Stories

Get insights into the world of DESY and the DESY CONNECT community - a selection of interesting interviews, research treats and stories from DESY alumni and people around the campus in Hamburg, Zeuthen and beyond.

After-work meeting with a dose of art

🥂 TALK & TONIC: After work trip to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

A sandwich on the go followed by a lesson in fine arts was offered to five DESY CONNECT members at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The art tour served as the kick-off for our own DESY CONNECT excursion series "Talk & Tonic".

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The atmosphere in the accelerator control room was always magical

🌼 DESY CONNECT MAG from the series "Six questions to ..."

In our interview with us is DESY alumnus Florian Christie. The IT specialist started his career as a physicist. For us, he reveals what DESY and the spaceship Enerprise have in common.

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The Unfinished: musical intervention on campus

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A very special artistic intervention took place at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) on 7 July '23. 25 students from the district schools Geschwister-Scholl and Eidelstedt performed together with the TONALi Orchestra, giving Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 7 in B minor D 759, also known as "Die Unvollendete" (The Unfinished), a very personal and modern touch.

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When do we blindly trust in AI?

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With the major hype about ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered our everyday lives, and at DESY, too, AI is used in research. Many are afraid of AI, others can't get enough of it — but very few actually understand it. So it's about time to take a look at the broad field of AI. We have therefore dedicated a new series of events to this exciting topic.

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DESYUM: Laying the foundation stone

📢 CAMPUS NEWS: "There has never been a place like this in DESY's history"

It will be DESY's new landmark: the DESYUM Visitor Centre, for which the foundation stone was laid on the last day of May. At the ceremony, we talked to those who are wearing the construction helmets at DESY. Jörg Niderehe and Christian Mrotzek, two DESYans, told us how the new building will provide exciting and sustainable impulses for our research centre.

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High-tech for the Louvre

🧠 FEMTO MAGAZINE: Art in X-ray vision

The first ancient civilisations wrote their documents on clay tablets. But by far not all of these tablets are readable - they are in thick envelopes, also made of clay. As part of a cluster of excellence at the University of Hamburg, DESY experts have constructed a special X-ray tomograph that should finally unravel the contents of the hidden written documents.

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Wall paint against coronaviruses

🧠 FEMTO MAGAZINE: Laser — Legendary Light Amplifier

A study shows promising possibilities for disinfecting surfaces and air. Technically optimised wall paint could potentially kill the corona virus and many other pathogens.

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A lot of love, dedication, enthusiasm and originality

🌼 DESY CONNECT MAG from the series "Six questions to ..."

In the August interview we are joined by DESY alumna Barbara Warmbein. In this interview, Barbara reveals what the journalist and former DESY presswoman would like to have under the house and what she has to say about art, love and dark matter.

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Health Minister Karl Lauterbach at DESY

📢 CAMPUS NEWS: "For this contribution, I thank you from the bottom of my heart"

Using the experience gained from the pandemic to accelerate health research for tomorrow: Federal Minister of Health Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach visited the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg on 30 June 2023 and was clearly enthusiastic about what DESY is already achieving and what will be possible in the future.

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