Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 17
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- 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
Contents |
Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
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
