News

MARCH 2024

This year´s selection is now concluded. Seven new students will join the School later on this year, five will be affiliated with DESY, one with HU and one with RUB. 

 

FEBRUARY 2024

The Cohort Meeting (originally planned in November 2023) took place on February 15. To welcome the new doctoral researchers, we invited Prof. Katja Poppenhäger, head of the department "Stellar Physics and Exoplanets" at the AIP and professor at the University of Potsdam, to give a talk about her research. Afterwards we took a tour of the DESY Zeuthen campus and visited the CTA, IceCube and ULTRASAT experiments.

 

DECEMBER 2023

Amir Sharon successfully defended his thesis entitled "Constraining supernovae models using γ-ray deposition histories and the Type Ia supernova intrinsic luminosity function". Congratulations!

 

NOVEMBER 2023

We had to postpone the School´s Cohort Meeting to January 2024. The new date will be announced soon!

In the meanwhile the selection committee is reviewing the received applications.

 

SEPTEMBER 2023

On September 26 the application round has started. We accept online applications until November 5. To apply go to "Application".

 

JULY / AUGUST 2023

Some of our doctoral researchers presented their results at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) in Nagoya, Japan from July 26 to August 3, 2023. The conference highlights were presented to the other students during the monthly Science Club on August 24.

Moreover, Annika Rudolph, former PhD student at our school, received the Doctoral Thesis Award of the German Astronomical Society. Congratulations Annika!

 

JUNE 2023

Between June 5 and June 8 the school members met at the Annual Meeting at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. There the doctoral candidates presented the current status of their research projects through talks and posters. The programme included also an excursion to Jerusalem and talks given by invited speakers: Prof. Dan Maoz talked about Supernovae Ia and Dr. Meytal Eran-Jona and Prof. Yosef Nir presented the results of their gender research in physics. 

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MMS in Jerusalem

APRIL 2023

On April 20 some doctoral students attended the workshop "Skills needed to build a (successful) career in academia" organised by the GENERA Network (Gender Equality Network in Physics in the European Research Area). Dr. Francesca Primas (ESO) and Lisa Kamlade (DESY) talked about some of the basic core skills and how to acquire them, whereas Lia Lang (DESY) gave advice on how to network. The event was moderated by Louise Carvalho (CERN).

Moreover, on the same day Inbar Savoray received the Yoel Racah prize as an outstanding theoretical PhD student. Congratulations!

 

MARCH 2023

On March 16 Oz Davidi successfully defended his dissertation at the Weizmann Institute of Science. We congratulate him and wish him good luck for his future career!

 

FEBRUARY 2023

This year´ s selection of doctoral students has been completed. Three new students will join our graduate school later on this year.

 

JANUARY 2023

The first meeting of the year was the Science Club on January 26. Marc Klinger gave a talk on the foundations of radiation processes, in particular the Weizsäcker-Williams approach to intuitively understand the radiation from a relativistic charge. 

 

DECEMBER 2022

At the mid-term evaluation on December 7, the School received positive feedback from the Helmholtz Association.

 

NOVEMBER 2022

We welcomed the new doctoral researchers of the school with our yearly Cohort Meeting. On the first day we got to know each other and had fun with an impro-theatre workshop, while on the second day we organized a Good Scientific Practice workshop.

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Cohort Meeting 2022

SEPTEMBER 2022

From September 26 until November 6 of 2022, the next round of applications for the MMS is up. We have some interesting PhD projects, both at the German and the Israeli partner institutions. All details on the application process can be found at https://www.multimessenger-school.de/application/.

 

JULY / AUGUST 2022

We wish everyone nice summer holidays!

 

JUNE 2022

This month was busy with MMS meetings. On June 16th-18th we held our annual meeting (link: https://indico.desy.de/event/34197/) at the Zeuthen campus that brought an update on the individual PhD projects via talks and poster presentations as well as an update on the future activities of the MMS. The event was completed with plenary talks, time for meetings of the different status groups, a session on career support through DESY’s COAST initiative, a joint dinner and boat tour.

Right after that there was the first MMS bottom-up organized workshop (link: https://indico.desy.de/event/33892/) on the topic of Machine Learning which was attended by both students from the German and the Israeli partner institutions.  Data sets from ZTF and PLAsTICC were used for various classification tasks. The event was rounded up with a common dinner, a plenary talk on “Biomedical text Mining” and, of course, a session on career perspectives.

