Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen organizes its 4th Summer School in Digitital Paleography 2025 Summer School in Digital Palaeography The Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen invites applications for its 4th annual Summer School in Digital Palaeography Participants will engage in library-based sessions analyzing manuscripts of personal scholarly interest gain insight into historical scripts to better understand ancient writing techniques including multispectral imaging and TEI-XMLencoding Read more Editor’s Note: The most recent stop on the Brian Witmer world tour: Goettingen the globetrotter is bouncing from event to event to hype up the summer in Israel and I’ve written a couple pieces on various events and programs then have gone on to talk about the impact these various individuals and organization are having on the bigger picture Lacrosse certainly is enjoying the positive impact of more trailblazers and grassroots “developmentalists” now than ever before There’s a time for browsing online for the perfect gear setup there’s a time when you just need to play for the fun of it This past weekend in Goettingen (pronounced kinda like it sounds but more German) was the annual holding of the LaBox tournament The local Goettingen Grasshoppers have hosted nine of these tournaments every December since 2012 a viewing gallery (where most of the day was spent) and additional open spaces for vendors and food/beverage sales this setup was an immaculate one-stop-shop for an easy and fun lacrosse weekend For as large an infrastructure that German lacrosse has become the same holds true for Germany as it does the entirety of our game… it’s a small world and you’re going to know everyone whether you like it or not I was surprised to know as many people as I did I didn’t make it inside the door of the place for a solid forty minutes upon arrival I found Clydesider teammates outside having a drink and I even got a meeting in with the wonderful tournament staff figuring out how I could help best… all before I could figure out where to put my bag down like where I’d be sleeping for the weekend but I’ve seen so many awesome pictures of hordes of lacrosse players sleeping in tents as the entirety of the 24 teams were invited to sleep in the gymnasium for the weekend I laid out my sleeping bag and camping pad It wasn’t the four-star hotel I was working at exactly a year prior It wasn’t even the fact that it was obviously cheaper than a hotel room it was the fact that it was a simpler option to solve everyone’s lodging concerns Games were slotted to start at 9am sharp in both gymnasiums started singing some song that I didn’t recognize at the top of his lungs in the gym where everyone was sleeping you cannot and will not get Americans out of bed and on the playing field in 30 minutes every sleeping bag and it’s contents were packed away and moved in time for games to start a suitable breakfast for two bucks and instead of reading the morning paper you could brush your teeth and watch lacrosse in Germany this was a lacrosse tournament played indoors Read: it was slightly rougher than your traditional field lacrosse game I’ve noticed box lacrosse ‘purists’ and field lacrosse aficionados to match Both camps need to button the lip when I say that these rules were neither field nor box It was lacrosse in a gymnasium with a different set of rules and different goals to shoot at Teams from all over Germany were joined by Cebulax from Poland as well as the Scotland Grizzlies out of Aberdeen I had been connected to the Grizzlies boys My ambassador-type role with the 2018 FIL World Championships in Natanya Israel had me traveling to LaBox to help promote the games answer any questions about Israel/the games and to begin recruiting players and teams for the Festival games being held in conjunction with the championships I played with the Grizzlies because A) they were a beautiful cast of characters and B) if you think I’m going to go to a German lacrosse tournament to promote and recruit and NOT play… well we must not have met yet The tournament was a success in many more ways than one If the only people that can call a tournament a success are the ones who win Blax from Berlin on the men’s side and the Retronixen taking home the hardware for the women Sidenote: the hardware for LaBox is a beautifully old-crafted nutcracker The winning teams each were presented this nutcracker with the obligation of bringing it back next year Little personal touches like this are always my favorite accessible to lots of players from lots of teams all over Germany and beyond So many of the players I spoke with were relatively green They had just as much fun as anybody holding a trophy The Scotland Grizzlies gave me a ride “home” to Hildesheim Germany on their way back to Berlin when the tournament was over I had stayed in Hildesheim the night before LaBox as well Long-time friend and worldly lacrosse referee extraordinaire Barbara Zelenay had taken me in and given me a couch in exchange for helping her and Ryan Wallace (equally worldly lacrosse referee extraordinaire) coach a school visit at a local elementary school in town The sport teacher had a son who has caught the lacrosse bug and so she had begun teaching her kids to play after seeing how much her son loved it Ryan joined us after a box lacrosse weekend in Bielefeld I could look over my plate and see three of my friends who have seen the world many times over Fitting that there was a map of the Earth spanning the entire wall in the background Seeing old friends and making new ones at LaBox and reconnecting with these old friends in Hildesheim Walking the German Christmas markets and plotting how best to help lacrosse grow and spread where I would fly out to Israel to get back to coaching and teaching lacrosse in schools how different the scene of Christmas markets and the cold that accompanied would be from the beaches and the warm sun on my back in just a few hours Nothing about these two places were the same yet the unifying factor being that lacrosse is opening doors for new players in both places every day is paying dividends