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Upcoming events
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22 January 2021, 12:00 (noon, CET), online
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Clara Rauchegger, Universität Innsbruck
More information will follow soon.
18 January 2021, 18:00 (CET), online
DiSCussion with Ingrid Brodnig
We will kick off our new lecture series DiSCussion on 18 January 2021, 6 p.m. DiSCussion will ask experts from outside academia about their take on current topics and trends of digitalisation. The Digital Science Center has invited Ingrid Brodnig, freelance journalist and book author, to give the first talk.
The event will be in German and take place online. More information can be found on the event page, where we will also post the link to the live stream.
Past events
You can watch selected talks in our public course "Digital Science Center - Talks" on OLAT.
30 October 2020
DiSCourse* - The Digital Science Seminar Series
*featuring a distinguished guest:
Barry Smith, University at Buffalo
"The Impossibility of Digital Immortality"
26 June 2020
DiSCourse* - The Digital Science Seminar Series
*featuring a distinguished guest:
Mark Alfano, Macquarie University
"Technologically Scaffolded Atypical Cognition: The Case of YouTube’s Recommender System"
9 June 2020
Online information event for students on the Supplementary Programme Computer Science and the Complementary Subject Area Digital Science.
8 May 2020
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Joseph Wang, Universität Innsbruck
"Learn from Wittgenstein’s Error: Why Certain Forms of AI Cannot Work"
21 February 2020
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Kohei Watanabe, Universität Innsbruck
"Measuring Geopolitical Threat over 150 Years through the New York Times: Technology and Methodology for Analysis of Ultra-sparse Data"
Digital Science Center, Ursulinenpassage, Innrain 15, open space area (1st floor)
29 January 2020
Invited talk on Digital Science by Justus Piater at Heidelberg University in the context of the Primers for Predocs Lecture Series.
20 January 2020
DiSCourse* - The Digital Science Seminar Series
*featuring a distinguished guest:
Kenneth Benoit, London School of Economics and Political Science
"More than Unigrams Can Say: Detecting Meaningful Multi-word Expressions from Political Texts"
Innrain 52e, HS 6 (Lecture Hall 6, ground floor)
8 January 2020
DiSCourse – The Digital Science Seminar Series
Simon Olsson, Freie Universität Berlin
"Machine Learning in the Biomolecular Sciences"
Digital Science Center, Ursulinenpassage, Innrain 15, open space area (1st floor)
Invitation as PDF
29 November 2019
DiSCourse – The Digital Science Seminar Series
Reto Stauffer, Universität Innsbruck
"Hourly Probabilistic Snow Forecasts for Tyrol: A Hybrid Statistical Ensemble
Postprocessing Approach"
Universitätsstraße 15, seminar room 18, 4th floor (east wing)
Invitation as PDF.
26 November 2019
Inday students (hosted by the Department of Computer Science)
The Digital Science Center presented itself at this year's inday students.
Read more on the Department of Computer Science's website.
11 October 2019
DiSCourse – The Digital Science Seminar Series
Katherine Dormandy, Universität Innsbruck
"Digital Whiplash, and the Importance of Analytic Philosophy"
Karl-Rahner-Platz 1, Raum 104 (Dekanatssitzungssaal Theologie)
Invitation as PDF.
17 July 2019
DiSCourse – The Digital Science Seminar Series
Matteo Saveriano, Universität Innsbruck
"From Intuitive Skill Transfer to Large-Scale Robotic Knowledge Bases"
Technikerstraße 21a, ICT 3W03
Abstract as PDF.
10 July 2019
DiSCourse – The Digital Science Seminar Series
Sébastien Court, Universität Innsbruck
"Designing Mathematical Tools with Machine/Deep Learning Techniques"
Technikerstraße 13b, HSB 4
Invitation as PDF.