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The Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research "HGS-HIRe for FAIR" is a joint endeavor of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, the universities at Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Giessen, Heidelberg and Mainz together with FIAS to promote and support structured PhD education for research associated with GSI and FAIR.

TOPNEWS - Transferable Skills in Bodenrod

HGS-HIRe Soft Skills: Basic Course II

The second Basic Course II took place in Bodenrod from April 23-26. During a 3 day programm HGS-HIRe graduate students who finished Basic Course I before improved their skills with regard to leading teams, project management and presenting scientific results.

News - February 26, 2012

Joint Helmholtz-Rosatom Winter-School for young scientists at FAIR

The second edition of the Joint Helmholtz-Rosatom Winter school for young scientists at FAIR took place in Bekasovo, close to Moscow in Russia. More than 50 young scientists joined a one-week scientific program with lectures covering all the different aspects of FAIR physics. The scientific director of the FAIR project, Boris Sharkov gave an update on the status of FAIR and many other lecturers reported on the physics program at this exciting new facility. Graduate students of HGS-HIRe and russian institutes teamed up and tackled various exercises given to them in the afternoon groupwork and enjoyed the evening program

News - February 12, 2012

HGS-HIRe Lecture Week on Aspects of QCD

The Lecture Week "Aspects of QCD" took place in the very remote village Manigod in the French Alps from February 5-12. The lecturers Owe Philipsen (Uni Frankfurt) and Sasha Glazov (DESY) taught 24 HGS-HIRe graduate students about experimental tests and theoretical tools of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics.

News - January 24, 2012

Graduate Days 2012

The HGS-HIRe Graduate Days 2012 will be held October 25 and 26, 2012 in the Alte Lokhalle in Mainz.

News - January 5, 2012

Lecture Week Manigod

In February 2012 the second HGS-HIRe lecture week in the scientific field 'hot and dense matter' studies will be held in Manigod in the french alpes again. The topic will be 'Aspects of QCD'.

News - January 5, 2012

Helmholz-Rosatom School for young scientists at FAIR 2012

In February 2012 the second joint "Helmholtz-Rosatom School for Young Scientists at FAIR" will be held in Bekasovo close to Moscow/Russia. The school is a joint event of HGS-HIRe together with the FAIR-Russia-Research-Center in Moscow.

News - December 9, 2011

Power Week on Statistics and Statistical Methods

The Power-Week on Statistics and Statistical Methods took place in the castle of Herborn. During one week 15 HGS-HIRe doctoral students learned about Statistics, Neural Networks and Machine Learning. Students from nearly all fields of physics in HGS-HIRe joined the event and the lecturer Helge Voss from CERN / MPI Heidelberg offered projects which the participants can apply in their daily work.

News - November 18, 2011

HGS-HIRe Lecture Week on Atomic Physics

The second HGS-HIRe lecture week on atomic physics that took place in Kloster Marienburg on November 13-18, 2011 has been dedicated to precision experiments with stored highly charged ions. Stimulated by the location, a former abbey on top of a vineyard at the Mosel river, Yuri Litvinov and Danyal Winters (both from GSI) gave a broad overview of the experimental issues while Andrey Surzhykov from the University of Heidelberg addressed the theoretical aspects of this research topic.

News - October 28, 2011

HGS-HIRe Graduate Days 2011

Nearly 200 participants and supervisors of HGS-HIRe joined this years Graduate Days in Königstein. Over the course of two days participants reported on their projects, experienced researchers gave overview talks and the HGS-HIRe excellence awards have been granted.

News - October 11, 2011

HGS-HIRe Summer Student Program 2012

The summer student program 2012 at GSI is co-organized again by HGS-HIRe. Undergraduate students will come to GSI for the summer to work on a small research project and to participate in a special lecture program. Interested students can apply

here

News - September 8, 2011

Power Week Statistics

A HGS-HIRe Power Week on statistics and statistical methods will be held in Herborn in December 2011. The approach of the power week will be broad to be useful for students from all fields in HGS-HIRe, especially for those who work in experimental fields.

