Campus Development DESY 2030 the Future Look of the DESY Sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen

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Campus development DESY 2030 The future look of the DESY sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen

Plenty of room for people and top-level research: By Tobias Piekatz In the coming years, the project team will implement The DESY campus is not only a place burg. In order to realise the many differ- numerous plans, ideas and drafts of the DESY 2030 for excellent top-level research, the DESY ent projects with the help of various campus development. Picture: DESY, Gesine Born locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen are other divisions in Hamburg and Zeuthen, also flagships for science and important the campus development team will be anchor points for innovation and tech- expanded in the coming months. nology. Campus development is thus an important issue in the DESY 2030 strat- The financial framework is in place: At egy process, and the directorate has the end of June, thanks to the decisive accordingly established the DESY 2030 support of Hamburg Bundestag mem- Doubly excellent 7 campus development project. ber Johannes Kahrs in particular, the Two clusters of excellence involving DESY budget committee of the German Bun- Within this project, various construction destag approved 71.5 million euros for Founding successfully 11 and renovation plans will be coordinat- the DESY campus development. With DESY Start-up Office on campus tour ed and implemented on the campus. In the co-financing of the federal states of addition to these structural topics, the Hamburg and Brandenburg and the Science meets art 16 project also entails all sorts of coordina- funds already raised from the project Premiere of light and sound installation AIS3 tion and optimisation processes be- “Sustainable Campus”, the project has a tween the campus partners, especially total of 118.9 million euros at its disposal with the City and the University of Ham- for the expansion and renovation of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 DIRECTOR’S CORNER Hamburg and Zeuthen sites. The exact research conditions and facilities, this allocation of funds is determined by a also requires an appropriate construc- steering committee to which all DESY tional infrastructure with sufficient green directors belong. spaces and places for communication.

The campus as a place The Bahrenfeld science location to live and work In Hamburg, DESY is advancing the The DESY 2030 campus development campus development together with the has the following priorities at the two University and the City of Hamburg. The locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen: First Mayor Peter Tschentscher has de- The team is committed to the “best clared the idea of developing the DESY host” principle. This means that the and university campus into a north Ger- research-related services will be ex- man research campus with international panded to international standards with appeal a top priority. Since then, the Dear colleagues, a special focus on user communities. vision of the future for a redesign of the To this end, laboratory and office space science location Bahrenfeld is being After the successful commissioning of the European must have a modern design and the worked out in a common model. The XFEL and the first user experiments in 2017, things social and family needs of employees overall consideration of the urban space continued to progress very well in the course of this and guests must be taken into account. around the DESY campus leads to year. After connecting the last two radio frequency These rather “soft” topics about living many new aspects being incorporated stations in the tunnel, the team at DESY responsible and working conditions on the DESY into the considerations and merging into for the accelerator operation was able to demon- campuses are summarised under a holistic concept. DESY is closely in- strate the full beam energy of 17,5 GeV for the first “work and life @ DESY”. This also involved in planning and decision-making time. After the first undulator branch with the beam- cludes child care, modern workplaces at all levels. The DESY campus devel- lines SASE1 and SASE3, the fast beam distribution for employees and a modern canteen opment project team will outline the system on the second branch is now also in opera- concept. plans in an appropriate way in due time tion, and an FEL beam could be generated simulta- and of course also discuss the further neously in the SASE2 beamline – exactly one year The future campus planning and developments with you. after the first lasing at SASE1 in May 2017. design in Hamburg and Zeuthen are to Our next major accelerator project, the upgrade of be linked even more closely. DESY’s PETRA III to PETRA IV, is increasingly moving into “One lab – one campus” approach is focus. The concept for this new storage ring with the focus here. The goal is to create a extremely high beam brilliance in the PETRA tunnel meta-laboratory for science and re- has made good progress. However, the challenges search that is not only attractive for posed by such a machine at the limits of feasibility DESY staff members but also for scien- in terms of technology and beam physics are also tific cooperation partners and guests becoming apparent. from abroad. In addition to excellent Accelerator research at DESY is getting further im- petus with the decision of the Helmholtz Association to support the ATHENA project on laser plasma acceleration. The six participating centres will receive a total of 30 million euros. DESY is coordinat- ing the project together with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. It is also the location of the research focus on electron plasma acceleration. Finally, a comment on my own behalf: At the end of 2018, after eleven and a half years, my activities as head of the M division and member of the directorate will come to an end. Although I will still have the occasion to thank the many people at DESY for the good and trusting cooperation, I would like to already take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks. I will once again be involved in research and projects as a leading scientist – indeed, there is no lack of numerous possibilities and projects at DESY!

Yours, View of the new campus: In front of the DESY Hamburg terrain model, Bundestag members Swen Schulz and Reinhard Brinkmann Johannes Kahrs (from left) talk to DESY directors Helmut Dosch and Christian Harringa about the 2030 campus development. Picture: DESY, Axel Heimken

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Only a draft so far: Until 2030, new centres and research buildings are to be built Master plan for the campus in Hamburg on and around the DESY campus in Hamburg. Picture: DESY, Reimo Schaaf 1 PETRA IV experimental hall 2 Wolfgang Pauli Centre, WPC 3 Canteen concept 4 DESYUM visitor centre 5 Integrated hall/workshop concept 6 Centre for Water Science, CWS 7 Centre for X-ray and Nano Science, CXNS 8 Innovation centre 9 Centre for Structural Systems Biology, CSSB, expansion stages II and III 10 University of Hamburg, Physics 11 Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, MPSD, incl. extension 12 Lecture building “Light and Schools”

The campus in Hamburg The campus planning for Hamburg al- • In order to support the plans of the New logo for DESY magnets ready includes some concrete projects: University of Hamburg to move large They hang on numerous magnetic boards: the DESY magnets. In order to update the parts of the natural sciences faculty logo on these practical helpers, the PR • The planning for the DESYUM visitor to the Bahrenfeld campus, DESY department has produced suitable stickers centre is the most advanced, and the will soon have to start relocating the that you can pick up from the Hamburg PR architectural competition is about to “Reemtsma halls”. department and from the secretary’s office in be launched. Zeuthen. • Besides new building projects, the • The canteen concept is being coordi- DESY construction division is working nated with the Hamburg Ministry of on a comprehensive renovation con- Science, Research and Equality cept to be implemented from 2019. (BWFG), the University of Hamburg and the student administration. A • Further plans, such as the new accel- decision will be taken by the end of erator control room, will soon be set the year. up as projects.

