Events
Any events organized by DiSC will be announced on this page.
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Upcoming events
Past events
DiSCourse Seminar - 7 November 2025
DiSCourse Seminar with Khalid Durani at 12:00 (CET).
Topic: From Simulation to Hyperreality: The Role of Simulacra in Visual Formats in the News Production and Consumption Process by Citizen Journalists
DiSC Award Ceremony - 6 October 2025
Ceremony for the Award for Digitalization Research 2025. Start: 16:30 (CEST). Venue: Aula of the Main University Building. Registration required!
Future Foundation Inauguration - 29 September 2025
Invitation to the inauguration of the Future Foundation with founding member Johannes Hoff, Professor at the Department of Systemtic Theology and und associated scholar at DiSC on Monday, 29 September, 17:00 - 20.00 CEST at Libelle, Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna.
It is possible to attend onsite and online, registration is required.
Future Lab: AI in Medicine - 1 July 2025
13:00 - 16:30 (CEST), Standortagentur Tirol, Ing.-Etzel-Straße 17/2nd floor. In German!
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing medicine - from diagnostics and personalized therapy approaches to clinical decision support. But what challenges does this pose for research institutions and companies? The Future Lab, a joint event organized by digital.tirol, the Life Sciences Cluster Tirol of the Standortagentur Tirol and the DiSC, weighs in on precisely this question.
Molecular Biology Institute Seminar - 27 May 2025
Molecular Biology Institute Seminar with Markus List at 17:00 (CEST) - in cooperation with the Digital Science Center.
Topic: Data leakage is a widespread issue in machine learning in the biomedical domain: How to spot it, avoid it, and fix it
DiSCourse Seminar - 11 April 2025
DiSCourse Seminar with Roberto Viviani at 12:00 (CEST).
Topic: Using Large Language Models to Teach Statistics
DiSCourse Seminar - 14 March 2025
DiSCourse Seminar with Hauke Licht at 12:00 (CET).
Topic: Metadata-aware transformer fine-tuning: Mitigating regression-to-mean bias in text classification
#TechDiplomacyTalk - 24 January 2025
Invitation to the #TechDiplomacyTalk: “Introduction to Quantum#TechDiplomacy – Geopolitics, Innovation, Governance and Ethics”. Friday, 24 January 2025, 14:00-17:00 CET, at Minoritenplatz 8, 1010 Vienna. Hybrid event in English, available on BMEIA YouTube channel. With, among others, Matthias C. Kettemann from the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law, director of the Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab and associated researcher at the DiSC.
DiSCourse Seminar - 24 January 2025
DiSCourse Seminar with Alexandra Zachariadou at 12:00 (CET). Topic: Taxonomic and functional diversity of marine microbiota in multi-stressed coastal sites along the Hellenic Volcanic Arc
wAIke Up: Coffee with AI - 6 December 2024
Friday, 6 December 2024, 9:00-10:30, SR 9, Ágnes-Heller-Haus
A lot has happened in the field of AI in 2024, not least at the University of Innsbruck. New initiatives, new learning tools, new perspectives for self-determined use.
Do you know what resources are available at the university? And what developments are coming in 2025? The Vice Rectorate for Digitalization and Sustainability invites you to look at the topic from various angles at this get together.
DiSCourse Seminar - 29 November 2024
DiSCourse Seminar with Nicola Brocca at 12:00 (CET). Topic: LLMs and Pragmatics: Insights from Linguistics and Language Education
Recurring events at DiSC:
DiSCourse Seminar
The DiSCourse Seminar was conceived to give our researchers at DiSC, their PhD students, the researchers that are associated with DiSC, and our guests the opportunity to present their research and discuss it. The talks' target audience is academics working in an interdisciplinary context, but they are open to anyone interested. The talks are held in English.
DiSCussion
DiSCussion stands for the dialog between science and society. To facilitate this dialog, the Digital Science Center (DiSC) invites proven experts from within and outside of academia to share their insights on ongoing trends and up-to-date topics related to digitalization with an interested general audience. The speakers may be renowend researchers or well-known people from the private sector or politics, but they may also be media representatives or book authors. The talks are held in German.