Students from Ukrainian universities who joined the DESY-Ukraine Winter School in Hamburg and Zeuthen. A few additional students participated remotely. Photo: DESY, Marta Mayer
It’s an opportunity in the face of tragedy and disruption: the DESY-Ukraine Winter School has begun. Altogether, 22 students enrolled at Ukrainian universities are working on DESY research projects for six weeks at the Hamburg and Zeuthen campuses. The projects enable the students to interact with scientists and research areas that would be otherwise out of reach given the situation. The students, some of whom were retrieved from the Polish–Ukrainian border by DESY-organized bus transportation, arrived on campus on 31 January and will stay until 10 March.
The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has caused interruptions in studies for many students. In response to growing need, DESY made the decision to offer an intensive course to students of any nationality who were enrolled at a Ukrainian university and who had at least completed two years of bachelor studies to give them the chance to work at a large physics laboratory.
“The programme consists of work projects in all possible research areas at DESY, complemented by a lecture series on the physics fundamentals of that research,” says Stefan Ohm, initiator and Co-Chair of the Winter School and an astroparticle physicist at DESY. The lecture series, which is also open to the public, covers topics in accelerators, photon science, particle and astroparticle physics, machine learning, and quantum computing.
“The DESY-Ukraine Winter School is a unique opportunity for young Ukrainian researchers, and we are very happy we could bring these students here to engage with our research, in this difficult time,” says Martin Sandhop, who leads the international cooperations team at DESY and helped organise the school.
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Programme of the DESY-Ukraine Winter School