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Beautiful view: The architectural competition for the campus develop- First vision for the master plan of the Zeuthen campus ment has already started in Zeuthen, where new institutes such as the 1 Staff building Science Data Management Centre (centre left) are to be established. 2 Science Data Management Centre, SDMC Picture: DESY 3 Extension of office rooms and guest flat 4 Extension of seminar rooms 5 Roof extension for office use 6 Education centre

The campus in Zeuthen First steps have also been undertaken in • The conference and training facilities Through the previous campus survey Zeuthen: are to be expanded and modernised and the DESY kick-off, the campus de- in accordance with fire protection re- velopment department has already col- • The two-phase architectural competi- quirements. lected numerous suggestions and ideas tion was launched at the beginning of and is in the process of considering and September. In the first phase, it is to The greatest challenge for the two DESY implementing them. These include new, produce the master plan for the cam- locations will be to implement and coor- roofed and more numerous bicycle racks, pus development and, in the second dinate the numerous measures and meeting rooms, outdoor facilities, sports phase, the design of the Science Data construction sites within a tight time offers or the improvement of public trans Management Centre (SDMC) for the frame. The coordination with the cam- port connections: We’re at it! international gamma-ray observatory pus partners and the neighbourhood is CTA as well as the canteen. The master also an important task in this process. It Tobias Piekatz is head of the DESY 2030 cam- plan will include the localisation of the is particularly important that research at pus development project group. strategic projects resulting from the DESY should not be restricted during demand planning (SDMC, canteen, the construction phase. INFO training centre and campus centre) as Questions and suggestions are welcome, well as a comprehensive, integral DESY staff members can get involved in personally or by e-mail: campus planning. a number of ways: Starting in 2019, DESY Verena Ruhm (Zeuthen): will regularly carry out campus surveys [email protected] • In parallel, an overall renovation plan in which employees can participate on- Tobias Piekatz (Hamburg): is being worked out. Part of it will be line or via printouts. There will also be [email protected] implemented as early as 2019. short surveys on individual aspects.

4 Mobility on the DESY Hamburg campus On the way by shared taxi, city bike and bus

By Tobias Piekatz Mobility is undergoing a change, particularly in big cities. More and more people deliberately do without a car or simply don’t find any parking space near their home and use public transport or bicycles instead. This is also true for the DESY employees. The expansion of the Bahrenfeld science location also includes the subproject Mobility, where DESY will be closely involved and which is to take the needs of everyone into account.

Electric shared taxi: The IOKI shuttles can be ordered via app. Pictures: DESY, Marta Mayer

First vision for the master plan of the Zeuthen campus IOKI Bus connection The City of Hamburg has applied to In discussions with VHH, more issues the DESY website like all other vehicles. 1 Staff building 2 Science Data Management Centre, SDMC host the 2021 Global Public Transport could be settled for DESY: With the 3 Extension of office rooms and guest flat Summit and is therefore currently imple- timetable change in December, the bus 4 Extension of seminar rooms menting many new projects. DESY line 2 is to travel directly to the Euro 5 Roof extension for office use supports the application and is also en- pean XFEL campus in Schenefeld. This 6 Education centre gaged in the pilot project IOKI of still requires the approval of the political Deutsche Bahn in cooperation with Ver bodies in the Pinneberg district, how kehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH). ever. But it is already certain that all The goal of IOKI is to improve suburban busses of line 3 will continue to Stadion- train connections in areas with poor straße from December and thus also accessibility. connect DESY.

How does it work? Using the free IOKI Cargo bicycles Rental Stadtrad bikes: In the future, there will be even Hamburg app, you can call an electri- As part of the “Sustainable Campus” more rental stations on the campus. cally powered shared taxi in the Ham- project, three cargo bicycles have been burg districts of Osdorf and Lurup – and purchased. These bicycles can carry Stadtrad bikes thus also on the DESY campus. This loads of up to 180 kilogrammes, and Meanwhile, there are two Stadtrad bike taxi will take you to the nearest bus stop thanks to their powerful electric motors, stations on the DESY Hamburg cam- or train station, or take you home from a they are ideally suited for quick trans- pus, in front of Buildings 6 and 25b. The bus or train stop. Tickets are available port on the campus. The bikes are avail- city bikes can be rented through the for the normal HVV tariff. An algorithm able for free and can be booked through Stadtrad app. The University of Ham- automatically collects passengers with burg also plans to install a Stadtrad sta- similar routes in car pools. You can even tion near CFEL. DESY is working with take a shared taxi right on the DESY the Hamburg authorities to extend the campus. There are three IOKI stops on network of Stadtrad stations in the the campus from which the shared taxis vicinity of the campus. are starting. INFO A charming side effect is that DESY will https://vhhbus.de/ioki-hamburg/ be able to make the e-charging stations https://stadtrad.hamburg.de available to campus users in the long Bookable load carriers: These transport bikes can load https://v1.desy.de/dienstleistungen/mobilitydesy term. up to 180 kilogrammes.

5 AWARDS A push for data science Qualification with distinction Two DESY apprentices, Carsten Patzke (left) Helmholtz Association supports new graduate school with six million euros and Lucas van Tuyl, were honoured by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce for their outstanding vocational training qualification.

