Retreat

1.1 Wrap up

Outcome of discussion by PhD students
Minutes of the retreat

1.2 Program

Place:	Haus der Begegnung (See in Google maps) Kirchstr. 65, Kunitz, 07751 Jena
Time:	November 2-3, 2011

Wednesday, Nov. 2

	Arrival	There is a nice way to cycle from the city center to Kunitz (see it highlighted in googlemaps). It takes about 30 min at moderate speed. You can also go by bus: Bus line 433 leaves at 8:30 from the central bus station and arrives in Kunitz at 8:42 (details) You can also take bus line 17 from the station Löbdergraben (leaves 9:00) to Kunitz (arrives 9:15). Click here to create your individual travel plan.
9:30	Talk: State of the IMPRS
10:00	Poster presentations Paleo/Geo Jens Kirstein Lailah Akita	Also working in this sphere, but cannot attend the retreat: Roman Witt Franziska Günther Their posters will be shown.
10:30	Coffee break + closer look at posters
11:00	Poster presentations Soil: Andreas Schmalwasser Plants: Annegret Miehe-Steier Lenka Zajickova Microbes: Divyashri Barania Sadat Malghani Ashish Malik (potential associated student)	Also working on soils: Emily Solly Also working on plants: Daniel Marra (their posters will be shown)
12:30	Lunch break + closer look at posters lunch will be catered
14:00	Poster presentations Chemistry: Björn Gebser Eric Morgan Instruments/ Experimental: Sabrina Niebling Stefan Hanf
15:00	Coffee break + closer look at posters
15:30	Poster presentations Modelling & Model-Data-Integration: Jakob Zscheischler Marcus Guderle Matthias Forkel Panagiotis Kountouris Tonatiuh Nuñez Uday Pimple Yogesh Kumkar Jannis von Buttlar
17:00	Discussion among PhD students (Room A) - Which non-scientific courses would you like to have? Come up with a priority list. - What other joint activities — if any — would you like to have? - Social event during recruitment — brainstorming Steering committee discussion (Room B) - New faculty members (junior group leaders & new FSU members), ...
18:30	Dinner will be catered
19:30	Discussion (and hopefully talk) on time & project management
afterwards	Some fun great games, fire in the garden if the weather allows, talking …

Thursday, Nov. 3

8:00	Breakfast will be provided to those who stay overnight
9:00	'Discussion... (with coffee break in between) ...among PhD students (Room A) - Election of representative - Quo vadis IMPRS - Topics that came up during retreat ...among faculty members (Room B) - Quo vadis IMPRS -- long-term development of the IMPRS -- including PhD projects offered during the next calls
12:30	Lunch break lunch will be catered
13:30 - ca. 15:00	Good scientific practice Some scenarios will be presented; we will discuss solutions.

1.3 Poster presentations

Concept

Fellow IMPRS-students and faculty members shall get some basic understanding of what you are doing. The aim is to

Learn about current questions in neighboring fields of biogeochemistry
See in which ways you can learn from each other
Learn about and influence the way the IMPRS is developing.

To avoid hours of talk after talk, the sessions will be interactive.

Preparation

PhD students of the IMPRS will bring a poster (about A0 in size, portrait format). Please also send a pdf of your poster to Anna, so it can be projected on the screen during your presentation.

The poster should mention the goal of your PhD project and give a little background understandable to outsiders.

Depending on the stage of your project you can present

Some ideas and background information about yourself, if you have not yet started
Planned steps
Some results (+ future steps)
A problem you need to overcome
...

Presentation

Each IMPRS student will be allocated a 15-min-time slot.

For 2-3 minutes during that time slot he/she will present some basic information about him/herself and the PhD project, illustrated by the projected poster.

During the remainder of the time, the other participants of the retreat will ask questions to understand the project, the context and methodologies used better.

To stimulated discussion, two random PhD candidates will be selected before each presentation. They will be the first to ask questions after the introduction.

Posters will on display throughout the retreat, so discussions can be continued.

1.4 Miscellaneous

A table tennis table will be available, so bring your paddle/racket if you like.