Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: German Institute of Science and Technology


Related Topics

  
  CPIMA - Max Plank Institute
A first part of the institute's permanent building on the edge of the University campus was completed in autumn 1988 and consists of a working area of 10,000 m2 Of which laboratories comprise 5,500 m2.
The objectives of the Institute are directed on the one hand towards the synthesis and exact physico-chemical characterization of macromolecular systems and on the other hand towards understanding the relationship between macroscopic and microscopic properties of polymeric materials.
The institute is also part of the center of excellence 262 "Glassy State and Glass Transition of Non Metallic Amorphous Materials," which is supported by the German Science Foundation.
www.stanford.edu /group/CPIMA/science/maxplanck.html   (727 words)

  
 Research - Conference : Science in Society Forum 2005
The ‘Technology panel’ is the forum where experts from science, industry,administration and politics are cooperating on specific topics, such as climat /energy.
The results of there activities are discussed in the ‘panels for adolescents and adults’ and are subsequently presented to the public within the program of a ‘science and technology week’.
The European Academie of Science and Arts,represented by its Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability and IFOK propose to build up a European network based on the conception and the experience gained in the Zukunftswerkstatt.
ec.europa.eu /research/conferences/2005/forum2005/showcase_zukun_en.htm   (784 words)

  
 Heisenberg - The Post-War Era, 1945-1976: Reviving German Science
He devoted himself to two large tasks: the reconstruction of his institute as a leading physics research center, and the revival of research in the emerging West German republic.
Working with western authorities and German political leaders, Heisenberg sought a direct role for the federal government in forming a national policy for science and technology and a direct role for science advisors to the new federal chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.
Heisenberg tirelessly argued for a lifting of the ban and for German preparations to begin reactor construction as soon as the ban was lifted.
www.aip.org /history/heisenberg/p12.htm   (930 words)

  
 The Earth Institute at Columbia University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Earth Institute at Columbia University is the world's leading academic center for the integrated study of Earth, its environment and society.
The Earth Institute builds upon excellence in the core disciplines — earth sciences, biological sciences, engineering sciences, social sciences and health sciences — and stresses cross-disciplinary approaches to complex problems.
Through research, training and global partnerships, it mobilizes science and technology to advance sustainable development, while placing special emphasis on the needs of the world's poor.
www.earth.columbia.edu /news/story12_11_01.html   (778 words)

  
 Institute for Science and Technology Studies - About Us
The Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) is concerned with investigating the institutional and epistemic forms of science and technology, their patterns of change, and the accompanying ethical challenges and social consequences.
Reflecting on the epistemic, social, and historical dimensions of science and technology requires long-term and interdisciplinary research.
The IWT is the only interdisciplinary centre in science and technology studies at a German university.
www.uni-bielefeld.de /(en)/iwt/ueberuns.html   (187 words)

  
 Technical University of Munich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich).
TUM's first spin-off is the German Institute of Science and Technology, GIST, in Singapore (together with National University of Singapore).
TUM has currently over 130 international partnerships, among them MIT, Stanford University, Cornell University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Ecole Centrale Paris,...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technical_University_of_Munich   (617 words)

  
 WINNE - Welcome
The Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST) is the first Rwandan Government technological institute of higher education, established in November 1997.
The Institute started as a project through the combined efforts of Rwanda's Ministry of Education, UNDP Rwanda as the executor of the project, and the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) as the implementing agency.
External Examiners from higher education institutions in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Netherlands continue to be of assistance in moderating the courses and the examinations.
www.winne.com /rwanda/to10.html   (2259 words)

  
 SETI Institute at a Glance - SETI Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Institute employs about 130 people, primarily scientists, in a variety of fields including all science and technology aspects of astronomy and the planetary sciences, chemical evolution, the origin of life, biological evolution, and cultural evolution.
The Institute conducts the world's most comprehensive work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).  Project Phoenix, which had observing time each spring and fall (through February 2004) at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, is the Institute's most well-known project. The Institute also sponsors several optical SETI experiments, beginning in 1999.
In addition to numerous appearances on radio and television, SETI Institute scientists have taught and lectured at a variety of schools, museums and science centers throughout the United States and abroad.
www.seti.org /site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=178993   (443 words)

