It is now two and a half years since the University of Bremen officially became a member the elite club of just eleven German universities permitted to call themselves “University of Excellence”. The prestigious award has meanwhile attracted a large number of international scholars and scientists to Bremen, where they are working on numerous innovative research projects. The significant additional funding made available through the Excellence Initiative financed by the Federal Government and the Länder has provided a very real boost to research at the University of Bremen.
Just how impressive and forward-looking these projects can be is illustrated in the University’s lecture series “Excellent. in 60 Minutes”. The second round in this series of short lectures kicks off at 6.00 pm on Thursday 26th February 2015. This time the event will be held in the historical building of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce: the Schütting. Four researchers supported by the Excellence Initiative – one woman and three men – will have just 60 minutes to present their research: brief and to the point, informative and entertaining. This time the contributions are drawn from the areas of Computer Science, Studies in Religion, Communication Engineering, and Sociology. The one-hour excellence session will be moderated by University Rector, Bernd Scholz-Reiter. It is open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend. There is no charge for admittance.
About the lecture series “Excellent. in 60 Minutes”
Developing systems for robot control is a complex task, no matter whether this involves applications for domestic appliances or the industrial robots used in manufacturing. The short lecture with the title “The Automation of Automation” held by communication engineer Prof. Rüdiger Ehlers reports on the status of research in this area. The aim of his research is to develop automated control systems based on descriptions of the desired attributes. The control systems come with correctness guarantees for preventing accidents in processes involving humans.
Prof. Simone Scherger from the Center for Social Policy will talk about “Gainful Employment Post Pension Age”. In today’s society, more and more people continue to work beyond normal retirement age. The short lecture based on an international comparative research project sheds light on what type of persons these are, why they continue working, and what they think about their situation.
Dr. Jan van de Kamp from the Institute for the Study of Religions will present his research topic “Prehistory of the Reformation in Bremen”. The Dutch scholar of religion is investigating whether the population was aware of a crisis prior to when the Reformation actually took place in Bremen – or whether, on the contrary, this was merely construed in its aftermath.
“In-Network Processing: Signal Processing in Sensory Networks” is the title of the short lecture presented by the communication engineer Dr. Henning Paul from the Department of Electrical Engineering. Sensory networks play an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. As a rule, the data gathered by these systems are processed centrally. Distributed processing in networks holds promise of increased flexibility and robustness in respect of transmission error.
For more information on the lecture series, please contact:
University of Bremen
Administrative Department for Academic Affairs (Dept. 1)
Bureau for Research and Young Academics
Dr. Achim Wiesner
Phone: +49 421 218 60320
e-mail: achim.wiesnerprotect me ?!vw.uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de
www.uni-bremen.de/exzellent
