Snippets of the Network

The Presi­dent of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment, Ilse Aign­er, invit­ed more than 3,000 guests to this year's sum­mer recep­tion of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment at Schleißheim New Palace - in­clud­ing ten mem­bers of the Elite Net­work of Bavaria.

Lena Schorr, a PhD stu­dent in the Puschhof Lab at the Ger­man Can­cer Re­search Cen­ter (DKFZ) in Hei­del­berg, at­tend­ed the 72nd Lindau No­bel Lau­reate Meet­ing from 25 to 30 June 2023 at the invi­tation of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia.

This year, the Max We­ber Pro­gram sent out invita­tions to its tradi­tional sum­mer cele­bra­tion in the beau­tiful Alt­mühl­tal. A well-over 150 guests ac­cept­ed the invita­tion to cele­brate to­geth­er, meet other schol­arship hold­ers and get to know the uni­versi­ty town of Eichstätt.

Dr. Jan Böt­tcher’s In­terna­tional Junior Re­search Group has deci­phered a mechanism that switches off im­mune re­sponses in tu­mors and points to new tar­gets for can­cer thera­py.

At the AI Camp, the Ger­man Asso­cia­tion of Com­puter Sci­ence hon­ored ten young re­searchers with the AI-Newcomer Award 2023. Nora Gourmel­on, who is part of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram "M³OCCA", is one of the awardees.

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Ba­varian Grad­uate School of Com­puta­tional Engi­neer­ing“ awarded the 9th Stu­dent Paper Prize at the in­tertnational SIAM CS&E 23 con­fer­ence to Shane McQuarrie of the Uni­versi­ty of Texas at Aus­tin.

The Ba­varian Grad­uate School of Com­puta­tional Engi­neer­ing pro­gram holds its yearly open­ing week­end in an in-pres­ence meet­ing for 2023; wel­com­ing the in­com­ing batch with team-building and shared ex­peri­ences by the sen­iors and alum­ni.

Teacher trainees of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “MINT-Leh­ramt PLUS” vis­ited muse­ums, stu­dent labs, and out-of-school learn­ing sites that can enrich school les­sons. Workshops pro­vided new ideas for diffi­cult parent con­versa­tions and stu­dent-centered les­sons.

With its FO­RUM event at TU Mu­nich, the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia united the realms of sci­ence and socie­ty to ex­plore the capti­vating and in­credi­bly perti­nent field of neu­rosci­ence.

Stud­ying abroad means great pro­fes­sional as well as per­sonal gain and com­ple­ments do­mes­tic stud­ies in a spe­cial way. That is why the Max We­ber Pro­gram Ba­varia sup­ports its schol­arship hold­ers both finan­cially and non-financial­ly in their plans to study abroad.