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The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2024-07-05 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is Prof. Dr. Anika Schlenhoff with his lectures "Atomic and Quantum Physics" and "Physics of Condensed Matter".

 

The group of PD. Dr. Mönig offers a doctoral research associate position at the Institute of Physics. The link to the job offer can be found here.

The AG Salinga is looking for highly motivated and committed students, who help to build, run and analyse simulations of microscopic electrical heaters. We offer a position as a Student assistant (5-10h/week).

The job offer can be found here.

In order to further improve the experience in the lab course on material physics for both students and teachers, the AG Salinga is looking to recruit a Student assistant (5-10h/week).

Central tasks will be the identification of possibilities for improvement in the current digital teaching, their implementation in cooperation with the tutors and the subsequent evaluation.

The job offer can be found here.

The AG Salinga is looking for highly motivated and committed students to advance the current research data management setup in our fabrication lab and beyond. We offer a position as a Student assistant (5-10h/week).

The job offer can be found here.

The University Medical Center Freiburg offers new PhD and Master Thesis Jobs in medical physics. The offers can be found here: PhD and Master-Thesis

The AG Salinga is now looking for highly motivated and committed students who, based on a large set of pre-existing structural data, will advance the training and usage of Machine-Learned Potentials in their group as a Student assistant (5-10h/week).

The job offer can be found here.

In this Student assistant (5-10h/week) position, you will help to improve and expand our existing noise measurement setup. This means identifying and minimizing all sources of noise in the environment, be they of electronic, mechanical or thermal origin. You will further help to extend the experimental time resolution of our measurements to reveal processes on much broader time- and frequency scales than is currently possible.

The job offer can be found here.

The Institute of Geophysics (FB11) at the University of Münster, Germany, is seeking to fill a position for a Doctoral Research Associate (salary level TV-L E13, 65%) within the DFG funded Project "Investigation of the influence of mantle structures on Earth's core observations".

The equal opporunity office of the physics department is looking for a student assistant that helps with the development, preparation and execution of workshops, beginning  on the 1st November 2022.

For the collaborative project "MINT4all" with the children's and youth university Q.UNI, we are looking for a student assistant from the MExLab ExperiMINTe to support the project coordination.

Ballot from Monday, 2022-5-30 to Friday, 2021-6-3!
Online until 2022-6-1 11 a.m!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of lecture hall building of the chemistry department [de]. You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV; subject-specific Student Representations), the Fachbereichsrate (FBR; department council), the Senat (Senate) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa; Student Parliament) as well as the representation of student assistants (SHK); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV; Foreign Student Representation). See also the official information on the  ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) site [de] for the StuPa and the Electoral Office of the WWU for details.

On this page, you can see the candidates for the election of the Physics Student Represenation (FSV) and the Department Council (FBR). We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you!

Due to illness, we are looking for a physics lecturer/tutor for a preparatory physics course at short notice! The course can be run online.

 

We want to show graduates with a specialization in the field of physics/quantum technology how they can continue their research careers in the various quantum disciplines in Jena. To give you an overview, we have set up a homepage.

On this we present the research area of quantum technology at the Fraunhofer IOF and at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in more detail.


 

SHK positionopen
Are you studying in Münster and would you like to earn a little money alongside your studies? Then become part of the young team at AE Persönlichkeitspsychologie! We currently have two positions open: one in the area of high-performance computing and one for general technical support.
The following applies to both jobs:
💻 broad spectrum of tasks espacillay in the technical spectrum
⌚ flexible workhours from 8 to 12 per week
📍 hiring immediately
😎 friendly team with the best AE Partys!
All further information is here. We are looking forward to your application 🥳

The WWU IT is currently looking for students with expertise and interest in teaching the following software as an SHK position:

• Excel, Word, Powerpoint
• SPSS
• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Job offering

The new working group of Jun.-Prof. Kai Schmitz at the institute for theoretical physics has to new open PhD positions. Application deadline is the 11th of march.

PhD-Stelle 1: "Suche nach neuer Physik mit Gravitationswellen"

PhD-Stelle 2: "Axionphysik im frühen Universum"

The institute for pathology at the Clemenshospital in Münster is looking for a laboratory assistant for their histological laboratory.

Job offering

There is a SHK position in the group of Prof. Faber at the clinic for radiology, where you can apply. You could help in the Translational Research Imaging Center with the analysis of neuroscientific BOLD-fMRT data.

More information in german:

Like every year, the Master-Introduction-Event is going to take place this October. Here, you'll get an introduction to the MSc course in physics at the WWU, as well as an overview from experienced students over all the specializations you can choose. We look forward to seeing you there!

