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Summer Semester 2020
In summer semester 2020, courses will be running online
Studying in Berlin from a home office
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The coronavirus crisis cannot set limits to our research and teaching. The summer semester 2020 (SoSe2020) will start on April 20 and will take place in the home office via digital formats. All enrolled students - regardless of which city or country they are currently in - can participate in our Physics courses and take exams via their private PCs.
Key Info in Brief
- Semester dates: 20. April - 18. Juli 2020
- No attendance program in SoSe2020, online courses only!
- New Master students welcome! You will complete your first semester in Physics from your living room in your home country.
- The lab courses and lab projects will take place in a modified form or will be postponed.
- Student advisory service and examination office provide consultations via phone and e-mail only.
- The physics building will remain closed for students and lecturers until further notice.
Official Information by Freie Universität - Impact of Coronavirus on Studying, Teaching and Campus Life
The full list of Physics online courses for Bachelor and Master
We update information on Physics online courses on a regular basis. Last update: 2020, April 7, 15 pm
Online Courses for Bachelor
Courses for Bachelor students of following programs: Bachelor in Physics, Bachelor in Physics for Education (Lehramt), other programs with Physics courses as compulsory modules.
Electrodynamics and Optics
Lecturer: Prof. Kirill Bolotin
20113301/20113302 - lecture and exercise class link
Basic Lab Course I - Measurement and laboratory technology (GP I, SK)
Lecturers: Dr. Christoph Kohstall, Dr. Beate Schattat and Prof. Paul Fumagalli
The basic lab is postponed to July - September 2020.
20100630 - Basics Lab I (in German)
Basic Lab Course II - Measurement and laboratory technology (GP II, SK)
Lecturers: Dr. Christoph Kohstall, Dr. Beate Schattat and Prof. Paul Fumagalli
The basic lab is postponed to July - September 2020.
20100730 - Basics Lab II (in German)
Solid State Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Martin Weinelt
20113501 - lecture and exercise class
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Jahn Behrends
20113601/20113602 - lecture and exercise class link
Analytical Mechanics
Lecturer: Prof. Jens Eisert
20113401/20113402 - lecture and exercise class link
Theoretical Electrodynamics
Lecturer: Prof. Christiane Koch
20113701 / 20113702 − lecture and exercise
General Professional Training
Project Lab
Lecturer: Dr. Christoph Kohstall, Dr. Beate Schattat and Prof. Paul Fumagalli
The Project Lab is postponed to July-September 2020.
20101435 - Project Lab (in German)
Practical Training for Physicists
Lecturer: Prof. Stephanie Reich
20101333 - module link
Renewable energies in the context of global climate change
Lecturer: Prof. Holger Dau
Between blackboard, computer and laboratory: physics as a scientific culture
Lecturer: Prof. Martina Erlemann
Topics of Biophysics I - Presentation techniques
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Haumann
Current Trends and Topics in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics
Lecturer: Prof. Ulrike Alexiev
Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lecturer: Dr. Beate Patzer, TU Berlin
20101102 - excercise class link
Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics
Lecturer: Dr. Ralph Püttner
Theoretical Physics 2 for Prospective Teachers
Lecturer: Dr. Stefanie Ruß
20116701/20116702 - lecture and excercise class link
Experimental Physics 2
Lecturer: Dr. Elke Müller
20116301/20116302 - lecture and excercise class link
Mathematical Additions to Experimental Physics 2
Lecturer: StR Jörg Fandrich
20116307 - link to the integrated lecture
Introduction to the Structure of Matter
Lecturer: Dr. Elke Müller
20116407/20116402 - link to the integrated lecture and excercise class
Design of Learning Environments
Lecturer: Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier and Dr. Philipp Straube
Teaching and Learning Physics in the Student Lab - Seminar on linking theory and practice
Lecturer: Dr. René Dohrmann, Christine Meißner and Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier
Basic Lab in Physics
Lecturers: Dr. Christoph Kohstall, Dr. Beate Schattat and Prof. Paul Fumagalli
The Basic Lab is postponed to July - September 2020.
20102330 - Link to Basic Lab 1-LA (SK)
20102530 - Link to Basic Lab 2-LA (SK)
Demonstration Practice I
Lecturers: Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier and Dr. Dirk Schwarzhans
The practical course will take place as a block in autumn 2020.
20102011 - seminar link
20102030 - lab course link
Primary School Education
Physics for Primary School 2
Lecturer: StR Jörg Fandrich
20100101/20100102 - lecture and excercise class link
Natural Sciences for Primary Education
Lecturer: Dr. Philipp Straube
Physics for Students of Natural Sciences
Lecturer: Dr. Antonio Setaro
20007401/20007402 - lecture and excercise
Lab Course - Physics for Students of Natural Sciences
Lecturers: Dr. Beate Schattat, Dr. Christoph Kohstall and Prof. Paul Fumagalli
The lab course will take place as online experiments only.
Lab Course - Physics for Students of Pharmarcy
Lecturers: Dr. Beate Schattat, Dr. Christoph Kohstall and Prof. Ulrike Alexiev
The lab course is postponed to July - September 2020.
