Workshop “Building on Models: Experiences from a Decade with the Microcircuit model”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling, is dominated by small ad hoc models of neuronal networks designed to explain individual research questions. Such models are frequently implemented in low-level programming languages (e.g. C++, Matlab, Python) and at best shared as collections of source code files. By …

Conference: Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond

RWTH Aachen University - Super C Templergraben 57, Aachen, Germany

From 22 to 26 April 2024, the experimental conference “Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond” will take place in Aachen, which seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields across the sciences, technology and the arts to develop imaginaries for possibilities that are still to be realized and new …

›life.like‹

PACT Zollverein Bullmannaue 20a, Essen, Germany

As part of the conference Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond, a cooperation with the Performing Arts Centre PACT Zollverein in Essen is planned for Friday, 26 April, and Saturday, 27 April 2024. With ›life.like‹, PACT invites you to an experiential, installative, and discursive journey that questions and transcends the boundaries between machines, objects, …

Workshop: Epistemology of Arithmetic: New Philosophy for New Times

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Celebration workshop of Markus Pantsar’s book Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic (Cambridge University Press 2024) and Gabriele Gramelsberger’s award of the K. Jon Barwise Prize 2023 for philosophy and computing by the American Philosophical Association. Please find the programme of the workshop here. If you would like to attend, please write a short …

Workshop on Concept Formation

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizers: Giora Hon, Ruth Lorand, Gabriele Gramelsberger More information soon If you would like to attend, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. Please note: During the event, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) will take photos and videos for public relations purposes.