Once again this summer semester, our lecture series on quality assurance and quality management returned – with a spotlight on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
Under the lead of Hon.-Prof. Dr. med. René Brouwer, FETCS, participants explored key concepts and practical applications across four focused sessions:
Overview and introduction big data and clinical data analysis
Logistic regression and clinical examples
Tree-based classification methods and clinical applications
AI in medicine
A heartfelt thank you goes to Hon.-Prof. Dr. med. René Brouwer, FETCS, for leading the series, and to all participants for their valuable contributions and thought-provoking discussions.
From March 24th to 28th, Alex Rieger attended the 7th Joint Statistical Meeting of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik at HU Berlin. There he attended talks and tutorials on topics such as Bayesian statistics and survival analysis, and statistical modelling in the behavioural sciences and ecology. He also presented a poster on survival probabilities as a centrepiece of behavioural bheories, which resulted from joint work with Matthias Borgstede, Oliver Hulme and Frank Eggert.
Our former colleague Tabea Schlender, together with Alex Rieger and Prof. Frank Eggert, has published an insightful paper in Human Nature that explores the application of the Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) to supermarket shopping behaviour. Their study examines whether supermarkets can be considered resource patches within the framework of optimal foraging theory, and how time spent in the store affects financial gains. This research provides valuable insights into the interdisciplinary application of ecological models to everyday consumer behaviour.
From October 2019 until November 2023, we were part of an interdisciplinary group of researchers investigating possibilities to integrate stakeholder and individual actor behavior in technically and economically oriented energy system models. The models were exemplarily implemented for a selected heating sector. Our part of the project focused on a qualitative, empirical analysis of individual choice behavior for buying heat pumps. The final report can be read here: DOI 10.2314/KXP:1915255201
Annemarie Hartung and Karoline Misch, together with Dr. Nicole Holzhauser from the Institute of Sociology, have published an essay highlighting Florence Nightingale's achievements as a social statistician. While Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing, this essay highlights her lesser-known contributions to statistics and social science. The article is part of The Invisible Half series, which focuses on women whose contributions to the history of sociology have been overlooked, and aims to shed light on their legacy. Click here to read the article!
From November 12th till 15th, Alex Rieger participated in a Young Scientists Retreat of the DGPA and the Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie of the DGPS in Berlin. He presented a talk on Active Inference in the context of homeostasis based on his recent research stay at the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance. Aside from opportunities to get in touch with other early career researchers, there was also a talk and workshop by Daniel Leising on power abuse in academia and a visit in the Mind-Body-Emotion lab of Dr. Gaebler at the Max Planck Dahlem Campus.
On Monday, 14 and Tuesday, 15 October 2024, two of our employees took part in the kick-off event for the new research programme ‘Transformation des Energiesystems Niedersachsen TEN.efzn’ in Hanover. A new joint project that will be funded with 58.2 million euros over the next five years by the zukunft.niedersachsen funding programme.
As part of the research platform ‘Vertrauenswürdige Digitalisierung sicherheitskritischer Energiesysteme’, Karoline Misch and Farina Wille will focus on the analysis of trust in socio-technical (agent) systems and the design of human-machine interfaces (HMIs).
This year, several of our colleagues presented a poster at the 53rd DGPs Conference in Vienna. Unfortunately, due to severe flooding, we were unable to attend the event in person. However, we quickly adapted and presented our research remotely.
While we would have loved to be there in person to fully engage with other participants, participating online still allowed us to hear some interesting talks and contribute to the event. We are glad we were able to attend despite the circumstances and look forward to the next conference!
The first poster conference as part of our department's biopsychology seminar took place on 11 July. To round off the semester, the students presented the results of their group work. Their task was to model an everyday situation using a game theory or optimality model. We are delighted with the numerous ideas and the enjoyable event!
On May 6, Prof. Dr. Frank Eggert and Dr. Matthias Borgstede (Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg) are invited to the PTB for a lecture on "A Theory of Psychological Measurement Based on Relational Responding" from 10:00 to 11:30 am. Further information and the link to the online broadcast can be found here.