Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 17

Term

Winter 17/18

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

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Contents

Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!

Modul

Modul description in TUMOnline

News

Preliminary meeting: Tuesday 24.20., 10:30-11:00 in room 02.07.023

The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in December/January.

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 24.10. 10:30-11:00 in room MI 02.07.023

Seminar Schedule

• Fr 15.12.: Room 00.08.055
  • 14:00 Sen (Food Chemistry and Psychology),
  • 14:45 Al Rihawi (Surveillance),
  • 15:30 Angelopoulos, Skipped
  • 16:15 Singhaphandu (Nuclear Power),
  • 17:00 Raghavendracharn (Good lecturing)
• Mo 18.12.: Room 00.08.055
  • 14:00 Gualotuna (Digital Dementia),
  • 14:45 Birliker (W.v.Braun),
  • 15:30 Mansoor (I and free will),
  • 16:15 Pecholt (Turing),
  • 17:00 Coman (Italian Scientists during Facism)
• Sa 20.1. : Room 00.08.055
  • 11:00 Khoshkbijari (Voting systems),
  • 11:45 Penmatsa (Big Data),
  • 12:30 Mörtl (Robot Ethics),
  • 13:15 Jantaranuson (Big Data),
  • 14:00 Asad (Privacy)
  • 14:45 Chakraborty (Language and brain)

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

• 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 February 2018
• Seminar will be held in blocks in December/January
• 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 ca. 9 talks.
• Possible debriefing in my office