Dear all, Concerning research groups for our challenge-track students: As has been the case also in previous years, I kindly ask you to - groupwise, if possible - inform me in writing about your planned activities in connection with now our 6th batch of challenge-track students (i.e. for their 2nd and 3rd year). The research groups may consist of an entire topical group or one or more subgroups, and – depending on the number of groups – are likely to receive about 2 challenge-track students for two semesters in the period E18-F20 (‘E’ and ‘F’ is danish for ‘autumn’ and ’spring’). As has been done in previous years, we assign students to the groups according to student preferences, but with a view towards efficient use of staff for the challenge-track. It is therefore possible that a group offering activities will not get assigned students. Please include in your (preferably brief) response the name of the group you suggest, its main topic, 5-10 keywords about the scientific content, and a bit about which competencies you expect the talent students may obtain from your programme (both the 'soft' such as presentation skills, and the 'hard' such as programming in LabVIEW), and a suggestion for the final evaluation, to be done at the end of the semester (which product, oral presentation, report or something else?). Please adhere to the format in the attached programme from last year, and send your response to Ann-Berit (cc.). If you are already offering 2nd and 3rd year challenge-track activities for an older batch of challenge-students, please let me know if your group is willing to offer again, and if title and contents need changes. The deadline is Friday 5th of July, end of next week. Ulrik ************ Ulrik I. Uggerhøj Department of Physics and Astronomy Aarhus University Denmark Phone: +45 2338 2373