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An excellent year for HIC for FAIR by Björn Bäuchle, Marcus Bleicher, Gabriela Meyer After a successful evaluation in March 2011, the Helmholtz International Center for FAIR (HIC for FAIR) has been granted prolongation of the center for another three years. Thus, the ambitious research activities for FAIR conducted at the Universities of Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Gießen, the FIAS together with the partners GSI Helmholtz Zentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), and the Helmholtz Association continue. Total support by the LOEWE program initiated by the state of Hesse amounts to 19.4 million Euro for the second funding period. Ground-breaking research for FAIR HIC for FAIR has been founded in 2008 in the first call of the Hessian LOEWE initiative (Landes- Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz). The Universities of Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Gießen, the FIAS, GSI, and the Helmholtz Association have bundled their resources and research activities to foster FAIR-related research in Hesse. HIC for FAIR covers all four research pillars of FAIR including especially PANDA, CBM, nuclear astrophysics (NuSTAR), APPA and accelerator physics. Expertise and funding is provided for the development of the various experiments, theoretical investigations and large-scale computing via LOEWE-CSC (Center for Scientific Computing). LOEWE professorships, Helmholtz Young Investigators and young scientists The hiring of faculty members at the HIC for FAIR partner institutions is nearly completed: 13 W2/Fellow- and seven W3-positions out of 26 have been filled. HIC for FAIR is actively promoting young scientists. Out of nine W1/Junior Fellow positions, five have been filled. In addition, three Helmholtz Young Investigator (HYI) groups have succeeded in a competitive selection procedure of the Helmholtz Association and will join HIC for FAIR in 2012. In 2011, the number of doctoral students working in HIC for FAIR has increased to nearly 200 young scientists coming from 30 different nations. International visibility More than 30 international conferences and workshops have been (co-)funded and organized by HIC for FAIR scientists. More than 150 visiting scientists from all over the world have contributed to the scientific program at HIC for FAIR. 10 Prof. Kester (on the right, HIC for FAIR, Univ. Frankfurt, head of the accelerator division at GSI) discussing with the reviewers sitting in the front row (left: Prof. Harris, Yale Univ.; right: Prof. Lippert, Jülich). MC in the left background: Prof. Bleicher. Photo: © Uwe Dettmar, Frankfurt am Main.
ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI by Carlo Ewerz The Extreme Matter Institute EMMI was founded in 2008 in the framework of the Helmholtz Alliance 'Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory' and is funded by the Helmholtz Association. The institute, which is managed by the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, is dedicated to research in the area of matter at the extremes of density and temperature, ranging from the coldest to the hottest and densest forms of matter in the Universe. This comprises in particular the four key areas a) quark-gluon plasma and the phase structure of strongly interacting matter, b) neutron matter, c) electromagnetic plasmas of high energy density, d) cold quantum gases and extreme states in atomic physics. This research is carried out with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects and common underlying concepts connecting the different research areas. EMMI research is carried out in close collaboration with its 13 international partner institutions; among the German partners are the universities of Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Münster, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Max-Planck-Institut for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, and FIAS. To the latter EMMI has particularly close ties. The Scientific Director of EMMI, Prof. Peter Braun- Munzinger, is also a Senior Fellow of FIAS. The four EMMI Fellows (leaders of EMMI Fellow Groups) are also Fellows at FIAS. In 2011, more than 350 scientist contributed to the activities in EMMI, among them more than 150 doctoral students and more than 100 postdocs. The structured graduate education of doctoral students within EMMI is organized in close collaboration with the surrounding graduate schools, for example with the Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research (HGS-HIRe), the Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics (HGSFP), and the Helmholtz Research School Quark Matter Studies (H-QM). In 2011, EMMI members have published more than 250 papers in refereed journals, and more than 100 contributions to conference proceedings. EMMI runs an active workshop program. 8 EMMI workshops and one three-week EMMI program with strong international participation were organized in 2011. Among these workshops was the FIAS-EMMI Day that took place at FIAS. In December 2011, the first EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force was organized and addressed the problem of thermalization in heavy ion collisions. The Rapid Reaction Task Forces are a new instrument which allows EMMI to gather a group of 15 to 20 world experts in order to address a particular scientific question in intense discussion. These meetings can be organized on a short timescale in order to react quickly to current and emerging questions. 11 renowned experts have visited EMMI partner institutions for extended periods in 2011 as EMMI Visiting Professor, and have made progress in their collaborations with EMMI members. These and further EMMI activities are listed at www.gsi.de/emmi. In March 2011 EMMI has moved to the new office building at GSI. The building offers a lecture hall and four seminar rooms and provides a unique infrastructure for the activities of EMMI, in particular for workshops and programs. 11
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Untangling the interactions between
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Stimulus information coded by spike
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Non-stationarity of neuronal activi
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Timescale of information processing
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Discovery of agency in 6 and 8-mont
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Power spectra of the natural input
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Self-organization in recurrent neur
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Learning mechanisms underlying visu
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Phase transitions in large clusters
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Photo-processes in fullerenes and e
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