Eighth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting at HZB

PhD student Christine Bülow, HZB Institute Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, was awarded with the poster prize of the HZB usermeeting.

PhD student Christine Bülow, HZB Institute Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, was awarded with the poster prize of the HZB usermeeting. © privat

Exchange is the ultimate goal of Usermeetings.

Exchange is the ultimate goal of Usermeetings. © HZB

More than 500 scientist have gathered at the eighth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting at HZB on December 7th to 9th, 2016. The Verein Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. did bestow the Innovation Award and the Ernst-Eckard-Koch Prize. A Poster prize was awarded to the best poster out of 200.

The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day had taken place at Berlin-Adlershof on December 7th and 8th. Thursday afternoon, the Verein Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. did bestow the Innovation Award and the Ernst-Eckard-Koch Prize. The award for the best poster was given to Christine Bülow for her work on: "Magnetic properties of free metal-benzene complexes".

On thursday afternoon, everybody was invited to attend the public lecture on solar energy in Cuba and the role of international cooperation. The talk by Dr. Lidice Vaillant Roca, University Havanna, Cuba, was offering authentic insights into the last decades of cuban history and scientific development. The Neutrons Session had taken place at Berlin-Wannsee on December 9th.  A satellite workshop on the interpretation of diffraction data was offered on Friday as well.

Complete Programme of the User Meeting 2016

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