Interviews

The research lab in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences invites all children and WDR-Maus fans aged eight and over to the 2015 Open the Door Day of the "Sendung mit der Maus."

When and where:
3 October 2015 from 11 am to 3 pm
Survey lab (Forschungslabor)
Faculty of Business...

A team of students from Universität Hamburg is to take part in the final of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. At the student competition for synthetic biology, which runs from 24–28 September, the...

"Gateway to the Era of Robots" is the slogan of the International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS 2015) which takes place from 28 September to 2 October in Hamburg. This is the first time in over twenty years that Germany has hosted the conference. [ Read on in German ]

Unter dem Motto...

After attending this lecture, bedtime will never have been easier: "Why Do We Sleep?" is the title of the first lecture at the Children's Uni Hamburg on Monday, 28 September 2015 at 5 pm. [ Read on in German]

In den übrigen fünf Veranstaltungen des Formats, das durch Sponsoren finanziert wird...

Für Rückfragen:

Prof. Dr. Benedikt Löwe
Universität Hamburg
Fachbereich Mathematik
Tel.: 040 42838-4444
E-Mail: dmv2015"AT"math.uni-hamburg.de

After decades in storage, one of the world's rarest complete plaster cast of the gables of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia will be put on public display. The treasure will be exhibited on the Von-Melle-Park campus. [Read on in German]

Wissenschaftssenatorin Katharina Fegebank und...

Hamburg/Bremerhaven: The summer minimum has not yet been reached, yet even now Arctic sea ice covers a mere 4.35 million square meters. The Northeast and Northwest Passages are already virtually ice-free. While researchers at Universität Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) do not...

According to the current funding ranking of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Universität Hamburg ascended further to the top between 2011–2013. The DFG presented the new Funding Atlas today in Berlin. Read on in German...

Ausschlaggebend für den Anstieg der eingeworbenen DFG-Fördermittel und...

After attending this lecture, bedtime will never have been easier: "Why Do We Sleep?" is the title of the first lecture at the Children's Uni Hamburg on Monday, 28 September 2015 at 5 pm. Read on in German...

In den übrigen fünf Veranstaltungen des Formats, das durch Sponsoren finanziert wird...

It is as big as a football field and is designed to view the first stars in the Universe: Universität Hamburg and Bielefeld University in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) have built the 47th Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) station—the largest digital radio...

In mythology, phoenix arises from its own ashes. Dr. Francesco de Gasperin and Prof. Dr. Marcus Brüggen from Universität Hamburg have now been witness to a similar rebirth in the form of radio waves. Together with an international team of researchers, they observed the collision of two distant...

Snails can do almost anything but fly. The Levantina spiriplana, however, does not only appear—as the name suggests—in present-day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria; it can also be found on a few Aegean islands, far from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Zoologist and biosystematist Matthias...

The Surface Science Society of Japan (SSSJ) has appointed the physicist Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger from Universität Hamburg for his outstanding performance and successes in the field of surface and interface science as international fellow. Wiesendanger received this distinction, awarded for...

The Mona Lisa of Hamburg's natural history collection is unique: Only 20 narwhal skulls with a double tusk are known to exist worldwide. And only one of these has been identified as having belonged to a female animal, namely to "Lisa," a narwhal in the zoological collection of the Center of...

To prevent global warming and reduce greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) we commonly rely on saving energy, opting for renewable energy, reducing our meat consumption, and forsaking plane and car in favor of bike or train. Non-consumption, however, does not automatically lead to a...

The Regional Computing Center at Universität Hamburg (RRZ) has begun operating a new high-performance computer. The computer is complemented by a hard-drive system capable of storing data observations on a large scale. This will facilitate more comprehensive simulations and data analyses, as...

Each year the Karl H. Ditze Foundation awards the Karl H. Ditze Prize for outstanding student and doctoral theses in the humanities and education at Universität Hamburg.

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Die feierlichen Preisverleihungen mit einem Preisgeld von 3.000 Euro für eine Dissertation und 2.000 Euro...

Insufficient or inadequate data security concepts and measures may cause considerable damage. We cordially invite interested audiences to the lecture by Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath. As data security expert at Universität Hamburg he will explain how businesses and administrators can protect their...

On 23 June 2015, Poznan University of Technology in Poland awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger, head of the research group Scanning Probe Methods (SPM) at Universität Hamburg's Institute for Solid-State Physics and Nanoscience.

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Prof. Wiesendanger...