Young Academy Groningen (YAG)
Flash lectures
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- Flash lecture
Enthusiastic scientists from the University of Groningen talk about the most diverse subjects, in the shortest lectures of Noorderzon. Every afternoon and evening, you can use headphones to catch up on exceptional and surprising research and subjects.
Wheelchair accessible
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Get up to date on a variety of issues in 15 minutes
How do hallucinations work? Can we trust the software we use all day long? What is the psychology behind good-doing and are we earthlings not just a terrible anomaly in this cosmos? Enthusiastic scientists from the University of Groningen talk about the most diverse issues, in the shortest lectures of Noorderzon. Every afternoon and evening, you can use headphones to catch up on exceptional and surprising research and subjects.
18-22 August | 16.00, 16.30, 19.00 & 19.30h | free entrance
All English lectures below ('more info')
Léonie de Jonge | Demystifying the p-word: what is populism and how might we respond?
Populism is one of the most used and abused terms of our time. It has been used to describe a wide variety of actors - from Geert Wilders to Barack Obama - that seem to have very little in common at first sight. But what exactly is populism? Is it always dangerous? How should we respond?
18 August | 19.00, 19.30 | 15 min
Jorge Pérez | Can we rely on software?
We all depend on software to work, study, play, and much more. Actually, we rely on correct software: software that always performs as expected. However, we frequently hear of software errors and outages. How is this even possible? Building correct software systems is an incredibly complex task. In this flash lecture, Jorge Pérez will describe some of the challenges involved in producing correct software, and discuss the work of the Fundamental Computing group in tackling these challenges.
21 August | 16.00, 16.30 | 15 min
Anastasiia Krushynska | Noise: understand and control
We get used to surrounding noise and often neglect it. Yet, noise can be rather annoying when it is too hard or when we are tired or stressed. Moreover, the older we get, the less noise-tolerant we may become. What are the effects of noise on our health and well-being in general? Are we aware of them? How can we efficiently deal with noise? In this talk, I will overview the possible consequences of prolongated noise on mental and physical health and provide suggestions on how to reduce them.
21 August | 19.00, 19.30 | 15 min
Pratika Dayal | Life on earth: run-of-the-mill or cosmic anomaly?
Earth is a part of the solar system, located on the fringes of the Milky Way galaxy, one of the hundreds of billions of galaxies that exist in the Universe. Given the existence of sentient life here on Earth, an inevitable question to reflect on is: ‘Are we alone in the vastness of the cosmos?’ Pratika Dayal will try to answer this question in a series of steps. See how the habitability of the Milky Way shifted through time, as it underwent chaotic mergers and star formation. What is the most habitable type of galaxy? Is it beautiful swirly, spiral-armed galaxies like our Milky Way, or rare, blob-like, elliptical galaxies? Dayal poses the tantalising question: in its 13.6 billion years of existence, when has the Universe been most habitable? Did Earth form at the peak of the Universe's habitability, or are we all just a cosmic anomaly?
22 August | 16.00, 16.30 | 15 min
About the artist
Door | Marijke Leliveld, Léonie de Jonge, Franciska de Beer, Lenny Marapin, Laura Cuijpers, Jocelien Olivier, Jorge Pérez, Anastasiia Krushynska, Pratika Dayal, Billie de Haas
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