When planning their careers, many PhD students as well as postdocs take into account career paths outside academia. At the Career Day, which will take place on April 7, 2017 at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP), young physicists have the…
International Master Classes: Hands-on Particle Physics
How can we investigate the smallest building blocks of the universe, the elementary particles? That question will be answered by the International Master Classes in Elementary Particles, which takes place at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP)…
Our colleague Dr. Wolfgang Seidel passed away suddenly and much too soon on February 20, 2017. He had been a member of the scientific staff at the Institute since 1991. His research field was experimental astroparticle physics, particularly the…
The SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan is still “awaiting” the arrival of “its” detector: Belle II. In a few months, the detector is to be inserted into the accelerator ring for the first time – the first measurements are planned for 2018. The MPP…
The MPP has spent the last few weeks equipping the ATLAS detector, the largest physics experiment in the world, with twelve new muon chambers. These instruments operate with much higher precision and read-out speed than their predecessors. They were…
The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) wishes to congratulate Prof. Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg, DESY) on being awarded the Julius Wess Award 2016. Prof. Klanner receives the prestigious honor for his fundamental contributions to the…
The death of Prof. Dr. Heinz Billing on 4 January 2017 marks the passing of an emeritus scientist of the former Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics. Prof. Billing was well known for his groundbreaking efforts in the development of…
