The 2024 Master’s Thesis Prize of the Finnish Physical Society has been awarded to Heidi Kivijärvi of the Aalto University, and was officially presented in the opening ceremony of Physics Days 2025. This award is given annually for an exceptional Master’s thesis in the field of physical sciences. It exists […]
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Superconducting quantum circuits are currently one of the most promising platforms for realizing a large-scale quantum computer capable of solving complex tasks that are unsolvable by classical computers. The operation of a superconducting quantum computer relies on microwave control of superconducting qubits, the basic unit of information, via multiple cables […]
The missing mass problem arose in the 20th century when observations of the dynamics of astrophysical objects could not be explained by ordinary luminous matter. This suggested the existence of some non-luminous excess mass, plentiful in the observable universe. Inspired by the non-luminous nature of this strange new substance, the […]
I first joined the Board of the Finnish Physical Society at the Annual General Meeting in March of 2020 in Helsinki as the Secretary. Two years later I was fortunate to be elected as the Vice President to President Matti Silveri during the online Physics Days from Aalto. Then in […]
The Finnish Physical Society is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korean Physical Society. Until now, our international relationships have primarily been inside Europe, facilitated via the European Physical Society. Now, for the first time, a partnership has been established beyond Europe. […]
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 […]
by Joni Eronen Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful and versatile tool that is based on the observation of nuclear spin precession in a strong magnetic field. It is widely used in the field of environmental sciences research, such as in determining the three-dimensional structures of molecules as well […]
The Finnish Physical Society (FPS) Master Thesis Prize 2023 is awarded to Otto Veltheim from the University of Helsinki. The award will be given to Otto in the opening ceremony of Physics Days 2023 on 29th March 2023. The prize is given annually for an excellent Master thesis in the field […]