Snippets of the Network

Rijeka, Pula, Koper and Trieste: these were the destinations of the annual summer school of the fourteenth year group of the Elite Graduate Program “East European Studies”. The aim of the seminar was to analyse the complex relations between the sea, modernity and identity in Istria.

Ben­edikt Win­hard, stu­dent of the Grad­uate Elite Pro­gram “Ad­vanced Ma­terials and Pro­cess­es” deep­ened his re­search into sec­ondary ion mass spec­trom­etry (SIMS) dur­ing his stud­ies. His su­pervi­sor Dr. Ing. Ma­nuela Killi­an rec­om­mended partic­ipa­tion in the con­fer­ence "SIMS Eu­rope 2018" in Mün­ster. At this occa­sion, he also pre­sent­ed a scien­tific poster on his first re­search work.

From 14 to 21 Sep­tem­ber 2019 some 90 Max We­ber schol­arship hold­ers at­tend­ed the Prac­tical Academy at the Bild­ungszen­trum in Roggenburg. The partic­ipants agreed that the Academy could actu­ally have con­tinued for at least an­other week! That is, in a way, the only draw­back of a Prac­tical Academy: it’s over after just one week.

Prof. Ste­phen Han­sen (Ox­ford) held a lec­ture on “Ma­chine Learning Methods for Econ­omists“. He ex­plained the sta­te-of-the-art meth­ods of ma­chine learn­ing and their im­ple­men­tation in eco­nom­ics.

Every year the students of the "Physics Advanced" Elite Graduate Program travel to South Tyrol in order to study a specific topic - different from what usually is considered in their university courses. In September 2018 the students engaged in the opportunities and risks of Artificial Intelligence.

The summer school on Crystal Growth is offered by the Fraunhofer IISB to MAP students on a yearly basis. It provides an understanding of why crystals have been a fascinating material to scientists and engineers until today.

Once again, students and alumni of the Elite Graduate Program "Honours Degree in Technology Management" visited various startups in Berlin. In addition to interesting and surprising insights into the world of startups, there was also time for joint activities and exploring Berlin.

Under the guidance of Visiting Professor Dr. Elke Hartmann, students of the Elite Graduate Program “Cultural Studies of the Middle East” organized and held an international workshop with the title “Travelers in and from the Orient and their literature” in Bamberg.

The EBE Sum­mer Meet­ing is a bi­enni­ally held inter­na­tional con­fer­ence for young econ­omists from around the globe. It is orga­nized by the doc­toral stu­dents in the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Evi­dence Based Eco­nom­ics”.

Twelve mem­bers of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia were al­lowed to take part in the 69th Lindau No­bel Lau­reate Meet­ing for Phys­iology and Medi­cine this year. The Elite Net­work of Ba­varia pays the con­fer­ence costs for its mem­bers who are ac­cred­ited after a de­manding appli­cation pro­cess.