Events
Any upcoming events organised by DiSC will be announced on this page.
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Upcoming events
4 February 2022, 12:00 (CET), online
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Rainer Böhme, Universität Innsbruck
Topic: Cryptocurrencies / Decentralized Finance
Invitation will follow soon
Calendar entry will follow soon
18 February 2022, 12:00 (CET), online
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Anna Wallerman Ghavanini, University of Gothenburg & LFUI Guest Professor at Universität Innsbruck
"Understanding Law through Empirical Methods and Digital Tools"
25 February 2022, 12:00 (CET), online
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series
Gabriel Rojas-Kopeinig, Universität Innsbruck
"Fault Detection in Buildings Using Data-Driven Models"
Invitation will follow soon
Calendar entry will follow soon
Also check out the Digitaldialog, an online lecture series organised by the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law and co-hosted by DiSC. More information and full program.
Past events
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 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.
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-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