Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 12
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- Term
- Winter 12
- Lecturer
- Atanas Atanasov, Kaveh Rahnema
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
- https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/lv.detail?clvnr=950070163
Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
News
Deadline for paper: 01.03.2012
First session: November, 30th 2012 - 2pm
Application
Email to atanasoa@in.tum.de
Preliminary Meeting
Tuesday, 3th. of Juli. 16:30 - 17:00, room 02.07.023
Seminar Schedule
Fr 30.11.2012
Location : EG.003 (003, IGSSE-Seminarraum/Foyer), Boltzmannstr. 17(5530), Erdgeschoß
| Nr. | Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
| 2 | 14:45 - 15:30 | Robot ethics | |
| 3 | 15:30 - 16:15 | Mathematics of voting systems | |
| 4 | 16:30 - 17:15 | Open Source Philosophy | |
| 5 |
Fr 07.12.2012
| Nr. | Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | 14:00 - 14:45 | Star Wars, SDI, MD: Missile defense | |
| 2 | 14:45 - 15:30 | Women in Computer Science | |
| 3 | 15:30 - 16:30 | Albert Einstein | |
| 4 | 16:30 - 17:15 | ||
| 5 | 17:15 - 18:00 | Alan Turing |
Sat 08.12.2012
| Nr. | Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | 10:00 - 10:45 | Industrial espionage | |
| 2 | 10:45 - 11:30 | Nuclear Power yes or no | |
| 3 | 11:30 - 12:15 | Ten ways to lose an audience, "good lecturing" | |
| 4 | 13:15 - 14:00 | John von Neumann | |
| 5 | 14:00 - 14:45 | Science and Patents |
Fr 21.12.2012
| Nr. | Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | 14:00 - 14:45 | Surveillance | |
| 2 | 14:45 - 15:30 | Science and Religion | |
| 3 | 15:30 - 16:15 | Nils Bohr | |
| 4 | 16:30 - 17:15 | Arguments for the existence of god? | |
| 5 | 17:15 - 18:00 | Genetic research, Cloning, Stem cells |
Fr 11.01.2013
| Nr. | Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | 14:00 - 14:45 | tbd | tbd |
| 2 | 14:45 - 15:30 | tbd | tbd |
| 3 | 15:30 - 16:15 | tbd | tbd |
| 4 | 16:30 - 17:15 | tbd | tbd |
| 5 | 17:15 - 18:00 | tbd | tbd |
Sat 12.01.2013
| Nr. | Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1 | 10:00 - 10:45 | tbd | tbd |
| 2 | 10:45 - 11:30 | tbd | tbd |
| 3 | 11:30 - 12:15 | tbd | tbd |
| 4 | 13:15 - 14:00 | tbd | tbd |
| 5 | 14:00 - 14:45 | tbd | tbd |
Topics
- -Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell (Mathematics)
- Werner Heisenberg
- Fritz Haber (Chemistry)
- -John von Neumann
- Max Planck
- -Genetic research, Cloning, Stem cells
- Animal Experiments
- Medizine during the nazi era - Euthanasia,..
- Wernher von Braun
- -Nils Bohr (Physics)
- Edward Teller (Physik)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (Physics)
- Andrej Sacharow (Physics)
- "Deutsche Mathematik"
- "Deutsche Physik"
- Fraud in science
- Error in Science
- Epistemology - Limits of Science (Skeptizismus,Kant, Popper,..)
- -Star Wars, SDI, MD: Missile defense
- Kurt Goedel
- Lise Meitner
- Bella Abramova Subbotovskaya: Jewish People's Univ.
- -Freedom of the internet
- -Open Source - Philosophy
- -Surveillance
- Alfred Nobel
- Doping (Sport/brain)
- Watson, Crick and the decypherment of the DNA
- Creationismus and Intelligent Design
- -Women in Computer Science
- John Nash - A beautiful Mind
- -Alan Turing
- Konrad Lorenz
- Fermat Conjecture and Andrew Wiles
- Curta - Hand calculator for Hitler
- Science and Ethics in literature
- -Science and Politics
- Political Science - Legitimization of governments,...
- -Mathematics of voting systems
- Paradoxa in Mathematics, Arts, Psychology
- Richard Feynman
- Advertisements/Commercials/Psychology: Secret Seducers
- -Science and Religion
- -Science and Patents
- Milgram-Experiment
- Stanford-Experiment
- Ten ways to lose an audience, "good lecturing"
- The story of the "IG-Farben" - Trusts and nazis
- - Industrial espionage
- -"I" and "Free Will" - a myth?
- -Arguments for the existence of god?
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The history of psychiatry
- Historical criticism in biblical studies
- Georg Cantor
- Linus Pauling
- Food chemistry/psychology
- Konrad Zuse
- Science in the GULAG (Solschenizyn)
- Globalisation
- Kapitalis - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Wikileaks
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- -Roboter ethics
- -Death Penalty
- -Nuclear power - yes or no
- How to achieve outstanding research
Regulations
- The seminar counts as soft skills
- Talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week inadvance to me (Email orr personally)
- Paper: ca. 15 pages, until ca. march 2013
- Seminar will be held blockwise
- Fixing the schedule at a meeting at the beginning of the winter term
- Literature and advice per email or personally
- Each student has to participate at all appointments. Only one absence is permitted. By more then one absences the seminar will be graded with 5.0
- Possible debriefing in my office