12. May 2026 The Physics Department at RPTU successfully participated in the first Falling Walls Lab Rhineland-Palatinate 2026 The first Falling Walls Lab Rhineland-Palatinate took place on April 29 at 42 Kaiserslautern.
07. May 2026 Final Round of the "Landeswettbewerbs Physik" at the RPTU From May 11 to 13, students will gather at the RPTU in Kaiserslautern for a physics seminar and the third round of the state physics competition.
04. May 2026 The 2026 Dominique Givord Award goes to Prof. Dr. Burkard Hillebrands It honors his outstanding contributions to magnetism research as well as his significant impact on the European magnetism community.
09. April 2026 Plasmonic Neuronal Architectures at the Nanometer Scale Researchers from the RPTU and the University of Augsburg have developed a new plasmonic architecture that acts as an artificial neuron.
23. March 2026 Register Now: STEM Workshop for Children and Teens Ages 10–16 on March 31, 2026 Green Energy from a Chemical and Physical Perspective, Workshop on the RPTU campus in Kaiserslautern
23. February 2026 German Mössbauer Workshop 2026 From February 25 to 27, 2026, the “German Mössbauer Workshop 2026” will take place at the RPTU in Kaiserslautern
14. January 2026 Telecommunications beyond 6G: the first standalone spin-wave chip with a built-in magnetic field New component based on spin waves for telecommunications developed by Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Philipp Pirro.
16. December 2025 Appointment as W3-professor Dr. Laurenz Rettig was appointed W3 Professor of experimental physics on December 16, 2025, effective January 1, 2026.