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Revision as of 12:55, 7 February 2012
- Term
- Summer 12
- Lecturer
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle
- Time and Place
- tba
- Audience
- Informatik (Bachelor, Master)
- Tutorials
- -
- Exam
- -
- Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits
- 2 SWS / 4 Credits
- TUMonline
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Contents
Überfachliche Grundlagen! Soft Skills!
News
Application
Email to huckle@in.tum.de
Preliminary Meeting
Beginning of summer term
Seminar Schedule
tba
Topics
- 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
- Kapitalis - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" - Communism
- Wikileaks
- Humboldt and the Bologna Process
- Roboter 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. September 2012
- Seminar will be held blockwise
- 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