in growing this beautiful game so that we can receive the games greatest gift: fun Copyright at Laxallstars.com Grow the Game® By: 4:30 am on April 4 Plans have been filed for a residential project at 541 Goettingen Street in Portola, San Francisco The plans will replace a vacant lot with a new four-bedroom single-family house Stephen McEvoy of KS Development is listed as responsible for the application The three-story structure will yield around 3,710 square feet with 3,160 square feet for housing and 550 square feet for the two-car basement garage Additional parking will also be included for a bicycle Gary Gee Architects is responsible for the design A bay window will overlook Goettingen Street A narrow setback along the rear lot will provide residents with a little balcony overlooking their rear yard The rezoning will separate the 6,000 square foot parcel with 3,900 square feet for 551 Goettingen Street and 2,100 square feet for 541 Goettingen Street Construction is expected to last around 15 months The property is located between Woolsey Street and Wayland Street three blocks from the Portola Greenhouses and near McLaren Park Subscribe to YIMBY’s daily e-mail Follow YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates Like YIMBY on Facebook Follow YIMBY’s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews We prefer to see high-density development across the city but believe it is important to inform our readers of all development of major consequence including development that may be too small for its location ga('send', 'event', ‘Robert ‘Becker, 'Impression', 'https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/desktop-ad.jpg', { nonInteraction: true }); ADVERTISEMENT ga('send', 'event', 'SF YIMBY', 'Impression', 'https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sfyimbyadnews.jpg', { nonInteraction: true }); ga('send', 'event', 'SF YIMBY', 'Impression', 'https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sf-yimby-dot-com-graphic.jpg', { nonInteraction: true }); Follow on Instagram © COPYRIGHT New York YIMBY LLC Nathan Aspinall clinched his maiden European Tour title with an 8-4 victory over Ryan Joyce in Sunday’s Elten Safety Shoes European Darts Trophy final Aspinall – roared on by a capacity crowd in Gottingen – produced a series of heroic displays on Finals Day to claim his first PDC title since his World Matchplay triumph in July 2023 The Stockport star averaged 98 and crashed in five 180s to defeat Joyce and pocket the £30,000 top prize at the Lokhalle as he became the 38th different player to win a European Tour event Having kicked off his campaign with a last-leg victory over European Champion Ritchie Edhouse Aspinall came through another decider to sink Jermaine Wattimena in an exhilarating last 16 affair He then averaged 106.72 in a 6-1 demolition of world number one Luke Humphries before edging out Gary Anderson in an epic semi-final – aided by a skin-saving 170 finish in the penultimate leg Aspinall continued from where he left off to race into a 4-1 lead against Joyce and although the Newcastle thrower reduced the arrears to a solitary leg at one stage “It felt like it was written in the stars” and it was great to share the stage with him in the final This will help me believe in myself and it shows I’m still good enough to compete against the top boys “Because of the situation I’ve been in over the last few years with the injuries and the dartitis Joyce – like Aspinall – also broke new ground this weekend defeating four televised title winners to advance to his maiden European Tour final The 39-year-old kicked off his campaign with a whitewash victory against Joe Cullen on Friday before dumping out Belgian number one Dimitri Van den Bergh in round two Joyce continued his charge with hard-fought wins over world number four Rob Cross and Cameron Menzies which he followed with a superb 7-5 success against Michael van Gerwen in the semi-finals “I’m over the moon to get to my first European Tour final,” reflected Joyce a winner of two Players Championship titles and hopefully this is just the start for me and I can make many more finals He’s a terrific player and he completely outscored me tonight.” Van Gerwen prevailed on the European Tour’s last visit to Gottingen in 2019 Gian van Veen and Gerwyn Price in his run to the last four defying a 107 average from Price in the process Anderson joined his great rival Van Gerwen in the semi-finals following up his comeback win over Luke Woodhouse with deciding-leg victories over Martin Schindler and Ross Smith on Finals Day Former European Champion Smith made up the quarter-final line-up alongside Humphries who averaged over 110 in his third round success against Wessel Nijman The PDC ProTour will resume with Players Championships 9-10 in Leicester on March 31-April 1 before the European Tour season continues with the International Darts Open in Riesa from April 4-6 Click here for match stats & results. Powered by Zoocha A mockup of “Steps to Wisdom,” a public art project created by Phillip Hua An example of tiles with messages for the “Steps to Wisdom” project Portola resident and artist Phillip Hua sits on the staircase Hua and the Goettingen Neighbors Group are approaching the end… An example of tiles with messages for the “Steps to Wisdom” project Hua and the Goettingen Neighbors Group are approaching the end of a fundraising campaign to create the tiled public art project the Goettingen Neighbors Group has landscaped and maintained the hill at the intersection of Dwight and Goettingen streets turning the area from a derelict dumping ground to a lush green space with views of Bernal Heights and the downtown skyline Should the Portola residents reach the last step in their fundraising goal they will be rewarded with “Steps to Wisdom,” a public art project created by Phillip Hua Hua designed the steps as a multicolored tiled gradient which gradually transitions from charcoal gray steps at the bottom to golden yellow steps in the middle and then fully mirrored tiles at the top Interspersed throughout the stairwell will be “words of wisdom,” customized tiles that offer advice musings