Dear reader,

welcome to the October issue of the monthly GAUSS newsletter with information from the GAUSS Office including courses and events organised by GAUSS. Furthermore, the newsletter contains information about workshops and events offered by partners at the Göttingen Campus and additional information that might be of interest for doctoral students in Göttingen. For more information about each topic, please follow the links below.

Some of the events or seminars are advertised in German as the language during the events or workshops will be German. Feel free to forward this email to other interested students. If you do not want to receive information like this again, please let me know and I will remove you from the mailing list. 

GAUSS Office

Call for course registrations – January 2020

The registration for methods and skills courses held in January 2020 will be open from 1 November. You can register for courses taking place in January from 1-20 November; the slots will be allocated on 25 November. Read more...

Workshops and Events

Mentoring Program (in German): KaWirMento – Karrierewege in die Wirtschaft

Interessierst du dich für eine nicht-akademische Karriere? Wenn ja, dann ist das Mentoring Programm „KaWirMento – Karrierewege in die Wirtschaft“ was für Dich. Read more...

Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring for female young researchers - apply now!

Dear late-stage PhD candidates and Postdocs,

the University of Göttingen is offering a mentoring program for female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development. Read more...

Excursion: Mahr in Göttingen, 07 Nov

Excursion to Mahr in Göttingen
Mahr is an internationally operating group of companies with its headquarters in Göttingen, whose name is traditionally associated with the terms production measurement technology, quality and innovation. Read more...

Course: Diversity Competence / Intercultural Comepetence, 6-7 Nov

In this key competencies course you will learn about managing "Diversity". You will get to know about the central difference categories such as gender, sexual orientation, social status,and religion and Read more...

Conference: Third Infinity conference on physics out-of-equilibrium, 24-26 Feb

We would like to draw your attention to the biennial international conference focused on the Physics of Biological and Complex Systems.

Third Infinity 2020 conference on physics out-of-equilibrium Read more...

Workshop: Verwaltungsdeutsch für Akademiker-Deutschkurs speziell für Nicht-Muttersprachler

Dieser Deutschkurs ist speziell für Nicht-Muttersprachler, die nach der Promotion weiterhin in Deutschland verbleiben und arbeiten wollen.

Der Workshop "Verwaltungsdeutsch für Akademiker" ist darauf ausgerichtet, Wissenschaftler*innen in der Kommunikation im akademischen Alltag zu unterstützen und die Sprachkenntnisse zu verbessern. Read more...

Workshop (in German only): „… plötzlich lehren!“ Meine Rolle als Lehrende_r

Workshop für neue Lehrende!

In diesem Grundlagen-Workshop erhalten Sie Informationen zum Lehren und Lernen an Hochschulen, Read more...

Workshop: Data Carpentry for the Social Sciences, 12-13 Nov

This workshop targets social science students, researchers, librarians and other interested persons based at Göttingen Campus.  

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Read more...

Lecture Series: Gender matters - 10 minutes for a change of perspective

Speakers from the scientific community, policy makers, and field practitioners will address current challenges for land use, resource management, agriculture and related areas from different perspectives.

This lecture series is a cooperation between the Göttingen Center for Gender Studies and the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Read more...

Seminar: Competence in research integrity for PhD students, 22./29. Nov

Invitation for PhD students to join the seminar Competence in research integrity for PhD students in forestry, agriculture, ecology, and related disciplines in biology and geoscíences.
During a two day workshop we will discuss standards of research integrity for management and treatment of data, scientific publishing, authorship, mentoring und responsibilities in dayto-day research. Read more...

Courses & guided library tours at Central Library SUB

This semester the Göttingen State and University Library offers the courses “Basics for Beginners: Introduction to Research”, “Introduction to Zotero”, and “Introduction to Citavi” as well as library tours in English. Read more...

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

Hochschulwettbewerb im Wissenschaftsjahr 2020 – Bioökonomie!

10.000 Euro für die besten Ideen – Zeigt eure Forschung!

Wie bringt man die eigene Forschung am besten an die Öffentlichkeit? Wer darauf eine gute Antwort hat und gleichzeitig zum Thema Bioökonomie forscht, die oder der ist hier richtig: beim Hochschulwettbewerb im Wissenschaftsjahr 2020 – Bioökonomie! Read more...

Miscellaneous

WoCaNet 2021: call for organizers!

Dear doctoral students,

we would like to invite you to join us: in late 2019, a new team of PhD students and Postdocs will assemble to start organizing the next Women’s Careers and Networks symposium (WoCaNet), which will take place in spring 2021.

To know what WoCaNet is all about Read more...

Save the date! 17th Horizons in Molecular Biology, 14-17 Sept 2020, Göttingen

Dear friends of Horizons,

The 16th Horizons has been a success, with many great guest-speaker talks, insightful career advice, and fun science pep- and small-talks by a diverse international community. But little time is left to rest on these laurels and the preparations for the 17th Horizons in Molecular Biology have already started. Read more...

 Dr. Dirk Kamin

Scientific Coordinator
Georg-August-University School of Science (GAUSS)
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 |  level B01, Room 126 (map) | 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Phone: +49 551 39-24094 | E-mail: office@gauss.uni-goettingen.de
Web: http://www.gauss.uni-goettingen.de