Also in 2025, we had a pair of blue tits move in to our balcony bird house. Two days ago, the only little fella to make it all the way through, left the house and here’s a time-lapse of the whole season.
For those of you interested, there are more time-lapse and motion-detection clips in a YouTube playlist.
As part of our outreach activities at Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, we decided to participate in this year’s Munich edition of Pint of Science in May by opening the MQV Quantum Pub.
In order to adapt our merchandising and educational materials to the pub environment, I came up with the idea for a set of quantum-inspired drink coasters. From coasters with Schrödinger’s cat dead and/or alive and a drink inspired single-qubit-gate coaster, to a full set of quantum-circuit gates to build and discuss your own quantum circuit while having a drink, our media designer Flavio did a great job putting together the visuals for this nice little project.
So look out for one of our upcoming public events and you might just come across our new educational quantum coasters.
With the start of the new year I created a new website for my local archery club TFBS München e.V. [German], adding it to the growing list of websites I set up for clubs, schools and outreach activities.
A simple WordPress site along with some scripting to display calendar events and views, which I might extend with some interactive content and event-registration scrips at some point.
That said, we are always looking for new members (younger and less young) to join us [German] …
It seems that our annual Christmas party at the (former) chair for particle physics at LMU Munich is always a good reminder to check on the numbers of my virtual tours of the ATLAS Experiment. So I’ll just use this to remind you as well ;)
Also made a shorter German tour: here you go and put together a German edit of the Belle II video.
This week, I am for the third time taking part in the “International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis” to represent Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) and all of its activities at the booth of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) (#3147).