and reflections submitted by the Portola community As visitors ascend the stairs and read the tiles the idea is: They’ll have a chance to reflect on how the messages apply to their lives going up and down stairs and how that could be a metaphor for enlightenment and growth again just sort of this idea of reflection and light,” said Hua who graduated from Academy of Art University with a degree in illustration He moved to the Portola neighborhood from the Castro with his husband because his new home had space for an art studio “San Franciscans love their tiled stairways I just didn’t want to do another staircase like all the others.” As a member of the Goettingen Neighbors Group Hua and other volunteers are dedicated to community building by talking with neighbors and cleaning and greening streets awards and grants from San Francisco Beautiful the SF Parks Trust and Fiskars’ Project Orange Thumb award allowed the group to landscape the hill and add native plants establishing the Goettingen Neighborhood Garden the group has been working on adding an art element to the staircase Studies indicate AI’s water demands for cooling servers and power plants are already huge and could more than double by 2030 is struggling to keep its services going after two of its grants were cancelled At the cocktail lounge above Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s in Chinatown the menu cycles through drinks based on the lunar planting calendar Hua envisions “Steps to Wisdom” as a neighborhood landmark that will draw crowds to the Portola because “People just don’t come out here from San Francisco proper to hang out.” approximately one square mile of land nestled in The City’s southeastern section was once San Francisco’s “garden district,” as produce and cut flowers were grown there in the early 20th century by farmers who took advantage of the area’s sunny microclimate World War II and the authorization of the Federal-Aid Highway Act shifted businesses away from agriculture to manufacturing and the Portola neighborhood’s cash cow gradually became no more The neighborhood has welcomed waves of Jews who now make up half the neighborhood’s population of about 18,000 Hua initially wanted to incorporate glow-in-the-dark elements to create a waterfall effect in a nod to the neighborhood’s agricultural roots but logistical issues and safety concerns ruled that out his focus shifted to honoring the past and present diversity of the area through his choice of different colored tiles another Portola resident and Goettingen member said the tiles “represent the various ethnic groups who originally settled in and built the Portola community.” Wright hopes the steps will become a neighborhood attraction “Art is for everyone to enjoy and to ask questions about what purpose it can serve or how it moves you,” she said “The GNG staircase art will be a reflection of unity the all-important objective: Words of wisdom that encourages and sustains all of us.” After being awarded roughly $150,000 from San Francisco’s Community Challenge Grants program, which covered the bulk of the project’s costs, the Goettingen group has been fundraising for the remaining $65,000 needed for fabrication and materials, with $15,000 raised so far. Donations can be made through StepsToWisdomSF.org The Goettingen Neighborhood Group aims to complete the project by spring 2023 Wright hopes “Steps to Wisdom” will inspire additional community art projects in the Portola “I just want to see more beautiful things in the neighborhood,” said Hua Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Ben Pimentel’s new weekly newsletter covering the biggest technology stories in San Francisco Receive our newspaper electronically with the e-edition email Receive occasional local offers from our website and its advertisers Sneak peek of the Examiner real estate section We'll send breaking news and news alerts to you as they happen Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment University of Colorado provides funding as a member of The Conversation US View all partners There are two things that connect the names Gauss One is their outstanding breadth of contributions to the field of mathematics The other is that each was a professor at the same university in Göttingen Although relatively unknown today, Göttingen, a small German university town, was for a time one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history The story of the rise and fall of mathematics in Göttingen has largely been forgotten but names associated with the place still appear frequently in the world of mathematics Its legacy survives today in other mathematical research powerhouses around the world In 1734, King George II, who ruled both the United Kingdom and a large area of land in Northern Europe, founded a university in Göttingen The Enlightenment was by this point in full swing in northern Germany. For example, mathematician Gottfried Leibniz developed calculus less than 100 miles north of the new university as both rich and poor were admitted and trained By the late 18th century, the university in Göttingen was a well-known center of scientific learning in Germany. Its enduring mathematical prowess, however, originated in Carl Friedrich Gauss Often referred to as the prince of mathematics his research at Göttingen between 1795 and 1855 spanned from algebra to magnetism to astronomy Klein was instrumental in hiring the next generation of mathematicians to Göttingen. This generation included Carl Runge, who helped invent a key part of today’s most accurate weather prediction software, the Runge-Kutta time stepper; Hermann Minkowski who is perhaps best known for his work on relativity; and David Hilbert Hilbert’s famous 23 problems, presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900, guided mathematical research for the entire 20th century. During his career as professor and head of the math department at Göttingen, he mentored an astounding 76 Ph.D. students many of whom went on to make seminal discoveries of their own After Gauss’s appointment at the university until the early 1930s Göttingen’s mathematical prowess survived in an