News

Registration is open for the 15th Laboratory Course Neutron Scattering taking place September 5-16, 2011 in Juelich and Garching/Munich, Germany. [read more]

The construction of the new irradiation facility to produce molybdenum-99 has taken an important step forward. Since the beginning of February, the new thimble has been integrated into the moderator tank of the FRM II. [read more]

On the occasion of his 100th birthday on March 28th 2011, the great physicist and co-founder of the physics department of the Technische Universität München, Prof. Dr. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz († 2000), will be honoured with a colloquium. [read more]

Since end of October 2010 the Garchinger Forschungs-Neutronenquelle (FRM II) is in a schdueld revision phase. Amongst others two fittings in the currently empty heavy water system underwent an inner visual inspection checked. During this inspection corrosion on the bushing which are in contact… [read more]

The Master in Materials Science Exploring Large Scale Facilities (MaMaSELF) has a new application deadline for European and non-European students for 2011/2012: February 1st 2011. [read more]

The neutron source had an anniversary in 2010: The FRM II has been operated in its 25th cycle since its commissioning in 2004. [read more]

In order to offer an x-ray facility complementary to the neutron tomography station ANTARES, the FRM II and the Chair for Biomedical Physics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have started to operate a new computer tomography facility. [read more]

The new FRM II newsletter is available and can be downloaded! [read more]

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the scientific use of the neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) by German and international researchers to the tune of 198 million euro over the next ten years. The Helmholtz Centers Jülich, Berlin and Geesthacht are… [read more]

Faster, smaller and more energy efficient – that is what tomorrow’s computers should look like. This means that data needs to be written and processed faster. Physicists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and the Universität zu Köln are now a great deal closer to that goal. [read more]