Universität Kassel: moodle

Lecture:

• Potential Energy Surfaces
• Molecular mechanics
• Machine Learning models
• Electronic structure calculations (Hartree-Fock, Density Functional Theory, Møller-Plesset, Coupled Cluster)
• Simulation of molecules, materials, and interfaces
• Perturbation Theory
• Differentiable Chemistry

Exercise:

• Brief introduction in the scripting language Python.
• Implementation of Machine Learning models and electronic structure calculations in Python.
• Introduction into automatic differentiation for (al-)chemical derivatives.
• Numerical methods / algorithms related to the lecture contents.

Seminar des Fachgebiets EDEK
Neben der klassischen Formgebung bietet die Arbeit mit Material-Systemen eine spannende Herangehensweise im Entwurf. Deren spezifische Eigenschaften in Formbarkeit und Kraftfluss sind dabei nicht nur Herausforderung, sondern auch Potenzial in der Findung neuer Formen.  Von Frei Ottos Seifenblasen-Modellen bis zu den experimentellen Arbeiten von Gramazio Kohler zeigt sich, wie diese Art der Planung Möglichkeiten für die Entwicklung ungewöhnlicher Projekte bietet. Gerade die Arbeit mit digitalen Entwurfswerkzeugen ermöglicht dabei einen höheren Grad an Freiheit. Entwurfliche Arbeit, welche analog noch unter hohem Material- und Zeit-Aufwand stattfindet, kann im digitalen Prozess in einer "immateriellen" Umgebung und anhand weniger Randparameter stattfinden. Die so generierten Modelle lassen sich nun wieder in einen analogen Kontext setzen.

Ziel des Seminars ist es, einen solchen, Material-getriebenen Ansatz zu entwickeln und diesen in die digitale Umwelt von Rhino und Grasshopper zu übersetzen. Dabei wollen wir mit einer analogen Experimentierphase beginnen, wobei auch die anschließende Digitalisierung stets von Versuchen im Modell begleitet wird. Arbeitsmittel sind analoge, sowie digitale Modelle, anhand derer der Zusammenhang von Material und digitaler Simulation entwickelt und kenntlich gemacht werden kann.

Vorkenntnisse in Rhino und Grasshopper sind nicht zwingend notwendig, die benötigte Software wird im Laufe des Semesters erlernt. Die Abgabe erfolgt zur Abgabe-Woche anhand eines Readers. Das Seminar Computational Design I muss nicht belegt oder bestanden sein.

R ist eine freie (kostenlose) Programmiersprache für Statistikprogrammierung, die auf vielen Plattformen verfügbar ist. In der Vorlesung werden alle Befehle erklärt, die in der Folgewoche in der R-Übung verwendet werden. Anwesenheit ist für das Verständnis und Erlernen dieser Programmiersprache zu empfehlen. Das Nutzen/Mitbringen eines eigenen Laptops mit installierten R und R-Studio ist empfehlenswert, aber keine Bedingung für die Teilnahme.

Dieser Moodle Kurs beherbergt die Materialien für beide Teile der Veranstaltung (Vorlesung + Übung).

Die Vorlesung findet online synchron statt (über Zoom) und die Übungsgruppen finden hybrid synchron statt (Teilnahme in Präsenz oder über Zoom möglich).

This seminar focuses on the societal implications and dimensions of computing. Within an interdisciplinary frame, and based on academic papers and selected case studies, students engage with computing technologies within cultural, political, and societal contexts. Students learn to critically engage with the mutual shaping of technology and society, fostering their awareness for a responsible and ethical engagement with computing technologies in their future professional fields. This seminar allows for a knowledge transfer of theories and methods from disciplines within the social science and humanities, and at the same time strengthens students embedment in their own field.

Advanced seminar in behavioral economics. In the first session, the students get the list of questions from the book by Max Frisch Questionnaire. Within the 200 questions, they must identify those related to behavioral economics or develop one. Their task is to explore how one of the questions has been assessed in the literature. In the next session, we will overview their questions and see how to proceed with thoughtful literature research: using keywords, search engines available, and tricks to use them. In the third session, we will discuss how to structure it and write it in discursive prose.

We will meet again for a block course in the middle of March in which the students will share their literature research journey with the class in a 20-minute presentation. We expect them to achieve an exhaustive state-of-the-art on the topic of their question. The presentation must include the process they followed to find the literature and the findings. Two weeks later, they will present their work in a seminar paper.

Feedback is of utmost importance when it comes to successful and self-regulated learning. Consequently, teachers need to practice and acquire feedback skills. In this seminar, we will therefore approach the notion of feedback from a theoretical and practical perspective. We will talk about different models and types of feedback and discuss criteria for constructive feedback with a particular focus on errors in EFL writing and speaking. 

Theoretical knowledge will, of course, constantly be linked to practical issues of classroom teaching.

The seminar "Contemporary Issues in Behavioural Economics" introduces students to the scientific literature in selected fields of Behavioural Economics. We will read some of the key contributions to these fields.

The application procedure and further information will be provided soon

Interessierte Studierende müssen sich bis zum 15.4.2024 im HIS-Portal für die Teilnahme an der Lehrveranstaltung anmelden.

Title: Creative Ecologies

The understanding of the changing nature and ecological conditions in the Mediterranean region is considered as a territory of investigation that explores the scenario of the uncertainty of the next future. The interpretation of natural flows and their influences on various scales on the urban and natural environment, calls for a multidisciplinary approach that is able to respond to future challenges. 

The studio will investigate the role of hybrid blue and green infrastructure into a strategic territory, and the constructed ecological network as an economical, social environmental space of relations. 

The main questions we would raise and explore are related to rethinking these areas starting from ecological patterns and sustainable common possibilities.  

The studio is focused on the Mediterranean cases of the city of Taranto and its strong relation with the waterscape. Important commercial port, the industrial city with an ancient historical background is a paradox and extreme example of coexistence between nature and human. Here, the industrial and post-industrial character strongly merges with a multifaceted natural green and blue system that defines a fragile but unique landscape.

The future establishment of the “Regional Park of Mar Piccolo” is considered a great opportunity to rethink the whole city, starting from a regional natural infrastructure as a new trigger to define new symbioses between communities and nature.  

The studio begins mapping larger-scale systems such as hydrology, infrastructure mobility, topography, natural patterns and built structures. During this semester the project will focus on a specific area in Taranto, defining experimental and ecological strategies that will lead to a final phase of design implementation.

During the whole course, online critics will be joined by theoretical and case studies lectures. 

(If there would be the opportunity a workshop in Taranto will be organized during the Exkursionswoche)

. date and time of your first meeting: 13 April 14.00 – 18.00 

. preferred weekday of your course: Wednesday afternoon (sometime Thursday afternoon)