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Zurück e Teilen:  d 04.10.2022 - 07.10.2022 | Berlin With our diet, we ingest many substances every day which can either be beneficial or potentially harmful. The chronic exposure to some of these substances can lead to health concerns. The identification of critical compounds in our food and the determination of their levels can be conducted by means of Total Diet Studies (TDS). By combining levels of substances in foods with food consumption data, the dietary exposure of populations and associated risks can be assessed.

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Zurück e d 10.07.2023 - 10.07.2023 | Erkner Hannah le Roux – Sectioning Colonial Architecture Colonial architecture is strategic in its plan, and works symbolically - often as propaganda - in its elevations. But how does it work in section? What vertical relations do the technologies of colonial architecture create both in situ and in relation to other places that are linked in reciprocal disturbances of the surface? Following work done in environmental humanities on sub-surface worlds, as well as in Black studies on submerged violence, architectural histories can address impacts through sectioning colonial architecture.

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Zurück e d 04.09.2023 - 08.09.2023 | Tbilisi The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), RWTH Aachen University, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig (GWZO), with the support of Ilia State University, Tbilisi (Georgia) are jointly convening the PhD School 'Neighborhood Heritage. Urban layers, physical environments and living communities in the post-socialist/-Soviet City', as part of the collaborative research project cities.building.

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Zurück e d 08.05.2023 - 09.05.2023 | Tokyo Transnational research plays an essential role in global knowledge production. It also fosters mutual understanding and trust among the countries involved. This is especially true for transnational research in the social sciences and humanities, which explicitly aims at bridging and combining different national perspectives on issues of shared interest. The conference 'Transnational Research in a Multipolar World' will discuss the impact of the growing geopolitical tensions on transnational research with a particular focus on 'closing spaces', i.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 28.04.2022 - 28.04.2022 | Europe Agenda The Demography of Ukraine and the Challenges of War and Humanitarian Crisis Ad-hoc High-Level Expert Meeting (online via Webex) Thursday, 28th April 2022, 14:00-16:00 CET / 15:00-17:00 EET Opening Dr. Andreas Edel Executive Secretary of Population Europe and Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Berlin, Germany Panel 1: The Demographic Situation in Ukraine Moderator: Dr. Brienna Perelli-Harris Professor of Demography at the University of Southampton Dr.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 28.04.2022 - 29.04.2022 | Leipzig For the 9th time in a row now, students of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management will host the Accelerate@HHL Conference on April 28 and 29. The conference is aimed at founders, those who want to become founders, investors and everyone who is interested in the topic of entrepreneurship. Following this year's motto "Shaping a Better Tomorrow", the students invited top entrepreneurs, investors and young talents to Leipzig. In doing so, they want to show that profitability and idealism can and should go hand in hand.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 08.05.2022 - 12.05.2022 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen The GCC reflects and highlights the important role of Cheminformatics, which connects the modern information and data-driven world with computational modelling of molecular systems. It spans a wide range of subjects related to the use of computers in chemistry, pharmacy, materials science and biology; from informatics and data science to atomistic modelling, and from fundamental academic research to industrial applications. The scientific programme will include plenary and contributed lectures, research telegrams (PhD students only), posters and software presentations.

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It's the giveaway for Scorchlands playtest! 📅It will start on December 8th and end 5 nights later, on 12th 2022. Why did we choose these days? The answer is simple - our playtest will happen simultaneously with the #TurnBasedFest - an online festival for the people who make, play, and love turn-based video games. We're taking part in it - both Ringlab and the Giwis. 👉 So, to be crystal clear: 📅 #TurnBasedFest and Scorchlands playtest will happen during the same days - from 8.12 till 12.2022. Just a reminder - if you did not play the demo of Scorchlands, you can now sign up for Playtests and play the latest version during the #TurnBasedFest.

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Zurück e d 02.02.2023 - 02.02.2023 | Flensburg The Lecture Series… James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to be one of the most important and challenging novels in the English language as well as the most famous Irish novel ever written. But is Joyce's work as relevant today as it was when it was published in 1922? This is the question that has motivated the 11-part guest lecture series, '21st-Century Joyce: Ulysses 100 Years On' that has been taking place at the Europa-Universität Flensburg and CAU-Kiel in honour of the Ulysses publication centenary for the past four months.

