Snippets of the Network

A group of sophomore MSNE students, supported by faculty members and alumni, curated a MSNE project week. A unique combination of talks, workshops, debating, and social events to encourage the onboarding of the new batch of MSNE students.

Be­fore the offi­cial start of the Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Re­think­ing Envi­ron­ment”, which sup­ports 20 PhD stu­dents in the Envi­ron­men­tal Hu­mani­ties, the se­lected PhD stu­dents get to know each other at a Kick-Off work­shop at LMU Mu­nich.

On 12 February, 2021, the annual Poster Session of the Elite Graduate Program “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP) took place. Due to the SARS-CoV2 pandemic this event moved online for the very first time.

In this semi­nar, the stu­dents had to deal with a wide varie­ty of prob­lems from our indus­trial part­ners. These were solved with the help of math­emat­ical mod­eling and nu­meri­cal math­emat­ics.

The Ger­man aero­space socie­ty DGLR rec­og­nizes the con­tribu-tions of Pro­fessor Schil­ling to the field of small satel­lites with the pres­tigious Eu­gen Säng­er med­al.

Susnigdha Sen stud­ied due to the pan­demic visa delay in the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Inte­grated Im­munology" for one year more than 7000 km away, before she finally got to know her fellow stu­dents, pro­fes­sors and tutors on site - A field report by Susnighda Sen.

The annu­al MAP Alumni Round Ta­ble gives MAP stu­dents more in­sight into the future pro­fes­sional world. Three MAP alum­ni from dif­ferent coun­tries and pro­fes­sional fields were re­cruit­ed for the dis­cussion in 2021.

The stu­dents spent a week work­ing on quan­tum com­puting. In addi­tion to lec­tures by ex­perts in the field on theo­reti­cal prin­ciples and ex­peri­men­tal reali­sa­tion, there were also nu­mer­ous tasks to com­plete in small groups.

As part of an in­tern­ship, a stu­dent of Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Sci­entific Com­puting” got an in­sight into the simu­lation of Com­puta­tional Fluid Dy­nam­ics at the Ger­man Aero­space Cen­ter.

In the sec­ond half of 2021, San­dra Zim­mer­mann, a stu­dent in the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Global Change Ecol­ogy” of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia, com­pleted a six-month in­tern­ship at the Ger­man Socie­ty for Inter­na­tional Co­opera­tion (GIZ) in the pro­ject area Cli­mate.