Research training groups (RTG)
Research training groups (RTG) are institutions at universities to support doctoral researchers. They are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a maximum of nine years. RTGs provide doctoral qualifications in focused research programs and are generally interdisciplinary.
The goal is to prepare doctoral students intensively for the academic market and to foster academic independence early on.
MIN Faculty Collaborative Research Groups
RTG 2583 - Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Fluid Dynamic Applications
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Armin Iske
Department of Mathematics
Bundesstrasse 55
20146 Hamburg
Email: armin.iske@uni-hamburg.de( armin.iske"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Co-Speakers:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Rung (TUHH)
Funding period: 01.04.2020 - 30.09.2024
Departments involved: Mathematics
The Research Training Group “Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Fluid Dynamic Applications” run jointly with the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) aims to provide early career researchers with holistic and application-oriented training in the mathematical disciplines of modeling, simulation, and optimization. Training and research will take place in line with the principle “mathematics drives applications—applications inspire mathematics.” The researchers will address relevant issues in climate research, meteorology, aerospace-and nautical engineering, and medicine. The RTG will be integrated into the Lothar Collatz Center for Computing in Science.
RTG 2530 - Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen
Department of Biology
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Applied Plant Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Email: kai.jensen@uni-hamburg.de( kai.jensen"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Funding period: 01.04.2020 - 30.09.2024
Departments involved: Biology, Earth System Sciences
In the Research Training Group “Biota-Mediate Effects on Carbon Cycling in Estuaries”, researchers will investigate the impact of various organisms such as plants, animals, and micro-organisms on the carbon cycle of estuaries. Estuaries are the wider parts of a river that then flows into the open sea. They form an important part of the marine and global carbon cycle. However, they also number among the most threatened systems. The reasons are global warming and the attendant rise in sea-levels, increased nutrient pollution, and changes in land and water use. Researchers will analyze the Elbe estuary to determine the significance of organisms and their interactions in the carbon cycle. The goal is to document the effects of global climate change on the carbon cycle. Greater understanding of these processes should help us to better illustrate the effects of organisms on the carbon cycle in Earth system models.
RTG NANOHYBRID - Hybrid Structures on the Nanoscale: Chemical Concepts to Prepare Heterogeneous Nanostructures with Anisotropic Material Properties
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Alf Mews
Department of Chemistry
Institute of Physical Chemistry
AG Mews
Grindelallee 117
20146 Hamburg
Email: Alf.Mews@chemie.uni-hamburg.de( Alf.Mews"AT"chemie.uni-hamburg.de)
Funding period: 01.04.2020 - 30.09.2024
Departments involved: Chemistry, Physics
Research Training Group “Hybrid Structures on the Nanoscale: Chemical Concepts to Prepare Heterogeneous Nanostructures with Anisotropic Material Properties” (NANOHYBRID) is coordinated in the Department of Chemistry. Researchers want to create nanoscopic hybrid systems with special material properties, meaning materials made of building blocks the size of a millionth of a millimeter. For the past several years, these materials have been intensively researched but it was only in recent years that, in addition to the size of the nanostructures their form has become significant with regard to their properties. In NANOHYBRID, researchers want to develop innovative chemical concepts to create, link, and analyze these kinds of nanostructures.
Recently expired cooperative Research Training Groups
RTG 1670: Mathematics Inspired by String Theory and Quantum Field Theory
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schweigert
Fachbereich Mathematik
Bereich Algebra und Zahlentheorie
Wolfgang Pauli Centre
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Email: christoph.schweigert@math.uni-hamburg.de( christoph.schweigert"AT"math.uni-hamburg.de)
Co-Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Teschner( joerg.teschner"AT"desy.de) (Mathe, UHH)
Second funding period: 01.10.2015 - 31.03.2020
First funding period: 01.04.2011 - 30.09.2015
Departments involved: Mathematics
The Departments of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in the MIN Faculty and the DESY theory group provide a structured doctoral program for the mathematical investigation of string and quantum field theories allowing for the study and analysis of their physical sources.
The quest for a unified theory of quantum theory and gravity has long been an important source of inspiration for mathematics. The advent of string theory with its need for a much broader mathematical treatment has brought a new quality to this interaction. In fact, string theory not only continues to suggest challenging and surprising mathematical conjectures, the string-theoretic viewpoint also links areas of mathematics that were previously considered largely unrelated.
The Research Training Group 1670 offers a structured doctoral training on mathematical and mathematical physics topics in this context. A special emphasis is on acquiring literacy in QFT and string theory to be able to study original physics sources and to assess them properly.
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