Outreach - Center for Quantum Spintronics (QuSpin)
Outreach
Another goal QuSpin has is to reach the general public to share our work through accessible language and tangible examples to be inclusive to the general public, thus illustrating why this research is critical, and worth current and future funding.
We are interested in arenas where we can meet young students, or have school visits to our center, as far as our capacity goes. Please contact center coordinator Karen-Elisabeth Sødahl.
How to increase the number of females in physics studies and research?
2020
We are looking for a student to take on our project at QuSpin on "How to increase the number of females in physics studies and research".
If you are interested, please contact our center coordinator karen-elisabeth.sodahl@ntnu.no for more info.
Researchers Night 2021
We are participating at the upcoming Researchers Night 2021 with visit to our lab.
More info to follow.
Teknologiuka for jenter 2019
We participated under program no.2 - "Kunnskapsløpet- fra kvantesprang til fotballtipping" with the presentation "Magnetic materials for the future. Building up crystals one atomic layer at the time". 48 female students visited our MBE lab and associated professor Christoph Brüne and his experiment.
Researchers Night 2018
One key goal is to make our center and physics attractive for young students, to be enticed by and recruited into a rewarding academic carrier.
One new avenue of outreach was during the annual NTNU Researcher’s Night through a lecture called “Flying Super- conductors and the Quantum Revolution". In bringing actual flying superconductors, a very real-world example of what physics can do was a clear way to educate through an exciting medium. This idea of ‘edutainment’ is one employed by some of the world’s preeminent science educators and is something QuSpin hopes to harness. This particular lecture was part of the People’s Program portion of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) in the European Union.
The lecture was held by our PhD candidates Even Thingstad and Fredrik Nicolai Krogh.
School Visits
We have an open invitation for school classes to visit our center. The goal is to give a taste of physics and the life of researchers and students here. This community engagement challenges us to be able to explain complicated physics through easy, understandable words and examples.
Maybe we will see some of them as our future students?
Oct 2019
We had a visit of thirty Vg3 students from Greveskogen High School,Tønsberg. We gave a presentation of our work before they visited our new MBR lab for growing new materials. The students visit was part of a program preparing them for applying to studies, .e.g at NTNU.
April 2019
“It was exciting and relevant for our students to get some insight of the research at QuSpin, and how it is to work as researchers within theoretical physics. Many of our students are seeking a research career, and would like to know more about this. They left with a better understanding of this after the presentation at the research center.”
- Dag-Morten Sjøstrøm, Lektor Physics. Previous student at the Department of Physics.
Sept 2018
We had a visit of a group of curious twelve years old children from Trondheim International School. They challenged our ability to explain advanced physics in a simple way, including demonstrating "Flying magnets". This always triggers the students interest.