News - August 25, 2011

Newsletter

A new HGS-HIRe newsletter is launched giving information on HGS-HIRe activies, events and the HGS-HIRe community. The newsletter will be published on a half-year basis.

News - June 19, 2011

Softskill Course on Career Development and Leadership

To prepare the HGS-HIRe participants better for the next steps in their professional life part three of the HGS-HIRe softskill training series concentrates on career development and leadership training. The first installation of this course was held in Castle Buchenau in June 2011.

News - June 6, 2011

HGS-HIRe Power Week

In the second HGS-HIRe Power Week in the scientific field "Hot and Dense Matter" participants will learn about AdS/CFT.

News - May 18, 2011

HGS-HIRe Lecture Week

The second HGS-HIRe Lecture Week in the scientific field "Atomic Physics" will be held at Kloster Marienburg at the Mosel river in November 2011.

News - May 17, 2011

HGS-HIRe Lecture Week

A first HGS-HIRe Lecture Week in the scientific field "Accelerator Physics" will be held in Puidoux/Switzerland and CERN in October 2011.

News - April 27, 2011

"Tag der Weltmaschine"

HGS-HIRe and the Physics Department of the Goethe University will host a special "Tag der Weltmaschine" on November 23, 2011. The event will include presentations and a small exhibition for the general public featuring the physics, the experiments and the technological challenges of the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN.

News - March 15, 2011

HGS-HIRe Graduate Days

The second HGS-HIRe Graduate Days will be held October 27./28. 2011 in Königstein/Taunus. For two days the HGS-HIRe community will meet in a lifely mix of invited talks, participant presentations and the festive annual HIRe Feier.

News - February 19, 2011

New Softskill Program 2011

HGS-HIRe is breaking new ground and has developed, together with experienced trainers from the UK, an integrated series of three softskill courses focusing on various transferable skills, combining different aspects of professional, personal development. Participating on these courses and other related events throughout the participantship in HGS-HIRe will, we believe, help become a more effective researcher. It will enhance the way participants contribute to their chosen area of science and technology and it will also help support the development along future career pathes.

News - January 31, 2011

Quark Matter Conference 2011

HGS-HIRe is supporting the Quark Matter Conference 2011 in Annecy/France and has made special arrangements to make it as easy as possible for HGS-HIRe participants to attend the conference.

News - January 7, 2011

HGS-HIRe Lecture Week

The second HGS-HIRe Lecture Week in the scientific field "Nuclear Structure" will be held in Kloster Schöntal in March 2011.

News - November 1, 2010

HGS-HIRe Summer Student Program 2011

The summer student program 2011 at GSI is co-organized again by HGS-HIRe. Undergraduate students will come to GSI for the summer to work on a small research project and to participate in a special lecture program. Interested students can apply

here

News - November 1, 2010

HGS-HIRe Excellence Award 2010

The HGS-HIRe Excellence Award 2010 was presented at the Graduate Days 2010 to Renate Märtin und Jan Steinheimer-Froschauer.

News - October 31, 2010

Helmholz-Rosatom School for young scientists at FAIR 2011

In February 2011 the first joint "Helmholtz-Rosatom School for Young Scientists at FAIR" will be held in Hirschegg in the Kleinwalsertal. The school is a joint event of HGS-HIRe together with the FAIR-Russia-Research-Center in Moscow.

News - October 24, 2010

Particle Physics Masterclasses

HGS-HIRe is joining the "Netzwerk Teilchenphysik" offering Masterclasses for young adults, 15-19 years old. HGS-HIRe participants are visiting schools or invite high school students to come to the university for a day in order to unravel the mysteries of particle physics. Lectures from active scientists give insight in topics and methods of basic research at the fundaments of matter and forces, enabling the students to perform measurements on real data from particle physics experiments themselves.

