Group Retreat in Esneux, Belgium, September 2026
The most important things first: are Belgian fries better than the ones in Mensa? (we had the Mensa fries specialist Henning with us)
Apart from testing the Belgians skills in fries, we also had to test their brewing skills.
The brewer mentioned that he now uses AI for his work, so of course we had to have a workshop on AI, hoping it would help us to brew our mathematical models.
Sadly our plan to party until the morning had to be adjusted, so we resorted to board games.
We also visited some colleagues at the University of Liège where we discussed our research and were shown how to make antibubbles. Steffen H. with his background in high-energy physics was somehow surprised that when an antibubble meets a bubble, they do not annihilate.
Excursion to the Botanical Garden of TU Darmstadt, June 2026
Of course, we must pay a visit to one of our „ancient colleagues“—the Indian lotus—which has been quietly mastering Cassie-Baxter wetting and thermo-osmotic gas transport long before humans even existed.
Group outing in Mangiennes, France, September 2025
Selection of our accommodation
After considering different options…
…our final choice was a no-brainer
Discussion of science… and technology
Team building: quiz night and the infamous Golden Wafer Award for the winners
Group outing in Annweiler/Trifels, Rhineland Palatinate, September 2024
Hypothesis
The main purpose of a group outing is incorporate large amounts of ethanol-containing liquids
Disproving the hypothesis, part 1
Some serious hiking activities
Disproving the hypothesis, part 2
Some serious scientific brainstorming – Some serious table soccer playing
Group BBQ, July 2024
Usually, at a BBQ event, food is in the focus of people’s attention.
Not so for our 2024 BBQ event…
Here is why
