Science Slam
@ Montanuniversität Leoben

29th March, 2023 | 18:00-22:00

WHAT IS A SCIENCE SLAM?

It’s an “infotainment” – an event that is both entertaining and informative – in our case, scientific. Scientists will inspire the audience with their scientific topic/idea in 10 minutes and the audience will vote for the best performance.

Rules:

  • You only have 10 minutes
  • No boring stuff
  • 100% science
  • other than that, everything is allowed (if it does not violate the fire safety regulations)

WHEN AND WHERE?

29th March, 2023 | 18:00-22:00 Auditorium & Foyer at Montanuniversität Leoben

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

We would like to invite all researchers (from PhD Students to Professors) from all disciplines. Anyone who is passionate about their project and would like to present research results in an entertaining way is welcome to participate in this ultimate battle of knowledge and fun!

Participation is free of charge.

TOPICS

We are open to any topic as long as it’s 100% science. But hey – we are RE- and EURECA-PRO and March is the Sustainable Month at MUL, so our beloved topic is sustainability.

LANGUAGE

German or English – choose yours!

AWARD

The audience will decide who succeeds best in bringing entertainment and knowledge into a harmonious relationship.

The winner will be announced immediately and can walk away in glory and with a material prize worth 600€.

OBJECTIVES

  • To communicate current science (topics broadly related to sustainability) to a diverse audience in an entertaining, creative and understandable way;
  • To appeal to the general public and strengthen the links to the non-university environment;
  • To encourage citizen participation by inviting the public to vote for the best contribution.

REGISTRATION:

We are sorry, the registration deadline for the Science Slam has expired in 21st March, 2023 

No tickets – everyone is invited to watch, be smarter and have fun!

Register Now!
The event will be streamed live on YouTube.
More information to come!

Contact person: Agnieszka Kosciuszko, email: aga.kosciuszko@gmail.com

The moderator of Science Slam will be the radio-star:
Thomas Axmann, from Antenne Steiermark!

Participants

Prof. Elmar Rückert

Chair of Cyber-Physical-Systems

Meeting an A.I. Robot Dog

An artificial robot dog will be on stage, which will enter our daily life in the near future. From fears to excitement.  Watch Demo!
Bio

Prof. Thomas Antretter

Department of Physics, Mechanics and Electrical Engineering

Computer Aided Material Design

The vision is to design materials on the drawing board with certain desired material properties such as strength, toughness, heat resistance etc. The tools are readily available and need to be combined. The focus of this work is on correctly capturing the interplay between the various thermo-mechanical, chemical and physical effects. Computer simulations allow to determine a set of process parameters such that after manufacturing the material has the desired properties.
Bio

Manuel Labrador Ortega, MSc

Project Manager Resources Innovation Center Leoben

MiReBooks

The use of digital technologies in higher education.
Bio

Reinhard Lerchbammer

Montanuniversität Leoben, Lehrstuhl für Nichteisenmetallurgie

Einsatz der Hydrometallurgie zum Recycling von Lithium-Ionen-Batterie

Hydrometallurgisches Recycling von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien und derzeitige Entwicklungen, nachhaltige Entwicklungen, Zukunftsperspektiven.
Bio

Mehran ABDI

Montanuniversität Leoben, Metallurgy

Origin of interfacial instability in aluminum reduction cells

In aluminum production industries, the energy needed to convert alumina to aluminum is mind-boggling. However, a significant portion of this energy (about half) is wasted as Joule heating. Our goal is to identify the reason for energy loss with the help of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) studies and provide suggestions to reduce this energy loss.
Bio

LIVE @ EURECA-PRO YouTube Channel

29 March 2023 | @18:00 (CET)

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Prof. Elmar Rückert

Chair of Cyber-Physical-Systems
Since March 2021 is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elmar Rueckert the chair of the Cyber-Physical-Systems Institute at the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria. He received his PhD in computer science at the Graz University of Technology in 2014 and worked for four years as senior researcher and research group leader at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Thereafter, he worked for three years as assistant professor at the University of Lübeck. His research interests include stochastic machine and deep learning, robotics and reinforcement learning and human motor control. In 2019, he was awarded with the ‘German Young Researcher Award’.

Prof. Thomas Antretter

Department of Physics, Mechanics and Electrical Engineering

Thomas Antretter studied Mechanical Engineering at TU Vienna in 1993, obtained doctoral degree from Montanuniversität Leoben (MUL) in 1998. Since 2009 Prof. Antretter is Head of the Chair of Mechanics at MUL. His research expertise is on Micromechanics of Materials using numerical methods with a focus on phase transformation phenomena in steels. As the Dean of Studies at MUL he is also interested in innovative methods in teaching and education.

Manuel Labrador Ortega, MSc

Project Manager Resources Innovation Center Leoben

Manuel Labrador Ortega is a miner engineer from the University of Leon (Spain). After Erasmus year at MUL he decided to stay in Leoben. He worked 4 years for an oil and gas service company based in Leoben and in 2019 he started working at RIC in MUL. Currently, his focus of work is implementation of digital technologies in higher education.

Reinhard Lerchbammer

Montanuniversität Leoben, Lehrstuhl für Nichteisenmetallurgie

Reinhard Lerchbammer ist Doktorratsstudent, Abschluss Montanuniversität im Bereich der Metallurgie 03/2022.

Mehran ABDI

Montanuniversität Leoben, Metallurgy
Mehran Abdi has been a member of the Christian-Doppler laboratory for the metallurgical applications of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in Leoben, Austria since 2018. The laboratory specializes in the simulations of MHD phenomena occurring in industrial processes involving liquid metals, electrolytes, and plasma media.