Alumni talk with Mark (March 17, 2022)

Our alumnus Mark did his PhD in physical chemistry in the group of Prof. Jörg Kreßler and worked until recently in a toxicology lab as an analytical chemist. He will offer an insight into his job, but he will also share his experiences with the application and interview process and might have some hints to other non-native German-speakers looking for a job in Germany’s industry.

date: March 17, 2021 at 16.00
location: our usual zoom room

Know your competencies – find your job: Job Search for Scientists (November 16 – 17, 2022)

Scientists have a lot of job options — but they are often not aware of them. This workshop will help you see more of the many opportunities there are on the German labour market. You will learn to take the different steps involved in a successful job search: in particular, to be aware of your competencies, skills and knowledge and to build your career strategies based upon them.

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Insights behind the CV: Lea Ann Dailey (03.12.2021, 12.30-14.00)

You are warmly invited to join the informal career talks by Lea Ann Dailey! Successful scientists share their experiences as a woman in natural science and tell the story behind their official CV. After the talk there will be enough time for informal discussion and networking.

Target audience are (female) natural scientists from our university and related institutes.

Date: December 3, 2021
12.30-14.00
online via zoom

[UL] Mental health awareness days (November 2-4, 2021)

Working in the academic environment can be quite stressful and we shouldn’t forget to also take care of our mental well-being. The Leipzig University in cooperation with HIGRADE graduate school and yDiv is organizing a digital theme week that is aimed at researchers at all career levels and offers different formats, e.g. short activating morning sessions and academic exchange.

You find the detailed programme and access links here (all events in English, no registration needed): https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/event-detail/artikel/mental-health-awareness-days-2021-11-02/

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Insights behind the CV: Ingrid Mertig (05.11.2021, 12.30-14.00)

You are warmly invited to join the informal career talks by Ingrid Mertig! Successful scientists share their experiences as a woman in natural science and tell the story behind their official CV. After the talk there will be enough time for informal discussion and networking.

Target audience are (female) natural scientists from our university and related institutes.

Date: November 5, 2021
12.30-14.00
VSP 1, room 0.04

3G only: vaccinated, recovered or tested! (So, we can enjoy some snacks!)

Doctoral Students Seminar (November 16, 2021)

Force-induced α-β transitions in coiled coil structures
by Anna-Maria Tsirigoni

and

Effects of topological constraints in polymer melts on crystallization and structure formation
by Tonghua Liu

date: November 16, 15.00
hybrid seminar: Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1, room 5.09 + zoom
chair: Stephan

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[BEAM] ATM: Amphiphilic polymers on the Langmuir trough (January 26-28, 2022)

Content

Behavior of amphiphilic (macro)molecules on the air/water interface
Synthesis of amphiphilic polymers by ATRP
Surface pressure versus mean molecular area isotherms, phase transitions
Brewster Angle Microscopy, Epifluorescence Microscopy
X-ray and neutron reflectivity, granzing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering

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[BEAM] ATM: How we can model and use symmetry (30.-31.3.2022)

After some motivation and first examples, we look at groups systematically and explore the mathematical language to study them. There will be exercises to work on and we discuss solutions (even if incomplete). One of the goals is to understand the symmetry of regular n-gons and to really get in touch with mathematical reasoning. And of course we want to discuss where symmetry might play a role in your work!

lecturer: Prof. Rebecca Waldecke

Please contact Imme Sakwa-Waltz in case you plan to join this ATM!