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Zurück e d 03.05.2023 - 04.05.2023 | Bochum The IVAM Hightech Summit is a central point in the year where companies from micro and nanotechnology come together and present the latest technologies and products as well as discuss the developments in the future. We are on a path toward a "Smart World." Microtechnology is a key industry here and makes many developments possible in the first place. At this year's IVAM Hightech Summit you can expect exciting keynote presentations and many new products and technologies that make the world "smarter".

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 19.05.2022 - 19.05.2022 | Berlin >> Program > Moderation Leibniz-IZW Prof Dr Heribert Hofer DPhil Director, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) > Welcoming address (11.00 h) Leibniz-Association (requested) N N Ambassador of Indonesia H E Arif Havas Oegroseno Ministry of Environment and Forestry; Indonesia Mrs Desy Satya Chandradewi Rector IPB University Mr Arif Satria Director Zoo Leipzig; President Association Zoological Gardens Prof Dr Jörg Junhold > Key targets of the MoU (11.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 03.06.2022 - 03.12.2022 | Berlin What awaits you in our Online-Sessions: In our expert sessions, we want to show what is possible with glass in the field of photonic packaging and how you can seize this potential for your industry or for joint projects with us. The pandemic has motivated us to find a virtual space to host our conversation on this subject and lay the foundations for a new public network with you. Dates and Topics First speaker: Dr. Alethea Vanessa Zamora Gómez on June 03, 2022, 4:30-5:15 P.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 03.07.2022 - 16.07.2022 | Hamm Germany's elite status is primarily owed to the German phenomenon 'Der Mittelstand'. It is the small and medium sized companies that build Germany's backbone as a global exporter of machinery and technology. Making up almost 99% of all companies in Germany, each of them has chosen to excel in specialized technologies that together comprise the highly advanced products we use every day. The 2022 Summer School of Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences will thus discss "The Business of German Engineering".

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 04.07.2022 - 06.07.2022 | Flensburg Sovereignty and hospitality, dignity and the limits of forgiveness, vulnerability and The Other - The topics of the conference 'Levinas and the real: Politics, Community, Religion' are interdisciplinarily anchored in the present and extremely relevant. Divided into seven sections, the international and interdisciplinary conference deals with the significance of the Lithuanian-French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas for the present. 'Levinas's philosophy has inaugurated a new ethical discourse in phenomenology, philosophy of dialogue and deconstruction.

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Zurück e d 01.12.2022 - 01.12.2022 | Hamburg With the administration of President Yoon Suk-yeol moving ever closer to embracing the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space, the scope widens for closer collaboration between the European Union and Germany on the one hand and the Republic of Korea on the other. Both the EU and Germany are implementing inclusive strategies for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. South Korea is a very suitable partner for such cooperation given that it is one of the few liberal democracies in the Indo-Pacific and a champion of multilateralism.

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Zurück e d 27.01.2023 - 27.01.2023 | Hamburg Presentation of three cases: Scientific station of Brazil in Antarctica (2013-2020): The winning project of an international design competition for Brazil's Comandante Ferraz scientific station, which received proposals from architects from all parts of the world. The building design received attention from specialized and prominent media outlets, besides architecture prizes worldwide. ‘The Coolest Architecture on Earth Is in Antarctica' (NY Times). https://www.

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Zurück e d 03.05.2023 - 03.05.2023 | Ingolstadt On Wednesday, 3 May, Prof. Alessandro Bezerra Trindade from the Brazilian Federal University of Amazonas will talk about "Rural Electrification in Amazonia: Challenges and Case Studies". The Amazon basin region is a very peculiar area of South America. It covers a huge area, has many isolated riverside communities, and suffers from a lack of roads and communication infrastructure. In this lecture, the biggest challenges for electrification will be listed, all based on three case studies in the area of the lower Rio Negro, near the city of Manaus.

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Zurück e d 03.05.2023 - 03.05.2023 | Desden Based on the experience with sensitive nuclear infrastructures at the Dresden-Klotzsche site of Fraunhofer IKTS in the past, this seminar will highlight current developments and show potential applications at nuclear facilities. Prof. Henning Heuer will focus on how ultrasonics and eddy current can be used to test thin tubes, weld seams, detect cracks or wall erosion even in liquid melts. And Dr. Bianca Weihnacht will talk about the development of monitoring solutions at the institute and show possible applications of industry proven methods to monitor plant components during operation.

