The Week at TU Braunschweig │28.06.2024 Our Newsletter for all Employees
Topics: 2 Climate Future Labs + Football concerts + Architecture day
Editor: Hannah Kreß
► Digital Town Hall: Sustainability strategy
President Angela Ittel and Vice President Manfred Krafczyk will present the sustainability strategy in the Digital Town Hall on 8 July from 11 a.m. to 12 noon and explain the understanding of sustainability and the goals. We look forward to your participation!
► Funding for Climate Future Labs
Two of the four new Climate Future Labs at the Lower Saxony Centre for Climate Research are headed by our University: “Urban Climate Future Lab” (UCFL) is led by Professor Vanessa Carlow, “Open Planning Cultures. Design Principles for Transformative Spaces (OPEN_CULTURES)” by Professor Tatjana Schneider. Funded with up to five million euros, the Future Labs conduct research into climate-friendly urban and rural development. TU Braunschweig is also involved in the “FoResLab” project with Dr Matthias Beyer (Junior Research Group Leader “Isodrones”) and Professor Harald Biester (Environmental Geochemistry Group) from the Institute of Geoecology on the topic of “Effects of climate change on the forest ecosystem”.
► Space debris: atmosphere in danger?
Thousands of satellites are whizzing around our universe. They not only provide good internet, but also leave behind millions of pieces of debris. Leonard Schulz from the Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics reports in an interview that this can become a problem for our atmosphere and explains the possible consequences.
► Braunschweig metrology fit for the future
With a new cooperation agreement, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and Technische Universität Braunschweig are extending the joint International Graduate School of Metrology (B-IGSM) until at least 2028. In addition to supervising doctoral students, the B-IGSM organises events and facilitates joint large-scale projects such as the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence.
► Physics student selected for Nobel Prize conference
The student Laura Patzke is one of 650 selected participants taking part in the 73rd Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau on Lake Constance. From 30 June to 5 July, more than 30 Nobel Laureates will be exchanging ideas with young scientists from all over the world on this year’s main topic of physics.
► Inaugural lectures
Prof. Kai Schröter will hold his inaugural lecture “Hydrologie und Flussgebietsmanagement – Neue Datenquellen und Methoden für eine zukunftsorientierte Wasserbewirtschaftung“ on 2. July, Prof. Carmen Gräßle “Model reduction and data assimilation for flows and dynamics“, and Prof. Tim Kacprowski “(Molecular) Interactions“ on 3. July.
► Farewell Lecture by Professor Ute Daniel
How close or how far away are the “Weimar conditions” today? Professor Ute Daniel of the Institute of History will explore this question in her farewell lecture on 3 July. The event will take place at 18:30 in lecture hall SN 19.1 in the Old Building.
► Architecture Day: Open doors at the Student House and Audimax
On Sunday, 30 June, the two award-winning buildings, the Audimax and the Studierendenhaus, can be visited as part of the Day of Architecture from 11 am to 5 pm. Anyone wishing to find out more about the buildings can join one of the three guided tours organised by the architects. Registration is not necessary.
► Football concert with two halves, penalty shoot-out, stadium announcer, trophy presentation
For the three end-of-semester concerts of the TU Orchestra, the Audimax is transformed into a stadium. Under the motto “The ball is round. And a concert lasts 90 minutes”, the musicians will show how well music and football can go together and set the dramaturgy. The concerts will take place on 6 July at 3 pm, 7 July at 7 pm and 8 July at 8 pm in the Audimax, admission is free.
► TU-Choir in Concert
On 2 July, a public workshop rehearsal with the competition programme for the Magdeburg Choir Festival will take place in the Audimax from 8 to 10 pm.
► Start of the “Research in dialogue” series
The BMBF-funded project “Gender dimensions in the view of STEM research (GeDiMINT)” will introduce itself at the start of the “Research in dialogue” series on 5 July. Impulses on the conditions for the success of interdisciplinary research will introduce the discussion entitled “Interdisciplinary communication bridges”. Registration is requested.
► “Sleeping Beauties” exhibition
The exhibition “Sleeping Beauties” in the Flebbe House on Bohlweg aims to awaken the potential of empty spaces. From 9 July, the Institute of Building Design and the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City will present student projects and invite to discussions.
► Initiative Fund: Postdoc Grants open for applications
Postdocs can apply for two different funding models as part of the Initiative Fund. The Postdoc Career Grant is aimed at all TU researchers shortly after their doctorate who are seeking a DFG grant with their own position or comparable target formats. The Postdoc International Mobility Grant is intended to enable international exchange formats and research stays abroad.
► Crockery, glasses, Tupperware and more
The canteen flea market in the social and meeting room in the old main building enters its final round on 1 and 2 July from 10 am to 3 pm.
► Our Darling of the week…
is our alumnus Professor Markus Rex, who took the audience in the Alumni*ae Talks series on the fascinating one-year journey of the “Polarstern” through the fantastically beautiful expanses of the Arctic. But he also described the serious melting of the ice and the consequences of climate change in an impressive way, emphasised with dramatic pictures.
► Events
There is always something going on at TU Braunschweig. Lectures, discussions, information events, concerts and much more. Take a look at our calendar of events and get inspired.