Physically based light transport simulation has long been used to create photorealistic images and animations of computer-generated structures in many areas, from special effects in movies t…
Fourth Award
This research focuses on Feynman's question, why inverse sprinklers, sucking fluids in, instead of blowing them out, rotate. The conducted experiments using static sprinklers and a highly se…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Methane is a gas with two faces. On one hand it contributes to climate change if it is released uncontrolled into the atmosphere and on the other hand it is an important source of energy if…
First Award
There is no simple sensor for the direct real-time measuring of the concentration of gas mixtures to date. While there are a variety of different probes for gas measuring, these are usually…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solid rocket fuels still produce large amounts of chlorine when burned, resulting in ozone depletion comparable to the effect of CFC's. The most recent project investigated the potential of…
The logician Patrick Blackburn proposed several times to consider modal formulas as automata that are placed at some point inside a relational model and explore their environment by making t…
Fourth Award
My project is built around the idea to use the graphics card as a method of accelerating the simulation of physical systems in the form of N-body systems. This vastly reduces the high amount…
Second Award
Nowadays, 3-D printers are considered as one of the most innovative technical developments. Until now, numerous processes, constructions as well as many possibilities of application have bee…
Plants use photoreceptors to detect light. Thus, every light colour triggers a unique response within a plant. Phytochrom, for example, is a photoreceptor which is sensitive to light in the…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates an obvious similarity between the labyrinth-like patterns produced by the fully asynchronous version of John H. Conway's Game of Life on the one hand, and those for…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Crystallization is a scientific process which has often been examined. Due to the number of parameters involved, questions still remain. This is especially true for dendritic crystallization…
Materials Science
First Award
This project in its present form is the creation of a new generation of a mathematical system for dynamic geometry, calculus and algebra. The initial idea was to create a modern mathematics…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
When a water droplet impacts a surface of water, part of the drop disappears into the water, while the rest bounces out again. This fascinating process repeats itself several times in a frac…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We investigated the growth of mould fungus on button mushrooms under different storage conditions. Interestingly, we found that improper storage of button mushrooms lead to increasing rates…
Physics and Astronomy
The surface of plant leaves plays a major role in the interaction between plants and their environment as it fulfills important functions, such as protection against water loss due to transp…
Systems Software
Second Award
Put a candle in a saucer filled with water, light the candle and then cover it with a beaker. After the candle extinguishes, the water level suddenly increases. The purpose of our experiment…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Fluorescence detection has had a broad application in the area of tumor diagnostics for many years. The new approach described in this work involves the intense illumination of tumor tissue…
Energy: Physical
Purpose of the project was to develop a portable Wood-Splitter, which makes the splitting process safer, ergonomically better and easier. Also we wanted to realize a Logging Support with the…