During the past decades, the foundations of science have developed a new pillar: scientific computing. Using the power of modern-day computers, it is possible to model processes, analyse data and image interesting phenomena in a sophisticated way. The University of Heidelberg thought this development was important enough to establish the IWR, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific…

On Thursday, the first ‘real’ day of the excursion, we were given the choice to either visit the Heidelberg Castle and the pharmacy museum situated there, or the University of Heidelberg’s faculty of Computer Science. A part of the group set out to visit the castle and museum. After a steep climb the castle was…

In search for interdisciplinary research in a picturesque town   Reportage by Istvan Kleijn (physics), Cedric Lau (pharmacy) and Stijn Hinterding (Chemistry) Science Honours Students at EMBL, Heidelberg, November 18th 2011 From 16th to 19th November, the Honours Students from the Faculty of Science of the University of Utrecht, were given the great opportunity to…