View source for Seminar Scientists and Ethics - Winter 13

{{Lecture
| term = Winter 13
| lecturer = [[Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle]]
| timeplace = tba
| credits = 2 SWS / 4 Credits
| audience = Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
| tutorials = -
| exam = -
| tumonline = [https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/lv.detail?clvnr=950111004&sprache=1 IN901002]
}}
= Contents =
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!

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= News =
The seminar will take place in blocks on a few days in January/February

= Application =
Email to huckle@in.tum.de (and TUMOnline) 

Only 10 participants are possible.
= Preliminary Meeting =
Thursday 11.07.2013 13:30-14:00 in room 02.07.023

= Seminar Schedule =

Fr. 17.1., 13:00, 01.06.011: 
* 13:00  (Stanford Experiment), 
* 13:45  (W.v.Braun), 
* 14:30  (Advertisements, Commercials), 
* 15:15  (Science and Religion), 
* 16:00  (Einstein)

Sa. 18.1., 11:00, 01.06.011: 
* 11:00  (Limitations of Science), 
* 11:45  (Industrial Espionage), 
* 12:30  (Existence of God), 
* 13:15  (Milgram Experiment),

We. 22.1., 14:00, 02.09.023: 
* 14:00  (Open Source), 
* 14:45  (Doping - Sport), 
* 15:30  (Good lecturing), 
* 16:15  (Women in Science), 
* 17:00  (Oppenheimer/Solschenizyn)

= 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/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
* - 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
* 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 ca. April 2014
* Seminar will be held in blocks
* 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


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