Events
Any upcoming events organized by DiSC will be announced on this page.
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Upcoming events
23 September 2022, 12:00 (CEST)
Digital Science Center
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Michael Färber, KIT
On 23 September, Michael Färber, a visiting LFUI Guest Professor from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, will give a talk. More details will follow soon. Save the date!
!!This event has been postponed. New date and time tbd!!
Digital Science Center, Innrain 15, Open Space Area (1st floor) and Big Blue Button
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Alexander Kupfer, Universität Innsbruck
“What A Great Deal” – Why Decomposing Textual Aspects of Online Customer Reviews Can Be Useful
Also check out the Digitaldialog, an online lecture series organized by the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law and co-hosted by DiSC. More information and full program.
Past events
28 June 2022
Roland Vogl, Executive Director of CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Robolawyers, Computational Law, and Legal AI
A joint event with the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law.
25 June 2022
Festival of Diversity
The DiSC had a booth titled "Science and You! Breaking Stereotypes in the Digital Sciences" at the Festival of Diversity (Fest der Vielfalt).
Description:
Stereotypes can drive how or if we see ourselves represented in science and technology. For the 'day of diversity' we have developed this web app where we gather personal preferences based on a series of small questions to show you with whom you share preferences among a diverse group of researchers.
24 June 2022
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Gerald Hiebel, Universität Innsbruck
Knowledge Graphs and Maps for Mediaeval Mining Documents
9 June 2022
Information event for students:
Supplementary Program Computer Science and Minor Digital Science
Would you like to kickstart your career with the Minor Digital Science or the Supplementary Program Computer Science? Then this virtual information event is for you! You will learn more about the two options, how you can flexibly incorporate them into your major, and whom to contact in case of questions. You will also hear what students say about the two course packages.
The event will mostly be in German, but some parts related to the Minor Digital Science will be in English.
20 May 2022
Long Night of Research
The DiSC had a booth at the Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung).
11 May 2022
Pint of Science
Justus Piater gave a talk at the event "How to make smart robots and fool intelligent machines" titled: Robots that learn like humans?
6 May 2022
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Matthias C. Kettemann, Universität Innsbruck
US Elections, the World's Virus and Russia's War: Conflicts as Drivers of Change in Online Speech Governance
6 April 2022
DiSCussion with Rafaela Hillerbrand, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (in German)
Alles Fake? Vom Umgang mit Risiken und Unsicherheiten der Wissenschaften am Beispiel der Energiewende
DiSCussion asks experts from inside and outside academia about their take on current topics and trends of digitalization. Commentary and moderation by Katherine Dormandy, Department of Christian Philosophy.
25 March 2022
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Gabriel Rojas, Universität Innsbruck
Fault Detection in Buildings Using Data-Driven Models
11 March 2022
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Rainer Böhme, Universität Innsbruck
Watching and Policing Decentralized Finance
18 February 2022
DiSCourse* - The Digital Science Seminar Series
*featuring a distinguished guest:
Anna Wallerman Ghavanini, University of Gothenburg & LFUI Guest Professor at Universität Innsbruck
Understanding Law through Empirical Methods and Digital Tools
14 January 2022
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Daniel Woods, Universität Innsbruck
Privacy Preference Signals: Past, Present and Future
19 November 2021
DiSCourse* - The Digital Science Seminar Series
*featuring a distinguished guest:
Lorenzo Vignali, University of Trento & SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Abstract and Concrete Semantic Representations
27 September 2021
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021
Workshop co-organized by Matteo Saveriano: Variable Impedance Robotics skills: Challenges and Opportunities. Recordings of the talks are available.
Invited talk by Matteo Saveriano at the Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots (SPAR) workshop on "Hierarchical action decomposition and motion learning for the execution of manipulation tasks". A recording is available on YouTube.
2 July 2021
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Luis Miguel Rodríguez-Rojas, Universität Innsbruck
How can you live together? Using environmental genomics to understand how microbes form communities
27 May 2021
Information event for students
Would you like to kickstart your career with the Minor Digital Science or the Supplementary Program Computer Science? Then this virtual information event is for you! You will learn more about the two options and how you can flexibly incorporate them in your major. The event will be streamed on Twitch.
16 April 2021
DiSCourse* - The Digital Science Seminar Series
*featuring a distinguished guest:
Catie Welsh, Rhodes College & Fulbright Fellow at the University of Innsbruck
Detection of Mitochondrial DNA Variants from Next-generation Sequencing Data
26 February 2021
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Matthias Schurz, Universität Innsbruck
Separating the Neural Building Blocks of Social Cognition
28 January 2021
Showcasing Young Austrian Scholars and Scientists (Austrian Cultural Forum Ottawa)
Matteo Saveriano, Universität Innsbruck
Making robots to learn from human observation
22 January 2021
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Clara Rauchegger, Universität Innsbruck
Illegal content on social media: A legal perspective on the responsibilities of platform providers
18 January 2021
DiSCussion with Ingrid Brodnig (in German)
Alles Fake? Über neue Formen der Manipulation in digitalen Zeiten
Von Falschmeldungen, über Bots, bis hin zu Wahltricksereien
DiSCussion asks experts from inside and outside academia about their take on current topics and trends of digitalization. The Digital Science Center has invited Ingrid Brodnig, freelance journalist and book author, to give the first talk.
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 Program Computer Science and the Complementary Subject Area Digital Science.
8 May 2020
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Joseph Wang-Kathrein, 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