The 360-degree film screening brings the multimedia memorial to Erhard Weigel to life beneath the planetarium dome. The work was created as part of the City of Jena’s 2025 Botho Graef Art Prize.
“Dark lull”—that’s what they call it when both the sun and the wind take a break at the same time. We’ll discuss how to use electricity from renewable energy sources even under these conditions and what role redox-flow batteries can play in this.
Time
20:30 - 21:00 o'clock
Gebiet
Stadtzentrum
Organizer
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaandHelmholtz-Institut für Polymere in Energieanwendungen Jena
Otto Schott (1851–1935) shaped modern glass research like few others. This lecture highlights his groundbreaking innovations, the establishment of the Jena Glassworks, and his social commitment, which continues to have an impact to this day.
For a long time, chemical discovery was shaped by intuition, experience, and serendipity. AI promises to make this process more systematic, faster, and more predictable—and in doing so, raises fundamental questions about our understanding of research.
Time
20:30 - 21:00 o'clock
Gebiet
Stadtzentrum
Organizer
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaandInstitut für Organische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie
From Invisible Electrons to Visible Models: This lecture shows how computers make the world of atoms and molecules computable, predict chemical properties, and help us better understand nature.
Time
21:00 - 21:30 o'clock
Gebiet
Stadtzentrum
Organizer
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaandHelmholtz-Institut für Polymere in Energieanwendungen Jena
How can sensitive health data be made available for research and development in a secure manner? A journey with the AVATAR-Transfer project into the world of data protection and anonymization.
We will demonstrate our cryogenic scanning probe microscope (STM & AFM), which is one of the very few commercial instruments capable of operating at temperatures of 1.1 K—that is, near absolute zero.