Science Day at the University of Stuttgart on 30th June 2018

The University of Stuttgart will be opening its laboratory doors for the Science Day this year as well. Going by the motto “The Future of Work“, over 120 institutes will be presenting themselves on the campus of the university in Stuttgart-Vaihingen on 30^th June from 1 pm until 7 pm. Big and small visitors can expect exciting experiments, research explained in a comprehensible way and numerous hands-on activities. Potential students will have the opportunity to get a feeling for the university and to acquire in-depth knowledge about the degree courses on offer.

At the Visualization Research Center the visitors will experience on a touch table how sustained progress influences our future working world through visual computing. The exhibit will show current basic research in an interactive and playful way regarding everything to do with possible work tools of the future, such as virtual and mixed-reality glasses or large projection displays as they are researched in the framework of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio CRC-TRR 161 (Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing).

The new Collaborative Research Center CRC 1313, that bears the title “Interfacial drive multi-field processes in porous media“, will introduce a sponge to the world of porous media. How liquids and gases spread in porous media – i.e. like in sponges, bones, cells or asphalt, it is important, among other things, to predict landslides after heavy rainfall. Also how medicine spreads in human tissue becomes comprehensible here. 

Who doesn’t know them: the online mapping services of Google, Apple, Microsoft and whatever they are all called. They help in the search for the most varied things, such as sights, stores or museums. The result of large search queries, for instance for all Kindergartens in Germany, however, does not lead to any satisfactory result. The search machine OSCAR, developed at the Institute of Formal Methods of Computer Science, can do it better – and this on a worldwide scale. Come and see for yourself on the Science Day.

How exciting science and research can be is also apparent in many lectures. At the High Performance Center, visitors will experience simulation on super computers and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems promises short lectures with excitement factors. The conjuring physicist Dr. Wolf Wölfel is a must on stage this year as well. He will be introducing the world of physics to children as well as adults with astonishing experiments. Young researchers are always in demand in his show and those who “get hooked” in the process will be in the right place in the Pupil-Research Campus. There is a great deal to discover and experience there: a birdhouse of tomorrow or “airy” experiments. 

On the Science Day pupils will find answers to all questions to do with the choice of study courses and will be able to find out about contents, requirements and future prospects in lectures. And whoever wants to know what an auditorium looks like from the inside should not miss the TryScience CampusTour. Parents are welcome to accompany the tour. 

Journalists are invited to join our press tours on Science Day:

Time: You can take part from 14:00 to 14:45 o'clock
            or from 15:15 to 16:00 o'clock
Meeting Point: Visualization Research Center, Allmandring 19

Please register for a press tour: hkom@uni-stuttgart.de