Snippets of the Network

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.

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.