Making decisions comes with many challenges. Even simple decisions can feel hard and worry us. It only gets more challenging when we must decide with others, or for them, as team leaders, managers, or in a consuling or expert capacity. With little experience and practice under our belts, the transition from student to leader can feel very dauning.

In this workshop:

• we discuss the main hurdles we face in our decision-making, as individuals, as teams, and as leaders.
• we emphasize the importance of clarity and communicaNon when leading a team.
• we discuss the main dangers and sources of conflict when making decisions with others.
• we detail and pracNce some concrete tools to help us improve our decision-making and leadership skills.

Course Trainer: Vicent Botella-Soler, Dickerson et al.

The Science Days take place every autumn – they are Germany’s largest science and STEM festival.

Together with institutions from the fields of science, education and business, a fascinating and very diverse programme is put together. STEM topics are presented from different directions and perspectives, and visitors get insights into highly topical issues and their research. Hands-on activities play a very important role here. Visitors are encouraged to try things out, experiment and tinker! In exchange with the actors and under their expert guidance, visitors can gain new insights and expand their knowledge. Another highlight of the programme are our spectacular science shows, which guarantee aha and wow experiences.

SmallData will be participating this year! Please come and visit our stand!

Topic: Longitudinal data with clinical cohorts

Speaker: Harald Binder (A03)

Topic: Mathematical modelling of dynamic processes with ordinary differential equations

Speaker: Clemens Kreutz (C03)

Teaching, part time work, professional development, private arrangements and not least the
thesis: Time pressure results in many things only being half done. In the end there is not enough
time for the important tasks and you are left with the uncomfortable feeling of again not having
managed everything.

It is however not difficult to improve dealing with the personal time budget. Through the
implementation of established time management methods, individual disturbances can be
minimised, priorities can be set and planning horizons can be determined in order to make the
own work more effective.

Workshop Trainer: Dr. Gunnar Seemann, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement, Berlin

Topic: Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis of ordinary differential equation models

Speaker: Franz-Georg Wieland, Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg

Discovering new contexts, breaking new ground and developing innovative theories: Creativity is important in research. It is not always easy, however, to give the necessary fresh impetus to one’s own research project. And yet, creative thinking is not a rare gift, but an ability that everyone can learn. As Albert Einstein put it: “Creativity is contagious: Pass it on!”

Although good ideas cannot be forced into being, creative thinking does not have to be left to chance. With the help of a few proven strategies and methods creative potentials can be unleashed and utilised both for new ideas and ongoing projects. During this workshop the participants familiarise themselves with different creative techniques and try them out, both individually and in groups. Exercises lead participants through the process of generating ideas and show how creative thinking can be applied in the scientific context.

Course Trainer: Dr. Gunnar Seemann, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement, Berlin

Topic: Stochastic processes and filter

Speaker: Thorsten Schmidt (A03)

Course Trainer: Desiree Dickerson, Dickerson et al.