Artificial Intelligence for Academia
Traget group: PhD candidates and postdocs, qualifying professors
Language: German
Duration of the program: 6 month
The 2024 application round is closed.
Program Overview
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make scientific research, university teaching and university management faster, easier and more flexibly. New possibilities loom, such as the analysis of big data, the use of chatbots for individualized teaching and learning or the optimization of entire study programs. These are application examples for three forms of AI: Generative AI, machine learning and symbolic-logical AI.
The AI program aims to strengthen the development of AI skills. The program format is aimed to develop a technically sound and critical understanding of fundamental AI principles in order to recognize potentials and limitations, to understand the moral and social implications and to use AI efficiently and independently. The program will address and teach computer science fundamentals, statistics, logic and algorithms. As a result, you will have a comprehensive basic understanding of artificial intelligence in order to understand the basics of AI output, make informed decisions about its use and your own further qualification and act as a multiplier in your own working group and in your course teaching.
Program goals
- Introduction and in-depth study of machine learning, generative AI and logic-based systems
- Subject-oriented self-study units for the comprehension of basic concepts
- Practice-oriented SemaLogic self-learning platform for modeling study regulations
- Six workshops to deepen knowledge using practical examples
- Lecture program on concrete problems and application scenarios in science
In 2024 the AI program focusses on introduction and orientation. Coding experience or in-depth knowledge of statistics are not a prerequisite, but still helpful.
Conditions of participation & additional information
The program aims at scientists of all disciplines in the qualification phase (PhD candidates, postdocs, qualification professors = junior professors and tenure track professors) who are seeking an overview of artificial intelligence in research, teaching and (academic) management.
- Participants of the University of Potsdam must be members of the Potsdam Graduate School. Free membership can be applied for at any time here.
- Participants must have a solid basic knowledge of statistics.
Program costs are differentiated according to membership in one of the following groups:
Who? | PhD candidates | Postdocs |
---|---|---|
University of Potsdam (UP) | 150 EUR | 214 EUR |
Postdoc Network Brandenburg | / | 214 EUR |
from partner institutions of the PoGS | 2280 EUR | 2280 EUR |
external participants (neither UP nor partner) | 2735 EUR | 2735 EUR |
During the in-person workshops, free childcare can be organized in Potsdam. Please contact us in case of need.
Interested in the Data Science and AI program?
Contact person: Dr. Stefan Lindow
Dr. Stefan Lindow
Potsdam Graduate School
WIS | Wissenschaftsetage, 4th floor
Bildungsforum
Am Kanal 47
14467 Potsdam