Online Courses for Master
Courses for Master students of following programs: Master in Physics, Master of Education in Physics, other programs with Physics courses as compulsory modules.
Advanced Laboratory Course for Master Students
Lecturer: Dr. Cornelius Gahl
The seminar and the internship will be postponed to July - September.
20102711 - seminar
20102730 - internship link
Selected Topics: Advanced Statistical Physics of Biological and Soft-Matter Systems
Lecturer: Prof. Roland Netz
20010511 - seminar link (for extern participants)
Selected Topics: Recent Achievements in Nanomagnetism
Lecturer: Prof. Katharina Franke
Selected Topics: Quantum magnetism and the theory of strongly correlated electrons
Lecturer: Prof. Johannes Reuther
Selected Topics on Gender and Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Martina Erlemann
Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics
Lecturer: Prof. Roland Netz
20104401/20104402 - lecture and exercise class link
20104401/20104402 - lecture and exercise class link (for extern participants)
Quantum Field Theory and Many Body Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Felix von Oppen
20114201 / 20114202- lecture and exercise class link
Advanced Atomic and Molecular Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Karsten Heyne
20104701/20104702 - lecture and exercise class link
Advanced Biophysics
Lecturer: Dr. Stephan Block und Prof. Joachim Heberle
Astrophysical Practical Course
Lecturer: Dr. Beate Patzer, TU Berlin
Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres
Lecturer: Dr. Antonio Garcia-Munoz, TU Berlin
Production of Biological Samples in Biophysics
Lecturer: Dr. Ramona Schlesinger
The course is postponed to July - September 2020.
20104901 - lecture link
20104902 - exercise link
Electronic Structure Methods and Applications
Lecturer: Prof. Ana-Nicoleta Bondar
20105501/20105502 - lecture and exercise
Special Topics in Molecular Biophysics
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Haumann
20105701/20105702 - lecture and exercise class link
Computational Astrophysical Practical Course (Numerikum)
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Schulreich, TU Berlin
Special Topics in Magnetism: Magnetism in Reduced Dimensions and Spin Transport
Lecturer: Prof. Wolfgang Kuch
20108901/ 20108902 - lecture and exercise class
Preparatory Course to the Advanced Master Laboratory
Lecturer: Dr. Cornelius Gahl
The course is postponed to July - September 2020.
20109101 - lecture link
20109102 - exercise link
Magnetic Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Applications
Lecturer: Dr. Carolin Schmitz-Antoniak
20110101 / 20110102 - lecture and seminar
Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion – From the Stars to the Laboratory
Lecturer: Prof. Hans-Stephan Wilfried Bosch, TU Berlin
Signal Analysis in Physics: from Fourier transformation and sampling to the lock-in amplifier
Lecturer: Prof. Tobias Kampfrath
20112701/20112702 - lecture and exercise class link
Gender and Science: An Introduction
Lecturer: Prof. Martina Erlemann
20114901/20114902 - lecture and exercise class link
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Optics
Lecturer: Dr. Albrecht Lindinger
20115501/20115502 - lecture and exercise class link
Methods of Molecular Simulations
The course will be given in block form from 10/8 to 28/8. Further information will be announced on Blackboard
Lecturer: Prof. Felix Höfling
20115901/20115902 - lecture and exercise class link
Hot Solar System Plasmas
Lectureren: Prof. Jörg Büchner und Dr. Patricio Munoz Sepulveda, TU Berlin
Plasma Astrophysics
Lecturer: Prof. Wolf-Christian Müller, TU Berlin
Bioinformatic Tools for Biology and Biophysics
Lectureren: Prof. Holger Dau und Prof. Robert Burnap
20118101/20118102 - lecture and exercise class link
Coherent Spectroscopy
Lecturer: Prof. Robert Bittl
20119801/20119802 - lecture and exercise class link
Relativistic Particles in Condensed Matter
Lecturer: Prof. Piet Brouwer and Maxim Breitkreiz
20120401 / 20120402 - lecture and exercise class
Special Topics in Molecular Physics
Lecturer: Dr. Albrecht Lindinger
20120701/20120702 - lecture and exercise class link
BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Lecturer: Prof. Piet Brouwer
Digital Media in Physics Teaching
Lecturers - Dr. Jürgen Kirstein and Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier
Advanced seminar: Practical Training „Climate change in Physics classes“
Lecturers: Dr. René Dohrmann, Christine Meißner and Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier
Aspects of Didactic Research
Lecturers: Volker Brüggemann and Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier
Physics Didactics
Lecturers: Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier and Novid Ghassemi Tabrizi
20106915 - link to advanced seminar
20106912 - link to project seminar
20111412 - link to project seminar
Advanced Seminar in Physics Didactics
Lecturers: Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier and Dr. Philipp Straube
201107015 - link to advanced seminar
Demonstration Lab Course II
Lecturers: Dr. Jürgen Kirstein and Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier
20116811/20116830- seminar and lab course link
Advanced seminar Subject-specific Teaching (Professional Training for Teaching Physics)
Lecturers: Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier and Dr. Philipp Straube
Selected Topics: Two-Dimensional Materials: The Fury Road
Lecturer: Prof. Kirill Bolotin
20000816 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Biomimetic (opto) electronic Devices
Lecturer: Prof. Louisa Reissig
20001116 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: New Developments in Terahertz Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Tobias Kampfrath
20001316 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Advances in Quantum Dynamics and Control
Lecturer: Prof. Christiane Koch
20001416 - Link to research seminar
Research Seminar on Gender and Science Studies of Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Martina Erlemann