Date: October 6, 2021, 2 p.m.
Location: HS1, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 10
 

The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2021-07-15 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is Prof. Dr. Carsten Schuck with his lectures "Atomic and molecular physics", "Quantum communicartion and quantum sensors" and "Quantum computers and quantum simulators".
In addition, there was a special prize this year: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz received an award in honour of her dedicated work in addition to teaching and research in the fields of gender equality, support of students from school, and career advancement.
 

Ballot from Monday, 2021-06-07 to Friday, 2021-06-11!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of lecture hall building of the chemistry department [de]. You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV; subject-specific Student Representations), the Fachbereichsrate (FBR; department council), the Senat (Senate) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa; Student Parliament) as well as the representation of student assistants (SHK); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV; Foreign Student Representation). See also the official information on the  ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) site [de] for the StuPa and the Electoral Office of the WWU for details.

On this page, you can see the candidates for the election of the Physics Student Represenation (FSV) and the Department Council (FBR). We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you!

Application till: 21.05.2021

The thorium-229 nucleus has a state which is at an unusually low excitation energy of approximately 8 eV. This allows laser spectroscopy methods to be applied to a nuclear transition for the first time and opens up the possibility for a novel, extremely precise optical “nuclear clock” as well as for testing fundamentals of physics as regards the strong interactions. Your work in Working Group 4.44 will focus on:
• Participating in developing and setting up a VUV laser system at a wavelength of 150 nm and with a beam line towards an ion trap
• VUV laser spectroscopy on trapped ions, resonant laser excitation, and laser spectroscopy of the thorium-229 nucleus
• Investigating the laser excitation of Th-229 in doped crystals produced by our cooperation partner at the TU Wien, Austria

Job offer 

Dear Physics students,

we want to use the end of this extremely long exam phase to spend time together in a semester ending party. This will take place on Saturday, the 27th of May, beginning from 7:30 PM on our Discord server. Invitation details for the Discord server can be found here:

https://sso.uni-muenster.de/Physik.FSPHYS/en/intern/physiker/discord

Feel free to bring a cold drink of your choice. We're looking forward to having a nice evening with you all!

Best regards
Your Physics Student Council

The “Physikalisches Institut” offers SHK positions for tutoring the lab course for interdisciplinary students in the summer semester 2021. More informations can be found in the following information text by Dr. Lipinsky. [...]

An SHK position as assisting tutor of a physics student that wants to reengage in studying after a psychical illness is offered with 5 working hours per week for three months. For more information:

Job offering [de]

The following information for students with disabilities reached us via mail from Tobias Grunwald of the Koordinierungsstelle Studium mit Beeinträchtigung: [...]

Ballot from Monday, 2020-12-07 to Friday, 2020-12-11!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of lecture hall HS 2 in the physics buildings (IG1). You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV; subject-specific Student Representations), the Fachbereichsrate (FBR; department council), the Senat (Senate) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa; Student Parliament) as well as the representation of student assistants (SHK); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV; Foreign Student Representation). See also the official information on the  ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) site [de] for the StuPa and the Electoral Office of the WWU for details.

On this page, you can see the candidates for the election of the Physics Student Represenation (FSV) and the Department Council (FBR). We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you!

The enrollment for the Introduction Week is open!

Like every year in the winter-semester we are hosting a master-introduction event. We will infrom you in general about the master and the modules you can select. The presentations will be held in english. It will take place as a Zoom-conference on the 30th of October at 14:00 s.t. . The login details for zoom are in the pdf below.

Master-Introduction Event

A SHB position as an assistant for a physics student with Asperger's syndrome is offered with 5 working hours per week for three months. For more information:

Job offering

Application till: 20.09.2020

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) offers a PhD position in physics.

Job offer

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***The position is already taken***

The aim of the project is a spinoff from our research group at the Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech) in the field of photonics and quantumtechnology. You will support us optimising the fabrication processes in nano fabrication.

Job offering

The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2019-07-09 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is Prof. Dr. lexander Kappes with his lectures “Physics for Physician, Dentists, Pharmacists and Biologists” and “Neutrino Physics”.

The General Physical Colloquium is taking place in a Zoom conference for now. If you want to know something more about special reasearch topics from groups from different universities you can find the topics of the talks and the link for the Zoom conferences on the homepage of the Department of Physics.

The Colloquium takes places weekly on thursday at 16:15.

General Physical Colloquium

Due to the current situation we made a Master-Information Video with all the relevant information and contacts you could need if you start your Master of Physics at the WWU this semester. You can find the video at the link below. If you should have any further questions you can contact us for help.

Due to the Coronav virus we cancelled our office hours during the semester break. We will be back at our normal office hours as soon as the lectures start again (probably the 20.04.). If you have any questions you can still reach us with an Email to fsphys@uni-muenster.de.

Until then we wish you the best and stay healthy!
 

Application till: 31.03.2020

The Hector Fellow Academy gGmbH offers PhD positions in physics for students with individual research ideas.

