We wish all our users a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and good luck, happiness, success and above all health for 2018.

After the successful completion of the first Data Science Summer School in July of this year and the very positive feedback from the participants and lecturers, there will also be a Data Science Summer School in Göttingen next year. The summer school focuses on the cross-linking of theory and practice and the intensive exchange between the students and the lecturers as well as the group work. The Summer school is organized within the Short Term Programs of the University in cooperation of the Institute for Computer Science and the Göttingen eResearch Alliance, jointly run by the GWDG and the

Message-Id: 201712181550 Time: 23.12.2017 - 01.01.2018 Affected: Customers of GWDG Impact: Restricted opening times of the data centre and accessibility of the service hotline

The data centre of the GWDG is closed from 23.12.2017 to 26.12.2017 and from 30.12.2017 and 01.01.2018. From 27.12.2017 to 29.12.2017 the data centre is only opened from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

In urgent cases please contact our support staff at support@gwdg.de. Each message is put into our ticket system which will be checked on all days from 23.12.2017 to 01.01.2018.

We kindly ask all users to take this into account.

The December issue of the GWDG News has just been published. It contains among others the following Topics:

• The bhyve Hypervisor
• Audio Unit Programming
• The most frequent requests regarding GWDG’s list server

>> Click here for the GWDG News 12/2017

More than 20,000 objects from more than 25 collections of the University of Göttingen have been accessible since Monday, December 4,2017 via the new collection portal of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The digitized works of art and specimens, instruments and models reflect the diversity of Göttingen’s collection landscape, which will be on display in the Forum Wissen in the future. All interested parties worldwide can call up and use well-founded information and high-quality pictures of the objects in the collection portal. The University of Göttingen is one of the first