7th MPIP-CPI Joint Seminar

Since 2000 the group of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll from the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and the CPI folks gather more or less every year for a Joint Seminar to discuss research going on in both groups.

April 18th & 19th marked the days for the (approximately, we don't know exactly) 7th meeting in this series and these two days were packed with talks and posters on topics ranging all the way from long-range surface plasmons to hydrogel layers to various biosensor formats.

Due to the highly complementary nature of the science in the both groups, Wolfgang Knoll and Jürgen Rühe created what is now called "The MPIP-CPI Virtual Travel Grant" (Wolfgang) that miraculously comes with "real money" to encourage student exchange between Mainz and Freiburg. We'll see how this goes ;-)

Here is some more information:

• Check out the program & abstracts (pdf).
• Knoll group on the web: http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/groups/knoll