Job offers as ZIP file

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The Faculty of Protestant Theology offers three SHK positions for their EDV team as administrators. Further information can be found in the following job offering:

Job offering

The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2019-07-11 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is Prof. Dr. Peter Krüger with his lectures "Electronic Correlations and Magnetism" and "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics".

On Thursday, the 6th June 2019 the annual Summer Festival at the Department of Physics will take place at the “Square Depression” – organized by the student council! This time with nitrogen ice, volleyball, barbecue, a bouncy castle, table soccer and much more!

Ballot from Monday, 2019-06-03 to Friday, 2019-06-07!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of lecture hall HS 2 in the physics buildings (IG1). You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV; subject-specific Student Representations), the Fachbereichsrate (FBR; department council), the Senat (Senate) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa; Student Parliament) as well as the representation of student assistants (SHK); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV; Foreign Student Representation). See also the official information on the  ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) site [de] for the StuPa and the Electoral Office of the WWU for details.

On this page, you can see the candidates for the election of the Physics Student Represenation (FSV) and the Department Council (FBR). We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you! We’ll even give you a water ice or a free drink at the summer festival if you go voting ;-)

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The BMW Group offers an internship about “Datamining” and a master's thesis about “Lithum-Ion battery development”:

Complete job offering of the internship
Complete job offering of the master's thesis [de]

The ZIV searches for students with good knowledge in Excel as a lecturer.

Application: ziv-schulungen@uni-muenster.de

You have:    
+ good skills in Excel?
+ motivated to share your knowledge?
+ didactical talented?                          

We offer:
+ teaching experience
+ chances for advanced education
+ adequate payment                                                                                                                                                                                            

Björn Höltermann from Lapstore.de writes:

Working students wanted!
Are you interested in a varied job in a young team and are you still interested in IT & Commerce? Would you like to earn some extra money while studying? Then you are exactly right with us! We are looking for working students who actively support us in a wide variety of areas.
If interested, send your application! marcel.stiegeler@lapstore.de

Die EK-UNICO in Münster am Hafenplatz sucht eine studentische Hilfskraft für Arbeiten mit Excel.
Der Stundenlohn beträgt 11€, alle Infos sind hier
 

The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2018-07-19 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is PD. Dr. Svetlana Gurevich with her lecture numerical methods for complex systems I.

Application-date 22^nd July 2018

Das Software- und Webentwicklungsunternehmen Zweitag in der Münsteraner Innenstadt veranstaltet dieses Jahr zum dritten Mal den Summer of Code, d.h. ein achtwöchiges Praktikum in diesen Semesterferien, in denen vier Studierende in die Software- und Webentwicklung einsteigen können. Für mehr Infos hier ein Link zu einem Blogeintrag der letzten Summer of Code’ler. Und hier die aktuelle Stellenanzeige.

 

On Thursday, the 21th June 2018 the annual Summer Festival at the Department of Physics will take place at the “Square Depression” – organized by the student council! This time with nitrogen ice, volleyball, barbecue, a bouncy castle, table soccer and much more!

Excursion: 27th June, 2018 10:00 - 17:00

Application till: 30.04.2018

The Hector Fellow Academy gGmbH offers PhD positions in physics for students with individual research ideas.

Job offers as ZIP file

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Application till: 30.04.2018
In the management of the excellence cluster “Religion und Politik” of the WWU an SHK position as IT assistant is open. (further information in this article)

On Thursday, 19th April 2018, we will once again have our Physicists’ Party and you can be a part of it! Let’s have a legendary party at the Rote Lola!

The date for the Physicists’ Party this semester is set and you can get tickets starting right now! As usual, you can get them in advance for 3 € at the Physics and Geophysics Student Councils. They’re also available at door for 5 €. Entry starts at 22 o’clock.

You have to be over 18 to get in.

We’re looking forward to partying with you!

The university of Grenoble is looking for a PhD candidate in philosophy of quantum mechanics. Detailed information can be found in the article.

Hi,

we have received a job offer from the IVV Aachen/Berlin on behalf of the Stadtwerke Münster.

The institute for applied physics is looking for a student working as an
SHK (8 hours/week)
on the project "Learning with apps - using smartphones in introductory lecture courses" for 6 months.

Currently, the ZIV is looking for tutors who can offer classes in Excel and PowerPoint. Information can be found here:

Job Offer 

On next Monday, 06.11., nobel prize winner Wolfgang Ketterle from MIT will give a talk on new forms of matter at low temperatures. You are all invited to this talk, which will certainly be very interesting.

