DZA Open day: Post is shaken by the rush of visitors

Tours through the rooms of the DZA, understanding the Big Bang, making things, learning - that was what characterised our Open Day. Around 1,000 interested visitors and DZA fans took a first look at the interim location at Postplatz 1. The ‘Big Bang on the Road’ from the Particle World Network of the Technical University of Dresden and several exhibits of high-tech computer hardware in the Alte Post generated a lot of enthusiasm.

The focus was primarily on awakening children's and families' fascination with astrophysics in a creative way, but also on presenting jobs at the DZA. The large-scale research center offers growing opportunities for people in the region during its build-up phase. Perhaps some visitors will be able to turn their ideas from today into concepts for tomorrow and help advance cutting-edge astrophysical research in Lusatia. Speaking of which, at the end of the year, the DZA will begin developing new technologies on the Alstom site: the development of new types of image sensors in collaboration with the Technical University of Dresden and the Fraunhofer Institutes in Saxony, new receivers with low-temperature antennas for radio telescopes are to be created and silicon mirrors are being researched as prototypes for the future Einstein Telescope.

We are delighted of the interest shown by the people and would like to thank everyone involved in organising this day; in particular the Görlitzer Sternfreunde e.V. with their telescopes and the PRO Kahlbaum initiative for information and background information on the future DZA campus on the Kahlbaum site in Görlitz.