International Max Planck Research School Magdeburg’s 4th Summer School
Opening doors for young scientists: guests from the USA, England, Denmark and Switzerland discuss optimal chemical processes for industrial applications
From 31 August to 4 September 2015, the International Max Planck Research School Magdeburg’s 4th Summer School took place; fifty international junior scientists exchanged views with recognized experts on issues of process engineering and process dynamics.
Topics of engineering sciences as well as computer aided and applied mathematics stood at the center. Therefore, Prof. George Stephanopoulos from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) looked at process engineering from the theoretical viewpoint of systems and control theory in his presentation.
The International Max Planck Research School Magdeburg was founded in cooperation with the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in 2007. Particularly talented foreign and German scientists receive excellent research opportunities here in the field of analysis, design, and optimization of highly complex processes in chemical and biological process engineering. Researchers simulate industrial processes by means of mathematical models in order to be able to better understand and optimize them in a targeted manner. This places the IMPRS in Magdeburg as the only doctoral program with an engineering sciences background within the Max Planck Society.
Currently, over fifty students from 15 countries perform research at the IMPRS Magdeburg.
(Source: IMPRS Summer School PM)