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May. 23, 2008
NYEX Conference 2008
October 16th to October 19th Göttingen, Germany
Venue:
The scientific conference and the student program will take place from October 16th to October 19th in the XLAB building.
Social program
- guided tour through Göttingen
- exploring Göttingen at night
- excursion to lake Seeburg
General remarks
Göttingen is a small medieval town. The University of Göttingen was founded in 1738 and became one of most well know universities in the last centuries especially in mathematics and physics. Today, Göttingen is a leading centre in neurosciences with various collaborations between the University, the Max Planck Institutes and other scientific Institutions.
XLAB is a very young institution compared to the history of the university, but nevertheless XLAB is a leading institution in bringing science to new generations.
Scientific program
The scientific program will focus on the activities of the NYEX members based on the questionnaire, which you will receive separately. The participants, which want to give a presentation should indicate the title in advance and also provide a short abstract. We want to keep the number of participants open and will decide after we received the application forms if we can accept all applicants or not.
Scientific talks
Besides these presentations and discussions members of the Göttingen scientific community will give scientific talks related to recent developments in neurosciences. Speakers may include Prof. E. Neher, Prof R. Jahn and Prof S. Hell all from the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical Chemistry.
Student program
According to the major aims and objectives of NYEX, XLAB will give 12 interested students the opportunity to carry out experiments focusing on biophysical properties of neuronal tissue. The limited number of participants is due to our laboratory equipment. The courses will be held in parallel to the scientific program of the NYEX members on Thursday October 16th and Friday October 17th. The students will present their results and impressions from this course (and if possible other practical courses which they formerly attended) to the NYEX members. Therefore we strongly encourage the NYEX members to give their students the chance to take part in the courses.
Selection criteria
The admission requirements are listed in the application form. It will be the member’s responsibility to select one or two appropriate students. The members should know the candidates much better than any selection committee, which will only be able to deduce from some documents. These students should be fluent in English and it is desirable that the candidate already had some experience in extracurricular science activities (in order to be able to present some personal experience). The final decision about the student applications will be taken until 15th September.
According to our equipment and the idea to have students from various faculties, we suggest that we focus mainly on junior students at the beginning of their studies. Pre-college high school graduates and/or high school senior students are most appropriate, but this is no "hard limit". We will do some experiments in basic neurosciences, so it may be less interesting for an advanced student in life sciences but interesting for an advanced student in physics. The idea is to have an interdisciplinary international group.
Visiting other NYEX members in Germany
Since the conference is short, you or your students may be interested in visiting other NYEX members in Germany. Please feel free to contact the organizing committee at the XLAB in this concern. Unfortunately the XLAB does not have the capacity for a prolonged experimental program.
Deadline of application
Deadline for the application is August 15th for NYEX members and September 1st for students, which is very late from our perspective.
Therefore, NYEX members should announce the number of participants and students as soon as possible!
Costs:
The participants have to carry the costs for travel and accommodation. The costs for local transportation, all dinners and the lunch on saturday will be taken over by the XLAB for one member of each organization and the students.
Additional participants as well as non-members will be charged with 75€ for dinners, beverages and the excursion.
There are several possibilities for accommodation:
· Guest house of the University (next to the XLAB building but limited capacity)
Students (2 or 3 persons per room) 20,00€ (breakfast included)
Members 40,00 € (breakfast included)
· Hotel Beckmann (3km away from the XLAB) approx. 50,00 €
· Hotel Am Papenberg (10 min walk form the XLAB) approx. 80,00 €
You may have lunch at the university canteen for about 2,50 € for students (valid student ID necessary), or 4,80 € for NYEX members.
Contact:
Dr. Michael Ferber XLAB Göttingen
e-mail: m.ferber (at) xlab-goettingen.de
