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] …
Today, I had the pleasure of attending the official opening of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in Germany, hosted by the German Physical Society at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
For me, it was not only the beginning of the celebration of 100 years of quantum science, but also a return to the place where I started my physics studies back in 2001.
Apart from that, we are also working on a number of events and activities within the Munich Quantum Valley to celebrate the quantum anniversary. You can find our ever-growing program for the general public on our dedicated MQV Quantum 2025 website.
Here are some impressions from the event, which included a talk by Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle to set the stage for the year:
Once again, this seems to be how I/we spent the year 2024 in terms of computer games according to my Steam account. For a few more insights and game reviews/recommendations, check out my games page.
And here’s my 2023 review … which apparently had many more sessions and achievements …
