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3 Nov 2020

Intel® Software Development Tools for HPC

Intel and the HPC group of the IT center of the Thuringian universities will run two Online workshops (webinars) on the Intel...

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26 Oct 2020

Mission statement survey is online

Your opinion matters! Take part in our online survey until 12 November as part of the mission statement process.

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As part of the mission statement process there is a university-wide online survey.

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7 Oct 2020 · Light

Intelligent nanomaterials for photonics

Physicists and chemists at the University of Jena engineer optical fibres with 2D materials

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PhD student Quyet Ngo studies optical fibres functionalised by 2D materials.

Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

11 Sep 2020

Conference of the CRC PolyTarget 2020

Our annual CRC conference took place on September 7 and 8.

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10 Sep 2020 · Light

"Lichtwerkstatt Pro" – Makerspace at the Abbe Center of Photonics funded with another 600k EUR

The Lichtwerkstatt is a Makerspace where citizens, researchers and companies with an interest in optics and photonics can gain...

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Photonics Workshop at the Lichtwerkstatt Jena.

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30 Jul 2020 · Light

Photonics software bootcamp 2021 - by students, for students

The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy and ACP are happy to support a students' initiative to organize a photonics software...

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Jena's OSA and SPIE student chapters at the UC2 Hackathon in 2019.

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29 Jul 2020 · Light

NOA PhD positions available!

Currently, the SFB/CRC 1375 NOA is offering five doctoral researcher (PhD) positions, to start as soon as possible.

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Simulations of optical properties of hybrid nanostructures.

Graphic: Christin David

16 Jul 2020 · Light

ACP Annual Meeting 2020

On Jul 13, 2020 ACP's principal scientists gathered remotely via videoconference to hold their annual meeting. The ACP board of...

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Prof. Thomas Pertsch (left), in discussion with Prof. Jürgen Popp (right).

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

9 Jul 2020

The European Campus of City-Universities is a go

University of Jena successful in a EU call for proposals and among the founders of a European University

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The European university will involve not only the Jena market, but the entire region.

Image: Jürgen Scheere (University of Jena)

22 Jun 2020 · Light

Atomic-resolution mapping of transcription factor-DNA interactions

Together with colleagues from the Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry...

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Crystal structure of the human recombinant nucleosome (PDB ID: 2CV58), with cross-linked amino acids marked in red (close to DNA) and orange (distant to DNA).

Illustration: Nature Publishing Group.

9 Jun 2020 · Light

Andreas Tünnermann elected as new ACP executive director 2020

On 1 June 2020, Thomas Pertsch has regularly resigned his position as the executive director of the Abbe Center of Photonics...

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ACP principal scientist Prof. Andreas Tünnermann.

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2 Jun 2020 · Light

Switchable graphene transistors

A team around ACP principal scientist Andrey Turchanin is developing graphene-based, light-sensitive nano-switches.

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From left to right: Z. Tang, A. Turchanin and A. George.

Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)