News 2014
Baking
11.12.2014
Our students baked some cookies for our Christmas party.
Short Group Trip
27.11.2014
Our group visited the medieval Christmas market in Esslingen.
New Frontispiece
17.11.2014
New PhD
06.11.2014
Congratulations to Bernd Metzger for obtaining the title Dr. rer. nat.!
Group Trip
16.09.2014
Group picture from this year's group trip to Goersdorf (Elsass region of France). The second picture has been taken in front of the Louise Weiss building (seat of the European Parliament, Strasbourg).
SCoPE Volleyball Tournament
19.07.2014
Our team won this year's SCoPE Volleyball Tournament. Congratulations!
Preis der Freunde
08.07.2014
Our former PhD student
Dr. Mario Hentschel received the "Preis der
Freunde der Universität Stuttgart" (5000 EUR) for the best PhD thesis in 2013. Next to him is Dr. Volkmar Denner, CEO of Bosch, and alumnus of the Stuttgart Physics Institute. Congratulations!
New Nature Communications Article
04.07.2014
Group Picture
25.06.2014
Time for a new group picture.
Farewell
13.06.2014
Prof. Dr. Heinz Schweizer retires. We wish him the very best for his future!
Special Lecture Series
19.05.2014
We welcome back our guest professor
Prof. Dr. Ronald Griessen from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Prof. Griessen will give a
special lecture series entitled "Hydrogenography: Shedding light on Switchable Metal-hydride Mirrors" at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. The lectures take place on Monday, 19 May 2014 (10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 16:00) in room 5H7.
Scholarship
06.05.2014
Our PhD student
Tobias Steinle has been awarded a scholarship of the
Carl Zeiss Stiftung. Congratulations!
Visit
27.03.2014
Ronen Rapaport from the Hebrew University Jerusalem gave a talk on "Cold Dipolar Exciton Fluids on a Chip: From Quantum Many-Body Physics to Multi-Functional Circuitry".
Award
17.02.2014
Our former PhD student and postdoc
Dr. Na Liu (now leader of the research group
Smart Nanoplasmonics at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) received a
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize (20,000 €) from the DFG. Congratulations!
Excursion
14.02.2014
Our group and students from the third semester (Experimental Physics III – Optics) and students of the SCoPE M.Sc course Photonics Engineering visited Carl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen.
New PhD
13.02.2014
Congratulations to Daniel Dregely for obtaining the title Dr. rer. nat.!
New PhD
27.01.2014
Congratulations to Robin Hegenbarth for obtaining the title Dr. rer. nat.!
Lab Impressions
24.01.2014
The whole intitute cleared out one of our oldest labs. Here are some impressions.
Award
22.01.2014
Our PhD student
Bettina Frank wins one of the poster prizes at the workshop "Active Plasmonics" in Bad Honnef with her contribution on electrochemical growth of single crystalline gold platelets. Congratulations!