Scientists and Ethics - Summer 14
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- Term
- Sommer 14
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
- IN901002
Contents
Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
Modul description in TUMOnline
News
The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in June
Preliminary Meeting Thursday 10.04. 12:30-13:00 room 02.07.023
Application
Email to huckle@in.tum.de (and TUMOnline)
Only 20 participants are possible.
The seminar is full.
Preliminary Meeting
Thursday 10.04. 12:30-13:00 room 02.07.023
Seminar Schedule
- Tu 3.6. 14:00-19:00 room 1.13.7
- 14:00 Bekmukhametov - Genetic research
- 14:45 Copur - Medical research and Nazis
- 15:30 Bakuradze - W. Heisenberg
- 16:15 Vasudhara - War and Politics
- 17:00 Lohaj B - John Nash, a beautiful mind
- Fr 6.6. 14:00-19:00 room 2.13.10
- 14:00 Tang - Industriual Espionage
- 14:45 Angel - DNA research
- 15:30 Bhomwick - women in Computer Science
- 16:15 Sinani - John Nash, a beautiful mind
- 17:00 Mahmuti - Mathematics of Voting
- Sa 7.6. 11:00-15:00 room 1.7.23
- 11:00 Chowdhury - Freedom of the internet
- 11:45 Mahmuzic - Alan Turing
- 12:30 Gyllingberg - Mathmetical Modelling
- 13:30 Xhymshiti - Globalization
- 14:15 Mostajabodaveh - John v. Neumann
- 15:00 Jagdish - Science and religion
- Mi 18.6. 14:00-19:00 room 3.13.10
- 14:00 Ravindra - Animal experiments
- 14:45 Hasany - Robot ethics
- 15:30 Lohaj A - Advertisements and commercials
- 16:15 Rahmani - Albert Einstein
- 17:00 Halasz - Language and brain
- Sa 5.7. 11:00-15:00 room 2.7.23
- 11:00 Swami - Existence of god, proofs
- 11:45 Lerzer - Richard Feynman
- 12:30 Ruan Xin - Fraud
- 13:30 Mukherjee - Patents in science
- 14:15 Chakraborty - Surveillance
- 15:00 Cui - Nuclear power plants
Topics
Already chosen topics that are no more available are marked with -
- - 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
- Privacy
- Alfred Nobel
- - Doping (Sport)
- Doping (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
- Language and brain
- - 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
- Capitalism - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Wikileaks
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- - Robot ethics
- Death Penalty
- War and politics
- - Nuclear power - yes or no
- How to achieve outstanding research
Regulations
- talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week inadvance to me (Email orr personally)
- Paper: ca. 15 pages, until September, 15th 2014
- Seminar will be held in blocks
- Fixing the schedule at a meeting at the beginning of the sommer term
- Literature and advice per email or personally
- Each student has to participate at ca. 9 talks.
- Possible debriefing in my office
