Institute of Physics

28/07/2018 Acceleration of hydrogen absorption by palladium through surface alloying with gold

Together with a group from University in Tokyo, Japan, our colleagues Petar Pervan, emeritus of the Institute Milorad Milun and alumni Ivo Pletikosić have published a paper in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about the acceleration effect of acceleration of hydrogen absorption by palladium through surface alloying with gold.

28/07/2018 Spontaneous light-mediated magnetism in cold atoms

Our colleague Ivor Krešić has published a paper together with collaborators from Great Britain and France on self-organization of magnetic dipoles in cold rubidium atoms illuminated by laser light using a feedback mirror.

06/07/2018 Opening conference of the project CALT - The Center for advanced laser techniques

On July 6, 2018, a CALT Project (Center for Advanced Laser Techniques) opening conference was held on the premises of the Ministry of Science and Education in Zagreb. The conference gathered more than 80 participants from the academic community as well as national institutions and companies interested in research based on advanced laser techniques.

28/05/2018 Signing of the KaCIF project Contract

On Monday the 28th, 2018, a Contract was signed in the Ministry of Science and Education, according to which the sum of 39,558,639.75 Hrk is awarded to the project “Cryogenic center of the Institute of Physics – KaCIF” within the “Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014.– 2020“, financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

18/05/2018 Band structure of the thermoelectric SnSe

Our colleague Petar Pervan has together with groups from USA and Italy published a paper in Physical Review Letters on the electron band structure of tin selenide, a layered thermoelectric material.

Highlights

04/05/2018 The Institute of Physics was visited by the CERN Expert Mission

On Thursday, May 3^rd2018, the CERN Expert Mission led by CERN’s Director for International Relations Charlotte Warakulle visited the Institute of Physics. The high-level delegation was received by Director of the Institute Dr. Marko Kralj.

01/03/2018 New record number of employment at the Institute

Based on the previously announced tenders and the new Ordinance on the structure and work of the Institute of Physics, on 1st of March, 2018 a record number of employment contracts were signed. New contracts were signed by postdoctoral students Dr. Neven Šantić, Dr. Ivor Krešić, Dr. Yuki Utsumi and PhD student Domagoj Kovačić. On the basis of the new Ordinance on the structure and work of the Institute of Physics, the annex to employment contract was signed by Nikolina Žilić Martinović and Marija Sobol, while at the beginning of the week the employment contract was signed by a colleague Kristina Stažić.

News Events

14/05/2018 We hosted students participating in the international PLANCKS 2018 event.

11/07/2018/ at 15:00h (the event has ended) Nastupno predavanje: Yuki Utsumi Boucher
Studies of strongly correlated electron system IF - predavaonica u zgradi Mladen Paić

23/02/2018 From Monday, February 26, 2018, he started to work as a senior expert in economic affairs, Mrs. Kristina Stažić. We wish our new colleague a welcome and a lot of success at work.

05/07/2018/ at 11:00h (the event has ended) Seminar: dr. Andrey S. Mishchenko
Numerical analytic continuation: answers to well-posed questions in ill-posed problem IF - predavaonica u zgradi Mladen Paić

22/02/2018 The Institute declares a Call for consultations that precedes initiation of the Call for public procurement within the project CEMS.

15/06/2018/ at 11:00h (the event has ended) Nastupno predavanje: Nikša Krstulović
Laserski proizvedene plazme i primjene IF - predavaonica u zgradi Mladen Paić

20/02/2018 The Institute of Physics has began two new projects that start on March 1, 2018 for a period of five years, and projects are funded by the Croatian Foundation for Science (HRZZ).

13/06/2018/ at 15:00h (the event has ended) Seminar: Oleksandr Birchenko
Kinetics of metastable phases of helium. NMR study of metastable liquid inclusions in the quenched solid helium and the mobility of 3He absorbed on MCM-41 IF - predavaonica u zgradi Mladen Paić

15/02/2018 Neven Šantić defended his doctoral dissertation titled Synthetic Lorentz force in an expanding cold atomic gas.

23/05/2018/ at 15:00h (the event has ended) Seminar: dr. Nikola Biliškov
2D dihalkogenidi prijelaznih metala za fotokatalitičko cijepanje vode IF - predavaonica u zgradi Mladen Paić