Fysikermøtet 2025 NTNU Trondheim

16 Jun 2025, 00:00 → 18 Jun 2025, 18:00 Europe/Oslo

EL5 (Gamle Elektro)

Anne Borg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU), Astrid Johansen

Fysikermøtet, the Norwegian Physical Society's  biannual meeting welcomes physicists working in academia, research, secondary education and industry to Trondheim June 16 -18, 2025.

2025 is "The International year of Quantum science and technology" and this is reflected in the program. But of course other important areas in physics will be covered by plenary presentations as well and there will be parallel sessions for the various subgroups in NFS.

The program includes award ceremonies for

• Martin Landrøs Prize for best MSc-thesis

• Education Prize

• Outreach Prize 

NFS's  annual meeting will be held immidately after the end of the conference.

 

Om NFS

Norsk Fysisk Selskap (NFS) ble offisielt grunnlagt i 1953, med formål å fremme forskning, opplysning og samarbeid på fysikkens områder. Selskapet hadde sitt utspring i Fysikkforeningen ved Universitetet i Oslo, som ble opprettet allerede i 1939. I dag har NFS rundt 1000 medlemmer. NFS er en medlemsorganisasjon i European Physical Society.

Selskapet har åtte faggrupper: Subatomær fysikk og astrofysikk, Kondenserte faser, med atomfysikk, Biofysikk, Optikk, Akustikk, Rom-, plasma- og klimafysikk, Industri- og energifysikk, og Undervisning og formidling (Norsk Fysikklærerforening). Siktemålet med gruppene er å styrke kontakten mellom medlemmer med samme interessefelt. Les mer om faggruppene.

I tillegg til faggruppene, har NFS opprettet nettverkene Nettverk for kvinner i fysikk og Nettverk for fysikkhistorie og filosofi.

 

 

 

Monday 16 June

12:00 → 13:00 Registration

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome

Convener: Erik Wahlström (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)

13:15 → 14:45 Session: Plenary sessions with two invited talks

13:15 Kvantevitenskap: Fra fascinerende naturfenomen til morgendagens teknologi

Da kvantefysikken vokste fram for drøyt hundre år siden, utgjorde den et paradigmeskifte i vår forståelse av naturen, og spesielt av naturens minste bestanddeler. Den har i lang tid fascinert folk også langt utenfor fysikernes rekker og nærmest vært litt myteomspunnen. Etter hvert har kvantefysikken også fått uvurderlig betydning for den teknologiske utviklingen. Kvanteteknologi, med uante muligheter for databeregninger, sensorteknologi og kommunikasjon, er nå et stort satsningsområde i hele verden. I dette foredraget vil Susanne Viefers gi en gjennomgang av noen av kvantefysikkens hovedtrekk og fascinerende egenskaper, og hvordan disse nå utnyttes til å utvikle helt nye typer teknologi. Videre vil hun diskutere kvanteteknologiens status og potensiale, illustrert med eksempler.

Speaker: Prof. Susanne Viefers (UiO)

14:00 Interacting with superconductors

Five Nobel prizes have highlighted advances in understanding the fundamental physics of how some materials – superconductors – can transport currents without heat loss. Despite this, there is still so much we don’t understand about how these materials interact with other states of matter, or external impulses. Here we’ll explore some of these fundamentals, and how certain interactions can let us harness their properties for pioneering quantum technologies.

Speaker: Dr Sol H. Jacobsen (NTNU)

14:00 Quantum technology and WACQT

We are in the middle of what has been called the second quantum revolution, where precise control over systems that obey the laws of quantum physics enable progress in many technologies, e.g., computers, sensors, and communication devices. In this presentation, I will explain what quantum technology is based on and what it can be used for. I will also give an overview of the Swedish efforts in quantum technology through WACQT — the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. In particular, I will show how we build a Swedish quantum computer based on superconducting circuits in the core project of WACQT at Chalmers University of Technology.