Van Tuyl completed a vocational training in electronics for devices and systems, Patzke became an IT specialist. Both received their awards at a ceremony presenting Hamburg’s best trainees. The Chamber of Commerce congratulated them on their outstanding per- formance and emphasised that such results Growing data archives: DESY’s research facilities produce huge amounts of data. In the new graduate school, young are only possible “if capable young people scientists will learn how to process and use such information intelligently. Picture: DESY, Heiner Müller-Elsner are instructed and motivated in committed training companies.” The Chamber of Com- merce honoured DESY as “Excellent Training Company 2018”. The amount of data produced is con- Dosch, the chairman of the DESY Board stantly growing. Their processing and of Directors. “They will have the chance intelligent use is one of the great to further develop IT systems and ana- Georg Forster Fellowship for Sara Taheri Monfared challenges of our time and makes data lytical methods at the highest level using The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded Sara science a key technology for current extremely interesting data from cutting- Taheri Monfared from the and future research. A new graduate edge research.” Institute for Studies in school for data science will therefore be Theoretical Physics and established in Hamburg: the “Data Key fields of application are structural Mathematics (IPM) in Teh Science in Hamburg – Helmholtz Grad- biology, materials science, physics with ran, Iran, a Georg Forster uate School for the Structure of Matter”, ultrafast X-ray pulses and particle phys- Fellowship. With these research fellowships for experienced researchers, the Foundation or DASHH for short. There, young ics. The DASHH graduate school will of- enables highly qualified scientists from abroad scientists will receive interdisciplinary fer highly talented young researchers to spend extended research stays in Germany. and application-oriented training in the from all over the world the opportunity Taheri Monfared will stay in the CMS group processing and analysis of large vol- to do their doctorate. In the research at DESY for 1.5 years on the Georg Forster umes of data generated when studying groups, they will be working on the Fellowship. She will work mainly on strong interactions and analyse HERA and LHC data. the structure of matter. The Helmholtz challenges posed by large amounts of Association is supporting the initiative of highly complex scientific data. They DESY, the University of Hamburg, the might for example develop special soft- Alexander Grohsjean wins CMS Research Prize Hamburg University of Technology and ware solutions for data management, DESY scientist Alexander five other northern German research processing and analysis, or come up Grohsjean was awarded a institutions with almost six million euros with entirely new computer-aided data scholarship from the world wide CMS research col- over the next six years. science methods. laboration. In this programme, the LHC Physics In its new strategy, DESY has also iden- The places at the graduate school will Center (LPC) at Fermilab in tified data science as a priority field of be awarded annually following an inter- the USA honours international scientists who action in order to master the tremen- national call for applications. The first are to decisively strengthen and advance the dous challenges posed by data-inten- round of calls will probably take place in physics programme of the CMS experiment at the European particle physics research sive research. DASHH is one of the the first half of 2019. (tz) centre CERN in cooperation with the LPC. pillars of this new data science initiative. To this end, the prize winners will be able to “Together with the universities, we want use research resources at Fermilab and de- to establish computer science geared velop new approaches together with their towards the natural sciences on the colleagues. Apart from travel funds, the prize is endowed with half a year’s salary. The Bahrenfeld campus and offer very good scholarship runs for one year and starts in research opportunities to PhD students March 2019. in the field of big data,” says Helmut

6 Doubly excellent! AWARDS Saša Bajt elected Fellow of the Optical Society Two clusters of excellence on the Hamburg campus DESY group leader Saša Bajt was elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). She was recognised “for her major contributions to EUV and X-ray optics,” as the society announced. With 21000 members in more than 100 countries, the Optical Society is the leading scientific association in the field of optics and photon- ics. Bajt heads the multilayer optics group at DESY. Among her recent achievements are novel multilayer Laue lenses (MLL) that Bajt devised and built together with her team. These sophisticated optics create an un rivalled small and bright X-ray focus, thus providing new insights into the nanocosmos. For these unique X-ray optics, Bajt’s team has recently received both the Polish Syn- chrotron Radiation Society (PSRS) Award and the 2018 Innovation Award from Micro A huge success for Hamburg: All submitted projects were awarded the cluster of excellence grant. scopy Today, the official magazine of the Mi- Picture: University of Hamburg, Schöttmer croscopy Society of America.

It took two years of waiting – but now it “I am very proud that with AIM and is certain: The University of Hamburg is Quantum Universe, both excellence Helmholtz Doctoral Prize for Oleg Gorobtsov to receive funding for four top-level proposals in which DESY is significantly Oleg Gorobtsov from research projects, including two with involved have been approved,” says DESY Photon Science was DESY participation, as part of the Ger- DESY director Helmut Dosch. “The fact awarded the Doctoral Prize man federal and state governments’ that we were able to bring two excel- of the Helmholtz Associa- excellence strategy. All the submitted lence projects to our campus stresses tion for his outstanding doctoral thesis on coherent Hamburg clusters of excellence pre- the outstanding importance of research X-ray scattering methods. vailed over the competition, among into decoding the structure of matter In his thesis, Gorobtsov developed novel 88 competing cluster proposals. The here in Hamburg and attests to the fruit- concepts for exploiting the coherence of 57 approved clusters will receive annual ful close cooperation of DESY and the hard X‑ray radiation, thus pioneering the fur- funding of around 385 million euros in University of Hamburg.” ther establishment of this new research field total over seven years. at modern X-ray light sources. Gorobtsov successfully applied his ideas at synchrotron DESY is also involved in two other clus- radiation sources such as PETRA III and at DESY is involved in the two clusters of ters of excellence: Christian Schroer, free-electron lasers such as LCLS in the USA excellence Advanced Imaging of Matter leading scientist at PETRA III, is partici- and FERMI in Italy. (AIM) and Quantum Universe. With AIM, pating in the Hamburg project “Under- the cluster of excellence Center for standing Written Artefacts”. DESY is also Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) will be continued a partner in a cluster of excellence of on the Hamburg campus. In this cluster, Kiel University: In “Precision Medicine in Otto Stern Prize for Tobias Kroh scientists from DESY and the University Chronic Inflammation”, the researchers Tobias Kroh from the CFEL of Hamburg, together with colleagues are investigating chronic inflammatory ultrafast optics and X-rays from European XFEL and the Max Planck diseases. group was awarded the Institute for the Structure and Dynamics Otto Stern Prize of the of Matter, will use X-ray lasers to gain a The University of Hamburg is now enter- physics department of the better understanding of how supercon- ing the finals for the university of excel- University of Hamburg for the best master’s thesis in ductivity, drugs and energy production lence trophy. Next year, up to eleven physics. Using an infrared short-pulse laser function at the molecular level and work universities of excellence are to be se- system, Kroh investigated theoretical predic- out how to control these in a targeted lected, which will receive a further tions for the generation of so-called higher manner in the future. In the Quantum 148 million euros per year. By winning harmonics at the Massachusetts Institute of Universe cluster, scientists aim at com- four clusters of excellence, the Univer- Technology. The sophisticated experiment could only be carried out because of his bining all the disciplines and topics of sity of Hamburg has successfully quali- “good physical understanding and his exper- particle physics into an overall picture in fied itself for the title, since a minimum imental skills,” emphasised group leader order to unlock the universe’s remaining of two clusters of excellence is needed Franz Kärtner from DESY, who supervised mysteries. for application. (khü) Kroh’s work.

