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Trilateral Conference on Industrial Waste Water
Management, Anna University,Chennai, February 2005
Second Science Circle Lecture
Inauguration of the Max Planck Cooperation
Programme with India
Indo German Winter Academy at IIT Kharagpur
Tele-education Project between University
Würzburg and India supported by theEuropean Union
Indo German Workshop on Toxicology, 5-7 January
2005, Ahmedabad
Einstein Year 2005
Workshop of Indian and Max Planck Society
Scientists, 6-9 March, 2005, NCBS,Bangalore
Indo German Workshop on Immunology, 5-7
February, 2005, Faridabad
New: Indo German Biotechnology Website!
A Driving force in innovation - The
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Experts with a
university or industry background from India, Germany and
France participated at this trilateral conference. The focus
was on new technologies applied to all types of industrial
waste water treatment and advanced research in this field.
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The Second
Science Circle lecture was organised at India Habitat Centre
on January 21, 2005.Prof. Dr. R. Kind, Head of Seismology
Section of the
GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam delivered a talk on
“Tsunami Warning System – A German Contribution”
Picture Gallery of the meeting
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Dr. Kind’s presentation contact us
The first four
Max Planck Partner Groups were ceremoniously inaugurated on
December 17, 2004 at the Indian Institute for Technology
Delhi. Professor Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn, Vice President of the Max
Planck Society, and Professor Dr. V.S. Ramamurthy, State
Secretary at the Department of Science & Technology welcomed
several Directors from prestigious Indian research facilities,
as well as from diverse Max Planck Institutes, including
Professor Hartmut Michel, Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry and
Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics who also
held the festive adress. In the course of the event the first
four
“Max-Planck Partner Groups” have been set up and six
"Max
Planck India Fellowships" were also awarded to Indian junior
scientists.
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Gallery of the event
The third
Winter Academy 2004 from 3rd to 10th December, 2004 was held
in Haldia near Kolkata under the auspices of the
IIT Kharagpur. 36 students of IITs and 6 students from
University of Erlangen, Germany participated in the Winter
Academy.
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Students from
Southern India will control via internet, robots at the
University Würzburg. In tele-experiments with remote hardware
the students from partner universities shall thus learn the
basics of robotics. The computer scientists of
Julius-Maximilian University in Würzburg are establishing
together with Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), as well as in
India Anna University in Chennai and Thyagarajar College of
Engineering in Madurai an „International Virtual Laboratory on
Mechatronics“. This project is supported by the „EU-India
Economic CrossCultural Programme“ of the European Union.
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The German
Research Foundation (DFG) Grants Committee named the
prizewinners of the DFG’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
for 2005. The prize of 1.55 million euros funds research work
over a five-year period and will be awarded to ten scientists and academicans.
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Abstracts of German Participants
Abstracts of Indian Participants
On the occasion
of the 100th Anniversary of the Theory of Relativity and the
50th Death Anniversary of Einstein, the Federal Government of
Germany is celebrating 2005 as Einstein Year.
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Workshop of Indian and Max Planck Society
Scientists, 6-9 March, 2005 at NCBS, Bangalore "Biomedical Research
from Bench to Field"The workshop
brought together about 30 researchers from Max- Planck
laboratories in Germany with those of various laboratories
from all over India
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A biotechnology
platform for Indian and German companies and research
institutions for technology cooperation
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