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GraficDesign (October 1, 2019) [by iRTG/SFB 1052]
Wednesday 11. September 2019
Description
  • workshop combines a software training in Coreldraw with the conveyance of important key principles of graphic design
  • practice-oriented approach enables you to become quickly familiar with handling professional layout software
  • software course combines key principles of poster design and layout technique
Venue:

Leipzig University
PC-Pool, Imise http://www.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Institut/Kontakt.jsp
Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig

Number of participants: 10

Please register by e-mail: lysann.penkalla@medizin.uni-leipzig.de.

Learn more about iRTG of SFB 1052 “Obesity Mechanisms” here.

iRTG lecture series by Shi-Qing Wang (October 14, 2019) | part 1
Monday 9. September 2019
The essence of nonlinear polymer rheology: everything you must know

by Shi-Qing Wang, University of Akron, USA

Polymer processing suffers from a variety of rate-limiting difficulties. In extrusion alone, we encounter surface roughness on extrudate (sharkskin), quasi-periodic extrudate distortion associated with pressure oscillation and gross melt fracture.  To have better mechanical characteristics, polyolefin resins need to have sufficiently high molecular weight, and the same is true for rubbers.  Consequently, useful polymers, in the annual amount of one hundred million tons, are always strongly entangled.  Most of the melt processing instabilities of these polyolefin and rubbers are due to the presence of high entanglement.  Our task is to understand and predict rheological responses of entangled polymeric materials.

This presentation summarizes more than one decade of intensive research carried out at Akron that has completely changed our worldview of the essence of nonlinear rheology of entangled polymers.  (more…)

Regular lectures MLU – WiSe 2019/20
Monday 2. September 2019

Physics

Introduction to polymer physics – Thurn-Albrecht/Schulz
[M.Sc. Phy]
Wed 10.15-11.00, VDP3 3.16
Thu 8.15-9.45, VDP3 1.12

Bildgebung und CT – Laufer
[M.Sc. Med. Phy]
Tue 10-12, VsP1 1.26

Biophysik – Balbach
[M.Sc. Phy]
Wed 12.15-13.45, VDP3 1.04

Statistische Physik – Henk
[M.Ed. Phy]
Tue 10.15-11.45, VSP1 1.02

Einführung in die NMR-Spektroskopie – Saalwächter/Balbach/Krushelnitzky
[M.Sc. Phy]
Mon 14.15-15.45, VDP3 1.06

Chemistry

Physikalische Chemie (Thermodyn./Kinetik/Elektrochem.) – Bacia
[B.Sc. Chem]
Fri 13.00-15.30, VDP4 1.27

Physikalische Chemie I – Sebastiani
[B.Sc. Chem]
Thu 15.15-16.45, Ch TLS 1.01
Fri 9.15-10.00, VSP1 1.26

Physikalische Chemie der Polymere – Kreßler
[M.Sc.]
Tue 15.15-16.45, VDP4 1.27

Grundlagen der Chemie der Polymere und Makromoleküle – Binder
[B.Sc Chem]
Mon 13.15-14.45, VDP1 2.12 (more…)

Good scientific practice seminar (November 26, 2019)
Monday 2. September 2019

This seminar presents the basic principles and rules of good scientific practice. Fundamentals of scientific work, i.e. professional standards and documentation of results, are discussed. Further topics are handling of primary data (backup and storing) and scientific publications (authorship and scam journals). Also management of research data, following the FAIR principles is briefly introduced. Recent examples of scientific misconduct illustrate the official procedures at the institutions and possible consequences. The rules apply worldwide and for all subjects and every researcher at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics has to comply with these rules. 

Target audience

Doctoral students and PostDocs (more…)

iRTG lecture series by Ralph Colby (October 28/30, 2019) | part 2 and 3
Friday 30. August 2019
Polyelectrolyte Solutions: The least understood form of condensed matter

by Ralph H. Colby, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Polyelectrolytes are polymer chains with covalently bonded ions and oppositely charge counterions. The combination of electrostatic interactions and conformational entropy of polymer chains led Nobel Laureate de Gennes to term this class of materials as the least understood form of condensed matter. Yet polyelectrolytes are essential for life, as DNA and RNA are both polyelectrolytes. (more…)

Recruit an intern from North America, Great Britain or Ireland | RISE 2020
Friday 23. August 2019

Would you like to recruit an intern from North America, Great Britain or Ireland as support for your experimental work? Offer an internship as part of your doctoral thesis.

RISE Germany recruits Bachelor students from North American, British and Irish universities for a research stay. The DAAD supports the research internships taking place in the summer months with scholarships, financed by funds from the Federal Foreign Office and through institutional cooperation. 300 internships are arranged annually.

Offer an internship in your project. Please submit your proposal from September 1 – October 15, 2019.

More information (in German).