Good news: We’ve set the dates for the monthly game nights for the winter semester 2017/2018! The next dates for game nights this semester are:

• Thursday, 2017-10-05,
• Thursday, 2017-11-02,
• Thursday, 2017-12-07,
• Thursday, 2018-01-04,
• Thursday, 2018-01-11,
• Thursday, 2018-02-01 and
• Thursday, 2018-03-01

We have received the following job offer:

• Prof. Rainer Böckmann from the University of Erlanen-Nürnberg writes

   

  Dear students,

  my group is looking for motivated PhD students, who can imagine working at the interface between physics and theoretical chemistry onthe one hand and and biology and medicine on the other hand. All projects include close cooperations with experimental groups, conferences and stays abroad are, of course included.

  Best wishes
  Rainer Böckmann

  More information here:

   

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There is an open SHK position in the learning center. Applications, which are possible till 30.11.2017, have to be send to Prof. Denz.

More information here:

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Dear students,
we would like to inform you of a number of events which we organize at the beginning of the semester. Among these are the book market and the Bachelor–Master Day. Details are available in the full entry (link in the heading). Don’t miss it! :-)
Book market: Tuesday, 2017-10-17, Bachelor–Master Day: Wednesday, 2017-10-18

The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2017-07-27 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is Prof. Dr. Alfons Khoukaz with his lecture series on nuclear and particle physics.

As every year, we have a special offer for those who will have to face their first laboratory courses (“Grundpraktikum” – 1FB, 2FB) next semester. This mostly applies to those who will start their third bachelor’s semester this October; in principle, everyone interested is invited, though!
We are offering a crash course on the document preparation system LaTeX, which is widely used in science, on Friday, the 6th October 2017 from 11:00 until 18:00 (at the latest) in HS AP. To work on and discuss questions and exercises (“learning by doing”!) left over from the first day as well as advanced topics like data processing, we can also meet on a second day if there is some demand (e. g. Monday, 2017-10-09).
The course is explicitly designed to teach you everything you need to know to write lab reports (mostly) painlessly. We will also talk about a program for processing and visualizing data (gnuplot) as an example.
There are no fees for participation, of course! If you’re interested in participating (or if you have questions), please write us a quick message.

It’s that time of the year again: On Thursday (2017-07-27, 16:00, HS 2), the Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize is awarded once again in the General Physical Colloquium. Since the summer semester 2013, we have been awarding one teacher with the prize for extraordinary commitment in teaching every year.

Our guest speaker this year is Prof. Dr. Klaus Lüders from the Free University of Berlin with a presentation on “ice-cold super phenomena”. Everyone interested is cordially invited.

On Thursday, 3rd August 2017, we will once again have our Physicists’ Party and you can be a part of it. Let’s have a legendary party in the Herzschlag!

The date for the Physicists’ Party this semester is set and you can get tickets starting right now! As usual, you can get them in advance for 3 € at the Physics and Geophysics Student Councils. They’re also available at door for 5 €. Entry starts at 22 o’clock.

You have to be over 18 to get in. There’s also a Facebook event.

We’re looking forward to partying with you!

Ballot from Monday, 2017-06-19 to Friday, 2017-06-23!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of lecture hall HS 2 in the physics buildings (IG1). You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV; subject-specific Student Representations), the Fachbereichsrate (FBR; department council), the Senat (Senate) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa; Student Parliament) as well as the representation of student assistants (SHK); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV; Foreign Student Representation). See also the official information on the ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) site and the elections announcement for details.

On this page, you can see the candidates for the election of the Physics Student Represenation (FSV) and the Department Council (FBR). We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you! We’ll even give you some Glühwein if you go voting ;-)

On Tuesday, the 20th June 2017 the annual Summer Festival at the Department of Physics will take place at the “Square Depression” – organized by the student council! Moreover, you will have the opportunity to register with DKMS at the same time!

Good news: We’ve set the dates for the monthly game nights for the summer semester 2017! The next dates for game nights this semester are:
Thursday, 2017-04-13, Thursday, 2017-05-11, Thursday, 2017-06-08, Thursday, 2017-07-13, Thursday, 2017-08-10 and Thursday, 2017-09-14
(so every 2nd Thursday each month) always from 17:00 in room KP 104 (1st floor).

Note: The games store Spielkultur Münster (Facebook), Frauenstraße 40, kindly provides some games for our game nights. They also regularly organize game nights themselves!

The ZaPF has enacted two statements on the topics of “access and admission restrictions” and “expression of solidarity with the Turkish scientists” on its winter 2016 meeting. You can find the statements here.

The jDPG, together with the Physics Student Council, is arranging a two-day excursion to Hamburg on Thursday, the 20th and Friday, the 21st of April, 2017. In the course of these two days, you will pay a visit to the company Philips, DESY and the “Center for Free-Electron Laser Science” (CFEL). Registration for the excursion is possible until the 17th of February and there are still spots remaining.

We have received several offers for PhD positions in Spain and France: PhD positions within the INPhINIT la Caixa PhD Fellowship Programme, Funded PhD in hair-cell biophysics at Institut Curie (Paris – FRANCE).

