Researchers' Night
2017. September 28.
The event starts at 4pm, September 29, in the lecture hall F29 of the Institute of Physics.
News
New helium liquefier
2017. September 18.
The Department of Physics received funding to establish a new helium liquefier. As part of the project, developments at our partners ELTE, MTA TTK, MTA EK and MTA Wigner RC will also be realized, aiding the collaboration of these institutions, and the sustainable helium consumption in Central Hungary.
Trefort Prize for Károly Härtlein
2017. September 14.
Our colleague Károly Härtlein received the Trefort Ágoston Prize for his outstanding, long-term contributions in teaching and popularizing physics. This highly prestigious annual award is aimed to recognize efforts of professionals in education. Congratulations!
Novel spin relaxation in semiconductors
2017. September 04.
The theoretical description of spin relaxation is the key to spintronics, a potential new paradigm aiming to substitute conventional electronics. The study, published by the BME-MTA PROSPIN research group in Scientific Reports, identifies a new regime of spin relaxation, characterized by non-exponential behavior. The group also introduces an efficient numerical method, allowing to accurately predict spin-relaxation times even for materials possessing complicated spin-orbit interaction.
Alfred Zawadowski passed away
2017. August 08.
Alfred Zawadowski, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professor emeritus at our Department of Theoretical Physics, and former director of the Institute of Physics, died on Saturday, August 5, at the age of 82.
Alfred Zawadowski, “Fred”, was a unique, globally known, and highly respected figure of the Hungarian physics community. He established the research and teaching activities of modern condensed-matter physics within Hungary. He initiated new research directions, and inspired and educated multiple generations of physicists toward their scientific career. He transformed our Institute into an internationally renown centre of physics research and education, conveying exceptional theoretical and experimental results along the directions he initiated. His achievements were honoured from the government and the academy by several awards and prizes.
The demise of Fred Zawadowski is a tragic loss for the Hungarian physics community, especially our Institute. Colleagues, students and friends all mourn his death.
International Physics Olympiad
2017. July 30.
The Hungarian team won 1 gold and 4 silver medals at the 48th International Physics Olympiad for high-school students, which took place in Indonesia, July 16-24, 2017.
The team and their results:
Tamás Lajos Tompa (gold)
Földes Ferenc Gimnázium, Budapest
Péter Tamás Kovács (silver)
Zrínyi Miklós Gimnázium, Zalaegerszeg
Tóbiás Marozsák (silver)
Óbudai Árpád Gimnázium, Budapest
Botond Nagy (silver)
Zrínyi Miklós Gimnázium, Zalaegerszeg
Balázs Németh (silver)
Fazekas Mihály Fővárosi Gyakorló Általános Iskola és Gimnázium, Budapest
The team was lead and assisted by BME physicist colleagues Tamás Tasnádi (Department of Analysis), Péter Vankó, and Krisztián Szász (Department of Physics).
BME's most significant scientific publication in 2016
2017. May 29.
Márton Kormos and Gábor Takács received the award for their work published in Nature Physics.
Márton Kormos, Mario Collura, Gábor Takács, Pasquale Calabrese. Real-time confinement following a quantum quench to a non-integrable model. Nature Physics 13, 246–249 (2017).
The publication in Nature Physics.
Children's Day at the Institute of Physics
2017. May 23.
With Károly Härtlein, in the lecture hall F29, at 5pm on Friday, May 26.
On the cover of Applied Optics
2017. May 19.
The work of Dalma Héricz of the Department of Atomic Physics and collaborators is published on the cover page of Applied Optics.
Awards for Pál Maák and János Török
2017. May 18.
Pál Andor Maák (Department of Atomic Physics) received this year's Bródy Imre Award of the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society, for his "outstanding achievements in the field of applied physics". János Török (Department of Theoretical Physics) received the Jánossy Lajos Award, for his "outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical and experimental research".