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Zurück e d 01.06.2023 - 02.06.2023 | Leipzig The history of knowledge has been on the rise for some time – expert and academic, applicable, and applied bodies of knowledge are being studied. Inspiration from transnational and global history has led to a multitude of inquiries ranging from border-crossing circulations to the study of global knowledge orders. Processes of appropriation and adaptions to specific contexts, whether local, national, or imperial moved to the fore.

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Zurück e d 25.05.2023 - 27.05.2023 | Greifswald Encouraging reflection upon neighbouring concepts of change, we aim to expand the debate on their relation to ‘peripety', their scholarly prolificacy, and conditions of transferability. Together, we will elucidate turning points, crises, events, tipping points, and disruptions in the fields of literary, migration, and memory studies, medical humanities, environmental history, theatre studies, and political science. In this highly interdisciplinary format, we enter into negotiations about narratives of current poignancy: wars, floods, diseases, challenges to personal and collective identities, and even humour are being examined with regard to the narrative activities humans engage in to make sense of change.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 02.12.2021 - 03.12.2021 | Hamburg Texto en español ver abajo Since the third wave of democratisation surged in Latin America 30–40 years ago, the region has remained one of the most democratic in the world – a remarkable achievement considering a past marked by dictators and political instability. But the ways that democracy has manifested vary substantially. Especially in the last decade, concerns have been raised regarding public disenchantment, diminishing levels of institutional quality, and democratic backsliding.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 02.11.2022 - 02.11.2022 | Virtual The GBM Lunch takes place every second Wednesday from 12:30 to 13:30 CET (lectures in English) as a Zoom conference. Participation requires a (one-time) registration via the website https://gbm-online.de/gbm-lunch.html. Please register at least two days before the GBM Lunch you would like to attend virtually. A GBM membership is not a prerequisite, but we are happy to welcome new members (further information: https://gbm-online.de/mitglied.html)! The GBM office will send the invitation link to all registered participants shortly before the events.

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Zurück e d 04.07.2023 - 04.07.2023 | Darmstadt At the ATHENE Distinguished Lectures, we invite established national and inter­national cybersecurity experts to give us insights into their latest research findings. The Distinguished Lectures are mostly held hybrid (on-site at Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt), so that there is also the possibility to meet and exchange with the key players in cybersecurity in person after the lecture with tasty snacks and drinks. The language of the lecture is English.

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Zurück e d 02.03.2023 - 03.03.2023 | Leipzig Whenever history is displayed, performed, or staged publicly, gender is performed as well. The workshop will focus on forms of doing history which rest on bodily, immersive, and experiential approaches and highlight playful, multi-sensory or personal engagements with the past. It will explore the nexus between modes of doing history and doing gender by addressing the following questions:How are notions of history and gender being co-produced in practices of doing history, when, e.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 03.11.2022 - 03.11.2022 | Bayreuth The Chair of African Legal Studies of the Universiy of Bayreuth would like to invite you to our debates series on intractable problems of human rights in Africa: Everyone's Human Rights "When the law is not enough: Tackling intractable problems of human rights - prospects for integrated approaches". The event series will take place over six sessions from 26 October to 30 November 2022. On the second event, Desmond Mhango, Executive Director, Centre of Youth and Children's Affairs, Malawi s our guest.

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Zurück e Teilen:  d 20.06.2022 - 20.06.2022 | Hamburg Growing international concern about Russia's military and political resurgence in Africa has been rekindled by its invasion of Ukraine since February 2022. Russia's growing influence in Africa through the re-establishment of old ties and the creation of new ones has been perceived as a quest to re-establish the geopolitical gains that the Soviet Union achieved prior to its collapse in 1989. Increasing demand for Russian weaponry and equipment, support for unpopular, illegitimate, or unconstitutionally elected leaders, and the targeting and interest in mining concessions and natural resources are considered by the West as a threat to democratic gains and stability on an already fragile continent.

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Zurück e d 04.07.2023 - 04.07.2023 | Saarbrücken Abstract: Contextual bandit problems model the inherent cost of learning in personalized decision-making in new environments, whether in marketing, healthcare, or revenue management. Specifically, the cost is characterized by the optimal growth rate of the regret in cumulative rewards compared to an optimal policy given full prior knowledge of the environment. Naturally, the optimal rate should depend on how complex the underlying supervised learning problem is, namely how much can observing rewards in one context tell us about mean rewards in another context.

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