Geneva, September 12, 2017 Faculty of Science, University of Geneva 30, quai Ernest-Ansermet – Geneva The annual meeting of the SGK/SSCr Swiss Society for Crystallography takes place this year in Geneva. The 2017 annual meeting will focus on various applications of crystallography in physics, as described by the title “Crystallography meets Physics” given to this…
Superconductivity was the guest of Swissnex at the Cambridge science festival near Boston (USA), last April, in collaboration with the Physiscope of UNIGE. Numerous visitors experienced some of the surprising properties of superconductivity, such as levitation and vortex pinning. The Physiscope’s team especially showcased a flywheel able to store mechanical energy and convert it into…
The MaNEP Network offers summer internships for 3rd and 4th year students in physics. It is a unique opportunity to work for a month this summer in one of the top research teams affiliated to the MaNEP Network while receiving a financial support. Interested ? Click here to see all the details and to contact…
By Luca Bottura, CERN The 13th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS 2017, will be held 17-21 September 2017 in the International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG), hosted by CERN in collaboration with the University of Geneva and EPFL-SPC. Full details about the conference scope and program can be found at http://www.eucas2017.org/. EUCAS is a worldwide…
The 5th German-Swiss Joint Conference on Crystal Growth will be held from the 8th to the 10th of March 2017 at the University of Freiburg (Germany). The conference is organised by the German Association for Crystal Growth (DGKK) and the Swiss Society for Crystallography (SSCr), and endorsed by MaNEP. Both societies aim at relaunching the…
by Johan Chang, Hugo Dil and Titus Neupert More than 50 physicists, from all over Switzerland, joined the topical MaNEP meeting on topological quantum phenomena, at the University of Zurich on November 21-22, 2016. The meeting – held over two days at the Irchel campus of the University of Zurich – brought together experimentalists and…
January 8-13, 2017, in Saas-Fee, Switzerland Quantum Materials at the Nanoscale The school aims at a broad introduction to topics of current interest in condensed-matter physics. This year, a special focus is put on nanoscale phenomena in quantum materials, especially on local probes investigating such materials at the nanoscale. Three long lectures will provide an…
The Department of Quantum Matter Physics (DQMP) at the University of Geneva and Oxford Instruments Asylum Research are pleased to announce the 5th Euro AFM Forum to be held June 22-24 at the Ecole de physique, University of Geneva. Ideal for both novice and experienced atomic force microscopy AFM users, the Euro AFM Forum is an…
The 2016 Swiss Workshop on Materials with Novel Electronic Properties is the eleventh edition of a series of Swiss Workshops organized by MaNEP, formerly the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Materials with Novel Electronic Properties and now a Network at the Swiss level. The meeting will bring together researchers working in…
By Dirk van der Marel, Chairman and Manfred Sigrist Program chair of M2S-2015
After Geneva in 2011 and Neuchâtel in 2013, SUPRA100, the exhibition dedicated to superconductivity created by MaNEP NCCR, UNIGE and the artist Etienne Krähenbühl pursues its way this autumn at the Galerie Eurêka in Chambéry, France. The exhibition, renamed “SUPRA quoi ?” is presented in Chambéry from September 22, 2015 to January 9, 2016. 12’000…
Do not miss the topical meeting on Crystal Growth in Switzerland on June 11 in Geneva ! See the detailed program of the workshop The community of scientists involved in crystal growth and related topics in Switzerland is rather small but many-sided and active in a variety of research fields. A multitude of materials as…
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