TeWi-Kolloquium

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 | 10:00 a.m.(CET) | N.2.35 | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Bio: Kata Sebők arbeitet als Postdoc-Assistentin an der Fakultät für Mathematik der Universität Wien. In ihrer Doktorarbeit befasste sie sich mit den Einstellungen von Lehramtsstudierenden zur Bedeutung der fachmathematischen Ausbildung für den Lehrberuf. Sie entwickelte Aufgaben für den Einsatz in der Lehrer*innenbildung, welche Übungsgelegenheiten für den bewussten Einsatz fachmathematischen Wissens bei der Ausübung typischer Lehrtätigkeiten bieten. Seit dem Wintersemester 2023/24 betrachtet sie das gleiche Problemfeld aus einem anderen Blickwinkel und erforscht die sich wandelnden Beziehungen von Mathematikstudierenden zur Mathematik im Übergang Schule-Hochschule. Neben Design und Durchführung von mittlerweile drei Iterationen der Lehrveranstaltung „Mathematik-Lernen lernen“ ist sie auch Teil des Teams des Lehrprojekts „MaThX – Mathematik zwischen Theorie und Praxis“ (https://mathx.univie.ac.at/), in dem Studierende bereits im 3. Semester eine Verschränkung von Fachmathematik, Fachdidaktik und Schulpraxis erfahren.

TeWi-Kolloquium

Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 10:00 a.m.(CET) | S.2.69 | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

TeWi-Kolloquium

Friday, January 24,2025 | 02:00 p.m.(CET) | S.2.69 | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

TeWi-Kolloquium

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | 11:45 a.m. – 01:15 p.m. (CET) | Room: HS 10 | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Mirt Komel | Department of Cultural Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences l | University of Ljubljana

Abstract: The lecture will present the aesthetics of Yoko Taro’s Nier : Automata (Square Enix, 2017), the culmination of the legendary DrakeNier series (encompassing the three Drakengard titles plus Nier : Replicant, Nier : Automata, and the mobile »gacha« game Nier : Reincarnation).If contemporary »quality art video-games«—by analogy to »quality art television«—are to be understood as artworks, than one most show how they inherited not only the modern but also the classical art-forms in developing their own aesthetical language in the function of interactivity, thus allowing us to baptize them as a veritable Ottava Arte. Thus, by taking as our starting-point the understanding of video-games as Gesamtkunstwerk (»total work of art«), encompassing all the previous classic and modern art-forms (architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, literature, film), we will focus on these aesthetical aspects of Nier : Automata, broken down into the technical elements of its: world-building (»architecture«), character-design (»sculpture«), level-design (»painting«), soundtrack (»music«), gameplay (»dance«), story-telling (»literature«) and, last but not least, the role of cut-scenes (»film«). The main underlining idea of this analytical endeavor is that Nier : Automata managed to attain not only a devoted cult status among its followers but also to make a name for itself in the pantheon of contemporary quality art video-games precisely because it managed to develop at its fullest all of the mentioned elements in order to provide an immersive interactive experience like no other, thus embodying the aesthetical ideal of a video-game Gesamtkunstwerk.

Bio: Mirt Komel, philosopher and writer, professor of modern philosophy and literature at the Faculty of Social Studies of the University of Ljubljana, currently also Head of the Department of Cultural Studies. Studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, graduated at the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2005, and in 2010 obtained a PhD in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts. Researcher at the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies (2006-), teaching assistant (2006-2012) docent-professor (2012-2024), now assistant-professor (2014-) at the Department of Cultural Studies. Also, been researcher at the Peace Institute of Ljubljana (2005-2023), member of the editorial board of the Časopis za kritiko znanosti (2007-2014), co-founder of the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung. Author of several scientific articles and scientific monographs (Twin Peaks and Postmodernism, An Attempt of a Touch, Socratic Touches, Discourse and Violence, Guillotine of the Spirit: Hegel and the French Revolution, The Language of Touch (ed.), etc.). Lately also author of The Eight Art: Aesthetics of Video-games (Osma umetnost : estetika videoiger).

Main areas of research is the study of political and social philosophy—especially Heglo-Marxism—Lacanian psychoanalysis and structural linguistics, but also specialized in haptic studies, balkan studies, comparative literature, and cultural studies of video games.

