Term: Summer 18
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

News

The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in June/July.

Application

Registration in TUMOnline AND email to huckle@in.tum.de

Don't forget to register in TUMOnline also for examination!!!

Only 20 participants are possible.

Preliminary Meeting

Tuesday 10.4.2018, room 02.07.023 , 10:30-11:00

Another preliminary meeting will take place at the beginning of the summer term.

Seminar Schedule

Fr 22.6. 2pm in room 2.7.23:
- 2:00: Schmiedmayer - Paradoxa
- 2:45: Riedlberger - Legitimization of governments
- 3:30: Jindal - Wikileaks
- 4:15: Rahman - War and Politics
Mo 2.7. 2pm in room 1.13.10:
- 2:00: Feiler - Einstein
- 2:45: Opolka - Big Data
- 3:30: Schelle - Genetic research
- 4:15: Gust - W.v.Braun
- 5:00: Pröbstl - Turing
- 5:45: Mir - Globalization
Mo 25.6. 2pm in room 1.13.10:
- 2:00: Farghal - Goedel
- 2:45: Hyeonjun - Nuclear Power Plants
- 3:30: Bowyer - Ten ways to loose an audience
- 4:15: Enghofer - Nash, Beautiful Mind
- 5:00: Chakraborty - I and free will
- 5:45: Krenz - Voting

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
- Wernher von Braun
Nils Bohr (Physics)
Edward Teller (Physik)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (Physics)
Andrej Sacharow (Physics)
Kurt Goedel
Lise Meitner
Bella Abramova Subbotovskaya: Jewish People's Univ.
Alfred Nobel
- John Nash - A beautiful Mind
Alan Turing
Konrad Lorenz
Curta - Hand calculator for Hitler
Richard Feynman
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Georg Cantor
Linus Pauling
Konrad Zuse
Tesla
Newton
Genetic research, Cloning, Stem cells
Animal Experiments
Medizine during the Nazi era - Euthanasia,..
Doping (Sport)
Doping (brain)
Advertisements/Commercials/Psychology: Secret Seducers
Language and brain
Milgram-Experiment
Stanford-Experiment
Food chemistry/psychology
The history of psychiatry
_ Big Data and Politcs
Star Wars, SDI, MD: Missile defense
Freedom of the internet
Open Source - Philosophy
Surveillance
Privacy
Women in Computer Science
- Wikileaks
- Robot ethics, "death by algorithm"
digital dementia
Fraud in science
Error in Science
Epistemology - Limits of Science (Skeptizismus,Kant, Popper,..)
Watson, Crick and the decypherment of the DNA
Fermat Conjecture and Andrew Wiles
- Ten ways to lose an audience, "good lecturing"
Humboldt and the Bologna Process
How to achieve outstanding research
Creationism and Intelligent Design
Science and Ethics in literature
Science and Politics
- Political Science - Legitimization of governments,...
Mathematics of voting systems
- Paradoxa in Mathematics, Arts, Psychology
Science and Religion
Science and Patents
The story of the "IG-Farben" - Trusts and nazis
Industrial espionage
- "I" and "Free Will" - a myth?
Arguments for the existence of god?
Historical criticism in biblical studies
Science in the GULAG (Solschenizyn)
- Globalisation
Capitalism - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
Death Penalty
- War and politics
Nuclear power - yes or no

Regulations

Register at TUMOnline, also register later for examination in TUMOnline!
Choose free topic and mail it to me (no more avaliable topics have prefix -).
talk: <= 45 min, ppt, pdf; has to be sent ca. 1 week in advance to me (Email or personally)
For each session we will possibly announce a student chair
Paper: ca. 8 pages, until ca. end of August 2018
Seminar will be held in blocks in June/July
Fixing the schedule at a meeting at the beginning of the summer term
Literature and advice per email or personally
Each student has to participate at ca. 9 talks.
Possible debriefing in my office

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