environment of constant political turmoil professors with Jewish connections and anyone who opposed Nazism fled Germany who had been appointed Hilbert’s successor as chair of mathematics in Göttingen where he helped to transform the Institute for Advanced Studies into a research powerhouse Hilbert was asked in 1934 by the minister of science under the Nazi regime whether mathematics in Göttingen had suffered from the departure of the Jews and friends of the Jews. He replied: “Suffered It doesn’t exist anymore!” Hilbert was right Only one of the pre-Nazi full professors stayed past 1934 The center of mathematics shifted quickly during the Nazi era and in the wake of World War II. Courant, Weyl and others helped move it to the U.K. and the U.S., where most of the top-ranked mathematics programs are located today These countries’ mathematical heritage is in Göttingen Parkinson’s disease is the world’s fastest growing neurodegenerative disorder and currently affects nearly 10 million people across the globe The condition is a progressive disorder that is caused by the death of nerve cells in the part of the brain called the substantia nigra losing the ability to produce an important chemical called dopamine due to the build-up of a protein alpha-synuclein people with Parkinson’s are treated with dopamine replacement therapy after they have already developed symptoms But researchers believe that early prediction and diagnosis would be valuable for finding treatments that could slow or stop Parkinson’s by protecting the dopamine producing brain cells Professor Kevin Mills (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) said: “As new therapies become available to treat Parkinson’s we need to diagnose patients before they have developed the symptoms We cannot regrow our brain cells and therefore we need to protect those that we have “At present we are shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted and we need to start experimental treatments before patients develop symptoms we set out to use state-of-the-art technology to find new and better biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease and develop them into a test that we can translate into any large NHS laboratory we hope that this may be possible within two years.” found that when a branch of AI called machine learning analysed a panel of eight blood based biomarkers whose concentrations are altered in patients with Parkinson’s it could provide a diagnosis with 100% accuracy The team then experimented to see whether the test could predict the likelihood that a person would go on to develop Parkinson’s They did this by analysing blood from 72 patients with Rapid Eye Movement Behaviour Disorder (iRBD) This disorder results in patients physically acting out their dreams without knowing it (having vivid or violent dreams) It is now known that about 75-80% of these people with iRBD will go on to develop a synucleinopathy (a type of brain disorder caused by the abnormal buildup of a protein called alpha-synuclein in brain cells) – including Parkinson’s When the machine learning tool analysed the blood of these patients it identified that 79% of the iRBD patients had the same profile as someone with Parkinson’s The patients were followed up over the course of ten years and the AI predictions have so far matched the clinical conversion rate – with the team correctly predicting 16 patients as going on to develop Parkinson’s and being able to do this up to seven years before the onset of any symptoms The team are now continuing to follow up on those predicted to develop Parkinson’s to further verify the accuracy of the test Co-first-author Dr Michael Bartl (University Medical Center Goettingen) who conducted the research from the clinical side alongside Dr Jenny Hällqvist (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) said: "By determining 8 proteins in the blood we can identify potential Parkinson's patients several years in advance This means that drug therapies could potentially be given at an earlier stage which could possibly slow down disease progression or even prevent it from occurring but can diagnose the disease based on markers that are directly linked to processes such as inflammation and degradation of non-functional proteins So these markers represent possible targets for new drug treatments.” Professor Kailash Bhatia (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery) and his team are currently examining the test’s accuracy by analysing samples from those in the population who are at high risk of developing Parkinson’s for example those with mutations in particular genes such as ‘LRRK2’ or ‘GBA’ that cause Gaucher disease The team are also hoping to secure funding to create a simpler blood spot test where a drop of blood can be spotted on a card and posted to the lab to investigate if it can predict Parkinson’s disease even earlier than the seven years before the onset of symptoms in this study The research was funded by an EU Horizon 2020 grant the National Institute for Health and Care Research GOSH Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) represents a major step forward in the search for a definitive and patient friendly diagnostic test for Parkinson’s Finding biological markers that can be identified and measured in the blood is much less invasive than a lumbar puncture which is being used more and more in clinical research it may be possible that this blood based test could distinguish between Parkinson’s and other conditions that have some early similarities such as Multiple Systems Atrophy or Dementia with Lewy Bodies “The findings add to an exciting flurry of recent activity towards finding a simple way to test for and measure Parkinson’s.” The agricultural scientist Professor Matin Qaim from the University of Göttingen was recently elected Fellow of the American Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) The fellowship is the highest US American recognition in agricultural economics for outstanding and continuous scientific achievements The AAEA has been honouring fellows since 1957 Qaim is the first German agricultural economist to receive this