NEWS (/ OLDS )

• April 2007: The German Science Foundation DFG has granted funding to the DFG Research Group 912 - Coherence and relaxation properties of electron spins. Members of the AG-FKT are the principal investigators of project TP4.

• September 2008: Following the first "International conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism" in Waterloo, Canada, in June 2000 (HFM2000), the second in Grenoble, France, in June 2003 (HFM2003), and the third in Osaka, Japan, in August (2006), the fourth one, HFM2008, will take place in Braunschweig, Germany, from the 7th to 12th of September 2008. Members of the AG-FKT are co-organizing this conference.

• August 2009: The Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony has granted funding to the NTH School for Contacts in Nano Systems conducted by selected research groups of the Technical University of Braunschweig, the Leibniz University of Hannover, and the Technical University of Clausthal. Members of the AG-FKT are the principal investigators of project P2.

• October 2009: Within the 7th Framework, the European Commission The European Commission has granted funding to the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) LOW-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM MAGNETS FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT (LOTHERM). The AG-FKT is a member of this ITN.