News
The kick-off meeting of the priority program took place from September 11 to 13, 2024 in Osnabrück. It was attended by 76 participants, around half of whom were PhD and Master's students.
The scientific program consisted of a scientific presentation on each of the nine core topics of the SPP. In addition, there was a mentoring session for prospective and current PhD students, as well as an event in the form of a World Cafe, which served to network the projects.
The next annual conference will take place in Hannover in September 2025, organized by Michael Cuntz.
The DFG sent out the decision letters for (almost) all proposals on April 18-19. We expect the job openings to be published under Job openings soon, and also that (again almost) all positions to be filled before the first Priority Program Annual Conference in September in Osnabrück.
The review panel has met for two days on February 5--6 via zoom. On February 9, all proposal PIs have been informed by the program committee about the panel's funding recommendations. Starting in April, the program will fund 26 projects with 35 PIs and 30 PhD and PostDoc positions.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a 10 million Euro Synergy Grant to the project “UNIVERSE+: Positive Geometry in Particle Physics and Cosmology”.
We have received 54 proposals by 61 PIs, requesting funds for 71 PhD and PostDoc positions.
The first orientation session of the approved priority programme was a great success with 85 online participants.
We have established a 2458 mailing list, please encourage interested people and especially academically younger researchers to join.
