CoQuS Retreat 2013

08.09.2013 09:00 - 10.09.2013 17:00

The annual retreat of 2013 takes place in Traunkirchen.

Workshops: 
1. Hard Skills, Soft Skills, My Skills by Natascha Miljkovic - centers around science as a profession and on career planning according to the individual skills and life expectations. 

2. How to write Research Grant Proposals by Therese Lidahl - General advice on how to appproach grant proposal writing with a particular focus on EU research funding. 

"Time and Music" Workshop at the International Academy Traunkirchen 
Talks by H. günter Dosch and Hans J. Specht (Heidelberg University) on acoustic illusions and by P. Grünberg (Nobel Prize in Physics 2007, forschungszentrum Jülich) on harmony in Alpine music. 

Already several weeks before the retreat, students from different research groups will team up and will be briefed to build unconventional music instruments from components normally used in their experiments. The instruments will be presented at the retreat in the course of a short concert.