January 2024, the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung and the Lorentz Center started a collaboration on one or more annual workshops at the Lorentz Center, within the area of physics (in the broadest sense).
The collaboration supports two different kinds of meetings:
WE Heraeus – Lorentz workshops
and
Dutch-German WE Heraeus – Lorentz Seminars
Conditions
The events should fulfill the expectations and requirements of regular Lorentz Center workshops in the area of physics.
In addition:
For WE Heraeus – Lorentz workshops:
- at least one co-organizer is based in Germany and one based in the Netherlands
- in the order of 25% participants based in Germany
For Dutch-German WE Heraeus – Lorentz Seminars:
These seminars are in particular aimed to strengthen existing cooperation between the Netherlands and Germany or to initiate new ones.
- at least one co-organizer is based in Germany and one based in the Netherlands
- approximately 1/3 participants should be affiliated with German institutions, 1/3 participants affiliated with Dutch institutions and 1/3 participants from the rest of the world
- if desired, the program may be more shifted towards lectures, less focus on the interactive part, than expected by the workshops
Funding
Both the workshops and the seminars are fully funded by the WE-Heraeus Stiftung. This funding includes hotel and lunch to all participants and travel refunds for some (key) participants.
Evaluation
The Lorentz Center submits the proposal to the relevant Lorentz Center scientific advisory board(s) for evaluation on the criteria for regular Lorentz Center workshops.
High ranking proposals in scope for a workshop or seminar in the WE Heraeus – Lorentz Collaboration are submitted to the WE Heraeus committee(s), together with the ranking by the Lorentz Center physics advisory board. The WE Heraeus board selects the winner(s).
If the proposal is not selected by the WE Heraeus committee, it is still in the running for a regular Lorentz Center workshop.
Scientific Report
The scientific report, to be written after the workshop/seminar, should be submitted in English as well as in German. The German version will be published in Physik Journal and on the Foundation’s website, the English text will be published via the Lorentz Center workshop website and in the bi-annual report published with reports from all Lorentz Center workshops.
WE Heraeus -Lorentz workshops
26-28 May 2025
WE Heraeus-Lorentz workshop: Predicting barriers for reactions on metals
10-14 February 2025
Superconductivity in symmetry-broken and low-dimensional systems
