Baumchen Group

07-06-2011 Association "FOKOS" founded

The association "FOKOS - Friends of the Research on complex Systems" has been founded today. Goal of this association is to provide a forum for scientific communication in the field of dynamics of complex, self-organized systems. An accordant web-site is under construction.

06-22-2011 Katherine R. Thomas awarded Student Paper Prize

Katherine R. Thomas has been awarded the Student Paper Prize of the Polymer Physics Group from the Institute of Physics with her Paper: Katherine R. Thomas, Alexis Chenneviere, Günter Reiter, and Ullrich Steiner:
"Nonequilibrium behavior of thin polymer films"
Phys. Rev. E 83 (2011) 02180
[Journal URL], [BibTeX]

06-06-2011 Official inauguration of the new institute building at the Fassberg

The new building at the Fassberg has been inaugurated June 6^th, 2011. The speeches of the managing director Prof. Stephan Herminghaus, the governing mayor Wolfgang Meyer, the president of the university Goettingen Prof. Ulrike Beisiegel and the architect Hansjochen Schwieger were followed by a welcome ceremony with sparkling wine and guided tours through the institute. The inauguration ended in the evening after a barbecue in the afternoon. The Goettinger Tageblatt reported about the event. [german online version]

05-25-2011 Field trip to Bridport at the Jurassic Coast, UK

In the framework of a project meeting at BP near London, scientists of the department “dynamics of complex fluids” made a field trip May 25th, 2011 to the Jurassic Coast to get familiar with geological structures out of sand stone, clay and limestone.

05-02-2011 Stephan Herminghaus author of a most cited article in Europhysics Letters (EPL)

With his article „Roughness-induced non-wetting“ published in 2000 in Europhys. Lett. 52, 165–170 (2000), Stephan Herminghaus was listed within the 40 most cited publications of Europhysics Letters within the last 25 years. [Journal URL]

04-15-2011 Moving to the Fassberg finished
Moving to the Fassberg finished

Now it is done: After a duration of several weeks the moving of the institute to the Fassberg has been finished. The institute now has two addresses: Am Fassberg 17 und Bunsenstrasse 10.

04-08-2011 Ilenia Battiato presented as outstanding researcher on Deutsche Welle

In the series “bright minded people” Ilenia Battiato was presented April 8th, 2011 by Deutsche Welle in a video. The science magazine “project future” shows portraits of outstanding researchers from foreign countries, continuing their careers in Germany. Ilenia Battiato currently held a research position at the MPI-DS in the department of Stephan Herminghaus.

01-14-2011 Franziska Glaßmeier received Dr. Berliner – Dr. Ungewitter – award

On the „Dies Physicus“ January 14th, 2011, Franziska Glaßmeier received together with her Diploma certificate the Dr. Berliner – Dr. Ungewitter – award of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Göttingen. She performed her Diploma thesis with the topic „A billiard model for wet granular matter“ within the working group “Principles of Self Organization“ of apl. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Vollmer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

10-06-2010 Poster Prize for Shashi Thutupalli

Shashi Thutupalli won the Poster Prize for his Poster about "Collective Dynamics in Self Propelled Chemical Micro-oscillators" at the fall seminar on Nonlinear Dynamics at the University Bayreuth.

09-30-2010 Segelretreat

This year we held our retreat on a sailing boat, going from Kiel through the Channel, then to Helgoland and Wilhelmshaven afterwards.
During the day, there was sailing, pulling, relaxing, taking photos and chatting, in the evening, there was work with talks and discussions, and then, there was dancing, making music and more discussions. One of us commented: "The biggest fun I ever had with clothes on!"

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