Light & Schools News

4. Apr. 2019

New web page

The web page of the cluster of excellence „CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter“ is now online. We invite you to visit us at www.cui-advanced.uni-hamburg.de/en. From now on, news and announcements will be published on the new web page... »

5. Mar. 2019

Resarch day for girls

How is the work as a physicists? What drives and what fascinates them? The Girls‘ Day on 28 March 2019 gives interested girls the opportunity to talk to researchers and try their own experiments. [caption id="attachment_18505" align="aligncenter" width="468"] Foto: kompetenzz.de[/caption]... »

31. Jan. 2019

Mildred Dresselhaus Guestprofessorship Conference

Open to everyone! From 4 – 6 April 2019 the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Conference (MDC) will take place on Campus Bahrenfeld, including top-level scientific talks, personal perspectives on how to succeed as a scientist in research, and state-of-the-art contributions on topics of... »

2. Oct. 2018

Science on Tap awarded with "Hochschulperle"

When scientists swarm out into Hamburg's bars and pubs to give entertaining, funny or extraordinary insights into their work, it is time for science on tap - "Wissen vom Fass". The event which was developed by DESY and Universität Hamburg as a means to communicate science has now been awarded by... »

8. May. 2018

Going for natural sciences on Girls' and Boys' Day

Campus Bahrenfeld was hard to recognize on 26 April 2018, this year’s Girls’ and Boys’ Day: boys and girls strolled around in small and large groups, marvelling at the labs and discussing experiments. “Physics beats” was the motto chosen by the school lab “Light & Schools”; in... »

3. May. 2018

mint:pink Norderstedt visiting Light & Schools

22 female students from Norderstedt have visited the school lab „Light & Schools“ which was founded almost ten years ago by Prof. Klaus Sengstock to bring the importance of physics in everyday life home to pupils. What counts is the connection to practice. Wouldn't it be exciting to know... »

3. May. 2018

Fresh knowledge from the tap

For the fourth time already researchers spread out all over Hamburg's bars to talk about their exiting work. From Othmarschen to Bergedorf people had the opportunitiy at the latest edition from „Wissen vom Fass“ (Science on Tap) to quench their thirst for knowledge. The idea that initiator... »

23. Jan. 2018

The foundations are laid

The school lab „Light & Schools“ will get its own building: the foundations for the „HAUS DER LEHRE – LIGHT & SCHOOLS“ were laid last week. The new building will broaden Universität Hamburg's presence on Campus Bahrenfeld. The one-storey, multifunctional and transparent building... »

6. Dec. 2017

Award for school project

CUI's „Light & Schools“ team is feeling great joy: a project at Gymnasium Corveystraße, which was developed together with the school lab, has been awarded by the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung in the „Unseren Schulen“ competition. The collaborative project "Psst.Geheim!?" at Gymnasium... »

8. Nov. 2017

Visitor record at the Night of Knowledge

The 7th Night of Knowledge respectively the DESY DAY 2017 ended with a record of more than 20,000 visitors on Campus Bahrenfeld. More than 10,000 young and old found their way to the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, where CUI presented several acitivities. Building 61, where the CUI office... »

10. Jul. 2017

3-2-1… Take-off!

With happy faces, 22 first graders gazed at the sky when their first self-constructed rocket launched. For the first time, the school laboratory „Light & Schools“ offered a project for primary school pupils – with great success! "Who knows how a rocket looks like and how it gets up... »

24. May. 2017

Arts & Science in Hamburg's City Hall

From 1 - 15 June 2017 the cluster of excellence CUI presents images from the micro world in Hamburg's City Hall. The exhibition is centered around the beauty of visualizations of scientific phenomena and structures researched by the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, flanked by photographs of... »

24. May. 2017

Experiencing Science With All Senses

CUI and its school lab „Light & Schools” presented the widest range of activities on their annual Girl’s Day so far, offering two workshops and insights into two labs to female students from grade 5 to 11. [caption id="attachment_13934" align="alignleft" width="320"] Students in the... »

4. Jul. 2016

Student teachers visit Light & Schools

More than 15 student teachers from all over Hamburg visited Light & Schools to peak into the school lab on Campus Bahrenfeld and get an impression of its possibilities. Physics student Bastian Besner represented CUI-coordinators Dortje Schirok and Dr. Thomas Garl and informed about the... »

4. May. 2016

Everything fell into place at this year's Girls' Day

"TV, mobile phone and so on – today I finally understood the technical background", an enthusiastic girl says. In the context of the nationwide Girls' Day on April 28, 12 girls of grade 5 and 6 built their first LC-display in the school lab "Light & Schools" at the Center for Optical Quantum... »

17. Mar. 2016

School holiday course FORSCHUNG at "Light & Schools"

On March 14 and 15  interested school pupils were offered the opportunity to attend the 51st school holiday course FORSCHUNG at Universität Hamburg. An exciting program awaited them at the school lab "Light & Schools" on Campus Bahrenfeld. The course was organized by the Physics... »

30. Apr. 2015

Girls had good knowledge of physics

24 schoolgirls from all over Hamburg took the chance provided by the Girls‘ Day on 23 April to get exciting and first of all practical insights into scientific work at the school lab Light & Schools on Campus Bahrenfeld. This year's program was again divided into two parts to address... »

2. Apr. 2014

Enthusiastic Reactions to Physics Girls’ Day

The Girl’s Day could not have better fulfilled its purpose: The youngest participant of CUI-coordinator Dortje Schirok's workshop would have loved to remain in the laboratory and begin to work right away. 20 female pupils took their chance at the Girls’ Day on March 27 to gain an intensive... »

26. Feb. 2014

Tap the full potential: Girls‘ Day reveals capabilities

Young women in Germany are educated on a particularly high level. However, more than 50 percent of the girls choose from only ten different vocations in the dual system – among these is not a single scientific-technical profession. This means that young women do not fully utilize their... »

12. Sep. 2013

Looking into the Laser Fridge

Dortje Schirok's refrigerator contains some beverages, but in the centre there is a strawberry – surrounded by wafts of mist and "ice crystals". In her YouTube Video „Der Laserkühlschrank“ the CUI-coordinator at Light & Schools playfully and vividly explains the interaction of light... »

18. Apr. 2013

Physicists support Girls' Day

Girls and Physics go together. "But you have to start very early to stimulate their interest in physics, from a certain age on it is too late“, says Juliette Simonet, Postdoc at the Institute for  Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg. Together with Purbasha Halder (also Postdoc, 2.r.) and... »