  
 Gatorade Sports Science Institute: About the Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Headquartered in Barrington, Ill., the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI) is a research and educational facility established in 1988 to share current information and expand knowledge on sports nutrition and exercise science that enhance the performance and well-being of athletes.
The Institute is advised by several boards who provide advice and information on research topics relevant to the GSSI's mission and offer direction on future educational offerings.
The Institute has become a truly international organization in recent years and currently serves nearly 110,000 members in over 145 countries worldwide.
www.gssiweb.com /aboutgssi   (208 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Science & Technology
The science and art of farming, including the work of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and aquatic animals.
The aim of SciCentral is two-fold: to aid the science community by enabling direct and efficient access to only the most valuable internet resources, and to prepare a platform for communication between scientists and engineers so that they may work together to solve the complex research problems confronting us today.
Science Linkhouse, formerly the Finnish Virtual Library, is a subject gateway for the scientific community.
www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/sci00.00.00   (3234 words)

  
 Guide to Graduate Education in Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Founded in 1982, the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer is one of the few in the world that offers STS degrees from baccalaureate to doctoral levels.
Students are required to take three field examinations: science studies, technology studies, or policy studies (2 of 3), and a specialty exam in an area the student chooses.
Carroll is the author of American Science Transformed, American Scientist, An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin, Designing Modern America in the Silicon Valley of the Nineteenth Century, and Rensselaer and is co-author of Chemistry in America 1876~1976.
www.aaas.org /spp/sepp/seprpi.htm   (1379 words)

  
  Newsletter of Indo-German Science Circle
Inauguration of the Science Circle: On the anniversary of Indo German Science Cooperation, the Indo German Science Circle was inaugurated on October 6th, 2004 in New Delhi by the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, and the Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development, Kapil Sibal.
In the presence of Chancellor Schröder and Minister Sibal, an MoU was signed between Max Planck Society (MPG) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) establishing institutional commitment of MPG in India.
Bulmahn accompanied by high ranking science delegation comprising among others the presidents of the Max-Planck-Society, the Helmholtz Research Association and the Secretary General of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD visited Indian Institute of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Infosys and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bangalore after having meetings with Mr.
www.science-circle.org /newsletters/Nov_04.html   (780 words)

  
 "Deutschland" Online
In its search for a replacement for the manufacturing industry that was increasingly relocating to China, the island state recognized education and science as major sources of income.
Words are used with reference to GIST that you will not often hear at venerable German universities: “We regard our students as our customers,” says Hiller.
It is to be followed by courses in electrical engineering, medical technology and health as well as energy technology and eventually a technology-oriented MBA programme.
magazine-deutschland.de /magazin/OZ-Singapur_3-05_ENG_E4.php?lang=eng   (954 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Issues: Science and Technology
The Loka Institute - Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
Potomac Institute - A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society.
Technology Watch Centre - The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science and Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Science_and_Technology   (423 words)

  
 Institute for Science and Technology Studies - Studies
Areas of science and technology studies are part of hitherto existing Diploma and Master degrees in sociology, philosophy, and history.
Accordingly, studying Diploma sociology provides the option of choosing science and technology policy as an area of specialization.
Professors of sociology of science and technology at IWT are:
www.uni-bielefeld.de /(en)/iwt/studiengaenge   (246 words)

  
 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is an independent, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit public policy research institute.
From these discussions and forums, we develop meaningful science and technology policy options and ensure their implementation at the intersection of business and government.
Baxter is a member of the Institute Board of Regents, a counterterrorism expert and government advisor, as well as a founding member of Steely Dan and member of the Doobie Brothers.
www.potomacinstitute.org   (381 words)

  
 BMBF-PT: Call for Proposals: Korean-German Science & Technology Collaboration Advancement Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Korean-German Science and Technology Collaborative Committee was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and met for the first time at the end of 2003.
The Committee primarily supports cooperation between German and Korean research institutions and institutions of higher education in the priority areas it has defined and initiates joint projects.
For periods of work spent by particularly qualified young German scientists and experts in Korea, grants of €2,350 per month are awarded for a maximum of 3 months and a one-off payment of €1,300 maximum is made to cover travel expenses.
www.internationales-buero.de /de/2465.php   (1109 words)

  
 International Computer Science Institute | About ICSI
The International Computer Science Institute is one of the few independent, nonprofit basic research institutes in the country, and is affiliated with the
The goal of the Institute continues to be the creation of synergy between world-leading researchers in computer science and engineering.
The particular areas of concentration have varied over time, but are always chosen for their importance and their compatibility with the strengths of the Institute staff and the affiliated UC Berkeley faculty.
www.icsi.berkeley.edu /about/index.html   (369 words)

