The TU Ilmenau Citizens' Campus' lecture series starts the spring semester on March 1, 2024. For three months, 14 selected speakers will give lectures on current topics from various areas of society: from technology and industrial history to medicine, politics, communication and literature. The lectures are open to all interested parties from Ilmenau and the surrounding area and always take place on Fridays from 15:00 to 16:30 in one of the three buildings of the Georg-Schmidt-Technikum of the TU Ilmenau, Weimarer Straße. Admission costs 5 euros.
Information and program: www.tu-ilmenau.de/buergercampus.
Printed program flyers are also available at each event or can be requested by e-mail: buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de.
Program:
March 1, 2024
Chlorine - a misunderstood element
Prof. Dr. Peter Scharff
TU Ilmenau, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Head of the Chemistry Group
March 8, 2024
Who operates better, man or machine?
Prof. Dr. Merten Hommann
Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Chief Physician Clinic for General Surgery/Visceral Surgery
March 15, 2024
Energy supply at a crossroads - quo vadis?
Dr. Matthias Sturm, TEAG Thüringer Energie AG, Erfurt, Head of Corporate Development/Communications Division
March 22, 2024
Radiation and life
Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller, lecturer at TU Ilmenau, currently responsible for the "Radiation Biology" module in the Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's degree program, lecturer at the Thuringian Fire Service and Disaster Control School Bad Köstritz and speaker at the Radiation Protection Seminar in Thuringia e. V.
April 5, 2024
Can we abolish ageing? Possibilities and limits of ageing research
Prof. Dr. Christoph Englert, University of Jena, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing Research, Leibniz Institute on Ageing - Fritz Lipmann Institute e. V. Jena, Head of the research group "Molecular Genetics of Ageing"
April 12, 2024
Bertha von Suttner. On the trail of a woman of peace
Prof. Dr. Ilse Nagelschmidt, University of Leipzig, Department of Philology, Institute for German Studies, Humanities Center
April 19, 2024
Decibel - what is it actually? Interesting facts and curiosities about acoustics and noise
Prof. Dr. Joachim Bös, TU Ilmenau, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Head of the Group of Industrial Applications of Media Technologies, Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT
April 26, 2024
The fascination of laser beams for processing materials - what about welding?
Prof. Dr. Jean Pierre Bergmann, TU Ilmenau, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Head of the Group of Production Engineering
May 3, 2024
Engineers without borders: Development cooperation - together at eye level
Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Hübner, TU Ilmenau, Advisor to the Vice President for Teaching and Learning, Deputy Contact Person for the Ilmenau Regional Group of Engineers Without Borders e. V.
May 17, 2024
Forestry and forestry in climate change - challenges, impacts and adaptation measures
Dr. Nico Frischbier, State Forestry Office ThüringenForst - AöR, Forest Research and Competence Centre Gotha
May 24, 2024
Is the forge of the Nebra Sky Disk at the bottom of the Sweet Lake?
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauschenbach, Fraunhofer IOSB-AST
Dr. Sven Thomas, State Institute for Monument Preservation and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt
May 31, 2024
Burial mounds and high pastures - on the prehistoric development of the Thuringian cultural landscape
Prof. Dr. Michael Köhler, TU Ilmenau, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Head of the Group for Physical Chemistry / Microreaction Technology
June 7, 2024
A new race to the moon!
Prof. Dr. Olaf Kretzer, Head of the Suhl Public and School Observatory, Member of the Board of the German Astronomical Society
June 14, 2024
The Wolfram chandelier in Erfurt Cathedral. News about a work of art from the 12th century
Prof. em. Dr. Karl Heinemeyer, University of Erfurt
Contact
Dr. Uwe Geishendorf
Central Institute for Education
+49 3677 69-4675
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de
