Baumchen Group

04-05-2013 First international Symposium of the SFB755 "Nanoscale Photonic Imaging"

The first international symposium of the "Sonderforschungsbereich" SFB755 was held on the Max Planck Campus at the Fassberg on April 4-5, 2013. More than 90 participants were informed in 18 talks about the recent developments. During the poster session in the foyer of the MPI-DS the intensive discussions were continued.

03-15-2013 Oliver Bäumchen wins DPG poster prize

Oliver Bäumchen (4th from the left), who will join our department as a new group leader in August 2013, wins 2nd prize for his poster in the Chemical and Polymer Physics Division of the German Physical Society (DPG).
The prize was awarded during the spring meeting in Regensburg for the poster "Capillary Levelling of Stepped Polymer Films - A Nanofluidic Probe of the Slip Boundary Condition" by Oliver Bäumchen, Thomas Salez, Joshua D. McGraw, Michael Benzaquen, Paul Fowler, Elie Raphaël, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress.

02-08-2013 Göttinger Tageblatt reports about our research

The Göttinger Tageblatt reports today about our research. The extended article introduces the theoretical work of Stephan Herminghaus, which described wetting of rough surfaces in dependence on the contact angle and the vapor pressure. Original article as PDF (german only)

02-01-2013 First Granular Matter Day Göttingen

Today we held the first Granular Matter Day Göttingen. In nine scientific presentations and numerous discussions, experts from our department as well as from the university of Göttingen exchanged their knowledge about granular matter.

02-01-2013 Kissing of Gänseliesel after PhD ceremony

After the successful defense of his PhD thesis, Anupam Sengupta performed the traditional kissing of the Gänseliesel today. The social meeting afterwards was the final conclusion of his PhD student time in our department.

01-21-2013 Retreat on the Zugspitze

Directors and Research Group Leaders of the MPI-DS met for a retreat on the Zugspitze on January 21-24 to discuss the future activities of the institute. The stay at this unusual place has been also used for the inspection of the setup for experiments performed by scientists of the MPI-DS.

01-01-2013 Lower Saxony - Israeli common enterprise granted

The state Lower Saxony (ministry for science and culture) will financially support the project „Drying Dynamics of deformable granular material: Pore-scale study“ as a Lower Saxon - Israeli common enterprise. Dr. Lucas Goehring, group leader in our department, and Dr. Ran Holtzmann from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will work together on the project for the next three years.

11-26-2012 Scientific retreat at Ludwigstein castle

Scientists of the institute met on November 26-27, 2012 at Ludwigstein castle to discuss their research projects. Scientific presentations formed the frame program accompanied by music and sports activities like hiking, jogging and swimming.

11-19-2012 Workshop "The Physics Of Natural Reservoirs", Nov. 19-21, 2012 in Bordeaux

The workshop "The Physics Of Natural Reservoirs" has been performed November 19-21, 2012 in Bordeaux, France. Six members of our department Dynamics of Complex Fluids presented their research results in talks. Jean-Christophe Baret, leader of an independent research group at the MPI-DS, was co-organizer and member of the scientific committee.

11-05-2012 Fall meeting of the ExploRe project network in Boekelo

The university of Twente invited our scientists for the fall meeting of the project network funded by BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. to Boekelo. From 5th-7th November recent results were exchanged and discussed with groups from Sunbury (UK), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Twente (the Netherlands).

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