  
 General info about the lab
In this Institute experimental and theoretical efforts are coordinated within one organizational framework, thus enabling the various groups in the Department of Physics to conduct long-term, methodical studies aimed towards a breakthrough in this field.
Most of the activity at this center is dedicated to experimental studies of magnetic properties of high-temperature superconductors, in particular to flux properties (global and local flux creep, persistent currents, effect of heavy ion irradiation etc.).
Yosef Yeshurun, was awarded the title "National Laboratory" by the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and the Ministry of Science and Arts in 1992.
www.biu.ac.il /ESC/htslab/images/info.htm   (405 words)

  
 Manhattan Rare Book Company: first editions in science and medicine
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives.
The most sought-after volume of modern science: first edition of three of Einstein's revolutionary papers of 1905 including the first edition of the initial paper on special relativity.
First printing of two of the most fundamental papers in modern physics: Thomas Young's evidence of the wave theory of light and the first statement of his interference principle and double-slit experiment, the most influential experiment in quantum theory.
www.manhattanrarebooks-science.com   (2708 words)

  
 Antenna Tutorial on Gain and Beamwidth From ATI Space and Communications Training Courses
Hertz’s interest in Maxwell’s theory was occasioned by a prize offered by the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1879 for research on the relation between polarization in insulators and electromagnetic induction.
The practical application of shaped reflector technology has been made possible by the development of composite materials with extremely low coefficients of thermal distortion and by the availability of sophisticated computer software programs necessary to analyze the antenna.
New technologies include large, unfurlable antennas for producing small spot beams from geostationary orbit and shaped reflectors for creating a shaped beam with only a single feed.
www.aticourses.com /antennas_tutorial.htm   (4441 words)

  
 About the USA > Science & Technology > Nuclear Science
One of the most spectacular and controversial achievements of world science in the second half of the 20th century has been the harnessing of nuclear energy.
The concepts that led to the splitting of the atom were developed by the scientists of many countries, but the conversion of these ideas into the reality of nuclear fission was the achievement of U.S. scientists in the early 1940s.
After German physicists split a uranium nucleus in 1938, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, all of whom had fled to the United States to escape persecution in National Socialist Germany and Italy, concluded that a nuclear chain reaction was feasible.
usa.usembassy.de /technology-nuclear.htm   (453 words)

  
 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is a national and international visitor research institute.
It runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications in a very wide range of science and technology.
It attracts leading mathematical scientists from the UK and from overseas to interact in research over an extended period.
www.newton.cam.ac.uk   (81 words)

  
 Mark B. Brown - Homepage
Before that I held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at Bielefeld University in Germany.
My areas of interest include modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and science and technology studies.
I am currently working on a two-year project, "Toward a Political Theory of Bioethics," funded by the National Science Foundation.
www.csus.edu /indiv/b/brownm   (258 words)

  
 German Embassy London - Home
Overnight around 2,300 German citizens were brought back to Germany on flights chartered by the Federal Foreign Office.
Steinbrück then came to the Embassy and spoke to representatives from the fields of finance and politics, as well as think tanks and the press, on the theme of 'Economic and Financial Policy for Germany and Europe'.
The Awards honour and recognise excellence and innovation of individual teachers of German language in the UK.
www.london.diplo.de   (747 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Science - Photoemission 100 Years After Einstein
NJP is co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (the German Physical Society).
First noticed by Hertz in 1887, the photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a surface (usually metallic) on exposure to electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light and ultraviolet radiation).
"The arguments Einstein used in the photoelectric and subsequent radiation theory are staggering in their boldness and beauty," says Frank Wilczek, a theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics.
www.redorbit.com /news/display/?id=147288&source=r_science   (509 words)

  
 Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE)
The mission of Computing in Science and Engineering is to support the development of computing tools and methods as well as their effective use in both computational and experimental science and engineering.
In an effort to improve the way in which computational science and engineering is taught, the authors worked on two project-based software-focused modules in two different study programs at two German universities.
The full text of Computing in Science & Engineering is available to members of the Computer Society, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, or the IEEE Signal Processing Society who have an online subscription and a CS E-Account.
www.computer.org /cise   (307 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.