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11-25-2014 Matthias Schröter habilitates today

The test lecture about "Laminarer Fluss bei kleinen Reynoldszahlen" was the last step in the habilitation procedure, which Matthias Schröter finished today successfully. He now ownes the license to teach (venia legendi) of the Georg-August-University Göttingen.

11.01. 2014 Physics Today cover shows our research

The cover of the journal "Physics Today" in November 2014 shows a photo of the eroded basalt formation lying on the edge of the Giant’s Causeway, on the coast of Northern Ireland. The scientific publication with the title "Cracking mud, freezing dirt, and breaking rocks", describing the formation of such structures, was written by our scientist Dr. Lucas Goehring together with his colleague Prof. Stephen W. Morris from the university of Toronto. Physics Today 67 (2014) 39

10-17-2014 MPI-DS welcomes the Physics Freshman students

The newly registered students of Physics at the university of Göttingen visited our institute today. Beside the wind tunnel and computer clusters, in our department the visitors had a look at the x-ray tomograph "NanoTom" and the laser laboratory with the confocal Raman microscope. Good luck for your studies!

10-17-2014 Science at the Göttinger Literaturherbst October 10-19, 2014

This year the 23rd Göttinger Literaturherbst is scheduled on October 10-19, 2014. Beside multiple readings, concerts and public discussions, 8 events in the Paulinerkirche deal with "Science at the Göttinger Literaturherbst". Two of those discussions are chaired by Prof. Stephan Herminghaus:

On Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 7:00pm with Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann about her book "Der Kanon der Musik" and
on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 7:00pm with Max J. Kobbert about his book "Wunderwelt Bernstein.

[ The article in the Göttinger Tageblatt ]

09-22-2014 Research project GeoMorph extended

Our research project GeoMorph (Göttingen exploration of Microscale oil reservoir physics) has been extended. During the last five years BP Exploration Operation Company Ltd. funded our research project to investigate fundamental behavior of oil and water in reservoirs on pore scale. After the first phase and successful evaluation of the achieved results, BP extended the project for another five year period.

09-06-2014 Interview with Prof. Herminghaus about sand

Professor Herminghaus explains in an interview, how water keeps sand castles together and why this effect is a challenging research topic. [ The article in the Göttinger Tageblatt ]

07-02-2014 FOKOS Prizes awarded

Today, Stephan Herminghaus awarded the prizes from FOKOS, the society of friends of research on complex systems.
Julie Murison was awarded the Prize for the best PhD work.
The prize for the most surprising/striking discovery in the field of complex system went to the four authors Erik Andreas Martens, Shashi Thutupalli, Antoine Fourrière, and Oskar Hallatschek for their publication "Chimera states in mechanical oscillator networks", published in PNAS 110 (2013) 10563. more

06-23-2014 Shaping the future of Göttingen

In the concept competition “town hall of my dreams” carried out by the KUNST e.V., Stephan Herminghaus has won an award together with the geologist and game author Reinhold Wittig. Their joint proposal, which is depicted below as a special stamp edition, has achieved the third rank of the competition. The award ceremony is on July 23rd, 2014, 5:00pm in the old city hall of Göttingen.

05-09-2014 Anupam Sengupta wins Glenn Brown Prize

The prize is awarded every two years by the International Liquid Crystal Society. The prize carries a financial award of 1000 Dollars and honors outstanding dissertations in the field of liquid crystals. Anupam Sengupta did his PhD in the group of Christian Bahr about nematic liquid crystals and nematic colloids in microfluidic environment.

04-25-2014 Project meeting in Bad Sooden-Allendorf

For the project meeting of the BP funded GeoMorph project we selected Bad Sooden-Allendorf as the meeting place. In the hall of city arms of the historic cure house 35 scientists from Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, the USA and Germany met from April 23-25 to discuss the recent research results.

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