Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
Keyvisual Blick über den Tellerrand
© Fraunhofer ITWM
Keyvisual Blick über den Tellerrand

© Fraunhofer ITWM

Series of Talks »Blick über den Tellerrand«

Once every month, the Fraunhofer ITWM opens its doors and invites everyone who is interested to broaden their horizon. The interdisciplinary lecture series »Blick über den Tellerrand« of the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics presents different perspectives on a wide spectrum of topics in the area of science and technology.

Exciting experts from a wide range of fields will speak and discuss with the guests. Everyone is cordially invited and admission is free. The event will take place on site at the Fraunhofer Center and will also be broadcast virtually.

Blick über den Tellerrand (Thinking Outside the Box)

The hybrid talks are only available in German.

Blick über den Tellerrand in July 2024

 

[This event has been canceled]

 

»Election Campaigns in Transition: The Role of Modern Technologies and Their Impact on Democracy«

Tuesday, July, 16th 2024
von 5pm – 6:30pm

The election campaign is a central element of democracy. If you want to govern, you have to fight for every vote. New technologies such as targeted advertising (microtargeting) and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the election campaign, but raise ethical questions. Negative advertising or deep fakes make it more aggressive and manipulative. At the same time, personal contact remains indispensable. Daniel Stich takes a look behind the scenes and shows how election campaigns are changing and what challenges they pose for democracy. Because one thing is certain: election campaigns always are.

Speaker Daniel Stich (*1976 in Kaiserslautern) is a German politician (SPD). He has been Ministerial Director at the Ministry of Science and Health of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2021.
Stich studied political science, public law and civil law at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the University of Nottingham and the University of Tor Vergata in Rome from 1998 to 2004. In 2005, he became an advisor to the Rhineland-Palatinate branch of the SPD. From 2006 to 2011, he acted as personal advisor to the Minister and State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Sport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. Subsequently, from 2011 to 2014, Daniel Stich was seconded to the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate as a mirror advisor for the Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Infrastructure. From 2014 to 2016, he was State Secretary of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate and from 2016 to 2021 General Secretary and State Secretary of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate. 

The event will be hosted by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Küfer. He is the spokesperson for the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics and head of the »Optimization« division and the »Optimization – Operations Research« department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM.

Participation Options:       

  1. on site in the lecture hall of the Fraunhofer ITWM,
    Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany  
  2. by video conference via Microsoft Teams:  https://s.fhg.de/tellerrand-2024-07 


Technical Hints

After you have clicked on the Microsoft Teams link, a browser window will open – if you are not yet using Microsoft Teams – and you will be asked How would you like to join your Microsoft Teams meeting? You can use Microsoft Teams via a browser (e.g. Chrome) or you can download the Windows app to your desktop or install the Microsoft Teams app on your smartphone or tablet.

»Blick über den Tellerrand« (Thinking Outside the Box) is an interdisciplinary lecture series of the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics with changing topics.