WELCOME
Horst Seehofer, the Prime Minister of Bavaria, met with the operators and users of the FRM II neutron reactor in Garching on Monday. Besides the reactor hall, is was above all the scientific experiments that were at the centre of attention during the visit. Forschungszentrum Jülich operates ten instruments in its Garching branch lab at the reactor and was represented by Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt, member of the Board of Directors.
A delegation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) visited Forschungszentrum Jülich for two days. Both partners signed a declaration of intent to create a joint research laboratory with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT) at CAS.
The Association of Friends and Benefactors of Forschungszentrum Jülich has opened the competition for this year's Christian Wandrey Prize for diploma and master theses. The prize was established by the former head of the Institute of Biotechnology 2, Christian Wandrey, and is awarded every two years by the Association to an outstanding diploma or master thesis in the field of biotechnology written at a German-speaking university. The prize is worth € 2,500 and the deadline for applications is 15 September 2010.
Scientists at Aachen University Hospital and Forschungszentrum Jülich have demonstrated in a case study that an innovative diagnostic method can be used to verify the effectiveness of brain tumour treatment at an early stage. Using a FET-PET investigation, it can be assessed whether the radiochemotherapy of highly malignant glioma has been effective as early as seven to ten days after the treatment has been completed.
Do electrons have a fourth property in addition to mass, charge and spin, as popular physics theories such as supersymmetry predict? Researchers from Germany, the Czech Republic and the USA want to find the answer to this fundamental question of physics. In order to improve the precision of previous measurements, they have created a new material with the aid of the Jülich supercomputer JUROPA. The scientists report on this in the current issue of "Nature Materials".
