Snippets of the Network

On 12 February, 2021, the annual Poster Session of the Elite Graduate Program “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP) took place. Due to the SARS-CoV2 pandemic this event moved online for the very first time.

The Ger­man aero­space socie­ty DGLR rec­og­nizes the con­tribu-tions of Pro­fessor Schil­ling to the field of small satel­lites with the pres­tigious Eu­gen Säng­er med­al.

The annu­al MAP Alumni Round Ta­ble gives MAP stu­dents more in­sight into the future pro­fes­sional world. Three MAP alum­ni from dif­ferent coun­tries and pro­fes­sional fields were re­cruit­ed for the dis­cussion in 2021.

Due to the ongo­ing pan­dem­ic, the "Max We­ber-Abend" took place online once again. More than 200 grant­ees at­tend­ed the wel­com­ing event to find out more about the pro­gram and to get to know their re­gional groups. In par­ticu­lar, the Coordination Office of the Elite Network of Ba­varia, the Max We­ber team and men­tors were pre­sent.

In the new “Bio­diver­sity, Cli­mate Change and Health” mod­ule from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy” at the Uni­versi­ty of Bay­reuth, stu­dents dis­cuss the rele­vant topic of inter­link­ages be­tween global change and health.

In the new mod­ule “Cli­mate Poli­cies and Eco­nom­ics” stu­dents from the Bay­reuth Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy” learn about inter­na­tional cli­mate di­plomacy and eco­nomic con­cepts in the cli­mate change de­bate.

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.

In this prac­tical course, stu­dents im­ple­ment­ed nu­meri­cal algo­rithms for use on su­percomput­ers. The focus was on the anal­ysis of paral­lelism as well as the ap­pro­priate use of mod­ern soft­ware de­velopment tools.

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+.