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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…

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.

Two of the scientists, who received the Leibniz Prize 2011 yesterday, perform experiments at the FRM II or have common research projects: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Keimer, director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, and Prof. Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Chair of of Biomedical…

Scientists of the TU Graz have analysed lattice defects of nano crystalline metals with the help of positrons at the FRM II. The results are published in the Physical Review Letters.

The planned European Spallation Neutron Source (ESS) in Sweden is supported from Bavaria. Scientists of the FRM II will help to develop instruments and novel detectors.

The Master in Materials Science Exploring Large Scale Facilities (MaMaSELF) is now a two years' programme. Application deadlines for 2011/2012 are January 26th and May 20th 2011.

Measurements at the FRM II three axes spectrometer PUMA contributed to the finding of a new type of magnetic excitations in cuprate superconductors. The results have been published on November 11th in the renowned scientific journal Nature.

Dr. Tobias Unruh will change to the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. After nine years at the FRM II, he accepted the offer of a professorship for “Nanomaterials Characterization (Scattering Methods)”.