Annual Report 2004 - Profil - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

P OLITICAL G UIDELINESstudents with outstanding expertise in mathematicsand related disciplines.IMPRS Human Origins, LeipzigThis joint postgraduate program offered bythe Max Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology and the University of Leipzigprovides interdisciplinary training andresearch opportunities for graduates whowish to complete a doctorate in the disciplinesof anthropology, evolutionary genetics,primatology, or paleoanthropology. The PhDstudents join a research group at either theMPI or the University of Leipzig.disciplines within astrophysics. By providingthe best possible research and trainingopportunities, the school hopes to prepareoutstanding students from all over the worldfor a successful career in astronomy, astrophysicsor space research.IMPRS for the Science and Technology ofNanostructures, HalleThis joint IMPRS resulting from a partnershipbetween the Martin Luther Universityof Halle, the Fraunhofer Institute for theMechanics of Materials, and the MaxPlanck Institute for Microstructure Physicsin Halle offers students from both Germanyand abroad comprehensive training leadingto a doctorate in the disciplines ofnanosciences and nanotechnology. Successfulapplicants will be have the opportunity tobe closely integrated into ongoing researchprojects and to become familiar with fascinatingtopics such as electronic, magneticand optical properties in the nanoworld, spinelectronics, nanocontacts, and the synthesisof nanostructures.IMPRS for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics,HeidelbergThis joint initiative by the Max Planck Institutefor Astronomy, the Astrophysics andParticle Physics Departments of the MaxPlanck Institute for Nuclear Physics, theInstitute for Theoretical Astrophysics at theUniversity of Heidelberg, the HeidelbergAstronomical Computing Institute, and theState Observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhloffers students expert support in virtually allIMPRS: Elementary Particle Physics – Theoretical,Experimental, and CosmologicalFrontiers, MunichThis graduate school, the result of closecooperation between the Max Planck Institutefor Physics and groups working in thefields of elementary particle physics andastroparticle physics at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity of Munich and the TechnicalUniversity of Munich, offers gifted PhD studentsexcellent opportunities to conductboth theoretical and experimental researchin the fields of high-energy physics,35