The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and renamed the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president, theoretical physicist Max Planck.
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos on decision theory
At the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality junior researchers discuss how people make everyday decisions. This forum for PhD students and postdocs took p…
Dirk Helbing: Economics 2.0
At the Vision in Science Conference 2013 in Dresden Dirk Helbing from the ETH Zurich compares our modern world with the world’s greatest civilisations. By us…
Victor Smetacek
At the Vision in Science Conference 2013 in Dresden Victor Smetacek from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven talks about climate change. He depicts w…
Felix Ekardt – climate change
At the Vision in Science Conference 2013 in Dresden Felix Ekardt from the University of Rostock talks about the challenges of climate change and possible sol…
What is bounded rationality?
The term “bounded rationality” was introduced by Nobel laureate Herbert Simon who asked, how do human beings reason when the conditions for rationality postu…
Social influence and collective behaviors in pedestrian crowds
Human crowds display a rich variety of collective behaviors. In this talk at the Summer Institute for Bounded Rationality 2014, Mehdi Moussaid, Research Scie…
Visions in Science 2014 | Panel Discussion
Participants: Prof. List, Prof. Burkhard, Dr. Schuermann, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Dr. Erselius, Dr. Fink [Length: 02 h] The key aspects to be debated in the Pan…
Visions in Science 2014 | Science Slam | N. Gerstner: Life applied – YouTube
Science Slam: Life applied Norman hints at a solution of many of the world’s challenges – we need a more optimized management of complex systems, carried ou…
Visions in Science 2014 | Science Slam | R. Holca-Lamarre
Science Slam: The Reverse Engineering of Brain Functions Raphael talks about his research on neural networks and how the human brain can cope with an infinit…
Visions in Science 2014 | Science Slam | R. Liek: What to remember? What to forget?
Science Slam: What to remember? What to forget? Do you have a dog? Using the short-termed memory of dogs as an example, Robert explains his research and how …
Visions in Science 2014 | Science Slam | M. de Pablo
Science Slam: The camera obscura as the prehistory of photography, or rather of an obsession to capture images Montserrat takes us back in time with her talk…
Visions in Science 2014 | Marie-Clarie Foblets “A fair treatment of religious diversity in Europe”
A fair treatment of religious diversity in Europe Prof. Foblets presents her picture on traditional religious beliefs and building blocks and their policy re…
Visions in Science 2014 | Jürgen Renn “On the Evolution of Knowledge”
On the Evolution of Knowledge: From Cooperative Action to Science Prof. Renn tells us how he made his way to the MPI of the History of Science and what his m…
Visions in Science 2014 | Alexander Borst “In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision”
In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision Prof. Borst explains his motiviaton behind joining the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology – he wanted to …
Visions in Science 2014 | Julia Fischer “Baboons as models for human evolution” – YouTube
Baboons as models for human evolution Prof. Fischer shines a light on the human social evolution and expains the factors that gave rise to specific traits o…
Visions in Science 2014 | Christian List “Can we design a perfect democratic decision procedure?”
Can we design a perfect democratic decision procedure? Prof. List talks about the social choice theory, starting off with the universe of collective decision…
Harnack Lecture | Eric Kandel “Art and Science in Vienna 1900”
First of the yearly “Harnack Lectures” in Berlin-Dahlem: Nobel laureate Eric Kandel talks about “Art and Science in Vienna 1900”.