award are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system Copyright © 2025 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) your new go-to podcast to spice up your weekday mornings with relevant news and behind-the-scenes from Brussels and beyond From the economy to the climate and the EU's role in world affairs this talk show sheds light on European affairs and the issues that impact on our daily lives as Europeans Tune in to understand the ins and outs of European politics Dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries Deep dive conversations with business leaders Euronews Tech Talks goes beyond discussions to explore the impact of new technologies on our lives the podcast provides valuable insights into the intersection of technology and society Europe's water is under increasing pressure floods are taking their toll on our drinking water Join us on a journey around Europe to see why protecting ecosystems matters and to discover some of the best water solutions an animated explainer series and live debate - find out why Water Matters We give you the latest climate facts from the world’s leading source analyse the trends and explain how our planet is changing We meet the experts on the front line of climate change who explore new strategies to mitigate and adapt Göttingen will become the first city in Germany to allow bathers to swim topless in their public pools at weekends The city council announced on Thursday that the new rules will come into force from 1 May until the end of August The move has been hailed as a step towards gender equality where all genders will be able to use the city's water recreation facilities topless The decision comes after an incident last year when a swimmer -- who identified as male -- was banned from one of the city's pools after refusing to cover their chest Göttingen city council has defended the move to limit topless swimming to weekends due to weekday school swimming lessons Most German saunas are already mixed and require their customers to be naked for hygiene reasons Morning Rundown: Movie tariffs met with confusion, the best Met Gala looks, and burger joints learn to cluck  My NewsSign Out Sign InCreate your free profileSections news Alerts After a fire of a storage building in Goettingen's industrial district chemicals were released and arrived at the creek together with the fire fighting water AFP PHOTO / STEFAN RAMPFEL GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read STEFAN RAMPFEL/AFP/Getty Images)STEFAN RAMPFEL / AFP - Getty Images epa03129473 A young man stands between two streams in Goettingen central Germany 2 March 2012 but there is a marked difference in their appearance On the right is a green coloured stream which is the result of released chemicals due to a fire at a storage facility nearby and flushed into the stream by water used to extinguish the fire While the German police claim the chemicals that seeped into the Grone creek are harmless, the neon green water makes me think of ooze that could be capable of turning turtles into crime-fighting ninjas. Hopefully, the authorities are correct and no animals will face karate-chopping futures. You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience A new survey conducted by Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE showed that 72.4% of the country’s farmers are considering the deployment of an agrivoltaic project the researchers identified the additional source of income coming from solar power generation and the perceived usefulness of the technology Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) and the University of Goettingen conducted a survey to understand which factors may motivate German farmers to build agrivoltaic facilities and found that their vast majority is considering this option “Previous literature already found that farmers have a keen interest in using agrivoltaics,” the scientists explained the perception of agrivoltaics depends on the perceived feasibility and usefulness of the technology there is a high degree of uncertainty surrounding agrivoltaics as it is still perceived to be in the early stages of development.” The main question at the center of the survey was “In principle would you be willing to use an agrivoltaic system on your farm?” It was also based on a technology acceptance model that takes into account the “perceived usefulness” and “perceived ease of use” of a given technology The former describes the extent to which a person feels that its work performance is enhanced by a given technology and the latter describes the extent to which a person perceives that the use of a technology is effortless The survey also considered factors such as risk tolerance The latter refers to the perceived social pressure coming from influential people The scientists explained that the survey was carried out in February 2023 and based on the answers of 214 valid respondents with the survey's completion rate reaching 66.7% “To find out which factors influence the probability that farmers want to use agrivoltaics on their farms binary logistic regression was applied,” they emphasized “The eight factors extracted from the factor analysis are included as independent variables to explain farmers' decision behavior.” The analysis showed that the most important factors motivating the adoption of an agrivoltaic solution among German farmers are the additional source of income coming from solar power generation the “perceived usefulness” of the technology and the “subjective norm.” It also showed that 72.4% of farmers are willing to use agrivoltaics “While the research indicates relatively minor doubts about the technology and its economic benefits the bureaucratic hurdles associated with construction represent a significant barrier,” the research team emphasized the results reveal a nuanced perspective on the protective functions of agrivoltaics This may arise from the need for additional scientific and practical evidence showcasing the technology's potential to provide protection and synergies for agricultural practices.” More articles from Emiliano Bellini What is “big science” in a survey of German