Snippets of the Network

Ex­plor­ing Quan­tum Mat­ter had the hon­our to host the 14th Inter­na­tional Work­shop on Nu­meri­cal Rang­es and Radii (WONRA) for cele­brat­ing “100 years of the Toeplitz- Hausdorff theo­rem (1918/19)“. To this end, 50 re­searchers from all over the world as­sem­bled at Max Planck In­stitute for Quan­tum Optics (MPQ) and the Insti­tute of Ad­vanced Stud­ies (IAS) in Garching.

On 12 and 13 June 2018, Mi­chael Taussig vis­ited the In­ter­na­tion­al Doc­toral Col­lege MIME­SIS at the LMU Mu­nich. His lec­ture enti­tled "A Chameleon World" proved that work in the hu­man­ities can also con­sist of exu­berant con­nec­tions be­tween dis­par­ate ob­jects.

Once a year all members of the In­ter­na­tion­al Doc­torate Pro­gram “immu­notraget­ing of can­cer: i-Target” meet for the i-Target re­treat at the Chiemsee. The doc­toral stu­dents pre­sent and dis­cuss their lat­est re­sults in a re­laxed at­mosphere.

Thomas Wagner initi­ated an in­terdiscipli­nary co­oper­ation pro­ject for the mar­ket launch of a new­ly de­veloped pho­to reac­tor, which sets a mile­stone in the mar­ket with high per­for­mance and pre­cise standardi­za­tion of the pro­cess­es. The de­vice is al­ready available for commer­cial pur­chase to­day.

The project examines the discursive value of the first-order concept of ordinary in the context of public talk media, as well as the discursive strategies and their intended perlocutionary effects for the discursive construction of ordinariness as an object of talk in mediated public talk, through the positioning of self and other speakers as ordinary and non-ordinary.

Sci­en­tific lec­tures, the dis­course of social top­ics, lei­sure activ­ities, team building and time to­geth­er: from these ele­ments, the stu­dents in the Elite Graduate Pro­gram Neu­roen­gi­neer­ing met for a four-day re­treat in the All­gäu.

IN­TEL invit­ed the stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Ad­vanced Signal Pro­cess­ing and Communi­cati­ons Engi­neer­ing” to an excur­sion to Neu­bib­erg. There they had the op­por­tunity to visit labor­atories and get to know the latest tech­nolo­gies from the fields of ma­chine learn­ing and 5G.

The "So­cial Tech­nolo­gies AG" of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Fi­nance and In­for­mation Man­age­ment” orga­nized a pan­el dis­cussion with guests from prac­tice on the topic "Dis­rup­tive Tech­nolo­gies: In­ven­tion - Im­ple­men­tation - Impli­cati­on".

“Ori­ental stud­ies in Par­is”: Stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Cul­tural Stud­ies of the Mid­dle East” of the Uni­versi­ty of Bam­berg and FAU Er­langen-Nürn­berg visit­ed a num­ber of re­search facili­ties and librar­ies of the French cap­ital.

What are the impli­cati­ons of mean­ing and values for us? How can the natu­ral sci­ences con­trib­ute as we con­tem­plate our val­ues? These were among the issues ex­plored at the 10th edi­tion of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia FO­RUM. This year’s inter­disci­pli­nary series of lec­tures, enti­tled “Fu­ture val­ues?! – A change in per­spec­tive”, was held at the Uni­versi­ty of Re­gens­burg.