With the establishment of 34 new Research Training Groups, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) continues to promote structured doctoral programmes. The new Research Training Groups, decided upon by the responsible Grants Committee on 21 June 2006, will offer doctoral students the chance to gain interdisciplinary expertise on topics such as brain signalling, the value system associated with human dignity, and complex stochastic processes, and to get an early start as independent researchers. In the nine new International Research Training Groups the funding recipients will, in addition, be cooperating directly with research partners from outside Germany. The DFG currently funds a total of 283 Training Research Groups, 53 of which are international.
The newly approved Research Training Groups are listed below, by host university, in alphabetical order:
The "Interart Studies" International Research Training Group will investigate the shift away from individual artistic genres to cross-genre approaches such as performance, intermedia and other hybrid forms, as well as the dissolution of the borders that define "art" as such. (Spokesperson: Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte, Free University of Berlin; cooperation partner: University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
In the last forty years, discrete mathematics, the research field of the "Methods for Discrete Structures" Research Training Group, has established its place as an independent discipline between mathematics and computer science and makes essential contributions to important areas of application such as logistics, telecommunications, transportation planning, computer graphics, as well as gene sequencing and other topics in bioinformatics. (Spokesperson: Professor Gnter Ziegler, Technical University of Berlin)
Modern probability calculation is used in areas such as physics, finance and climate research. The International Research Training Group "S
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Contact: Dr. Eva-Maria Streier
em.streier@dfg.de
49-228-885-2250
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
10-Jul-2006