Overview

Lecture Weeks are one of several methods we offer for all of our Early Career Researchers (ECRs). We offer three lecture weeks a year. In addition to three 90 minutes lectures that are offered during the day, ECRs practice team building exercises in the evening.

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2025 Schedule

Lecture weeks will be jointly organized with QFIRS and TerraQ RTG

Winter Lecture Week

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG and GFZ Potsdam

February 10 - 14, 2025

Lecture Week Venue:
Seminar rooms 1-3 in Haus H in Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam

You can find the campus map here.

Accommodation:
A hotel room at the Mercure Hotel Potsdam City will be reserved for participants who register by November 30, 2024.
Address: Lange Brücke, 14467 Potsdam

Travel Information:
Participants should prepare their travels.

Schedule
Here is a program and a schedule. Please note that it is still tentative and subject to minor changes.

Number of Participants
The maximum number of participants is 25.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
The link to register is distributed by Fumiko Kawazoe via email.

General Information
Participants should request their business travel at their institute and have it accepted before the event.

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Summer Lecture Week

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG

July 28 - August 1, 2025

Location and Accommodation:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
The participant will be booked a hotel room of their desired type, either a single room or a double-bed room.

Travel Information:
Participants should prepare their travels.

Lecture topics:
The basics of the following topics will be covered.

Lasers

Electronics

Power Spectral Density

Superconductivity and Low Temperature Physics

Special- and General relativity

Relativistic Geodesy

Fundamental Physics

Schedule
A program and a schedule will follow

Number of Participants
The maximum number of participants is 28.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
Please register here.

General Information
Participants should request their business travel at their institute and have it accepted before the event.

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Lecture Notes
After each Lecture Week, lecture slides and notes will be available in a password-protected area.
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Historical facts

Lecture Week Series Begins: The Lecture Week concept was originated and refined for the International Max Planck Research School on Gravitational Wave Astronomy (IMPRS-GW) by its founding Spokespersons, Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann and Prof. Dr. Bernard Schutz. More than 40 Lecture Weeks were organized during its operation from 2006 to 2023.

geo-Q Research Training Group Joins: The Research Training Group led by Dr. Fumiko Kawazoe, within the framework of the SFB 1128: Relativistic Geodesy and Gravimetry with Quantum Sensors - Modelling, Geo-Metrology and Future Technology (geo-Q), collaborated with the International Max Planck Research School on Gravitational Wave Astronomy (IMPRS-GW) to establish the first joint concept of Lecture Week series in 2015 until geo-Q ended in 2019.

QuantumFrontiers International Research School Joins: In 2019, the launch of the QuantumFrontiers International Research School under EXC 2123 resulted in the expansion of this collaborative effort.

TerraQ Research School Joins: The newly funded SFB 1464: Relativistic and quantum-based geodesy (TerraQ) Research Training Group led by Dr. Liliane Biskupek (2021-2024) and Dr. Fumiko Kawazoe (2021-today) continued the joint Lecture Week series, further strengthening the collaboration.

Please visit here for details of the past joint Lecture Week series.

Contact

If you have a question, please feel free to contact the organisers:
QF Chief Study Officer, TerraQ PI: Fumiko Kawazoe
TerraQ PI : Liliane Biskupek (until the end of April)
TerraQ PI: Annike Knabe (May 1st on)