Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Gravity’s Cosmic Crowning Glory – Black Holes

Published on November 19, 2020

Ben Skuse kicks off our series on the 2020 Nobel Prize with an article on work of new physics Nobel Laureates Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez: 

News that scientists have detected gravitational ripples left behind from an ancient black hole collision or have discovered a humungous black hole feeding off the stars of a distant galaxy no longer inspires amazement from scientists or the general public. Quite apart from attention being drawn towards more pressing domestic events in 2020, the world has become accustomed to the idea of a universe littered with black holes, particularly now that the first direct visual evidence of a black hole has been shared across the world. But it hasn’t always been this way.

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ReConStellation: A Sciathon Project to Connect Science and Entrepreneurship

November 13, 2020
The project ReConStallation was started during the Online Sciathon 2020. In an guest article out now, Lindau Alumnus 2017 and Sciathon group leader Vladimir Petrov descibes how ReConStallation could offer an “ultimate pill against research fatigue, lack of funding and scarcity of innovation.” Find out more on our blog.

What Makes a Good PhD Project?

November 25, 2020
In this video, two Lindau Alumni and economists comment on what makes a good PhD project in economics. Sebastian Doerr points out that the subject questions should be interesting, novel and feasible, and Erik Angner stresses the potential of questions and ideas in other disciplines that could be beneficial for a economics PhD project.