For the first time at the University of Bonn:  02. - 13. November 2026

Friday, 13.11.26 - 03:00 PM - 09:00 PM  20th anniversary celebration of the Bonn Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy Registration deadline: 22 October 2026

13 November 2026 from 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm, Aula of the Main Building of the University of Bonn 

The next poster session will take place on Friday, October 16, 2026, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the foyer of the Wolfgang Paul Lecture Hall.

From quantum computing to gut health: Researchers from five Clusters of Excellence at the University of Bonn explain fascinating topics and surprising connections in an engaging way as part of the new event series “Science at the Theater.” Tickets for this collaboration with Theater Bonn are now available for advance purchase.

Dr. Riccardo Pennetta from the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn has received an ERC Starting Grant for his research project “Atom-by-atom assembly of QUantum MattEr in waveguide and cavity QED” (AQUME). For his project, he will receive around 1.5 million euros over five years from the ERC.

RESEARCH TICKER UNIVERSITY OF BONN: A team of researchers from the University of Bonn, Heidelberg University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico has studied the critical behavior of light particles (photons) close to a phase transition. 

Many massive stars were once part of binary systems, but their exciting past is often lost – at least it was so far. A new study at the University of Bonn and at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics has now found a new method to identify stars that once gained mass from a companion – stars that now appear as single objects but carry the chemical scars of their binary youth. Using a unique “chemical fingerprint” – independent of specific evolutionary models – they were able to reconstruct the binary histories of massive stars. The method has already reclassified the well-studied star γ Columbae as a former mass gainer – challenging long-held assumptions about its origin– and offered new insight into Supernova SN 1987A’s progenitor. The findings have now been published in “Nature Astronomy.”