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Wednesday, 15. May 2019

A new era in the behavioural sciences

The research team around Iain Couzin is revolutionizing the study of collectives by using artificial intelligence. The researchers teach computers to see what humans cannot: patterns amid the mind boggling complexity of animal collective behaviour.
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Wednesday, 15. May 2019

Exhibition in step with the pulse of our time

The exhibition "Link - zur Künstlichen Intelligenz" is the result of a cross-university and interdisciplinary course organized by the University of Konstanz, the Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences and the Trossingen University of Music.
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Monday, 28. January 2019

Two new Humboldt Professors

Margaret C. Crofoot and Anke Hoeffler have both accepted a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Konstanz. They will work in the university's research priorities Collective Behaviour and Ecology and Social and Cognitive Sciences with a Special Focus on Inequality Research, respectively.
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Monday, 21. January 2019

From head to toe

Dr Jennifer Randerath investigates age-related decision-making behaviour within the research area of motor skills. In collaboration with the Kliniken Schmieder, her early career research group develops rehabilitation approaches for stroke patients.
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Friday, 18. January 2019

“We should not return to business as usual”

Professor Wolfgang Seibel on the closing of the criminal case addressing the Loveparade tragedy in Duisburg.
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Monday, 17. December 2018

“At university, knowledge counts more than age” –…

The Schülerstudium at the University of Konstanz has been running for ten years now. Around 20 to 30 young students who are still at school come to the university to test study areas they might be interested in.
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Tuesday, 23. October 2018

In tandem for peace

Aleida und Jan Assmann were awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade – joint research for a peaceful living together on earth.
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Wednesday, 17. October 2018

Ensuring cohesion in a society that is drifting apart

The legal scholar in the role of a cultural scientist. Professor Daniel Thym, a legal scholar, will head the research initiative “Kulturelle Dynamiken der Gegenwartsgesellschaft” (the cultural dynamics of present-day society) at the University of Konstanz.
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Wednesday, 17. October 2018

The desire for utopia

Anne Kwaschik is the new Professor of the History of Humanities in the Department of History and Sociology
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Friday, 12. October 2018

Hitler: a campaigner with little influence?

Hitler from the perspective of statistics
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