Würzburg 2021 will be merged with 200th GDNÄ anniversary
With a heavy heart, the GDNÄ Presidium has decided not to realize the 131st Assembly in Würzburg in 2021, but to combine it with the 132nd Assembly in Leipzig. The reason is the Corona pandemic, which made all previous plans obsolete. The anniversary conference will be held in Leipzig from 8 to 11 September 2022.
Everything was prepared on time for the meeting in Würzburg originally planned for September 2020 on the topic of “Science & Image”. Many GDNÄ members, selected students, teachers and citizens had looked forward to high-level lectures, discussions and personal exchange. But then Corona came and called for new solutions. In the early summer of 2020, it was decided to postpone the Würzburg Assembly was postponed by one year. At the time, that seemed like a safe distance. But in the meantime we had to realize that planning for an assembly in September 2021 would be too risky. Hence the decision to present highlights on the topic of “Science & Image” at the anniversary meeting to mark the 200th anniversary of the GDNÄ at its founding location in Leipzig – together with new topics that will be developed over the next few months and then presented on this page.
The 200th anniversary celebration of the GDNÄ will take place in the
Congress Hall at the Leipzig Zoo.
The internet event organised due to the Corona pandemic replaced the general meeting which should have taken place during the meeting in Würzburg in September 2020. The Presidium welcomed the members registered with the office on 24 November 2020, 11 a.m., to the Extraordinary General Meeting in the virtual lecture hall.
On the agenda, alongside the regular reports, was the election of a new 2nd vice-president who will assume the office of president in 2023.
The next conference takes place from September 10-12, 2021
In view of the current corona situation, the GDNÄ board has decided to postpone the annual meeting until 2021. The new date is September 10-12, 2021, and the topic “Science in Picture” and the program are to be retained as far as possible. The exact program will be announced on this website in autumn 2020 and sent to the members in spring 2021. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in 2021.
Together with the meeting, the next general meeting and the elections planned there must also be postponed to that date.
Digitisation of the Sciences, from Structures to Processes
Dear members, friends and sponsors of the GDNÄ,
The digitisation of science enables the analysis and simulation of complex processes using computers based on structural models.
For the first time in its almost 200-year history, GDNÄ comes to Saarland, which is ideally suited as a state of information technology for this topic of our 130th meeting.
The Internet and the first wave of digitization had revolutionized access to scientific results. In the meantime, computer science has developed methods for all sciences to automatically evaluate digital mass data. However, the second wave of digitisation triggered by this also fundamentally changes the way scientists work and thus holds enormous potential for breakthroughs in science, medicine and technology.
Mass data are automatically classified by machine learning algorithms, experiments are carried out by robots, new connections are discovered by artificial intelligence and hypotheses are tested. However, the focus continues to be on scientists who, with their curiosity and passion, overcome existing boundaries within and between disciplines in order to gain completely new insights – increasingly often supported by digital assistants.
In addition to its university’s internationally renowned Department of Computer Science, Saarland has the highest density of associated institutes in the field of computer science: In addition to the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence headed by me, the Helmholtz Center for Cyber Security, the Leibniz Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems make the Saarland Informatics Campus with its joint Cluster of Excellence a prime location for digitization.
In addition to the Nobel Lecture and the Leopoldina Lecture, the programme offers 15 invited lectures by top researchers from medicine, biology, physics, chemistry and technology, supplemented by six laboratory tours within walking distance with practical insights over lunchtime.
The historic part of Saarbrücken exudes French charm and is worth a visit for its excellent cuisine and three-star restaurant. The GDNÄ participants will be spoiled culturally with a unique concert evening in the late baroque Ludwigskirche, a reception of the Lady Mayoress in the Knight’s Hall of the town hall as well as a performance of the Saarländisches Staatsballet after the noble lecture in the Staatstheater.
This big event was only possible with generous donations, for which we would like to thank all our sponsors! The importance of our 130th meeting is underlined by the patronage of the Federal President and the opening by the Prime Minister of Saarland.
Take an active part in our dialogue on the future and discuss the opportunities and risks of digitising the sciences with renowned experts!
I look forward to your participation in the 130th GDNÄ meeting in Saarbrücken.
Exclusive New Wave Cup with GDNÄ logo for speakers and supporters of the 130th meeting in Saarbrücken from 14.9.-17.9.2018
As a small gift and thanks for their commitment, the speakers, volunteers and donors will receive a cup decorated with the GDNÄ logo.
The cup from the NewWave series with the characteristic wave shape made of the finest premium porcelain in pure white from the world brand Villeroy and Boch (est. 1748) serves as a souvenir from Saarland. The NewWave collection, which was awarded the “Innovation Prize of German Industry” and the “Trend Tableware of the Year”, impresses with its asymmetrical shape and curved lines.
1st regional meeting rhine/ruhr at the deutsches museum
For the first time, a regional meeting of the GDNÄ took place in the Rhine-Ruhr region between Koblenz and Dortmund on 8 May at the invitation of the Secretary-General. About 400 GDNÄ members live there. 35 people took part in the meeting at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, not only members, because the program in the vicinity of the Lego exhibition had also attracted some accompanying persons and guests. Most of the participants came from the immediate vicinity, but Dortmund and Wuppertal were not too far away either. All age groups were represented, from young to old.
The program began at 6 p.m. with a short walk through the impressive Lego special exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, which shows toys dating back to the 1930s, of course wooden toys first, then plastic toys as everyone knows them. The heart of every Lego lover, whether old or young, was addressed. The Secretary-General then briefly introduced the GDNÄ and the programme of the meeting in Saarbrücken and asked for participation.
Based on the Lego exhibition, the theme of the evening was plastics. In an impulse lecture, the Secretary-General described market volumes and applications in order to address the current topic “Marine Litter” in essence, which led to a lively discussion. Who knows, for example, that every day he contributes to the 60,000 tons of microplastics that we discharge from Germany into the sea every year with tire and laundry abrasion. However, this is rather the minor problem against the 5 to 10 million tonnes of plastics that are flushed into the sea every year, especially in Asia.
In the subsequent discussions over a small snack, the wish was expressed to offer these regional meetings at least once a year. The Presidium plans further regional meetings in the coming year without assembly and is looking for regional ambassadors of the GDNÄ to help prepare these meetings.
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