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Kerstin Borras elected APS Fellow Kerstin Borras, leading scientist at DESY and Helm- holtz Professor at RWTH Aachen University, was elected Fellow of the American Physical society (APS). She was honoured for her outstanding contributions to particle physics, particularly “for exemplary leader- ship at DESY, at Fermilab in the USA and at CERN.” With more than 50 000 members, the APS is the second largest physics association in the world after the German Physical Society (DPG). Scientists who have made extraordinary contributions to research or International cooperation in FEL research: German and Chinese scientists at a workshop at DESY in June. important research or technology develop- Picture: DESY ments can be elected APS Fellow – an honour that is awarded to only half a percent of APS members per year. DESY cooperates with China New Helmholtz International Lab for FEL research

International Helmholtz Scientists from Germany and China are “These rapid developments in China are Fellow Award for joining forces in free-electron laser opening up numerous opportunities for Richard Saykally research: DESY and the Shanghai Insti- DESY to collaborate closely at eye level The Helmholtz Asso tute of Applied Physics (SINAP) have in order to further advance the develop- ciation presented the International Helm decided to pool their resources in the ment of FELs,” explains Wilfried Wurth holtz Fellow Award CAS–Helmholtz International Laboratory from DESY, the scientific coordinator of to five excellent sci- for FEL Science and Technology CHILFEL on the German side. “After a entists. One of them (CHILFEL), which also includes European series of several successful workshops, is Richard Saykally, XFEL and ShanghaiTech University. The the joint laboratory has now been estab- a physical chemistry scientist proposed by DESY who is working Helmholtz Association supports the lished so as to exploit the great scienti at the University of California, Berkeley, on research collaboration as a Helmholtz fic and technological potential of the quantum effects at the smallest molecular International Lab with 300 000 euros per partners for joint research and develop- units of water and on catalytic processes. year over six years. ment work in the FEL field.” As a further “He is one of the most prominent physical building block on the way to institution- chemists of our time, and we are looking for- CHILFEL, which will start on 1 January alised cooperation with European XFEL, ward to continuing our close cooperation with him,” says Jochen Küpper from CFEL, 2019, will form the basis for common the newly founded FEL partnership who is a research partner of Saykally togeth- research projects and infrastructures to between Hamburg and Shanghai re- er with DESY scientist Simone Techert. be used jointly by the partners in Ham- ceives substantial support from China’s burg and Shanghai, as well as for a wide research policy makers. range of mobility and exchange programmes to promote young scientists. The scientific programme of CHILFEL will initially be based on five pillars: China is on its way to becoming a major scientific applications at FELs using soft Zdenek Herman MOLEC medal scientific power and has been able to and hard X-rays, development of FEL for Francesca Calegari chalk up some significant achievements methods and instruments, FEL seeding DESY scientist Francesca in the field of free-electron lasers (FELs) and synchronisation, detector develop- Calegari was awarded the in recent years. In addition to a modern ment and development of supercon- Zdenek Herman MOLEC synchrotron radiation source, a free- ducting cavities. Overall, 25 scientists Young Scientist Prize. Calegari was honoured for electron laser in the soft X-ray range from Hamburg and Shanghai are asso- her promising work in femtosecond and atto went into operation in Shanghai some ciated within the programme. (tz) second laser spectroscopy. The physicist re- years ago. Approval has recently been ceived the prize at the international MOLEC granted for the ambitious SHINE pro- conference in France at the end of August. ject, an FEL for short-wavelength X‑ray The prize consists of a bronze medal and is awarded in honour of the Czech chemist light on the Shanghai research campus, Zdenek Herman. based on superconducting accelerator technology.

8 NEWS New PIER Seed Projects selected By Marion Stange Five Hamburg research teams can rejoice: Their projects were selected for funding among 13 submitted applications in the recent call for PIER Seed Projects. The projects come from the PIER research fields of infection and structural biology, nanoscience, photon science and accelerators. For their implementa- tion, DESY, the University of Hamburg (UHH) and the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) will provide a total of 240 000 euros over the next two years through the PIER Idea Fund.

