Integrated Research Training Group ("geo-Q Research School") (MGK)

• Subject Area: Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 239994235

In the first funding period we built up a Research Training Group comprising all geo-Q PhD students. It provides a broad education by combining learning on-the-job with specialised lectures, with transferable skills courses, and with lecture weeks. With this concept, our PhD students working on experimental projects also gain basic knowledge in the theoretical fields of geo-Q and theorists learn the basics of the experimental fields. This is a very efficient way of creating a group spirit in geo-Q. In the next funding period we will adapt the curriculum to the changing needs of a mature geo-Q.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1128: Relativistic Geodesy and Gravimetry with Quantum Sensors - Modelling, Geo-Metrology and Future Technology (geo-Q)
• Applicant Institution: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Karsten Danzmann; Dr. Fumiko Kawazoe