Welcoming to Fysikdagarna 2023 by Jan Conrad, the Head of the Department of Physics at SU, and Mark Pearce, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at KTH.
The local organization committee gives a brief introduction to the meeting.
The fundamental physical principles underpinning the climate crisis caused by industrial emissions of carbon dioxide were developed over the past century or more by some of the greatest minds of physics, and have withstood all challenges. I will explain these basic physical principles, and also give a survey about how the same principles account for the behaviour of the Solar System planets...
Nordita (the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) is a research institute situated at the AlbaNova campus in Stockholm. The research topics pursued at Nordita span Astrophysics and Astroparticle research, Condensed Matter and Statistical physics, High-Energy Physics and Cosmology, as well as Complex Dynamical Networks and Quantum Information. Those who pursue this research are masters...
IceCube, located in the clear glacier ice close to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole base, has been called the world's weirdest telescope. It was completed in December 2010, after more than a decade of planning, development and extensive tests by, among others, researchers from the universities in Stockholm and Uppsala. This unique detector will give us insights into the most violent processes in...
A long-serving but somewhat obscure part of radiation therapy - targeted therapy of cancer using radionuclides have advanced considerably during the last two decades. By internal irradiation through physiological accumulation of radioactivity, tumours can be treated from the inside in any and all parts of the body. With advances in design and manufacture of targeting agents labelled with...
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most sophisticated and powerful telescope ever flown in space. It was launched on December 25th 2021, and after 6 months of intense and successful work all its observing modes were declared ready to perform science. Since then JWST has started revolutionizing many fields of astronomy, and its images have captured the imagination of the public. In this...
Physics as famously been described as ‘a culture of no culture’, but it’s also a discipline imbued with cultural associations. Physics education researchers have explored on how cultural traits of the discipline of physics, such as how it is perceived as difficult and high-status, can contribute to in/exclusions of students. In this talk I will give an introduction to how educational...
Quantum particles, even if separated by large distances, can exhibit a strangely powerful connection which allows them to instantaneously influence each other. This phenomenon is called entanglement and it gives rise to a plethora of quantum effects that have neither a counterpart nor a possible explanation in classical lines of thought. The 2022 Nobel prize in physics highlights the...
![Minutes of the Nobel Archives from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.][1]
The Nobel archives of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences contain all valid nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics, as well as the special reports written by the Nobel Committee members in the years open to research. It also contains the general report by the whole Committee with comments on all nominated...
Opportunities for teachers, students and researchers to apply to big science facilities
Big science facilities offer students, teachers, researchers and engineers good opportunities for skill development through internships, summer jobs, technical projects or employment. Sweden is, in comparison to other countries, underrepresented when it comes to taking advantage of the opportunities...
The poster prize committee will present the poster contributions awarded a Fysikdagarna 2023 poster prize.