According to the jury, the projects are par- Networking: A symposium took place at MIT as part of the delegation trip. One of the speakers was Wilfried Wurth, ticularly worthy of support because they not leading scientist at DESY. Picture: MIT/Sampson Wilcox only demonstrate outstanding scientific qual- ity and originality but also consistently focus on cooperation across institutions. In some cases, the planned cooperation even extends beyond the circle of PIER partner institutions, DESY delegation trip to with some projects involving researchers from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), the European Molecular Washington and Boston Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Max Networking with US scientific elite Planck Institute for the Structure and Dyna mics of Matter (MPSD) as co-applicants. By Frank Lehner and Marion Stange BNITM and EMBL are partners of the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), which A delegation of Hamburg science insti- lenges in common research projects, for was established on the Hamburg Bahrenfeld tutions with strong DESY representation, example in structural biology, medicine, campus in 2017. headed by Hamburg’s Second Mayor nanotechnology and quantum electronics. and Senator of Science, Research and “As jury members, we found this intense net- Equality Katharina Fegebank, visited the The two-year development phase of the working of researchers from different institutions on the Bahrenfeld campus particularly US east coast cities of Washington and network is financially supported by the impressive”, explains Franz Kärtner, chair- Boston. The goal of the delegation trip Hamburg Ministry of Science, Research man of the PIER Executive Board. “The more was to establish closer scientific rela- and Equality (BWFG). During this period, research institutions on the campus can be tions between the United States and the PIER office will coordinate activities involved, the better. This also strengthens the Hamburg. The trip took place at the be- in two areas: On the one hand, a kick- multidisciplinary orientation of the research ginning of September in the run-up to off workshop with researchers from campus.” the talent fair GAIN (German Academic DESY, UHH and MIT will be held in The now completed call for proposals for the International Network). The GAIN initia- Hamburg in January 2019, with the PIER Seed Projects was the eighth since the tive helps German researchers working purpose to identify common research founding of PIER in 2011. Besides providing in North America to maintain their ties topics with a particularly high potential seed money for joint DESY and UHH research with German science. Moreover, it sup- for both sides. In order to advance the projects, PIER also supports workshops and short visits of researchers from abroad. ports scientists who want to return to cooperation, young scientists from Applications for PIER Workshops and PIER Germany. Hamburg will then spend several Short Visits can be submitted continually. months working in MIT research groups. In Boston and Washington, the DESY PIER (Partnership for Innovation, Education delegation exchanged views with local On the other hand, highly qualified MIT and Research) is the strategic partnership of faculty representatives and conferred students will be invited to complete DESY and UHH. On behalf of the two institutions, PIER promotes joint research and with US science and funding agencies. research internships on the Bahrenfeld innovation activities, particularly of young campus. This will give the students the scientists. PIER focuses on the fields of par- Embedded in the delegation trip was a opportunity to become acquainted with ticle and astroparticle physics, nanosciences, symposium organised by PIER at the the excellent research environment in photon science, infection and structural Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hamburg at an early stage, with the per- biology, theoretical physics and accelerator research. (MIT), with researchers from DESY, the spective to attract them as top talents University of Hamburg (UHH) and MIT. to Hamburg in the future. INFO The scientists laid the foundation for www.pier-hamburg.de/funding/ establishing a joint Grand Challenges Contact: [email protected] Research Network. The aim of the network is to tackle major scientific chal-

“Bring the world together” Former CERN director general talks at RACIRI Summer School Design energy achieved Super microscope accelerates electrons to 17.5 GeV By Peter Wibbeling About 70 young scientists attended the RACIRI Summer School on the Rügen island in August. At the 6th joint summer school of the Rönt- gen Ångström Cluster (RAC) and the Ioffe Röntgen Institute (IRI), participants were introduced to state-of-the-art methods of materials investigation using X‑ray and neutron beams. The motto of the summer school this year was “From Basic Science and Appli- cations to Technologies inspired by Nature”. Lectures covered topics such as “Soft Matter & Bio-Materials”, “Energy and Environment” and “Nature-inspired Technologies”. This year, the RACIRI Summer School took place in Germany for the second time.

View of the European XFEL control monitor: For the first time, the accelerator reached an electron energy of 17.5 GeV (here in the unit megaelectronvolts: 17583 MeV, encircled in red).

The experiments at Europe’s new X-ray electrons with energies of up to 14 GeV. laser European XFEL have been running In the future, the accelerator will be oper- A highlight of the event was the keynote for about a year. For the first time, the ated in an energy range between 8 and lecture of Rolf-Dieter Heuer (photo above) on the topic “Lessons learned in science diplo- super microscope has now accelerated 17.5 GeV, depending on the require- macy”. Heuer is chairman of the Group of electrons to an energy that is higher than ments of the experiments. The increased Chief Scientific Advisors of the European that of any other X-ray free-electron laser energy range will enable the European Commission, former CERN director general, in the world so far. At the beginning of XFEL to generate a broader spectrum of president of the SESAME Council and vice- July, the superconducting linear accel- X-ray laser light, giving users more flexi- president of the German Physical Society. In erator brought electrons to an energy of bility in their methods and the possibility his lecture, Heuer described the roles of CERN and the SESAME radiation source in Jordan 17.5 GeV (gigaelectronvolts), the intended to try out techniques that were previous- as “innovate, discover, publish, share and design energy of the accelerator. Since ly not possible at free-electron lasers. bring the world together”. This was also his the initial commissioning of the facility concluding appeal to the young researchers. at an energy of 14.9 GeV in 2017, the The superconducting TESLA accelera- acceleration energy has been succes- tor technology is also responsible for The RACIRI Summer School is a joint initiative of Germany, Russia and Sweden in the sively ramped up. another unique feature of the European field of materials and nanosciences, with a XFEL: It allows for acceleration of up to regional focus on large-scale facilities in the Staff and operators of the DESY accel- 27 000 electron bunches per second and Baltic Sea region. The Röntgen Ångström erator division have now put the last thus for production of 27 000 X-ray laser Cluster is an association of German and part of the 96-module accelerator into flashes per second, compared to the up Swedish research centres, the Ioffe Röntgen operation and accelerated the electrons to 120 flashes at X-ray lasers with con- Institute is a German and Russian research cooperation to advance collaboration at large- beyond the previous benchmark. “This ventional accelerator technology. scale research facilities. is a tremendous success for the superconducting accelerator technology that The first scientific experiments at the has been pioneered by DESY and its new facility have already shown that international partners over the last three investigations are possible with an ultra- decades”, says Winfried Decking, head fast X-ray pulse sequence in the mega- of European XFEL accelerator operation. hertz range. The results were published at the end of August by a large interna- The accelerator of an X-ray free-electron tional research group led by DESY. (tz) laser such as the European XFEL pro- vides the high-energy electrons that are Pictures: Claas Abraham used to generate the intense, ultrashort laser pulses. The first user experiments were carried out with light generated by

10 Consulting service to go NEWS Italy now European XFEL shareholder DESY Start-up Office on campus tour At the beginning of October, the Italian research organisations INFN and CNR officially became shareholders of European XFEL GmbH. The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the National Research Council (CNR) together now own 2.9 percent of the company’s shares, one third going to INFN and two thirds to CNR, making Italy the fourth largest funder after Germany, Russia and France. Italy has been a European XFEL partner country since the foundation of the company. With the acqui- sition of the shares, the Italian shareholders now also have full voting rights in the Euro- pean XFEL Council.