Q.UNI (Kinder- und Jugend-Uni Münster) is looking for two students to fill SHK (student assistant) positions in the areas IT and media. Students in a double bachelor’s program (2FB) also have the opportunity to complete the “Berufsfeldpraktikum” at Q.UNI Camp.

Update (results): The election results have been published on the ZWA’s site!

Ballot from Monday, 2016-11-28 to Friday, 2016-12-02!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of lecture hall HS 2 in the physics buildings (IG1). You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV; subject-specific Student Representations) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa; Student Parliament) as well as the representation of student assistants (SHK); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV; Foreign Student Representation). See also the official information on the ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) site and the elections announcement for details.

On this page, you can see the candidates for the election of the Physics Student Represenation (FSV). We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you! We’ll even give you some Glühwein if you go voting ;-)

Dr. Wittkowski, who has recently begun forming his group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (area: nonlinear physics), asked us to tell you about the open PhD positions and subjects for theses in his group:
In der am Institut für Theoretische Physik neu eingerichteten Arbeitsgruppe Wittkowski („Theorie der aktiven weichen Materie“) sind zur Zeit Doktorandenstellen zu besetzen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Internetseite der Arbeitsgruppe.

Hey everyone,
in the course of the past week, we have created schedules for every semester of the bachelor’s program (for courses taken “according to plan”) and published them on our website. The schedules are appropriate for both the B. Sc. program (1FB) and the physics part of a double bachelor’s program (2FB). We hope that this will help you get a better overview of the courses awaiting you. Do take a look ;-)

Currently, the AStA is looking to employ help in several places: Someone for the technical supervision of the AStA’s homepage and electoral assistants for the elections in the student body in a few weeks are needed.

Dear students,
we would like to inform you of a number of events which we organize at the beginning of the semester. Among these are the book market, the Bachelor–Master Day, the Physicists’ Party and the game night. Details are available in the full entry (link in the heading). Don’t miss it! :-)
Book market: Tuesday, 2016-10-25, Bachelor–Master Day: Wednesday, 2016-10-26, Physicists’ Party: Thursday, 2016-10-27, Game night: Thursday, 2016-11-10.

Good news: We’ve set the dates for the monthly game nights for the winter semester 2016/2017! The next dates for game nights this semester are:
Thursday, 2016-11-10, Thursday, 2016-12-08, Thursday, 2017-01-12, Thursday, 2017-02-09 and Thursday, 2017-03-09
(so every 2nd Thursday each month) always from 17:00.

Note: The games store Spielkultur Münster (Facebook), Frauenstraße 40, kindly provides some games for our game nights. They also regularly organize game nights themselves!

We have received a number of offers for PhD positons. They are: PhD positions at the Hector Fellow Academy gGmbH in the area of physics for master’s graduates who want to do a PhD with their own research idea, two PhD positions “RNA Folding and Function” at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, in Frankfurt am Main and a 5-year position at the TU Berlin in the area of experimental atomic and molecular physics.

On 2016-09-14 at 18:00, a Physics Student Council meeting during the break will take place. Everyone interested is very welcome to join us in the Student Council office.

As every year, we have a special offer for those who will have to face their first laboratory courses (“Grundpraktikum” – 1FB, 2FB) next semester. This mostly applies to those who will start their third bachelor’s semester this October; in principle, everyone interested is invited, though!
We are offering a crash course on the document preparation system LaTeX, which is widely used in science, on Friday, the 14th October 2016 from 11:00 until 18:00 (at the latest) in HS AP. To work on and discuss questions and exercises (“learning by doing”!) left over from the first day, we can also meet on a second day if there is some demand (e. g. Monday, 2016-10-17).
The course is explicitly designed to teach you everything you need to know to write lab reports (mostly) painlessly. We will also talk about a program for processing and visualizing data (gnuplot) as an example.
There are no fees for participation, of course! If you’re interested in participating (or if you have questions), please write us a quick message.

After having started a few game nights recently, we’d like to turn that into a monthly occurrence. The next dates for game nights are:
Tuesday, the 2016-08-30, Tuesday, the 2016-09-20 and Thursday, the 2016-10-13 (during Introduction Week)
always at 17:00.

The Physics Student Council has awarded the annual “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize” on 2016-07-21 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2). This year’s laureate is Prof. Dr. Nikos Doltsinis with his lecture Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.

It’s that time of the year again: On Thursday (2016-07-21, 16:00, HS 2), the Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize is awarded once again in the General Physical Colloquium. Since the summer semester 2013, we have been awarding one teacher with the prize for extraordinary commitment in teaching every year.

Our guest speaker this year is Dr. Römer from the university Duisburg-Essen with a presentation on the “Magic of Magnetism”. Everyone interested is cordially invited.

