Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

The Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence at the University of Hamburg in collaboration with the DESY research center will receive funding for another seven years. The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) announced the positive decision on further funding for...

The call for applications for the dynaMENT Mentoring is now open. The program invites junior scientists of all gender identities who feel addressed by the program title dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences to hand in their applications before 7 July.

What do you do when you would like to play the newest computer game on your old computer, but the game is too demanding for your hardware? You own the previous version of the game, and it was fun, but over the years it has grown long in the tooth and is outdated. If you cannot afford to buy a new computer, you may not be...

Chat-GPT is great at coming up with birthday card greetings, summarizing complicated texts, or brainstorming ideas for the name of your new dog. But can it do physics? In a recent paper, researchers of the cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe explored the idea behind models like Chat-GPT and applied it to particle...

For the second time, the Research School of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe QURS invited young talents from astro- and particle physics as well as mathematical physics from the University of Hamburg and the research centre DESY to a science and networking event. Highlights of the graduate week were a poster...

In her project “Cosmic Waves”, astrophysicist Dr. Maria Elidaiana da Silva Pereira collaborated with the physicist and illustrator Camila Machado to create a zine – a small magazine sharing information on gravitational waves in a creative and accessible way. By using the zine as a starting point, she explained her own...

Thorsten Buss is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gregor Kasieczka, working on “Augmenting Calorimeter Shower Simulations using Generative Machine Learning.” He comes from Freiburg im Breisgau and completed his master's degree at the University of Heidelberg in 2022, with a thesis titled “Anomaly Detection...

Coming from Afghanistan, Monireh has since made Germany her home and has earned a master's degree from the University of Hamburg in 2024 with a thesis titled “Deciphering Spin Information in Tau Decays: Distinguishing Higgs Boson, Drell–Yan, and Top Quark Contributions.” She is now a PhD student in the group of Prof. Dr...

In a recent study lead by Quantum Universe principal investigator Prof. Stephan Rosswog from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg, scientists applied their newly developed methodology in Numerical Relativity to identify how collisions of neutron stars eject small amounts of matter at velocities close to the speed of...