Press releases

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics in the focus of the "MINT on Wednesday" series

Prof. Dr Götz Seibold, Dean and Chair of Computational Physics, will speak about this year's Nobel Prize in Physics on 5 November 2025 at 5:30 pm as part of the public lecture series "MINT am Mittwoch" of the Faculty of MINT, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at BTU's main campus in Cottbus.

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr Götz Seibold.

Discovering the human voice at pupils university

How do we produce sounds, whether we are singing or speaking? How does our voice work? These and other questions will be discussed on Wednesday, 29 October 2025, from 4 to 5 p.m. in a practical lecture at the BTU in Senftenberg.

The officer of the current student university event - qualified singing teacher and church musician Johannes Kaufhold. Photo: BTU, Ralf-Peter Witzmann

Excellent research at BTU

Outstanding scientific achievements were honoured on Wednesday, 15 October 2025, on Research Day at the BTU Campus Senftenberg.

Focus on artificial intelligence: Media Law Days 2025 in Cottbus

60 experts will discuss the opportunities and challenges of digital technologies in the justice system at BTU on Thursday and Friday, 9 and 10 October 2025. In particular, the focus will be on the legal, ethical and practical issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in court proceedings.

Counter-forensics: global historical investigation of state crimes

The public lecture series "Forensic Sciences: On the trail of the crime" at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) will continue on Friday, 10 October 2025 at 5:30 pm. The officer will be Robert Trafford from the Department of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Outline of a busy person on the ground.