Speaker: Dr Anton Frisk Kockum (Chalmers University of Technology)

14:45 → 15:15 Presentation of Outreach prize nominees

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:30 Parallell sessions: Track 1

15:45 → 17:30 Parallell sessions: Track 2

Tuesday 17 June

09:00 → 10:15 Session: Plenary session with three invited speakers

09:00 A Decade in 4D Live Microscopy: Looking Under the Hood

I want to take you on a journey through the last ten years of my field of research - 4D live microscopy. Live microscopy allows us to observe living cells in real-time and capture dynamic processes as they unfold and evolve in 3D space. This capability provides invaluable insights into the complex and dynamic nature of biological systems, as well as stunning imagery. I’ll be focusing on technical innovations while ensuring that the methods are contextualized within their respective applications in dementia research, regenerative medicine, and developmental biology.
Our journey begins at Cambridge University, where I completed my PhD and served as Head of Imaging at the Dementia Research Institute. Here, I worked on super-resolution, a technique that allows us to surpass the diffraction limit of conventional optical microscopy. Together with medical scientists, we used these methods to study phase transitions of molecules thought to be involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Following my time in Cambridge, I started my own group at the Arctic University in Tromsø. Driven by application needs, my focus shifted to the development of ultra-fast confocal microscopy methods tailored to tissue imaging in the context of regenerative medicine. Specifically, we developed a confocal microscope that can record an entire volume in a single camera exposure. With this machine, we managed to capture tiniest cellular organelles in engineered human heart tissue - an achievement I believe will have wide-ranging implications for therapeutic strategies in heart repair.
The final leg of my talk covers my time at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, where I concentrated on the development of light-sheet microscopy. This technique has revolutionized our ability to study the developmental biology of maritime specimens, providing detailed insights into how entire living organisms develop on a cellular level. Recently, we finalized a similar method in Tromsø, which will allow us to study the immune system of farmed fish, with the hope of improving the conditions in which these animals are raised.
Reflecting on this decade, I must conclude that live microscopy is truly at the crossroads of biomedicine, engineering, and physics.

Speaker: Prof. Florian Ströhl (UiT)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:15 Parallell sessions: Track 1

10:45 → 12:15 Parallell sessions: Track 2

10:45 → 12:15 Parallell sessions: Track 3

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:45 Parallell sessions: Track 1

13:15 → 14:45 Parallell sessions: Track 2

13:15 → 14:45 Parallell sessions: Track 3

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 17:00 Session: Plenary session with invited talk and panel debate

15:15 Fysikklæring på hjernens premisser

Speaker: Dr Vegard Gjerde (UiB)

19:00 → 00:00 Conference dinner: Conference dinner - with prize awards

Wednesday 18 June

09:00 → 09:45 Session: Plenary session - invited talk

09:45 → 10:45 Prisforedrag - Utdanningsprisen og Landrø-prisen

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break and poster session (?)

11:15 → 12:30 Parallell sessions: Track 1

11:15 → 12:30 Parallell sessions: Track 2

12:30 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:00 Session: Plenary session - invited talk

13:15 The Euclid space mission and the accelerating expansion of the Universe

In our daily life, gravity is always an attractive force. After Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe in 1929, it has been usual to think that the expansion of the Universe must be decelerating, although there have also been other ideas. In fact, Einstein first in 1917 inserted the “cosmological constant” in his equations, as a kind of universal repelling force, to allow a static universe, something he later called his greatest blunder. This cosmological constant has come back. In 1998 it was clear from observations of exploding stars, awarded with the Nobel Prize, that the Universe in fact is accelerating and not decelerating, and that the data fits well with Einstein’s cosmological constant. However, the existence of a cosmological constant is perhaps the greatest mystery of current theoretical physics, as theory would predict a cosmological constant more than 60 magnitudes larger than given by the data. Is it really Einstein’s cosmological constant we are seeing, or some kind of dynamic field, dubbed “dark energy”, or is something wrong with general relativity? To get a handle on this, the European Space Agency in 2011 selected Euclid as a future mission. Euclid was launched on the 1st of July 2023 and is now surveying the sky to get a detailed picture of the expansion history of the Universe, to try to give a better explanation of what is causing the expansion of the Universe to accelerate. In this talk, I will describe the Euclid mission and its background.

Speaker: Prof. Per Barth Lilje (UiO)

14:00 → 14:10 Closing remarks

14:10 → 15:10 NFS Annual meeting