20001516 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Solid-state Spectroscopy
Lecturer: Prof. Wolfgang Kuch
20009016 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: EPR and Single-molecule Spectroscopy in Biophysics
Lecturer: Prof. Robert Bittl
20009116 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Biophysics of Photosynthesis and Solar-fuel Catalysts
Lecturer: Prof. Holger Dau
20009216 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Theoretical Molecular Biophysics
Lecturer: Prof. Ana-Nicoleta Bondar
20009316 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Modern Topics in Solid State Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Felix von Oppen
20009416 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Polarization-resolved Femtosecond Spectroscopy
Lecturer: Prof. Karsten Heyne
20009516 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Didactics of Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Volkhard Nordmeier
20009716 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Nanophysics
Lecturer: Prof. Franke Katharina
20009816 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Advances in Mesoscopic Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Piet Brouwer
20010016 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Optical and Magneto-optical Spectroscopy and Scanning Near-field Microscopy
Lecturer: Prof. Paul Fumagalli
20010116 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Recent Advances in Quantum Many Body Theory
Lecturer: Prof. Jens Eisert
20010416 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Modern Topics in Theoretical Biological and Soft-Matter Physics
Lecturer: Prof. Roland Netz
20010616 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Surface Dynamics
Lecturer: Prof. Martin Weinelt
20012716 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Protein Production and Purification
Lecturer: Dr. Ramona Schlesinger
20012816 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Structure, Function and Dynamics of Photoreceptors
Lecturer: Prof. Joachim Heberle
20012916 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: Novel Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Lecturer: Prof. Johannes Reuther
20018116 - Link to research seminar
Selected Topics: EPR Spectroscopy in Materials Research
Lecturer: Prof. Jan Behrends
20018216 - Link to research seminar
Disputation Colloquium
Lecturer: Prof. Robert Bittl
20007950 - Link to research seminar
Colloquium of the Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Lecturer: Prof. Piet Brouwer
20008250 - Link to Colloquium
Organizational Matters for Students
Enrollment for the summer semester runs
Enrollment for SoSe 2020 continues despite the coronavirus quarantine. If you have received an admission notice, you must enroll by 20.04.2020. To do this, please send a completed enrollment application (see page 2) and the scanned documents to the student administration by e-mail to info-service@fu-berlin.de.
Online Account
After successful enrollment, you will receive a personal online account from Freie Universität Berlin. Youll will need this account to use many university services and systems such as Campus Management or library media.
Studying Online
You will complete the first semester of your Master studies fully online. Access to the online course materials will be granted to you by lecturers.
Visa and Entry to Germany
The student administration will send you all the documents you need to apply for your visa. Please contact the authorities in your country to find out when you are allowed to enter Germany. We hope to welcome you in person in the winter semester 20/21 at the Department of Physics.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write or call our student advisory service.
Bachelor and Master theses can be registered electronically at the examination office. Already registered theses will be extended by the time of the contact restriction. The deadlines for submission of theses will be suspended from 12 March 2020 until the resumption of regular study, i.e. the deadlines are not valid at present.
If you have a Zedat account, register for the courses via Campus Management.
If you have no Zedat account, please write directly to your lecturer by e-mail.
All enrolled students receive extended online access to the library.
Expanded digital offer / How to use our library
Organizational Matters for Lecturers
Software and Applications
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PowerPoint: Create presentation and record it as a slide show (tab "slide show" => "Record slide show")
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Cisco webex as a cloud solution for live streaming of courses. Blackboard compatible.
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Cisco Meeting App for video conferences. Login: FUaccount@fu-berlin.de; password: FU-Passwort.
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box.FU - cloud for sharing large files and videos.
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PDF Annotator - The software allows to edit PDF documents on a tablet with a pen, to insert images and draw graphics. You can derive facts in the lecture video directly, save it and send it as PDF. Please contact Jens Dreger if you need PDF Annotator.
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Handbrake - Software for video compresison.
Online Lehren & Lernen - Here CeDiS has listed all the technical solutions university provides us with for online teaching.
Best Practice at the Department of Physics
Some ideas on the design of online teaching (in German, password protected)
The password will be provided to all teaching staff via e-mail soon.
Physics Chat - Forum for quick exchange among lecturers of Physics. If you have no access now, please contact Jens Dreger or Jörg Behrmann.
Forum Online-Lehre@FU - central forum for discussing online teaching formats with other departments.
Advisory and Support
