PLANCKS
The student-organised international physics student competition PLANCKS 2022, will take place in Munich between 5th and 8th May. It is co-organised by the German Physical Society, European Physical Society, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the International Association of Physics Students. The local host is the university of Munich. The majority of the funding is kindly provided by the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung.
PLANCKS was launched in 2014 by the International Association of Physics Students (IAPS). Since then, the competition has been awarded annually to a different one of the 50 member countries, with IAPS as the global umbrella organisation representing over 70,000 students, on every continent.
At the heart of the event, the competition aims to showcase physics as a team sport, promote collegial international student work on scientific problems and inspire young physics students to pursue academic careers. PLANCKS 2022 will involve 160 students from about 30 nations who qualified through 28 national preliminaries. In addition to the competition, the programme also includes plenary lectures, laboratory tours and workshops. In the past, for example, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Wolfgang Ketterle, Stephen Hawking and Immanuel Bloch have been welcomed as speakers at PLANCKS.
In 2022 we welcome science communication expert Harald Lesch, member of the German academy of science, Sibylle Günter, herta-Sponser Awardee Adriana Pálffy-Buß, Wolf Awardee Ignacio Cirac and Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel.
In addition to scientific excellence, PLANCKS 2022 is also focusing particularly on sustainability and diversity aspects in its organisation. For example, we have invited 50:50 female and male guest speakers, and our own sustainability team takes care to avoid aspects that are harmful to the environment. If unavoidable we have dedicated some funds to compensate that CO2 pollution. We also want to enable talented students across the globe especially from less wealthy countries and personal circumstances to participate and excel in PLANCKS by providing travel grants for them.
Hourly Schedule
05.05.2022
- 7:00 - 12:00
- Arrival
- 12:00 - 14:30
- Registration
- 14:30 - 15:00
- Transfer
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Opening ceremony
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Speakers:
PLANCKS OC
- 15:30 - 16:30
- Guest Lecture
- The Power of Physics
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Speakers:
Harald Lesch
- 16:30 - 18:00
- Guest Lecture
- Quantum Information: from Schr¨odinger Cats to Quantum Computers
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Speakers:
Ignacio Cirac
- 18:00 - 19:00
- Poster Session
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Speakers:
PLANCKS contestants, PLANCKS observers
- 19:00 - 20:00
- Transfer
- 20:00 - 22:00
- German Evening
06.05.2022
- 9:00 - 13:00
- Institute Visits
- Munich Garching Campus
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Speakers:
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Walter Schottky Institute, Walther-Meißner Institute
- 13:00 - 14:30
- Lunch
- 14:30 - 16:00
- Guest Lecture
- Fusion – a new primary energy source for base load electricity
- 16:00 - 16:30
- Coffee break
- 16:30 - 18:00
- Workshops
- Master and PhD in Germany(Munich Quantum Valley), Scientific Illustrations with Blender (Christopher Gutierrez), Scientific Publishing from a Publishers Perspectives(New Journal of Physics), Introduction to NISQ Quantum Computing with Cirq(Timo Eckstein), Mental Health Literacy or Things we can learn from our smartphones(Dominique de Marne), The current status of climate research and climate modeling(Hauke Schmidt)
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Speakers:
Christopher Gutierrez, Dominique de Marne, Hauke Schmidt, Munich Quantum Valley & others, New Journal of Physics, Timo Eckstein
- 18:00 - 19:00
- Transfer
- 19:00 - 22:00
- Beergarden
07.05.2022
- 9:00 - 13:00
- PLANCKS Competition
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Speakers:
PLANCKS contestants, PLANCKS OC
- 9:00 - 13:00
- Observer workshop
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Speakers:
PLANCKS observers, PLANCKS OC
- 13:00 - 14:30
- Lunch
- 14:30 - 17:00
- City Rallye
- 17:00 - 17:30
- Coffee Break
- 17:30 - 19:00
- Guest Lecture
- Quantum Dynamics of Atomic Nuclei: From Taming X-Rays to Measuring Time
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Speakers:
Adriana Pálffy-Buß
- 19:00 - 19:30
- Transfer
- 19:30 - 22:00
- Conference Dinner
08.05.2022
- 9:00 - 10:30
- Problem Panel
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Speakers:
PLANCKS OC
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:30
- Guest Lecture
- A 40-Year Journey
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Speakers:
Reinhard Genzel
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Group picture
- 13:00 - 14:30
- Lunch
- 14:30 - 15:30
- Award & Closing Ceremony
- 15:30 - 19:00
- Institute Visits
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Speakers:
Center for NanoScience, Toptica
- 19:00 - 22:00
- Barbecue
09.05.2022
- 9:00 - 13:00
- Museum Visit
Speakers
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Adriana Pálffy-Buß
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Ignacio Cirac
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Reinhard Genzel
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Sibylle Günter