The PIER Graduate Week is an interdisciplinary lecture and workshop week for young scientists. It offers a wide range of introductory and focus courses in the PIER research fields of Particle & Astroparticle Physics, Nanoscience, Photon Science and Infection & Structural Biology. It aims at PhD students, MSc students, postdoctoral researchers and other interested scientists.
The graduate week's main objective is to introduce PhD students to neighbouring research fields. Stimulating lectures from both national and international experts are offered. Young scientists on Bahrenfeld campus have the opportunity to broaden their interdisciplinary understanding and interchange with their colleagues from other research fields. Due to the pandemic, the event will unfortunately only take place in a scaled-down online form.
Each course is a consecutive four-day series of mini lectures. The introductory courses are designed for doctoral candidates who would like to learn more about a related research field. The focus courses are for those interested in in-depth sessions in their own area of expertise.
Complementary soft and hard skills workshops combine short lectures with practical exercises and homework. In this year, the skills workshops take place after the scientific lecture week on the follwing dates (registration via the navigation bar on the left hand side):
- Fundamentals of Python (28 Feb - 2 March)
- Advanced Python and machine learning (3 + 4 March)
- Project mangement (group A: 28 Feb + 1 March)
- Project mangement (group B: 3 + 4 March)
Please note: The places for these workshops are limited.
Local organising committee
Robin Santra, Daniela Pfannkuche, Francesca Calegari, Irene Fernandez-Cuesta, Gudrid Moortgat-Pick, Mirko Siemssen (coordinator), Matthias Kreuzeder
