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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.

Summary of the work in Science Daily.

The certificate of the award (pdf).

Link:

http://www.bme.hu/hire/20170529/Iden_uj_cimeket_is_adomanyozott_a_BME_Szenatusa

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.

Link:

http://jedlik.phy.bme.hu/gyermeknap/

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.

Link:

http://fat.physics.bme.hu/hirek_2017_05_17

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".

Lendület Grant for Szabolcs Csonka

2017. May 18.

Szabolcs Csonka was awarded the prestigious grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to establish a research group at the Department of Phyics at BME.