Young Researcher Forum

The YRs organize this seminar to get to know each other and to improve communication. The YR Forum will be held on two special "forum days" per semester, one in Augsburg and one in Munich. Talks from the YRs provide status reports on the YRs' own work, lab tours and time for discussions stimulate in-depth scientific discussions among YRs of the different projects.

Dates and topics of the upcoming forum will be anounced here.

DELO - the hidden champion

19. January 2021 - online

You have never heard about DELO? Well, most likely you have one of their products in your wallet! Credit card, health insurance card - their chips are fixed by special glues. And with a high probability, this glue may come from DELO. But there is an abundance of other applications benefitting from DELO's expertise.

Constantin Mons from the DELO Academy warmly welcomed us and shortly introduced DELO. We got to know that DELO developped the strongest glue of the world. Consequently, DELO is listed in the Guinness World Records since 2019!

In a highly interesting presentation, Dr. Sandra Lein gave detailed insights into the fascinating world of adhesives. Automotives, airplanes, smartphones, ski pass - each application requires specially tailored glues and treatments. For these challenging tasks, DELO has several research departments for developping and testing individual solutions. Furthermore, we could host an experiment about the strength of a DELO glue. Curing for 10 seconds by a standardly available UV lamp is sufficient to achieve incredibly strong binding between two plastic plates: 200kg can easily be hold - with a glued area of <1cm².

The last part included an interview with Dr. Ralf Kmeth. He is application engineer and team leader and answered to all questions of the Young Researchers. Before starting at DELO, he studied material science at the University of Augsburg and did his PhD at the Institute of Physics. We got insights into his daily work and which skills from university/ PhD thesis were crucially important for him.

Afterwards, Constantin Mons closed the online session. He hopes that Covid-19 will be under control soon. Then, we can visit DELO "in reality" and repeat the glueing experiments on our own.

We would like to thank all three speakers for the impressive presentation of DELO. The feedback of the Young Researchers was highly positive. Many thanks to Lea Henninger, too, for the perfect organization!

After DELO's presentation, the YR shortly met via Zoom for talking about upcoming events we are already looking forward to:

• Excursion to Wolnzach
• YR Workshop Lago di Garda
• Online meetings

Jan. 2021: YR Forum - Presentation of the company DELO (online)

The new year starts with a company visit! We will get to know DELO - a company located between Landsberg am Lech and beautiful Ammersee. You don't know DELO? Well, that's quite common because they are a so-called "hidden champion". They are producing all kinds of industrial adhesives which can be found in an abundance of applications such as credit cards, automotives, photovoltaics, displays, and many more. They are a German enterprise but also active in various international locations. Interestingly, they have an internal academy, e.g. for training new employees.

On Tuesday, 19. January 2021, DELO will introduce ~20 Young Researchers from Augsburg and Munich to the field of adhesives and give insights about careers of science graduates.

If you are interested to join: Please contact one of the IGS coordinators.

In the context of Covid-19, the presentation was planned online from scratch on. Thanks to DELO for preparing the meeting on StarLeaf!

Feb. 2020: YR Forum - Visit of FRM-II

In Februar 2020, ~20 Young Researcher from Augsburg and Munich visited the neutron reactor FRM-II in Garching.

Photos YR Forum (XITASO and lab tour at university of Augsburg)

Introduction to philosophy of XITASO and presentation of their way to/ in XITASO by Dr. Thomas Geislinger (Project Management), Dr. Richard Rambach (Project Management, Software Development), Dr. Sebastian König (Project Management), Johannes Schaffer (Marketing) and Ulrich Huggenberger (CEO, CTO).

(©XITASO GmbH)

(©Xitaso GmbH)

(©Xitaso GmbH)

(©XITASO GmbH)

(©XITASO GmbH)

Tour through the furnace labs at EP6 (university of Augsburg).

Visit of lab of MAD Max (EP6, university of Augsburg).

21st of November 2019 (instead of 24th of October)

Visit of IT company XITASO (Augsburg) and lab tour at university of Augsburg

On 21st of November we will visit XITASO, an IT company in Augsburg. Afterwards we will organise a lab tour at the university of Augsburg.

• 9:00 - YR (Augsburg): Tram station Institut für Physik/ BBW

• 9:50 - all other YR: meeting at entry of XITASO

• 10:00 - Visit XITASO

   * Presentation of XITASO
   * What are physicists doing there?
   * Discussion with Dr. Thomas Geislinger und Dr. Richard Rambach
   * Coffee, drinks and snacks

• 13:00 - end visit of XITASO, transfer to university (public transport)

• 14:00 until 16:00 - Lab tour

   * Organisational stuff
   * Introductionary information about the labs
   * From crystal growth to characterization: Where is this done?

Photos from the discussion forum with Prof. Stuart Parkin

Prof. Stuart Parkin

The discussion is moderated by Felix Rucker

A very interested audience

Group photo with Prof. Parkin

13 January 2015

Discussion Forum

The TRR 80 IGS has organized an open discussion forum with Prof. Dr. Stuart Parkin. He is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale and has made great contributions to the application of the GMR-effect for magnetic storage devices. He has received many important awards for his work. The event was intended for Master and PhD students of the TRR 80.

The event took place on Tuesday, January 13th, 8:30 a.m. in the Faculty Club of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), TUM, Garching.

