Activities 2020
January 2020
Klaus Schmeh: "DRM und andere Verschlüsselungen", Lecture taking place in the CDC | MECS Office on January 15, 2020 at 6pm
Giora Hon (Haifa): "James Clerk Maxwell's Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism: A Philosophical Perspective", Lecture taking place in the CDC | MECS Office on January 28, 2020
Lukas Mairhofer (Vienna): "Dying experiments. A case study" Lecture taking place in the CDC | MECS Office on January 29, 2020
February 2020
March 2020
April 2020
As part of the CDC Online Forum, MECS alumnus Rupert Gaderer will hold a video conference together with Andreas Bernard on the topic "Abwesenheitspflicht. Der Status von “Präsenz” in Zeiten der Pandemie". The conference will take place on Monday, 20.4.2020 from 4–5pm.
May 2020
MECS Fellow Welcoming Reception | Zoom, May 12, 7.30 pm
June 2020
MECS Colloquium Christoph Borbach (Halle) on the topic "Die Geburt der Computergrafik aus dem Geist des Radars" | Zoom, June 2, 2–4 pm.
Video conference with MECS Director Claus Pias on the topic "Simulating pandemics: Welches Wissen liefern Simulationen?" The conference is part of the CDC Online Forum and will take place on Monday, June 8, 2020, 5–6 pm.
MECS Colloquium Suzana Alpsancar (Cottbus) on the topic "Vom Fahr-Zeug zum Fahr-Ding" | Zoom, June 23, 2–4 pm.
Virtual discussion in cooperation with "Internet und Gesellschaft, GI e. V.". Lectures given by Martin Warnke/ Martin Woesler on the topic "Sozialkreditsystem(s) in China" | Wednesday, June 24, 10 am–2 pm.
MECS Colloquium Gottfried Schnödl (Lüneburg) on the topic "Die Ästhetik der Umwelt – Zum Dogmatismus der Relation bei Uexkül" | Zoom, 30. Juni, 2–4 pm.
July 2020
MECS Lecture Raphael Rosenberg (Wien) on the topic "Saliency Maps: Can a Computer Predict Visual Perception?" | Zoom, July 1, 6–8 pm.
MECS Colloquium Lisa Schüttler (Aachen) on the topic "Wissenschaftsphilosophische Analyse des Wissenschaftsverständnisses von Robert Merton" | Zoom, July 7, 2–4 pm.
MECS Workshop "Mythos Algorithmus" with Suzanna Alpsancar, Arianna Borrelli and Kai Denker | Zoom, July 8, 2–4 pm.
MECS Colloquium Katharina Rein (MECS) on the topic "Simulation & Zauberei" | Zoom, July 15, 2–4 pm.