News & Events

08-FEB-2025  |  Accepted Papers

After a tremendously prolific 2024, with 9 refereed papers (and one additional refereed article in Physics Magazine) published in international scientific journals, two further papers were accepted for publication, on three-loop vacuum-polarization effects (Phys.Rev.D) and on the relation of coupled oscillators and the dielectric function (Phys.Rev.B).  See https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17535 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06908.

16-DEC-2024  |  Invited Talk at a Conference

Ulrich Jentschura delivers an invited talk at Particle Physics Conference in Miami on “Quantum Field Theory at the Predictive Limits”.

10-DEC-2024  | Invited Talk at NIST

Ulrich Jentschura delivers an invited colloquium talk at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on “What would Quantum Measurements do without QED?”

06-DEC-2024  |  Schaerer Prize

Tuhin Das wins 2nd Prize at the Annual Schaerer Prize Competition (highlighting the most interesting PhD projects in the department) with his talk on “Temperature-Dependent Dielectric Function of Calcium Fluoride (CaF2 )”. For the third year in a row, we are happy that our graduates students perform well in the Schaerer Prize.

07-AUG-2024  |  Editors’ Suggestion

A joint paper with researchers from Rome and Paris (including Jean Zinn-Justin) receives has been highlighted as an Editors’ Suggestion by Physical Review D (see Phys. Rev. D 110, 036003 (2024)).

14-JUN-2024  |  Invited Talk at a Conference

Ulrich Jentschura delivers an invited talk at the EUROPL 2024 conference on “Dirac-Volkov Propagator: When Matter Perturbs Light and Relativistic Perturbation Theory is not Enough”.

13-JUN-2024  |  Conference

Ulrich Jentschura delivers a talk at the 2024 PSAS conference on “Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Cyclotron Energy Levels”.

08-DEC-2023  |  Schaerer Prize

Tuhin Das wins 3rd Prize at the Annual Schaerer Prize Competition (highlighting the most interesting PhD projects in the department) with his talk on the “Retardation Effects in Atom-Wall Interactions”.

09-DEC-2022 |  Schaerer Prize

Jose Nicasio wins 3rd Prize at the Annual Schaerer Prize Competition (highlighting the most interesting PhD projects in the department) with his talk on the “Dispersion of Ultra-Relativistic Tardyonic and Tachyonic Wave Packets on Cosmic Scales”.

08-AUG-2022  |  Special Issues

Ulrich Jentschura has been appointed Guest Editor for two special issues of the journal Atoms (MDPI Publishing) on “The Fundamental Role of Precision Atomic–Physics Measurements in Modern Science” and Symmetry (MDPI Publishing) on “Tachyons and Fundamental Symmetries”.

06-JUL-2022  |  Monograph

Ulrich Jentschura and Gregory Adkins have published a monograph which summarizes developments in what is probably one of the most challenging subfields of theoretical physics, namely, bound-state quantum electrodynamics. The book is available: U. D. Jentschura and G. S. Adkins, Quantum Electrodynamics: Atoms, Lasers and Gravity, World Scientific, Singapore (2022), ISBN: 9811252254, available from the publisher’s home page and from amazon.

26-MAY-2022  |  Talk

A talk was delivered at the TRIUMF ARIEL workshop on the proton radius puzzle, and its possible solutions. The (scientifically inspiring) conference program can be found here.

23-JAN-2021  |  Editorial Board

Ulrich Jentschura becomes a member of the Editorial Board of “Symmetry” [MDPI publishing] in addition to the appointment to the Editorial Board of “Atoms” [also MPDI publishing].

23-NOV-2020  |  Faculty Research Award

Ulrich Jentschura receives a faculty research award (for the period 2018-2020) of Missouri University of Science and Technology.

23-NOV-2020  | Talks

A talk has been given at the 2020 Madridge Cancer Research conference, on the IID protocol (Interferones, Digestive Enzymes, Immune Boosters).

10-JUL-2020 | Talks

15-JUN-2020 | JCAP

01-JUN-2020 | Fifth force

01-JUN-2020 | Fifth force