Snippets of the Network

A graduate of the elite Integrated Immunology program reports on her experiences during the internship and master's thesis in Israel, the integration into the team and her lasting impressions.

Eight final­ists have com­peted for the 8th BGCE Stu­dent Paper Prize for excel­lent stu­dent work in the field of Com­puta­tional Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing. The deci­sion was taken at the SIAM CS&E con­fer­ence in early March.

On 14 Janu­ary 2021, Dr Stephan Merz from Inria in Nan­cy gave a guest lec­ture as part of the lec­ture series of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram. In his lec­ture, Dr Merz ad­dressed the speci­fica­tion lan­guage TLA+.

Now that the previous International Doctoral Programs in the humanities, social sciences and economics will soon be withdrawing from their funding, three new programs in these disciplines have been accepted for funding.

For the fifth consecutive time, the Elite Graduate Program “Finance & Information Management” (FIM) has maintained the top rank in the nationwide CHE Master-Ranking.

Stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Cultural Studies of the Middle East" pre­sent­ed their the­matic dossi­er on the image of East­ern Eu­rope in the satiri­cal maga­zine Sim­plicis­simus with an online event and dis­cuss­ed it with ex­perts.

RESET M.A. student Matthias Meller worked as a policy analyst intern at the Hessian Ministry for Digital Strategy and Development. This allowed him to meaningfully contribute to the responsible shaping of technological change and innovation

Students from the Elite Graduate Program “Responsibility in Science, Engineering and Technology” (M.A. RESET) took part in a workshop organized by the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge.

At the start of a new se­mes­ter that once more will have to rely on online learn­ing and will pro­vide only few occa­sions of direct face to face social inter­ac­tions, stu­dents in of the TMP mas­ter pro­gram gather for an online work­shop that pro­vides cop­ing mechanisms for these spe­cial cir­cum­stanc­es.

This year’s topic of our annu­al career day was: A career as neu­rosci­entist in indus­try. The stu­dents of the pre­vious and cur­rent co­hort got in­sights into the activ­ities at dif­ferent com­pa­nies.