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Open Day at GEO600

Open Day
  • Date: Jul 4, 2026
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: several
  • Location: GEO600, Schäferberg, 31157 Ruthe
  • Host: Benjamin Knispel
  • Topic: Open day
  • Contact: benjamin.knispel@aei.mpg.de
On Saturday, 4 July 2026, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover invite you for the eleventh time to visit the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 near Sarstedt. [more]
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Leibniz Science Cinema (in German): “The Theory of Everything”

Leibniz Science Cinema
  • Date: Jul 20, 2026
  • Time: 08:45 PM - 11:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bruce Allen
  • Location: Hauptgebäude Leibniz Universität Hannover, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover
  • Room: Westhof
  • Host: Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: veranstaltungen@uni-hannover.de
“The Theory of Everything” tells the story of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s early years of research at Cambridge, the onset of his illness, and, above all, his love for his wife Jane, who supported him in his battle against the disease and in his research. The film is based on Jane Hawking’s memoirs. Introduction: Prof. Dr. Bruce Allen, a former PhD student under Stephen Hawking and now a professor at the Institute for Gravitational Physics as well as director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) [more]
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