New DESY start-up: KönigsSystems The start-up KönigsSystems offers high-tech services for research and development. “For Three days of coffee and questions: The start-up advisors informed interested parties about the many aspects of KönigsSystems, we are building on our expe- company spin-offs. Picture: DESY, Marta Mayer rience in science and industry,” explains Aram Kalaydzhyan, who has been with DESY for eight years and is now seizing the opportunity to set up his own high-tech company. The team consisting of physicists and engi- Bright sunshine and mild temperatures new contacts with people interested in neers wants to develop rapid and cost- – conditions couldn’t have been better innovations and start-ups, and even efficient designs of vacuum, cryogenic and for the first coffee camp-out of the newly identified spin-off potentials. opto-electronic systems for experiments. DESY Start-up Office under the motto “Wake up, start up!”. Over a cup of cof- Among the available support offers on fee in mid-September, DESY employees the campus for those interested in start- had the opportunity to find out how ing up a business are pitch trainings. German-Canadian network for quantum computing DESY supports spin-offs from research. The first took place in mid-October. Here, and data analytics established The Helmholtz centres DESY and Forschungs The DESY 2030 strategy specifies that participants learned that a catchy, short zentrum Jülich, the Canadian particle accel- DESY aims to become the starting point presentation of ideas and products is erator centre TRIUMF and the companies for further start-ups in the Hamburg and particularly important for the success of D‑Wave Systems Inc. and 1QBit have signed Brandenburg regions. a young enterprise – to win potential a Memorandum of Understanding in Canada customers or investors, but also to find in order to pool their strengths in the research At central points on the campus, the co-founders for a business idea. and use of quantum computers, data analy tics and in particular machine learning. The consultants from the Start-up Office idea for the cooperation came from a Helm- answered questions over three days, In addition, those interested in founding holtz delegation visit to Canada led by Helm- providing detailed information on many a company can attend regular “entre- holtz President Otmar Wiestler. aspects of company start-ups. What does preneurship lunches” where they can a spin-off from research really mean? exchange ideas over a common lunch in Which ideas can be developed into sus- the cafeteria. (mb) Committment for refugees tainable business models and how? What For several years already, DESY staff mem- kind of support does DESY provide? bers have been very active in helping refu- INFO gees. In addition to guitar lessons and break- fasts, they have been organising an annual All in all, the camp-out was very success [email protected] ful, with many interesting discussions, collection of clothing and other much needed items. Recently, at a summer festival for refugees on the Volkspark grounds, Jochen Barn stedt and Anna Kazakova have informed people DESY about internships and training at DESY. A central contact person is still needed for volun- SCIENCE DAYª teers inside and outside the research centre. Highlighting cutting-edge science Interested employees in Hamburg can contact 19 November 2018 Carmen Schüler for further information: Please register by 12 November 2018 [email protected] www.desy.de/scienceday Ulrike Behrens is the contact person in Zeuthen: [email protected]

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“Wissen vom Fass” science talks honoured Fifth teacher training in Hamburg When scientists in Hamburg fan out to the Teachers discover DESY research pubs and bars of the city to offer the guests entertaining insights into their work in half- By Kim Petersen hour lectures – then is the time for “Wissen DESY has long been supporting teachers Erhard Werner from Lower Saxony was vom Fass” (Science on Tap). This science who, as knowledge mediators, play an there for the third time – with great en- communication format developed by DESY essential role in promoting the interest thusiasm. “The work in the research and the University of Hamburg has now been awarded the “Hochschulperle” (University of their pupils in the natural sciences. groups as well as the presentations and Pearl) of the month of September by the Within the framework of the DESY guided tours continuously offer exam- Stifterverband donors’ association. teacher training, interested teachers ples of applications that allow me to from all over Germany have the opportu- make my own teaching much more in- nity to take part in current research on teresting,” says Werner. “Moreover, I the DESY campus in Hamburg during a noticed that many scientists share my five-day research stay. opinion that philosophy, mathematics

International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena Nearly 500 participants from almost 30 countries attended the XXI International Confer- ence on Ultrafast Phenomena in Hamburg in mid-July. The European Physical Society (EPS) organised the UP2018 conference with the support of DESY, the University of Hamburg and European XFEL. The conference takes place every two years and is con- sidered the leading and most important international forum for scientists and engineers working in research and technology development for the generation, manipulation and exploitation of ultrashort pulses.

TeVPA conference in Berlin Research-related advanced training: DESY scientist Doris Eckstein explains the work in the CMS cleanroom to In August, about 400 scientists from 36 na- participants of the teacher training course. Picture: DESY, Marta Mayer tions met at the TeVPA conference in Berlin to discuss current topics in astroparticle physics. The event was primarily organised With 25 teachers – more than ever be- and physics can only be understood to- by DESY in Zeuthen. Special subjects were fore – the fifth round took place this year gether. At DESY, work is consistently the recent discovery of gravitational waves in October. It made apparent that the interdisciplinary.” and electromagnetic radiation emitted by a DESY teacher training is becoming merging pair of neutron stars as well as the more and more known throughout Ger- Such a programme can only be carried first location of the source of a high-energy many: While in the past years partici- out thanks to the commitment of many cosmic neutrino in an active galactic nucleus, which could thus be identified as a place of pants mainly came from the greater staff members, as research director acceleration of cosmic rays. This localisation Hamburg area, this time the majority Joachim Mnich emphasised in his wel- is also of great importance for multi-messen- travelled from other federal states, such come address on the first day of the ger astronomy, i.e. the study of the universe as Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia. event. He took the opportunity to thank with various cosmic messengers (neutrinos, the more than 30 colleagues from DESY gravitational waves, cosmic radiation, electromagnetic radiation). The observation of What is also new this year is that, for the and the University of Hamburg who different cosmic messengers allows insights first time, the participants were able to contributed to this year’s training. They into the physics of cosmic particle accelerators. choose among three main areas of enabled the teachers to experience the training: particle physics, accelerator fascination of current research, bring it physics and photon science. Depending to their schools and hopefully pass it on on the participants’ preferences, the re- to their pupils. search stay consisted either mainly of guided tours, lectures and workshops – for example at the DESY test beam or in the CMS cleanroom – or of project- INFO based, intensive cooperation in a DESY www.desy.de/forschungsaufenthalt research or service group.