farmers who are completely dependent on government subsidies There will be subsidies for agrivoltaic and the transition to electric tractors and to electric combines – agrivoltaic will be introduced to 99% of farmers Looks to me like if you put 300 panels on a field it would pay for itself within a couple of years at a price of £250 per panel plus installation Please be mindful of our community standards and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" This website uses cookies to anonymously count visitor numbers. View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close One of the world´s three most powerful high-resolution 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometers comes to Göttingen It looks like a giant thermos flask and weighs eight tons But that is not the only reason the new 1.2 Gigahertz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer is a worldwide research heavyweight the technology sets new standards in high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy: 28.2 Tesla – almost 600,000 times stronger than the earth´s magnetic field there are only three of these high-tech instruments; besides the University of Florence and ETH Zurich there is now one set up in Göttingen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry The costs for the instrument are 12.5 million euros Markus Zweckstetter (left) and Christian Griesinger in front of the new 1,2-GHz-NMR-spectrometer A 60-ton crane and two trucks were necessary to put the new NMR spectrometer safely into the recently built hall at the institute now in Göttingen through the efforts of Christian Griesinger and Markus Zweckstetter will allow their teams to further expand their research in the field of neurodegenerative diseases The Göttingen NMR experts also hope for new findings in cancer and infection research  "The scientific concept for purchase of this high-performance device had convinced the Max Planck Society's management which decided to finance the project This unique state-of-the-art instrument will provide completely new insights into the structure and movements of biomolecules This is a promising basis for groundbreaking findings," Max Planck President Martin Stratmann is pleased with the scientists about the new spectrometer The latter promoted this type of funding with great commitment: “The joint work at the Göttingen Campus between the University and research partners is already in a class of its own These efforts are rewarded with one of the three internationally most powerful NMR spectrometers The Göttingen scientists now have access to the most modern research facilities worldwide" Lower Saxony's Minister of Science and Culture chairman of the executive board for research and education at UMG states: "The new 1.2 GHz spectrometer will further strengthen the excellently positioned and state-of-the-art imaging portfolio at the Göttingen Campus Research projects at the University Medical Center Göttingen will benefit from high-resolution NMR spectroscopy especially through the established collaborations with research partners within the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Center for Biostructural Imaging in Neurodegeneration This will be an important future building block for the research and treatment of diseases in the fields of neurology and oncology." Ein Kran hebt das neue Spektrometer an seinen Platz “NMR spectroscopy allows us to look at the mobility of atoms in a molecule in a broad range of time scales The new device will enhance the sensitivity of our measurements by at least 60 percent compared to the existing 950 MHz instrument,” says Max Planck Director Griesinger He is one of the world's leading experts in the development of methods for NMR spectroscopy and their application to biological problems “Our scientists are always pushing boundaries That means they need the instruments that push boundaries as well,” emphasizes Max Planck Vice President Asifa Akhtar.  a spin-off from the LMU and the Max Planck Society “With the new 1.2 GHz instrument we hope to better understand the conformational changes that anle138b induces in the protein aggregates,” Griesinger says Other proteins are difficult to investigate because they are located on or inserted in a biological membrane When these membrane proteins no longer function properly this can lead to severe disease “The new high-resolution spectrometer allows us to investigate such membrane proteins in their physiological environment,” reports Zweckstetter The Göttingen researchers are currently carrying out research on proteins that enable infections by viruses A new hall for the high-performance instrument was built within 19 months considering special requirements: No steel was used and the new building had to be built with special regard to a stable working environment Thick foundations make sure that no vibrations from inside or outside disturb the highly sensitive measurements the experiments react to the smallest temperature fluctuations so that high demands on the heating and ventilation systems had to be met It will take several weeks before the instrument is ready for research the insulation shield of the helium and nitrogen reservoirs of the NMR spectrometer has to be pumped out – similar to a thermos flask – for approximately three weeks to generate the vacuum needed the magnet will be cooled down in two steps then with liquid helium to the final temperature of -271 °C Only at these low temperatures will the superconducting coils inside the NMR spectrometer support the high current and high current density as well as the high magnetic field Charging will commence after about four weeks The magnet coil is a new development of the company Bruker and comes as a sandwich: high-temperature superconductors for the inner coil and normal low-temperature superconductors for the outer coil Only with this special design can such a high uniform magnetic field of 28.2 Tesla be generated Once the Göttingen NMR magnet has reached this field the spectrometer and probes can be tested and the first measurements undertaken The University of Göttingen has a long history of academic excellence