News from the Institute

One of the youngest university graduates in the world has been a guest of the attoworld team - Laurent Simons. Here, the highly gifted boy from Antwerp tells us what particularly excited him. more

Karin Fröschl plays a central role at MPQ: as head of the scientific library she is a highly valued advisor for all matters around the management of publications - as acting conflict counselor also for various others. more

Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger has handed over funding certificates totalling 52 million euros for the development of a Bavarian quantum computer. The Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes involved in the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) received the funding in an official handover yesterday at the Max Planck Institut of Quantum Optics.The two organisations are jointly developing hardware and software for the construction and operation of quantum computers in Garching and at other locations.  more

The Maximilian Order for Science and Art is the highest distinction in Bavaria for outstanding contributions in these two disciplines. Immanuel Bloch receives the medal for his pioneering works in quantum physics with which he has opened up a new and interdisciplinary field of research at the crossing of quantum optics, quantum information processing and solid-state physics: the exploration of quantum many body systems.  more

Theodor Hänsch, Emeritus Director at the MPQ and Professor at the LMU, is an eager experimentalist, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, pioneer, inventor, passionate explorer, teacher and, above all, a great role model for many young scientists. Tomorrow, on Saturday October 30, he celebrates his 80th birthday - and is not one bit tired! more