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APS Outstanding Referee: Balázs Dóra

2025. April 01.

Balázs Dóra, professor of BME's Department of Theoretical Physics, receives the Outstanding Referee honor from the American Physical Society.

 

Instituted in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for APS's journals. This year, 160 of the cca. 50.000 active reviewers were selected and and honored as Outstanding Referees.

Congratulations, Balázs!

 

APS Outstanding Referee: https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees

 

Web page of Balázs Dóra: https://dtp.physics.bme.hu/Dora_Balazs?language=en

 

Link: 
https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees

Introducing the academy candidates in physics

2025. March 13.

Ferenc Simon, Gábor Takács, and Levente Tapasztó, candidates for membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, publish outreach articles in a special issue of Fizikai Szemle. All thre articles (in Hungarian) are freely available from the website of the March issue of Fizikai Szemle.

 

Ferenc Simon (professor, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, Department of Physics)
Spintronics: Introduction and applications

 

Gábor Takács (professor, head of institute, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Do closed quantum systems achieve balance? – When the “light cone” closes

 

Levente Tapasztó (scientific advisor, HUN-REN EK; research professor, BME Faculty of Natural Sciences)
Light trapped in graphene

 

Link: 
https://fizikaiszemle.elft.hu/szemle/138

Popular article on the 2024 physics Nobel prize

2025. February 02.

Popular article from BME researchers on the 2024 physics Nobel prize and related memristor applications published in the January issue of Fizikai Szemle.

 

Fehérvári János Gergő, Balogh Zoltán, Halbritter András Ernő
Neuromorphic computing, or how to turn the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics into change?
Fizikai Szemle, January 2025, p 13-19

 

The Hungarian version of the article is available for free on the website of Fizikai Szemle.

 

 

 

Link: 
https://fizikaiszemle.elft.hu/szemle/136

Interview with Nándor Bokor

2025. January 07.

Nándor Bokor, associate professor at the BME Institute of Physics, discusses foundations and applications of general relativity in an interview published at index.hu.

 

The interview in Hungarian: https://index.hu/tudomany/2025/01/04/bokor-nandor-relativitas-elmelet-bm...

 

Spacetime-geometry, a popular book (in Hungarian) by Nándor Bokor: https://www.typotex.hu/book/13506/bokor_nandor_terido-geometria

 

Link: 
https://index.hu/tudomany/2025/01/04/bokor-nandor-relativitas-elmelet-bme-fizika-ter-ido-geometria/

Quantum Technology in the Institute of Physics

2024. December 12.

Thanks to a major HUN-REN research grant awarded yesterday, a new Quantum Technology Research Group will be launched on January 1st, 2025, at the BME Institute of Physics. The three-year project has a funding amount of cca. 180 million HUF. Research will be led by András Pályi, associate professor of BME Department of Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with numerous researchers of the department, as well as with Miklós Pintér, professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. 

 

Results of the call at the HUN-REN webpage (in Hungarian): https://hun-ren.hu/hirek/6-palyazat-reszesul-tamogatasban-a-hun-ren-kozp...

 

Link: 
https://hun-ren.hu/hirek/6-palyazat-reszesul-tamogatasban-a-hun-ren-kozpont-altal-meghirdetett-tamogatott

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