News overview
All news at a glance.
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Second LMU-ETH cosmology workshop has successfully concludedThe 2nd installment of a joint workshop between cosmologists at ETH and LMU was held in Zurich from the 11th to the 13th of September.
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ELT-MICADO Instrument passed Final Design Review!MICADO, the Multi-AO Imaging Camera for Deep Observations for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), has passed the instrument Final Design Review.
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Key to rapid planet formationResearchers at LMU, the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets.
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Aurora Borealis over Wendelstein ObservatoryDue to the sun's recent strong activity, beautiful polar lights were visible over Europe. They were especially bright at Wendelstein Observatory.
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Groundbreaking study reveals secrets of planet formationA team of astronomers, including physicists from LMU, has gained new insights into the process of planet formation.
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Interview with Frank GruppDr. Frank Grupp, lead engineer of Euclid's near infrared spectroscopy instrument, was interviewed by German national newspaper FAZ.
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Til Birnstiel receives ERC Consolidator GrantThrough Consolidator Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) helps excellent scientists expand and consolidate their innovative research.
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Three LMU physicists make Highly Cited Researchers listThe latest analysis of publications places seventeen LMU scientists and academics, including three phycicists, among the most successful in their chosen field.
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The light of distant worlds
Dark Energy: Euclid space telescope delivers first scientific images - Researchers from German research institutes are excited
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Toolkit for scalar fields in universes with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaceWe introduce a set of numerical and conceptual tools to describe scalar fields with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and to study their behaviour in expanding cosmological backgrounds.
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Calibrating the Color-Redshift Relation: Results from early DESI Data
We present initial results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation secondary target survey.
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"New Horizons in Physics"-Prize for Til Birnstiel
The LMU astrophysicist has won the award for his modeling of dust traps in protoplanetary disks, solving a long-standing puzzle in planet formation.
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Euclid space telescope catches its first glimpse
With the data the scientists hope to gain insight into the influence of dark matter and dark energy on the structure of the cosmos.
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Emergence of Gravitational Potential and Time Dilation from Non-interacting Systems Coupled to a Global Quantum Clock
We study gravitational back-reaction within relational time formulations of quantum mechanics by considering two versions of time.
