Hackathon 2026
Initial Hackathon
June 19th – 21st
| 19.06.2026, 6 hours | Pre-Meeting, Preparation |
| 20.06.2026, 12 hours | Core Hackathon |
| 21.06.2026 or later | Aftermath / finalization |
Focused targeted challenges, rapid collaboration, publication-oriented research, and prototype development.
Hackathon Topics
Each topic combines a clearly defined challenge area with room for open innovation.
NMR/MRI Extended Product Operator Formalism
This topic focuses on advancing and finalizing a review-style research contribution on extended product operator formalism for NMR and MRI. Participants will help clarify theoretical foundations, improve notation and visualization, connect the formalism to practical pulse-sequence design, and identify examples that make the method accessible to both specialists and advanced learners.
Quantum Engineering & eState Entanglement
This topic explores how quantum engineering concepts can inspire new ways of thinking about digital states, governance, infrastructure, trust, and societal transformation. Participants will investigate links between quantum science, digital twins, secure data ecosystems, e-governance, and large-scale socio-technical systems such as Estonia’s eState and TalSinki-type infrastructure visions.
In-situ MAS NMR Stator Design
This engineering-oriented topic focuses on designing or improving an in-situ magic-angle spinning NMR stator for advanced experiments under realistic operating conditions. Participants may work on mechanical concepts, improving on existing CAD models (preferable using Autodesc Inventor), material choices, thermal and/or gas-flow constraints, manufacturability, and experimental usability.
Solving the Fermi Paradox
This speculative but research-driven topic asks why, in a vast universe, we have not yet observed clear evidence of other technological civilizations. Participants will develop models combining astrophysics, planetary evolution, civilization dynamics, risk, communication limits, and long-term technological development.
Hilbert Space of Categorical Imperative
This topic investigates whether concepts from mathematical physics, Hilbert spaces, logic, cognition, and Kantian ethics can be used to construct formal models of moral reasoning. Participants will explore how ethical decisions, constraints, perspectives, and universalizability might be represented using abstract state spaces or operator-like transformations.