International Particle Physics Masterclasses

News - September 19, 2010

Outreach in Elementary Schools

Together with the 'Polytechnische Gesellschaft' HGS-HIRe is pioneering in an outreach program for elementary school kids. 'Scientists - who we are and what we do' is the theme of a new program starting in October 2010 with HGS-HIRe participants visiting elementary schools to talk about what it is like 'being a scientist'.

News - September 10, 2010

HGS-HIRe Lecture Week

The first HGS-HIRe Lecture Week in the scientific field "Atomic Physics" will be held in Kloster Höchst in the Odenwald in November/December 2010. The topic is: The Physics of Strong Coulomb Fields: Precision Studies with highly charged ions.

News - July 3, 2010

HGS-HIRe Power Week

The first HGS-HIRe Power Week will be held on special aspects of Quantum Field Theory in October 2010. A Power Week is focused on a particular theory or experimental topic. In contrast to a lecture week it is not interdisciplinary and therefore allows discussions on a much deeper level. The target audience are people who are basically familiar with the topic but want to strengthen their understanding.

News - June 17, 2010

HGS-HIRe Perspectives

What's next after the PhD? Not all HIRe participants will stay in fundamental research but will aim for leading positions in applied science or industry. To aid a possible search for alternatives HGS-HIRe brings together professionals from applied science and industry who graduated in natural science with current HGS-HIRe participants.

News - April 20, 2010

HGS-HIRe Graduate Days

The first HGS-HIRe Graduate Days will be held October 28./29. 2010 in Hanau/Steinheim. For two days the HGS-HIRe community will meet in a lifely mix of invited talks, participant presentations and the festive annual HIRe Feier.

News - April 20, 2010

HGS-HIRe abroad

HGS-HIRe is launching a new program: HGS-HIRe abroad.
Participants can file a research proposal for a research stay abroad for a period of one to three months to facilitate their thesis project.

News - January 8, 2010

Summer Student Program 2010

The summer student program 2010 at GSI is co-organized again by HGS-HIRe. Undergraduate students will come to GSI for the summer to work on a small research project and to participate in a special lecture program. The lectures are open for all HGS-HIRe participants as well.

News - January 8, 2010

Lecture Week Rauischholzhausen

The first HGS-HIRe lecture week in the scientific field 'nuclear structure' studies will be held January 2010 in Schloss Rauischholzhausen close to Marburg. In this first lecture week a general overview of the field is discussed.

News - January 8, 2010

Lecture Week Manigod

In January 2010 the first HGS-HIRe lecture week in the scientific field 'hot and dense matter' studies will be held in Manigod in the french alpes. The topic will be 'Chiral Symmetry'.

News - Dezember 15, 2009

One Year HGS-HIRe

The first anniversary of HGS-HIRe was celebrated with a festive event in Frankfurt. On this occasion the first HGS-HIRe excellence awards were presented to Gabriel Denicol and Alexander Kalweit for their outstanding achievements during their doctoral studies.

News - October 26, 2009

Exhibition "Die Weltmaschine"

HGS-HIRe and the Physics Department of the Goethe University will host the exhibition "Die Weltmaschine" in Frankfurt in January 2010. The exhibition is presenting the physics, the experiments and the technological challenges of the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN. The participants of HGS-HIRe and their fellow researchers will guide through the exhibition and will present their science to the general public.

News - July 9, 2009

Summer Student Program 2009

The summer student program at GSI is co-organized by HGS-HIRe this year for the first time. 40 undergraduate students will come to GSI for the summer to work on a small research project and to participate in a special lecture program. The lectures are open for all HGS-HIRe participants as well.

News - July 6, 2009

Election Participant Representative 2009

In July 2009 the first election of the HGS-HIRe participant representative was held. Simone Schuchmann (IKF, Frankfurt) has been elected, deputy participant representative is Hans Peter Loens (GSI).

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