Communication and application training on 13./14.09 and 20.10.2017

On september 13. and 14.  and october 20. 2017 there was a 3-day-course about communication and application training for the Young Researchers of the Transregio, held by Markus Neumann.

Planned program:

Two days on conversational and presentation skills with special emphasis on interviews, especially in application situations.

In addition, there will be another training day on october 20th, to answer specific questions, which may have emerged.

The training was designed for about 15 participants, who might also have attended the training at the last YR workshop at Lake Garda. The training tooke place in Augsburg (13./14.09.: Room S-288, starting at 9:30; 20.10.: Room 242, starting 9:30).

Markus Neumann is a qualified graduate in management studies with many years of professional experience in a business management position and as a coach of sales and project staff in nationally and internationally active companies.
Since 2007 he assists companies and people as a self-employed consultant, trainer, facilitator, coach and mediator, on the road to an effective communication. Some topics are improving contact with the customer, facilitate the information exchange, making the team more successful, be more convincing as a confident presenter, and resolving conflicts.

He has already led the TRR80 YR workshop at Lake Garda: "Effective discussion and negotiation management".

17 March 2015

PhD Symposium of the Division of Magnetism and the Young DPG

At the DPG spring meeting 2015 in Berlin, a PhD Symposium "Quantum Phase Transitions" of the Division of Magnetism and the Young DPG is co-organized by 3 members (Felix Rucker, Georg Benka, Steffen Säubert) of the TRR 80 IGS. The IGS also contributes financial support to this symposium.

The session starts at 9:30 on March 17th 2015.

List of invited speakers:

• Manuel Brando (MPI-CPFS Dresden)
• Andrew Mackenzie (MPI-CPFS Dresden)
• Christian Rüegg (PSI Villigen)
• Andrew Schofield (University of Birmingham)
• Matthias Vojta (TU Dresden)
• Wilhelm Zwerger (TU München)

More details about the programm can be found on the DPG website.

15 December 2014:

YR Forum: Industrial visit to Bausch & Lomb, Technolas GmbH

Ioannis Stasinopoulos has arranged a second industrial visit for December 2015 to Bausch & Lomb, Technolas GmbH, in Munich.  The company is leading in ophthalmology laser technology and offers for a wide variety of femtosecond and excimer laser systems for medical applications, like eye diagnosis and laser surgery.

Everybody who wanted to participate at this visit had to sign in in this Google-List until October 24th 2014.

Schedule:

Location:

Technolas GmbH
Messerschmittstr. 3
80992 München

Group photo from the visit to Technolas GmbH

12 November 2014:

YR Forum: Industrial visit to Rhode & Schwarz

As discussed during the last YR Forum, a Forum was organized as a visit to an industrial company. Therefore, Ioannis Stasinopoulos arranged a visit to Rhode & Schwarz in Munich, a company well known for a wide variety of electronic measurement devices, such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, network analyzers, etc.

The participants for this visit had to sign in this Google-List.

Photos from the visit to Rhode & Schwarz

The company building

Welcome at Rhode & Schwarz!

A test chamber with a mobile phone

Interesting details about the company

Group photo in front of Rhode & Schwarz

11 November 2014

Discussion Forum

The TRR 80 IGS organized an open discussion forum with Nobel laureate Albert Fert . The event was intended for Master and PhD students of TRR80. The guided discussion focused on personal and scientific aspects of the laureate's life.

The event took place on Tuesday, November 11th, 9:30 a.m. at the Seminar Room of the Center for Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ZNN) of TUM, Garching

More than 30 YRs  took the chance to participate in this event.

Photos from the discussion forum with Prof. Albert Fert

Prof. Albert Fert

Ioannis Stasinopoulos moderates the discussion

The audience is listening carefully

Discussions are still going on...

Group photo with Prof. Fert

31 July 2014:

YR Forum: "Bringing Physics Back Together"

Another YR Forum of the Integrated Graduate School of the TRR 80 took place on Thursday, 31st July 2014 at the Augsburg University. Its main topic was "Bringing Physics Back Together", and aimed again on bridging the gap between theoretical and experimental physicists.

It took place in Augsburg, for the program, see below.

Program

Photos from the "Forum day" on 31 July 2014

Ioannis Stasinopoulos gives an overview about the benefits of the IGS

Jingfan Ye reports on the magnetic phase transition of Mn/Ag(111)

Small talk at lunch

Felix Rucker talks about Cryogenics and Bulk Measurements

Group photo after an interesting "Forum day"

8 May 2014

YR Forum: "Bringing Physics Back Together"

The next YR Forum of the Integrated Graduate School of the TRR 80 took place on Thursday, May 8, 2014 at the TUM in Garching. Its main topic was "Bringing Physics Back Together", and aimed on bridging the gap between theoretical and experimental physicists. The first part of the workshop tried to motivate and summarize the experimental possibilities at TUM. The second part offered the opportunity to discuss various theoretical and experimental topics in small groups of young scientists.

The YR Forum is supposed to bring together the PhD students of the participating universities to stimulate further cooperation between young scientists and to offer the opportunity to get to know the participating fellow researchers.

It took place in Garching (TUM Garduate School ("Villa Kunterbunt")). The following Program was scheduled:

Program

Photos from the "Forum day" on 8 May 2014

The "Villa Kunterbunt" is really colorful!

A warm welcome to everybody

Let's start with the Forum ...

A group photo is mandatory

The day ends in a beer garden