The PIER Graduate Week is an interdisciplinary lecture and workshop week for young scientists. This year, it offers two stimulating bloc courses with topics that are of interest for many doctoral candidates in the wide range of the PIER research fields of Particle & Astroparticle Physics, Nanoscience, Photon Science and Infection & Structural Biology.

Each course is a four-day series of eight consecutive mini lectures (7-10 October). The first thematic bloc covers the field of modern accelerator and detector technologies. The second thematic bloc is on scientific computing using Python. Complementary soft skill courses take place on 11 October.

The PIER Graduate Week aims at doctoral researchers, but MSc students, postdoctoral researchers and other interested scientists are also invited to participate. The graduate week's main objective is to give young scientists on Bahrenfeld campus the opportunity to broaden their interdisciplinary understanding and interchange with their colleagues from other research fields.

Extras: Colloquium on soft condensed matter, industry talk, and soft skills training

The scientific colloquium is given by Prof. Dr. Detelf Lohse, Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics. Prof Lohse will talk about the physics of soft condensed matter.

In the industry talk, DESY and UHH alumnus Dr. Murali Ganesa shares his experience as data scientist at the digital section of German car manufacturer PORSCHE.

Complementary soft skills workshops combine short lectures with practical exercises and homework. Please note: The places for the soft skills workshops are limited. The workshops take place after the scientific lectures on the follwing dates:

•     Leadership styles and skills: 11 October 2024
•     Visual communication in science: 1+14+15 October 2024
•     Career speed counselling: 11 October 2024
•     An introduction to machine learning with Python: 11+14+15 October 2024

Poster session

In order to promote the interdisciplinary exchange among the PIER Graduate Week’s participants, all doctoral researchers are invited to present their research projects in a poster session. The best poster will be awarded a prize.

Time & venue: Wednesday, 9 October 2024, 5:30-8:00 pm, CFEL, building 99 (atrium). The display panels for the posters are available from 4 pm.

Photograph: Marta Mayer, DESY

Programme PIER Graduate Week 2024

Poster