CRC 876 Board member, Head of the Research Training Group, and Project Leader in Subproject C3, Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Rhode, will receive an honorary professorship from the Ruhr University Bochum (RuB) on May 30, 2022. The open event as part of the Physics Colloquium, organized by the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at RuB, will take place in a hybrid format starting at 12 pm (CEST). The awarding of the honorary professorship will be accompanied by a laudation by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser (RuB). Registration is not required.

The event at a glance:

    When: May 30, 2022, 12 pm (CEST) c.t.

    Where: Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

    Universitätsstraße 150

    Lecture hall H-NB

    Online: Zoom

Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Rhode holds the professorship for Experimental Physics - Astroparticle Physics at TU Dortmund University. He is involved in the astroparticle experiments AMANDA, IceCube, MAGIC, FACT and CTA and does research in radio astronomy. His focus is on data analysis and the development of Monte Carlo methods as developed in CRC 876. Building on a long-standing collaboration with Katharina Morik on Machine Learning in astroparticle physics within CRC 876, both became co-founders of the DPG working group "Physics, Modern Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence" in 2017. Wolfgang Rhode is deputy speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 1491 - Cosmic Interacting Matters at the Ruhr University Bochum.

https://www.physik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/physikalischeskolloquium/