Scientists and Ethics - Summer 18

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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


Contents

Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!

Modul

Modul description in TUMOnline

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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