Courses 2022

A Good Start at Python for Scientists

Dates and Times: December 5 & December 6, 2022, 1pm-5pm
Location: HARBOR (bldg. 610), main seminar room
Lecturer: Benoît Richard (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science)
Info & registration: cesar.cabrera@physik.uni-hamburg.de( cesar.cabrera"AT"physik.uni-hamburg.de)

Workshop on Git/ GitHub

Dates and Times: November 14, 2022, 1pm-5pm
Location: CFEL, SR IV (01.111)
Lecturer: Benoît Richard (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science)
Info & registration: cesar.cabrera@physik.uni-hamburg.de( cesar.cabrera"AT"physik.uni-hamburg.de)

Project and time management in academia (postponed)

Dates and Times: November 1 & November 2, 2022, 9am - 5pm
Location: ILP (bldg. 69), seminar room
Content: Agenda Summary (PDF)
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb (Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement)
Info & registration: cesar.cabrera@physik.uni-hamburg.de( cesar.cabrera"AT"physik.uni-hamburg.de)

Creating comprehensible scientific figures

Workshop in cooperation with PIER Education Platform

Dates & times: September 9, 2022, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: t.b.a.
Lecturer: Dr. Carsten Rohr
Info & registration: via indico

In presentations and publications scientific figures are the main means of conveying your research data and convincing the audience of your findings. For this task your figures need to be comprehensible and as self-explanatory as possible. Achieving this level of understandability is not an easy task given the complex research findings different interpretation possibilities. The workshop “Creating comprehensible scientific figures” with Dr. Carsten Rohr will help you to…

Develop a clear figure message
Make the message visible in the graphic
Create self-explanatory figures instead of just showing data
Increase the message to noise ratio of a figure
Tackle color choice, color consistency and appearance
Choose the best representation format for the data
Test the figures with the other participants for comprehensibility

Introduction to Scientific Publishing & How to Read a Paper (postponed)

Dates & times: September 8, 2022, 9.30am - 5.30pm
Location: Zoom videoconference
Lecturer: Dr. Gavin Lucas (ThePaperMill)
Info & registration: cesar.cabrera@physik.uni-hamburg.de

Content: This joint workshop deals with two key competencies for early stage researchers: understanding the publishing system, and digesting the scientific literature. It will provide new researchers with a solid grounding in how the scientific publishing system works, and will explore the challenges that publishing scientists face, such as peer review and impact metrics. It will then introduce participants to some essential concepts and practical tools for gathering, managing, and extracting evidence from the scientific literature.

The publishing process, authorship, and conflicts of interests
The publishing landscape, open access, and impact metrics
The peer-review system
Searching for and managing your literature
Sections of a paper - finding key information
How to read a paper – extracting key information

Advanced Python: Analysis and Visualization of Scientific Data

Workshop in cooperation with PIER Education Platform.

Dates & times: April 6/13/20/27, May 4, 9am - 12.30pm
Location: online
Lecturer: Dr. Alexander Britz
Info & registration: via indico

Day 1: Brief revision of Python Syntax and Jupyter notebooks, first data analysis and visualization with Numpy and Matplotlib. Discussion of participants’ projects.

Day 2: Treating larger data sets with Numpy and Pandas.

Day 3: Visualization of data with Matplotlib, version control with git.

Day 4: Fitting and filtering of data, virtual environments.

Day 5: Brief introduction to parallelization, symbolic calculations

Science Communication III: Science Slam

Workshop in cooperation with PIER Education Platform.

Dates & times: Apr 20, 2022, 2:00 – 5:00 PM; This workshop will extend over two sessions; The dates are not finalized yet
Location: online
Lecturer: Theresa Schredelseker
Info & registration: via indico
Content: An introduction to public speaking, captivating your audience and the special aspects of the science slam format.

Science Communication I: Blogging

Workshop organized by the PIER Education Platform

Dates & times: Jan 24, 2022, 1:30 PM until Jan 25, 2022, 12:30 PM
Location: online
Lecturer: Michael Büker and Theresa Schredelseker
Info & registration: via indico
Content: This workshop will help you structure your thoughts into well-readable text, choose pictures with appropriate licenses, make use of social media in spreading a blogpost, and you will get a chance to publish your own text to show the world - with editing help from your workshop host, and online hosting provided to you.