 

APRIL / MAY 2022

Finally the first Israel stays took place! Four students spent 2-3 weeks in Rehovot at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in Neot Smadar (in the Negev Desert) to conduct observations with the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST).

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Kibbutz Neot Smadar

FEBRUARY 2022

The PhD candidates selected at the end of 2021 have been interviewed. Two students have been selected and they will join the School later on this year.

 

JANUARY 2022

Even if the pandemic still restricts us to online meetings – we had fun at the MMS All-Hands meeting on January 11. We met for two hours and looked at upcoming events and discussed current issues as well as possible points of interaction for the upcoming year.

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DECEMBER 2021

We wish all MMS members and their families a Merry Christmas and a good start in 2022. Stay healthy!

 

NOVEMBER 2021

On November 11 at the Cohort Meeting we welcomed the students who joined our School this year. In the morning Prof. Tim Dietrich from the University of Potsdam gave a talk entitled “Interpreting the nuclear physics -- multi-messenger astrophysics picture drawn by neutron star mergers”. The talk has been followed by an interesting discussion. In the afternoon students and supervisors visited the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

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OCTOBER 2021

The application period to the Multimessenger School has started on October 1 and runs until November 7, 2021.

 

SEPTEMBER 2021

The next round of applications is just a few weeks ahead and we are gathering the information for new projects. Stay tuned!

 

AUGUST 2021

We have a video! We proudly present a video that highlights not only our research and the unique opportunities the school offers, but also stars some of our members. Thanks to everyone who participated and made this so much fun!

 

JULY 2021

The School participated to the International Cosmic Ray Conference 2021 (ICRC). Its programme has been presented to interested Master students. 

 

MAY 2021

The executive board decided for the school to associate with the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB), thanks to the cooperation with Anna Franckowiak who moved from DESY to Bochum.

 

APRIL 2021

On April 15 the school organised for its students a Mental Health Event. With a talk entitled “A Scientist´s Primer on Mental Health” Teresa Mayer, a volunteer from the non-profit global organisation Dragonfly Mental Health, highlighted the causes and consequences of mental health illnesses in academia. The talk was followed by a discussion that brought suggestions on how to prevent and manage such issues. 

 

FEBRUARY / MARCH 2021

The selection and admission process for the next round of MMS PhD candidates is completed. Over the course of the next months there will be 5 new PhDs joining the programme. In this round we also warmly welcome candidates from our newly established cooperation with ECAP and FAU. Welcome aboard!

 

JANUARY 2021

The executive board agreed to extend the existing cooperation with the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) / Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) via Anna Nelles to also include Stefan Funk and Uli Katz as new PIs of the school.

 

DECEMBER 2020

On December 8 we held the welcome meeting for the second cohort. The new students received information about the school, its regulations and the partner institutions. Afterwards they spent some time together (virtually, of course). In addition, an online social event has been organised in the evening.

 

NOVEMBER 2020

The application round ended on November 8. Applications were reviewed by the PIs. The selection committee will meet in December to make the shortlist of candidates.

 

OCTOBER 2020

On October 1 the third application round opened. 

 

AUGUST 2020

Between the 25th and the 27th of August 2020 we held our Multimessenger School Annual Meeting. In order to comply with the security rules due to Covid-19 the meeting has been organised virtually.

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JULY 2020

On July 2 we held our first Science Coffee with a discussion on SGR 1935. This seminar will take place from now on every 2 weeks on Thursday at 13h (CET). Click on the link on the right column of this page ("upcoming events") to see the schedule of the next seminars.

 

FEBRUARY 2020

After a second round of applications for the school in December 2019, interviews to select future candidates were held in Berlin in February 2020. Among 11 candidates, 5 have been choosen by the selection committee as next PhD students of the School.

 

OCTOBER 2019

Kick-off of the School

The International Helmholtz-Weizmann Graduate School for Multimessenger Astronomy was opened on the 28th of October 2019 with a festive ceremony in Israel. The program, in which the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam have joined forces with DESY, is funded by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres with 1.8 million euros. The school will initially start with 17 doctoral students, eight of whom are currently at DESY and nine at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. More information here.