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Summer students 2018: 117 participants from 41 nations Summer is the season when the summer students are flocking to DESY. The programme has been held at DESY for almost 50 years, “with ever increasing applications,” says Olaf Behnke, co-organiser in Hamburg. Social media also spread information about interesting support programmes more quickly, so this year the team had to work its way through 800 applications. Eventually, a total of 117 students from 41 nations came to the DESY locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen for seven weeks. “A core element of our

programme is that the participants are integrated in one of the numerous research Picture: DESY, KuV groups at DESY,” says Behnke. This includes projects in photon science, particle and not only feel like students, but also like scientists.” The application period for the 2019 astroparticle physics as well as accelerator research. This year, for the first time, the summer student programme runs from 15 December 2018 to 31 January 2019. (khü) summer students were also able to participate in ongoing experiments at the European More information: http://summerstudents.desy.de XFEL. The programme conveys not only theoretical knowledge. “Our participants do

Brilliant beamline Longest PETRA III beamline takes up operation

With the PETRA III beamline den, and it is being operated P21, the fourth beamline in in collaboration with the KTH the “Ada Yonath” experimen- Royal Institute of Technology tal hall started operation. After in Stockholm and the Univer- the first X-ray beam reached sity of Linköping. P21 is also the experimental hutch on the first PETRA III beamline 27 August, the scientists took with an in-vacuum undulator. a first diffraction image of a test sample on 5 September. After the commissioning that has now started, first users are P21 is a special beamline in expected at the beamline for several respects. At 165 me- materials sciences research tres from the undulator to the with high-energy synchrotron last experimental station, it is radiation already this year. the longest PETRA III beam- Pleased to see first light at P21: DESY scientist Wolfgang Drube, research director Regular user operation will line. DESY has built it with Edgar Weckert, Johan Holmberg from the Swedish Research Council and beamline begin in summer 2019. (tz) financial support from Swe- scientist Ulrich Lienert (from left). Picture: DESY

13 Campus day in Zeuthen On 10 September, more than 150 colleagues celebrated the annual campus day in Zeuthen. The afternoon started with a tour of the campus, during which participants could get an insight into the projects of other groups and explore hidden passages and rooms in the building. Exchange and getting to know each other was also possible during the subse- quent sports programme: volleyball, football or table tennis. Culinary highlights included a new creation – the DESY waffles – and juicy cocktails mixed by the management team. The DESY Zeuthen band provided musical accompaniment until the evening. (ub) New DESY development: waffles with logo for the Zeuthen summer party. Picture: DESY, Frank Stephan

Very successful Day of Knowledge 4500 visitors stormed TUHH

By Miriam Huckschlag “…can generate pressure as high as the cooperation with DESY and 19 other It was not yet 13:00 h when the first curi- one 1000 kilometres deep inside the Hamburg science institutions, the Ham- ous guests streamed through the TUHH Earth…” a young visitor echoed the words burg Ministry of Science, Research and corridors, quickly discovering the fasci- of DESY scientist Rolf Treusch in disbe- Equality (BWFG) stages this science day nating and entertaining hands-on activi- lief while alternately lifting the partly in annual alternation with the Night of ties at the DESY booth. In addition to a heavy exhibits of the large-volume press Knowledge. 4500 Hamburg citizens in- ball linear accelerator, a drawing table from the table. terested in technology and research fol- and badge machine for the little guests, lowed the invitation to Harburg to visit a particle-o-mat, a cleanroom model Under the motto “Technology and Digital the Hamburg University of Technology with appropriate clothing and a cavity Worlds”, the Day of Knowledge took place (TUHH), which opened its premises on model, the exhibit table with exemplary for the second time on 22 September. In the occasion of its 40th anniversary. DESY research exhibits was a favourite attraction. There, the visitors had the opportunity to talk to DESY scientists about photosynthesis, dark matter, materials science or plasma acceleration. Half-hour lectures provided the visitors with more in-depth information on current research topics at DESY.

“Had we known beforehand that so many people would come, I would have brought Foto: ACT my whole group with me,” laughed DESY photon scientist Simone Techert, sur- rounded by curious children. In spite of the never ending rush of visitors at the DESY booth and completely overcrowd- ed lectures, both DESY staff members and visitors were in high spirits. For all DESY participants, the Day of Know ledge was an absolute success that calls for continuation. Crowds at the DESY booth: Many visitors were interested in the DESY programme at the Day of Knowledge. Picture: BWFG

14 20 years of “AG Faszination Physik” at DESY Pupils’ study group celebrates anniversary

“Mr. Tausendfreund has made a lasting, positive impression on my life,” says Felix Tennie, today a postdoc in Oxford. “The participation in his study group made it clear to me that I definitely wanted to study physics,” adds Gotthold Fläschner, now a PhD student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich.

