2023

With more than 100 registered participants, our group, together with colleagues from ETH Zurich, the University of Tokyo and the University of Zurich, organized a multidisciplinary two-day symposium at ETH Hönggerberg.

For his poster and poster presentation, our Bachelor student collaborator Sergey Ermakov was awarded one of three SPS «best poster prize» at the Joint Annual Meeting 2023 of the Swiss Physical Society and the Austrian Physical Societ during 4–8 September 2023 in Basel.

Our former PhD student Dr. Narongrit Ritjoho (ETH Diss 26579, 2020) today is a Lecturer at the Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand. He just organized a summer school there on fundamental neutron and muon physics, July 10-14, 2023.

The second EPT summer camp, organized by members of our group, took place on 4–7 June at Mattli Antoniushous in Morschach.

Members of our group took part in the SOLA-Stafette 2023, the largest university sports event in Switzerland.

The spring program «Das Universum» of «ETH Treffpunkt Science City» featured talks about particle physics and astrophysics.

Klaus Kirch received PSI's 2022 Diversity Award. The award ceremony was held during the PSI Director's New Year's Employee Information on January 17, 2023.

IMPACT was recommended by the ETH Board to be included in the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2023. We aim at the realization of IMPACT at PSI starting from 2025 with High Intensity Muons Beams for operation in 2028 and an isotope production facility operating in 2030.

Vira Bondar is fascinated by the fundamental questions of physics. She conducts research with ultracold neutrons and is working to make exercise sessions at ETH Zurich even more exciting.