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6 unusual facts about University of Potsdam


Anders Levermann

Anders Levermann is a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Institute for Physics and Astrophysics of the Potsdam University, Germany.

Bradley Shavit Artson

He is also Dean of the Zecharias Frankel College at the University of Potsdam, Germany, ordaining Conservative/Masorti rabbis for the European Union under the religious supervision of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

Brittonicisms in English

Research on Romano-British influence in English has intensified in the 2000s (decade), principally centering around The Celtic Englishes programmes in Germany (Potsdam University) and The Celtic Roots of English programme in Finland (University of Joensuu).

Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity

In 2004 its founding editor Christoph Meinel moved to the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam and moved some of the ECCC offices with him to Potsdam.

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

USV Potsdam Rugby

In 1990, with the imminent dissolution of East Germany, it became the HSG BLH Potsdam, to adopt its current name, USV Potsdam, in July 1991, reflecting its close ties with the University of Potsdam.



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Boy Leading a Horse

Julius Schoeps, director of the Moses Mendelssohn institute for European Jewish studies on the University of Potsdam near Berlin, as speaker of the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy heirs, sued the Museum in 2007 for the painting, and Jed S. Rakoff ruled that Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had been forced to sell the painting by the Nazi Party.

Ludic interface

The programme development is a joint project by the University of Potsdam, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz, and by the University of Salford in Greater Manchester.

Michael Hagemeister

Pavel Florenskij — Tradition und Moderne: Beiträge zum Internationalen Symposium an der Universität Potsdam (Tradition and Modernity: Contribution to an International Symposium at the University of Potsdam, 5. - 9. April 2000), (Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, 2001): ISBN 3-631-37537-9: Notes: Includes selection of his letters from his travels in Germany, in Russian with German translations on facing pages.