leibniz IPHT

2 Mar 2020 · Light · Life

Carl Zeiss Foundation supports ACP breakthrough research in intelligent materials with 4.5 million EUR

An interdisciplinary project team around ACP scientist Lothar Wondraczek is researching programmable materials that can be used...

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Consortium of the breakthrough research project on intelligent materials in Jena, funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.

Image: Carl Zeiss Foundation

23 Jan 2020 · Light

FastPhoton - new ACP InQuoSens research group

Supported by the Thüringer Aufbaubank, a new research group called "Ultra-wideband high-frequency control of fiber-coupled...

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Dr. Tobias Vogl and Dr. Falk Eilenberger, members of the Thuringian research group FastPhoton.

Image: Jürgen Scheere (University of Jena)

11 Dec 2019 · Light

1st call for entreprenaurial projects of the Digital Innovation Hub Photonics

Selected projects will receive support from DIHP's funds as well as support for the implementation of the ideas into a...

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Elevator Pitch 2020 of the Digital Innovation Hubs Photonics in Jena.

Image: Fraunhofer IOF Jena.

3 Dec 2019 · Light

Physics For Female Students - Class 10 - 13

Collaborative Research Center 1375 NOA "Nonlinear Optics in Smallest Dimensions" participates in a student workshop at the...

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Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

15 Nov 2019 · Light

Meeting of the ACP advisory board

On November 14, 2019, the fourth meeting of the ACP advisory board took place in Jena.

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Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

14 Nov 2019 · Light

Academia-Industry workshop with ASML and ZEISS

Following up a visit of the Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow in the Netherlands in September 2018, the Abbe School of...

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Image: Christian Helgert

13 Nov 2019 · Light

Distant worlds under many suns

Astrophysicist discovers numerous multiple star systems with exoplanets

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Three suns in the sky of the nearest exoplanet Proxima Centauri b (artist's impression).

Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser

6 Nov 2019 · Light

ACP scientist Heintzmann publishes in Nature Methods

Together with colleagues from several Universities and Institutes in the USA, ACP principal scientist Rainer Heintzmann has...

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Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

14 Oct 2019 · Light · Life · Liberty

Helping Jena’s science network to grow further

Carl Zeiss Foundation provides 18.4 million euros to fund two Jena University communication centres

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One of the two communication centers will be built next to the university main building (dark block).

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)