2020

ETH professor Renato Renner is one of the world’s leading theoreticians in quantum information science. He talks about the latest developments. Renato Renner’s group focuses on the question of how the processing and transmission of information relates to physical laws.

Yiwen Chu researches new ways of connecting quantum technologies, with the aim of creating a quantum telecommunications network for the exchange and storage of quantum information.

At its meeting of 9 and 10 December 2020 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed 14 professors, among them Rachel Grange as Associate Professor of Photonics and Judit Szulágyi as Assistant Professor of Computational Astrophysics at the Departement of Physics.

The association of mathematics, physics and CSE (Computational Science and Engineering) students has awarded the 2020 VMP Assistant Award to ten student teaching assistants from the Departments of Mathematics and Physics.

Mid-infrared imaging observations of PDS 70 b, an exoplanet that is still in the process of formation, provide unique insight into its atmospheric properties and the mechanisms by which planets emerge from a circumstellar disk of gas and dust.