Yesterday morning, April 19th, the primary mirror ‘M1’ has successfully been lifted and installed in the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope. The FYST is part of the CCAT observatory located in the Atacama desert in Chile close to the ALMA array. It is the world’s highest telescope and the University of Cologne and Bonn played a …
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Last week, more than 50 participants gathered at the University of Cologne for the launch of our new conference series, “Astroinformatics”. The event brought together researchers from across the Rhine region and as far as Cape Town for several days of inspiring discussions at the interface of astrophysics, data science, and artificial intelligence. The conference …
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Students from the University of Cologne (UoC) and the University of Bonn (UB) had the exciting opportunity to visit the Cologne facility of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) two weeks ago. The visit took place within the framework of the lectures “Performance Engineering” by Achim Basermann at the UoC and “Scalable Machine …
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Photo Credit: Helen Kupfer On January 20, 2026, the Cluster of Excellence DYNAVERSE was officially inaugurated in AULA 2 of the Main Buiding at the University of Cologne. The ceremony featured distinguished guests of honor, including the Rector of the University of Bonn, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch, and the Rector of the University …
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The cluster’s spokespersons, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner (Cologne) and Prof. Dr. Cristiano Porciani (Bonn), presented the scientific vision of DYNAVERSE, outlined key research goals, and introduced upcoming projects exploring how the universe evolves across vastly different timescales: Credit: Adam Polczyk (D8 UoC)
We are pleased to announce that Astroinformatics 2026 will be hosted by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner at the University of Cologne, with Dr. Kai Polsterer from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gGmbH (HITS) serving as co-host. The conference will take place within the framework of the Key Profile Area “Dynamics of the Universe” and …
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As 2025 comes to a close, we celebrate an incredible year of collaboration, discovery, and connection. It’s been amazing to see so many talented people from diverse backgrounds come together in our vibrant scientific community. A huge thank you to everyone for your dedication and contributions — you make Dynaverse shine! The winter illustration accompanying …
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Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek has been awarded one of the highly sought ERC Grants. She is PI of Excellence Cluster Dynaverse and Professor of Data Science and Language Technologies. She works at the Institute of Computer Science and the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it). This great achievement, which is an ERC Starting Grant …
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On July 18th, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner hosted the first summer party of Dynaverse with many of our team of researchers and staff as well as many other guests from the I. Physics Institute of the University of Cologne. We celebrated again the DFG funding, with good weather and a barbecue and snacks for everyone …
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Our Dynamic Universe (DYNAVERSE) has been selected for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is now a new Cluster of Excellence. The Cluster of Excellence DYNAVERSE aims to determine how coupling extremely different timescales influences the universe. Only by linking physical processes across different time scales can a complete picture of the dynamic …
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