Pictures from the EXPLORE 2024 Summer School
The 3rd international in-person
EXPLORE 2024 Summer School – Frontiers of Matter and Gravity in the Universe
will take place from 18th August to 23rd August 2024 at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
The talks and lectures will be given by world-renown experts and outstanding early-career researchers in theoretical, numerical and observational astrophysics:
- Prof. Dr. Elisa G. M. Ferreira (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (KIPMU), University of Tokyo & Universidade de São Paulo; theoretical astrophysics)
- Bipradeep Saha (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata & Max Planck Institute for Astronomy; numerical astrophysics)
- Prof. Dr. Camilla Hansen (Goethe University Frankfurt; observational astrophysics)
The summer school social events include:
- Standup paddleboarding on the Main
- A city quest game in Frankfurt
All students (Bachelor, Master, PhD), postdocs and early career researchers who are interested to learn about and explore hot topics in theoretical and observational astrophysics are invited to participate in the EXPLORE summer school!
There is no registration fee for participating in the summer school activities, including the social events and the summer school dinner. We cannot, however, offer additional financial support for travels and accommodation. The number of participants is limited to 40.
Please note that priority will be given to participants in the EXPLORE IVth edition, then to particpants of previous editions of EXPLORE, other members of Goethe University, York University, University of Alberta and MIT, as well as other members of ELEMENTS and of the CRC-TR 211, and finally to external people. Please note that external people should motivate their application with a cover letter and a CV (to be sent by the applicant during the application) and a recommendation letter from a professor to be sent directly to Prof. Laura Sagunski (see below).
What is EXPLORE?
EXPLORE stands for "EXPeriential Learning Opportunity through Research and Exchange” (https://dmgw.space/EXPLORE). It is an international innovative teaching and research program at Goethe University Frankfurt in collaboration with York University in Toronto, Canada, the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. The idea behind EXPLORE is to build the bridge between learning physics in a classroom and working as a scientist. EXPLORE brings together students from Goethe University Frankfurt with students from the international partner universities. Together they form the world’s first international undergraduate student collaboration in astroparticle physics!
The EXPLORE project is mentored by six faculty supervisors:
- Rahul Kannan (York university, Canada)
- Saeed Rastgoo (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Laura Sagunski (Goethe University, Germany)
- Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich (Goethe University, Germany)
- Sean Tulin (York University, Canada)
- Mark Vogelsberger (MIT, USA)
