Faculty of Physics - University of Vienna

Jnan Maharana (IOPB, Bhubaneswar): Ward Identities in String Theory Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2025 14:00 Ort: Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock

Seminar for Mathematical Physics

🗣️ Jnan Maharana (IOPB, Bhubaneswar): Ward Identities in String Theory
🗓️Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 14:00
📍 Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor
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#physics #Vienna #stringtheory

Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe): Power corrections in the N-jettiness slicing scheme Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2025 16.15 Ort: Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock Zoom: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93342693866?pwd=aUpTR0VJNUhJY2Q0ajdaKzI1YWVBQT09 Meeting ID: 933 4269 3866...

Particle Physics Seminar

🗣️ Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe IT): Power corrections in the N-jettiness slicing scheme
🗓️Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 16:15
📍Erwin Schrödinger Lecture Hall, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor
🔗 a29.at/mOao6E
#physics #Vienna #particlephysics #univie

🙌On October 10, the Faculty was represented at “Quantastisch! What's going on in the quantum world?”💥

The activity for school classes from Vienna and the surrounding area offered an action day with experiments, lectures and workshops on the quantum world.

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#physics #quantumyear

🏆Enrico Fermi Prize 2025 goes to Prof. Walter Kutschera🏅

The Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF) awarded the prize jointly to Pier Andrea Mandò, Marco Martini and Walter Kutschera.

⬇️Learn the whole story ⬇️

🔗https://a29.at/5Hru7v

We are proud of being @univie.ac.at and contributing to its success! 💪⭐️

Quantum Cube Planning approval has been granted for the new research building for quantum physics – the Quantum Cube, which will be constructed in Courtyard 2 of the University of Vienna campus.

🦺Updates from the Quantum Cube🚧

This new research building for quantum optics, nanophysics, and information will allow precise experiments without disturbance from traffic and U-Bahn construction.

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#physics #Vienna #quantum #buidling #quantumcube

Björn Garbrecht (Munich): CP conservation in the strong interactions Dienstag, 07. Oktober 2025 16:15 Ort: Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock

Particle Physics Seminar

🗣️ Björn Garbrecht (TU Munich): CP conservation in the strong interactions
🗓️Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 16:15
📍Erwin Schrödinger Lecture Hall, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor
🔗 a29.at/tyxPhc
#physics #Vienna #particlephysics #univie

Seminar for Mathematical Physics

🗣️Dalimil Mazáč (CEA Paris-Saclay): L-functions and the conformal bootstrap
🗓️Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
📍Erwin Schrödinger Lecture Hall, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor
🔗https://a29.at/XhmlTl
#physics #Vienna #mathphys #fieldtheory

If you want to discover more about his fascinating research, check: quiverqft.univie.ac.at

New Assistant Professor Marcus Sperling Marcus Sperling explores the rich structure of quantum field theories (QFTs), with a particular focus on supersymmetric theories in space-time dimensions three to six.

Congratulations to Marcus Sperling on his new Assistant Professorship at the Faculty!

In his research, Marcus explores the rich structure of quantum field theories (QFTs), with a particular focus on supersymmetric theories in space-time dimensions three to six.

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Nature Astronomy: Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence Four researchers from the Isotope Physics Group have contributed cosmogenic radionuclide data and its interpretation for a recent publication in Nature Astronomy.

The Isotope Physics group has contributed cosmogenic radionuclide data and its interpretation for a recent publication in Nature Astronomy dealing with asteroids and its possible catastrophic disruptions.

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The full paper: a29.at/pWjz0W
#physics #isotopes #asteroid #meteor

Experimental quantum-enhanced kernel-based machine learning on a photonic processor - Nature Photonics A quantum kernel estimation by which feature data points are evaluated through the unitary evolution of two-boson Fock states is experimentally demonstrated on a photonic integrated processor. This model provides enhanced accuracy with respect to commonly used classical methods for several classification tasks.

Research update:

Using a light-based quantum chip, researchers have created a more efficient and accurate AI.

#QuantumComputing #MachineLearning #AI #Photonics #Physics #Tech #Science

Read the #openaccess paper in @natphoton.nature.com
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Today the Faculty holds the FÖP - the Public Presentations at the Faculty .

Early PhD students present their research plan to the Faculty’s community, opening the door to discussion and exchange of ideas.

More details here: a29.at/bsoHxR

The University of Vienna Physics Colloquiums bring together the entire Faculty, including students, to foster our spirit of community and promote a stimulating exchange of ideas from the frontiers of science.

Block your agenda with this semester’s Colloquia: physik.univie.ac.at/events/collo...

Maria Ibáñez (ISTA): Tailoring Thermoelectric Performance through Solution Processing Montag, 6. Oktober 2025 13:30 Ort: Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal, Strudlhofgasse 4, 1. Stock

This semester, our first University of Vienna Physics Colloquiums will be from Maria Ibáñez (ISTA), who will be presenting a talk titled: “Tailoring Thermoelectric Performance through Solution Processing”.

