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Sunday Lectures in “I AM A.I.” starting 22.01.2023

Photo: Christoph Worsch, Jena, edited

From 22.01. to 05.03.2023, various topics related to AI will be presented in Sunday lectures (16:00; German) in the exhibition “I AM A.I. – explaining artificial intelligence”. These are:

22.01.2023 AI in administration29.01.2023 AI for street traffic optimization05.02.2023 Using AI to bring light into the darkness of the Middle Ages 12.02.2023 Ethical […]

By |January 19th, 2023|Education, Events|Comments Off on Sunday Lectures in “I AM A.I.” starting 22.01.2023

Open position at Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse”: Postdoctoral Researcher in Integrative Research Data Management

(For further open positions visit our “Opportunities” page.)

Application deadline: 07.02.2023

full-time positioncommencing on April 1, 2023 or at the earliest possible date thereafterinitially limited until December 31, 2025.

The interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” invites applications to join their research data management (RDM) team. Tasks include the realisation of the RDM […]

By |January 19th, 2023|Job posting, Members|Comments Off on Open position at Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse”: Postdoctoral Researcher in Integrative Research Data Management

Continuation of “Canarėno” and “simpLEX” funded

The state of Thuringia supports the continuation of the two AI-based projects “Canarėno” and “simpLEX” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The projects are hosted at the Competence Center Digital Research (zedif) and the Heinz Nixdorf Professorship for Distributed Information Systems at the University of Jena. Project partners are the Jena city administration, the DLR Institute […]

By |January 5th, 2023|Grants, Projects, Publications|Comments Off on Continuation of “Canarėno” and “simpLEX” funded

ELLIS Unit Jena Kick-off event

12.01.2023 09:00 – 20:00, Rosensäle of Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Fürstengraben 27, 07743 Jena, Great Lecture Hall)

The goal of the recently established ELLIS Unit Jena is to combine fundamental development in machine learning with challenges concerning spatio-temporal environmental and climate dynamics for a better understanding of the Earth system and its […]

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I AM A.I. – explaining artificial intelligence.

Photo: Janine Kalisch, Uni Jena

10.12.2022 – 05.03.2023, foyer Abbe-Campus (Carl-Zeiß-Straße 3, 07743 Jena)

celebratory opening: 13.12.2022 17:00

Why can a computer recognize which words I speak? Can you be able to do something without understanding it? Does an Artificial Intelligence sometimes make mistakes? How does a Neural Network learn and what is training data?

Answers to these […]

By |December 9th, 2022|Education, Events|Comments Off on I AM A.I. – explaining artificial intelligence.

Carpentries Instructor Trainings starting

The Competence Center Digital Research (zedif) will start its Carpentries Instructor Training workshops. Three local trainers, who have been educated and certified by the Carpentries beginning of this year, will train the future instructors to enable them to teach the Carpentries and similar data and software courses.

Date: 06. & 08.12.2022 08:00-16:00 (-> 16 hours in […]

By |November 14th, 2022|Education, Events|Comments Off on Carpentries Instructor Trainings starting

3rd Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries

The Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities (Image/Object) of Jena University and their partners organize the 3rd Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries.

27.-28.03.2023, LMU Munich

Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: 30.11. 2022Submission Link: EasyChairMore information can be found on the workshop website.

Contributions on theoretical and methodological issues, application […]

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Jena Online Symposium for Digital Education in STEM 2022

The Abbe School of Photonics organizes the Jena Online Symposium for Digital Education in STEM 2022. It is the first online conference on digital education held in the Gather.town twin of the Abbe Center of Photonics powered by digiPHOTON.

www.asp.uni-jena.de/josdes2022 29. & 30.11.2022 Registration until 20.11.2022

Topical categories:

Online/Virtual LaboratoriesHybrid/Digital LaboratoriesVirtual Reality and 3D ApplicationsAugmented Reality LearningSerious Games […]

By |November 8th, 2022|Education, Events, Members|Comments Off on Jena Online Symposium for Digital Education in STEM 2022

International GIS Day 2022

The Institute of Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena will again participate in this year’s international GIS Day with a virtual networking event for researchers, students, and stakeholders from government and business. This year’s focus is GIScience for Health and Sustainability.

Date: 17.11.2022 13:30-16:30Place: Zoom (access data after registration )Registration

The event is one of the activities […]

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MSCJ now also on mastodon and LinkedIn

After using Twitter for a while, the MSCJ has broadened its social media coverage and can be found now also on mastodon and LinkedIn.

Via these channels you can read news from our members, the Directorate, the Competence Center Digital Research (zedif), the Data Literacy project (DaLiJe), the “Werkstatt” project, and everything that comes up in […]

By |October 13th, 2022|News|Comments Off on MSCJ now also on mastodon and LinkedIn