Dear reader,

welcome to the January 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. 

All the best,
Dirk

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GAUSS Office

Call for course registrations – April 2020

The registration for methods and skills courses held in April 2020 will be open from 1 February. You can register for courses taking place in April from 1-20 February... Read more...

Coimbra Group 3-Minute-Thesis Competition (3MT), 13 Feb 2020

An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit... 3 minutes. Doctoral students from various disciplines (from all four graduate schools) will present their doctoral project in one slide in English in just three minutes. ...

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Mentoring »WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement«

Zwischen dem 15. Februar und dem 15. März 2020 können Sie sich für dieses einjährige Programm bewerben ....

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Workshops and Events

[in German] AHEAD Life Science Track: Life Science Pitch Bowl – Start-up Pitches (Feb 12, 2020)

Als Abschlussveranstaltung des Fraunhofer AHEAD Acceleratorprogramms mit erstmaligem Life Science Track in Göttingen findet am 12. Februar 2020 ab 18.00 Uhr der Life Science Pitch Bowl im Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa in Göttingen statt.

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[in German] Stärken und Erfahrungen aus der Promotionserstellung erfolgreich kommunizieren, 18 Feb 2020

Stärken und Erfahrungen aus der Promotionserstellung erfolgreich kommunizieren - Ein Workshop für Promovierende beim Berufseinstieg (von Wolfgang Leybold)  …

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Workshop for PhD students and PostDocs: How much start-up potential does your PhD have? Develop your business idea!

You are a PhD student or Postdoc and want to take your career into your own hands, but you don’t have a business idea yet? Then this “Young Entrepreneurs in Science”-workshop is for you!  …

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Leadership Competence, May 2020

The Faculty of Chemistry and the Faculty of Physics together offer courses on the topic of "Leadership Competence". …

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Guild Summer School, 5-11 July 2020

The Guild of European Research‐Intensive Universities’ annual Summer School is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet PhD students from across Europe, from multiple disciplinary backgrounds. Together, you’ll spend an intensive week reflecting, discussing, and building new skills.  …

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Göttingen Summer School on Data Science, Aug 2020

Announcement of the fourth Göttingen Summer School on Data Science.  Date: August 3-14, 2020  …

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Funding Opportunities and Prizes

“Deutscher Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (deadline: March 1, 2020)

Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations in all disciplines. …

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Fulbright fellowship - deadline 01 April 2020

The German-American Fulbright Commission provides four to six-month stays in the USA for young German scientists who are conducting a research project at a U.S. university or scientific institution ...

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Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowships

PhD fellowships of two to three years to outstanding junior scientists - basic biomedical research. ... 

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Miscellaneous

German courses (A1 to C1) during the summer semester

The “Lektorat Deutsch als Fremdsprache” of the University of Goettingen offers around 65 different German courses (A1 to C1) during the summer semester (with 2 or 4 hours weekly).

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Scientific English for PhD Students in the Natural Sciences, Apr-Jul 2020

The objective of this course is to address common errors in English language usage among non-native speakers working in the natural sciences.  …

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Doctoral students to help with Übungen Experimentalphysik 1 für Biologen

Physicists as well as natural scientists like chemists, biologists or mathematicians can apply - of course you should master the basics …

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Introductory Week for International Students, 30 Mar-03 Apr 2020

This week should help you to find your way around the University of Göttingen and your new home as well as to meet other students. The team from the Incoming Office will introduce you to the campus and your faculties and give you useful tips and advice  …

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 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