its mathematics department was one of the main attractions The department's stars were Felix Klein and David Hilbert and one of Klein's projects was to develop and preserve the school's incredible collection of mathematical models Started in 1780 with a set of cardboard polyhedrons today the collection has hundreds of models dated from the 18th to the 21st century These models represent everything from algebraic curves to topology to probability theory The collection also includes mathematical instruments—calculating devices The collection was designed to combine "technical mathematical knowledge with aesthetically-pleasing geometrical representations," as mathematician and historian David E. Rowe writes—although math lovers might enjoy the ideas represented here the collection itself is remarkably accessible to even the least math-minded person The collection is open to the public whenever the math building is open; the collection is on the second floor This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence This library dates back to the late 17th century and was one of the first public lending libraries in England an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes The 1940s structure houses what was once Europe's largest telescope A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University By ALLAN HALL FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 00:15 BST Germany is mourning the loss of three bomb disposal experts killed yesterday by a 2,000lb World War II aerial mine Three others were seriously injured by the explosion which occurred when a bomb disposal team was cutting through the acid fuse of the bomb buried 24ft down in the university city of Goettingen 'Evacuation measures were far advanced for 7,200 people in a wide radius from where the bomb lay Rescue forces at the scene of the blast which took place in Goettingen 'Work was proceeding with a water cutter to get through the fuse of the bomb when it went off It was due to be defused at 10.30pm but detonated at 9.45pm there were 13 bomb disposal workers in the area.' Goettingen was bombed several times during World War II by both the RAF and American planes The bomb that killed the disposal team was being left until late to be made safe to allow an inter city express train to move through Goettingen station towards Hanover marked in the centre of the map by a red dot Authorities had evacuated 7,200 residents before experts attempted to defuse the 500 kg bomb Several houses had their fronts blown off by the blast The bomb was found as builders dug the foundations for a new sports hall Germany remains contaminated with unexploded bombs that are becoming increasingly unstable with age more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions ranging from German hand grenades and tank mines to Russian artillery shells are recovered every year more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs are recovered every year The bomb which went off in Goettingen is of a type containing a vial of acetone which bursts on impact and is meant to trickle down and dissolve a celluloid disk that keeps back the cocked firing pin that then ignites the TNT inside one of Germany's most experienced bomb disposal experts retired two years ago after four decades spent making Germany cities safe He warned in 2008 of the danger of rotting detonators 'The last few years we’ve found that the detonators we take out of such bombs are increasingly brittle 'We had three extracted detonators go off with a pissssh sound while they were being transported away 'One day such bombs will be so sensitive that no one will be able to handle them.' The comments below have been moderated in advance We are no longer accepting comments on this article The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group By 2011-12-05T07:00:00 German department store Karstadt has not been without its share of problems – not least of which has been its inability to garner sufficient sales to convince those who need convincing that it is a good long-term prospect Already have an account? Sign in here Site powered by Webvision Cloud Begin typing your search above and press return to search On occasion of the 126th Birth anniversary of Dr students and research fellows from the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Goettingen organised an anti-caste photo exhibition This is the third time that such an exhibition has been organised in Goettingen The exhibits displayed at the exhibition included key events wide-ranging themes and brief information about important personalities in the history of the anti-caste movement in India The exhibits displayed included paintings and cartoons made by Malvika Raj the exhibits included Mahatma Ayyankali’s bullock cart movement in 1893 that asserted Dalits’ right to own a bullock cart and use the public streets; Kerala Dalit women’s revolt of 1915 against the caste norms prohibiting them from wearing ornaments made of gold and metal; the formation of Dalit Panthers organisation in the 1970s; Dr Ambedkar led non-violent revolt for accessing water from the public tank and the burning of Manusmriti text in 1927 the historic conversion to Buddhism Ambedkar carried out along with lakhs of his anti-caste followers in 1956 and the submission of the constitution by Ambedkar to the constituent assembly in 1950 the exhibits included the issue of Dalit and Adivasi student suicide on university campuses ban on beef-eating and the persistence of manual scavenging the exhibition displayed information on Savitribai and Jotirao Phule and their contribution for social emancipation Ambedkar and especially the letter he wrote in German language to the Prussian Ministry of Science Ambedkar studied Sanskrit for three months at Bonn University in 1923 There was also an exhibit on Ambedkar’s close associate from Bengal Mahapran Jogendranath Mondal who played a crucial role in the organising the Dalits and giving a call for the unity of oppressed The information on other anti-caste personalities included Fakhr-e-Qaum Abdul Qaiyum Ansari from eastern India who played an important role in the upliftment of the