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As the speaker at this year's Paul Bernays Lectures, Michel Devoret discussed quantum information processing with superconducting circuits – and took the time to find out about the variety of research activities in the physics department, too.

For this year's Wolfgang Pauli Lectures, John Preskill offered a crash course on quantum information science, from entanglement to error correction for quantum computing.

It's time to celebrate the new graduates of the Master's degree programmes in physics and high-energy physics from ETH Zurich.

Visitors at this year's ETH Information Days learned what it means to study physics through conversations with current students and lectures given by members of the department.

Physicists Andreas Eggenberger and Marius Simon demonstrated some exciting experiments during this year's Long Night of the Zurich Museums at focusTerra: they debunked the colour of gold, created a rainbow in the middle of the night and let a green laser beam take a balloon to its breaking point.

On 2 and 3 September up to 30,000 visitors sought answers to the question: what holds the world together?

It's time to celebrate the new graduates of the Master's degree programmes in physics and high-energy physics from ETH Zurich.

Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich and Technorama, visitors to the Science Centre can see with their naked eye very small objects that behave according to the unfamiliar laws of quantum mechanics – single atoms.