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16-06-22 Scientific summer party on the Faßberg

Today we celebrated the scientific summer party on the MPI campus at Faßberg. First five new groupleaders presented their research in generally understandable talks. Then the visitors had the chance to do small experiments by their own at six stands. A musical experiment with "self-organized music" (MP4 Download here, graphical partition download here) ended the summer party followed by discussions on the roof deck of the MPIDS until late night.

16-06-14 Our EPJ E publication by J. Petit et al. was selected as Highlight

The article "Vesicles-on-a-chip: A universal microfluidic platform for the assembly of liposomes and polymersomes" by Julien Petit, Ingmar Polenz, Jean-Christophe Baret, Stephan Herminghaus and Oliver Bäumchen has been published on today in the European Physical Journal E (Eur. Phys. J. E 39 (2016) 59) and was immediately selected as Highlight. A summary of the article is now online at the EPJ-Portal and at AlphaGalileo.

16-06-10 Our Applied Optics article is selected for "Spotlight of Optics" by OSA

Our publication "High refractive index immersion liquid for superresolution 3D imaging using sapphire-based aplanatic numerical aperture increasing lens optics" from Junaid M. Laskar, P. Shravan Kumar, Stephan Herminghaus, Karen E. Daniels, and Matthias Schröter, published in April 2016 in Applied Optics, was selected for Spotlight on Optics in May 2016 by the Optical Society of America (OSA). In this category important articles are highlighted by a summary and an own discussion forum. We are looking forward to the comments of the optics experts around the world. more

16-06-02 Furniture on the roof deck

The furniture at the roof deck was installed. When the weather is nice we have a chance to use the seats outside. The great view and fresh air will give new impulses, if the research slows down.

16-05-16 New DCF homepage goes online

The new DCF homepge went online on today. Generated by the Content Management System (CMS) FIONA we actualized the design and adapted the pages to the standards of the Max Plancl Society. By usage of central data bases the entries in the lists (e.g. publications) are now updated on a daily basis.

16-04-28 Future Day at the MPIDS

Also this year we invited students to explore our institute on the future day. About 30 guests came to join our very versatile program. The participants could see the Göttingen Turbulence Facility, micro cosmoses under the microscope or the source code of their favorite Web-page. On the afternoon the visit ended by serving delicious icecream, self-cooked by using liquid Nitrogen.

16-04-26 (26-27) GeoMorph project meeting in Bad Sooden-Allendorf

Our department hosted the project meeting for our GeoMorph project (funded by BP Plc) on April 26-27, 2016 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf. 25 scientists from our working group and from the project partners in the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany met for talks and intensive discussions.

16-04-10 (10-13) Visit of the Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board visited us on April 10-13, 2016. International experts are informed by presentations, poster sessions and discussions about the recent research results and the actual status of the institute. For the first time the evaluation was performed in direct comparison to other Max Planck Institutes.

16-03-01 (01-03) Retreat at Ludwigstein Castle

The scientists of the institute met on March 1-3, 2016 at the Ludwigstein castle near Witzenhausen/Werra. By presenting their research one another each scientist got an overview about the entire institute and suggestions for new interdisciplinary co-operation.

16-01-14 New Year Party

Again, our department met in the Bunsenstraße in the old institute's building for the New Year party 2016. "For the seventh time this is the last New Years party in the old building" stated the head of the department Stephan Herminghaus. Next to an international buffet with self prepared delicacies we discussed far into the night.

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