Science top 10
2021. January 08.
Study on the natural geometry of fragmentation, by our colleague János Török and his coauthors, is selected by Science as one of their 10 favorite science news stories in 2020.
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János Pipek passed away
2021. January 06.
We mourn the tragic loss of our colleague Dr. János Pipek, honorary professor of our Institute, former Dean and Vice Dean of Education of the BME Faculty of Sciences.
Miniature magnetometer
2020. December 15.
The device, thinner than a hair, can sense tiny changes of magnetic fields. Experimental work published in Nano Letters by BME's Péter Makk and co-authors at Uni Basel.
Interview with Péter Makk on the BME website (in Hungarian):
http://www.bme.hu/hirek/20201204/A_TTK_kutatoja_segitett_miniatur_eszkoz...
http://www.bme.hu/hirek/20201204/A_TTK_kutatoja_segitett_miniatur_eszkoz...
Interview with Péter Makk on Kossuth Radio (in Hungarian): mp4 file (11.8 MB) (from 1:15 till 4:18)
News item at hvg.hu (in Hungarian):
https://m.hvg.hu/tudomany/20200910_szupravezetes_squid_magneses_mezo_merese
https://m.hvg.hu/tudomany/20200910_szupravezetes_squid_magneses_mezo_merese
Press release of the University of Basel:
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/A-tiny-instrument...
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/A-tiny-instrument...
This research is part of an international project, aiming to find topological excitations in graphene. Project website:
https://dept.physics.bme.hu/Topograph
https://dept.physics.bme.hu/Topograph
Website of the BME Nanoelectronics research group:
https://nanoelectronics.physics.bme.hu/
https://nanoelectronics.physics.bme.hu/
Website of Péter Makk:
https://dept.physics.bme.hu/Makk_Peter
https://dept.physics.bme.hu/Makk_Peter
Santa's physics
2020. December 03.
Keeping the tradition, Santa Claus brings a wealth of exciting physics demonstrations to BME. This time the show is broadcasted online, live at 17:00 this Friday, December 4.
Szeretettel várunk mindenkit, aki szereti, illetve szeretné megismerni a fizikát.
Broadcasted live, in Hungarian, at 17:00 this Friday, December 4,
and here: https://youtu.be/xZDVFNIdWD0
The recording will also be available at the YouTube channel of BME Faculty of Sciences:
Contact: János Asbóth, Department of Theoretical Physics, BME, coordinator of the Science Campus events
Nanoelectronics in television
2020. November 30.
Nanocircuits, topology, quantum computer - TV report (in Hungarian) highlighting research at our Nanoelectronics research group available at mediaklikk.hu.
Report from 01:14 till 7:16.
Web page of the Nanoelectronics group: https://nanoelectronics.physics.bme.hu/
Researchers' Night
2020. November 26.
Online demonstrations and talks, on November 27 and 28. Countless experiments, waves and particles, Minecraft and fragmentation, programming quantum computers.
Podcast with BME physicists
2020. October 09.
Two interviews with BME physics students and physicists, on training and career opportunities, broadcasted in the popular Hungarian STEM podcast series "Miénk a pálya!".
2020. September 23: guests: Gergely Ferenczy, Zsófia Kiss BME Physics MSc students and Dr. Ferenc Simon, professor at the BME Institute of Physics
2020. September 30: guests: Nóra Balogh, Dávid Krisztián physicists
How to build quantum bits?
2020. September 21.
Quantum computers are in the focus of the next talk in BME's high-school outreach lecture series "Science Campus". Speaker: Péter Makk, experimental physicist at BME.
The online talk (in Hungarian) is broadcasted via the Youtube channel of BME Faculty of Sciences:
Chlorine dioxide against Covid?
2020. September 10.
Our colleagues from the Department of Physics studied the potential application of chlorine dioxide against the coronavirus. Their story was also covered on bme.hu.
K. Kály-Kullay, M. Wittmann, Z. Noszticzius, L. Rosivall
Can chlorine dioxide prevent the spreading of coronavirus or other viral infections? Medical hypotheses
Physiology International 107, 1-11 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1556/2060.2020.00015
Can chlorine dioxide prevent the spreading of coronavirus or other viral infections? Medical hypotheses
Physiology International 107, 1-11 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1556/2060.2020.00015
(via bme.hu)
Bolyai Scholarship
2020. September 10.
From our Institute, Sándor Bordács, Gergő Fülöp and Endre Tóvári won the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!
(via MTA)
