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170 Participants at the International Mathematics Competition Náboj in Hamburg

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16 March 2026|Veranstaltung

170 Participants at the International Mathematics Competition Náboj in Hamburg

Last Friday, 170 students from Hamburg and the surrounding region took part in the international mathematics competition Náboj. The Hamburg round of the competition was once again held in the Geomatikum at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Hamburg.

Mildred Dresselhaus als junge Frau im Labor

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12 March 2026|MIN-en

Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2026: call for applications and nominations

The application and nomination process for the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program for 2026 is open. Each year, the program honors an internationally outstanding female scientist with the senior award and a promising young scientist with the junior award.

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Golden balloons form the lettering Excellent squared.

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11 March 2026|MIN-en

University of Hamburg Reawarded University of Excellence Title

Great success for the University and the city of Hamburg as a hub of scientific pursuit: The University of Hamburg will continue to carry the University of Excellence title for the next 7 years. As such, it remains one of only a few universities in Germany to receive this significant funding. The funds will be used to...

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11 March 2026|MIN-en

Light can make molecules rotate on quantum materials

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg, report in the journal Nature Communications that they have found a way to collectively make molecules on a flat surface rotate by exposing them to light using ultrafast light pulses from DESY’s free-electron...

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Scientific illustration of the pump-probe experiment.

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10 March 2026|MIN-en

Chemical shifts help track molecules breaking apart in real time

When molecules fall apart, their electric charge doesn’t stay put—it rearranges as bonds stretch and break. An international team of scientists, including researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter", has now tracked these ultrafast changes in the small molecule fluoromethane (CH₃F). It was...

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25 February 2026|Research

New impulses for mathematics

Since the end of 2025, Mateusz Stroiński has been conducting research on higher representation theory at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Hamburg. Funded by a scholarship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, he has relocated his research to the Elbe and will be working in the Hanseatic city until...

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