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The 7th JufoCongress, which took place in Hamburg from March 29th to April 2nd, is over and I returned to Nuremberg yesterday. In a nutshell: It was just awesome!

Somehow I didn’t manage to hook up to the internet for blogging, while staying in Hamburg, but took some notes anyway:

• Wednesday
  I arrived in Hamburg this morning. To get my flight I had to get up very early at 5:45, which was way to early for my taste ;) After getting my stuff to the hotel, I toke the subway to the city center and already took a walk around the city, but because of the bad^Wnice rainy Hamburg weather I’m now sitting in a cafe, relaxing and waiting for the others to arrive later today. Over the next couple of days we will (amonst others) visit the Airbus facilities, Philips Semiconductors and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. For a detailed overview
  check out this page. Because of this I’ll most likely be offline until I’ll be back in Nuremberg on Sunday night :)
• Thursday
  Yesterdays “get to know all the other folks dinner” was fun, met a lot of interesting people and now looking forward to the upcoming days.
  Got up early to take the ferry to Hamburg Finkenwerder, where the Airbus facilities are located. We were welcomed right at their gateway, attempts to take a picture of a huge screen that displayed a welcome message for us, were cut off immediately by a security guard ;) After walking to the Airbus conference center (the Airbus compound is huge!), we had a presentation / discussion on Airbus in general + were informed about their job opportunities for people like us (mostly students). Afterwards we got a guided tour around the Airbus production facilities. In total it was really impressing to get some inside into the world’s biggest aircraft maker.
  After taking the ferry back to the “Landungsbrücken”, we had the pleasure to visit Gruner + Jahr (Europe´s biggest magazine publisher and the strongest-selling German publisher) and talk to the director of the department for science & medicine for the “stern” magazine. Discussing topics like influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the media and how they manage to stay objective was very interesting, and so was the tour though editorial department of the “stern”.
  The evening program was great, we went to a musical on the Reeperbahn and did some “social studies” in a bar afterwards.
• Friday
  Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in the morning, got welcomed by one of the world’s most famous climate scientists Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl. Took a tour though the DKRZ (German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate- and Earth System Research).
  Philips Semiconductors in the afternoon with the usual presentations, tours and a nice discussion on NFC (Near Field Communication Technology), which seems to be quite similar to RFID, even if the Philips folks were denying that (most likely because of the bad security reputation of RFID) ;)
  The night program included a trip to the Hamburg planetarium for a laser & lighting show called “Deep Space Night 2″ and the usual bars.
• Saturday
  Harbor tour in the morning, lectures on particle physics and neural adaptation in the afternoon. Followed by the anual general meeting of the juFORUM society. The 8th JufoCongress will take place in Göttingen next year, which is really great! As I’m from Göttingen and have lived there for almost 20 years, I’m on the organizational committee for the congress ;)
  juFORUM party in a nice restaurant in Hamburg-Harburg, arrived back at the hotel somewhen around 3-4 in the morning. Started first discussions & brainstorming on the 8th JufoCongress Göttingen in 2007.
• Sunday
  Up early, after some 3 hours of sleep, to get to the “Fischmarkt” and a guided tour to the Hamburg city afterwards. Went to the airport to take the plane back to Nuremberg.

That’s it for now, but before I close this posting, I’d like to thank Wolf, Maria, Tiark, Stefan & Constanze for organizing this years JufoCongress! You guys did an anwsome job!

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