Snippets of the Network

This year, the Elite Net­work of Ba­var­ia’s tradi­tional EliteCup was con­tested at the Uni­versi­ty Sports Cen­ter Mu­nich (ZHS). The team from the Hon­ors – Busi­ness, Eco­nom­ics and In­for­mation Sys­tems pro­gram won the cov­eted tro­phy for the first time.

The annu­al “Honors” Academy of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Honors in Busi­ness, Eco­nom­ics and In­for­mation Sys­tems” took the stu­dents to Pra­gue this year. In keep­ing with the topic “Do­ing Busi­ness be­tween East­ern and West­ern Eu­rope”, the stu­dents were pre­sent­ed with an aca­demi­cally and cul­turally varied pro­gram.

Among other topics, students dealt with inclusion, outdoor education and teacher’s health during the spring school of 2018 at Kloster Banz. Exchange on school-relevant, subject-specific as well as personal issues formed the core of the cross-university meeting.

At the winter excur­sion, stu­dents from dif­ferent years, alum­ni and facul­ty of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “The­oreti­cal and Math­emat­ical Phys­ics” had a chat be­yond math­emat­ical quan­tum me­chan­ics and topo­logi­cal spaces.

Is gen­der re­search my busi­ness? Yes, it is, ac­cord­ing to the Max We­ber schol­ars con­fer­ence on gen­der re­search in April 2018 in Beilngries. The Max We­ber Pro­gram invit­ed its schol­ars to ap­proach the sub­ject from dif­ferent pro­fes­sional per­spec­tives.

The Junior Re­search Group is well con­nect­ed to the re­search com­muni­ty of the Uni­versi­ty of Bay­reuth. Her group is linked to the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Bio­logi­cal Phys­ics”, which aims at an inter­disci­pli­nary edu­cation of excel­lent stu­dents of biolo­gy, phys­ics and bio­chem­istry.

For six months, Maria Mejia worked at the Ger­man Agency for Inter­na­tional Co­opera­tion (GIZ) and the Asian De­velopment Bank (ADB) as an intern for Ca­pacity De­velopment and Sus­taina­ble Cities. This gave her access to the inner soul of two of the great­est multi­lateral organ­iza­tions boost­ing de­velopment pro­jects worldwide.

By entangled atom-light states, researchers of “ExQM” and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) realized an analogue to Schrödinger’s thought-experiment in the lab.

Max Weber Program scholarship holder Sebastian Steibl spent three months conducting research in the Maldives with the support of the Research In-Situ program. His research was focused on how human activities impact small (island) ecosystems.

Every year, the PhD students in the Doctorate Program "Topological Insulators" of the Elite network of Bavaria meet to present their research and exchange ideas. This year, the PhD students met in Leuven, Belgium.