Proficient in Slovenian, English, Italian and French (acquired international certificates), passively in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, moderate in modern and ancient Greek.

TeWi-Kolloquium – in Kooperation mit der Ringvorlesung ‚Nachhaltigkeit und Klimakrise: Lectures for Future‘ (LV-Nr. 210.306)

Friday, October 04, 2024 | 12:00 am (CET) | Room: HS 3 | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dr. Georg Kaser

Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research (retired)

ACINN Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric SciencesUniversity of Innsbruck

Vice President for Natural and Technical Sciences Austrian Science Fund FWF

Abstract: Der jüngste Bericht des Weltklimarates IPCC ist klar: der menschgemachte Klimawandel ist in vollem Gang. Schleichende Veränderungen sowie die Häufung und das Ausmaß von Extremereignissen nehmen signifikant zu. Bereits die seit „Paris“ angestrebten Klimaziele werden mit großen Schäden einhergehen und sehr teuer werden. Und es schaut nicht danach aus, dass man sie überhaupt erreichen will: die ursächliche Emission von Treibhausgasen ist global und hierzulande, trotz einiger Rückgänge, anhaltend sehr hoch. Erste Hinweise auf das Auslösen irreversibler Veränderungen und beschleunigender Rückkoppelungen im Klimasystem machen sich in der Zwischenzeit bereits alarmierend bemerkbar. Gleichzeitig werden die zeitlichen Handlungsfenster zur Anwendung durchaus bekannter Handlungsoptionen immer kleiner. Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen müssen sehr schnell, tiefgreifend und konsequent umgesetzt werden.

Bio: Georg Kaser ist Univ. Professor für Klima und Kryosphärenforschung i.R. und arbeitete seit 2003 zweimal als Leitautor und dann als Review Editor an insgesamt drei Berichtszyklen des Weltklimarates (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC) mit. Seit 2017 ist Prof. Kaser Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und seit 2021Vizepräsident des Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF).

Slides of the Kolloquium:

https://de.slideshare.net/slideshow/die-klimakrise-ist-da-wo-fuhrt-sie-hin/273232331

Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 02:0 pm (CET) | Room: Z.1.09 | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Dr. Stefan Schauer | Austrian Institute of Technology

Abstract: The technical and processual interconnection among critical infrastructures (CIs) has drastically increased over the last decade, amplified by the ongoing digitalization in this sector. With the application of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, CIs have evolved into highly complex ecosystems, becoming more and more dependent on each other. In such ecosystems, an incident happening within one infrastructure is no longer limited to this infrastructure alone but can have wide-ranging effects on dependent CIs as well as the society as a whole. The cascading effects of such incidents show that it is nowadays no longer sufficient to analyze and assess risks from the perspective of one organization alone. In this talk, we will take a closer look at these interdependencies within and among CIs and how to capture them in a structured way. Further, we will discuss a modelling and simulation approach that is able to describe on an abstract level, how much a critical entity (either a technical component or an entire infrastructure) is affected by an incident. This approach will set the basis for describing how the effects can propagate through the network of interdependent critical systems and infrastructures and for assessing the overall consequences of an incident as part of CI risk management.

Bio: Stefan Schauer is Senior Scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) and is an experienced researcher in the fields of risk and security management in the Center for Digital Safety & Security (DSS). He studied Computer Science at the University of Klagenfurt and received his PhD in Theoretical Physics form the Technical University of Vienna, analyzing the security of quantum cryptographic protocols. Since 2022, he is Thematic Coordinator of the Dependable Systems Engineering (DSE) group at AIT. His research focus lies on risk management and risk assessment for critical infrastructures as well as the integration of security architectures for such organizations. In this context, he is working on novel risk assessment methodologies and processes to tackle future challenges of these infrastructures. Further, he is looking into mathematical concepts for the identification and handling of cascading effects within an organization and among critical infrastructures on a national scale. As part of his research, he is author and editor of three Springer books and has published over 80 papers in journals and conferences.

Stefan Schauer is also actively engaged in national and European research projects, has coordinated one of the last FP7 projects, HyRiM, and was the main lead for AIT in the recent H2020 INFRA projects PRAETORIAN, PRECINCT and SAURON; additionally, he was leading several FFG-funded KIRAS projects. Currently, he is working in the Horizon Europe project SUNRISE and the Digital Europe project CyberSecPro as well as the FFG KIRAS project MERCURIUS.