Snippets of the Network

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.

As a spe­cial con­clu­sion to the lec­ture "Mathemat­ical Mod­eling for Cli­mate and Envi­ron­ment", Prof. Aiz­inger went on an ex­cur­sion with his stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Sci­en­tific Com­puting” to the Al­fred We­gener Insti­tute in Bremerha­ven.

From Janu­ary to July 2022 Marie Reischke, stu­dent of the Elite Mas­ter’s Pro­gram “Ad­vanced Op­tical Tech­nolo­gies” was work­ing on her mas­ter’s thesis at the Arctic Uni­versi­ty of Trom­sø in Nor­way.

The Presi­dent of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment, Ilse Aign­er, invit­ed more than 3,000 guests to the sum­mer recep­tion of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment at the New Schleißheim Palace - in­clud­ing ten mem­bers of the Elite Net­work

As part of the "Ex­tra­cur­ricu­lar Learning Sites" semi­nar of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “MINT-Leh­ramt PLUS”, stu­dents inves­tigat­ed how well nature and sus­taina­bility can be taught in extra­cur­ricu­lar learn­ing sites dur­ing a field trip to northern Ger­many.

The PhDs of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram "Re­think­ing En­vi­ron­ment" were intro­duced to Augsburg aquat­ic ecol­ogy, Astri­da Nei­mani's phe­no­me­nolo­gy, and the func­tions of water as a food, re­source, and natu­ral ele­ment.

Pro­fes­sors and Mas­ter stu­dents of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy“ at the Uni­versi­ty of Bay­reuth par­tici­pated in the week-long IP­BES 9 meet­ing in Bonn - either as ob­serv­ers of the con­fer­ence or as vol­un­teers with the IP­BES secre­tariat - and took part in dis­cussion on nu­mer­ous top­ics.