McKinsey writes:

McKinsey-Workshop „Wendepunkt“ für Mathematiker und Physiker
Der 1,5-tägige Fallstudien-Workshop „Wendepunkt“ von McKinsey für Studierende und Doktorand(inn)en der Fachrichtungen Mathematik und Physik bietet Teilnehmer(inne)n die Chance, tiefgehende Einblicke in die Arbeitsweise und das breite Aufgabenfeld der Topmanagement-Beratung zu erhalten.

On Thursday, the 16th June the annual Summer Festival of the Department of Physics takes place at the “Square Depression” – organized by the student council!

Update (2016-07-10): The election results were published on 2016-06-30!

From 2016-06-02 to 2016-06-21 (10:00), the postal elections of the department councils and the Senate are taking place. We have a shared list of the Physics and Geophysics Student Councils for the Physics Department Council (FBR).

There are some student assistant (SHK) positions available at the WWU Q.UNI Camp:

Studentische Hilfskräfte für das Q.UNI Camp: Tutorinnen und Tutoren gesucht!
Im Sommer öffnen ab dem 11. Juni bis zum 31. Juli 2016 die Türen des Q.UNI Camps: Ausprobieren, Tüfteln, Knobeln steht ab dann für Kinder und Jugendliche auf dem Programm. Am Leonardo-Campus entsteht ein großes Q.UNI Gelände mit Barfußpfad, Erlebnisgarten, Mitmachbaustelle und Bewegungsinseln, die zum eigenen Erkunden und Entdecken einladen. Dieses Projekt der WWU richtet sich an Familien, Schulklassen und Kitas.

Und hier brauchen wir Sie: Wir suchen ab sofort pädagogisch, naturwissenschaftlich, sportlich, biologisch interessierte Studierende, die als Hilfskräfte im Stundenumfang von 9 oder 19 Stunden pro Woche an diesem besonderen außerschulischen Lernort arbeiten möchten.

On 2016-04-06 at 18 o’clock, a Physics Student Council meeting during the break will take place. Everyone interested is very welcome to join us in the Student Council office.

Results: The election results have been published on the ZWA’s site.

Ballot from Monday, 2015-11-23 to Friday, 2015-11-27!

Dear students,
as you have certainly noticed, elections are taking place this week. Until Friday, you can vote in many places at the university, such as in front of the HS 2 in the physics buildings (IG1). You can elect the Fachschaftsvertretungen (FSV: subject-specific Student Representations) and the Studierendenparlament (StuPa: Student Parliament); foreign students can additionally elect the Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV: Foreign Student Representation). See also the ZWA’s (Central Election Committee) call for votes and the elections announcement for details. We would be happy about a high participation in the elections because this will strengthen our democratic legitimacy so that we can better support you! We’ll even give you some Glühwein if you go voting ;-)

This time, there are even three lists to vote for: The “Volksfront der Physik” (People’s Front of Physics), the “Physikalische Volksfront” (Physical People’s Front) and the “Populäre Front” (Popular Front – splitters!). So go voting, everyone – and remember: One cross each!

Hey everyone,
we have just extended our website with a few pages which are hopefully useful to you:
Our grade calculator can calculate the final grade for your bachelor’s degree – you just have to put in your results for the individual modules.
We have started a collection of websites for the different lectures/courses (the pages where the profs provide their material etc.). If you can’t find a lecture or have forgotten the link, just take a look there.
We have collected information on the minor subjects (Interdisciplinary Studies) in the bachelor’s and master’s programs because this was spread over many sources and thus hard to find.

On Thursday, 29th October 2015, we will once again have our Physicists’ Party and you can be a part of it. Let’s have a legendary party in the Amp!
The date for the Physicists’ Party this semester is set and you can get tickets starting right now! As usual, you can get them in advance for 3 € at MensaCopy (Mensa am Ring) and the Physics and Geophysics Student Councils. They’re also available at door from 23–24 o’clock for 4 €, after that for 5 €. Entry starts at 23 o’clock.
During the happy hour until midnight, there is beer for 1 € and cocktails for 4 €. You have to be over 18 to get in.

We’re looking forward to partying with you!

Dear students,
you hopefully have fond memories of your Introduction Week last semester or the one before that (or…) and had a lot of fun. For the Introduction Week 2015, we’re now offering you the opportunity to participate as a tutor and introduce your own ideas. The Introduction Week takes place in on 12.10.–15.10. and is supposed to enable the new students to have a good entrace to their studies and life in Münster.

With your help and you as a tutor, we will tackle the Introduction Week once more this year and offer the freshmen a big welcome. In contrast to last year, we’re not planning a meeting in preparation of the Introduction Week and will instead meet with all volunteers on Monday, the 12.10. at 11 o’clock at the Student Council office in order to go through the week and plan when you can support us. Above all, we need tutors for Monday (12.10.) and Wednesday (14.10.). But if you’d like to contribute more or would like to use the opportunity to get a full preview of the work in the Student Council, we’d be glad to have you all week as well.

