Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgoy (KIT) and Argentinian universities and research institutions have been cooperating closely in the area of astroparticle physics for many years. This long-standing cooperation is now further strengthened by the establishment of a Helmholtz graduate school. Representatives of the media are cordially invited to come to the opening ceremony of the graduate school at Campus North of KIT on April 17, 2018, 14.00 hrs.
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Program of the Official Opening
14:00 hrs Welcome
Professor Oliver Kraft, KIT Vice President for Research
Professor Alberto Carlos Frasch, Vice Rector of UNSAM
14:10 hrs Achieving More Together
Professor Johannes Blümer, Head of Division V – Physics and Mathematics, KIT
14:30 hrs Pierre Auger Observatory
Dr. Ralph Engel, Acting Head of the Institute for Nuclear Physics, KIT
14:50 hrs Research Structures in Argentina
Professor Alberto Etchegoyen, Director of the Instituto de Tecnologias en Deteccion y Astropartículas (ITeDA), Buenos Aires
15:10 hrs First Impressions Going International
Isabel Astrid Goos (CNEA/IB), Bariloche
15:20 hrs Experience Gained from the Double Doctoral
Degree Program in Astrophysics (DDAp)
David Schmidt, KIT
16:00 hrs Multi-Messenger Astroparticle Physics
Dr. Walter Winter, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY
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