Events, Lectures, Podium Discussions

International Conference on Equal Opportunities: Gender Summit 2021

Start: Apr 14, 2021
End: Apr 16, 2021
Location: Online-Event

The Max Planck Society is a lead partner of the Gender Summit 2021. The online event will take place from 14-16.4.21, participation is free of charge [more]

Berlin Science Week 2020. Program by the Max Planck Society

Events in Berlin

Start: Nov 4, 2020 18:00
End: Nov 10, 2020 20:00
Location: Livestream via YouTube
Host: Max Planck Society
Contact: mpgberlin@gv.mpg.de

The Berlin Science Week is an international festival that brings together the world’s most innovative scientific organisations to celebrate science, to connect and to engage the local and international science community with the public. The Max Planck Society will highlight people and research projects of four Max Planck Institutes as part of the program which this year becomes a global virtual showcase, with free digital access for everyone. [more]

“Smart Working – how it affects industries, technologies and careers”

Symposium

Start: Sep 17, 2020
End: Sep 19, 2020
Location: Online-Event
Host: Max Planck Society
Contact: mpas@eurokongress.de

The Max Planck Symposium is an intensive, three-day career conference serving as a platform to connect international Max Planck Alumni and Max Planck Early Career Researchers of all disciplines and Institutes. The topic of every symposium is suggested and realized by the participants themselves, who are then supported by high level experts and invited guests. [more]

How does the brain make decisions? Courses and curses of choices.

The Max Planck Forum in Cooperation with the Consulate General of the State of Israel for Southern Germany

Due to the Corona Crisis the Max Planck Forum will unfortunately not take place!
Date: Apr 23, 2020
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Speaker: Peter Dayan (MPI for Biological Cybernetics), Nira Liberman (Tel Aviv University), Hagai Bergman (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr. 2, 80804 Munich
Room: Lecture Hall
Host: Max Planck Society in cooperation with the Consulate General of the State of Israel
Contact: forum@gv.mpg.de

The brain is still a mysterious organ. One of its most important functions is making decisions – but how does it do this? And what happens when decision-making goes wrong? The Max Planck Forum in cooperation with the Israeli Consulate General will address both these questions in April, integrating perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and neurology. [more]

Einstein Lecture 2019. Seeing the Invisible - the Dark Side of the Universe

Events in Berlin

Date: Oct 29, 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker: Catherine Heymans, Institute of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystr. 35, 14195 Berlin
Host: Max Planck Society & Freie Universität Berlin
Contact: mpgberlin@gv.mpg.de

Just over 95% of our universe comes in the shrouded form of dark energy and matter that we can neither explain nor directly detect. In the 19th Einstein Lecture Catherine Heymans will talk about new ideas how to explore the dark side of the Universe. Her online course 'AstroTech' has attracted over 40,000 students worldwide, and she is a regular contributor to Radio shows, Art, Music and Science Festivals. [more]

"Sustainability, Climate, and what Diversity has got to do with it"

Max Planck Symposium : Veranstaltungen Berlin

Start: Sep 1, 2019
End: Sep 4, 2019
Location: Harnack-Haus (Haupteingang), Ihnestr. 16, Berlin-Dahlem
Host: Max Planck Society
Contact: birgit.adam@gv.mpg.de

The Max Planck Symposium is an intensive, two-day career conference serving as a platform to connect international Max Planck Alumni and Max Planck Early Career Researchers of all disciplines and Institutes. The topic of every symposium is suggested and realized by the participants themselves, who are then supported by high level experts and invited guests. [more]