oppressed castes and communities and Kusuma Dharmanna from Andhra Pradesh who argued for the abolition of caste and untouchability along with ending the colonial domination there was an exhibit of Pandit Iyothee Thass a pioneer anti-caste personality from Tamil-speaking region who identified caste based oppressed people as ancient Buddhists More than 500 students visited the exhibition and several visitors wrote their appreciation in German Rupali Bansode and Chandra Bhanu with an active support from Dr es ist ein weitgehend unangesprochenes Thema[,] das[s] die Diskriminierung in Indien nicht nur Frauen sondern weitestgehend auch andere Gruppen & von anderen Strukturen herrührt that discrimination in India not only affects women but also other groups as well Everyone who has been to India must have felt the crazy energy of this country It is more surprising that within the Indian spirituality The 19th century Russian system of serfdom is nothing compared to the caste-based discrimination Ambedkar was the leader of a movement against this dark side of India which shows this aspect of Indian society for a broad audience This is an excellent exhibition showing the multi-faceted struggle against caste as a means of oppression People in Germany would know more about this aspect of Indian society helps people to know about certain issues that we are not aware of The photos and small texts make it easier to comprehend I appreciate the efforts of making the Indian anti-caste movement an internationally recognised issue It is an important way to understand India and its diversity Die Cartoons veranschaulichen die Sachen nochmal in eine[r] andere[n] Weise und [stellen] die Kritik sehr gut dar The cartoons were quite illustrative and represent critique in a good way Eine sehr übersichtliche und gut zu verstehende Ausstellung die auch für Außenstehende verständlich ist Gut zusammengefasste Texte und Karikaturen die klarstellen wie Dalits [etc.] immer noch behandelt werden which is also easily comprehensible for outsiders The well-written summaries and cartoons show how Dalits and others are still being treated Support Velivada Tobias Moser receives high distinction from French Fondation Pour l'Audition: "Scientific Grand Prize" 2020 honours his pioneering work on the optical cochlear implant for the treatment of hearing loss Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the Universiy Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) has been awarded the "Grand Prize 2020" of the French Fondation Pour l'Audition (FPA) for his revolutionary contributions to hearing research the FPA honours his pioneering work in the development of the optical cochlear implant which gives hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who suffer from deafness and impaired hearing the hope of a significantly improved sense of hearing The "Grand Science Prize" of the Fondation Pour l'Audition is endowed with 100,000 euros and was awarded on 18 November 2020 during a virtual ceremony The Göttingen neuroscientist and physician Tobias Moser is active in a number of networks on the Göttingen Campus Moser is spokesperson of the Cluster of Ex-cellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC) and the Collaborative Research Center 889 "Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing" In addition to the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the UMG Moser also heads Max Planck Fellow research groups at the Max Planck Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI-BPC) and of Experimental Medicine (MPI-EM) in Göttingen and works as Adjunct Professor at the German Primate Center (DPZ) The foundations for the development of the optical cochlear implant were laid by Prof Moser's groundbreaking findings on the physiology and anatomy of hair cells synapses and their dysfunction in diseases of the inner ear Using an innovative combination of modern gene therapy and optogenetic techniques Tobias Moser and his co-operative scientists have succeeded in stimulating the auditory nerve with light impulses in an animal model which were previously introduced and incorporated into auditory nerve membranes by gene transfer via viruses These can be activated with the help of weak light pulses and thus imitate the function of the hair cells that are often lost in deafness The method enables a much higher spatial precision than the current excitation via electrodes used in the current cochlear implant Moser has taken hearing research a big step forward towards the development of optical cochlear implants for humans “Hearing with light" could enable future users to distinguish more precisely between pitches and thus help to better understand speech in noisy environments and to enjoy music to a greater extent Tobias Moser already has received several awards for his scientific contributions in the field of hearing research He completed his medical studies in Leipzig and Jena/Erfurt with a doctorate in medicine in 1995 From 1994 to 1997 he worked as a post-doctoral fellow under Nobel Prize winner Prof Erwin Neher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry he was head of a junior research group from 1997 to 2001 he completed a specialist training course in ear nose and throat medicine at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the University Medical Center Göttingen he habilitated and was appointed W2 professor in 2005 and finally became a W3 professor for auditory neuroscience at the UMG Department of Otorhinolaryngology in 2007 Since 2015 he has been director of the Institute for Auditorial Neuroscience at the UMG Tobias Moser is married and has three children The "Scientific Grand Prize" is awarded annually by the French Foundation Pour l'Audition (FPA) to honour excellent scientists and doctors whose work presents a major breakthroughs in hearing science The FPA was established to raise public awareness of hearing health promote sciencific progress and provide new solutions for the treatment of hearing disorders dateFormat['de_DE'])+ ' - '+item['institution']+' Universitätsmedizin Göttingen - Georg-August-Universität Weitere Pressemitteilungen dieser Einrichtung