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Hackathon 2026

Initial Hackathon

June 19th – 21st

19.06.2026, 6 hoursPre-Meeting, Preparation
20.06.2026, 12 hoursCore Hackathon
21.06.2026 or laterAftermath / finalization

Focused targeted challenges, rapid collaboration, publication-oriented research, and prototype development.

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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.

Expected outcome
Structured publication draft, explanatory figures, computational demonstrations, and a roadmap for future methodological development.

Helpful skills
NMR/MRI theory, mathematical physics, scientific writing, visualization, coding, or literature analysis.

 

 

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.

Expected outcome
Challenge-based concepts connecting physical systems, digital representation, institutional design, and human participation.
 

Helpful skills
Quantum science, governance, systems thinking, digital twins, policy analysis, design strategy, or interdisciplinary facilitation.

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.

Expected outcome
Design sketches, Autodesk/Fusion-style CAD concepts, performance criteria, and a prototype development plan for scientific hardware innovation.
 

Helpful skills
Mechanical design, CAD, prototyping, materials selection, NMR instrumentation, precision engineering, or simulation.

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.

Expected outcome
A rigorous conceptual framework, high-level scientific essay, model, simulation, or publication-oriented hypothesis.
 

Helpful skills
Astrophysics, modeling, systems analysis, speculative design, scientific writing, scenario thinking, or philosophy of science.

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.

Expected outcome
A conceptual paper, formal model, diagrammatic framework, or interdisciplinary bridge between physics, philosophy, and cognitive science.
 

Helpful skills
Mathematical abstraction, ethics, formal logic, cognitive science, philosophy, theoretical physics, or conceptual modeling.