Schedule
Schedule
Theo Döllmann
Gut 1 Mrd. Datenpunkte zu Zugfahrten, wie kann man damit das Zugfahren verbessern? Wir versuchen, die Zuverlässigkeit von Zugverbindungen vor der Buchung zu prognostizieren.
Christian Lölkes, kleinsophie
Etwas wie die "Sendung mit der Maus", dafür mit tiefer fachlicher Ausführung und allen Details. Es handelt vor allem um Technik und Abläufe, die man als Laie oder Fluggast nicht sehen und wissen kann.
Marcello
How do you think? People can experience thoughts, feelings, and sensory inputs very differently. While context and substances are known to promote changes in perception and thinking, the biological basis is very diverse, contrary to what is often assumed. Brain cells come in extraordinary varieties in size, shape, and complexity. Their synaptic connectivity provides the foundation of all our sensory input, motor output, cognitive functions, and thoughts. In short: They shape us. This talk gives an introduction about the extent of variability in neuronal patterns that underlies neurodiversity and critically discusses the idea of neurodivergence, diagnosis criteria in Autism and ADHD from a biological and first person-perspective. We find that biological variability of brains is an evolutionary feature that helps us to adapt to our environment but comes with certain risks and downsides in our modern society. While many things are still unknown, scientists have identified genes and environmental impacts that shape our network architecture during brain development and which help to explain why we think and experience the world so differently.
Stefan Magerstedt
Seit einigen Jahren hat Stefan von etwa vierzig regulären deutschen (Pop-)Radiosendern die Playlisten gespeichert. Welche Meta-Informationen sich daraus ergeben und welche Abhängigkeiten von Jahreszeiten, Charts und Ereignissen sich abzeichnen, wird in einem unterhaltsamen Vortrag zum Besten gegeben.
Hendrik Heuer, Josephine Schmitt
Trotz intensiver Forschung hinken wir aktuellen Entwicklungen im Bereich Desinformation oft hinterher. In diesem Vortrag erklären wir, warum der Umgang mit Desinformation so herausfordernd ist und welche konkreten Lösungsansätze es gibt.
Knud Jahnke
„Euclid" ist seit 2023 das neue Weltraumteleskop der Europäischen Weltraumbehörde mit Beteiligungen eines Wissenschaftskonsortiums aus vierzehn europäischen Ländern, den USA, Kanada und Japan. Gestartet vor knapp eineinhalb Jahren, läuft jetzt seit gut 9 Monaten die wissenschaftliche Himmeldurchmusterung. Auf dem 37C3 konnte ich die ersten fünf "Early Release Observation" Bilder vorstellen, seitdem ist viel passiert. Vor allem läuft nach ein paar Anlaufschwierigkeiten die Mission richtig gut und viele hundert Quadratgrad des Himmels sind bereits fertig kartiert - die Datenbearbeitung und Auswertung läuft. Ich werde weitere Bilder und einen kleinen Blick hinter die Kulissen zeigen.
Enrico Sandro Colizzi, Renske Vroomans
Biological evolution is a great inventor. Over 4 billion years, it has generated an astonishing diversity of lifeforms, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest trees. Each new organism inherits a genetic program from its parents - a set of instructions to “build” the organism itself. Random mutations in this program can alter the organism’s traits, affecting its ability to survive in its environment. But how do these small changes combine over thousands of generations to yield the vast complexity we see in present-day lifeforms? In this talk, we discuss examples from our research, using computer simulations to model the early evolution of animals, from single-celled microbes to complex multicellular organisms. We show that evolution behaves a bit like a hacker, repurposing the programs it previously built in unexpected ways to create new functions and structures. Understanding how evolution continually innovates is one of biology’s grand challenges. We also hope that uncovering these processes in biological systems will provide new perspectives on current debates about the generative and creative capabilities of AI.
Christian Wessel
What are we, and where do we come from? - Searching for flavour in beauty Nowadays the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the best known high energy physics research facility. However, there are other facilities around the world performing cutting edge high energy physics research. Some of these are the so called flavour factories which have a long tradition in high energy physics. Two of these are currently in operation: BES III in China and Belle II in Japan. Collecting huge amounts of data, the goal of these experiments is to measure free parameters of the standard model of particle physics with very high precision to find deviations from predictions by theory. Such deviations can hint to new physics, and physicists are still searching for the reasons of our very existence as by our best knowledge nothing but light should have remained after the big bang. But testing the standard model is challenging. Huge data sets in the order of tera bytes need to be analysed requiring advanced analysis software and techniques. By now these analyses usually employ machine learning and artificial intelligence in various kinds, while using custom hardware and software, and a world spanning computing infrastructure. All of this is only possible with more than 1000 people working together in a collaboration. Part of the work in high energy physics nowadays would not be possible anymore without the groundbreaking research by this year's Nobel laureates for physics. In this talk I will present what flavour physics is, the reasons why flavour physics is interesting and why it matters, and which challenges we are facing, using the Belle II experiment as an example. Most of the challenges are not unique to Belle II but to high energy physics in general, so I will also set this into the bigger context and take a look to what is ahead of us in the field of high energy physics.
Hanno Böck
In an accelerating climate crisis, renewable energy and electrification are the most important tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, in sectors where electrification is infeasible or impossible, other solutions will be needed. While hydrogen gets a lot of attention, it suffers from challenges like being difficult to transport and store. While it does not receive nearly as much attention as hydrogen, another molecule, methanol, could play a crucial role in bringing down emissions in challenging sectors like shipping, aviation, or the chemical industry.