Felix and Gotthold were school children when they attended Waldemar Tausend freund’s pupils’ study group “Faszina- tion Physik” at DESY many years ago. For 20 years, enthusiastic pupils have been pilgrimaging to the DESY campus More than just teaching: For 20 years, Waldemar Tausendfreund has been dedicated to conveying physical every week on Fridays and Saturdays to knowledge to young people. Picture: DESY, Marta Mayer spend their free time dealing with black holes, dark matter or the electron velocity to know and still get to know him as some selves. You can find them everywhere – in metals. Weird, you might think, but the one who, with his comprehensive educa- in Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, name says it all: fascination of physics. tion, is able to arouse curiosity and de- Canada or Australia. It would be wonder A name that should be read with an ex- light especially in the natural sciences. ful to find such study groups conveying clamation mark! the fascination of physics in many places In addition to the weekly meetings, ex- all over the world, and specially some- Waldemar Tausendfreund founded the cursions supported by DESY offer the one like Waldemar Tausendfreund, who study group and he has been supervising study group members numerous oppor- communicates knowledge of physics it ever since. Before he dedicated him- tunities to gain insight into academic equipped with cheese sticks, grape self to teaching the natural sciences, life. A special event is the annual Christ- juice, a blackboard, chalk and immense particularly physics, at DESY 20 years mas party at which current and former dedication. ago, Tausendfreund had been a solid- members meet and exchange ideas. By members & alumni of “AG Faszination Physik”, state physicist, then a secondary school represented by Felix Tennie and Gotthold Fläschner teacher. Even today, many students of Meanwhile, generations of science en- the study group ask themselves what it thusiasts have emerged from Tausend INFO might have been like to experience such freund’s talent pool, many of whom today http://faszination-physik.desy.de a captivating teacher at school. They got generate and impart knowledge them-

Dark Matter Day Planetarium show on dark matter

31 October was a special day. Not only (LHC) particle accelerator at CERN. It is Dark matter is one of the major un- because of Halloween or because it was a 360 degree experience developed by solved mysteries of physics. Nobody an official holiday in northern Germany scientists and accompanied by sound knows what dark matter is, what it looks for the first time. It was also International effects from the Skywalker Sound studio, like and how it behaves. However, many Dark Matter Day – and as DESY scien- which is also responsible for the sound observations have shown that it must tists too are searching for dark matter, backdrop in the Star Wars films. At the exist and that it even accounts for about DESY and the Hamburg Planetarium event, DESY scientists answered ques- 85 percent of the matter in our universe. showed the film “The Phantom of the tions about dark matter and particle In fact, we know only about 15 percent Universe” twice on 31 October. physics. of the matter in our universe – all the rest is dark… (baw) The film follows scientists hunting for At the same time, the first conference the mysterious dark matter – from the bringing together experts from various INFO big bang to its hoped-for discovery, for dark matter research fields was held at www.darkmatterday.com example at the Large Hadron Collider DESY in Hamburg from 29 to 31 October.

15 New Helmholtz Office in Tel Aviv The Helmholtz Association intensifies its collaboration with Israel. To this end, it has opened a new Helmholtz office in Tel Aviv at the end of October. It is the fourth international office of the research association. “We chose this location because we have found our long-term collabo rations with Israeli partners to be incredi- bly dynamic,” says Helmholtz President Otmar Wiestler. “This country is capable of cutting-edge research at a top inter national level in many areas of science, including medicine, chemistry or physics. And Israel is among the best in the world when it comes to the broad field of digi- talisation.” Helmholtz now wants to further expand the existing fruitful cooperation.

The new office will be located in a central co-working space in Tel Aviv. “Many young entrepreneurs are represented here,” says Billy Shapira, head of the new Helm- The sound of neutrinos: In his art project, the artist Tim Otto Roth translated data from the IceCube project at the holtz Office. “This start-up scene has a South Pole into coloured light and sound. Picture: DESY, Ashley Jones fascinating energy, and it puts us in close proximity with potential new partners.” Prior to taking up this role, Shapira held positions of responsibility at Hebrew Uni- AIS³ [aiskju:b] versity of Jerusalem for many years, serv- Premiere of light and sound installation by artist Tim Otto Roth ing most recently as chancellor.

With more than 3000 visitors, the pre- ers hanging from thin wires in the empty DESY and many Israeli research institu- miere of the light and sound installation hall of the cultural church St. Elisabeth tions also want to cooperate even more closely in the future. “We have a long and AIS³ came to a successful end on in Berlin. Using current data from the fruitful cooperation with a number of 16 September. The artist Tim Otto Roth IceCube experiment, the measured en- Israeli partners,” says DESY director Hel- was inspired to build his “Astroparticle ergies were translated into coloured mut Dosch. “We would like to expand this Immersive Synthesizer³ – AIS³ [aiskju:b]” light and tones blending into different success story by strengthening existing by the neutrino telescope IceCube, which sounds in the room. Visitors could move cooperations and creating new ones.” spies for high-energy elementary parti- between the loudspeakers and thus fol- www.helmholtz.de cles from outer space, the neutrinos, in low the movement of the ghost particles the perpetual ice of Antarctica. DESY across space. supported the artist in the realisation of The supporting programme coordinated his project. by DESY also attracted many people: IceCube was the data provider for the an exhibition on IceCube research at light and sound installation, which al- the South Pole, teacher training, guided Imprint lowed visitors to immerse themselves in tours for school classes, evening lec- Publisher DESY-PR the events at the South Pole and experi- tures and the reception of the TeVPA Notkestraße 85 encing neutrino impacts virtually in real conference in the installation. The pro- D-22607 Hamburg Contact time. “This project allows an audience gramme concluded with the Physics email: [email protected] that does not have close connections and Art[efacts] symposium initiated by telephone +49/40/8998-3613 www.desy.de/inform with science to experience the fascina- Tim Otto Roth and Christian Spiering, (online version + newsletter subscription) tion of science,” says Christian Spiering, with experts from physics and art, Editors Ulrike Behrens former head of the IceCube group at science historians, musicologists and Maike Bierbaum DESY and founder of the Global Neutri- media scientists as well as an audience Ilka Flegel,Textlabor Kristin Hüttmann (editor in chief) no Network. “The unconventional ap- that was keen to debate. Till Mundzeck (V.i.S.d.P.) Barbara Warmbein proach to a current research topic offers The next stages of the installation are Ute Wilhelmsen a sensory experience that augments our already fixed: In 2019, the [aiskju:b] pro- Thomas Zoufal classical communication of research.” ject will be on view in Munich and Production Britta Liebaug (layout) The light and sound installation [aiskju:b] Aachen, and presentations abroad are Veronika Werschner (translation) consisted of 444 spherical loudspeak- also planned. (ub) Kopierzentrale DESY (print)