Demystifying Probabilistic Programming (Joost-Pieter Katoen)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Joost-Pieter Katoen is Professor of software modeling and verifaction at the RWTH University Aachen. His talk will provide insights into his work focussing on probabilistic programs and their applications.  The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research - Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.  

Trials of implicitness: technology testing beyond the laboratory or the coming crisis of experimental accountability (Noortje Marres)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, November 2nd, STS researcher and Professor at Warwick University, UK, Noortje Marres, will talk about Trials of implicitness: technology testing beyond the laboratory or the coming crisis of experimental accountability. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. It will be held online. …

Engaging publics in open anticipatory governance of technology (Andoni Ibarra) – CANCELLED!

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research The lecture on Wednesday, November 16th, by Andoni Ibarra, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has been cancelled. The talk was scheduled as part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de

The prospects of Institutionalising the Values ‘Openness’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in the Scientific Community (René von Schomberg)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, November 30th, Guest Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, René von Schomberg, will talk about The prospects of Institutionalising the Values ‘Openness’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in the Scientific Community. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de

Towards an Ergonomics of Data Science Practices (Fernando Pasquini Santos)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, December 14th, Fernando Pasquini Santos, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil will take us Towards an Ergonomics of Data Science Practices. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de

‘Modernization’ in Ideological Discourses of Post-Soviet State: The Case of Russia and Ukraine (Svitlana Shcherbak)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, December 21st, Svitlana Shcherbak, Philosopher and researcher of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, will talk about ‘Modernization’ in Ideological Discourses of Post-Soviet State: The Case of Russia and Ukraine. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. To participlate, please register …

Moving Technical and Scientific Knowledge, People and Objects after 1945: IIT Madras and the RWTH Aachen (Roland Wittje)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, January 25th, Associate Professor for the History of Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Roland Wittje, will talk about Moving Technical and Scientific Knowledge, People and Objects after 1945: IIT Madras and the RWTH Aachen. The talk is part of the c:o/re …

Voodoo science and the missing controversy: Neuroscience as an integration project (Torsten H. Voigt)

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, February 8th, Torsten H. Voigt, Professor for Sociology at RWTH Aachen University will talk about "Voodoo science and the missing controversy: Neuroscience as an integration project". The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de  

Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science – Jan C. Schmidt

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

“Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science” by  Jan C. Schmidt (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences) Abstract In my talk, I distinguish between compositional and dynamical complexity – in order to focus on the latter from the perspective of complex systems theory. Complex systems theory, including nonlinear dynamics, chaos-, self-organization- and catastrophe theory, …

Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI – Benjamin Peters

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

“Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI” by Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa). Abstract: This public talk will explore the material media philosophies of Soviet artificial intelligence research and its precursors. In particular, it will examine the case for not-anthropomorphic, even invisual imaginations of smart technologies in the wartime wake of …

Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence – Klaus Mainzer

Stadtpalais/Online Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

“Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence” - Klaus Mainzer (TU Munich). Abstract: According to several prominent authors, including Stephen Hawking, a main part of 21st century science will be on complexity research. The intuitive idea is that global patterns and structures emerge from locally interacting elements like atoms in laser beams, molecules …