Anouk Ehreiser
Mars is famously the only planet (we know of) that is entirely inhabited by robots. And these robots are working hard on looking for something that would be one of the most significant discoveries in the history of science: Alien life. But how do you look for something that no one has ever seen? And would we recognize it if we find it? Join me on a journey through Mars’ ancient past and Earth’s most extreme environments, where scientists hunt for strange microbes that defy all our expectations: Organisms thriving in salt lakes, breathing metal, and building bizarre microbial ‘cities’ out of rock. Are they the blueprint of what alien life might look like? I will introduce you to the cutting-edge technology we use to analyse and understand them, and how we detect their “biological fingerprints” that might one day help us to find Martian life. This talk will not only give you a deep look behind the scenes of the search for life on Mars, but also a new appreciation for the strange and wonderful life on our own planet.
Sally
Massenspektrometer sind unverzichtbare Analysewerkzeuge in der Chemie und zudem hochinteressante und verblüffende Instrumente. In diesem Talk wird die Massenspektrometrie mit Schwerpunkt auf Quadrupolmassenspektrometer anschaulich vorgestellt.
Christoph Bublitz
This talk examines philosophical, legal, and ethical questions of the merging of human minds with intelligent machines through Brain-Computer-Interfaces, provides an overview of current debates and international regulatory development - and what might be at stake when technologies increasingly access the human brain.
Rainer Mühlhoff, Hannah Ruschemeier
Trainierte KI-Modelle sind mächtige Werkzeuge, die in Wissenschaft und Forschung oft für gute Zwecke gebaut werden. Aber wie alle Werkzeuge können sie auch zweckentfremdet werden – in Bereichen, für die sie nicht gedacht waren, in denen sie profitgierigen Interessen dienen und gesellschaftlichen Schaden anrichten. Vor dem Hintergrund des Trends von "open source" AI ist die Gefahr der unkontrollierten Zweckentfremdung von KI-Modellen enorm gestiegen. Wir zeigen: Das Risiko einer missbräuchlichen Sekundärnutzung von für Forschungszwecke trainierten KIs ist aktuell die größte regulatorische Lücke, trotz DSGVO und AI-Act. Zugleich ermöglicht das Zweckentfremden von Modellen die immer weiter wachsende Machtposition von Big Tech. Um das Problem zu bekämpfen, muss das Prinzip "Zweckbindung" für das Zeitalter der KI geupdated werden.
Joscha Bach
Artificial Intelligence is not just an engineering discipline, but also the most fascinating and important philosophical project ever attempted: the explanation of the mind, by recreating it. This part of the series "From Computation to Consciousness" focuses on the nature of the self, agency and identity.
Margret Engelhard
Have you always wanted to build an egg-laying woolly milk sow or bring the legendary dodo back to life? The dream of some biologists to not only understand organisms, but also to redesign, build or bring living beings back to life is accelerating towards reality with the convergence of synthetic biology and generative AI in ‘generative biology’. For example, large language models are now being used to write genes and proteins, while complex laboratory tests are being replaced by machine vision and automation. The pace of these developments is so fast that they are barely noticed by the public, politicians or related experts such as environmental scientists. Questions about the reliability and safety of these new biodigital methods and applications are not yet being asked and research into risk assessment methods is not keeping pace. At the same time, this shift of generative AI systems from generating text and images to generating protein, bacteria, viruses and organisms could transform many areas of life, from medicine and the environment to bioweapons. So let's talk about it and discuss it.
Kirsten Krüger
Der Harz wurde von Borkenkäfern gefressen, nur jeder vierte Baum in Deutschland gilt als gesund und in Russland sowie Nordamerika brennen die Wälder in einem enormen Ausmaß. Gleichzeitig gelten Wälder als eine der Lösungen in der Klimakrise, als CO2-Speicher und Produzent von nachhaltigen, nachwachsenden Rohstoffen. Sind Wälder in Gefahr auf Grund von Dürre, Borkenkäfer und Feuer? Und können wir mit Wiederaufforstungen der Klimakrise was entgegensetzten? Kirsten Krüger forscht an der Technischen Universität München zu Störungsdynamiken in Wäldern und erklärt in ihrem Vortrag, was Wälder eigentlich alles für uns leisten, warum Störungen ein natürlicher Bestandteil von Wäldern sind und Bäume pflanzen allein keine akkurate Antwort auf die Klimakrise ist.
Moritz Schaefer
AI methods are advancing biological research in diverse directions. In this talk, you will learn how we decode the fundamental building blocks of life with AI, and how it will help us to hack cells to cure diseases and beyond.
Lukas Fuchsgruber
Habt ihr euch immer schon gefragt wie Museumssammlungen ins Netz kommen, warum online Sammlungen meist immer noch aussehen wie Kataloge seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, was für Strategien und Förderprogramme dahinter stecken, welche Firmen hier quasi-Monopole haben, und warum Museen so viele Hoffnungen (Zugang! Partizipation! Demokratie!) mit der Digitalisierung verbinden? Der Talk ist eine Einladung an Hacker*innen sich an der kritischen Weiterentwicklung, Öffnung und Reflexion von Museen zu beteiligen.