Snippets of the Network

The “Mu­nich Man­age­ment Col­loqui­um” (MMK) is Ger­many's larg­est busi­ness con­gress. The Elite Net­work of Ba­varia ena­bled a total of ten mem­bers to partic­ipate free of charge in this top-class event, which took place from 5 to 6 March 2024 in the Au­dimax of the Tech­nical Uni­versi­ty of Mu­nich.

MWP alum­na Nora Kory stud­ied bio­chem­istry at LMU Mu­nich and spent nine months at the Whitehead Insti­tute for Bio­medi­cal Re­search/Massachu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nolo­gy (MIT) for her mas­ter's thesis. To­day, the 38-ye­ar-old heads her own inde­pen­dent re­search group at the Har­vard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and en­courages young re­searchers to try new things and be cou­ra­geous.

Almost 300 guests came to Munich for the traditional New Year's Reception of the Max Weber Program (MWP) to celebrate together in the Great Hall of LMU Munich. The keynote speech on the topic of "Renunciation" was the kick-off for the new MWP theme for the year.

In sum­mer 2023 and winter 23/24, sever­al na­tional and inter­na­tional scien­tists gave guest lec­tures at the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Sci­entific Com­puting". The topics ranged from ma­chine learn­ing in car acci­dents to the math­emat­ics be­hind super­con­duc­tors.

With the be­gin­ning of the new year, stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Bio­logi­cal Phys­ics” are once more set­ting out for their in-ter­na­tional re­search mod­ule with part­ners at, e.g., UC Irvine and UC Merced.

As part of our pod­cast “Five to Twelve” we con­duct criti­cal dis­cussions on cur­rent top­ics. On 1 De­cem­ber 2023 we met with Dr. Se­bas­tian Ku­bon to talk about the back­ground and con­se­quences of the cur­rent em­ploy­ment prac­tice in sci­ence and #Ich­Bin­Han­na.

Students of the Elite Graduate Program "Translational Neuroscience" gain insights into neuroscientific methods and current research projects at the clinic and the JMU.

At the con­fer­ence "Transla­tional Neu­rosci­ence Au­tumn School 2023", sen­ior ex­perts and young re­searchers from vari­ous fields of neu­rosci­ence pre­sent­ed their latest re­search re­sults.

On 24 No­vem­ber 2023 the annu­al cele­bra­tion of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Software Engi­neer­ing” took place. On this occa­sion 100 at­tend­ants wel­comed the 18th cohort of stu­dents and bid fare­well to the 16th co­hort.

Dr. Mat­thias Caro intro­duces the rele­vance of Bool­ean Fouri­er ana­lyt-ic meth­ods for classi­cal learn­ing theo­ry, dis­cusses ele­ments of quan-tum learn­ing theory and de­velops a framework for the classi­cal veri­fi-ca­tion of quan­tum learn­ing algo­rithms.