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Award for physics school lab
The physics lab for school students (PSI: Die Physik Schülerlabor Initiative) was awarded 1,000 Euro in the "Energie für Bildung" (energy for education) contest. The Gasversorgung Süddeutschland (GVS, South-German gas supply company) supports projects to sustainably promote the interest of children and adolescents in natural sciences.
Jens Niegemann wins second prize for oral presentation at PECS VIII
At PECS VIII, Jens Niegemann wins CUDOS Oral prize for (second) best oral presentation for his talk Simulation of Plasmonic Systems using a Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Domain Approach. The prize value was AUD250.
Paolo Longo wins poster prize at TaCoNa Photonics 2008
On the TaCoNa Photonics conference in Bad Honnef, 3 - 5 december 2008, Paolo Longo was awarded one of two "best poster prizes" for his poster "Few-Photon-Quantum Transport Through A Photonic-Crystal Waveguide With A Two-Level System".
physica status solidi (b) features first time front cover by the Photonics Group
The special section was co-edited by Kurt Busch and contains 10 articles from speakers of the 386. Heraeus Seminar on Computational Nano-Photonics.
Daniel Hermann wins poster award at PECS-VII
On the PECS-VII conference in Monterey, California, Daniel Hermann was awarded a 3rd prize for his poster "Actively Tunable Photonic Crystal Functional Elements Based on Optically Anisotropic Materials".