If you want to join in or have questions, please contact us; this is possible in the Student Council office, in person, on Facebook or via email to fsphys-erstiwoche@uni-muenster.de. We’ll also share all further information with you through the mailing list fsphys-erstiwoche@uni-muenster.de then!
We’d like to thank you for your help and are looking forward to working with you and to a great Introduction Week 2015!

The company Grünspar has sent us the following job offer:
“Technischer Entwickler (m/w) zur Weiterentwicklung einer Stromverbrauchs-Erfassungshardware und -Software. Vorausgesetzt werden C, Python, SQL. Weitere Details können der Ausschreibung entnommen werden.”

For the third time already, the Physics Student Council has awarded the “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize”. The award ceremony for the prize for Prof. Dr. Michael Rohlfing took place on 2015-07-16 from 16:00 in the General Physical Colloquium [de] (HS 2).

Already for the third time now, the Physics Student Council is awarding the “Physics Student Council’s Teaching Prize”. The award ceremony will take place on 2015-07-16 from 16 o’clock in the General Physical Colloquium (HS 2).
As guest speaker for the Teaching Prize with the topic “Inventions and patents from the WWU”, Dr. Katharina Krüger, patent referee and patent scout at the Arbeitsstelle Forschungstransfer (AFO) here at the WWU Münster, was invited this year.

The Physics Student Council would like to address all those who will have to face their first laboratory courses next semester with a special offer. This mostly applies to those who will start their third bachelor’s semester this October; in principle, everyone interested is invited, though!
We are offering a crash course on the document preparation system LaTeX, which is widely used in science, on Friday, the 7th August 2015 from 11 until 18 o’clock (at the latest) in HS 2. To answer and solve any questions and exercises (“learning by doing”!) which are left after the first day, we will also meet on a second day (Monday, the 10th August).
The course is explicitly designed to teach you everything you need to know to write lab reports (mostly) painlessly. We will also talk about a program for processing and visualizing data (gnuplot) as an example.
There are no fees for participation, of course! If you’re interested in participating (or if you have questions), please write us a quick message.

From 2015-06-03 to 2015-06-22 (10:00), the postal elections of the department councils and the Senate are taking place. We have a shared list of the Physics and Geophysics Student Councils for the Physics Department Council (FBR).

On 2015-03-11, 18 o’clock, the Physics Student Council meeting will take place. Everyone interested is welcome to join us in the Student Council office.

Urnenwahl von Montag, 24.11. bis Freitag, 28.11.2014

Ihr könnt in diesem Zeitraum eure Stimme(n) für die Fachschaftsvertretung (FSV), das Studierendenparlament (StuPa) und ggf. die Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV) abgeben.
Wir rufen alle Studierenden dazu auf, sich bei den Wahlen zu beteiligen. Gebt eure Stimme ab und gestaltet dadurch die „Politik“ der Verfassten Studierendenschaft mit! Außerdem könnt ihr dieses Jahr im Rahmen der Wahlen einmalig an einer Urabstimmung teilnehmen.
Unter „weiter“ seht ihr die Kandidaten zur Wahl der Fachschaftsvertretung (FSV) Physik (Wahlkreis 111).

Update: Die Wahlergebnisse der Wahlen für Fachschaftsvertretung (FSV), Studierendenparlament (StuPa) und Ausländische Studierendenvertretung (ASV) wurden auf der Seite des ZWA veröffentlicht!

It’s finally time: The results of the course evaluation from last semester (i. e. summer semester 2014) have been uploadaed on the corresponding page for the department’s evaluation reports! So if you want to know how the lectures you attended last semester fared or if you’re curious which courses might be worth taking, just check out the statistics.
Of course, we’ll perform the course evaluation once again this semester (winter semester 2014/2015). Concerning lectures, you can already prepare to be visited (or, depending on your outlook ;-) ) haunted by us from the 17th until the 21st November 2014.

Im Wintersemester werden die Fachschaftsvertretungen und das Studierendenparlament gewählt. Folgende Wahlinfo des Zentralen Wahlausschusses (ZWA) geben wir euch gerne weiter.

Starting immediately, all WWU students ar eligible to receive the software package “Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus” (latest version for up to 5 devices, Windows and Mac) for an annual rate of 4,99 €. It is provided by Asknet (a ZIV partner) after registration in the Asknet portal StudyHouse. The ZIV does not divulge any data, but merely confirms membership of the WWU during registration. The license is linked to WWU membership and expires when leaving the university.
Source: ZIV news from 2014-03-18 and ZIV info page.

