Czech-Bavarian
mini-school 2024
on large scale facilities and open data

1-9 October 2024 - Munich/Prague

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Venue

Munich, Germany
Prague, Czech Republic

see facilities involved below

Participants

8 Bavarian and 8 Czech advanced Master/early PhD students

Topics

Neutron diffraction and spectroscopy. Crystal growth, magneto-optical ellipsometry, Raman scattering. Open data.

Demands

The school is free of charge for students from Prague and Munich (travel expenses included) *.
Each participant needs to present their own research in a 5 minute presentation. There will be a best student presentation prize.

Scope

The scope of this mini-school is to bring the world of large scale facilities closer to advanced Master/early PhD students, to broaden their scientific horizons and to win them as future users.

The first part of the mini-school will take place at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum in Munich, where a series of lectures on neutron scattering techniques will be held. The second part of the mini-school will take place in Prague at the MGML research infrastructure at the Charles University and the ELI beamlines research center. The mini-school will be closed with sessions dedicated to data treatment and publishing, following F.A.I.R. principles and ways of sharing scientific data. In addition, the students will get an opportunity to present their own projects during a short presentation. Talks will be evaluated and the best talk will win a small prize.

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Mini-school Schedule

Tuesday1 October

Facilities involved

Neutrons for Research, Industry and Medicine

The MLZ opens up the scientific use of the research neutron source FRM II. Scientists from all around the world can apply for measurement time at 26 state-of-the-art neutron scattering instruments. More than 1000 scientists annually use the FRM II’s neutrons for their experiments and investigations.

Materials Growth & Measurement Laboratory

The MGML offers for external users open access to an instrument suite dedicated to measuring the physical properties of materials in a wide range of temperatures, magnetic and electrical fields, and hydrostatic and uniaxial pressures.

the world's most intense laser system

With ultra-high peak powers and focused intensities ELI offers unique sources of radiation and particle beams to its users. These beamlines enable groundbreaking research not only in the fields of physics and material science, but also in biomedical research and laboratory astrophysics.

Acknowledgements

We proudly acknowledge the Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency. They provided funds for this workshop via their "Bayerisch-tschechische Sommer-/Winterschulen 2024" funding programme, grant number BTHA-SW-2024-6.

The Technical University of Munich is the recipient of the subsidy and the organizer of the mini-school.

Charles University hosts the Czech part of the mini-school and sponsors the mini-school dinner.

Fees

The school is free of charge for all participants. The hotels (in Prague for the students from Munich students and in Garching for the students from Prague) will be booked and payed by us in advance. Students from neither Prague nor Munich will have to pay for their accommodations in one of the cities themselves.

Such generous funding is only possible because of Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency. They provided funds for this workshop via their "Bayerisch-tschechische Sommer-/Winterschulen 2024" funding programme, grant number BTHA-SW-2024-6.