More information: a29.at/zq8hq3

Physiknachwuchs feiert sommerliche Erfolge bei Wettbewerben Im SFZ Wien (Schüler:innen-Forschungszentrum, Leitung Marianne Korner) trainierten im Frühjahr Schüler:innen, die bei den Wettbewerben Internationale Physikolympiade, Balkan-Physikolympiade und Intern...

The SFZ (SchülerInnen Forschungszentrum) supports high-school students to develop their interest and passion for physics. Once again, this effort led by Marianne Korner has been successful in international competitions!

All our best to the future physicists!

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University professorship for Reinhard Maurer Air-purifying catalysts of the future, innovative battery technologies, and fuel cells—they all have one thing in common: they often consist of materials with active interfaces that are still unknown ...

A warm welcome to our new Faculty member:

Reinhard Maurer starts this September as Professor of Computational Materials Discovery.

Explore his fascinating research in this note: physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/news...

Diffraction of helium and hydrogen atoms through single-layer graphene Diffraction of atoms from surfaces provides detailed insights into structures, interactions, and dynamical processes. However, the method is currently limited to measurements in reflection—diffraction...

Want to learn more details? Read the full paper in @science.org
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Diffraction of atomic matter waves through a 2D crystal The diffraction of atomic matter waves in transmission through a crystal has been demonstrated for the first time as a result of a collaboration between DLR in Germany and the group of Toma Susi. | Ne...

Research update:

The group of Toma Susi together with German colleagues has demonstrated experimentally the Diffraction of atomic matter waves through a 2D crystal.

Read the news here⬇️
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Discover more about the 22nd International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA, which) will be held in Vienna, Austria, August 24-29, 2025.

icnaa2025.univie.ac.at/home/

Event:
Do we need to darken the sun? Solar radiation management as a solution to the climate crisis?

Public event of the 22 ICNAA, co-organized by Prof. Paul Winkler.

📆Wednesday, 27 August 2025 19:00
📍Palais Eschenbach, Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Vienna
🔗https://physik.univie.ac.at/events/

A portrait picture of Fabian Majce in front of a computer screen with a graphic explaining the inverse design concept.

Congratulations to Fabian Majcen!

He was won an ÖPG Student Award for his master’s thesis.

You can discover his fascinating research in video format here:

nanomag.univie.ac.at/newspage/fab...

You can also read the full paper:

Roman Staňo, Christos N. Likos, Davide Michieletto, and Jan Smrek, Topology-Controlled Microphase Separation and Interconversion of Twist and Writhe Domains in Supercoiled Annealed Polyelectrolytes. In Physical Review Letters (2025).
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/7fh5...

Research update:

We congratulate the Likos group for their exciting findings in shape-adaptive materials.

Want to learn more? Read the full story here:

🔗 a29.at/6udbn3

#physics #softmatter #research #univie #polymer

The Faculty of Physics at KinderuniWien Professor Markus Aspelmeyer delivered the inaugural lecture of the KinderuniWien. Many other groups and scientists from the Faculty participated with workshops during the two-week-long children's take...

The KinderuniWien took over our Faculty!

From the inaugural lecture to hands-on workshops, our research groups embraced the challenge of introducing children to their fields. The palpable enthusiasm of these young students clearly showed their success.

Read more here: a29.at/1Hlzyp

Latest from our alumni initiative:

Physik Alumni is an initiative from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna to bring current and former students together.

In their last newsletter they present an overview of their first year and their plans for the upcoming semester: rb.gy/wovb51

Research update:

Did you know that that even arbitrary 𝑘-local Hamiltonians have structure in their low energy space?

Learn more about this the research from Norbert Schuch (from @quantumunivie.bsky.social) and colleagues in this paper:
doi.org/10.1103/29qw...
#physics #math #quantum

A poster on a door saying “VDSP Summer Academy”

Today the VDSP Summer Academy 2025 on Symmetries, Particles and Fields starts!

We are happy to hosts students from all over the world for two weeks of learning, discussions and fascinating lectures.

vds-physics.univie.ac.at/activities/n...

New project:

Congratulations to Marius Oancea, from the Gravitational Physics group!

His project "Lensing of electromagnetic and gravitational waves" will be funded by the @fwf-at.bsky.social in the frame of their Principal Investigator Projects International funding program.
#physics #gravity

Viscoelastic flow instability in planar shear flow We report direct numerical simulations of elastic turbulence in shear-driven flow of a dilute polymer solution within a three-dimensional straight channel. Most

Research update:

A new study titled “Viscoelastic flow instability in planar shear flow Open Access“ has been published by researchers from the Computational and Soft Matter Physics group.

You can read it here:
doi.org/10.1063/5.02...