Berlin Science Week 2022

Check out SCIoI's three events at the Berlin Science Week 2022, taking place on 5 and 10 November 2022! www.berlinscienceweek.com

10 November, 7.30pm, The Science Slam of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence, “Clear the stage for science”

At our cluster science slam, scientists tried everything to entertain their audience, regardless of whether the subject is e.g. mathematics, neuroscience or active material. The sky is the limit when it comes to what’s possible. Costumes, props, movies, power-point presentations or other experimental setups – it is all allowed. Only time sets the limits – every slammer had ten minutes at most. And the audience will decide which presentation is best!

Constitutional Hardball in Action (Robert Benson)
How to make the U-Bahn go brrr (Enrico Bortoletto)
Tuning in to the sound of fish (Dr. Antonia Groneberg)
Searching for Intelligence (Benjamin Lang)
In Search of Lost Chaos (Dr. Guillermo Olicón Méndez)
Knowing the Nature’s messengers (Dr. Ramprasad Misra)
Nature knows best (Dr. Alina Pushkarev)

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5 November, 9am, Collective Materials Workshop, “What is the Future Made Of?”

Nature is a great designer. Through billions of years of evolution – of design trial and error (or re-route) – it has come up with uniquely functional and beautiful materials. It uses simple materials in clever ways. Natural materials are often sophisticated in structure and function, yet they are made from simple, abundant resources. More than that, they are designed to be part of a natural cycle of making and breaking down – no material is wasted. CollActive Materials, together with the speculative designer Emilia Tikka, invites you to a hands-on speculation workshop. We have found out how researchers from Matters of Activity and Science of Intelligence use bio-design in their work – and made up examples of our very own version of a bio-inspired future.

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5 November, 9.30pm, Panel Discussion with Dafna Burema, Mattis Jacobs, and Jonas Frenkel, “Artificial Intelligence: Examples of AI gone wrong and Ethical Questions”

In this lively debate, our researchers Dafna Burema, Mattis Jacobs and Jonas Frenkel from Science of Intelligence talked about Artificial Intelligence and its ethical implications including examples of AI gone wrong. How do we imagine sustainable futures with robots? What are the open questions scientists face every day when dealing with Artificial Intelligence?

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