How to find science events in Berlin?
Martin Fenner
Friday, 11 April 2008 17:21 UTC
Philipp today posted a notice board entry about a lecture by David Baltimore in Berlin next week. This will certainly be an exciting seminar by a Nobel laureate. But how can one find out about interesting science talks in Berlin? Laborjournal (in German) is one place to look, but the list is far from comprehensive. Is there anything else, ideally as RSS feed or Email service?
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The Nature office in Munich may receive Berlin event notifications: perhaps one of the staff there might post them in this forum?
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A very good point and we are actively thinking about how to best provide a comprehensive yet selective list of scientific talks/seminars in Berlin. The shear amount to high quality events that take place in Berlin each week poses a real dilemma as simply listing them will not have the desired effect. On the other hand, how do you ‘rank’ scientific seminars and how do you choose which ones to feature without introducing some sort of bias? We are working towards a solution to this problem. For now, we try not to miss any of the real big events.
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At this rate, I can see Berlin becoming one of the next local hubs on NN. Keep it up!
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This is a listing of a few websites of Berlin institutes that list their seminars:
- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP): Conferences and Workshops
- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC): Seminars & Events
- Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics: Events
- Max-Planck-Institut for Infection Biology: Seminars
- Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physioloy: Seminars
- Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science: Events
- Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ): Events
- Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI): Events
- Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ): Seminars
The list doesn’t include the universities. The Robert Koch Institute also has a list (incomplete) of biomedical seminars in Berlin.
When collecting this information, you find out that David Baltimore gives two talks in Berlin, one today at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and one tomorrow (as announced by Phil).
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What a useful list, Martin.
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