Exhibition, lectures, hands-on experiments, shows and more
23 to 28 September
Admission to all events is free
QuantumFrontiers organises the science festival in Hanover
The popular science festival will make Hanover the centre of physics in Germany for a week. A colourful programme brings research to life for everyone. At the heart of the event is a temporary science centre in tents on Ernst-August-Platz in front of the main railway station with exhibitions, hands-on experiments and stage shows. There will also be a varied programme of lectures on the ''Cumberlandsche Bühne'' and in the Leibniz University, activities for schoolchildren and young people, the ''exciting physics'' competition and much more.
QuantumFrontiers, together with the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD, has taken over the local scientific management of the festival this year. The commitment of numerous QuantumFrontiers members in preparing and organising the event is what makes it possible.
The "Highlights of Physics" will kick off on 23 September at the Theater am Aegi: the evening lecture by university professor and TV presenter Harald Lesch will be all about the "Sun, Moon and Stars", accompanied by music from the quartet "Quadro Nuevo". At the end of the week of events, Prof Dr Metin Tolan, Communicator Award winner and President of the University of Göttingen, will examine whether the spectacular effects from the James Bond films can be reconciled with the laws of physics. The lecture on 28 September in the Theater am Aegi will be accompanied by the "Ärzteorchester Hannover" with the world-famous music from the Bond series.
Admission to the entire science festival is free. For individual events with limited seating, such as the evening lectures, free registration is required in advance via the website www.highlights-physik.de.
About the Highlights of Physics
The "Highlights of Physics" were launched in 2001 by the German Physical Society (DPG) together with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The science festival has attracted up to 60,000 visitors in recent years. It tours from city to city with a changing theme. The Science Festival 2024 is organised by the DPG with funding from the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation in Hanau. The "Highlights of Physics" are also supported by numerous other institutions such as ams OSRAM, Niedersachsenmetall, TÜV NORD, the VHV Foundation, VGH, Laseroptik, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and the City of Hanover, with "Mein EinkaufsBahnhof" as a cooperation partner.