The WWU has already joined the Microsoft IT Academy in April 2012 (press release from the WWU ). Now, it was also possible to make all course documents available to all WWU students and members starting from the winter semester 2013/2014. Thus, all WWU members can prepare for the exams for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) or Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE) free of charge. It will also be possible to take the exams (freely/cheaply) in Münster in the future. The program is coordinated at the Department of Economics.


Note (2016-02-20): Unfortunately, the offer is not available anymore (at least since 2015-11-30).

The ZaPF has enacted two statements on the topics of “Open Access” and “Engagement in Civil Society” on its winter 2012 meeting. Here, you can find the statements and our comments.

On 2012-08-16, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Friedrich died suddenly and unexpectedly. The Student Council wishes to extend their deep and sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues in the name of all students.

On Friday, July 27th, the Student Council informs about its work, provides introductions to university politics and discusses future projects like the Introduction Week in the framework of the Student Council Day 2012 – A peek behind the curtains.
The event is open for everyone interested. You can find further information here.

On the 17th October from 15–18 o’clock, this year’s Bachelor-Master Day will take place. All students, especially those in their 5th bachelor’s or 1st master’s semester are invited to learn about bachelor and master theses and the working groups where you can write these theses. We start with a short talk in HS 2 and after that, the poster session begins in the IG1 foyer. Further information on our BaMa Day page.

On the 13th June 2012 starting at 11:30, the Department of Physics and Physics Student Council’s Summer Festival together with the Chemistry Student Council will take place.

Currently (until the 27th June at 10 o’clock), the postal elections of the Department Councils and the Senate are taking place.
There is a shared list by the Physics and Geophysics Student Councils for the Department Council (FBR) and a NaWi list for the Senate.
Update: Results are online.

Today we have added further information on the active Student Council members. You can now find out since when we’ve been contributing in the Student Council, what our responsibilities are and which committees we work in for you. With this, you can more easily find the right person to contact with special questions. There is also a possibility for direct contact on every page (no software is required for this since this is done using a form).
We would appreciate any feedback.

Today, the news area was overhauled, but not set as the start page yet. Optically, we’re now following the WWU’s prevalent layout (for Imperia experts: we’re using teasers). Moreover, you can now subscribe to an RSS feed.

Hello, dear students, please remember to vote for your student representatives this week! The urns are in the IG1 building and the canteen. Through your vote, you can directly influence which decisions are made in academic politics. So don’t be shy, go vote!

Next week (2011-11-28 to 2011-12-02), the elections of the Student Representation, the Student Parliament and the Foreign Student Representation will take place.
We call on all students to participate in the elections. Cast your vote and thus take part in shaping the “politics” of the Constituted Student Body.

That’s no problem. In the Physics Student Council office, there are still plenty of copies of the “Erstifibel” where all important information is summarized. We will also happily help you with individual problems; just check the office hours and drop by.
Good luck with your studies!

Introduction Week for all new physics and geophysics students during the week from
Tu., 2011-10-04 to Fr., 2011-10-07!
Introductory meeting on 2011-10-04 at 10:00 (ct) in the Applied Physics lecture hall (HS AP, Corrensstr. 4).

The preparatory course in physics is taking place from 2011-09-19 to 2011-09-28. Registration open until 2011-09-16 at 12:00 o’clock at physics prep course.
The preparatory course in mathematics is also recommendable and will take place from 2011-09-05 to 2011-09-29. Registration and further information at mathematics prep course [de].

On the 8th June 2011 starting at 12 o’clock, the Department of Physics and Physics Student Council’s Summer Festival will take place.

For those interested in Erasmus, there will be a meeting with recently returned “Erasmuses” on Wednesday, the 27th April from 13 o’clock. The date was decided on with the second-semester students and Prof. Kohl.
Wir würden das an den Stehtischen vor der AP durchführen und wollen damit die Gelegenheit geben, zwanglos Fragen aller Art zu einem Auslandsaufenthalt zu stellen. (Quote Prof. Kohl)

The Ersti DVD WS 2010/2011 can be borrowed from the Student Council office with valid photo ID starting now.

Here, you can find our review of a book that was provided to us.
(Review in German)

The current version of the by-laws and the rules of procedure can be viewed here (at the very bottom of the page).

Like every year, the electionsahlen of the Student Parliament, the Student Representations and the Foreign Student Representation take place this week. Don’t forget your student ID! You can find the urns e. g. in the IG1. As motivation, we offer some pre-Christmas fruit punch :)

From 19.11.–21.11., it’s time once again :)
Registration now in the Student Council office (price 30 € per person).

Ersti DVDs for WS 2008/2009 and WS 2009/2010 are available in the Student Council office again starting Monday and can be borrowed with valid photo ID.

The pages “Introduction Week” and “questions about studying” have been updated.

On the 30th June 2010 starting at 12 o’clock, the Department of Physics and Physics Student Council’s Summer Festival will take place.