Snippets of the Network

Omar Zeair, stu­dent of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Ad­vanced Ma­terials and Pro­cess­es” (MAP) at FAU Er­langen-Nu­rem­berg, re­flects on his in­tern­ship at lead­ing spe­cialty chem­icals com­pany Evo­nik and how his ”MAP skills” con­tributed to the suc­cess of his in­tern­ship.

Due to the ongo­ing pan­dem­ic, the "Max We­ber-Abend" took place online once again. More than 200 grant­ees at­tend­ed the wel­com­ing event to find out more about the pro­gram and to get to know their re­gional groups. In par­ticu­lar, the Coordination Office of the Elite Network of Ba­varia, the Max We­ber team and men­tors were pre­sent.

In the new “Bio­diver­sity, Cli­mate Change and Health” mod­ule from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy” at the Uni­versi­ty of Bay­reuth, stu­dents dis­cuss the rele­vant topic of inter­link­ages be­tween global change and health.

In the new mod­ule “Cli­mate Poli­cies and Eco­nom­ics” stu­dents from the Bay­reuth Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy” learn about inter­na­tional cli­mate di­plomacy and eco­nomic con­cepts in the cli­mate change de­bate.

In this prac­tical course, stu­dents im­ple­ment­ed nu­meri­cal algo­rithms for use on su­percomput­ers. The focus was on the anal­ysis of paral­lelism as well as the ap­pro­priate use of mod­ern soft­ware de­velopment tools.

Eight final­ists have com­peted for the 8th BGCE Stu­dent Paper Prize for excel­lent stu­dent work in the field of Com­puta­tional Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing. The deci­sion was taken at the SIAM CS&E con­fer­ence in early March.

On 14 Janu­ary 2021, Dr Stephan Merz from Inria in Nan­cy gave a guest lec­ture as part of the lec­ture series of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram. In his lec­ture, Dr Merz ad­dressed the speci­fica­tion lan­guage TLA+.

Now that the previous International Doctoral Programs in the humanities, social sciences and economics will soon be withdrawing from their funding, three new programs in these disciplines have been accepted for funding.

For the fifth consecutive time, the Elite Graduate Program “Finance & Information Management” (FIM) has maintained the top rank in the nationwide CHE Master-Ranking.

Stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Cultural Studies of the Middle East" pre­sent­ed their the­matic dossi­er on the image of East­ern Eu­rope in the satiri­cal maga­zine Sim­plicis­simus with an online event and dis­cuss­ed it with ex­perts.