What: Lecture about Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) “Queen of Nuclear Research”, given by Prof. Anu Kankainen JYU.Where: U154 U1 VALMET Otakaari 1 / https://tinyurl.com/2fprsfmcWhen: 27.11.2024, 17:45 – 19:30, Lecture starts at 18:00.On-site registration: https://ilmo.fyysikkokilta.fi/events/gp24Info: https://www.fyysikkoseura.fi/language/en/events/historian-suuret-fyysikot/
Yearly archives: 2024
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Each year the Finnish Physical Society awards four early-career presentation prizes at Physics Days. The two best oral and the two best poster presentations receive a certificate and a prize of €200. This year, the two oral presentation awardees also received professional grade Mathematica licences for one year, kindly provided […]
The 2023 Master’s Thesis Prize of the Finnish Physical Society has been awarded to Tiina Minkkinen of the University of Helsinki, and was officially presented in the opening ceremony of Physics Days 2024. This award is given annually for an exceptional Master’s thesis in the field of physical sciences. It […]
Master Thesis Prize 2023 – Winner Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime caused by accelerating masses, such as rotating neutron stars or black holes orbiting each other. Predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, they were first observed in 2015 by the LIGO collaboration in the United States using a […]
Master Thesis Prize 2023 – Honorable mention Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a method used extensively for measuring the composition and structure of matter. One common use is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). At this point, we need a recap on NMR. It is like a two-state quantum mechanical tuning fork […]
Master Thesis Prize 2023 – Honorable mention The Talbot effect, named after Henry Fox Talbot for its original discovery in 1836, is a lensless self-imaging phenomenon which describes revivals of periodic field patterns upon evolution of the field. More specifically, the self-imaging occurs upon a quadratic phase modulation in the […]
The Finnish Physical Society has a tradition of inviting the Nobel laureates in Physics each year to Helsinki to present to our physics community and the wider public. One of the 2023 laureates, Prof. Anne L’Huillier, continued this excellent tradition on Wednesday the 6th of March. In the morning, Prof. […]
The next annual meeting of the Finnish Physical Society will take place on Tuesday the 5th of March at 14:00 to 15:00 in room U4072 at the University of Helsinki Main Building as a hybrid meeting. If you are a current member and did not receive the registration link by […]