On Wednesday, 15 December 2010, the Presidents of the University of Vienna, Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Academy of Sciences signed a cooperation agreement which aims to pool the expertise of the three Viennese institutions in the area of quantum physics. The agreement marks the starting point for the "Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology" (VCQ).
Simon Gröblacher has been awarded the ESG-Nano-Prize on Nanosciences 2010 from the Erwin Schrödinger Gesellschaft für Nanowissenschaften.
Witlef Wieczorek has been awarded one of the prestigious Feodor-Lynen research fellowships by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in order to work towards "Optomechanical quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation".
"Nature Milestone", "burgeoning field" and "fast-moving fields of physics"- within only three days the field of cavity optomechanics has been spotted by Nature, Science and the American Physical Society (APS) as "hot topic".
Markus Aspelmeyer wurde für seine herausragenden, wissenschaftlichen Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der experimentellen Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, insbesondere für seine Pionierarbeiten zur Quanten-Opto-Mechanik, ausgezeichnet.
The research project „Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field" has been awarded as innovative research project 2010.
The best students of state universities of Serbia have been awarded. Uros Delic has recieved the Eurobank EFG scholarship. This award is given to the best 100 students of state universities of Serbia.
Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck observed for the first time effects of ‘‘strong coupling'' between light and a micromechanical object.
The 438th Wilhelm und Else-Heraeus-Seminar on "Quantum Optics of Nano- and Micromechanical Systems" has been organized by Tobias Kippenberg, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Florian Marquardt.
The sucessful workshop took place at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany from 19th to 22nd July 2009.
Nikolai Kiesel receives one of the prestigious Feodor-Lynen research fellowships by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in order to work "Towards Single Photon Quantum Optomechanics".