Snippets of the Network

Near­ly 300 schol­arship hold­ers and alum­ni gath­ered for the Max We­ber Pro­gram's New Year's Re­cep­tion in the Mu­nich Resi­dence at the end of Janu­ary. The Max We­ber Pro­gram, which is run in coop­era­tion with the Ger­man Aca­demic Scholarship Foun­da­tion, is an im­portant part of the pro­mo­tion of gifted stu­dents in Ba­varia.

Toge­ther with the artist Mar­tin Hab­lesrei­ter the doc­toral stu­dents of the Inter­natio­nal Doc­torate Pro­gram “Rethinking En­vironment” took a closer look at the cultu­ral norms and values that enab­le or limit trans­for­mati­on towa­rds a sustainable food cul­ture.

"Turn the hopes placed in you into achievements! ": Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, awards graduation certificates to graduates of the Elite Network of Bavaria in a festive ceremony at Kongress am Park in Augsburg

After two years of break due to the pan­dem­ic, the get-together of the new mem­bers of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia took place again. The event of­fered the stu­dents the op­por­tunity to in­form them­selves about the offers of the Elite Net­work Ba­varia and to get to know each other.

A ma­jority of stu­dents in the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “The­oreti­cal and Math­emat­ical Phys­ics” come from abroad. In No­vem­ber, they met to cook and share food from their home coun­tries.

Stu­dents and staff of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Sat­ellite Tech­nolo­gy” at the Uni­versi­ty of Würzburg enjoy a guid­ed tour through ESA’s Eu­rope­an Space Oper­ations Cen­ter in Darmstadt.

Stu­dents of the 18th cohort of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "East Euro­pean Stud­ies" pre­sent­ed their app, which they de­veloped dur­ing the pro­ject course, at a con­fer­ence. It deals with assas­sina­tions car­ried out by East­ern Euro­pean secret ser­vices in Mu­nich dur­ing the Cold War.

In this semi­nar, stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Sci­en­tific Com­puting” solved com­plex prob­lems from indus­try and busi­ness using a wide varie­ty of tech­niques such as math­emat­ical mod­eling, nu­meri­cal meth­ods, and rein­forcement learn­ing.

From Sep­tem­ber 18 to 26, 2022, the 17th and 18th cohort of the MA pro­gram for East­ern Euro­pean Stud­ies trav­eled to Brati­slava, Banská Štiavnica and the High Ta­tras.

Many stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Ba­varian Grad­uate School of Com­puta­tional Engi­neer­ing“ (BGCE) took part in the 2022 ver­sion of Ferienakad­emie in Sarntal (South Ty­rol), a sum­mer school or­gan­ised by three Southern-Germany uni­versi­ties.